skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, to be honest this is a baffling description. I'm probably similar to a kind of person they're talking about and I genuinely do not understand what they're trying to say about my lurking practices.
Remmina – Remote access screen and file sharing to desktop
The commentary here shows how ignorant people are with things like mandatory reporting and protecting underage children from online predators. Discord is most assuredly a vector for attack, and someone pretending to be some other age or being under age is very much a real issue that is not uncommon on even smaller social networks.

While I'm sure some of this is related to advertising and marketing, the simple fact is, any social network (of which you can lump Discord into) will already be doing things similar to this, even if not for advertising. If not, they are willfully ignorant.

This isn't some "pretend" problem either. Anyone suggesting otherwise is ignorant. It's that simple.
Full text preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.12.23287108v...
"My kids, for instance, love to hammer Alexa with random questions. They would spend a huge amount of time using a better interface, esp. with quick feedback, that provided even deeper insight and responses to them."

Great, using GPT-4 the kids will be getting a lot of hallucinated facts returned to them. There are good use cases for tranformer currently but they're not at the "impact company earnings or country GDP" stage currently, which is the promise that the whole industry has raised/spent 100+B dollars on. Facebook alone is spending 40B on AI. I believe in the AI future, but the only thing that matters for now is that the models improve.
I'm so happy seeing this technology flourish! Some call it hype, but this much increased worker productivity is sure to spike executive compensation. I'm so glad we're not going to let China win by beating us to the punch tanking hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people's income without bothering to see if there's a sane way to avoid it. What good are people, anyway if there isn't incredible tech to enhance them with?
In an ideal world, people would use natural and durable materials, mostly wood, glass, steel. Stuff that does not hurt living beings.

The acute problem is not plastic production, although that's an issue. But the industry invented the myth of plastic recycling, and due to wrong incentives, the plastic is shipped to poor countries where it comes into the environment.

The easiest way to deal with plastics is to collect it and burn it.
I really enjoyed this little page and cheat sheet! I've wanted to start writing more frequently. Not that I feel my thoughts are all that valuable or groundbreaking, but I like the concept of forcing it to get out of my mind and allowing it to live somewhere else so I don't feel the need to "hold it" mentally. The issue I run into is when writing for something other than a blog post, I'm just not really sure where to start. If I don't have an end-goal in mind with the content, I find it really hard to begin. How did you work through that?
Boiling the water will kill any pathogens, but it doesn't do anything for chemical or disolved contaminants. If you're so poor you don't have a pot to boil water in you are desperate indeed.
Thinking that you alone know "the right thing", that you are surrounded by "idiots", that people "call you rude or disrespectful, simply because you don't smile when you talk" and not because they (correctly) feel that you have no respect for them is simply hubris. Maybe this is the "dry humor" the author mentioned, but a) in my experience, people who hide behind the "it's just a joke" defense are rarely actually joking, and b) if your goal is to influence people then how your humor lands is in fact your problem. As they say, if you meet an asshole in the morning, you met at an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole.

> It comes down to this:

> You have to find a way to be the smart, positive, compassionate, mature, respectful, charming one. You have to do that even if everyone around you is acting like a complete idiot.

> You have to achieve a fine balance between sugar coating and blunt honesty. Above all, you have to anticipate that all of your hard work won't achieve the results you want in the short term. It takes a long time. A lot of people won't listen at first.

> You often have to trick people into doing the right thing.

> It's exhausting.

> It takes a lot out of you to be respectful to idiots all day long, especially when many of them go out of their way to do you harm. Despite the audacious tone of my writing (my dry humor is often mistaken for bitterness or anger), I try to remain calm and compassionate when dealing with people right in front of me.

> And of course, a lot of people will call you rude or disrespectful, simply because you don't smile when you talk.

> It's a lot to deal with.
The "modern standard" is starting to look a lot more like a bedroom in a shared apartment, or a studio, not a tract home.
Gritstone Bio is working in this space and have in-house manufacturing capabilities. Still a ways from prime time, but fascinating technology and an innovative approach. [0]

[0] https://gritstonebio.com/
Ask HN: Why isn't there a commercial Pi-Hole product?
This seems like something that could be productized. Is the market not large enough for a commercial product or have I missed one in the market?
To a close approximation, absolutely zero people need, want, or could possibly benefit from Bluetooth to satellite. The protocol just wasn't designed for anything more complex than a headset.

Beyond a single low bandwidth point to point connection, the pain increases exponentially as the signal quality degrades geometrically. It really is not meant for wide scale networks. Not in any way.

