skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are these multimodals able to discern the input voice tone? Really curious if they're able to detect sarcasm or emotional content (or even something like mispronunciation?)
No it does not "make up things" using generative AI. Current GS implementations assume camera poses are static. This paper assigns a linear motion trajectory to camera during training.
"Now tell me more about my stylish industrial space and great lighting setup"
It took you this long to ask?
Can’t wait to get interviewed by this model!
Someone needs to hurry up and build a von Neumann probe already.
It's exactly the same protocol. That's the point.
Have you tried groq.com? Because I don't think gpt-4o is "incredibly" fast. I've been frustrated at how slow gpt-4-turbo has been lately, and gpt-4o just seems to be "acceptably" fast now, which is a big improvement, but still, not groq-level.
Ah I misremembered GPT-3.5 as being released around the time of ChatGPT.
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That is not at all the impression I got.

Human: "Hey How's it Going?"

The AI: "Hey there, it's going great. How about you? [Doesn't stop to let him answer] I see you're rocking an OpenAI Hoodie - nice choice. What's up with that ceiling though? Are you in a cool industrial style office or something?"

How we expect a human to answer: "Hey I'm great, how are you?"

Maybe they set it up this way to demonstrate the vision functionality. But still - rambling.

Later on:

Human: "We've got a new announcement to make."

AI: "That's exciting. Announcements are always a big deal. Judging by the setup it looks like it's going to be quite the professional production. Is this announcement related to OpenAI perhaps? I'm intrigued - [cut off]"

How we expect a human to answer: "That's exciting! Is it about OpenAI?"

These AI chat bots all generate responses like a teenager being verbose in order to hit some arbitrary word count in an essay or because they think it makes them sound smarter.

Maybe it's just that I find it creepy that these companies are trying to humanize AI while I want it to stay the tool that it is. I don't want fake emotion and fake intrigue.
They were talking about finally adding MIME types to Gopher+ in 2002, which I think was too late to compete with the Web. Sniffing for UCS-2 or UTF-8 or Latin-1 might have worked or might have given us more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake.
They've been moving more and more towards closed source over the years, which is a shame but I understand why. We don't offer time-series features today, but we're not ruling out adding support for it eventually if it is desired by our users.
true. at least rn though, it types around the same speed of 3.5 turbo
Note that there is only one thing about the research that I have said is arguably influenced by the bias in question, “the perception of language modeling as a road to real general reasoning”. Not the order of progression through modalities. Not the perception that language, image, audio, or video are useful domains.
Pretty much, tech is what we make of it no matter how advanced. Just look at what we turned most of the web into.
Im sorry to hear that. What was your diet like? How would you have changed it?
Monotonicity is addressed in section 6.2, but it's optional.
Bitcoin ASIC's are basically nothing more than kitchen appliances at this point. Plug and play. Everything can be replaced with a few screws. They are extremely static. Put it on a shelf, plug in power/network, and run it until it dies.

AIA servers are complex 350lbs beasts that have a lot of moving components and require dedicated trained technicians to replace parts. They have multiple ways they connect to multiple networks. They require a lot of software. They are very dynamic with continuous updates.
Does anyone else, when writing comments, feel that you need to add a special touch to somehow make it clear that a human wrote it?
We prefer to call it "eventual consistency".
"...corrugated boxes had a recycling rate of 96.5 percent in 2018."

https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
> According to the union, Boeing firefighters are stationed at locations in Auburn, Everett, Renton, Seattle and Moses Lake, and receive around 200 emergency calls per month.

Woah, is 200 calls normal for an industrial facility? This potentially like a pretty large number for a modern manufacturer.
Why is modern Fortran no longer the right tool for a job?
Quite possibly this is one of the reasons why Apple reportedly partners (or already did?) with OAI.
feature request: please let me change the voice. it is slightly annoying right now. way too bubbly, and half the spoken information is redundant or not useful. too much small talk and pleasantries or repetition. I'm looking for an efficient, clever, servant not a "friend" who speaks to me like I'm a toddler. felt like I was talking to a stereotypical American with a Frappuccino: "HIIIII!!! EVERYTHING'S AMAZING! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL! NO YOU ARE!"

maybe some knobs for the flavor of the bot:

- small talk: gossip girl <---> stoic Aurelius

- information efficiency or how much do you expect me to already know, an assumption on the user: midwit <--> genius

- tone spectrum: excited Scarlett, or whatever it is now <---> Feynman the butler
My threshold is $0. I was never expecting to get billed on the free tier.
> Police already have technology to stop cars remotely using radio and electromagnetic waves.

Never heard about this one. Anybody got a link, or even name?
Hopefully none - human body is great at shielding things from EM radiation, and these things are already designed to be extremely resistant to external interferance for obvious reasons.
You can't just stop suddenly out of nowhere for no reason without signaling. In traffic it is obvious that people will be starting and stopping so there the fault is the person in the back, but on a country road with no traffic the fault is not so clear.

