skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Version 3 will be able to analyse a room for interesting conversation and then control where you are looking via neuralink.
Not only is there no financial incentive to do it, but there is also unknown risk. Maybe you make a few enthusiasts happy. Maybe someone sues you because they think you violated their patent. Just quantifying the unknown risks takes time and/or money.
> "real estate holdings"

Real estate is not cash. It's cash spent.

> History also shows us that sooner or later, unbounded wealth disparity ends poorly for the wealthy.

History also shows us that societies without wealth disparity end up poorly for everyone. As in starving.

> You can have big business without robber barons.

Excellent. Go ahead and build one, compete and put Scrooge McDuck out of business.
Free Sales software is quite an oxymoron
This has been really interesting read. Aligned that if you leave a user along with LLM, some one will break. Hence we choose to use large number of templates wherever suitable as compared to a free reign for LLM to respond with.
I don't think you need to be an asshole to invent a dishwasher or an MRI machine. The usefulness alone lets you sell these. AI on the other hand...
I don't think recording an audiobook with human-level quality is "simple". It's really a kind of acting. TTS models do very poorly at acting because they generally process one sentence at a time, or at most a paragraph, and have very little context or understanding. They just kind of fake it like a newscaster reading an unrehearsed script from a teleprompter.

True human-level audiobook reading would require understanding the whole story, which often assumes general cultural knowledge, which you'll only get from a model trained on LLM-scale data. If you asked GPT-4o's new end-to-end voice mode to read an audiobook you'd probably get a better result than any TTS model. I bet it would even do different voices for the characters if you asked it to.
Ignoring for a moment the board's responsibilities and ability to implement the measures you suggest, read what you wrote again and think of it from the practical point of view. If you had a person that needed all that oversight would it not be cheaper and more practical to replace him?
It was a great read, aligned on many thought processes from our own tinkering in breaking down tasks for LLM. Eagerly look forward to the next 2 parts, this one has been educational.
The board's plan for OpenAI (go slow, avoid publicity) would drastically reduce the compensation value for those employees. A typical OpenAI offer in 2023 was cited as $300k base, $800k PPU.

It seems that this was really Altman's master stroke here - he not only hired peoplefor the company, but he ensured that all those people's rewards were directly tied to the success of his plans for the company.

And it may well be the real reason why he released ChatGPT behind the board's back, as well - by triggering the "gold rush" he demonstrated this to employees in a way more convincing that any other argument.
And who is the direct beneficiary of the 1.5 billon forefeiture?
As an OpenAI employee who has worked with dozens of API customers, I mostly agree with the article's tip to break up tasks into smaller, more reliable subtasks.

If each step of your task requires knowledge of the big picture, then yeah it ought to help to put all your context into a single API call.

But if you can decompose your task into relatively independent subtasks, then it helps to use a custom prompt/custom model for each of those steps. Extraneous context and complexity are just opportunities for the model to make mistakes, and the more you can strip those out, the better. 3 steps with 99% reliability are better than 1 step with 90% reliability.

Of course, it all depends on what you're trying to do.

I'd say single, big API calls are better when:

- Much of the information/substeps are interrelated

- You want immediate output for a user-facing app, without having to wait for intermediate steps

Multiple, sequenced API calls are better when:

- You can decompose the task into smaller steps, each of which do not require full context

- There's a tree or graph of steps, and you want to prune irrelevant branches as you proceed from the root

- You want to have some 100% reliabile logic live outside of the LLM in parsing/routing code

- You want to customize the prompts based on results from previous steps
I don't mean this question insensitively, but what's the deal with the warning? Never seen anything like that before. Is it motivated by some sort of indigenous Australian religious or cultural belief relating to photography and death?
Summer Wars (Samā Wōzu)
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The people complaining probably don't have the authority to remove it from the base image they're forced to use, unfortunately.
That’s just…. Weird. Conversation couldn’t exist if we were like that, nor would any form of public address.

The only behavior close to that I can think of is when someone is looking at someone expectantly, and trying to break in.
I learn signlanguage for 1.5 years now (ÖGS - Austrian Sign Language) and this project is really awesome.
I wonder how they fixed the sentence structure problem because many fill-words just don't get a hand movement and the words are also quite scrambled.

For example "what is the capital of austria" would be "austria capital what".
4k-year-old Egyptian skull may show signs of attempts to treat cancer
There is also a glitch in "dialogue"
> Thus, you may expect that effective prompting for Text-to-SQL should include structured schema definitions; indeed.

I found that the simpler the better, when testing lots of different SQL schema formats on https://www.sqlai.ai/. CSV (table name, table column, data type) outperformed both a JSON formatted and SQL schema dump. And not to mention consumed fewer tokens.

If you need the database schema in a consistent format (e.g. CSV) just have LLM extract data and convert whatever the user provides into CSV. It shines at this.
> The reason people "cling" to labels, is because when you're suffering from something as severe and difficult to live with in normal society such as complex/chronic PTSD, answering the question "What the hell is wrong with you?" becomes extremely difficult without these labels, and will drive one to despair trying to explain and maintain normal relationships.

I think this point of view ignores the main point of the article: the social labels, not the trait that substantiates those social labels.

There are people who self-assign those labels in spite of not actually having been diagnosed with any condition, and go as far as making the label a central part of their identity. The fact that using these labels is not necessarily correlated with actually having the conditions is the key aspect.
No Musk builds nothing. There is a huge team he leads, consisting of engineers and scientists and they develop technology that Musk then sells. He's a glorified cars salesman. Maybe he was essential to get the rockets built, but neither did he build them, nor contribute essential technical details, so that it would be uniquely him who could do it given same financial backing.
"fix the English in the following prompt: {prompt}"
smaller tasks also helps in choosing smaller models to work with, instead of waiting for a large model to respond (really not usable when doing customer facing work)
> that you need to be able to write prompts using well-structured English. That may be a challenge to a significant percentage of the population.

