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I use GPT from API in emacs, it's wonderful. Gptel is the program.

Although API access through Groq to Llama 3 (8b and 70b) is so much faster, that i cannot stand how slow GPT is anymore. It is slooow, still very capable model, but marginally better than open source alternatives.
Anonymity and Encryption aren't flip sides of the same coin, they can be used together or separately, and are orthogonal in lots of use cases.
In a weird way "hype" undersells how history repeats itself: Rene Descartes promoted the idea of the brain as a pump for the spirit, then in Freud's era it was the steam engine, etc.
This makes sense. I just can't imagine how most people hate the autocomplete. If you like a suggestion you hit tab. If not you keep typing.
Hopefully very quickly LOL
Twice as fast and half the cost for the API sounds good to me. Not a demoable thing though.
Is that really a thing? The hiding, I mean, not the aging.

Tanning certainly ages skin. But just being outdoors, going about your day, wearing sensible clothing?
I have a 3.5 years old boy and we grant him some 30-35 minutes of TV plus a handful of minutes of videos played on the mobile every day. He sometimes demand more time but we never gave in and he seems to be fine with that.

TBH I prefer that amount to be zero, but unfortunately his grandfather opened the door for him a year ago. I will for sure not increase his TV time until he is well into primary school, when we won't have much control anyway. The school will show plenty of videos and his friends' parents probably won't be as against screen time as we do. But definitely he is not to own a mobile or pad until he has to -- most likely from middle school.

Both of us follow a sedant life style. We prefer to stay at home. I plan to change this and introduce hiking and camping into our life. Naturally one does not watch TV while hiking or camping, so I'll increase the reading time. This also may lead to star gazing and fossil collecting. My wife is particularly not interested in outdoor activities so it's probably going to be just me and him -- well till I know how to setup a tent at least.
Yep. For example, one staple dish of Cajuns is called "rice and gravy." Essentially, you sear thinly cut 7-steaks, remove them, cook down some trinity, then add the steaks back with some water or broth and seasonings. That's it. The steaks simmer in the broth for hours and create their own gravy. We serve it over rice, usually accompanied by some roux peas (tres petit pois cooked in a roux with onions and bacon) and cornbread. Simple, easy, flavorful.

But I live in Texas now, home of all the cattle, if you believe the marketing. And I can't find 7-steaks unless I go to a Mexican meat market, because the DFW area is so bourgeois nowadays that the steaks simply don't pass muster for the local market. Hell, I'm more likely than not to end up in a Mexican market simply because the produce is better and cheaper.

Same with beef shank. Osso bucco is traditionally made with veal shank, and oxtails are all the rage, but I can't find beef shank unless I go to an HEB. Most places don't carry the cut. And if I couldn't find beef shank, I could always go with beef neckbones, but uh... HEB is the only place around me that sells that either.
What do you mean it's not a good idea to import `is-even` for your server side logic??
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Yeah I was just being sarcastic. I actually thought the article was satire at first. Idk there's probably truth to it.
I don't think it was snark.
The guy is co-founder and cto of OpenAi, and he didn't mention any of that..
> that scientific rigour will help you avoid the need for good judgement

This is what all big company PMs and directors of engineering believe. But their judgement (good or bad), their metrics (scientific or pseudoscientific), their career trajectory (up or out), whether these are known or unknown in the first place, and their actual material success: who knows how correlated it all is. They don’t have the words to express this stuff, so they wouldn’t be able to see the difference between science and pseudoscience for example, and you'd have a hard time communicating this thing about science to these people.

So while you are right, it’s not saying much that the real problem is communications, and that is the mainstream opinion of people who study microeconomics / the structure of firms. Put differently, people have built cathedrals of bullshit in their minds in service of the status quo where they “test” “everything” in lieu of having falsifiable, forward-looking opinions (aka judgement). You can’t just go, Martin Luther all of corporate white collar bureaucracy.
What strong incumbents are there in conversational voice models? Siri? Google Assistant? This is in a completely different league. I can see from the reaction here that people don't understand. But they will when they try it.

Did you see it translate Italian? Have you ever tried the Google Translate/Assistant features for real time translation? They didn't train it to be a translator. They didn't make a translation feature. They just asked it. It's instantly better than every translation feature Google ever released.
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Or maybe it is a desperation move after Llama 3 got released and the free mode will have such tight constraints that it will be unusable for anything a bit more serious.
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not snark. if only hn comments could show the right feelings and tonal language
I mention this down thread, but a symptom of a tech product of sufficient advancement is the nature of its introduction matters less and less.

