skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big thread on ChatGPT getting dumber over on the ChatGPT subreddit, where someone suggests this is from model quantization:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/14ruui2/comment/jq...

I've heard LLMs described as "setting money on fire" from people that work in the actually-running-these-things-in-prod industry. Ballpark numbers of $10-20/query in hardware costs. Right now Microsoft (through its OpenAI investment) and Google are subsidizing these costs, and I've heard it's costing Microsoft literally billions a year. But both companies are clearly betting on hardware or software breakthroughs to bring the cost down. If it doesn't come down there's a good chance that it'll remain more economical to pay someone in the Philippines or India to write all the stuff you would have ChatGPT write.
A couple things:

1. 10M users is pretty low for a Meta-run service. Though yes, it's early in the adoption curve. Check back in a week and a month to get a better idea of how it's going to grow.

2. Assuming Meta's stock price went up due to Threads, that means Adam Smith's super-genius invisible hand thinks Threads is superior to Twitter/X. But look for other reasons their stock price might have spiked.
I found roughly 30 registrations for “Threads” (mostly expired) and it didn’t seem that any of them are Facebook or threads.com; threads.com seems to have a very similar service to Facebook Threads, somebody who looked at the screenshots might confuse one for the other.

The fact of Threads.com already using the name “Threads” in the market might give them a case against Facebook, it would possibly pay handsomely for them to talk to an IP lawyer to see if they have any rights in this case. Many big companies have been careless about naming things, remember how Microsoft initially called “OneDrive” “SkyDrive”? They just didn’t do their due diligence and it wasn’t the first time for the,.
Almost 3 hours.. ah.
IANYL.

Found it: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87522273&caseType=SERIAL_...
Neon price is listed as per hour, instead of per month like the others :)

While you're not necessarily missing something, it's worth pointing out that usually storage costs don't dominate the bill, the compute costs are usually higher. But with the PlanetScale storage price being more then 10x the price of the other, it's definitely something to keep in mind, and it can dominate the bill.
"In 2018, Adam Farley, a contributor to the OpenJDK project, the presence of profanity in the source code."

Someone accidentally a verb.
It is shoddy because it clearly shows an agenda and bias. It's why many people now view companies like sacbee as advocacy groups rather than news organization.
Zero-knowledge proofs are a recent innovation in cryptography that has gained significant notoriety in the past few years via its applications in fintech. But how should investors think about the potential of this technology? Let's talk and try to answer some important questions, such as:

- what are ZKPs (a recap for non-technical audiences)

- current and future use cases (especially in finance, regulation and legal markets)

- monetization approaches, business models, competitive moat issues

- applications to AI/ML, especially in the area of AI safety

ZKPs enable an unprecedented combination of privacy and transparency and disrupt the very architecture of computer networks. However, investors must be able to see the truth behind the hype. This talk offers the opportunity to do so.

The event will consist of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by an interactive Q&A. We are running two sessions to cover global time zones.

About Aleksandr Bulkin

Alex spent 14 years as a senior software developer at Goldman & Sachs, followed by a successful career as a web3 investor from 2015. Currently he is the CEO of Adapt Framework Solutions, building the next generation of developer tools to enable our common high security future.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/investing-in-zero-knowledge-pro...
I'd be interested to see the evidence for that.
I'm hoping gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct isn't super neutered like chatgpt. davinci-003 can be a lot more fun and answer on a wide range of topics where ChatGPT will refuse to answer.
> the way OpenAI implemented their billing you will get a 4xx/5xx response code, but you will still get billed for the request and whatever the servers generated and you didn't get. That's borderline fraudulent.

It's fraudulent, full stop. Maybe they're able to weasel out of it with credit card companies because you're buying "credits."

I suspect it was done this way out of pure incompetence; the OpenAI team handling the customer-facing infrastructure have a pretty poor history. Far as I know you still can't do something simple like change your email address.
They're corporate anodynes meant for a specific audience.

Her job is to be corporate and professional - she's there to get advertisers back onboard with Twitter. She's the grownup there to soothe their worries about the instability in the platform. Or she was, until Musk decided to randomly change the basic value proposition behind the site with no warning, undoing anything she'd already accomplished and making it plain that anything she promises can't be trusted because she's completely powerless figurehead.

For her sake, I hope she got her first year's salary up front.
Gen Z and millennials on a budget say they’re dumping their wealthier friends
It's easy to say "just use a suitable encoding".

But when people say "use AES-CBC + HMAC" and cite Signal as an example, and Signal's implementation does this: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/app/sr...

