skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The foul is that PII per California law the user has the right to know what information is collected, how it's used/shared, and request the data to be deleted. Discord is based in California and will be under subject to these laws.

Looking through Discord's ToS and Privacy Policy, gender isn't mentioned once. And age is mentioned once in the Privacy Policy in regards to account creation.

This practice circumvents the law by gathering this information without the user's express permission.
> Can you ELI5 this?

Companies have big shareholders and small. Absent controls, the big shareholders (and management) have an incentive to negotiate deals that are better for them than for the small shareholders. Delaware is good at designing these controls, which is why savvy investors like companies to be based there.

One of these controls allows shareholders to sue if they think the company they own stock in was sold too cheaply. In those cases, the court will step in to check the math. That happened in Doft.

Most of the case revolved around comparing Travelocity’s value to Expedia’s. But buying a share in Expedia is different from buying all of Travelocity, because the latter lets you e.g. pay yourself—the owner—all the money in the bank account as compensation or unilaterally sack management. The value of this privilege is called the control premium. After the court valued Travelocity conventionally, it added a control premium of 30% to come up with the final enterprise value.

Why 30%? Because that’s what most valuation consultants did. What Doft changed was now that convention was cited in case law. So a shareholder who is upset about their shares being sold at a 15% premium can credibly threaten to sue and win, which companies want to avoid, and so we get this circular convention of a 30% control premium (loosely defined) being the norm for converting companies from widely-held (usually public) to narrowly-held (usually private).
I didn't use it as a textual interface, but as a relational/nondirectional system, trying to ask it to inverse recursive relationships (first/follow sets for BNF grammars). The fact that it could manage to give partially correct answers on such an abstract problem was "coldly" surprising.
Many of the impacts of climate change have to do with increased variance rather than with shifted average.

For example, every +0C day in the winter leads to snow melt. The total amount of snow collected per winter depends highly on the number of +0C days in the winter. Your average temperature might only go from -11C to -10C, but if there are 20 additional +0C days, you might end up with a lot less snow cover.
This is damn near one of the most impressive things, can only imagine especially with live translation and voice synthesis (eleven labs style) you'd be capable of to integrate with something like teams (select each persons language and do realtime translation to each persons native language, with their own voice and intonations would NUTS)
“… all human progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

What’s old can easily become new again if a technology change in one corner of the system propagates outward, modifying the constraints & requirements on other components.
Now please do this for NXDOMAIN on Route53. This can be a big problem with acquired domains.
I guess that fact sheet needs to be updated with your important revelations about how magically if they just have enough plastic bottles they'll solve cholera.

And to think all this time we'd been worried about the safe drinking water and didn't realise that without enough plastic bottles it's all a waste of time.
> If you're developing an alternative implementation, you probably have a different architecture from the canonical version, and things that are easy to do in the main implementation might be very difficult to do in yours.

Yes. This is the classic problem with making Python faster. CPython started as a naive interpreter, one that just plods along doing what the code says without optimization. In CPython, everything is a dictionary and there's little real concurrency. This allows any code to patch anything else on the fly. Nobody does that much, but people scream if you try to take that out. So implementations which really compile Python have to be able to handle some thread suddenly modifying something out from under another thread.
I don't usually buy books 5mins after I see their title posted somewhere.. but seeing some of the drawings (and the topic) of the book, it is already on its way to me, and thank you for bringing it up!
i know nothing about this algorithm, but I went and checked that already; it does have a PR for smhasher: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/pull/279

The note in there that the output of the algorithm is different for different SIMD widths seems to indicate that this isn't so much an algorithm as a family of related algorithms
Ehm.. this is not a too-complicated-to-comply issue. It's Big Tech ignoring the law.

Luckily, while EU regulators are slow, they do have teeth. More mega-fines coming up in 3..2..1..

Btw: I wish "ban non-compliant products from sale" would be an option for regulators. And if so, more readily applied.

Fines work somewhat. But Big Tech may just do the math, eat it & remain non-compliant. I'm sure that eg. [all iPhones banned from sale across the EU] would get Apple moving quicker.
They're strongly correlated. The more space you have, the lower the bar of "how many days a year do I need to use this to justify the space it takes up.
https://archive.ph/2024.05.13-164720/https://www.nytimes.com...
+1. Check the demo video in OP titled "Sarcasm". Human asks GPTo to speak "dripping in sarcasm". The tone that comes back is spot on. Comparing that against current voice model is a total sea change.
Seems about as good as Azure's Speech Service. I wonder if that's what they are using behind the scenes
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Few people are talking about it but... what do you think about the very over-the-top enthusiasm?

To me, it sounds like TikTok TTS, it's a bit uncomfortable to listen to. I've been working with TTS models and they can produce much more natural sounding language, so it is clearly a stylistic choice.

