skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the English category: GPT-4-0314 (ELO 1166), Llama 3 8B Instruct (ELO 1161), Mistral-Large-2402 (ELO 1151), GPT-4-0613 (ELO 1148).

You are right, I toned down the language, I got a bit overexcited, and I missed the difference in the versions of GPT-4. And LMSYS is a subjective benchmark for what users prefer, which I'm sure has weird inherent biases.

It's just that any signal of an 3.8B model being anywhere in the vicinity of GPT-4 is huge.
They do criticize the role of corporation and money in the development of AI power, but in a liberal statist way Rather than a revolutionary queer automated communist way, which is indeed disappointing.

However I think the discussion is interesting when they also talk about forces like anti-humanist utopianism and the eugenic approach of some AI accelerationist.

Keep in mind this is just an intro to the other papers in the issue, which you can find here:

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/749

The article on eugenics seems promising. It theorizes eugenics as a driver of the AGI frenzy, where eugenics spurns the production of AI/AGI that centralizes power and harms marginal communities.

The article on excluding robot rights is aggravating because it excludes humans who either directly identify as robots or integrate deeply with assistive technologies, and their valid ethical and legal claims to rights and protections specific to their needs as robotic-humans. I do believe there are marginal people and communities that will require productions - the biggest example right now is that we need access to free and open source LLMs. AI dependent people currently depend on centralized AI models that compromise our privacy in return for providing necessary assistance with, for instance, emotional processing and communications needs.
My question as someone that used to suffer from gout attacks till I started using medicine does anyone know is this protein good or bad for gout
Watch trash content.
Hmmm... I wonder if FPV goggles (from drones) could do what you want? lots of them have HDMI inputs...

https://oscarliang.com/fpv-goggles/
I'm glad my recent bible purchase can fund everyone else's hobby books.
If I were apple, I would be developing something in total secrecy and then release something ahead of the rest of competition when people least expect it. very big ifs but siri can be updated everywhere overnight and I dont see them rushing into anything like this
I think it's one of those words with no clear definition and so it's up to people to just say whether or not they are one. IMO frequent switching is not necessary, but common - often because of visa issues. That's why countries that offer visas precisely for digital nomad types are so attractive. Traveling goes pretty quickly from amazing to 'I wouldn't mind if I never stepped foot on a plane again.' I suppose that does make for a pretty poor 'nomad' though!
I prefer PDFs for informative material (various documentation), though they're less useful if it's just a photocopied old manual (no OCR).

It's when reading books (literature, not documentation) that the e-readers have something going for them. I read nearly all my books on the Kindle, but I never use it for documentation - I've tried, that's just cumbersome. PDFs on a PC are fine.
The Panama canal rail line does carry cargo, but its capacity is much less than the canal; every dollar that Panama spends improving the rail line is a dollar not spent improving the canal.
Well, the point is moot, because you can't scale the canal either.
You, and those in charge of writing and voting for this legislation, massively under-estimate the popularity of tiktok in the US among normal people, ie, normal people who aren't normally subject to the government banning something they enjoy.

It's one thing to ban menthol cigarettes, most people don't smoke. Most people use tiktok, it's probably similarly addicting, and they're going to cut them off cold-turkey. It's not going to go well, and they're going to burn what little good will the government has in the eyes of people under 40.

It'd be a completely different story if they were doing what should have been done a decade ago, and regulated data collection out of existence with this bill, which would actually be to the benefit of everyone that's not Meta/Snap/X/Alphabet.
Yes, it's called evolution. Software evolves as well as scales. Scaling is architected growth, evolution is unarchitected growth. (Sometimes scaling results in unarchitected growth, if the architecture was not reasonable.) There are many patterns for handling evolution, but they almost always involve a pattern outside of the existing architecture (a super architecture) to lean on for support. In my opinion, codifying and optimizing these super architecture patterns is one of the highest goals in software engineering because they allow for less error prone evolutions.
I thought about getting some xreal glasses, but I think you have to activate them to use them, which annoys me.
Someone (something?) will probably make a religion out of it. ;)
I don't know how anything about getting a cut works, but my understanding is that authors don't have to allow their books to be in the library at all, and libraries specifically need to get permission to lend e-books.
My understanding from this tweet thread [1] is that chinchilla probably overspecified some of the hyperparameters to the model

tl;dr I'm looking forward to having lots of models (ideally models) trained with a wide range of parameters to narrow down "what is actually optimal"

I think there is an interesting tradeoff of data quality and data volume, though

(Eg if we train with the highest quality 10% of our data, does the model improve if we use the other 90%? What if we increase our data size by 10x?)

