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> implemented with Lisp emitting super efficient machine code

I'm really intrigued by your usage of Lisp. It's on my bucket list to learn and your post is very inspiring.

When you say Lisp was emitting machine code; are you referring to the machine code the Lisp compiler emitted for your Lisp application or was your Lisp application acting as a sort of JIT compiler and actually emitting machine code?

Maybe you can reference the section in Practical Common Lisp that introduces the idea?
Yes, it's a generational step up from 3.5 and is actually useful in the day to day
The advice seems off-point: overall it seems like Sam has operated opposite of the narrative he built (which aggrandized a vision of the future and downplayed the importance of making money) and got fired for it.

If I was OpenAI I'd want to quit today not because I want to follow Sam, but because the same bullshit that people left Google Brain et al. for has managed to catch up with them at OpenAI. It's a shame honestly, it was so exciting to see a company finally free itself of the shackles of navel gazing and just build things, but it seems like that's over today.
Through what mechanism would it democratize power? I thought the GPTs were already limited to regular end users due to computational constraints. Most people can't afford dozens of Nvidia GPUs and the API infrastructure to data mine.
In the case of OpenAI both business and technical parts are secondary to the AI research and vision that people like Ilya Sutskever and Andrej Karpathy bring into table.
There are plenty of investors who would pour billions into these 2. MSFT got it's worth others want too.
Yeah, maybe. I just think politically a car buyback program will be somehow less popular than a gun buyback program, and outlawing ICEs even less so.
they seems to finally achieve AGI, they realized they don't need as many people anymore :D
>You go to a gas station, kid is there, he wants a snack or magazine. Multiplied by the number of kids.

There is a simple answer to that.
More people should be entrepreneurs. They may enjoy it more than their jobs, even if it pays less.
That's just spin. Which coup hasn't been a "reasonable and principled move to seize power" according to it's orchestrator?

Do you think Napoleon or Pinochet made speeches to the effect of "Yes, it was a completely unprincipled power-grab, but what are you going to do about it, lol?"
> Get rid of Microsoft…

Which is going to be hard considering they promised MS a 49% stake in OpenAI.

Which is something AMD/Nvidia will have to take in to account before agreeing to any partnership.
Does it really have that kind of self awareness to be able to do that successfully? I feel very sceptical.
You should check again. Most of this is out of date.

What constitutes accurate wall boundaries is a matter of opinion but it works well for me. I've never seen the nagging you're talking about, unless you mean when it loses tracking entirely?
The other big disadvantages are that you never get to shower and you have to wake up at like 6am every day.
I hear you, and you're not wrong, but there's no way I can get regular users to do that.
But not Universal, the company that illegally mutilates public-owned trees to deny shade to picketers?
Hell yes!

I currently do Java, Spring Boot and Rust development.

ChatGPT is at least 100 times better than Google Search for helping you with Hibernate/JPA stuff, especially related to eager fetching and joins of child entities with child entities with child entities. I recently struggled with an issue where ChatGPT helped me with a solution for using the ILIKE operator in PostgreSQL with Hibernate which doesn't support this operator. I implemented a workaround (https://olavgg.com/show/how-to-use-spring-boot-jpa-criteriab...)

It is crazy how fast I learn about new things that I don't know how to search for and most of the examples ChatGPT spits out do work 100%. If not, you're already 95% there and only need to apply a minor change! The power of ChatGPT makes me at least 100% more productive. I can do twice as much every day as I now have a lot less "blockers" wasting my days. This also makes programming a lot more fun :D
How are you working with in the limitation of 50 per month? (Sorry 50 per 3-4 hour)
> Wall Street isn't happy that employees will have more freedom in their choice of employer

"In other news, water continues to be wet."
Use the API and have unlimited use that you pay for.
While I understand that electricity (depending on how it is produced) is a "clean" energy, isn't it better to hedge your bet and rely on oil or gas heaters in case the electricity conks out? Imagine being stuck in a blizzard with the grid knocked out, in freezing temperature. With an electric heat pump, you'll need to buy a generator as a backup safeguard.
That is neither stated nor implied, unless you’re simply making the objection, “But OpenAI _is_ nongovernmental.”