So what do you think?
Genuine People Personalities™, just like in Hitchikers. Perhaps one of the milder forms of 'We Created The Torment Nexus'.
your inbox must be an interesting place
I'm just happy they resisted the buyout by Microsoft.

> Matrix looks really close, but it needs ALOT of love.

Matrix is just a protocol. Clients competing with Discord would be things like Element. https://element.io/

It's no Discord (which itself is no WLM, by the way -- rip to oldschool fat clients which had even less of a business model and whose features you can't have at all or have to pay for now), but I sorely hope it or something open source gets there one day.
Can't imagine a change like this would be made without some analysis.. would love an internal view into a decision like this, I wonder if they already have log data to compute financial loss from the change, or if they have sampling instrumentation fancy enough to write/deploy custom reports like this quickly.

In any case 2 weeks seems like an impressive turnaround for such a large service, unless they'd been internally preparing to acknowledge the problem for longer
In the same timespan Microsoft released Windows 1 all the way up to XP
> Be disappointed with the current progress; its the biggest thing keeping progress moving forward.

No it isn't - excitement for the future is the biggest thing keeping progress moving forward. We didn't go to the moon because people were frustrated by the lack of progress in getting off of our planet, nor did we get electric cars because people were disappointed with ICE vehicles.

Complacency regarding the current state of things can certainly slow or block progress, but impatience isn't what drives forward the things that matter.
Magical?

the interruptiopn part is just flow control at the edge. control-s, control-c stuff, right? not AI?

The sound of a female voice to an audience 85% composed of males between the ages of 14 and 55 is "magical", not this thing that recreates it.

so yeah, its flow control and compression of highly curated, subtle soft porn. Subtle, hyper targeted, subconscious porn honed by the most colossal digitally mediated focus group ever constructed to manipulate our (straight male) emotions.

why isn't the voice actually the voice of the pissed off high school janitor telling you to man-up and stop hyperventilating? instead its a woman stroking your ego and telling you to relax and take deep breaths. what dataset did they train that voice on anyway?
Social networks for 13-year-olds, enforced by ML. This is genius. It’s like IRL groups who recognize each other’s age by looking at each other.
Ya so sad that OpenAI isn't more Open imagine if OpenAI was still sharing their thought processes and papers with the overall commity, really wish we saw collaborations between OpenAI and Meta for instance to really have helped push the open source arena further ahead, i love that their latest models are so great but the fact they aren't helping the Open source arena to progress is sad. Imagine how far we'd be if OpenAI was still as open as they once were and we saw collaborations betweeen Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic all working and sharing growth and tech to reduce double work and help each other not go down failed paths.
I know it's a meme at this point but this is real life "Enhance please". Incredibly impressive what we're able to do to reconstruct missing data.
The size can stay the same. Tokens get converted into state which is a vector of 4000+ dimensions. So you could have millions of tokens even and still encode them into the same state size.
Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account
It unfortunately isn't worded that it only affects new usage. If you needed to check once before your initial use that would be shady but unquestionably legal as the terms of the contract are clear when you are entering into the agreement.

This clause allows them to arbitrarily change the contract with you at will, with no notice. That _shouldn't_ be enforceable but AFAIK that kind of contract has never been tested. It is _likely_ unenforceable though.
tell it to speak to you differently

with a GPT you can modify the system prompt
It's a defensive response to an emerging threat to stability and current social tiers.
> where are my agents?

https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt/
My thoughts exactly. On the other hand, an email address I used with Usenet ca 1999–2001 has had a consistent flood of spam. I think most spammers are using the same 20+-year-old list of emails.

The email address on my website doesn’t even get stuff that goes to the spam filter. Nothing, nada zilch.

I do think that there are some mailing lists that get generated by trying to guess emails, brute-forcing gmail addresses by trying dictionary attacks of the FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME variety or 1–10 letters. I get a tiny amount of spam sent to a domain@domain.com address I have, but that’s typically on the order of one message a year.

And all else aside, the overall volume of spam email has declined dramatically, even ignoring the effect of the gmail spam filter. I’m guessing that email as a spam vector just doesn’t make sense anymore and most of what goes out is a mix of 419 scammers trying to make their quotas and would-be scammers who’ve been scammed into buying that 20-year-old list of emails.
Or they just made a bunch of money on their licensing deal with Apple. So they don't need to charge for ChatGPT anymore.
Squarespace was my first experience with a hellish technical interview process back in 2014. I went through like 4 initial screens/take-home assignments for a {something} Analyst role that was considered entry level. I eventually gave up, and from that moment on, I hated Squarespace as a company. These take home assignments weren't even relevant for the role, yet they thought it made sense to inject it into the process. I'm glad they're 1 step closer to their demise.
One of the linked demos is it being sarcastic, so maybe you can make it remember to be a little more edgy.
It always seems to bite when I've got nothing but an SSH link and a default vim install to hand.
> Imagine having the ability to chat with the reels/TTs you save!

