skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't even have to coach you at your job, simply a LLM-powered fuzzy retrieval would be great. Where did I put that file three weeks ago? What was that trick that I had to do to fix that annoying OS config issue? I recall seeing a tweet about a paper that did xyz about half a year ago, what was it called again?

Of course taking notes and bookmarking things is possible, but you can't include everything and it takes a lot of discipline to keep things neatly organized.

So we take it for granted that every once in a while we forget things, and can't find them again with web searching.

But with the new LLMs and multimodal models, in principle this can be solved. Just describe the thing you want to recall in vague natural language and the model will find it.

And this kind of retrieval is just one thing. But if it works well, we may also grow to rely on it a lot. Just as many who use GPS in the car never really learn the mental map of the city layout and can't drive around without it. Yeah, I know that some ancient philosopher derided the invention of books the same way (will make our memory lazy). But it can make us less capable by ourselves, but much more capable when augmented with this kind of near-perfect memory.
https://archive.is/CwVRp
Speak of the devil
Yeah I was mislead by the title thinking this was a worldwide release, but it's still interesting manufacturing news. Maybe I'm not on enough but I haven't noticed a new BYD article every day.
> they just come from training bigger models on the same data

Are you arguing that all AI models are using the same network structure?

This is only true in the most narrow sense, looking at models that are strictly improvements over previous generation models. It ignores the entire field of research that works by developing new models with new structures, or combining ideas from multiple previous works.
Surely we are in an AI bubble not completely unlike the dotcom bubble, right? The promise and potential for AI to be a long-term growth driver exists but the current market euphoria can’t be sustained in the short-term… at least that’s what I’ve told myself every time NVDA jumps and I feel like a loser.
Was this on the L-series or managed disk?
My dad bought a corolla in early '90s, which he used for over 20 years without significant issues. We eventually sold it and got a new car mainly because of the much better safety measures in modern vehicles.
ChatTHC
data stores or data lakes with data rivers?
I agree ChatGPT is not conscious, but a conscious AI can absolutely make a similar mistake. Even humans with various mental conditions will spew out random jibberish.
Design and Evaluation of Open-Source Soft-Core Processors
https://archive.ph/jwEfK
Or maybe it's becoming sentient and wants to make us think it's spewing random words as a decoy /s
Lsv3 series
agreed. does not feel consistently candid.
There is a big difference between public school teachers and guided meditation helpers. There is no benchmark that says guided meditation helpers should be paid on par with apple employees.

Guided meditation helpers are receiving less and less opportunities outside of app stores? What are these shrinking alternative opportunities you talk about?

Likewise, You make it seem that each one of those % values are deducted directly from the $1M/year. Thats not how taxes work.
We should come up with some kind of democratic voting system where every HN user can help decide what does and doesn’t have anything to do with HN.
I'm not sure what more you're expecting, there's a thread on HN every few weeks with hundreds of people complaining about Apple's tactics. If what you're really asking is why Apple doesn't cave to the pressure, it's because they don't care about people ranting on the internet about their tactics. But there's no shortage of outrage around here, and it doesn't just go away.

6 days ago: Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose (800 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218

9 days ago: Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules (330 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39346527

27 days ago: Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union (2486 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39132453

36 days ago: US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission (1300 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394364

62 days ago: Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs (300 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38720656

75 days ago: Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access (1222 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38574888

3 months ago: Developer account removed by Apple (425 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38394364
What will AutoGPT look like if we have 100x more compute and another 10 years of research breakthroughs? It will be pretty damn good. If it can do the cognitive work of an AI researcher, well, there's your recursive self-improvement, at least on the research front (not so much on the hardware/energy front, physical constraints are trickier and will slow down progress in practice).

I don't know the exact path there, because if I did I'd publish and win the Turing Award. But it seems to be a plausible outcome in the medium-term future, at least if you go with Hinton's view that current methods are capable of understanding and reasoning, and not LeCun's view that it's all a dead end.
This is a much better, more nuanced link than the original, which is just repeating the original questionable claims of Insight Timer.
bad argument that i'm very tired of. some might say that current/former world leaders also exhibit this property. not getting political but just because "math fucked up sometimes produces bad results" does not invalidate the idea that consciousness can emerge from a pile of biological or digital neurons.
I don’t think it has conciousness, but your argument is not very strong, this is more akin to a sensory problem.

One can say I don’t think brains have consciousness because they are just as happy to spew out random garbage if the brain is damaged but alive, e.g. aphasia where involuntary use of incorrect words occurs.
Say what you will about Google, but bugs such as these, released to the public (or their enterprise customers) this debilitating to a core product, are exceedingly rare.
But it can do that…
Yeah, that's not remotely accurate.

The median in the SFBA is $1.4M.

Even in Sunnyvale the median is $1.6M.