Most readers are aware they were a research and advocacy organization that became (in the sense that public benefit tax-free nonprofit groups and charitable foundations normally have no possibility of granting anyone equity ownership nor exclusive rights to their production) a corporation by creating one; but some of the board members are implied by the parent comment to be from NGO-type backgrounds.
There's a reason a lot of people refer to buying cryptocurrency as funding the North Korea nuclear weapons research program.
You misunderstood my point.

The narrative I am referring to is a simple one: take back what should be his. A.k.a, revenge. That is for sure a strong word.

People live on stories (collective imagination, if fancier), and what they like most is a wronged prince/princess took back his/her crown. It is the same with Taylor Swift rerecording her albums. The story potential will feed itself, until it is fully realized. The OpenAI board had committed a historical misstep, but maybe it is indeed what it is designed for: they hold no stakes in the business, so their view can't be held accountable in a business microscope. But money will really dislike it.
If you have a project that you want to see done, you will be more likely to succeed using some more traditional architecture.

What I described is chasing latency at all costs. The costs are hardware costs, maintainability costs, development costs, inefficiency (yes, a lot more CPU is used than what is needed just to run the critical path fast). This is very extreme situation and it would be very unlikely to be a good tradeoff for your application.

If you have a lot of clients connecting there are different tradeoffs to think about and different possible architectures to evaluate, but I can't help you not knowing what your problem is.
Show HN: PHP/JS SRP-6a implementation package
Turns out tribal nepotism doesn't make for good governance. Who could've known!
To take an example of Elastic Search, Elastic's offering is 1.5x-2x more expensive than AWS one.

You can say "AWS is a teracorp" but if Elastic had its way, it would be small startups paying much more that they pay now.
Are you not running into the limit for paid version? how are you working with in 50 per month limit? (Sorry 50 per 3-4 hour, human error)
> job offer was fake.
North Korean hackers now had access to Sky Mavis's private keys

Maybe Sky Mavis was too busy playing with cryptocurencies instead of implementing proper information security. /s

But yeah, North Korea = bad, America = good.
Avoid buying products using them, for instance.
All hands on scientists/engineers, not VC funding/idea/sales people.
Sorry no vulnerabilities here yet
Resigned, not oblivious.

I'm not exactly happy they're around, but WTF am I supposed to do as an individual? I mean, I vote, but other then that. This shit is used everywhere, and its not exactly something you can easily look up on your phone when you're in a store.
If you really want to nitpick you could say it's cronyism, but we all know what nepotism means in this context, and there's no requirement nepotism be based on family ties anyways.
They couldn’t afford anything they are doing now if they had stayed a non profit.
Non-competes shouldn't be a thing for most employees.
Bing Chat (Choose "Creative Mode" or "Use GPT-4" depending on UI) is GPT-4 with retrieval augmented generation using the Bing Search engine. It seems to be tuned a little differently, but I haven't found it any better or worse than GPT-4 with browsing enabled.

Note that if you don't pick "Creative Mode" or "Use GPT-4, you get Microsoft's own LLM.

There is a new GPT-4 Turbo available from OpenAI that is ahead of GPT-4 on many benchmarks:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

My guess it that it will soon be incorporated into Bing Chat. So if money is tight, I would stick with Bing Chat (with the appropriate mode turned on). Note that Bing Chat is very different from vanilla Bing Search.

Bard and GPT 3.5 are decidedly inferior to GPT-4. I wouldn't waste my time using them.

Github Copilot is also markedly inferior to GPT-4 in generating code based on instructions.

