skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reinforcement learning with a dynamic world model. It's a pretty standard approach to training agents, although there are a lot of problems with this technique as well. People have used it to create agents for Minecraft, racing games, Nethack, lots of old arcade games and so forth.
Can you fault them? There are few things they could identify with more than a soulless automaton that spouts confident-but-possibly-nonsense words endlessly.
make any random argument in court and see what sticks.
Do you have experience with non-tesla autobrake? Doesn't Tesla have a bunch of "We don't need radars, cameras only" stuff holding back their capability?
Chinese censorship is quietly rewriting the Covid-19 story
Thanks, there's some serious music theorists in HN, below thread has the vibe of type theory and topology/abstract algebra threads, i pondered over "non-homeomorphic embedding of chromatic circle into torus" for awhile and forgot about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16570489

i do remember being disappointed that he didn't write about any response from Y. Lateef:

https://medium.com/@lucas_gonze/coltrane-pitch-diagrams-e25b...
But how were the railroads supposed to lay track from one of their squares to the next without this "corner crossing"?
I believe the young kids are calling them Virtual Visions Visors.
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned
Luckily, I was just reading such a study a few days ago: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/westpac-sees-46-percent-produ...
That's really overpriced. According to OpenAI's tokenizer[1], a litre of oil is only 5 tokens, so it should only cost $0.0003.

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
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I'm so glad this is the top comment. Ghost braking is a far worse problem.
That’s how folks initially thought of cars too - the accident rates, lack of speed etc. The point is, as a technology, this is going to change the future. It’s a valid point that the current state might be less than what you expect. The only way to improve it is to double down on it.

Comparisons to crypto are a bit shallow - except that they both are ‘new’ technologies and need GPUs, there’s not much.
OpenAI turned on the "full featured" GPT4 just long enough to learn what people could use it for. Now they turn off those features and use all of those ideas to spawn new companies on a now-private GPT4 Original api and cripple everyone else. When they say "don't worry about building on our API we won't go up the value-chain" -- no shit, but only because they don't want regulatory scrutiny. So they will just trickle-out API access to companies that they own and control through extensive personal networks. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon... Build on someone else's API and they will jam you 100% of the time.
Let's see: Modern art starts somewhere around 1860 until 1970's. The term modern art was presumably first used in writing in the 1890's for French painters Coubert and Manet.The CIA was founded in 1947. Even MoMa predates the CIA by 18 years. So the answer must be no.
I have two vehicles with this system and they have never “violently taken control”. In most situations, the system gives an audible alert while pretension the brakes. If you react within the alert window you retain full control with the benefit of firm brakes (y’all ever remember getting soft brakes?).

I don’t even want to know what situations I’d need to be in for my vehicle to actually emergency brake, but I don’t want to find out. It seems like I’m already going to be hitting something anyways so any speed it can bleed off is better.
In my world I see a statement about NFT’s as a past tense phenomenon every day

While also seeing the most advanced things ever in NFTs every day, sold out new issuances every week, EIP-6551, unique differentiations, a wildly entertaining ordinals bubble, and so much more

such a weird gulf, given that the former perception smugly lives rent free while not even being accurate aside from … volume being down from a peak?
I don't really care what that organization says. The most obvious meaning of that phrase is that the source code is publicly visible. If someone wants to describe a particular license, then they should refer to it or the category of license (e.g. copy-left or permissive).

I'm actually happy that companies like Epic would expose their source code (I'm taking GP on faith that they were accurate). One thing I'm afraid of is the idea of losing access to software that I love because the company goes defunct. I wish this practice was more common even if they don't wish to permit free usage. It's probably only enforceable on a small subset of software though.
I'd be happy if most social media went the way of MySpace and Digg.
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I come to Hacker News to avoid comments like this. Inherently political, and with no substance.
> I don't buy it, it's a better chat bot

It feels like this is a category error that is causing you to miss the reason there is so much excitement.

