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I remember hanging out with Carl Amdahl after we were pitched our nth fabless semiconductor company, and him making the joke that if he ever started another company making IC designs, this time he would call it Fabulous Semiconductor.
My understanding is you should only get the notification if the tag isn't with its owner. That's how it plays out in my personal experience. Back when AirTags were completely broken and didn't support family sharing, I'd get notified if I had my wife's car keys with me only when she wasn't with me, i.e. because I grabbed hers to run a quick errand.

This notification would be utterly useless if that were no longer the case: you'd spend half your time on a flight or bus ride closing the unwanted and unhelpful popups.
There is no logic. The point is to express that private equity is bad and will immanentize the eschaton leading to their preferred utopian technological world of decentralization.
When people talk about human-level AGI, they are not referring to an AI that could pass as a human to most people - that is, they're not simply referring to a program that can pass the Turing test.

They are referring to an AI that can use reasoning, deduction, logic, and abstraction like the smartest humans can, to discover, prove, and create novel things in every realm that humans can: math, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, art, sociology, etc.
Linux kernel __is_constexpr macro. (2022)
I'd still say that's not "completely independent". One might even say it's just outsourcing NASA's once many teams to different companies.

Also I doubt these companies would be as numerous or as big without the promise of fat government contracts looming on the horizon.
> That means someone can steal your stuff, and then disable the tracker so you can't find it.

This is by design. AirTags were never marketed as an anti-theft device. They had anti-stalking features from day one which were/are at odds with anti-theft.

It was marketed as helping you find things that are lost, nothing more.
https://archive.ph/jPFO2
It didn’t just demonstrate the ability to sing, but also the ability for two AIs to cooperate! I’m not sure which was more impressive
Yeah, I think the point of these devices is for locating lost items, not stolen items. Trying to handle the stolen use case but not allowing nefarious tracking seems to be at odds with each other.
Perhaps everybody is right, and what is amazing is not what matters, and what matters is hardly amazing...
i don't think making the same mistakes as a human counts as a feature. I see that a lot when people point out a flaw with an llm, the response is always "well a human would make the same mistake!". That's not much of an excuse, computers exist because they do the things humans can't do very well like following long repetitive lists of instructions. Further, upthread, there's discussion about adding emotions to an llm. An emotional computer that makes mistakes sometimes is pretty worthless as a "computer".
> Intent matters when you're being as dismissive as you were.

The GP comment we're all replying to outlines a non-exhaustive list of very good reasons to be highly dismissive of LLM. (No I'm not calling it AI, it is not fucking AI)

It is utterly laughable and infuriating that you're assigning legitimate skepticism about this technology as a an emotional bias. Fucking ridiculous. We're now almost a full year into the full bore open hype cycle of LLM. Where's all the LLM products? Where's the market penetration? Business can't use it because it has a nasty tendency to make shit up when it's talking. Various companies and individuals are being sued because generative art is stealing from artists. Code generators are hitting walls of usability so steep, you're better off just writing the damn code yourself.

We keep hearing this "it will do!" "it's coming!" "just think of what it can do soon!" on and on and on, and it just keeps... not doing any of it. It keeps hallucinating untrue facts, it keeps getting basics of it's tasks wrong, for fucks sake AI Dungeon can't even remember if I'm in Hyrule or Night City. Progress seems fewer and farther between, with most advances being just getting the compute cost down, because NO business currently using LLM extensively could be profitable without generous donation of compute from large corporations like Microsoft.
> Given the lack of taxes, Americans have effectively subsidized this charity.

Not to mention the artificial and historically recent notion of software copyright underlying the business which made Gates' fortune, representing - as all such legal enclosures do - a theft from the commons.
LLMs process text, but only after it was converted to a stream of tokens. As a result, LLMs are not very good at answering questions about letters in the text. That information was lost during the tokenization.

Humans process photons, but only after converting them into nerve impulses via photoreceptor cells in the retina, which are sensitive to wavelengths ranges described as "red", "green" or "blue".

As a result, humans are not very good at distinguishing different spectra that happen to result in the same nerve impulses. That information was lost by the conversion from photons to nerve impulses. Sensors like the AS7341 that have more than 3 color channels are much better at this task.
Design doesn't matter after a point - you have to meet your users on their turf. Most people were using it for other reasons - and if Apple's stance is, fine - don't buy it, then so be it.
How much of your own sense of quantity is visual, do you think? How much of your ability to count the lengths of words depends on your ability to sound them out and spell?

I suspect we might find that adding in the multimodal visual and audio aspects to the model gives these models a much better basis for mental arithmetic and counting.
Yup, my wife (China born, now naturalized US) felt it was her duty to care for her parents--but that stopped when she felt she was being exploited.
It's baselined against New York, so you can be more expensive, but not have had the cost of living grow faster than NYC.