To your second point, nothing on those vehicles says "warning, no human in control" so I'm not sure how obvious it really is.
like the weather, restaurants, and plans for the summer, or even breeding opportunities? (will admit to missing the subtlety of the joke tho)

maybe they're complaining about how the options on whale tinder are too blubbery, but he categories for living things to talk about are definitely shared, and dividing phenomena into them is pretty straightforward. the real risk might be that the next iteration of GPT simulates an always just out of reach imagined better option and whales stop reproducing in pursuit of it. we should try it on another species first.
It’s a fine philosophical point, but far from practicality when we’re still trying to keep these cars from accidentally running into things.

The trolley problem was never an argument against mass transit.

> if the vehicle behind you is much smaller, like a motorcycle, so maybe your occupants don't even get whiplash, and the crushed motorcyclist would be considered at-fault

You’re describing tailgating. This isn’t even a trolley problem.

Jamming on the brakes for no reason is bad driving. Jamming on the brakes because something is in front of you is…that’s why we have brakes.
All ParadeDB extensions are released under AGPL-3.0. We've found that it strikes the right balance between being open-source and enabling the community to adopt for free, while also protecting us from hyperscalers and enabling us to build a sustainable business. Perhaps the topic of a blog post someday :)
Yes, I think so - especially if it was fast.

A very fast at scale universal symbolic regression machine would be formidable.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...

"Decoupling the User/Kernel boundary in Windows is a monumental task and highly non-trivial, however, we have been working hard to stabilize this boundary across all of Windows to provide our customers the flexibility to run down-level containers"
People care about dogs, I have never met a dog that didn't love its owner. So no, you are just wrong there, I have never heard anyone say that the love they get from their dogs is false, people love dogs exactly because their love is so unconditional.

Maybe there are some weirdos out there that feels unconditional love isn't love, but I have never heard anyone say that.
I thought it was a test of whether the model knew to backoff if someone interrupts. I was surprised to hear her stop talking.
Considering how nimble e-bikes and e-scooters are, how will the UK police be able to properly catch, aim and target thieves while those heavy backpacks on? What's the chance they hit someone else with their EMP?

This feels like an Onion article or the UK police has too much money and free time on their hands instead of attacking the issue of petty crime from the source: poor education? shit jobs market (especially for migrants)? unaffordable living? etc
Slight off-topic, but I noticed you've updated your llm CLI app to work with the 4o model (plus bunch of other APIs through plugins). Kudos for working extremely fast. I'm really grateful for your tool; I tried many others, but for some reason none clicked as much as your.

Link in case other readers are curious: https://llm.datasette.io
the quality of all online platforms is at risk (if not already serious affected) by the bot crisis. Improvements in LLM's are only going to make this worse.
I am see-sawing about not using discussion platforms any more because of this...

it only takes a few minutes to see how often people are using GPT's to summarise things, or answer questions by taking an OP and punching it into GPT's and then pasting answers as if this was helping people understand things, as if they couldnt have done these things for themselves.

Then there's the ones that dont get detected or reported...
If CM5 doesn't at minimum expose the PCIe x4, I'm going to flip some fucking tables over.
Real would pop their bubble. An AI would tell them what they want to hear, how they want it to hear, when they want to hear it. Except there won’t be any real partner.
> Sure, 3d printing has its place (mostly in making plastic parts for things) but it's hardly the revolutionary change in consumer products that it was touted to be. Instead, it's just a hobbiest toy.

how sure are you about that?

https://amfg.ai/industrial-applications-of-3d-printing-the-u...

how positive are you that some benefits in your life are not attributable to 3d-printing used behind the scenes for industrial processes?

> Just like they did when ML was supposed to take over the world

how sure are you that ML is not used behind the scenes to benefit your life? do you consider features like fraud detection programs, protein-folding prediction programs to create, and spam filters valuable in and of themself?
Carbon is only a tiny part of the problem... plastics are nasty in all kind of ways, both to you and the environment.

Steel and glass won't give you cancer, wool won't destroy your hormonal system, &c.
Agreed, this is why we want to support both. Maybe even Apache Hudi down the line. But I hope the industry converges to a main standard rather than Snowflake/Databricks fighting for their own formats. They can differentiate on much more meaningful features
New work extends the thermodynamic theory of computation
DC ("brushed") motors won't be affected by that, especially if controlled with no transistors. See for example how old DC-powered electric railway rolling stock was built, from pre-power electronics era.
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I don't know if this counts, but I had something that I would call parasitic happen to me once.

I administered a VBulletin forum, and naturally, we installed all sorts of gewgaws onto it, including an "arcade" where people could play games, share high scores, etc.

