skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gemini is, explicitly, an art project. It's not, nor is it meant to be, a serious communication technology.

This both explains some of the bizarre (and anti-intellectual) design decisions, and also makes it crystal clear that it shouldn't be used for anything serious (e.g. serving the course website for a class you're teaching).
I can believe it was inevitable, and I can also believe it was accelerated by years from what it would be otherwise.
The old voice mode was but everyone including gdb is saying that this one is natively multimodal once it’s fully rolled out, audio in audio out. This has been in the works for a while, you can look up papers on things like OCR-free document understanding and the like but the basic idea is you just train it and evaluate it on whatever media you want it to understand. As long as you can tokenize it it’ll work.
Because Europeans and Australians and the rest of the world despite their "super advanced and non-bizarre" ways can't seem to develop advanced technologies of their own to use instead so they just use American ones and then complain about them?

At least you have coal, and killing the Great Barrier Reef I guess?
The CVE system was designed for cross referencing different database, not as a metric.

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/history-common-vu...
They hate us because we’re happy
In defence of the comparison - it is not at all a consensus that the Holodomor was deliberate from the beginning, that’s an active debate with prominent experts on both sides.

In both famines, there was a refusal to intervene to alleviate the famine once it had begun, and in both cases that was unequivocally a deliberate choice of the British/Soviet leadership.

Further - there are many cases through history of companies steering the state violence, from Colonial India to Blair Mountain to Aaron Swartz.

The broad point here is that the Soviet Union is constantly used in our Western discourse for our own brand of whataboutism.

Our systems fail people constantly and brutally. Our supermarket shelves are stocked, but most of the Anglosphere is in the grips of an unprecedented housing crisis.

There’s absolutely lessons we can learn from the Soviets in housing policy, but we won’t if any mention of them ends up reduced back to their worst failures. They didn’t get their shelves stocked by talking about MKUltra or smallpox blankets all day.

You can argue that the grass is greener overall, but there’s still dead patches all over our lawn. That’s the broader point.
They're not trying to do everything. They don't care about stuff like Hindley–Milner inference, logic programming, relational algebra integration, tsx like html integration, functional purity, algebraic effects and dozens of other concepts. They just care about extending python so you don't need to use ffi to jump into c++/cuda for performance because language already supports high performance constructs.
These AI's sure do yap a lot

Also, they're TERRIBLE at harmonizing together
We are happier and more friendly. I have no idea why though. :)
Or comment on your coding in realtime with a snarky undertone.

If you give it access to the entire codebase at the same time that could work pretty well. Maybe even add an option to disable the sarcasm.
https://archive.ph/qP6Sa
That was a case where Lufthansa was confused about the difference between (volatile) Li-ion rechargeable batteries and the (benign) Lithium single-use coin cells in the AirTags. They retracted their stance on them after a day or so. It was a fire hazard thing, not a "we don't want you tracking items" thing.
I find this is fairly easy to do by making both sides of the disagreement third-person and prompting it as a dialog writing exercise. This is akin to how GPT-3 implemented chat. So you do something like:

You will be helping the user write a dialog between two characters,
Mr Contrarian and Mr Know-It-All. The user will write all the dialog
for Mr Know-It-All and you will write for Mr Contrarian.

Mr Contrarian likes to disagree. He tries to hide it by inventing
good rationales for his argument, but really he just wants to get
under Mr Know-It-All's skin.

Write your dialog like:
<mr-contrarian>I disagree with you strongly!</mr-contrarian>

Below is the transcript...

And then user input is always giving like:

<mr-know-it-all>Hi there</mr-know-it-all>

(Always wrapped in tags, never bare input which will be confused for a directive.)

I haven't tested this exact prompt, but the general pattern works well for me. (I write briefly about some of these approaches here: https://ianbicking.org/blog/2024/04/roleplaying-by-llm#simpl...)
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> {Compression, encryption} adds complexity.

There's very little downside to making those optional, and significant upside.

Communication technologies without both of those things are no more than toys.
Maybe Europe should have invested in AI instead of regulating cookies
It's so weird how "efficient market hypothesis" is always stated in a way to imply that it's factual, when it's closer to an outright fallacy. I'd say that markets being fully efficient would at least imply P equaling NP. Essentially if markets were efficient, then markets themselves wouldn't be needed because central planning could actually work.

In reality there are local optima and other sticky structures due to the discrete nature of the world. In fact being able to find/make such things is one main teachings of business thinking with things like "build a moat" and whatnot. But this is all conveniently forgotten when whitewashing market behavior as intrinsically objective and responsive, rather than the fickle thing it is.
Ask HN: Can we please get dark mode?
Hard on the eyes at night.
The downvotes are just silly and show a bit of a lack of medical education.