This makes it alright for comparing between countries in a single year, but I'm not sure exactly what you get out of comparing the same country within a year.
Thanks for sharing this, this is really cool
Not in Australia or Canada
They should have used superior Klingon Technology...
There is room for more than one use case and large language model type.

I predict there will be a zoo (more precisely tree, as in "family tree") of models and derived models for particular application purposes, and there will be continued development of enhanced "universal"/foundational models as well. Some will focus on minimizing memory, others on minimizing pre-training or fine-tuning energy consumption, some need high accuracy, others hard realtime speed, yet others multimodality like GPT4.o, some multilinguality, and so on.

Previous language models that encoded dictionaries for spellcheckers etc. never got standardized (for instance, compare aspell dictionaries to the ones from LibreOffice to the language model inside CMU PocketSphinx) so that you could use them across applications or operating systems. As these models are becoming more common, it would be interesting to see this aspect improve this time around.

https://www.rev.com/blog/resources/the-5-best-open-source-sp...
I'm really unsure if that is unreasonable. We can do it for cheaper. But we are not the target market. For someone that would be buying a set up and even occasional updates and so on it is not that much money... That is what 300 a year? So not too many billed hours...
> She's not real

But she will be real at some point in the next 10-20 years, the main thing to solve for that to be a reality is for robots to safely touch humans, and they are working really really hard on that because it is needed for so many automation tasks, automating sex is just a small part of it.

And after that you have a robot that listens to you, do your chores and have sex with you, at that point she is "real". At first they will be expensive so you have robot brothels (I don't think there are laws against robot prostitution in many places), but costs should come down.
I just don't see how companies like Cohere can remain in this business

at the same price I get access to faster ChatGPT-3.9

there is little to no reasons to continue using Command R-plus at these prices unless they lower their price significantly
Right but this works differently.
100% to both. I have a hoard of PDFs. I use Dash as an offline doc browser. I save interesting links in a bookmark app and I still can find libraries documentation and source codes on web search (duckduckgo). So I just freshen up as I go (or on my free time). Memorize what I need/like and capture what I found interesting. I was doing Advent of Code in Common Lisp and the loop keyword page was always open (It's a mini language on its own). Later challenges became easier, as I learned new ways to iteratively express the solution. I could be faster with generated code, but having a bird view of the map will lead you to more interesting routes (more often speed is not the issue, correctness and maintainability is)
It has the same cost as a successful response which can quickly add up to a few hundred dollars per month with a couple of DNS enumeration scans.

Google Cloud and Azure also bill DNS like this. Unless you need some of the advanced features you really shouldn't host your DNS in the big cloud providers.
AWS is full of dark patterns. You can sign up for the so-called "free" tier and then too easily, unwittingly enable something that suddenly charges you hundreds of dollars before you know it (by getting a bill at the end of the month), even if you're not doing anything with the service except looking around. AWS doesn't give any warning to free tier members that a configuration change is going to cost you, and their terms are also very confusing. For example, PostgreSQL is advertised as free, but "Aurora PostgreSQL" is quite costly.
What is OpenAI business model if their models are second-best? Why would people pay them and not Meta/Google/Microsoft - who can afford to sell at very low margins, since they have existing very profitable businesses that keeps them afloat.
I'm fairly confident Microsoft made more money outside of America than in the US.
just need the helmet
https://openai.com/index/be-my-eyes/
I always understood it as an artificial way to reduce the applicant pool. Too many people apply, you just want to make it annoying to keep a number of people you have capacity to review in depth.

It’s really shitty, of course.
Would the license allow a hobby group to raise funds then create and sell a raspberry pi "hat" that supports thread in a licensed way?
> However, women aged 15–24 who reported having used the Internet in the past week were, on average, less happy with the place they live, compared with people who didn’t use the web.

I was wondering about the overall effect for young folk and women in particular. It seems like the effect is fairly narrow and not what I would expect.

I also wonder if the effects from substantial social media interaction could be teased out.
You're not going to gain support/understanding for something, from people who have made up their minds, simply by changing the name of the thing. The same people who were sending chain E-mails in the 90s that said "How could it be Global Warming if it's so cold outside! LOL" are now posting Facebook memes that say "Duh, Climate has always been Changing!" Any new name someone gives it will be equally ridiculed, because its opponents don't care what it's called.
> Why Pi-card?
> Raspberry Pi - Camera Audio Recognition Device.

Missed opportunity for LCARS - LLM Camera Audio Recognition Service, responding to the keyword "computer," naturally. I guess if this ran elsewhere from a Pi, it could be LCARS.
How do you generalize that for all inputs though?
Both are valid.

“Pokazukha” is more of a modern term (modern as in, i dont think it even hit the 80 year old mark) and is a bit more generic (refers to “showing off” or “for show” in general).

