skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to talk facts, then those critics are similarly on weak grounds and critiquing feelings more than facts. There has been no actual sign of scaling ceasing to work, in medium after medium, and most of their criticisms are issues with how LLM tools are embedded in architectures which are still incredibly early/primitive and still refining how to use transformers effectively. We haven't even begun using error correction techniques from analog engineering disciplines properly to boost the signal of LLMs in practical settings. There is so much work to do with just the existing tools.

"AI is massive hype and shoved into everything" has more grounding as a negative feeling of people being overwhelmed with technology than any basis in fact. The faults and weaknesses are buoyed by people trying to acknowledge your feelings than any real criticism of a technology that is changing faster than the faults and weakness arguments can be made. Study machine learning and come back with an informed criticism.
Yeah that was actually my first thought (though no professional experience with it/on that side) - it's just that the commenter I replied to was so hyped about it and how fluid & natural it was and I thought that made it really jarr.
Yeltsin visit is to put in contrast with Tucker Carlson visit in Russia.. where he somehow tried to do the same in reverse (without knowing he was actually visiting a french retail chain brand but anyway). Very odd.
> I would to _not_ want to alert thieves to the presence of an attached tracker in that case

Unfortunately, this is practically indistinguishable from:

> I would _not_ want to alert my wife to the presence of an attached tracker in her purse
When we first came to Australia in '91 - there was a store - "KC Country Furniture"(which is now no longer here of course)....my dad bought a 6 seat dinner table, and a large buffet for close to $3K, made out of solid teak.

Its now 2024 - and on many occassions he's mentioned to me wanting to sell this stuff, and replace it. I've argued that these are now "family heirlooms"...and that i'd be very upset if he did that.

I've refinished both of these pieces once every 2 years (once i got old enough to) Its 2024 and they have no sign of deterioration. In fact - every time i finish them - i feel pride, and marvel at the glass-like finish.

In comparison - i bought a black 4-legged table for a turntable in my studio a few years ago - and reading that it was "made with cardboard"...just made me a little sad...also considering if i took it apart it was most likely toast...made me even sadder.
For what it's worth, OpenAI also shared videos of failed demos:

https://vimeo.com/945591584

I really value how open they are being about its limitations.
which hype cycles are you referring to? and, after the dust settled, do you conclusively believe nothing of value was generated from these hype cycles?
UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways
Any appearance of understanding is just an illusion. It’s just a pile of meat, nothing more.
> but it's impossible to confidently reproduce the sounds unless they are already completely distinct in our heads/ears

interestingly, i think this isn't always true -- i was able to coach my native-spanish-speaking wife to correctly pronounce "v" vs "b" (both are just "b" in spanish, or at least her dialect) before she could hear the difference; later on she was developed the ability to hear it.
Good lord, that voice makes Elevenlabs.io look... dead
What latency do you get? I'd be interested in seeing a demo video.
Using this as an example of a huge alignment and priorities issue in "AI"...

Consider a kind of automobile crash for which driver of vehicle A is generally considered not-at-fault. For the sake of this discussion, let's say, a driver who gets rear-ended is generally considered not-at-fault (though I'm not sure that's the case -- just a simple example).

However, if you have an interest in the safety of occupants of vehicle A, who's at-fault isn't your top priority.

And there's never any occasion on which you do the math to say how you'd prefer your loved ones be possibly crippled or killed based on who would be considered at-fault.

OK, now suppose that you're an autonomous driving product developer. The decisions of driving behavior are different, and maybe your top priorities are to avoid bad PR and big payouts. So you'd have big incentive to take the at-fault PR and payout priorities into account when you're developing your autonomous driving sytem.

For example, your vehicle moving forward to strike something is probably very bad, for PR and payouts. But stopping abruptly, likely causing a vehicle behind to strike you, doesn't get as much of your attention, and/or doesn't weigh as strongly in your balancing.

Especially 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 (and generally motorcyclists don't get much public sympathy).

(The first examples I heard for autonomous driving were things like "There's an oncoming vehicle or obstruction, so do you choose to crash into it, probably killing/crippling the occupant of the vehicle you're driving, or to swerve into that pedestrian on the sidewalk, probably killing them. The PR calculus is different there, since consumers might secretly favor a system that prioritizes the safety of the buyer while increasing threats to others, without saying it out loud (see SUVs). But at the end of the day, the answer of how the autonmous vehicle drives, and who loses in driver decisions, might come down to the developer's very typical corporate priorities.)
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc with other tables. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe
A lot of people seem to have trouble realizing that their experience isn't everyone's experience. Good call out!
Direct versus indirect benefits.

Cloud is hidden to end users whereas other waves like internet and smartphone apps were very visible.