Hints: any medicine expires, any medicine has side effects. I understand that there are some contexts where selling literal kilos of medicine are valid but MASS selling is just stupid. Nobody, not even somewhat large families, should be popping even Advil such that they need to consume kilos of it within the 1-2 years until it expires. And Advil was just an example, I saw those buckets for stronger stuff with more side effects. Medicine should be used like a laser, only where it's needed and sparingly.

And if many people really need to be popping even Advil like candy, it's a symptom of healthcare system failures.

See, sometimes silly things hide much deeper problems, and just because you're immersed in the culture you can't see it.
What would be the difference in compute for inference on an audio<>audio model like this compared to a text<>text model?
I was saying the opposite. The parent poster is implying that there are only selfish reasons that someone would want society to have more families/kids.

I was saying that it didn’t feel like they were arguing in good faith by ascribing only selfish motivations for those who advocate for that point of view.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned, but this is like shades of the universal translator from star trek.

We have tricorders now (mobile phones), universal translators in the looming... when is transporter technology going to get here?
I tried this for about 10 minutes, and went back to 4. Not really that great for what I am doing.
>...but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career.
Correct, the person you are replying to is telling on themselves!
I've dabbled with Haskell. I like it a lot, but I want to like it more and I just can't. I don't come from a CS background, I'm pretty good mathematically, and the syntax is just beautiful to me. I remember when I first understood recursion instead of loops, I was amazed.

But the whole no side effects thing... I just can't wrap my head around monads. I understand the benefits of no side effects, I still can't figure out how to write code, test it, improve, you know, iterate over it. It feels to me like you need to have your entire program understood and specified before you can write a single line of code.

That, and it seems like you need to have a complete understanding of the entire standard library just to get anything done. When I go into Haskell community groups to get some help, I'm usually met with walls of things I don't understand, which is why I'm there I'm the first place.

If I could get over these two road blocks I really think I'd write everything I could in the language. I hope to do that some day soon, but it's really hard when you're expected to already get it by the community. I just want to know how to do IO without a complete refactor and be able to read some documents on a library and start using it.
Absolutely, west coast has better produce in general than we do here in NYC. No argument there.
Agreed. I just thought it was unnecessary to just paint one side as purely selfish.
> Think about this every time someone promotes extremist violent rhetoric.

Think about how this standard of living is enabled by centuries of colonial exploitation, mortally dependent on continued extraction of non-renewable resources, and propped up by an insanely profitable military-industrial complex.

If you're on the outside, watching fools burn it all so they can drown in excess they don't appreciate.. yes, the rhetoric is bound to get violent.
More accurately, it's impressive that Microsoft, through OpenAI, has stayed ahead of Google, AWS, and Apple while adding $1 trillion to its market cap.

I wouldn't have predicted that it would play out this way.
Any recommendations on patterns/approaches for these declarative logic trees and where you put which types of logic (logic which goes in the prompt, logic which goes in the code which parses the prompt response, how to detect errors in the response and retry the prompt, etc). On "Show HN" I see a lot of "fully automated agents" which seem interesting, but not sure if they are over-kill or not.
Time and place

I’m 100% a text everything never calls person but I can’t live without Alexa these days, every time I’m in a hotel or on vacation I nearly ask a question out loud.

I also hate how much Alexa sucks so this is a big deal. I spent years weeding out what it could do and can’t do so it will be nice to have one that I don’t have to treat like a toddler
It still kills like a thousand people a week in the US and that is, still, almost certainly a dramatic undercount.

It remains far far more dangerous than the illnesses it can resemble. I spend a lot of time around disabled people whose risk profiles can accept masked interaction with a cold, but not covid.
> you can make 2 GPTs sing just as easily as you can make 100 GPTs sing.

> What can you do with a billion GPTs?

The world's largest choir?
Disney's HoloTile floor feels like the first step to anything resembling a real-life Holodeck...
Siri runs locally on the device. The cost would be prohibitive if they changed it to an LLM running in the cloud.
Families have become victims of harassment when weirdos have sent images to them of their dead family member.

Most people would be offended if I pissed on their mother's grave.

Let's say they can't be re-victimized and their families aren't new victims. There's still the argument that it encourages more killings.

I believe that videos like the Christchurch massacre should be banned. That video was made by the murderer and I'm sure was intended to bring fear to that community and encourage more acts of violence by other murderous weirdos.