“Potemkin supermarket” is a reference to “potemkin village”[0], which has been around as a term since late 18th century, and it is a bit more specific (refers to a construction that provides a false facade to a situation, with the origin of it being an actual fake village constructed to impress the empress).

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Now you are conflating a GMD with an EMP, which isn't anything like accurate.

A GMD is a long-duration event that creates movement in the Earth's magnetic field, which induces low-frequency ground currents (literally: current flows in the earth) in the surface of Earth.

An EMP is a very short duration, high-frequency pulse of energy in a local or regional electric field. The effects are completely different, the objects that are affected are completely different, they are completely different cases to consider.

Your anecdote also conflates wind storm damage, which affects local distribution systems, with (hypothetical) GMD damage, which affects long-distance transmission systems. With wind lines, poles, and the occasional transformer, is damaged and there is a lot of labor-intensive repair. With GMD, a very small number of high-capacity transformers are potentially affected. Different deal completely.

So talking about cars that don't start, etc is just nonsense when talking about GMDs.

I don't see any way to continue this dialogue given that we aren't even talking about the same thing.
> The team found that, on average, people who had access to the Internet scored 8% higher on measures of life satisfaction, positive experiences and contentment with their social life, compared with people who lacked web access. Online activities can help people to learn new things and make friends, and this could contribute to the beneficial effects, suggests Appel.

I'm not seeing how they accounted for the fact that people with access to the Internet are more likely to have access to other things that would improve life satisfaction such as food security, quality health care, social and economic safety nets, education, and leisure time. I would imagine factors such as these play a bigger impact than the Internet on a person's well being.
Counterpoints: What makes Gopher irrelevant?

1. Only one byte to specify filetype in the protocol, with only a few filetypes being being defined in the protocol, the remaining being unofficial and implementation-dependent. Most filetypes that are defined still are ambiguous.

2. No support for Unicode in the protocol, or even for any character set but ISO-8859-1. Non-europeans can eat shit and die.

3. No support for encryption nor compression in the protocol.

4. Any implementation supporting an above-mentioned feature is operating out of specification.
Nice. I wish timescaledb open-sourced their s3 storage thing.
Cosine similarity is low.
Yup. Cutting out as much as possible is going to continue to be part of the standard of care for the foreseeable future, too.

But I don't think that synthesizing some custom mRNA per-patient is at all cost prohibitive.

Formulating a lot of different batches of mRNA in lipid nanoparticles made with different mRNA might be a little complicated now, but I don't think it's an intrinsically terrible manufacturing problem.

It'll be better if this kind of technique is turns out to be applicable to more cancers, because you need to reach enough doses for economies of scale and manufacturing optimization to really kick in.
> virtually no real ground breaking leaps and bounds to those studying this space carefully

What they showed is enough to replace voice acting as a profession, this is the most revolutionary thing in AI the past year. Everything else is at the "fun toy but not good enough to replace humans in the field" stage, but this is there.
Digital signage, among others. Think big flashy LED screen in store window, train station & the like. Or kiosk-style uses.

Also I've read some e-scooter sharing company used CMs for the smarts in their vehicles. Edit: might have been RPi's not CMs (but the latter wouldn't be out of place).

In short: industrial & embedded uses.
> So, is there a reason they could be doing this?

Ummm... like, business?
Is it the future that's boring or do we just lose our sense of wonder as we age and become jaded about the world?
I primarily use Google Home, but I do also have Echo Frames so I use Alexa semi-regularly. My use case is primarily home automation. In that scenario, I find Alexa to be much more responsive than Google Home. I do agree that it seems like Google Home has gotten worse in a number of ways. (As a happy AnyList user, that specific one was frustrating.)
Pi-C.A.R.D is perfect. Read it 100% as Picard, and more recognizable that LCARS.
>The team found that, on average, people who had access to the Internet scored 8% higher on measures of life satisfaction, positive experiences and contentment with their social life, compared with people who lacked web access.

The current HN title ("2.4M person study: Internet use boosts, not hurts, well being") seems a bit of a stretch with regard to causation.
Not very impressed. It's been 18 months since ChatGPT, i would have expected more progress. It looks like we have reached the limit of LLMs.
> Ignore the critics. Watch the demos. Play with it

With so many smoke and mirrors demos out there, I am not super excited at those videos. I would play with it, but it seems like it is not available in a free tier (I stopped paying OpenAI a while ago after realizing that open models are more than enough for me)
Sure, but the owner of the product gets to choose what they use it for. "You're holding it wrong" strikes again.

If Apple's position is - "then don't buy it", they can come out and say it. They certainly have that right.
> The problem is poor healthcare

Yes.

But most healthcare is terrific and supplied by dedicated professionals working in systems and institutions of variable quality.