Based on the casual production of these videos, the product must be this good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346002
I think that in Europe, that will soon be prohibited without declaration and explicit consent.
I've heard (in the worst kind of hearsay way) from people that are only distantly in the Microsoft/Non-profit circle that Melinda could be largely credited for getting Bill to take philanthropy seriously.

If true, that in itself has done a lot of good for the world.
I wonder if the audio stuff works like ViTS. Do they just encode the audio as tokens and input the whole thing? Wouldn't that make the context size a lot smaller?

One does notice that context size is noticeably absent from the announcement ...
lightsail is basically the lowest tier of AWS offerings. It's designed to compete with providers like linode or digitalocean, not gcp or azure. Moreover, lightsail is IaaS - you get a vps that you have to set up and administer yourself. Squarespace/Netlify is PaaS or SaaS - all that is handled for you. Maybe you think all of that isn't too hard and isn't worth the $14 or whatever premium, but it's still comparing apples to oranges.
Yeah. There are lots of things we can do with existing capabilities, but in terms of progressing beyond them all of the frontier models seem like they're a hair's breadth from each other. That is not what one would predict if LLMs had a much higher ceiling than we are currently at.

I'll reserve judgment until we see GPT5, but if it becomes just a matter of who best can monetize existing capabilities, OAI isn't the best positioned.
The usual critics will quickly point out that LLMs like GPT-4o still have a lot of failure modes and suffer from issues that remain unresolved. They will point out that we're reaping diminishing returns from Transformers. They will question the absence of a "GPT-5" model. And so on -- blah, blah, blah, stochastic parrots, blah, blah, blah.

Ignore the critics. Watch the demos. Play with it.

This stuff feels magical. Magical. It makes the movie "Her" look like it's no longer in the realm of science fiction but in the realm of incremental product development. HAL's unemotional monotone in Kubrick's movie, "Space Odyssey," feels... oddly primitive by comparison. I'm impressed at how well this works.

Well-deserved congratulations to everyone at OpenAI!
That seems to be what Microsoft is building and will reveal as a new Windows feature at BUILD '24. Not too sure about the interjecting aspect but ingesting everything you do on your machine so you can easily recall and search and ask questions, etc. AI Explorer is the rumored name and will possibly run locally on Qualcomm NPUs.
OAI just made an embarrassment of Google's fake demo earlier this year. Given how this was recorded, I am pretty certain it's authentic.
That first problem is only for Model X. Other models have pull handles.

Second story, again, Model X, yes that is not good. Personally I would avoid that model (and Cybertruck for other reasons).
In American law you usually can't get a court order requiring someone to do a job, you can usually only get a court order for restitution via financial payment if they failed to do a job they were supposed to do.

So my educated guess would be you never have to actually care for your parents, but I'd be curious if any other countries actually will order children to nurse their parents.
"OK, thx, bye! Oh btw. when you apply elsewhere make sure to avoid all of these companies (...huge list...) as they use the same model that drives me and we share data. Oopsies!"

It will be a boon for people that know how to game the system. You can be sure that exactly the wrong type of people will show awesome numbers and get promoted / raises in a system like that.
I am not a physicist:

I've read that C is really the speed of causality, and that electromagnetic radiation is really a disturbance in the EM field that is propagating along a path. A photon is really information about a prior event, that caused the disturbance i.e. emitted the photon, propagating across the EM field at the rate C. Likewise gravity, the strong force, and the weak force are also propagated at the speed of causality. E.g. if the Sun suddenly doubled in mass for some reason, it wouldn't just take eight minutes for us to see the change in EM radiation, it would also take eight minutes for us to feel the gravitational change.

The whole bit about the physical laws being the same follows from that, and the assumption that there isn't any way to transmit forces across spacetime except through transmission of causality.
Many tools offer native plans that are pages long and not effective during a disruption. Having gone through a personalised demo and the capabilities of this tool. I found this to tool bridging the gap between theoretical plans and practical implementation and invocation. Good going bcmtool.com.
I was wondering and found this in the article:

> The organization’s name will change to the Gates Foundation, with Bill Gates, her ex-husband and Microsoft founder, becoming the sole chair.
I kind of like the longevity of things like this. We have a centarian home and the basement has some kids' names and ages etched into the concrete from the earliest years of the house. When we were pouring new concrete during a repair, we added our kid's footprints and the date. No one will ever see them unless they tear down the structure, but it's interesting to think someone might find them in a hundred years and feel the same way we did about the basement names.
At it's core, UTC is about reconciling 2 different clocks; the Earth (basically represented by UT1) and the Cesium atom (represented by TAI). It's a useful basis for Civil time -- which is naturally political -- because everybody seems to intuitively agree that seconds should be defined by the Cesium standard but days should be aligned with the Earth's rotation. It's not guaranteed that all governments would pick the same if forced to pick only one of the two. That would make time zones even harder.