A surveillance video or a video made by a victim or bystander is different. I don't think those videos should necessarily be shared, but if they're not made by the perpetrator or shared to try to bring support to the preparator, then yeah it's probably newsworthy. Still, the victims' families should be taken into consideration. I'm sure you wouldn't want to be scrolling through Twitter and come across a video of someone you know being murdered.
EU commission designates Booking.com as a digital gatekeeper under DMA
That seems to be a subjective artistic interpretation. You could crop the un-focused one in a way that would be presumably focused. Is the cropping illegal? Is the photo retroactively illegal? I'm surprised that these laws exist because they seem so ambiguous to me. Sometimes I don't even know the focus of my own photos.
Zildjian's new e-drum kit is a gamechanger in music technology
Nuclear arsenals and capability are regularly assessed by the FAS. The latest numbers leave Russia with around 1,710 currently actively deployed strategic nuclear weapons. [1] And somewhere around 4,000 nuclear warheads beyond that. These figures are just estimates, but do account for dismantling, obsolescence of dated capabilities, and so on.

The reason strategic weapons are generally tracked is largely because these are the massive weapons, both literally and in terms of capacity. For instance a modern strategic nuke on the smaller end would generally be around 500kt of yield. The largest bomb ever detonated, Czar Bomba, was 50,000kt of yield. For contrast, the nuke dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 15kt. Even if our estimate is wrong by 90% in the happy direction, that's enough power to effectively destroy any country countless times over, including the US. Furthermore, those 4000 'rando' warheads are indeed going to be small relative to strategic nukes - but "small" in this case again means sizes of up to ~100kt, once again several times the power of Hiroshima.

I find the propaganda gradually trending towards 'nuclear war wouldn't be so bad' to be quite disconcerting. Let's at least wait until we're a multiplanetary species before we decide to start offing ourselves on a massive scale. Or even better, never do it in the first place. The Fermi Paradox is a real thing, and could be easily explained by people's inability to escape their own self delusions.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_weapons_of_mass_des...
You make valid points. I would, however say that I primarily use make as a task runner for simple projects. If I have a "larger" project, at some point I would also probably opt for something closer to that language to squeeze out as much as possible.

And no tool is perfect. I think it's all about balance. Example: I love Zig build tool, but I think it would scare some of the people who would just want to add something to the build pipeline and have no idea about Zig. Projects are rarely just the code they have. They have scripts and require installing additonal software.

But yeah, I agree with your points here.
I had 3.5 producing valid Home Assistant commands within weeks of release, now we have tool usage so yeah, it definitely can.
Personally I’d say stop carrying fresh blueberries until they’re in season. I use frozen ones in my vitamix the rest of the year and they’re great!
Yet another amazing postgres plugin made possible by pgrx (https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx)

It's really crazy how some projects just instantly enable a whole generation of new possibilities.

If you are impressed like this and want to build something like it -- check out pgrx, it's a pretty great experience.
That's a fair point lol, my bad.
The AES instruction thing has already been done in MeowHash.

Not sure how it compares.

https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash
The good news is, in due time, you can decide exactly how you want your agent to talk to you. Want a snarky Italian or a pompous Englishman. It’s your choice.
Siri runs locally on the device. It works with internet completely disabled (airplane mode). You can't run any LLM on a phone.
Thank you. I was finally able to install it, I think my setup is to blame for all the issues. I think I wasn't able to open the .mbin because I downloaded it on Linux before moving it to the emulator, and it missed some information in the process. Downloaded it inside the emulator using iCab, and after several tries (probably because networking on my emulator doesn't work properly) was able to open it on StuffIt 5 and decompress the .gz during the installation.
"We are huge outside of tech bubbles" ... Only the Bubble is huge! Nothing else exists outside the bubble. There shall be no exception.
Updating an app doesn't fix an issue that requires a security update, or a replacement driver.

> Virtually any Android, Linux, or Windows device that hasn't been recently patched and has Bluetooth turned on can be compromised by an attacking device within 32 feet. It doesn't require device users to click on any links, connect to a rogue Bluetooth device, or take any other action, short of leaving Bluetooth on. The exploit process is generally very fast, requiring no more than 10 seconds to complete

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/bluet...

A browser update doesn't fix that and that and Blueborne was disclosed during the era when an Android device only had a support window of two of three years.

iPhones from over a decade ago were getting security updates, including for the browser, for seven or eight years.
This demo feels a lot like GPT-V. Like they've gotten a lot of the latencies down, but it's doing the same thing GPT was doing previously with transcription after silence detection and TTS of the output.
Let's start a betting pool on how long it takes BetterHelp to lay off their therapists for this thing.
> and because the GPS device also has a perfect clock

The smart thing about GPS is that the GPS device doesn't need a perfect clock. It's comparing the phase of signals from multiple satellites, so avoiding an absolute time of flight measurement, which would require an accurate clock.
Personally, I think there's very little hype, and no air to be released.

There are plenty of EV manufacturers now. But precious few that do it sustainably at a profit. Is it still only Tesla? I don't know who else is breaking even. Perhaps they still have something to learn.
Thank you, that page was chock-full of everything except information.

