skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also - why not make this clear in all the model access documents? Perhaps call it GPT-4P (for Public?)

Perhaps also provide other researchers with vetted access. There are a lot of groups trying to evaluate these things systematically - for example "Faith and Fate", "Jumbled thoughts","Emergent abilities are a Mirage" were all very good papers published this year which really highlighted hype in LLM evaluation.

Everyone can see that modern LLM's have some great capabilities, the flexibility you can get in an interface by doing intent detection and categorizations using an LLM is great and it is so much easier and quicker than using previous techniques. It's more expensive, but that's improving rapidly. I firmly believe that a new era of great new systems with better interfaces and more functionality will be built on LLM's and other models from this wave of Big Data / Big Model AI, but these are not the precursors of AGI.

The problem with the looky looky AGI bunkum show is that it's pulling money into crappy projects that are going to fail hard and this will then stop a lot of money going into projects that could be successful fast. I am seeing the shape of the dotcom boom/bust in what's happening. Microsoft and Intel used dotcom to build and maintain their monopoly position, I think AWS, MS and Google will do the same this time. I think we will see a wave of new companies like Amazon that will "fail" some of them will really fail and disappear, some will half fail like Sun did, but some will go on to build monopolies anew. In the meantime the technology will evolve not for the greater good but instead to serve purposes like advertising distribution that are trivial compared to the benefit we could have seen. Over all we will not capitalise on the potential of what we have for several decades, ironically because of the failures of capitalism. Children will die, wars will be fought but some of us will have nice sweat pants and fun playing paddleball in the sunshine while it all happens.

When historians write this up in 100 years they won't really see any of this - they will just see a huge surge of innovation. The dead have no voices...
Speaking of kitchen appliances, we need a new immersion blender and my wife wants a cordless one. The old corded one lasted nearly 20 years, but most cordless ones have non-replaceable batteries and so are going to become junk long before the mechanical parts wear out.
Reject LAMP, become a BCHS chad.

https://learnbchs.org
Technically all computers in our universe aren’t, but we don’t make a fuss about it. In theory they aren’t complete, but in practice they are. Wonder if there’s a theorem which links the maths with physics in an intuitive way. Thermodynamics sort of do, but entropy isn’t that intuitive?
It could also simply check the most common numbers first. We can spider the Internet and collect all usages of numbers, sort them, and find out what the optimal order is.
You have to to be honest. They were able to push for stronger regulations not because politics mainly listens to hippies. Stronger regulations were prudent considering the safety levels of the earlier reactor design. Without those regulations, many more cheap, but less safe reactors might have been built. Of which more had gone bad over years.

So yes, if you will, thank the hippies for preventing several nuclear incidents.
Coal cause more cancer and pumps a huge amount of radioactive material into the sky but I've not seen anyone closing coal power stations to stop that. The fear of nuclear power is just one of those irrational fears..
My experience with cars from
that generation of cars and modern cars is not at all similar to yours.

My 2003 Mustang V6 manual was a complete moneypit. The electrical system went in the first year, despite me taking it regularly for maintenance. There was no traction control and it used more gas for less power than my current minivan.

My parents' 94 Taurus rusted easily and their 02 oldsmobile alero was a pure shitbox that was uncomfortable to drive and was in the shop all the time.

My 2016 Sienna and 2019 Model 3 are, by all means, better cars. (I was using the train in the meantime, much less stress than driving was) I have had zero issues (outside changing to winter tires)
My favorite example of performing a song in a public place without a licensing arrangement:

https://youtu.be/j_UoACEUZqA
The NY Times benefited in the past from technologies that led to widespread distribution of the Times, putting competitors out of business and concentrating talent at the Times. Nobody is stopping them from producing new editions of the newspaper, their core business. People now have technologies that help them "remember" what was salient in back issues of the Times. Such is progress.
Death by Doctor May Soon Be Available for the Mentally Ill in Canada
> Nuclear power plants are currently too expensive to not be used at 100% all the time (except when you need to perform maintenance).

France has been load following with their nuclear plants for decades. They have to as they have so much of it. The reactors in Germany also did/do the same.

The reactors in Finland also started to do that too during this summer as we are having more and more wind (and a new 1600MW nuclear reactor) and a huge chunk is sold on the spot market (so if nobody bought your nuclear power you are not allowed to send it to the grid). Basically leaving ramping down your production as the only choice.
People routinely become immediately productive in Visual Studio Code.

Contrast this with the potentially multi-decade journey of becoming proficient in something like vim or Emacs plus command line tools.

It is possible to improve on the old ways, from a productivity and ease of learning standpoint as well as from a standpoint of what's possible.
I don't think it would help, you'd still need the 4 billion if statements to decide whether to take the left or the right branch from the root.
> I've mostly seen them used to write quirky poems and bad code.