Sure, people in Western China may regularly see the sun at midnight, but that's not without controversy. People generally like the sun to be out when they're up.

So I think it makes sense to have both UTC and TAI. If the BIPM just turns UTC into TAI plus a constant offset, then I'd wager they would eventually introduce another system to take the place of the former UTC, with leap seconds, so some people can have that system that reconciles the two clocks if they want it. It's hard to predict the future. But the reasoning in the GCPM resolution [1] seems inherently flawed to me. "recalling that the CGPM at its 26th meeting (2018) ... stated that UTC is the only recommended time scale for international reference" is the core of the problem. TAI should be the ultimate basis. UTC is based on TAI (with leap seconds), and civil time based on UTC.

[1]: https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-4
I don't know porkbun. I was looking at namecheap -- why porkbun?
chatGPT desperately needs a "get to the fucking point" mode.
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True, I avoid such long loans. The rate also works for shorter terms.
what's the download link for the desktop app? can't find it
I also got a 7/10 is that the minimum and we are all excited? LOL
Exactly! Cold supply is very cool
Isn't that what NPUs are technically?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_accelerator
Market research and marketing. Given their rollout of "quests", it's probably another marketing dimension that someone could tailor their ads for.

Ex, maybe don't show the "ad" during the day because they're likely at work if they're >24, or show a "quest" that's targeted towards nostalgia.
As a paid user this felt like a huge letdown. GPT-4o is available to everyone so I'm paying $20/mo for...what, exactly? Higher message limits? I have no idea if I'm close to the message limits currently (nor do I even know what they are). So I guess I'll cancel, then see if I hit the limits?

I'm also extremely worried that this is a harbinger of the enshittification of ChatGPT. Processing video and audio for all ~200 million users is going to be extravagantly expensive, so my only conclusion is that OpenAI is funding this by doubling down on payola-style corporate partnerships that will result in ChatGPT slyly trying to mention certain brands or products in our conversations [1].

I use ChatGPT every day. I love it. But after watching the video I can't help but think "why should I keep paying money for this?"

[1] https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-preferred-publisher-prog...
Yes and No. If the full text of the license is "You must contact us for written approval before doing anything with this product" then yes that can be enforced.

But a document like this which basically has a bunch of words followed by a "Just kidding" line, are not enforceable, because it contradicts the previous language. A judge would throw the whole thing out because it doesn't meet the standard of a contract.
Yes, good point. I was not thinking of it from that perspective. It's a client issue, I'll stop worrying about it.
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Mac only desktop app. Windows version "later this year". No Linux.

Welp there goes my Plus subscription.
Sure, but that seems like it'll be a distinction without a difference for many use cases.

Having a reliable emotional model of a person based on their voice (or voice + appearance) can be useful in a thousand ways.

Which seems to represent a new frontier.
I read Simon Sigh during high schools and that was such a beautiful story of perseveration that I decided to do Math.
They need to fade the audio or add some vocal queue when it's being interrupted. It makes it sound like it's losing connection. What'll be really impressive is when it intentionally starts interrupting you.
I dont know if they teach the Theory of Bounded Rationality anymore but it helped me when I was younger and got thrown into similar complex no win situations.

The tendency is to think ALL complex problems can be solved if I just have the right info, the right skill, the right people, the right resources, enough time etc etc. But for some problems the stars will not align. In those cases what do you do?

You have 2 option - 1. pick a Simpler problem where u do have the info, skill, resources, people, time to ensure the outcome is going to be positive
2. pick the complex problem but accept you are not going to solve it completely.
That’s the normal way IETF RFCs describe unix seconds since the epoch, though there ought to be a normative reference to https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
Like everything else AI is being promoted for: it won't be effective, but it will be cheaper.
It has been a while, working from memory... We see replicants doing things like: Roy dodging a shot from Deckard with inhuman speed. Priss does amazing acrobatic flips. Replicants dip their hands in boiling water and liquid nitrogen, with no discomfort or pain.

The snake woman by is shot by Deckards large calibre handgun, gets up and keeps running. Priss, when dying goes into a spasm of inhuman twitching. Deckard never does anything like that.

Deckard by contrast is nearly killed by Roy, who toys with him. Casually dislocates his fingers, causing excruciating pain. Then puts the gun back into Deckard's mangled hand.

In the final battle, Deckard is bloody and beaten, and actually loses against Roy. Roy I think laughs off some serious damage, including smashing his own head through a wall; at the end he only stops fighting because his time is up. This isn't "maybe a bit less strength". This is a kid fighting against Mike Tyson.