On a side note, why is it always that maps of phenomena that respect no political boundaries, tend to be cut off at the borders? It's absurd to me, and it happens so often. Even if you're an American, and only care about American Americanism, you'd still benefit from seeing how things play out beyond these arbitrary borderlines.
want to thank the op for sharing this; i threw this together in the last couple of days ramping out to the "steamroll" - we think one of the key problems in LLMs in general but esp voice is evals and wanted to have a good place to evaluate voice-to-voice systems. these systems can be end-to-end like openai or (asr+llm)->tts or asr->(llm+tts) or asr->llm->tts

we built an ELO benchmark very much in the style of LMSYS and will be releasing results every two weeks

source code here: https://github.com/thevoicecompany/bench.audio

will be adding proper contributing guide soon
Heck I find it annoying but I also want to ask it to push the bubbliness to its absurdest limits. And then double it. Until it’s some kind of pure horror
Fair enough, if we get there. The problem for this stuff, where do we get the data to get good quality results? I imagine everything decent will be super licensed within 5-10 years, when everyone wakes up.
https://archive.ph/uklUN
Just over 10 years later, it's Her
Looks toward the nearest university library
what does the "o" stand for?
Rust is indeed more practical than Haskell, I wouldn't deny that. But Rust lacks full support for higher-kinded types. Exploring a few type classes (known as traits in Rust) like Applicative, Foldable, Traversable can really open your mind. An exaggerated quip by Haskellers is that there are entire libraries on NPM that simply implement the single function `traverse`. While that's an exaggeration, it really helps to look at a few dozen things the single `traverse` function can do to realize its generality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36342085
Were you somehow able to look at the dataset for the prior standard?
It all belong to the fruit, including you
As far as I'm aware, anything you input is used as training data unless you have an Enterprise account.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-fa...
Personally, I've found that a nested class structure with instructions in annotated field descriptions and/or docstrings can work wonders. Especially if you handle your own serialization to JSON Schema (either by rolling your own or using hooks provided by libraries like Pydantic), so you can control what attributes get included and when.
Try using it for concrete problems you have today, start small. I used it to write a small calorie counting web app and some other tiny projects and picked it up that way.
If it’s covid is going to be a while till I get better and I need to plan accordingly
You're misplacing the value in this value chain. Without OpenAI Microsoft wouldn't even be in the running. It'd be a second rate cloud provider with a dying office productivity software business. OpenAI, on the other hand, would easily find another company to fund its research.
Plastic bags seem unbelievably strong for what they weigh, for their thickness.

(Kind of reminds me of my fascination of shows on Discovery channel praising spider silk or carbon nanotubes for their super strength)
With AI you can do A/B testing (or multi-arm bandits, the technique doesn't matter) to get into someone's mind.

Most manipulators end up getting bored of trying again and again with the same person. That won't happen if you are a dealing with a machine, as it can change names, techniques, contexts, tones, etc. until you give it what its operator wants.

Maybe you're part of the X% who will never give in to a machine. But keep in mind that most people have no critical thinking skills nor mental fortitude.
The choice of words is important. It’s appealing to the West propaganda machine to represent conflict within the Russian power structures. They use the word ‘sacking’ because their western leaders would exercise their prerogative to power and do just that (the “democratic” ones). To their disappointment, Shoigu was promoted to head of security services, while being replaced by someone with more experience of economic management. This is part of their strategy of integrating their military complex into the economy. The West should read this as: “our military power is here to stay and increase further.”

Interestingly, just like after WWII the American MIC had to manufacture wars to justify its existence, it’ll be interesting to see where the new Russian military capacity we will focus after this war. Africa for sure, to arm it against the European colonial powers. But who knows what other places. France is going to be well pissed off))
True but irrelevant.
> Just because it's free doesn't mean you can change anything or get the source.

Free as in speech, not beer.

> Some claim something is open source but it's just for free.

Gratis, not free.
Humans are what is currently holding AI back. It’s all based on our constructs including our current understanding of math and physics.
He was completely pathetic twenty years ago, just respectably so.
The concern is that it's being locked up inside of major corporations that aren't the slightest bit trustworthy. To make this safe for the public, people need to be able to run it on their own hardware and make their own versions of it that suit their needs rather than those of a megacorp.
Because there was a significant time period in which the rest of the world had access to Covid-19 tests but the US didn't, and this created political that forced the FDA to allow them. There isn't any similar pressure for other viruses, so the FDA maintains its ban on their production and sale.
You are not alone in this. I have found myself stubbornly writing a complex Makefile when I should have just written a simple shell script and be done with it.
That's just being hopeful/optimistic. There are more incentives to use it for manipulation than to protect from manipulation.

That happens with a lot of tech. Social networks are used to con people more than to educate people about con men.