It like saying “I don’t get it, the model T is just another car. We have had them before, and most of them are better than what Ford is selling”. The revolution wasn’t that model T cars were way better than what came before - it was that the way they were built enabled huge new markets.

LLMs seem vastly more powerful than the technology previous chat bots were built on. Plus, there is a whole ecosystem of generative techniques being applied to images, videos, sound, and others.
Even better is when companies push for returning to the office and then go back on it after enough people quit.
Meta unveils new virtual reality device ahead of Apple headset launch
Although sometimes it's wise come back 50 minutes later for the very last minutes of a tight Grand Final.

https://youtu.be/_qLF1qFn6u8?t=6477

( WTF is AFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_SqfNNfhmM )
There's a similar one among sailors: "The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling."

Anyone operating a machine in a way that doesn't leave much margin is, in fact, not skilled at operating that machine.
> How, uh, do you do this legally?

Why would it be illegal if you're not directly involved with the corporation? Surely insider trading implies actually being some kind of insider. Like some politician selling stock before some regulation takes effect.
> Ex-head of Google X warns about AI

He was not the head of Google X, and he isn't all that knowledgeable about AI tbh.
Ok, I see where you're going with this, let's mandate for bad drivers; now everyone is happy.
For sure. The argument that there was hype about something in the past, therefore any hype is unwarranted is not a logical conclusion.
Well, you can't optimize for 2 goals...
> How, uh, do you do this legally?

It's simple to have information about the future in entirely legal ways. Usually the future information is available, just unequally distributed.

The best example of this is the movie "The Big Short" where it the information about the upcoming crash of subprime-backed bonds just required people to bother reading large amounts of bond composition documents. Only 3 groups really did this.

Another good examples is how some funds pay for logistics intelligence (via satellite reconnaissance, customs declarations etc) to forecast sales figures.
Taking things to the extreme...because you'd effectively have a group of players in one box, a group of players in another box and not a whole lot in between. You'd remove the need for midfielders almost entirely and The game would become much more about who can hoof the ball furthest downfield and much less about strategy, which is what makes football beautiful. I guess the tldr version is the game would be simplified so much as to remove any nuance, thereby removing most of what makes it beautiful to watch.
To be fair, Supply Chain is 60% of a lot of companies' value.
Seems like a lot of work to still have a slow site, wasting tons of CPU to dynamically generate a site when most such sites stay static for days to months.

Yes, you can probably install cache plugins to work around this but everyone is pointing out how you have to be super careful with plugins.

If you don’t need a super dynamic site, Wordpress exposed to the Internet is an unnecessary choice. And it does have 0-days sometimes, so just “being perfect about updating, and knowing what plugins are trash and avoiding them” isn’t 100% adequate to keep your WP site secure.
Yes. I think Masnick has pretty much nailed it here. This is the TLDR.

Why anyone building a user generated content business should have a plan about how to moderate later, you need something but to also know that it will become increasingly less of a good fit for your moderation needs as you scale that business.

Why twitter appears to be repeating painful early false steps regarding moderation with new Leadership.

Why Facebook has failed to protect users from abuse in smaller non English speaking countries around the world…

And why it just won’t work in general because no two people agree perfectly and the more people you have the more disagreement you can and will find. It’s a fools errand to think there is a universally acceptable consensus among all humans. There are plenty of people that disagree over English language saccharine children’s TV programming claiming it’s not good for their development or it’s teaching them “woke nonsense” about universal respect and equality of all people, and it’s about the closest we’ve got universally accepted “safe for everyone” based on decades of product refinement in the face of government and parental scrutiny by governments across multiple countries countries continents and even generations for some of the longest running shows.
Is there a way to apply via Referral? Really interested in the C# positions.
It can also cause accidents, and some people go their whole lives without getting in an accident.
Taco Bell is just pissed off because they didn't trademark it first. If they had, they'd be busy suing everybody else who used it.

They could try being original and going for Taco Wednesday, or they could use some other promotion entirely. It wouldn't make any substantial difference to their bottom line.