Assuming this is in good faith: the ability to write code, documentation, and tests is absolutely a productivity enhancer to an existing programmer. The code snippets from a dedicated tool like copilot are of very usable quality if you're using a popular language like Python or JS.
It's not okay for a human to pirate, plagiarize, violate IP rights and laws, etc.

But I disagree with the underlying assumption that you can anthropomorphize LLMs. Gradient descent and backpropagation don't take place in the brain. LLMs "learn" in the same way that Excel sheets "learn".

Humans are living beings with needs and rights. A person being able to legally squat in a home doesn't mean that a drone occupying property for some amount of time also has squatter's rights, even though you could easily and affordably automate and scale the deployment of drones to live and hide away on properties long enough to attain rights regarding properties all over the country.
That's a different issue. You're usually not notified of spam designations, but bounces (where the mail server completely refuses to accept your email) do usually receive a notification. If you're designated as both (for example if you keep sending email that bounces) you'll get blackholed and wont receive any bounce notification either.
Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps
True - given probability weights, the optimal decision order would be a Huffman tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
> Todays households simply own too much stuff.

Very true. I moved to my current place with a single car of belongings - now, I'd need a truck. I have two flatbeds of trash just ready to go to the tip, and I'm looking to reduce even more.
I'd love to just give it all away, but that would take a while.
I am prepared to a) go without, and b) buy something again if i really think i need it.
The amount of 'stuff' [another nod to George Carlin] I/we have really is ridiculous.
This has been doing the rounds for a while, and I enjoy seeing it every time it pops up. The new content here is the addition this year of Einstein tiles, although that’s obviously Euclidean space only it’s still fun.
As I said, the letter of the GPL is probably being respected.

But the spirit of the GPL was very much to be able do what old CentOS did: copy the latest version of RHEL that you were given access to and distribute it to others.

Paying RedHat once shouldn't give access to all of the code they will forever release from now on. But, if you want to keep paying, RedHat should keep taking your money and giving you the new code. They should not punish you for exercising your GPL rights by refusing to do business with you.

And Rocky are doing things that very clearly go against RedHat's wishes and will likely be stopped further down the line. They are "exploiting" the fact that RHEL for containers is released publically, not through a developer subscription, and that of course they are forced to give you the source code if they delivered a container to you. I'm fully expecting RedHat to close this "loophole" down.

I believe Alma Linux has taken a different approach and is no longer promising bug-for-bug compatibility with the latest RHEL. They are planning to start maintaining the RHEL code themselves, and take new patches from RedHat's CentOS Stream to try to match RHEL as closely as possible, if I recall correctly.
Microsoft is one of the companies that love to use copyright to get their way, BSA is known software mafia, so I'm not at all sympathetic to them.
> How can the BBC say the abbot is the gangster in this scenario?

Perhaps it was the other stuff also listed, the arsons, the assaults, the murder for hire, the kidnapping, etc.
> First of all: survivorship bias

So let's take all the things that I had in the 90s that I had to replace because they broke:

- ...

You can say I'm only remembering the positives, honestly, I can not think of a single thing I _had_ to replace. I remember buying new things, but it was always because I wanted the new-shiny, not because I had to.

Survivorship bias isn't "only being able to remember the positives", it's _concentrating_ on the positives and neglecting to take into account the negatives.
No, it would not.

Both are concerned with non-discriminatory _licensing._ That would remain the case.

Neither of those documents obligate anyone to provide the specific service of providing downloads to anyone else, or providing any act of distribution at all.

Nevertheless, not being able to access the Debian servers would be most unfortunate.
All of the videos I have been watching from MentourPilot are about specific events/crashes.
The fact that you’re trying to read the tea leaves on gp’s post rather than discuss them correctly calling out the DEI corporate scam tells all you need to know about the bad faith of this discussion.
Edit:

From a "Pure Science" PoV, both the "'...maybe...lab test...' ideas" and the "~zilch in the way of treatments" are reasonable and normal.

From a "quickly summarize these results, for actual human beings with actual skin in the this game" PoV, both of those thing are important.
>For decades we've been spoiled with ridiculous "energy on a tap" that just gives us oodles at the flick of a switch, and we just need to take that away.

Why shouldn't I be able to have oodles of energy at the flick of a switch?

Why is it bad that people had more than 100 years of using energy at a reasonable price point? Why do you think it's good for the energy to become more expensive or not to be available at all?

We do need energy for everything.
Latest earphones from Apple has degraded considerably. My old Apple earphones with jack just died this year but it’s 5 years old.