What does it mean? If I save a cooking recipe with rice, can I just ask "How do I cook rice?" and the AI will show me the saved post?
I’m a huge user of GPT4 and Opus in my work but I’m a huge user of GPT4-Turbo voice in my personal life. I use it on my commutes to learn all sorts of stuff. I’ve never understood the details of cameras and the relationship between shutter speed and aperture and iso in a modern dslr which given the aurora was important. We talked through and I got to an understanding in a way having read manuals and textbooks didn’t really help before. I’m a much better learner by being able to talk and hear and ask questions and get responses.

Extend this to quantum foam, to ergodic processes, to entropic force, to Darius and Xerces, to poets of the 19th century - it’s changed my life. Really glad to see an investment in stream lining this flow.
Just something I noticed in the Language tokenization section

When referring to itself, it uses the female word in Marathi
नमस्कार, माझे नाव जीपीटी-4o आहे| मी एक नवीन प्रकारची भाषा मॉडेल आहे| तुम्हाला भेटून आनंद झाला!

and Male word in Hindi
नमस्ते, मेरा नाम जीपीटी-4o है। मैं एक नए प्रकार का भाषा मॉडल हूँ। आपसे मिलकर अच्छा लगा!
Why not? Is "the average developer" hampered by some neurodevelopmental deficit?

How come the freedom in naming of functions and data doesn't have the same effect?
I know someone that just has a folder with word docs and exports them to html

With so many static site generators, I wonder how hard it’d be. Not that it’s simple, just thinking that an opinionated structure, a gui, and gluing it all together.
What criteria do you suggest, then?

As has been suggested, the models will get better at a faster rate than humans will get smarter.
https://twitter.com/htmx_org

yes, i created htmx.org and hyperscript.org
You mean like our dumb ass brains? Theirs a reason "saying the first thing out of your mind" is a bad fucking idea, thats what AI's currently do, they don't take a moment think about the answer and then formulate a response, they spit out their first "thought" thats why multi-shot works so much better, just like our own dumb brains.
It seems you're already aware LLMs receive tokens not words.

Does a blind man not understand quantity because you asked him how many apples are in front of him and he failed ?
i’ve been conflicted using founder since in some circles it implies the VC route

thanks
"30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is chilly, 0 is ice".

You're welcome.
I would disagree. I remember iPhones getting similarly criticized on here. And not iPhone 13 to 14, it was iPhone to iPhone 3g!

The only time people weren’t displeased was increasing internet speeds 15mb to 100mb.

You will keep being dismayed! People only like good things, not good things that potentially make them obsolete
Dear lord, there are many people missing the point of the article but this entire comment is egregious.

> Neither of the psychological tendencies noted by the author are “bugs” or failings of the human psyche.

They can be, and those situations were what was described. The author never claimed that these failings are not sometimes or even often a useful heuristic - in fact, they linked to a research article which shows that these processes are even separate from our evaluations of people (the evil bananas study).

> They are useful heuristics that are right more often than wrong

Maybe - but knowing they're there so you can understand and prevent the wrongness is important, not just in your life but to the future of our species.

> Tendencies like these don’t rule absolutely over human thought

Author never claimed they do.

> If we want to psychologize

What?

> the author seems to be in the throes of a persecution complex typical of certain stages of life.

What the fuck?

> It stems from an erroneous belief in both the certitude of one’s own conclusions and the impossibility of anyone coming to a contrary opinion based on sound reasoning.

The author linked to important and interesting research, and wrote about it in a very engaging way. At no point anywhere did they make logical leaps, or insist that one conclusion or another was the only right way to think.

The stone cold fact is that this phenomenon, which shows up in multiple studies, explains a lot about our biggest current problems, from corrupt politicians to alarming climate research. Attacking the messenger and even pathologizing them is completely unwarranted, actively unhelpful, and a perfect example of the author's point.
I understand your point, and agree that it is "borderline" in its abilities — though I would instead phrase it as "it feels like a junior developer or an industrial placement student, and assume it is of a similar level in all other skills", as this makes it clearer when it is or isn't a good choice, and it also manages expectations away from both extremes I frequently encounter (that it's either Cmdr Data already, or that's it's a no good terrible thing only promoted by the people who were previously selling Bitcoin as a solution to all the economics).

That said, given the price tag, when AI becomes genuinely expert then I'm probably not going to have a job and neither will anyone else (modulo how much electrical power those humanoid robots need, as the global electricity supply is currently only 250 W/capita).