Sometimes I get a little impatient waiting for Bing Chat to generate an answer. If the question is not too complicated, I have found perplexity.ai (w/o GPT-4) to be low latency and high factuality. In fact when searching for research papers on a topic, I have often found it superior to the alternatives.
No, Japanese authorities and TEPCo knew tgat earthquakes and tsunamis could happen, and usually together. They planned for it, they simply planned insufficiently, so quite the opposite of a black swan.
IdK Satya might sense there's a wounded gazette in the midst, and starve OpenAI for funds, and pick up the pieces.
Yes, I remember reading that lead acid batteries are the most recycled consumer item. Something like 97% are recycled.
Makes we wonder how much of the investor’s money was put in to OpenAI as a company or in Sam and the leadership. I think the answer is probably the latter, and the fact that Sam’s firing was this easy (and would likely have the effect of others going in quick order) seems like a massive oversight in terms of investor due diligence in board structure etc.
> New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

I though capitalism (Wall Street) was about competition. /s
Unless they changer recently, it's not 50 per month but per 3 or 4 hours ?
Simple answer - they’re bought by investors and flipped for rent seeking and investment. We all know that people owning their own housing is economically inefficient.
> Google could have given us GPT-4 if they weren't busy tearing themselves asundre with people convinced a GPT-3 level model was sentient,

Doubt. When was the last time Google showed they had the ability to execute on anything?
This is super cute, but unfortunately it's currently both misconfigured and broken. Very easy fixes though.

Firstly, it's eyebrow-raisingly slow. A quick network check shows everything is capped at 100kbps download. For PNG images that translates to a hitch-y 2-3 second pause.

Secondly, the slowness is amplified to the point of "this needs fixing" by the total lack of caching. Everything pauses every time the image loads.

Thirdly,

$ wget -O- https://httpraccoons.com/jpeg/100 | md5sum
...
Length: 530755 (518K) [image/jpeg]
...
9a7aa269111ca315277bbec79bfab5c1

$ wget -O- https://httpraccoons.com/100 | md5sum
...
Length: 530755 (518K) [image/png]
...
9a7aa269111ca315277bbec79bfab5c1

It's changing the mimetype but serving the same image!

Critically, besides these issues, this is perfect and fit for purpose :)
This is harder than you'd think. There are something like 282 million cars in the US. Let's say we want to replace half of them with a zero emissions EV, so 140m, and those cost $25k. That's $3.5 trillion we're gonna burn, plus idk, dealing with 140m waste ICE cars. This is not a problem we're gonna solve with EVs any time soon.
There was a quotation from The Books of Bokonon on the page before me. Those words leapt from the page and into my mind, and they were welcomed there.

The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion by Jesus: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s.”

Bokonon’s paraphrase was this:

“Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea what’s really going on.”
Don't misrepresent the problem.
Nah other way around. It would amplify the majority. That's why the powers-that-be consider it a huge potential problem.
This is going to be a rather Scandinavian opinion, but it's worth it when your company pays for it. With the exception, that you need to be actually capable of using it for your work without sharing trade secrets or breaking the GDPR and so on.

I'm a fairly senior developer and I use it quite a lot. I think 3.5 can do most of the things you need most of the time, but 4 and the API's help you save a lot of time. It's not really world changing in that it's still not very good at actually writing code that couldn't be auto-generated before LLM's, but it's just sooooooo much more efficient at doing all that auto-generation than what you had available before, and with the API's it integrates fairly seamlessly into many IDE's. Just remember to deny it access to any code that's actually secret. I work in the energy sector, so we actually has some of that, but 90% of what I've worked on over the decades could've frankly all been open source with not great issues. But again, it'll depend on what you do. If you're in HR, contract management or similar, you'll probably not be able to share much of what you do with it legally.

But like I started out saying, get your company to pay for your subscription if you use it for work. It's a tiny fee compared to a lot of the other money your company already spends on you.
I've noticed that those who worship productivity tend to appreciate "content creators" not artists :)
> It's very resource intensive and challenging to design multiple interfaces

Sure is. Wanna know why? Because there is no unversal standard on how to do it.

And arriving at such a standard is really really difficult, in no small part because of all the "amazing" design ideas I mentioned before, which are not only fast-and-ever-changing, but also don't work well together.