This arcade, somehow, came with its own built-in comment system, one where users could somehow register without registering for a proper VBulletin user account on our instance, and thus without admins being notified.

One day, we discovered this whole underbelly community that had apparently been thriving under our metaphorical floorboards, and promptly evicted them. In hindsight, I probably should have found some way to let them stick around, but recently several things had happened that hardened our stance to any sort of un-wanted users.
Maybe because you're in an office and don't want everyone talking? Or maybe you're on the bus and don't want everyone overhearing what you're doing? Or, for that matter, think about if you had to say out loud everything you do on a computer. Heck, a three hour meeting makes me hoarse.

Sam Altman is a person to doesn't actually do anything that would be considered actual work by people who do actual work (like me), so of course he is going to find a natural language interface the best he's ever used, because it mimics what he does every day, which is to tell other people to go do actual work.

Also, he has a stake in promoting his products, so what everything comes out of his mouth is dead on arrival as far as meaningful content, relevance, and veracity.
> Is that not a very meaningful thing to be able to do?

No? Solving homework was never meaningful. Being meaningful was never the point of homework. The point was for you to solve it yourself. To Learn with your human brain, such that your human brain could use those teaching to make new meaningful knowledge.

John having 5 apples after Judy stole 3 is not interesting.
There seems to be a trend of people naming new things (perhaps unintentionally) after classic computer games. We just had a post here on a system called Loom which apparently isn't the classic adventure game. I'm half expecting someone to come up with an LLM or piece of networking software and name it Zork.
Thermodynamics of Computations with Absolute Irreversibility
Do you not have to work with non-native speakers of whatever language you use at work?
I think this is probably one of the most compelling personal uses for a tool like this, but your use of it begs the same question as every other activity that amounts to more pseudo-intellectual consumption; what is the value of that information, and how much of ones money and time should be allocated to digesting (usually high-level) arbitrary information?

If I was deliberately trying to dive deep on one particular hobby, or trying to understand how a particular algorithm works, there's clear value in spending concentrated time to learn that subject, deliberately focused and engaged with it, and a system like your describe might play a role in that. If I'm in school and forced to quickly learn a bunch of crap I'll be tested on, then the system has defined another source of real value, at least in the short term. But if I'm diving deep on one particular hobby and filling my brain with all sorts of other ostensibly important information, I think that just amounts at best to more entertainment that fakes its way above other aspects of life in the hierarchy of ways one could spend time (the irony of me saying this in a comment on HN is not lost on me).

Earlier in my life I figured it would be worthwhile to read articles on the bus, or listen to non-fiction podcasts, because knowledge is inherently valuable and there's not enough time, and if I just wore earbuds throughout my entire day, I'd learn so much! How about at the gym, so much wasted learning time while pushing weights, keep those earbuds in! A walk around the neighborhood? On the plane? On the train? All time that could be spent learning about some bs that's recently become much easier to access, or so my 21 y.o self would have me believe.

But I think now it's a phony and hollow existence if you're just cramming your brain with all sorts of stuff in the background or in marginally more than a passive way. I could listen to a lot of arbitrary German language material, but realistically the value I'd convince myself I'd get out of any of that is lost if I'm not about to take that home and grind it out for hours, days, move to a German speaking country, have an existing intense interest in untranslatable German art, or have literally any reason to properly learn a language and dedicate real expensive time to it.
NHTSA absolutely does put tons of effort into collecting data and analyzing failures at scale.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/data/crash-data-systems
> unwittingly enable something that suddenly charges you hundreds of dollars before you know it

The default is to have current and estimated monthly cost displayed on your root console as soon as you login. You will also get email alerts when you hit 50% and then 80% of your "free tier quota" in a month.

> even if you're not doing anything with the service except looking around.

I'm not aware of any services which will cost you money unless you actively enable them and create an object within it's class. Many services, such as S3, will attempt to force you into a "secured" configuration that avoids common traps by default.

> For example, PostgreSQL is advertised as free, but "Aurora PostgreSQL" is quite costly.

There's a rubric to the way AWS talks about it's internal services that is somewhat impenetrable at first. It's not too hard to figure out, though, if you take the time to read through their rather large set of documentation. That's the real price you must pay to successfully use the "free tier."

Anyways.. PostgreSQL is an open source project. Amazon RDS is a managed service that can run instances of it. Amazon Aurora is a different service that provides it's own engine that is _compatible_ with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

To know why you'd use one or the other, the shibboleth is "FAQ," so search for "AWS Aurora FAQ" and carefully read the whole page before you enable the service.
Counterpoints: why are these not a big deal?

1. With libmagic these days this is sort of not that useful. Type "9" means Item is a binary file. Client must decide what to do with it. Just use type 9 and then determine the filetype using the first few bytes.