Right now, their earphones lightning won’t last a year anymore. I have been buying it yearly for 3 years now.
What's wrong with that? If I was the NY Time's lawyers that what I would advise. What would it serve to bankrupt the IA, they can't pay anyway?
These are corporations enforcing their rights against one another.

There is nothing wrong with profit seeking from your copyright. That's literally their entire business model...they publish copyrighted content which they sell for a subscription.

OpenAI and others could easily have negotiated a licence instead of just using the data. They bet that it would be cheaper to be sued, lets find out if they bet correctly.

Tangentially that's what Apple did with the sensor in their watch, it doesn't always pay off.
I think it regurgitates badly, an interesting pre-print is the "reasoning or reciting" one from https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02477

But - it's only a pre-print and I don't think that they have taken it forward to a publication so handle with care. Anyway, the relevant evidence and thinking that I would highlight and somewhat agrees with my findings is seen in figure 7 and section 5.6. I struggle to get the quality of results that they saw, but its believed by some people that ongoing development of GPT-4 and throttling of the reasoning for cost reasons may have limited some of its capabilities by the end of this year so that may be some of my problem.
The article is not so compelling for me. I've used my coffee grinder going on 5 years now (almost every single day/multiple times a day). What is true, I find, is that you really get what you pay for (99% of the time).
This seems sensible but I'm not sure it's going to be much simpler than git/GitHub.

The syntax is quite close to git's --word-diff syntax

The [-old-]{+new+} word is better
When I used to self-host my emails, GMail would "accept" mails then drop them. Microsoft was kind enough to tell me they dropped them but getting out of the blacklists was a pain.
>Stick to the commodities like EC2, S3, and maybe managed databases.

The problem is they are increasingly not a commodity. Not only EC2 or S3 but also bandwidth / transfer. The price disparity between EC2 and 2nd tier Cloud Provider like DigitalOcean or Linode continues to grow every year. And the gap between DO and 3rd tier continue to grow also.
Liquidation of Wikimedia Russia
Yes but you would only need to visit 32 of them, so it would run much faster (around a hundred million times faster).
All of the devices that Valetudo supports also only run the actual cleaning logic local-only. That's why Valetudo works in the first place.
i am going to object to this; i've programmed in, among other things, prolog, ocaml, basic-80, c, the unadorned λ-calculus, bicicleta, and qfitzah, the last two of which are languages i designed and implemented myself and which have no mutability. moreover i don't think anyone would claim that basic-80 or c is object-oriented

so i feel secure in claiming that i am more a walrus than a fish and therefore qualified to opine about water

i do agree that identity and hidden mutability are important aspects of the oo view of the world, and that the author of these slides is off-base about what oo is. but i think that the essence of oo is that computation is done by sending messages to objects, but sending the same message to different objects invokes different code. this feature is present without mutability in bicicleta, and in abadi and cardelli's untyped ς-calculus, which it's based on; the ς-calculus was invented to formalize the essence of object-oriented typing

the original intuition behind oo was to decompose a computer system into smaller computer systems, like a computer network; each object in the system was in effect a tiny computer, with its own private code and state. this was inspired by alan kay's undergraduate degree in biology, which mostly studies organisms made out of cells, which are basically tiny organisms. and in that formulation, obviously hidden mutability is the default, because you can't prevent a computer from changing its internal state as a result of a packet you send it; and mutability generally means identity is important

but even more central to this formulation is the idea that different objects can behave differently in the same circumstances

obviously none of this has anything to do with memory layout! except very indirectly
That's incredibly impressive. Since it takes approximately 6 years to build a reactor in China that amounts to about 4 reactors per year.
If that 12-year-old's code ends up in infrastructure that government or business depends on, it should be subject to these regulations.
The long term plan is to shut down all coal plants. In the US alone coal usage has more than halved since 2008.
I was super excited about customizing every little detail about my setup as a kid, but as an adult I'm pretty much using ubuntu lts and vscode because I can't be bothered to read a half assed repo on configuring my lsp.
I see few people here bring this up, so let me:

The US constitution says, The Congress shall have Power

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

So the Congress's power to make copyright and patent laws is predicated on promotion of science and useful arts (I believe this actually means technology). In a sense, the OpenAI being the forefront of our AI technology advancement is crucial to the equation. To hinder the progress by copyright is, in my mind, unconstitutional.
no, it's an instance of the license doing exactly what it says it does.
Kind of ironic that the NYT will still have to host articles extolling the virtues of OpenAI as it continues to expand and upend industries
we're working on distributed computing for training LLMs with Socket runtime (https://github.com/socketsupply/socket).