But the bad outcomes are what we notice.

If it bleeds it leads
Yeah, "frustration free packaging" could save the Earth. Often it is such a terrible experience cutting into plastic clamshells.
Remember, you're not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.
Sounds like the Jeopardy answer for "What is a novelty?"
An odd take considering that a large percentage of family doctors in Canada are immigrants.
Without memory of previous conversations an AI girlfriend is going to get boring really fast.
My kids get erroneous responses from Alexa. This happens all the time. The built-in web search doesn't provide correct answers, or is confusing outright. That's when they come to me or their Mom and we provide a better answer.

I still see this as a cool application. Anything that provides easier access to knowledge and improved learning is a boon.

I'd rather worry about the potential economic impact than worry about possible hallucinations from fun questions like "how big is the sun?" or "what is the best videogame in the world?", etc.

There's a ton you can do here, IMO.

Take a look at mathacademy.com, for instance. Now slap a voice interface on it, provide an ability for kids/participants to ask questions back and forth, etc. Boom: you've got a math tutor that guides you based on your current ability.

What if we could get to the same style of learning for languages? For instance, I'd love to work on Spanish. It'd be far more accessible if I could launch a web browser and chat through my mic in short spurts, rather than crack open Anki and go through flash cards, or wait on a Discord server for others to participate in immersive conversation.

Tons of cool applications here, all learning-focused.
For this ourpose. Could a brain tumour be sampled by something less invasive like a needle biopsy?
LiveKit Agents, which OpenAI uses in voice mode is also open source:

https://github.com/livekit/agents
I'm trying to parse your comment. You approve of what Trudeau did, but are complaining because he did it for the wrong reasons?
It's not about counting as a feature. It's the blatant logical fallacy. If a trait isn't a reason humans don't have a certain property then it's not a reason for machines either. Can't eat your cake and have it.

>That's not much of an excuse, computers exist because they do the things humans can't do very well like following long repetitive lists of instructions.

Computers exist because they are useful, nothing more and nothing less. If they were useful in a completely different way, they would still exist and be used.
I guess I feel like I’ll get to keep my job a while longer and this is strangely disappointing…

A real time translator would be a killer app indeed, and it seems not so far away, but note how you have to prompt the interaction with ‘Hey ChatGPT’; it does not interject on its own. It is also unclear if it is able to understand if multiple people are speaking and who’s who. I guess we’ll see soon enough :)
Classic.

Play it! https://archive.org/details/WackyWheels
I was thinking this too. You're giving AWS a lot of credit if you think they're not going to do some kind of analysis about how much they were making (albeit illegitimately) from invalid responses. I'm just surprised that they either didn't do the analysis beforehand or that if they did do the analysis beforehand (like the parent commenter suspected), how they were able to get the report for that analysis out so quickly.
Is that in their production or their recycling? Even if it is recycling, I'm pretty sure virgin plastic can be remade 6-7 times only.
Obviously not a standalone device, but it sounds like what the Rabbit R-1 was supposed to be.
I wanted to create a voice assistant that is completely offline and doesn't require any internet connection. This is because I wanted to ensure that the user's privacy is protected and that the user's data is not being sent to any third party servers.

Props, and thank you for this.
I think the problem wouldn't be the software itself (that's just a DNS proxy) but maintenance of the block lists. The lists used by pihole by default are decent but do cause problems at times, either intermittently [0] [1] or persistently (for example there's a certain cookie consent banner embed that gets blocked, and some sites embed a script for it in such a way that the site is unusable when the script can't load, a scenario for which the block list's maintainer has no sympathy [2]).

When someone decides to pay for SaaS instead of installing their own instance, unless implementation/maintenance is difficult (and I'd argue it's not difficult in the case of running PiHole), that money is for support. But this would be a support nightmare.

Also, typical SaaS runs over HTTP and has a GUI that can do user authentication, so that access is gated by payment. PiHole runs over DNS protocol, which has no such authentication gate that I'm aware of, so if you stood up a resolver (akin to 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 but with ad filtering) it would be open to the whole world with no payment required. It would instead need to be an appliance the user puts on their own network (or flashes onto their router, or whatever), and anyone willing to do that would probably be willing to run PiHole for free instead.

[0] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2514#issuecommen...

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2515#issuecommen...

[2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2257#issuecommen...
Yeah, I would imagine they would do the minimally invasive surgey to remove as much tumor as possible and then do the immune treatment after. Maybe it would make sense to a biopsy and just the immune treatment, but my guess is it would be mkre effective the first way. At least in my personal experience with this kind of thing I would think this could improve survival rates and reduce disabilities caused or worsened by surgery by not having to achive clean margin removal of the tumor. But who knows. Maybe in the future they can extract enough tumor DNA from blood draws to create the target.