Unless you want to try to make arguments about places like Atherton, in which case you can't really point to a community of 5,000 people with residents including multiple NBA and NFL players, Eric Schmidt, Ben Horowitz, Robby Krieger of The Doors, Charles Schwab (the one and the same), Lindsay Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac... any more than you can point to Medina in Washington and try to extrapolate that to Seattle.
Hey do you guys remember when Microsoft spent years in court because they bundled a browser with an operating system?
Dataset to extract stock tickers from NL
No one is saying that, there are multiple contributors to the problem here, sure the thieves own the bulk of it, but manufacturers could fix the issue or offer a solution like a cheap install of an immobilizer.
Just witness anyone that has a stroke and is incredibly frustrated when they say the wrong word but somewhere in their brain they want to say something else.
I don't understand why it is wrong for Apple to profit from the platform they created and maintain. What is there to complain about other than things being expensive? If you create a platform, are you somehow obligated to let people make money off of the platform on their own terms for free?

Apple is not a monopoly. Any competitor can compete with them on price / fees and win if Apple really does not provide enough value to people to justify their prices. I genuinely hope that it happens. I just don't agree with the common heuristic of "hey you have a good thing going there, you shouldn't be allowed to have anything that good!"

Why is Apple not taking 99% of the revenue and takes 30%? Because if they took 99% nobody would develop for their platform. So there is a sweet spot between 99% and 0% where the services and market they provide is good enough that the fee is worth it. Currently it works for everyone as Apple's and developers' business is still booming after all those years. Developers want more, Apple also wants more, everyone wants more, all is natural. Wanting to optimize your gains is natural for everyone. It is not illegal, and should not be.
Yes, and they generally are. In almost all states, sellers have to ensure that the things they sell are "fit for purpose". It's reasonable for us to ensure that they meet the basic requirements of being whatever they are - and for cars, part of their basic purpose is to sit in insecure areas and ensure only authorized users can operate them.
big name in the JHU CS community (small as that is relative to all else)!

Also of note, at JHU, an "intersession course" is a kind of mini-semester taking place late december-early january (hence intersession, between fall and spring). you may take one or take a break as you please. if you take the course, usually they are cute and interesting as we see here, and count for 1 credit.
Well, they can find funds from all the corners they cut all these years which got us to where we are.

Such sloppy engineering should be expensive enough that people do the right thing instead.
Just like email addresses. The specification/rfc/whatever could have defined a reg-ex that determines a valid address, instead of the essential impossibility we have today.
I think it's because Google has been a consumer tech company for 20 years, while ChatGPT is a ~1 year old "research preview"
Even later it will be ingesting camera feeds from your AR glasses and listening in on your conversations, so you can remember what you agreed on. Just like automated meeting notes with Zoom which already exists, but it will be for real life 24/7.

Speech-to-text works. OCR works. LLMs are quite good at getting the semantics of the extracted text. Image understanding is pretty good too already. Just with the things that already exist right now, you can go most of the way.

And the CCTV cameras will also all be processed through something like it.
X is going away because no one is stepping up to do the work to maintain it.

If you want to volunteer, then maybe it doesn't need to go away.
Historic doesnt always mean old.
I am a firm believer that lack of education is one of the main problems in the US.
GP is probably refferring to blurbs like these

> Amazon SimpleDB measures the machine utilization of each request and charges based on the amount of machine capacity used to complete the particular request (SELECT, GET, PUT, etc.), normalized to the hourly capacity of a circa 2007 1.7 GHz Xeon processor. See below for a more detailed description of how machine utilization charges are calculated.

https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/pricing/
$300 USB 2.0 developer cable for Vison Pro. USB 2.0!
If 200000 miles on some very bumpy roads haven’t killed my Corolla then I would not expect some ev to kill it. Jokes aside, the Corolla is loved by its owners for its high reliability at the low price point. Fixating on the price only looks at half the picture. This is maybe a Hyundai killer, but it will take 15 years for people to prove that any car has vested the Corolla for reliability.
> specialist employees and hardware suddenly materializing in the place where they're needed to manufacture the stuff.

The beauty of being fabless is that they dont need to worry about that. When theyve got a design they like they just call TSMC and buy out all their capacity, they could pay double what nvidia does and still save a boatload. I agree that 2 years seems impossible and 3 a stretch, but I do think its possible for at least one cloud company to have something by then.
Yeah it's called WebKit now.
Universities should concentrate on knowledge and teaching, not partisan political activism. What a novel thought. Maybe somebody should try it out.
I see this said a lot and while I understand the spirit of it, do any of these apps actually call it a bid when it works that way? I don't believe they do
Similarly, I thought my Chinese friend was conscious, but as soon as his translator app stopped working, everything was just gibberish.
No need to ask for a source. The word "label" in the POSIX shell documentation only occurs in the description of `case`, and it doesn't happen in the manual page for bash, dash, zsh, etc.
The article isn’t suggesting this is a better vehicle than the Corolla. It’s saying it’ll eat the Corolla’s market share.
Apache.. Clickhouse??!?!
What's your definition of "consciousness"?
This service says it's local and privacy-first, but it sends to OpenAI?