I don't look at it as Deckard being strong "enough to come out on top every time", I look at is as a human with a gun, barely surviving against inhuman opponents.
That's all true, but understates the important of a nicer UX. I've spent lots of time over the years working around Makefiles' idiosyncrasies. It's so good at its intended purpose that it's tempting to use it for vaguely related tasks. Turns out it's not as good for doing those things it was never designed for.
"Just" reimagines what make could look like if it were designed to be a task runner instead. That hits a sweet spot for many of us. It looks like the Makefiles we're used to, minus the pains in the neck we've tolerated from abusing make for our own purposes.
At the same time, I feel like most everybody feels that they themself are a good, kind, caring person. I could imagine even the schizophrenic mother the author mentions describing her motivations in terms of good, kind, and caring intentions, e.g. to protect her family from the various space aliens and demonic possessions and so on.

If there’s room for a “bad guys” construct to be useful at all, I’m not sure it’s to draw moral validation from the degree of your pessimism and fatalism, the degree to which people characterize you as a downer or a “bad guy.”

Of course the conclusion does make sense: that people respond better to the same facts and tensions presented from a place of constructive effort, optimism, good faith, and good spirits—the old thing about catching more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
When PE steps in, it usually means the growth is gone. They are often operators with teams who know how to run a lean business. If Squarespace had some huge growth estimates, PE would not have been able to afford to take them public.

So there may be an opportunity, but finding customers and funding will be hard.
So... cancel the subscription?
At this point with the web I'm more then content to browse the web with the server serving Content-type as text/text for the page.
They really need to tone down the talking garniture. It needs to put on its running shoes and get to the point on every reply. Ain’t nobody has time to keep listening to AI blubbering along at every prompt.
question for you guys - is there a model that can take figures (graphs), from scientific publications, and combine image analysis with picking up the data point symbol descriptions and analyse the trends?
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Ask HN: Will the release of ChatGPT-4o render GitHub Copilot obsolete?
Is it a stretch to think this thing could accurately "talk" with animals?
I downvoted independently. No problem with groupies. They just contaminate the thread.

Greg Brockman is famous for good reasons but constant "oh wow it's Greg Brockman" are noisy.
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So GPT-4o can do voice intonation? Great. Nice work.

Still, it sounds like some PR drone selling a product. Oh wait....
Of course, it's either that or a png of the text from a text editor or pay for blue check account, neither of which are optimal for most people
This is absolutely correct. The air-to-air game is very complex and high-G is still a thing.

And yet, this is small ball stuff. When I think of all the possible ways autonomous combat aircraft will revolutionize air combat it's a bit overwhelming. We're talking about unlimited, fatigue-less, highly effective, fearless piloting of aircraft that can assume designs that don't have to accommodate or risk a human.

If it isn't yet an arms race, it will be when some conflict sees someone punch way above their weight because they have the supersonic robots and the other guy doesn't.
Have a kid anyway, if you otherwise really felt driven to it. Reading the tealeaves in the news is a dumb reason to change decisions like that. There's always some disaster looming, always has been. If you raise them well they'll adapt well to whatever weird future they inherit and be amongst the ones who help others get through it
Those voice demos are cool but having to listen to it speak makes me even more frustrated with how these LLMs will drone on and on without having much to say.

For example, in the second video the guy explains how he will have it talk to another "AI" to get information. Instead of just responding with "Okay, I understand" it started talking about how interesting the idea sounded. And as the demo went on, both "AIs" kept adding unnecessary commentary about the secenes.

I would hate having to talk with these things on a regular basis.
Now, say goodbye to call centers.
I used to use these embedded version strings, and occasionally they were very helpful.

As the article says, it's not as easy a fit for Git.

The embedded version etc. strings could also make reproducible builds slightly more tricky than they already are.

Even if they're not worth the trouble for current software, they could be a big timesaver for archaeology/reconstruction of old software.
how do we know it is a robust one ?
I think we're far away from analog circuits being practically useful, but one place that where we might embrace the tolerance for imprecision is in noisy digital circuits. Accepting that one in a million, say, bits in an output will be flipped to achieve a better performance/power ratio. Probably not when working with float32s where a single infinity[1] could totally mess things but for int8s the occasional 128 when you wanted a 0 seems like something that should be tolerable.

[1] Are H100s' maxtrix floating point units actually IEEE 754 compliant? I don't actually know.
What do they mean by "desktop version"? I assume that doesn't mean a "native" (electron) app?
I think the actual answer to your question is that the outcome you're hypothesizing would be absolutely useless for teaching the reader about relativistic effects, so there's no reason for someone to write such a book for a lay audience.
Incidentally, this dialogue works equally well, if not better, with David Chalmers versus B.F. Skinner, as with the Simpsons characters.