AI will soon stop being a buzzword and just be another foundation we build apps on.
The responsiveness is a game charger, it just makes it so much more natural.
It's not mental illness, just capture by a figurehead they won't remove who's so detached from how modern computing works that he doesn't even know how to update his own website.
the point of all of this is:
this is alpha 0.45 made to get the money needed to build AGI
whatever that is
I’d like to imagine explaining e-sports to a ye olde person. Alright so we invented computers, cool I guess, but then we made video games, which are like movies you get to drive yourself with a human interface device (we just call it a controller). We then developed competitive skill based games over time, and the ability for many humans to play at the same time in the same video game world. Then we created leagues and tournaments, to the point where it’s a serious career.

We love fantasizing about what future sports would look like in sci-fi, but… we kinda already have them now! Way more interesting than “football… but in space!” Fun to think about, loved this article :)
Yes, after he got away with it for 40 years. Also, it appears that he was released on compassionate grounds after a year of a 15 year term as they imprisoned him when he was almost 90. He’s back to enjoying his retirement at home.

And no, nobody with power can be trusted. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I don’t even trust myself with power, and so recuse myself.

Find me a single system on earth that is fit for purpose, and doesn’t primarily serve the interests of those who control it. In my work I’ve peeled back the skin of enough charities, good causes, and entities that purport to exist for the public good to have a truly dreary view of any institution.
If I ever find my thoughts oppressed by what they might do to my internet points, I do hope I'll check myself.
Over the years, I have come up with this framework. I label three possible responses when I, the messenger, bring bad news or contradicts someone:

(a) the RATIONAL RESPONDER believes the messenger is trying to be helpful by sharing their information and may re-formulate their position.

(b) the PATRONIZING PARENT believes the messenger is an ass, patronizes the messenger, and dismisses everything they say.

(c) the DANGEROUS DELUSIONAL believes they are always right and the messenger is a threat who needs to be silenced.

With patronizing parent, I try to be calm and hopefully by sheer persistence they will come around one day and listen to reason. With dangerous delusional, I mostly try to limit the amount of damage they can do to me. I don't have any better ideas.
I saw a documentary where a startup in California was doing quite well selling faraday cage underwear. I was really scratching my head and wondering if they were just grifting or if it was addressing a serious issue. These were highly refined products.
Of course it will:

"The UUID generation algorithm described here supports very high allocation rates of 10 million per second per machine or more, if necessary, so that they could even be used as transaction IDs."

This is the use case they had in mind when building this algorithm, and it would only take about 10k machines worldwide to reach the above levels.
it would be cool if the url was just the chain of the moves. then you just paste the move chain in the URL and you get the board state.
Less aggressively, pricing is a historically bad way to create urgency in software
I was shocked at how quickly and naturally they were able to correct the situation.
counterclaiming Doesn’t have any s and stemming doesn’t have any possessive. I think drawing conclusions from a 32bit hash against a 123k word list is fruitless. You’d expect at least 1 collision due simply to birthday paradox.
people like you are the problem. the people who join a website cause it to be shitty, then leave and start the process at a new website. Reddit didnt become shit because of Reddit it became shit because of people going on there commenting as if they themselves are an LLM repeating enshittification over and over and trying to say the big buzzword first so they get to the top denying any real conversation.
Somehow it also sounds almost like Dot Matrix from Spaceballs.
Also in English, "Potemkin X" is the standard phrase, even when referring to post-Tsarist times (and sometimes even to refer to non-Russian cases like Potemkin villages in North Korea to fool visiting Japanese of Korean descent as to quality of life in NK). I have never seen "Pokazukha" used in English at all.
Not to mention you should be using the 64-bit variant for collision resistance and the 128-bit variant for integrity.
gopher://dusted.dk/0/pages/phlog/2023-10-29.txt
Fully depends on the model, how much conversational context you provide, but if you keep things to a bare minimum, ~< 5 seconds from message received to starting the response using Llama 3 8B. I'm also using a vision language model, https://moondream.ai/, but that takes around 45 seconds so the next idea is to take a more basic image captioning model and insert it's output into context and try to cut that time down even more.

I also tried using Vulkan, which is supposedly faster, but the times were a bit slower than normal CPU for Llama CPP.
> carrageenan in most foods which has been shown to trigger colon cancer.

Can you point where it was shown? I was just checking EFSA and they have not seem to be implying that.
The future is not going to be anymore wild than what you choose to do with the tech.
Nah, this is clearly a deliberate dark pattern from Apple. They could easily add a long-press option on the Bluetooth icon to fully disable it. But they don’t.

My solution is a Shortcut to disable Bluetooth, triggered by a widget on my Home Screen. It’s annoying that I need to allocate space for that, but at least I can (actually) toggle Bluetooth without opening Settings.
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Annoyingly, though, you can't get a device that is trackable on both iPhone and Android networks.