In ye'olde days, the problem was approached from the technical side: Technically, designing graphical interfaces is hard, so here is a constrained system that gives you these well defined methods for doing so. That's what design gets to play with, so that's the standard. It didn't look cool, and didn't lend itself easily to branding etc. but it worked. In fact it worked so well, that we STILL have ALL the UX elements from these days in active use today, and they STILL WORK.

Nowadays, we are in a situation where we try and approach the problem from the other side: Technical limitations basically went away, so everyone is free to design his own stuff, leading to a cambrian explosion of conflicting principles and ideas, including ideas how to standardize and categorize all of it.

If we were able to get this under control and design universal widgets that can automatically adapt to whatever device they are used on, that would be wonderful. And there are amazingly intelligent people who are trying to do that. But all that effort flies out the window the very next time some design studio or company want a nice juicy piece of personal brand recognition and "design" the next-shiny-thing.
(2020) Its an amazing article but I seem to recall photographs being used.
North Korea can be bad independent of any whataboutist dialectic games.
There have been bubbles in the housing market in the past - houses are quite useful.

It's a bubble if the valuation is inflated beyond a level compared to a reasonable expected future value. Usefulness isn't part of that. The important bit is 'reasonable', which is also the subjective bit.
If you're fully immersed in the Microsoft ecosystem, going from your Outlook calendar to a Teams call is a single click, and the desktop app doesn't take as long to get into the call.
>In either case Ron Conway is extremely well connected and well known in VC circles, and so his opinion will have weight here whether or not he has sources.

While that's an excellent point, I think the problem is that he's not sharing with us the basis of his conclusion. If he knows something that we don't that, if shared, would no doubt cause us to share his conclusion, it serves no purpose to withhold that information and only share his conclusion. While you may be tempted to think maybe it's privileged information, private, or legally can't be disclosed, he'd also be constrained from sharing his conclusion for the same reason.
Microsoft got the models. And their compute infrastructure. They’re powerful enough to bleed openai out if it’s in their interest. I’m not sure if there is much trust between the new leadership and microsoft.
I'm trying to read and reread this over and over again to make sense of this but to me it sounds like in the comments people speak as if Greg brockman resigned while in the article he is not amongst the three names who resigned. What am I missing here?
I cannot pay even if I want to. :( There is a waitlist. Are people just using OpenAI APIs? or chatgpt+?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304582
What exactly is scandinavian about this? I didn't get the reference.
Looks so nice! Free + not having to manage all those pesky API keys is such a cool combination.

Some questions:

Is there a way to have my own login page with the email field and a selection of social buttons styled as I'd like and have them the redirect to hello to complete the flow?

Can I brand the emails?

In the event I have to integrate with the custom SSO (using a standard format such as SAML and the likes) of some big Corp, is it possible to do it? (it'd be such a big overpriced market to disrupt).

Thanks!
> Mature, as in the opposite of ingenuous

To tell it in an exaggerated way, maturity should not imply sociopathy or completely disregard for everything.

Obviously I am referring here to Kottick situation. But, the definition where it is immature to tell the truth and mature to enable powerful bad players is wrong definition of maturity.
Maybe he used ChatGPT to write the letter.
Do you also exclude contractors that don't have a fully decked out Ford F-350? What if they carry a cheap $1 pen instead of a $50 pen to write some quotes for you?

Also, you realize there are android phones that are plenty expensive right?
It is a multinational company with Chinese owners, headquartered in Sweden. Used to be owned by Ford.
Yeah. GPT-3.5 is useless, 4 is just on the margin of being better than using my old workflow.

Definitely worth the money. (Never run into the limit)
Most of the time the technology is not building an artificial intelligent computer that is capable of superhuman reasoning.