2. Screams for an upgrade. Could assume if encryption is used, UTF-8 is the new default charset.

3. Most TCP services are wrappable, eg. over SSL or ssh with compression.

4. Fortunately the once-feared gopher police, famed as both jaw-droppingly vicious and most morally dubious in method, have long since retired to the Bahamas.
Yes, they can, and they should get better at this over time.

There is a demo video where the presenter breathes heavily and asks the AI is able to notice it as such when prompted.

It can’t just detect tone, it seems to also be able to use tone itself.
There's not currently a requirement for a real name (though Google did at one time push that when going nuts with Google+) but they do really strongly push a cell phone number, which can easily get attached to someone who later is no longer with the company.

You need to manufacture a persona (with password hints, a cell phone plan, etc) to really be secure - or have multiple avenues to access your system.
it's crazy that Google has the Youtube dataset and still lost on multimodal AI
Sure, it's wrong to shoot the messenger. But sometimes the messenger is wrong.

I think that real solutions to complex problems only arise from analysis and thinking carefully. They don't come from application of simple heuristics.
Its first answer of 12 is correct, there are 12 _unique_ characters in https://google.com.
Brushless motors have been the norm in e-bikes and e-scooters for a long time. And even modern brushed electric motors in EVs have electronic control via microcontrollers. There's no way you can get maximum power efficiency out of it without software control.
Comments like this don't belong on HN (and that's not how HN works, either).

Upvote the post instead.
I found it insightful. They showed us how to handle the rough edges like when it thought his face was a wooden table and he cleared the stale image reference by saying “I’m not a wooden table. What do you see now?” then it recovered and moved on.

Perfect should not be the enemy of good. It will get better.
Google/Zx v8.1
Thanks, that's awesome. Love the MeWare term, I'm going to add it to my vocabulary.
> So it is now on me to know whether my object is lost or stolen?

No. AirTags let you track your objects whether they are lost or stolen. It's just that they also alert potential thieves to their presence, so any reasonably competent thief will be able to disable them.

> Clearly, more people are using these things to track down stuff that has been taken rather than find the remote control lost somewhere in their living room.

My use cases are to (a) find items that I misplaced or lost somewhere on my own. (b) track the whereabouts of luggage that got lost by an airline.

These cases are not particularly hindered by anti-stalking mechanisms.
Or this quote from Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars:

"We're like dwarves in a waldo[.] One of those really big waldo excavators. We're inside it and supposed to be moving a mountain, and instead of using the waldo capabilities we're leaning out of a window and digging with teaspoons. And complimenting each other on the way we're taking advantage of the height."

We don't even realize what is possible with our current technology.
I like and use Remmina, but hate the fact that it's applet automatically set itself to run at boot while I do not want it

(does anybody know how to disable this permanently in Fedora?)
People used to tell stories of visiting Russia and having people try to buy their blue jeans off of them while walking down the street.
Apple and Google, you need to get your personal agent game going because right now you’re losing the market. This is FREE.

Tweakable emotion and voice, watching the scene, cracking jokes. It’s not perfect but the amount and types of data this will collect will be massive. I can see it opening up access to many more users and use cases.

Very close to:

- A constant friend

- A shrink

- A teacher

- A coach who can watch you exercise and offer feedback

…all infinitely patient, positive, helpful. For kids that get bullied, or whose parents can’t afford therapy or a coach, there’s the potential for a base level of support that will only get better over time.
it really feels like the quality of gpt4's responses got progressively worse as the year went on... seems like it is giving political answers now vs actually giving an earnest response. It also feels like the responses are lazier than they used to be at the outset of gpt4's release.

I am not saying this is what they're doing but it DOES feel like they are hindering previous model to make the new one stand out that much more. The multi-modal improvements here and release are certainly impressive but I can't help but feel like the subjective quality of gpt4 has dipped.

Hopefully this signals that gpt5 is not far off and should stand out significantly from the crowd.
Yep, that's obviously where the value would be, but the basics have been default for quite some time unless you're using a linux or windows workstation
Hmm, Intel Compute Card strikes back? Doesn't sound terrifically practical (even the RPi 5 is kind of anemic as a desktop...)
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You have to manually set this up though.

There's so much UX for a prospective new AWS dev that could be improved. Say a 1 click "do you want billing alerts with that?" Template, or a "do you want to lock down expensive nonfree stuff?" option to set some soft limits to zero out of the gate (nescessitating a self serve support case to unblock).

It's frustrating. It's been this way for over a decade yet you'll still see new customers cutting themselves on the nuances of free tier. I get that AWS is 'enterprise real deal do what I say', but I don't think that means you should completely exclude the customer story of any new developers just getting their feet wet. It's an area of customer obsession the business has regrettably lacked, and if you go by the continuous stories of people messing it up on HN/twitter/reddit/etc, it only becomes more glaring how little the new guys are being taken care of.