Well, when that happens, I feel the need to pipe in :)

If you're careful enough to not implement a naive protocol that stitches AES+CBC and HMAC-SHA2 together (or, as tptacek put it in a podcast episode, throw some crypto potions into a cauldron and see what happens), you're probably the minority of crypto-savvy people.
Around 2004-2007 most of the key web specification writers (From WHATWG; Hixie, etc, etc)

a) were employed by Opera Software

b) were surprisingly young (often around or even below the age of 18)

Then Google poached most of these people (from their partner; Opera had by then invented the placed browser search engine business model for them; allegedly Google is paying Apple $15B/yr these days.)

A few years later the scope of the web started growing in an insane manner, spearheaded by Google.

This later period was also the same time that the web got deeply javascriptified and largely turned from documents into apps that you download and execute. Before that it had been documents with sprinkles of javascript.
The problem is that there's really not much to do. It's like when we had leaded gasoline. "What should I do about it?" Well you should go back in time and destroy the company that chose TEL over a more expensive but not lead based alternative, but nobody can do that.

What you do now is have the government punish the people who did this to us for money, and prevent this in the future. Some things can't be reversed or counteracted down the line.
I'm pretty sure every last bit of what we hear about it is propaganda. Empire doesn't happen by chance.
And get only 20 K tokens per minute, where a decent size question can use up 500 tokens, pretty much a joke for most larger websites.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/o...
Sweet. Thx. 94%. Impressive!
Fuck yea it is.
Fedora has an existing look of being... too easy/friendly/noobish? It's not necessarily the trendy "at your own risk" distro others choose. However, I completely feel Fedora is going to be the strongest distros in the mix in the next decade. ostree, docker-image-based, read-only images are going to be The Thing (tm). I'm hoping they take CoreOS and continue it as a server-oriented minimal distro, and use it as a base layer for the desktop-oriented ones like Silverblue.

I wish I could articulate this better, but this is how 1 person is creating their own customized version of Fedora Silverblue - with Github workflows:

https://github.com/pkulak/filverblue/blob/main/.github/workf...

I can just rebase off of that image and try it out like a git remote branch.

Add in eventual plans for dm-verity and such, and Fedora's distros (kinoite, silverblue, (sigacea?)) are going to be leaders. Much more dependable and predictable.
> Geographically though I believe most of the counties are quite republican.

The median D-R margin of California's 58 counties is D +3.7%.

This somewhat overstates the D advantage because California’s Decline to State/No Party Preference voters break somewhat Republican in elections; the median by county margin in the last gubernatorial election was about a 5 point GOP advantage (with the more Democratic counties having a huge population advantage, of course.)
Ahh this makes sense. I wasn't entirely sure if that was actually how hbar/2 related to it, so this clarification is helpful, thanks
Emissions testing is only once every other year, and changing oil is easy to do at home and takes less than an hour including gathering the tools and cleaning up after.

Every time I've rented a car it's been a substantial hassle, and I've felt anxious about how much it might cost me if something happened to the car while I was responsible for it.

Different people have different ideas about what's a pain.
I think they are pointing out the chutzpah more than the lack of legal basis.
Never tried arch, but that should be a good option too.

I would like to toss out OpenBSD and NetBSD to the minimal list. I doubt nothing is a minimal as these :)
Similar trick to bundle a python script with self-contained dependencies (with some limitations, and doesn't include python itself): https://n8henrie.com/2022/08/easily-create-almost-standalone...
$10-$20 per query? Can I get some sourcing on that? That's astronomically expensive.
Most road noise generated from a vehicle is from tires on the ground once you get above 18 mph. Modern mufflers are remarkably effective at silencing the engine.

IIRC at highway speeds the overall shape of the car moving through the air is also a significant noise generator, but I don't remember where I read that right now.
If they haven't, might Meta just be banking on being able to drag out any legal action forever or make it impossibly costly to pursue this?
I never recommend Dhalgren to anyone.

When you are ready for Dhalgren, it will find you.
It's kind of ambiguous how "alive" that biomass is as compared to life on the surface. If a bacterium reproduces every 10,000 years, how "alive" is it?
I haven't come across any other systematic, quantitative benchmarking of the OpenAI models' performance over time, so I thought I would share my results. I think my results might argue that there has been some degradation, but not nearly the amount that you often hear people's annecdata about.

But unfortunately, you have to read a ways into the doc and understand a lot of details about the benchmark. Here's a direct link and excerpt of the relevant portion:

https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks.html#the-0613-models-seem...

The benchmark results have me fairly convinced that the new gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 and gpt-3.5-16k-0613 models are a bit worse at code editing than the older gpt-3.5-turbo-0301 model.

This is visible in the “first attempt” portion of each result, before GPT gets a second chance to edit the code. Look at the horizontal white line in the middle of the first three blue bars. Performance with the whole edit format was 46% for the February model and only 39% for the June models.

But also note how much the solid green diff bars degrade between the February and June GPT-3.5 models. They drop from 30% down to about 19%.