Litigiousness is not a good look. Suck it up, Taco Bell.
and thus far companies love to talk about their AI strategies,
and love to roll out "alpha previews", but not much of value
seems to have been produced thus far

I think you're underestimating the value of "looking busy" to a lot of these companies. "Sure we're not profitable, but we're only in ALPHA! We're still early!"
I think there are broadly two types of people, one who understand LLMs and realise that it is actually going to change the world, others who think it is just a hype like crypto / NFTs/ meta verse.

I have friends working in big tech who are completely unaware of how to use GPT - maybe because their work prohibits it and can't appreciate the value.
The fact that WP hasn’t done that demonstrates how serious they aren’t about making security a priority.
There is an intern program, but the window for this summer closed in the winter.
I think this is a really a naming convention issue. Len() is ambiguous, you really want either num_chars() or utfxx_len(). Of course, the issue of what counts as a character is confusing in its own right...
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Why isn't Hugging Face creating their own plugin store?
In a closed vs open model world, why wouldn't HF build their own marketplace for plugins? Seems like a no brainer?
The fine for blocking a public road in Montana is laughably small. Something like $50/day, which isn't even pennies for these people.

Hat tip! I never knew about the strategy to deter access to public lands. I did a bit of Googling and found:

Fines for failing to remove the encroachment would rise from $10 per day to $100-$500 per day.

Ref: https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/environment/lawma...

Then following the link from the article, you can see the actual bill in Montana Legislature: https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billhtml/HB0486.htm

Finally: "Current Bill Progress: Became Law" here: http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SE...

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generally most broker dealers do not allow day trading.
Your missing some key pieces. What databases are supported? What does the schema look like? Is there an api? Why can't I try it out?
Lane-keeping should only be active with cruise control active. You shouldn't be using it in city traffic, ever.
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Don’t let yourself be fooled by data drift
My issue with reddit is that it has become way over moderated. Don't conform to the narrowly approved hive-mind viewpoint? Shadow-banned.

Echo chambers are boring. I don't need reddit to be an affirmation of my opinion on a subject, I want real discussion with alternative viewpoints.
I was on vacation at the beach so this was back in march and I had just received access to gpt4. I had lot of time and I was mostly curious to see if I could use c++ and the recently released whisper.cpp which is pretty solid for transcription s… so I haven’t written c++ for sometime and figured let’s guide gpt 4 to help me write this. It started out giving me the Skelton code. From there it was less about it driving the code and more about it writing the tedious functions. A request handler for parsing form data. After I got the example I could reuse and fit the code into the right places at the end I have a working c++ service wrapping whisper.cpp … I should open source the work but I was blown away that I was able to get this working and still be totally relaxed… occasionally I’d compare my searches in google to my answers from gpt 4 and the difference was me spending 15 - 20 minutes reading through search results vs 5 to 10 minutes… so yeah I’m a crazy ceo who won’t shut up about ai
Sorry if this is a different sensd of that same word…

I can understand almost everything in the explanations of how ChatGPT, neural networks and fine-tuning works

But one thing isn’t being explained…

How do you embed the words as vectors????

Do you just make up your own scheme?

I understand about vector databases being used for search, to retrieve snippets and stuff them into a prompt. I don’t mean that.

I mean how did people embed the words WHEN THEY USE THE EMBEDDINGS API?

I think this whole vector database and pinecone stuff will be phased out once the LLM windows get larger, like with the new Claude from Anthropic. And the ability to fine tune the model on your data. Then the LLM can make its own lower-rank model of your entire corpus of data, rather than having to do vector lookups and stuffing it into a prompt.
Yes, my point precisely. This is a long standing thing. With other programming languages, runtime library, compiler, and language changes actually are exciting. There's much discussion on Hacker News about GCC and Modula-2, or a distributed C++ compiler, for example. A language change that changes what happens when the allocator runs out of memory to allocate was a hugely interesting thing for C++. But in the very thing that you point to, no-one even remarks on it.