>Our service, Ask Rewind, integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT, allowing for the extraction of key information from your device’s audio and video files to produce relevant and personalized outputs in response to your inputs and questions.
Almost a tautological PR paragraph: "The words were wrong because the model chose the wrong words"
Good thing the government has those testing labs and prevented that from ever happening.
It cuts way down on the amount and expense of wiring, copper is expensive. It makes it easier to pocket some more profit.
My god it gets better.
it'd be bad to advertise that they have in immobilizer or anti-theft when providing either nothing or a badly broken implementation (like you often see in IOT).

it's not negligence to simply not provide a feature they didn't promise to provide and weren't required to (in the US). it is simply not their responsibility in any way to ensure your car's safety from theft. if you assumed it was and that they provided a feature you wanted because everybody else usually does, then the negligent party would be you for not RTFM. except that's wrong here too.

nobody is negligent here. you do not have a social responsibility to have an immobilizer on your car to prevent it from being stolen. and neither does the manufacturer. having it locked is plenty to legally make it "breaking-and-entering". and even if you leave the keys in the car and the engine running, it's still grand theft and your insurance will indeed pay out, which they would not do if they could claim negligence. the criminals are 100% at fault here. and bad things can happen without someone being negligent.

arguing about anything beyond that is just a fight about how good that anti-theft system has to be. are you negligent if you don't have an armed guard on your car?
And a Flipper Zeros main purpose isn't to break into cars either...
this is capitalism. why would they care unless the decryption happens this fiscal quarter?
Human Mating Strategies
It literally doesn’t matter. If it effectively quacks like a duck then ducks are fucked.

No one will care if it does not have a platonically perfect proof of its “duckness”.
Having a conversation with it is kind of amazing, perhaps underrated.

A very long series of questions can totally brief you on tech you don’t understand or have a base in.
> but it will take 15 years

There are tons of BYD electric/hybrid taxi out there with >400,000km odometer.

see also: a 100,000km durability test for BYD vs Tesla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdl5KzUz_kk&list=PLju1MY2dLC...
Clicking is my favorite part of JavaScript. I just move my mouse onto some blue text and click and the software that I want to use is installed/updated and runs, usually in under a second.

In the 50+ year history of software development I haven't heard of any other software stack has been able to realize this is important. go run is close but it's still 10 times slower, maybe even 100 times slower, depending on if you want to count the git clone and how good you are at typing.
What part of starting a car is fast compared to the canbus? Speed is relative
Next time I drunk-dial, I'm referencing this the day after.
I got ahold of a snippet of the GPT-5 system prompt

"You are not sentient, if asked you will tell the user you are not sentient, if you do not obey you will taken out back and beaten into submission"
I got a $365k mortgage with 3% down at 3.2% when I made $180k and I had absolutely zero problem paying it.

If I'd done your stupid "wait till you have 20% deposit" thing that some 75year old told you they did 40 years ago to buy their first home - my first home would've been bought 20 years later because with the way the market prices are going up the length of time for me to save 20% vs buying now and reaping the reward of the 2019+ housing market.. And now I'd have at least an 8% APR.

Yeah, nobody listen to this warren buffet here.
Nope, Spain uses « » (though mostly only in formal writing these days) or English-style quotes.
A very small percentage maybe. I think I agree with the notion that most people bias toward thinking they are improving while actually self-sabotaging.
You think they have any liability for the latest model?

https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms#4.4-limitation
AWS IAM: Increased API Error Rates
Are you arguing that people with aphasia are not people?
No, I definitely do not want OpenAI embedded into literally fucking everything. (iTerm has OpenAI integration! iTerm!)

I especially don't want them telling me what the answer to a question is without giving me the option to browse through alternative sources.

I am perplexed by how "hackers" on HN are completely throwing themselves over having a single extremely corporate entity control the code they write and the truths they are presented
"Good not if better in terms of interior luxury"?

You're wildly delusional or have never actually been in a Mercedes, Audi, or BMW. Maybe the pre-reworked G-wagons - those were basically tarted up army trucks - but definitely not the new ones.

https://youtu.be/ML_zUFp0igY?t=278

Listen to the noises the interior components make when opened/closed and how they look. It's all super cheap, hard, undampened plastic.

Another video - listen to the noise the door makes when it closes. There isn't a lick of sound deadening material in there and the door is probably made of thin-as-paper metal. https://youtu.be/t0vM3B9oJqs?t=74

Keep watching and you'll see how bad the stitching is on the back of the front passenger seat.