I saw other signs of this degraded performance in earlier versions of the benchmark as well.
The Dreamcast as a console was fine. The Dreamcast as a console made by Sega was problematic. Sega had been burning bridges with third party developers for a majority of the decade by the time the Dreamcast was released. There was nobody left to make software for it.
Joplin is great. But there is a huge gotcha if you start using it from iOS instrad of laptop client first -- you can never connect access phone notes from other device.

This was true last year, hopefully was fixed.
Maybe I’m wrong but I thought I heard Facebook Threads doesn’t support hashtags (one of those things that matters if they connect to the fedi because I just found out hashtags are the royal road to visibility there…)
> more neutral toned headlines

New York Times headline on September 12, 2001: 274 Skyscrapers Not Attacked
someone hired a team to review 10k repos just for this?
How they have used Instagram with Django is that they have replaced pieces of Django over time with custom parts which is a benefit of the design of Django.
I'm not so sure that the right take-away is "hand-written assembler is 6x faster than C." It's more like "jumps are a lot slower than conditional arithmetic." And that can [edit:often] be achieved easily in C by simply not using switch statements when an if statement or two will work fine.

Rewriting the C function as follows got a 5.5x speedup:

int run_switches(char *input) {
int r = 0;
char c;
while (1) {
c = *input++;
if (c == 's') r++;
if (c == 'p') r--;
if (c == '\0') break;
}
return r;
}

Results:

[16:50:14 user@boxer ~/looptest] $ gcc -O3 bench.c loop1.c -o lone
[16:50:37 user@boxer ~/looptest] $ gcc -O3 bench.c loop2.c -o ltwo
[16:50:47 user@boxer ~/looptest] $ time ./lone 1000 1
449000
./lone 1000 1 3.58s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 3.589 total
[16:50:57 user@boxer ~/looptest] $ time ./ltwo 1000 1
449000
./ltwo 1000 1 0.65s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 0.658 total
Or change their name or pay for a license or…
Meanwhile I have small hands and have trouble with modern phones being too big. Have to use them two-handed or risk dropping the phone as I shift my grip around.
they claim they will, but haven’t, which probably means they won’t.
Assume that these apps can deanonymize you. One would have to go to extreme lengths to not leak identity.
Stanford Graduate Students Union – 94% in Favor of Unionizing
Yeah, unfortunately Musk has done so much incompetent stuff that it's not as easy to make the case that the Twitter implosion is due to the staff reduction rather than one of the twenty other boneheaded things that have happened. The narrative could totally settle on: "The massive staff cuts would have worked out just fine if he hadn't also taken on too much debt in the financing and scared off advertisers with his own personal tweeting and gotten rid of verification and started promoting the replies of paying customers and turned off non-logged-in access and search engine visibility." Personally I think it is all of the above.
Surely you mean threads.
Thanks to AI, San Francisco’s Tech Companies Are Hiring Again
Of course! But why would you think that this is achievable?

Look at the enormous amount of hatred even a small change like "your car, your house heating and your stove will use electricity instead of compressed refined dead dinosaurs" got. Look at how many people when told "we need to change things or this planet is going to be uninhabitable in a few decades" stick fingers in their ears and say "nu uh" or actively start claiming this is all made up.

I'd love to have more sustainable vision of the future, but since most people would rather see humanity end than give up tiniest comfort or accept any change (even a good one, like people in walkable cities are actually happier than people in suburbs). So we don't exactly have a lot of manoeuvring space.
Where does one need to live to have this problem? I’ve been to the Gulf of Mexico countless times and I’ve literally never seen a stingray. I’m guessing they’re not native there?
> While using Our Application, in order to provide features of Our Application, We may collect, with Your prior permission:

> Information regarding your location

> Pictures and other information from your Device’s camera and photo library

> We use this information to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company’s servers and/or a Service Provider’s server or it may be simply stored on Your device.

(from your privacy policy)

Why, if videos are stored on my phone, does the privacy policy permit pictures/videos from my photo library to be uploaded into your server or the server of a Service Provider (which, by definition, could include analytics/telemetry providers)?
In order to conform to the spec, yes. But almost by definition, people who don't care to conform to the spec aren't going to worry overmuch about whether what they're doing is conformant with the spec.

As a client, you've got to be ready to deal with non-conformant implementations. As a service owner, there is no authority who will hunt you down for deploying a service that doesn't conform to the spec. Let me restate my claim slightly: acknowledging that impolite to claim to conform to a spec and then not do so, no-one has a right to claim that any arbitrary person must write code that conforms to any arbitrary RFC.