There is no application for "Bluetooth to orbit" that can't be served with other technology at lower cost and vastly improved performance. Bluetooth is just objectively the wrong technology for this.
Intentions be damned. Some industries take IP/security very seriously (eg regulated medical). Tools which phone home “for my user experience” are a complete deal breaker.
My friend doesn't quite grasp this yet, can someone explain? Is the reconstructed detail all "real" and extracted from the blurred input, or is there some model at work here, filling in the image with plausible details, but basically making up stuff that was not really there to start with?
I'm actually thinking that the GPT store with more users might be better for them

From my casual conversations, not that many people are paying for GPT4 or know why they should. Every conversation even in enthusiast forums like this one has to be interjected with "wait, are you using GPT4? because GPT3.5 the free one is pretty nerfed"

just nuking that friction from orbit and expanding the GPT store volume could be a positive for them
But Discord must store the messages, to make searching possible. And I assume the model works based on the writing style, topics discussed, etc. What would you propose, automatically remove all messages after a few weeks? Even then Discord technically can process the messages and build the same model. So yeah, in this case the processing is the problem since I don't want Discord to know my gender and age (unless I explicitly tell it).
The AI duet really starts to hint at what will make AI so powerful. It’s not just that they’re smart, it’s that they can be cloned.

If your wallet is large enough, you can make 2 GPTs sing just as easily as you can make 100 GPTs sing.

What can you do with a billion GPTs?
At a high level, ask it to produce a ToC of information about something that you know will exist in the future, but does not yet exist, but also tell it to decline the request if it doesn't verifiably know the answer.
Mineral-Calculator: How many minerals are in your mineral water
Depends what you want it for. I'm still holding out for a decent enough open model, Llama 3 is tantalisingly close, but inference speed and cost are serious bottlenecks for any corpus-based use case.
Plastics can't be recycled. Even the best quality HDPE resins can only be down-cycled once, and are turned into pens, toys and other low quality plastics stuff you don't want to have close to food.
Sure, but now consider that the government also has access to this data, and pair that with recently passed laws around gender & reproductive rights. It gets ugly fast. Discord is holding a dangerous piece of data, here.
But may not be better enough to warrant the cost difference. LLM cost econonmics are complicated.
Wait i thought it said available to free users... i don't see it on chatgpt
This may create a market for surveillance camera data and phone calls.

"This conversation may be recorded and used for training purposes" now takes on a new meaning.

Can car makers sell info from everything that happens in their cars?
Maybe. You probably don't want to base your web development studio on colorForth for quite a few reasons but I'm not so sure artistic reasons are relatively important.

You seem to think that organisational factors, like management, profitability, market influences and whatnot are less important than the conduciveness of the tooling to create good art. Why is this?
I remember a customer who would often sigh during meetings and repeat "we're not building the Space Shuttle here, guys" whenever one of the engineers would obsess over an irrelevant detail.

Exactly what I think of when I read this.
After using it for an hour, I completely agree. Having the faster token rate + their excel analysis actually work is a game changer.
Lots of tit-for-tat here.

You were attributing to me views which I haven't expressed. So a correction was provided, which was hopefully helpful to you. In any case it seems we've traded enough notes about historical bloodletting the topic of Zionism as such.

If you like you can tell us how you think should look on the ground -- in, say, about 20 years from now -- in your most optimistic (but realistically obtainable) scenario. Specifically with regard to (1) the final and borders of the State of Israel, (2) the status of the West Bank settlements (for those which do not end up on the Israeli side of the final borders), and (3) whether you see a need for any "population transfer" (as per the Decisive Plan or other proposals) in order to create conditions for a just and lasting peace.

If you want to. I'd just be curious.
Biggest change is the new 5 year rule for deorbiting any new space objects under US jurisdiction. So we're not creating new space junk.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-5-year-rule-deor...
VC loves it.

Another step closer for those 7 trillion that OpenAI is so desperate for.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40343460
I'm not as much surprised by the capabilities of new model (IMHO same as GPT-4) as by it's real time capabilities.

My brother who can't see correctly, will use this to cook a meal without me explaining this to him it's so cool.

People all around the world will now get real-time AI assistance for a ton of queries.

Heck - I have a meeting bot API company (https://aimeetingbot.com) and that makes me really hyped!
Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field
I’ve been all asrock and asus for a long time. Asrock had been the better value for me for awhile now. Think I started using them for the original threadrippers. Been happy.
Pretty responsible progress management by OpenAI.

Kicking off another training wave is easy, if you can afford the electricity, but without new, non-AI tainted datasets or new methods, what’s the point?

So, in the meantime, make magic with the tool you already have, without freaking out the politicians or the public.

Wise approach.
Multi modal isn't there because "this is an image of a green plant" is viable in a demo, but its not commercially viable. "This is an image of a monstera deliciosa" is commercially viable, but not yet demoable. The models need to improve to be usable.
It's better than at least 50% of the developers I know.
Most? Evidence?