In the meantime, making it a properly real-time conversational partner… wow. Also, that's kinda what you need for real-time translation, because: «be this, that different languages the word order totally alter and important words at entirely different places in the sentence put», and real-time "translation" (even when done by a human) therefore requires having a good idea what the speaker was going to say before they get there, and being able to back-track when (as is inevitable) the anticipated topic was actually something completely different and so the "translation" wasn't.
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RIP to the man who beat the efficient market hypothesis
I've grown a ton as a person from my work, and one of the biggest things I've learned is how easy it is to have confident, empirically-supported, well-argued, and totally wrong opinions. There's no better way to test your views than to bet on them and put them out into the world - even if they don't work, you'll learn something.

Of course, that can go too far in the other direction, because empirical results are often driven by factors outside your control too. So you do need to be doing analysis and not just looking at results. But analysis alone doesn't get you there, even if you're extraordinarily brilliant (and, statistically, you probably aren't).
They can all be recycled in a much more meaningful way than plastic. Paper can biodegrade. Empty metal and glass bottles are easy to use as raw materials.
Its 200-300ms for a multimodal response, thats REALLY a big step forward, especially given it's doing it with full voice response, not just text.
Discord is also using Ml to determine the topic of conversation in a voice channel and share it to potential listeners to decide if they want to join the conversation or not.

Frankly I find that unacceptable since the expectation is if no one is in the channel but the person you’re talking with you wouldn’t expect randoms to be pseudo listening in.

Edit: Not certain why I've been downvoted, I can easily provide proof in the form of screenshots
Close. It substitutes green pepper for the carrots. It serves pretty much the same culinary purpose as mirepoix.
This is not a judgment. It's an accusation by South Africa. Neither more nor less. The ICJ has not rendered any decision yet.

Ok, I've tried to get a coherent argument out of you and I have just about given up. If you'd like to have the final word, feel free. I'll read whatever you have to say, but probably will not respond.
I did, but I think it's worth stressing that this didn't actually have the quick two week turnaround you might assume if you first heard about it from the billing horror story posted on here recently. It's been known about forever and only became a priority when it turned into a PR issue.
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Minor nitpick:

> A past what-the-fuck was that we know exactly how many cells there are (959) in a particular little worm, C. elegans, and how each of those cells arises from the division of previous cells, as the grows from a fertilized egg, and we know what each cell does and how they are connected, and we know that 302 of those cells are nerve cells, and how the nerve cells are connected together. (There are 6,720 connections.)

We have no clue what most C elegans neurons actually do, we only know how they are connected. The behavior of most individual C elegans neurons (and by extension the brain) is basically a mystery, and it might take a few decades of experimental advances to figure it out.

Not to downplay the coolness of this. But a lot of people seem to think "we know the C elegans connectome" means "we know how the C elegans brain works." In fact it tells us very little about the brain - an analogy I like is that it's akin to understanding a complex circuit purely by wires and solder, without knowing if you're connecting to a capacitor, an inductor, etc. The information is necessary but far from sufficient.
Wow Vision Understanding blew Gemini Pro 1.5 out of the water
Paper biodegrades and can potentially be composted. If our ocean started filling with paper, existing biological systems would be able to address it.

Metal and glass are reusable many, many more times than plastic and are sterilizable with heat. Both metal and glass are recyclable or inert in the environment. If a bottle ends up in the ocean it eventually becomes sand again.

None of the above require oil to be produced.

I'm not saying plastic has no upsides, I'm saying other options exist that specifically address the downsides of plastic. With materials we are always making trade offs.
Some articles reference they are using a phased array antenna
> Whistle-blowing is hard to distinguish from complaining about others and deflecting blame.

I suggest examining the whistleblower's evidence.
this might be a stupid question, but how do the teams share the documents?
All these language models are very malleable. They demonstrated changing the temperament in the story telling time.
Reminds me of Tagsistant's FUSE-based tagged-filesystem API, which touts full compatibility with graphical file -managers and -sharing protocols as a major advantage.
Aluminum can be almost 100% recycled IIRC and aluminum cans don't weigh a lot. You're getting the same product in better packaging.
99.9% of web search forms that ask for a city accept a zip code, and are often more accurate when doing so, as even a mid sized city can be composed of dozens of zip codes, never mind places like Central Manhattan where some zipcodes resolve all the way down to single buildings.
Cloudflare pages has been excellent for my 11ty site. The free tier is great, prices after that are reasonable.

Also - there's a bunch of integrations with their other stuff (serverless, D1, etc.) You'll get more lock-in, but you can scale up the static site to become basically a full frontend-backend app from there.
Strangers in Their Own Land is an odd citation here - it doesn't really talk about convincing people so much as understanding their concerns.

It's not uncommon for folks to have real problems in their everyday lives caused by the changing world, but be unwilling to grapple with the actual causes and potential solutions, which require hard decisions and time and sacrifice, rather than blaming it all on communists and trans people who they can persecute right here right now and feel good about it.
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Some more discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666
You can tell it not to talk like this using custom prompts.