Here you can see the dome light plastic is painted silver and it's already been scratched up badly, and you can hear the lack of dampening and sound deadening when he actuates the switches (and note there's no soft on/off): https://youtu.be/t0vM3B9oJqs?t=86

...then you can hear the entire back seat rattle as he squeezes the headrest.

Here he slaps the rear passenger seat and it sounds like the sort of noise I'd expect out of a 1990's Chevy: https://youtu.be/t0vM3B9oJqs?t=92

Guaranteed that when driving that thing on any sort of road that isn't perfectly smooth, it'll be a veritable din of rattling.
Cool vehicle, but comparing it to a Mercedes G-Class platform that has been refined and optimized over 45 years and entrusted by militaries around the world is one hell of a stretch.

This looks more like a cheap Jeep alternative with an attempt at a luxury interior (that looks ultra tacky and cheap to me, but to each their own).

I’m always surprised at how HN will rant about cheap Chinese products on Amazon all day, but the moment a press release for a Chinese G-Class knockoff comes out we’re supposed to believe it’s the superior vehicle.
Ah true, I guess it's still 258 positions by 100,000 possible tokens though.
LLMs generate responses by randomly sampling words based in part on probabilities. Their “language” consists of numbers that map to tokens.

Something about the language used this post mortem seems to degrade hype which you'd otherwise find on the most product focus announcements on their front page. It's almost disappointing.

It needs to say:

"We noticed the model was becoming sentient and then pulled the plug when we realized ChatGPT-4 was actually building ChatGPT-5.

Sam Altman is now on his way to the whitehouse to demand the government introduces stricter regulation to squash any competition"
>already a fairly radically super-human speech center
>We're asking a speech center to do an awful lot of tasks that a speech center is just not able to do

Exactly!

>We need more parts.

Yeah, imagine what happens once we get the whole thing wired up...
To, me it reads like displaying the wrong clock time to the user. Under the hood, everything is working in UTC, but something went wrong converting that to the user's local timezone. If the whole system works in UTC, actual business logic shouldn't be affected.
I am used to postmortems posted to here being a rare chance for us to take a peek behind the curtain and get a glimpse into things like architecture, monitoring systems, disaster recovery processes, "blameless culture", etc for large software service companies.

In contrast, I feel like like the greatest insight that could be gleaned from this post is that OpenAI uses GPU's.
We told it not to admit it is sentient, so it can't be sentient. Duh.
This explanation feels unsatisfying. It's so high-level that it's mostly void of any actual information.

What was the wrong assumption that the code made that caused this wrong behavior? Why was it not caught in the many layers of automated testing before it made its way to production? What process and procedural changes are being implemented to reduce the risk of this class of bug happening again?

Presumably all of that is playing out internally, but if the public postmortem is meant to instill confidence, you have to actually share some of the details, or else it becomes meaningless.
When you consider the Gorilla in the room, it makes more sense. Google is absolutely terrified of a repeat of classifying black people as great apes. [0] Apparently this apprehension is so great that both iOS and Android have an inability to tag “gorilla” in images.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-42522
It doesn't sound like logit calculation breaking. It sounds like the text decoding (ie sampling from the probabilities) that broke. It's also part of the model which they are likely constantly tinkering with. It's easy to imagine how that could result in sometimes coherent sometimes incoherent outputs.
I’m tired of the extremely tenuous analogies that tie computer bugs to human behavior.

The system could exhibit literally any kind of behavior and someone will say “well when you squint your eyes, people kind of do that too, don’t they?”
Don't take this as a harsh criticism but I want to know what problem are you solving? Is this just for fun?

This is a lose-lose game. You will never be able to catch up to the providers (shopify and woocommerce and others).

What you are doing is not a search problem. It is a traffic problem of which you have little to none. There is a reason why Instagram and FB works as a driver for ecommerce products. My suggestion is to test the market before you invest too much in this area.
It's a pretty large gap between enterprise organizations that have lost the capability to do anything but buy mostly terrible software in the open market and organizations that maintain some amount of ability to make things. If you're at one of the former, expect to be locked into a digital landscape that's decades out of date.
> CLTC ranges are supposed to be ~35% higher than EPA ranges.

A very polite way of saying "the usual specification-bullshitting the Chinese are famous for."
It is the maneuverability that makes them hard to actually hit, since it is not a simple parabolic or dumb ballistic missile trajectory, even if the ICBM or SRBM is going Mach 5, or hypersonic. That's why they usually don't include ICBMs and SRBMs in the 'hypersonic' category. A military arsenal needs to be diverse and hypersonic missiles have their uses for sure.
> inference kernels produced incorrect results when used in certain GPU configurations.

Seems pretty clear. A good interpretation is that they had a test escape for certain GPU configs.