Maybe all Hacker News threads on Rust need a regular "Isn't there a programming language around here somewhere?" nudge. (-:
They don't have to be "evil". They have incentive to want to spend less on compute, but also to not let people know that they are reducing the compute per call.
Everyone is posting to defend “raw Wordpress exposed to the Internet” and pointing out the ways to convince yourself it’s secure, but no one has pointed out even one advantage to doing that, vs simply using it as a site generator and never having to worry about any of that.
(2019), for what it's worth.
My AEB is overridden by an increase in throttle; even a small one.

If (rarely) it misfires, it’s only pretensioning the brakes initially. That’s just getting the pedal firm and pads against the rotors, no braking force. A small bit of throttle, not even enough to speed up, is enough to tell it to cool it. No actual braking occurs.

Anyone who’s losing control of their vehicle over that is already driving too close to the vehicle’s limits.
LOL sure, those were "because AI". Not "because economy" or "because mismanagement" or "because industry changes".

Do you also think the world disappears when you close your eyes?
Beware ‘Death by GPT Syndrome’
Even disregarding gender issue (it may also be boyfriend, or one wants to use gender-neutral term), girlfriend/boyfriend generally implies romantic involvement, while cohabiting sexual partner could be just cohabiting FWB without romantic part.
I have seen several people justifying their use for it to work on that novel they always wanted to write. when challenged on who is actually writing it, they respond with "you need to understand the limitations", and that by itself it "can't write the novel". in short, they mean that ChatGPT only grnerates short passages the size of a few paragraphs. they are therefore just puzzling and joining these short plots together. can't imagine what kind of novel could be resulting from this.
If you've been on HN for more than a couple of months, surely you have seen the horror stories that people post regularly. Having Google as a single point of failure for one's business seems risky. There are oodles of DNS providers out in the world that have real support mechanisms for escalating problems. At the bare minimum, when you choose to use Google for your domain's email and other services, keep the DNS off Google so that you have a path for recovery that isn't an empty void in the fabric of space and time.
Yes that is the problem, in half of the big tech companies GPT is blocked, and if it is blocked at your work, there is less chance that you will actually end up understanding the value it can bring.
> why is it legal in the US to ride a motorcycle without a crash helmet.

This depends on the state:

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/calculator/factshee...

> As of 2021, 18 states and the District of Columbia had universal motorcycle helmet laws, 29 states had laws requiring helmets for certain riders, and three states did not have any motorcycle helmet laws.
> A year or two ago it was NFTs and blockchain--look where that is now, lol.

Yeah, you picked two ideas that were overhyped by a number of people. But NFTs struggled from day one to justify their existence. And blockchain started with a clear use case, but it was expensive (by design) and people really stretched to apply it non-problems.

In contrast, these new AI technologies very clearly will revolutionize technology. To me this is self-evident, and if someone is unimpressed by what ChatGPT produces and the huge leap we've witnessed in human-computer interaction... well, I'm not sure what it would take to impress them.
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I think he meant to bring out defensiveness with that quip. He never says that it's a big deal, just that it's the worst way to get the length of a string containing emoji, presumably of the mainstream languages.
Measuring the length of text is easy. Now measuring the length of text before actually printing it / running the shaping engine, now that's hard.
I wish we could download all the data on Reddit in subreddits like we could on Usenet.
Stupid question warning: This is absolutely an HN "hacking the law" type of question.

If an A-frame ladder can be used to cross an intersection of property boundaries, can the owners build a 30 meter high fence at the intersection to render the A-frame ladder obsolete?

And if it were built, what kind of legal challenge could be used against it?
because the comment doesn’t make sense
With all due respect, it sounds like your mother oversteered more than anything. AEB has little to do with that.
See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152510

It's not going to be barely useful, if at all, when you have high skill in a domain. It's quite useful when you don't.
Perhaps I'm getting jaded (or wiser) in my old age, but anytime I see "mandate", I just picture congress people shoveling truck loads of money into a company's stock. So if this is mandated, what stock should I buy? (I'm serious).