Have you used gpt4? it's reasoning capabilities match human ability. The more you think about it, the more scary the reality becomes. GPT 4 can reason through any mental exercise as well as a human. The rest of the work to make it autonomous is simple in comparison.
My basis for these claims is from my research career, work described so far at aolabs.ai; still very much in progress, but form what I've learned I can respond to the 2 claims you're poking at--

1) we should agree on what we mean by smart or intelligent. That's really hard to do so let's narrow it down to "does not hallucinate" the way GPT does, or more high level has a subjective understanding of its own that another agent can reliably come to trust. I can tell you that AI/deep learning/LLM hallucination is a technically unsolvable problem, so it'll never get "smarter" in that way.

2) This connects to number 2. Humans and animals of course aren't infinitely "smart;" we fuck up and hallucinate in ways of our own, but that's just it, we have a grounded truth of our own, born of a body and emotional experience that grounds our rational experience, or the consciousness you talk about.

So my claim is really one claim, that AI cannot perform the same tasks or "true" intelligence level of a human in the sense of not hallucinating like GPT without having a subjective experience of its own.

There is no answer or understanding "out there;" it's all what we experience and come to understand.

This is my favorite topic. I have much more to share on it including working code, though at a level of an extremely simple organism (thinking we can skip to human level and even jump exponentially beyond that is what I'm calling out as BS).
Qualcomm does all the ai models for spatial and hand tracking too or is it just the hardware?
Just seen their departure tweets (link below) What’s with this annoying trend of omitting capital letters from comms?

https://x.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559?s=20
I can certainly personally feel the difference health-wise between 600ppm and 1200 ppm.

This is what ChatGPT has to say on the subject:-

The difference in acceptable CO2 levels between submarines and office buildings is due to different environmental and operational constraints.

Enclosed Environment: Submarines operate in a highly enclosed environment where air cannot be easily exchanged with the outside. This leads to a natural accumulation of CO2, making higher levels unavoidable.

Air Filtration and Recycling: Submarines are equipped with advanced air filtration and CO2 scrubbing systems to manage air quality. These systems can handle higher CO2 levels effectively, unlike typical office HVAC systems.

Occupational Health Standards: Office buildings adhere to civilian occupational health standards that prioritize comfort and long-term health, aiming to minimize any impact on cognitive functions and overall well-being of the occupants.

Operational Necessity: Submarines often have to remain submerged for extended periods without venting or taking in fresh air. The operational demands and limitations necessitate tolerating higher CO2 levels.

Adaptation and Training: Submarine crews are trained and gradually adapted to higher CO2 levels, something that is not feasible or necessary for office environments.

The higher tolerance for CO2 in submarines is a trade-off between operational needs and environmental constraints, whereas office buildings prioritize occupant comfort and health under normal environmental conditions.
As a counter-point, I paid for it for three months immediately after its launch, had a lot of fun, and then cancelled my subscription.

Yes, GPT4 is very noticeably smarter than GPT 3.5 or any of the competitors like LLAMA 2. I rank almost all LLMs at the same level as a high school student, and GPT4 at the level of a graduate student just starting out as a junior employee.

However, I don't need a "junior" assistant, I need more of "me", which GPT4 can't currently emulate.

If I were to hire a flesh & blood human junior tech, that would be with the expectation that the junior would learn with time and pick up the specific techniques and approaches I prefer to use. Currently, GPT models cost an absurd amount of time, effort, and money to customise, and there's little chance that this would result in the equivalent of a trained employee.

These days I don't write much code, and the code that I write I can bang out faster than I can explain what I want to ChatGPT.

I've also found that the act of coding is a part of the learning process. I can't really understand something until I've taken it apart myself and put it back together again.

I keep telling my customers: I can teach it to you, but if I learn it on your behalf, you'll end up knowing nothing yourself.
he resigned earlier. google it. or bing it. or chatgpt it.
The definition of a catastrophic one-in-a-lifetime event: you can't plan for it.

Fukushima had been in operation since 1971. You truly really believe that there were no earthquakes in the meantime, and the only reason for failure in 2011 is that they didn't plan for the largest earthquake and one of the worst tsunamis in Japanese history?