Which is annoying, because I have an Android and my wife has an iPhone, and it would be nice to be able to both track the same objects.
> If something would've gone wrong

Anti-vaxxers simply don't care about truth vs. falsehoods. They don't care about the actual 3-phase clinical trial with tens of thousands of participants.
Effect on pacemakers?
It's a computer from the valley.
It still refuses to go outside the deeply sanitise tone that "alignment" enforces on you.
ChatGPT 4o reminds me of upgrading from a 300 baud modem to a 1200 baud modem, when modems used to cost a dollar a baud.
Maybe you're too young to remember the days of paper bags, hemp shopping bags, shoes and shirts.
"more environmentally friendly"? Most alternatives are more environmentally friendly in a long run than plastic.
How can we be so sure things will keep getting better? And at a rate faster than humans can adapt?

If we have to damn rivers and build new coal plants to power these AI data centers, then it may be one step forward and two steps back.
There are an impossible amount of variables at play here. Localities where Internet is pervasive in comparison to areas where it isn't might as well be another planet.

I'm not convinced that this study proves what is claimed.
What do the numbers on the right mean? Time? Throughput?
You’re right iOS 15 got an update earlier this year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_15
What's static/dynamic compute in this context?
"“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Aren't there third-party devices like Tile that you could use? Sure, it can't be tracked by every iOS and Android device, but it's not like there aren't trackers that you and your wife could both use.
Release of Fugaku-LLM – a large language model trained on supercomputer Fugaku
This is great work! Could you please comment on the choice of your license. Lost Postgres extension that achieve wide adoption use Postgres, MIT or Apache license.
I would be more worried about the quantity of $7 a bag Doritos-derived chips and blue Mt Dew they are eating.

Our environment has been riddled PFAs for generations.
The topic is agents, the AI acting on your behalf, that needs more than text. What are you talking about?
I don't drive. Never have.
GPT-4 launch was barely 1 year ago. Give the investments a few years to pay off.

I've heard multiple reports that training runs costing ~$1 billion are in the the works at the major labs, and that the results will come in the next year or so. Let's see what that brings.

As for the tokens, they will find more quality tokens. It's like oil or other raw resources. There are more sources out there if you keep searching.
on top of it all, they took him to an Aldi which is pretty small/basic. They should have taken him to a large Central Market.
> ~2M human crashes/yr in the USA is just a fact of life, but a handful of autonomous crashes/yr warrants investigation?

Investigating is fine. You can’t patch every driver in America when you find an edge case; this is a good use of public resources.

What we should guard against is overreacting in response to these incidents. America by and large seems to be responding to this reasonably.
Huh, for me its always vice versa.

When I'm not sure in the someones code I have to double or triple check it be sure that I understand it correctly and to verify that there no somehow hidden missed steps or side effects.
i feel like a common consumer fallacy is that, because you don't interact with a technology in your day-to-day life, it leads you to conclude that the technology is useless.

I guarantee you that the cloud has benefitted you in some way, even though you aren't aware of the benefits of the cloud.
The first person hit by this gets a free pension..
Startup Sends Bluetooth into Low Earth Orbit
Yes. They dispose of it well... by shipping it in Asia.
Look up the whole scandal with plastic shipped to various places in Asia. Crap that even China considers impossible to recycle and refused to allow entry to.
A misplaced item I left in the office will not be following a third party about. And so will not be mistaken for stalking them.
Can you prove that you feel empathy? That you're not a cold unfeeling psychopath that is merely pretending extremely well to have emotions? Even if it did, we wouldn't be able to tell the difference from the outside, so in strictly practical terms I don't think it matters.
You say that like that's not already happened. Every week there's a new flavor of "we're delighted to introduce [totally not a thin wrapper around GPT] for [vaguely useful thing]" posts on HN
Gaussian blur is a reversible operation, but in practice it's not possible on still images. With multiple pictures you might have enough information.
Hmm! Tell me more: why not want real? What are the upsides? And downsides?
My guess is they're banking on the free version being rate limited and people finding it so useful that they want to remove the limit. Like giving a new user a discount on heroin. At least that's the strategy that would make most sense to me.
As I approach middle age, my nearsightedness may actually be somewhat beneficial to reduce the need for reading glasses.
This feels like astrology of design. It is just me?
Remembering the Life and Careers of Jim Simons
Foolish short-sighted take. Imagine if the same opinion held during the age of sail. There's literally more resources than are currently controlled by our entire planet in the asteroid belt, and a lunar colony (at least a refueling station in space) would be a huge boon to anyone who wants to go explore further.

If that's not good enough, how about outsourcing our shitty resource extraction and polluting manufacturing to space, where there's no life to care about the waste and disruption?