> ["MUST",] "REQUIRED" or "SHALL", mean that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification. (my emphasis)

I may choose to return whatever response code I want in whatever circumstances I feel like, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop me. I probably won't, because that would be silly. But there's no must.
That made my day! That's soooo incredibly unbelievably mindnumbingly stupid that I love it :+1:
Ah makes (mechanical) sense now. Thanks for the reply.
I feel like I’m talking about how harmful the insatiable desire for growth is on an almost daily now. I couldn’t agree with you more.
I had to look this up recently, but Tim Berners Lee specifically said that URIs should be treated more or less identically to files on disk. That would mean that accessing a web server that is hosting a static directory should return not found for missing files. But this was just a guideline and it was never followed in practice.
Certainly the scientists did their best in alerting us. There was just too many powerful people who did not want us to listen.
I bought a DC on launch day, and still have one (my original died). I honestly think ridge Racer 5 looked like something the DC couldn't do. Even more so gran turismo 3, which still looks great.
That said the DC is contender for my favourite console of all time, the PS2 isn't. Oh and the DC still looks great on modern displays, the PS2 looks pretty awful (I'm play on an oled through an ossc).
Oh, it's not too hard to see how the spend that Microsoft put into building the data centers where GPT-4 was trained attracted national security interest even before it went public. The fact that they were even allowed to release it publicly is likely due to its strategic deterrence effect and that they believed the released version was already a dumbed-down version.

The fact that rumors about GPT-5 were quickly suppressed and the models were dumbed down even more cannot be entirely explained by excessive demand. I think it's more likely that GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 demonstrated unexpected capabilities in the hands of the public leading to a pull back. Moreover, Sam Altman's behaviors changed dramatically between the initial release and a few weeks afterward -- the extreme optimism of a CEO followed by a more subdued, even cowed, demeanor despite strong enthusiasm from end-users.

OpenAI cannot do anything without Microsoft's data center resources, and Microsoft is a critical defense contractor.

Anyway, personally, I'm with the crowd that thinks we're about to see a Cambrian explosion of domain-specific expert AIs. I suspect that OpenAI/Microsoft/Gov is still trying to figure out how much to nerf the capability of GPT-3.5 to tutor smaller models (see "Textbooks are all you need") and that's why the API is trash.
> What they can't do is order the political speech of citizens be censored.

Agreed. That doesn't appear to have happened. Even the worst examples the Twitter Files sort of reporting could dig up is some loud huffing and puffing followed by a :rolleyes: emoji and inaction from various social networks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230706204348/https://twitter.c...
> It's as stupid of a concept as a corporation having an opinion.. opinions are reserved for PEOPLE and I have no idea how you could come up with an argument to change my mind on that.

Well, I wouldn't presume to make you think, but _BY DEFINITION_ corporations are legal persons.

Corporation. Incorporate. Corporeal.

This is a legal definition, not biological or sociological or religious or whatever else.

And under that legal framework, the corporation can act as a person and enter into contracts, initiate lawsuits, be sued, be prosecuted, etc. And more basically, the corporation can make public statements which express the _opinion_ of the corporation.

Once folks set aside political bigotries, this shouldn't be a hard concept to understand.
That's why I qualified it with "native" - the US has by far the most English-as-a-first-language people. In my head everyone speaks like an Anglo guy from Idaho, and since HN is text-only, metaphorically speaking the lights are out, so I'm left without a clue where other people are sitting or where they are from.

In other words, if you found yourself in a dark room with a thousand English speakers who all sounded like Jesse Pinkman, what country would you assume you were in?
(Irrelevant post, but this was a missed opportunity for an article with the title "Kling on Ladybird")
I would presume that number includes the amortized training cost.
There are just 45 trademark classes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_(Nice)_Classific...

I think these are both in class 38 “Telecommunications”
Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business
No. I don't trust a government trying to prevent me from seeing information outside our borders for my "safety". Banning receiving foreign broadcasts is a staple of authoritarian governments (I'm not saying it's a sufficient condition, but a non-authoritarian government would have no need or desire to)
Almost none of America's existing stock of buildings is usable without every adult driving a car. It's going to take a while to demolish and rebuild the postwar developments where hundreds of millions of people live. We can and should 10x the supply of housing in walkable neighborhoods, but even then it would still be extremely unusual to live in a walkable neighborhood.
There are even people who will take pride on causing emissions when you tell them they should not. It's absolutely insane.
"As part of your study, reviewed and analyzed over 3800 open source code containing profanity in English and over 7600 profanity-free open source code on GitHub."

Wow, over 3800 code? Thats so many code! And its my study? Even better!
"We know all about the topic."

That wouldn't be the first time when the West uses Nazis against Russia. I hope you just lied and used 'we' instead of 'I'.

The rest of your comment is expectedly lacking any specifics.
Why is everyone blaming the headline, newspaper, and media for connecting this surveillance issue to abortion? The EFF is the one who framed this issue in the context of abortion. The article's headline and reporting are a response to the EFF's actions.
There are tons of real-world situations in which individuals, by making choices that benefit themselves, create a situation that is worse for everyone overall. It's basic microeconomics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
That's why you tax co2 incrementally every year so the market moves away from it
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