Our ultimate goal is to provide a web browser-compatible environment (for quickly building UIs) with a state of the art P2P protocol — A DTN design that is delay, fault, and partition tolerant, with comprehensive and complete NAT traversal, without any server or cloud infrastructure requirements from the user — lowering the technical and monetary barriers for distributing and parallelizing work beyond the cloud. Our native plugin system was designed to easily support projects like llama.cpp which makes it simple to load any LLM and expose JavaScript APIs over it.
That’s nonsense piracy. I never intend to own a truck, so when I need to haul a little something I go to Home Depot and steal a Ford off the lot for an hour? What if I stole all your commits, plucked the hard lines out of the ceremony, and then launched an equivalent feature the same week as you did, but for a competing software company? Would you or your employer deserve to get paid for my use of the slice of your work that was specifically useful for me? Yeah, and then some extra for theft.
That's like returning to publishing tarballs instead of having single, revertable commits.
Not all Python is just a front-end to fast C code. That only really works with numerical computing of big tensors.

Though I'd still agree - if your Python is slow you're doing it wrong - you shouldn't be using Python!
For the mop getting moldy problem, I recommend to simply get a pack of replacement mops from aliexpress for like $5 or something. After a cleaning cycle, throw the used one in the washing machine and replace it with a new one, it only takes 10 seconds of work and your floor remains bacteria-free.

I have an S8 and it's a real life quality improvement, I love that thing
Presumably the feature is there to avoid low effort replies to bait. Just about any amount of friction is good enough to make most people give up in that use case.
The article specifically mentioned - then dismissed - the training gap between airmen.
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I am from Germany, and I am just replying for the record: You are just repeating right wing propaganda, which tries to paint black pictures about a policy they helped implementing. But the truth is, the current government was able to avoid a gas shortage after Russia had cut off deliveries to Germany and that was the only possible problematic point in the winter of 22. By now we have enough capacity to import LNG to avoid shortages while the Energiewende has take up speed again. It hasn't failed at all, but the previous government had tried the best to make it fail. But coal usage in Germany has still been on a historic low in 23.

Oh, and the grid in France managed to keep up only because Germany was propping it up as too many old nuclear reactors had to be taken off grid. Which caused a small uptake in German coal production. But in 23 the downward trend continued.
In reality they just think that you shouldn't skirt responsibility because you're "small". And the rest of it is just developers refusing to take responsibility on a level of a market salat seller.
also if I write and article and quote some "text like this" [1] then that's not plagerism, but if my arguement is that the underlying assumption that you can anthropomorphize LLMs. Gradient descent and backpropagation don't take place in the brain. LLMs "learn" in the same way that Excel sheets "learn". Well, that's plagiarism and it's not allowed and people will get peeved and my career might get damaged.

I await the HN ban with fear..

[1] I'm not even doing referencing - so I am surely an LLM.
It's fine for a human to remember it. It's not fine for a human redistribute it for money (legally speaking). That's copyright infringement.
> What would it serve to bankrupt the IA, they can't pay anyway?

It would serve the termination of the infringement.

My point is that the Times doesn't particular seem to care about infringement per se, they care about getting their slice of the cut from that infringement.

It's like if a video game company or a movie company only attempted to sue illegal downloaders who had a certain net worth.
HN has swung pessimistic for a while now
> To me, reading a book, putting it in some storage system, and then recalling it to form future thoughts is fair use. It's what we all do all the time, and I think that's exactly what training is.

If the AI can recall the text verbatim then it's not at all the same. When we read we are not able to reproduce the book from our memory. Even if a human could memorise an entire book it's not at all practical to reproduce the book from that. The current AIs are not learning "ideas", they are learning orders of words.
Why stop there. Create an algorithm that distributes the calculation of each unique number to a different instance. Surely that would scale even better!
Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX

While looking at the old Unix Archives, it's easy to get the impression that
Unix really is the ultimate development environment, by and for programmers.
At least at it's inception, before it started seeing more general use.
>That's not the example. Here I proactively scrape NYT, summarise articles for a fee and sell that as a service. It's not people coming to me with some articles to summarise, and maybe then publishing it online.

That's not what OpenAI is doing; it's not selling summarised articles as a service. Your example is a false equivalence.

>This is kind of what LLMs do. And also feels like not fair use

An LLM doesn't do this unless you ask it to. And if you then take that output and publish it as your own, you're breaching the copyright, not OpenAI.
I'm still not sold. RDP does all the configs you've mentioned, dual screen, single screen, being able to see both screens at the same time plus there is the very nice feature of being able to copy paste between computers and peripheral passthrough.
Good thing publishing your projects is deliberately excluded so you're FUDing.
I self host. Over the years, I've had both situations with outlook. I've tried many things.

As it happens, I noticed my mails have gone through just fine in the last months, at least to companies using Microsoft services without me doing anything specific, after I threw the towel with Outlook. I did switch VPS providers almost a year ago, though to a provider that I expect to be more filtered (ovh).
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