[1] https://twitter.com/tamaybes/status/1780639257389904013
Why not go around if the queue is a month and a half long?
I refuse to do tech support for relatives. It's like getting into any other kind of business with them: a bad idea.

If they want a computer, they deal with the fallout when they screw it up.

The most I'll do if they ask about technology is is ask "what do you want to do with it" and the answer will almost certainly be iPad or Chromebook.
If you're worried about fake people not meeting your needs, perhaps the problem is "needing fake people"?

What's the use case for fake couple images? Who is the target audience? Is the intention to deceive viewers? If so, why would anyone sympathise with the dilemma of not getting the fake content you demanded?

If you're in the business of generating fake photos of fake people, you're in the misinformation game. You're the robber complaining about lack of accessibility in the victim's house.
Capital is the power that must not be named in the abstract, surely.
The ability to select a font size I like is one of my main three reasons for using a Kindle.
CO2 is mostly oxygen, so I think your math is a bit off.
If anything this is good for them. Apple's play here has always been getting their devices ready for running LLMs locally. This makes it way easier.
> They do criticize the role of corporation and money in the development of AI power, but in a liberal statist way Rather than a revolutionary queer automated communist way, which is indeed disappointing.

It's disappointing that their criticism doesn't conform to four disparate and specific adjectives seemingly plucked from thin air? What?
You really want to trust some random internet comment with this? Maybe wait a few months (or years) before trying some strange synthetic experimental food.
I don't live in Seattle and I don't use that many digital holds; for me most are just video games. But recently my county library added a limit for physical holds. "Wait times" seem to be one of those Goodhart's law metrics: by capping holds, you haven't really reduced wait times, just moved most of it out of sight of the reporting API.

But there's also kind of a mismatch of incentives at play here. As a patron, I really care more about throughput than latency on every hold I place. It takes me days or weeks to enjoy what I've checked out. But so does everyone else, so there usually isn't something I want on the shelves. In order to keep up throughput, I need something in my holds list ready when I return something. So I have a few dozen holds that go into the system as basically lottery tickets.

If it were just me, a policy of "unlimited holds, 2 out at a time" Netflix style would probably work, and I try to implement that by pausing (when I remember). As long I have an item or two out, I'd rather the librarians didn't consider my holds as any kind of "wait time" to optimize.
If I were apple, I would just buy one of the major LLM companies. They have the cash.
Substack now reports "flagged as spam".

Not sure why that is, but article content is available at

https://web.archive.org/web/20240420183201/https://farrs.sub...
It may well use OCR for extracting text, before cleaning it up.

Apple's "live text" OCR gave, on 2 lines of a curved, tilted, low-res image:

Sert. size 1 Tosp (209)
Total Sugars 12g
Id. 9 Aded Supars 195%

When shown this, ChatGPT4 said "... This is where the context-sensitive interpretation I offer can be more effective, as I can understand that "Tosp" likely means "Tbsp" (tablespoon) and "Id. 9 Aded Supars" refers to "Incl. 9g Added Sugars."
> most computers will last longer than them

With a life expectancy of 80, there's 15 years from 65-80.

Chromebook lifetime: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
> (weights haven't been released, though)

Phi-1, Phi-1.5, and Phi-2 have all had their weights released, and those weights are available under the MIT License.

Hopefully Microsoft will continue that trend with Phi-3.

> outputs 1212 tokens/sec on iOS

I think you meant "12 tokens/sec", which is still nice, just a little less exciting than a kilotoken/sec.
Eh, I think it’s showing that this class of model is becoming commoditized given there is a new one launching every week.
Because their algo is really, really good. Scary good. And it had a ridiculous amount of money funding the marketing machine behind it to onboard users.

US startups don't have access to that kind of capital, and even if their algo is better than tiktok, users make or break it, so they can't really get off the ground.

I'd say the closest idea is snapchat, and, that was/is massively hampered by the semi-slimy reputation it has. Sure it's profitable, but, had it never been used to send lewd images among college kids, it could very well have been as big as tiktok.
I started with “Plants from Test Tubes: An Introduction to Micro-Propagation”. After reading that I’ve perused various sites, YouTube, and I find research papers are remarkably plentiful and useful when you’ve got a specific question.