Not to mention that if space flight were commonly available and cheap today (more feasible than you seem to think - remember computers were once phenomenally expensive and now they're so cheap as to be thrown away), more could experience the overview effect, the cognitive shift that comes when you see Earth hanging in the void of space. That would probably make humanity better to each other and our planet.

Or what about the fact that the Apollo program basically launched our discipline of computer science? Surely there was more to be learned and discovered from striving to make spaceflight routine. If only we had a generation of scientists and engineers working on hard science problems rather than ad-tech, the world would be a much better today place.
https://openai.com/index/memory-and-new-controls-for-chatgpt...
I was thinking of BinaryFormatter and NetDataContractSerializer, etc. unsafe .NET object deserialization. I'm sure the default JSON serializer in C# is safe (lmao language fanboys)

https://github.com/pwntester/ysoserial.net
Does More Money Improve Open Source Security?
You also have the situation where if air tags did not have the anti-stalking features, there would be far more stalkers in the world. I'm sure there's many people who would not buy a GPS logger and connected to someone's car, but they might "forget" an airtag in someone's car, were it not for the anti-stalking alerts.

I suspect if Apple went the Anti-Theft route, thieves would not stop thieving, they would just start searching large stolen items for air tags before bringing it to wherever they may.
I added gpt-4o support to my LLM CLI tool:

pipx install llm
llm keys set openai
# Paste API key here
llm -m 4o "Fascinate me"

Or if you already have LLM installed:

llm install --upgrade llm

You can install an older version from Homebrew and then upgrade it like that too:

brew install llm
llm install --upgrade llm

Release notes for the new version here: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-14
> Why do so few countries in EU have ride sharing?

There is pretty popular EU one https://www.blablacar.com/ but its used mostly by students and people wanting to save. It’s not glamourous.

And most countries have Bolt and local taxi apps like Freenow or Liftago.
But it's kinda the same as a trial where you have to put in a credit card number.

If they auto-charge once the trial is over, I don't like them. That is a dark pattern.

Equally, with this, AWS could very well ask you, the user, what you'd like to do if you surpass the free tier. Charge? Or turn it all off.

On top of that they could instate default thresholds so that you, the person who just started their free trial, does not get bill shock when you forget to turn of that $200/h machine.
Protesters are not only bringing a message, but almost always proposing a solution. And in both cases you mention they are vigorously pointing out the frying pan while being willfully blind to the fact that they're trying to get us to jump in the fire.

It's possible to have a protest movement over somebody protecting an ox, but most protests are about issues that aren't solved because there is no good solution. If there is an answer why hasn't it been done?
I have never tried GPT-4 because I don't pay for it. I'm really looking forward to GPT-4o being released to free tier users.
> since consumers might secretly favor a system that prioritizes the safety of the buyer

Secretly? I am happy to go on record: I would not get into a car that would ever consider anyone's life more important than mine. I would not let anyone in my family do so either.
Learned about https://fav.farm and https://val.town from this. Neat resources!
I was only diagnosed at the beginning of January.
I imagine that I would want to ask for this output differently, as a function that would output this rather than it to write out those tokens.

For example:

Give a JavaScript function that will output 0 and 1 tokens to render a rectangle on a 2d array.

Example output:

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 1 1 1 0

0 0 1 1 1 0

0 0 1 1 1 0

It responded:

function generateRectangle(rows, cols, rectStartRow, rectStartCol, rectHeight, rectWidth) {
// Create a 2D array filled with 0s
let array = Array.from({ length: rows }, () => Array(cols).fill(0));

// Fill the rectangle area with 1s
for (let i = rectStartRow; i < rectStartRow + rectHeight; i++) {
for (let j = rectStartCol; j < rectStartCol + rectWidth; j++) {
array[i][j] = 1;
}
}

return array;

}

function printArray(array) {
array.forEach(row => {
console.log(row.join(' '));
});
}

// Example usage:
let rows = 5;
let cols = 6;
let rectStartRow = 2;
let rectStartCol = 2;
let rectHeight = 3;
let rectWidth = 3;

let rectangleArray = generateRectangle(rows, cols, rectStartRow, rectStartCol, rectHeight, rectWidth);
printArray(rectangleArray);

------ And then I asked for a triangle instead, but still with square output example -----

function generateTriangle() {
const size = 10;
const field = Array.from({ length: size }, () => Array(size).fill(0));

for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) {
for (let j = 0; j <= i; j++) {
field[size - 1 - i][j] = 1;
}
}

return field;

}

function printField(field) {
for (let row of field) {
console.log(row.join(' '));
}
}

const triangleField = generateTriangle();
printField(triangleField);

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

----

Then I would execute the function programmatically to generate these tokens.
Doesn’t have to be real for the outcomes to the be the same.