Almost all the 3D structures that Alphafold was trained on were generated from crystals of pure protein.

ie made without chaperones.
I'm surprised and disappointed at how so many of the comments here have jumped to completely unwarranted conclusions.

I can only guess that people are feeling vulnerable after seeing part of themselves described so succinctly, and are lashing out in response.

Thanks OP, and big ups to Jessica Wildfire for a very interesting and important story. I feel like I understand the world a bit better now.
Reminds me of how Siri used to make jokes after setting a timer. Now it just reads back the time you specified, in a consistent way.

It's a very impressive gimmick, but I really think most people don't want to interact with computers that way. Since Apple pulled that "feature" after a few years, it's probably not just a nerd thing.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4HkLzatb4

I think this demo is more for showing the limit like "It can sing isn't it amazing?" than being practical, and I think it perfectly served the purpose.

I agree that the tortured impression. It partly comes from the facial expression of the presenter. She's clearly enjoying pushing it to the edge.
-3F or -3C?
> These models will improve faster than people can catch up.

So that we're all clear the basis for this analysis is purely made up, yes?
For anyone looking edit/fill PDFs locally (the data you fill in and document you load stay in your browser): https://SimplePDF.eu

You can read more in the privacy policy [1]

It can also be embed in any website [2]

Disclosure: I’m the developer behind it

[1] https://simplepdf.eu/privacy-policy

[2] https://simplepdf.github.io/
They buy a lot of ads/sponsorships
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345790
I agree. I tried a few programming problems that, let's say, seem to be out of the distribution of their training data and which GPT4 failed to solve before. The model couldn't find a similar pattern and failed to solve them again.
What's interesting is that one of these problems were solved by Opus, which seems to indicate that the majority of progress in the last months should be attributed to the quality/source of the training data.
50% cheaper than ChatGPT-4 Turbo...

But this falls short of the ChatGPT-5 we were promised last year

edit: ~~just tested it out and seems closer to Gemini 1.5 ~~ and it is faster than turbo....

edit: its basically chat gpt 3.9. not quite 4 definitely not 3.5. just not sure if the prices make sense.
The stock market doesn't seem too impressed - GOOG rebounded from strong red to neutral.
Would it be correct to say that the lowest hanging fruit for reducing production of plastic without outsize negative impact would probably be in stymying the vast quantities of synthetic textiles being sold, particularly to richer countries? Those materials dominate fast fashion and are one of the most common types of fabric across a broad range of products ranging from clothing to automobile seat covers to pet beds.
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avoid syndicated content.

More discussion on actual article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339852
> What would you propose, automatically remove all messages after a few weeks?

This but unironically.

If people or bots or the NSA want to keep records, let them scrape and cache 'em.

I actually think it should all be P2P, but that would kill the thin shell of a business model that exists.
Does this mean more or less money for YouTube sponsor ads?
I don't think it's about happiness (scare quotes or otherwise), I think it's about avoiding ruin. In a society where you have to run as fast as you can to keep up, children will slow you down and you might end up consumed by the predators that surround you. That's why the line from the abstract "Conceptualizing parenting as a stressor buffered by institutional support" rings so true to me.

The response to the above tends to be something like, it's not so bad, kids don't really need that much anyway. Which always leaves me with the question - how much money do you make? Could it be expressed as "several times the median US household income"?
>[0] For starters, most YouTube videos aren't manually captioned, so you're feeding GPT the output of Google's autocaptioning model, so it's going to start learning artifacts of what that model can't process.

Whisper models are better than anything google has. In fact the higher quality whisper models are better than humans when it comes to transcribing text with punctuation.
I've been hosting a Mattermost server as an invite-only chat board for about six years. Slack is the direct comp. Mattermost is not immune to being enshittified either, but at least I get some warning: I can read the patch notes before updating the server, and when I see they've turned fully evil, I just won't upgrade the server, and we can start looking for an escape route before the clients break.

Since I own the server, I have some confidence I'm the only person who can possibly read the user data too. That is to say, I know that I won't do it, whereas I believe Discord and Slack would.
I would have expected the cost of aluminum cans to be an order of magnitude more than plastic bottles, but from some quick searching it appears it's not even double.
Ah, I was tossed out of the airlock in a fit of logic... totally different!
His complaints about Sora are a little of the mark, I think. I also think that most of AI is just bullshit-dust sprinkled on to make investors salivate, but the first gramophone and the first airplane also sucked.

But everything about the Rabbit R1 is spot-on, including companies that keep shipping half-done bullshit that has the feel of a turned-in essay that was clearly scribbled on the bus on the way to school.
I find it educational and entertaining. Even though I am not in the VC industry in the sense that I'm not raising money or currently VC-backed, I find their insights into financial markets to be very useful. That isn't to say that I think everything they say is true — it just means that it often provides insights into things that are happening or are about to happen.