For example, I want to culture some plant. How do I get the best tissue from the plant and which media and hormones seem to work best? Should I use agar, gellan, multiply in a temporary immersion bioreactor, are there any special deflasking notes, etc. The information is out there for a ton of species!
Is it released?
Yeah, GPT3.5, in a phone, at ~1,000 tokens/sec ... nice!
And yet Nintendo sues anything that looks even a little like Mario. This should be interesting to watch play out.
Accessibility features are really bad though. Given their market is old people and kids, I was shocked at how bad it was when I tried to help my dad set his up to work better for him. I’d just assumed they’d at least be close to Apple operating systems.
> Yes, it's not particularly ecological

As if food packaging is particulary ecological, but we continue to order food, eat takeaway and processed food reliant on packaging.

I also buy paper books. Cheap paperback ones.

Books can easily be recycled as opposed to food packaging which mostly ends up in landfills or litters the environment.
If libraries want to be part of the e-racket, maybe they need to drink the full commercial Kool-Aid, and introduce a two-tier model: a free, regular membership and a paid, premium membership. The premium memberships fees go toward buying content, and are rewarded with perks like longer loan periods, priority holds, and exclusive access to new material.
Reality called and told me to welcome you to come back to it.
It would be remarkable if the software world were to suddenly depart the US, because a temporarily-hostile regulatory climate made certain startups migrate elsewhere, and they became wildly successful there. I don't think it's crazy to worry about that happening here and now, is it?

(Sure: the US government seems to act very friendly to one startup, OpenAI—but that's not the same as being friendly to OpenAI's competitors—it's sort of the opposite. OpenAI creating regulatory moats in the US is also OpenAI making the US a comparatively unattractive jurisdiction for everyone else..)
Nah. When playing solitaire I just use a Kelly calculator. I plug in estimated equity and pot odds, and get a recommendation of what percentage of my stack to bet. It's just to get a sense of how to make riskier bets when the pot is large.
If Amazon sells me floor tiles full of asbestos, they should sure as hell be held responsible, they can't just absolve it with "oh but we bought it from another company, go complain to them"

So why is it different if they sell me floor tiles made with slave labor?

Global retailers like H&M and IKEA do do audits of their supply chain to try to stop labor abuse (although how effective they are at that is up to debate)
Well, yes and no.. I do use the backlight on my Kindle if it's dark, but this changes how it looks. I have a Paperwhite Kindle. With the backlight on it's more like reading on LCD, though not as bad. The Kindle looks much nicer if I can use a bedside lamp instead of the backlight, just as I would with a paper book.
Human stem cells are pretty easy to make now, so...
How does casual use hint at going to work intoxicated?
The carbon isn't captured if it's released somewhere else in the cycle: in this case it will be released after it's eaten.

Nothing in the article mentioned the nutrition of the product. It seems only to have been used in snack bars and chocolate blocks which is "sometimes food".
I’ve reduced 99% of tech calls from elderly family(60s-80s) by moving them to either ChromeOS/Android or MacOS/IOS and all printers to Brother lasers. If they spend money on phones I lean toward Apple ecosystem. If they penny pinch - Google is king with all second hand Samsung galaxy/books, Dell enterprise chromebooks, or chromeboxes - making sure to verify years of support. It also makes it significantly easier to not mix ecosystems. I then set updates to automatic and make ublockorigin default in the browser. The last 7 years nearly every issue was resolved with a restart.
Oof, that sounds rough. You're right, I'm just sharing my own account and haven't seen these issues.
How exactly does publicized research lead to them not being able to catch up? I don't think anything in this paper is patentable.
This inductive logic is way overblown.

> Incredible, beat Llama 3 8B with 3.8B parameters after less than a week of release.

Judging by a single benchmark? Without even trying it out with real world usage?

> And on LMSYS English, Llama 3 8B is on par with GPT-4 (not GPT-4-Turbo), as well as Mistral-Large.

Any potential caveat in such a leaderboard not withstanding, on that leaderboard alone, there is a huge gap between llama 3 8B and Mistral-Large, let alone any of the GPT-4.

By the way, for beating benchmark, "Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need"
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> It's beyond odd; it's simply idiotic. You would not "buy down" holds for physical books, or not to a ridiculous degree. If there are 100 holds for some book, you're not going to go out and buy 75 or whatever.

Libraries certainly do this. Might not be at (your suggested) 75/100 rates, but if a physical book is popular, library systems do purchase more copies.
I have the greatest respect for Steve Blank whom I've met in person. But I cannot disagree with this article any more strongly. My late father was an early collector of antique cars and along with being born in Detroit meeting some of the industry's early pioneers I know something about the history of the auto industry.

There is no doubt Billy Durant was a genius. But unlike Musk he inherited wealth and the family wagon company based in Flint was the largest of its kind in America. He also didn't have to deal with stock markets shorts who have castigated Musk in the press constantly trying to drive down the price of his stock.

Durant had always been a successful stock trader. It was the dawn of the great depression that took all of his wealth. He had by then divorced his wife and married his daughter's best friend. It was pretty scandalous at the time and it may be why Durant isn't remembered in the Motor City in any way. But if you look carefully at the old GM building (not RenCen but the one before it) you will see Durant's initials because the building was designed while he as still running GM.
x mixed with y = join any combination of x and y based on some condition within x and y
x augmented by y = change part of x by adding y

x = real world
y = virtual world
I've always wondered, at what point do tech companies choose to open physical offices in different regions?

It's very likely the engineering talent in San Francisco is better than that of Tokyo. Is Tokyo just going to be a sales office? Or is there something I'm missing about this move by OpenAI.
The home button is one of the most-brilliant pieces of design in computing, period. I’m still bitter that between ditching it and post-iOS6 software design changes they’ve made iOS devices so much less intuitive and friendly.

It was like a little safety net for people who easily get “lost” in their computers. Which is most users! Watch non-nerds use a computer some time. God I miss that beautiful little button. What a step backwards.
Don't forget that printed books also have license fees included in their price. The printer also has the data there and could just print extra copies and sell them at cost+profit but they're not allowed to because copyright.

I don't think a latest bestseller should be in a library in the first place. Maybe a couple of years later when the hype has died down if it's still a good book, they can have it for the few people who want it for what it is rather than being trendy. But I never expect libraries to have anything new and fashionable. Movies and music too are always old or obscure, at least where I am.

It's funny that these artificial licensing constraints for software seem much more natural and acceptable. Especially software where the complete thing is distributed for free but you have to buy a license to activate it. It's even more in-you-face with network licenses where every computer in an organization can have and use a copy but you have to wait for somebody else to finish using theirs before you can use it on your computer. Oh, and then maintenance fees, and lapsed maintenance fee fees, and different prices depending on whether you buy a network or node-locked license.
> repercussions of sending commercials and TOS reruns into deep space.

There’s actually a documentary about this:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest
It’s funny seeing this comment and the article about Seattle libraries reducing digital copies both on HNews front page at the same time.

I love libraries.

It also feels like all our public institutions in the US are crumbling under assault from all sides.
> I think the only thing better would be some kind of immutable OS, where each reboot restores it to its original state. I haven’t set up anything like this on hardware, but I’ve seen it as a VM offering.

Stateless Windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127728
The competition isn't animal farming. The competition is soy beans. Replacing animals with a vegan alternative is an economic problem in that chicken is incredibly cheap to produce. And a social problem, because bacon tastes good and whole countries full of people need to be taught otherwise.
As far as I know (in the sense that I've never experienced anything like it in a decade of using a Kindle) that the book's getting revised from under me while I'm reading it. There's an occasional update for some books, but I have to actively choose to download the updated version, otherwise my original stays the same. I think I've only downloaded an updated version a single time.
I imagine that cheese and yogurt are significantly less than 100% bacteria. I couldn't find any easy numbers, but if I had to guess, it's less than 10% by mass for cheese.
I really dislike dark themes, I've difficulty reading after a small amount of time. It's really a dumb trend.
FHE is interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Australia (and Solar Foods for that matter) are not beholden to the American FDA.
Encoding should also depend on the user. Base 32 (crockford & rfc 4648) has a nice unambiguous alphabet for compact representation and explanation of why. However if your users are speaking aloud you might want a word list representation, “TIDE ITCH SLOW REIN RULE MOT”, like s/key rfc 1751. DO NOT invent your own word lists; there are an infinite number of dragons lying in wait for idioms, homophones, dialects, etc. Dont be like me and unintentionally create a major incident like “wet clam butterfly.”
I wish there was more detail on how he alienated the historical buyers. Very details light.
They'll just do what they have been doing for ~20 years, they wait, pick the "winner", polish the "user experience", call it Apple magic and incorporate that into their product cycles.

Some day will be the day their joke book becomes so mediocre it will not stick anymore, but I think they are safe on this one, for now..
It's difficult to prove a negative. Ebooks are a growing market in the US, the EU and SEA (though TBH I have no idea about China amd India)
It's been more than a decade that it's mainstream and takes about 10~20% of book sales depending on the country.

Amwzon's profits are still split with the publishers and publishers have their own venues + competitors (in particular outside of the US) so I'm not sure why Amazon's presence is a blow against the industry as a whole.

What more would be needed to see it as a validated business area?