This is partly because of who listens to the podcast, and what they do after hearing about things on the podcast. For example, they may help move markets a bit due to their insider (not in the sense of illegal) information regarding tech companies and trends.

Knowing that they have said XYZ can help explain why a certain stock popped or dropped, or was written about in a major media publication.

As for whether they would care what you said about them in an online forum...I would think that would apply to pretty much any podcaster — even ones with 1/1000th of their audience.
I expect the really solid use case here will be voice interfaces to applications that don't suck. Something I am still surprised at is that vendors like Apple have yet to allow me to train the voice to text model so that it only responds to me and not someone else.

So local modelling (completely offline but per speaker aware and responsive), with a really flexible application API. Sort of the GTK or QT equivalent for voice interactions. Also custom naming, so instead of "Hey Siri" or "Hey Google" I could say, "Hey idiot" :-)

Definitely some interesting tech here.
I actually was that at one point, but I would tell people 53/eunuch/Afghanistan. It did a pretty good job of culling the people I didn't want to talk to and keeping the people I did want to talk to.
GPT-2: February 2019

GPT-3: June 2020

GPT-3.5: November 2022

GPT-4: March 2023

There were 3 years between GPT-3 and GPT-4!
>but also by the worst of the worst autocrats

MBZ (note MBZ is not MBS; Saudia Arabia and UAE are two different countries!) is one of the most popular leaders in the world and his people among the wealthiest. His country is one of the few developed countries in the world where the economy is still growing steadily, and one of the safest countries in the world outside of East Asia, in spite of having one of the world's most liberal immigration policies. Much more a contender for the best of the best autocrats than the worst of the worst.
I mean, if we're talking about "accelerating by modifying the metric tensor" then yeah, that would be pretty sci-fi :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_tensor_(general_relativ...
I'm aware.

A glass bottle has a unit cost increase of approximately a penny per bottle (per CleanMetrics). But the bottle itself can be reused and recycled.

Also, this assumes it's not in our best interest to subsidize this penny per bottle cost for our own health. Plastic trash ends up in our hydrocycle no matter where it is used.

Also, reusable plastic aren't the problem either. A large, centrally fillable 5 gallon container is not likely to be used once and discarded.

Are you really asserting that individual 12-40oz single use bottles of water are the best system we can imagine and what a million people use for daily water?
HAL's voice acting I would say is actually superb and super subtly very much not unemotional. Part of what makes so unnerving. They perfect nailed creepy uncanny valley
It is exceptionally creepy. It is an unnatural effort to appear pleasing, like the fawning response seen in serious abuse survivors.
There are all sorts of custom biological manufacturing companies, they are quite cheap. Like “i spent more at lunch” cheap for custom DNA sequences. When these kinds of things become routine the manufacturing cost gets very low. This particular technology may or may not still be expensive, but i doubt making it cheap will be a particularly interesting or important challenge. EDIT: maybe uninteresting and unimportant are the wrong ways to put it, it's amazing that I can get a completely custom plasmid for $30. I'm just betting the manufacturing is not going to be a major speed bump on the critical path
The developer replying to this, and not to the more pertinent questions inquiring about privacy (posted hours earlier), does not increase my confidence in the intentions behind the gathering of so much private information.

Explanations welcome, maybe you’re one of the good guys.
We're also building bolna an open source voice orchestration: https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna
I'd imagine a lot of these could be replaced with certain varieties of PLA that are sourced from bio-feedstocks and also relatively biologically degradable. Some PLA isn't very biodegradable, and certainly many would contain problematic plasticizers and other harmful chemicals. Additionally, PLA doesn't have the mechanical stiffness and toughness needed for many applications - but I think if the market for that expanded greatly, research investment would create new varieties of biodegradable PLA which could function as a drop-in replacement for a larger portion of other plastics.
It is a limiting factor, due to diminishing returns. A model trained on double the data, will be 10% better, if that!

When it comes to multi-modality, then training data is not limited, because of many different combinations of language, images, video, sound etc. Microsoft did some research on that, teaching spacial recognition to an LLM using synthetic images, with good results. [1]

When someone states that there are not enough training data, they usually mean code, mathematics, physics, logical reasoning etc. In the open internet right now, there are is not enough code to make a model 10x better, 100x better and so on.

Synthetic data will be produced of course, scarcity of data is the least worrying scarcity of all.

Edit: citation added,

[1] VoT by MS https://medium.com/@multiplatform.ai/microsoft-researchers-p...
Monorepo with pants for builds, 4 Engineers.
Other than playing whack a mole to block all the neo nazi and other hate filled instances, which are legion.