I didn’t realize at first you meant to highlight a language barrier — being well structured is a challenge for most in their native tongue!
I would like to know your opinion about grafRAG and the ontology. Knowledge Graphs (KG) are a game changer for companies with a lot of unstructured data in the context of applying them with LLM
> all for the sake of encrypting things that were fine in plaintext

What was fine in plaintext?
Reproducibility of Computational Environments for Software Development [pdf]
For issues git bug is much better. gh plain also works fine with PR's.
I see reasons listed for the rearchitecture but not the "rebrand".
Also brogue tends to have very fancy ASCII art animation. Cogmind is not strictly ASCII per se.
I thought so, but I live in pretty quiet neighbourhood with ~8 hours of ANC which enables quietter playback volume, versus growing up in a very loud metropolis where bustle was non stop and blasting headphones in before ANC days.

TBH at this point, I wouldn't even object to losing my hearing to have forever ANC (hearing loss) and turning up the hearing aid.

E: no offense to those with hearing loss in this thread
It seems those "megalomaniacs" are needed to at least build those large organizations. And I'd rather have them run by their founders with vested interests than bureaucrats, committees and politicians.
> If you have a smartphone and don't have a raspberry pi or other SBC and have some use for an under powered Linux box then have fun.

The situation I imagine for this is that a big solar flare comes and takes down the internet for the foreseeable future. There's all kinds of things that are going to stop working because they want to phone home, but cant. Many of them will just be trash at that point, but some can be hacked to respect some other server on the local LAN--that server might be a repurposed phone.

These might be important things. Farm equipment, thermostats, vehicles... The more control we can have over hardware that'll be easy to find, the better.
I also integrated on my ssh server. try sshing to funky.nondeterministic.computer
Kill La Kill is also fantastic as a gateway to the classic anime and TV that it references. See, e.g., https://marshmallowgoop.tumblr.com/catalog-project-part-i
> The schizophrenia treatments available just make me feel that we understand so little about it. The drugs used are such blunt weapons that can be debilitating in themselves.

It's interesting to point out that this is also true in most health fields. For example, dentists still base their practice around drilling and pulling teeth. Wooden dentures have been replaced with the same concept using fancier materials.
Some of these include a nonce and/or are deployed over TLS to prevent replay attacks and avoid sending bearer tokens over the wire. AWS sig v4 and RFC7616 come to mind.
> With extreme inequity, who's gonna make all the smaller bets?

The more large, visible winners you have in a society the more us little people are incentivized to buy those lottery tickets. Crowd funding, angel investing and small funds do exist. Or even Robinhood.
What you've just learned is that pop producers are not in tune with what's good. It's a hard lesson to learn.
There's a fixed cost and another cost that scales with usage. For instance, the California E-1 rate (non-time-of-use) is about 42 cents per kwh. Of that, 25 cents is transmission (long distance lines) and distribution (local lines), and 17 goes toward generation (if someone switches to another electricity provider, it's this 17 cents that would go to that other provider.

Scaling the cost of the grid with usage serves as a price signal for people to conserve power, as opposed to it being jumbled behind a more comprehensive tax or a larger flat fee.
This is the out of the box thinking I love about HN. What do you do with the mermaid?
Whose morals though?

In my life time I've seen being gay or smoking weed (for example) turn from immoral to widely accepted. Kind of hard to consider these shifting sentiments as a solid foundation for anything.
Set up monthly purchases of index funds into a Roth and a 401(k). Forget about them and learn to completely ignore financial news.
I always thought it was bad practice to use the same domain for API and non-API traffic. In the browser there'll be a ton of wasted context (cookies) attached to the API request that isn't needed.

So it's better to have "api.example.com" and "www.example.com" kept separate, rather than using "www.example.com/api/", where API requests will have inflated headers.
The juice isn't worth the squeeze. Whatever you build to harness that energy would be very expensive compared to the relatively small amount of power you get out of it.
You cannot call out something dogma if you don’t understand reasons.

Injecting ads by ISPs into http is documented and known - they can inject anything on transit of HTTP it can be done automatically and basically with 0 cost. ISP is one the other all kind of free WiFi.

It is not only “NSA will get me” or only financial transactions. There are new known exploits in browsers and systems found on daily basis.

So reasoning is someone has to be of interest - not true because it is cheap and automated tls is making cost higher for simply scooping stuff.
A New Architecture for a GUI Framework
Idk why people say funding OSS is difficult
Kind of related, but does anyone have info on the best way to transcribe some hour long audio files of conversation?

Especially if it can detect different people? Would love to have timestamps for some sentences or be able to ‘jump around’ the audio file too.

Haven’t kept up with new AI tools around this :/
Yes it is a cultural practice in many indigenous aussie communities.

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/indigenous-cultural-prot...
The relatively unusual part is a post colonial government paying heed to indigenous beliefs via official channels ( ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. ).

Taboos around naming or visualising the recently deceased are more common than many westerners might think

A taboo against naming the dead is a kind of word taboo whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not be uttered. It is observed by peoples in many parts of the world, including the indigenous peoples of northern Australia, Siberia, Southern India, the Sahara, Subsaharan Africa, and the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_on_the_dead

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/mo...

It's certainly no weirder than pretending to eat bits of a god's son.

Addendum: For those interested, a language group map of Australia: https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high...
Yes, many indigenous people can’t look at images of dead people.
Yes - https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/indigenous-cultural-prot...
Very interesting comment. By I/O scheduling, you mean across multiple processes (i.e. multiplexing the device)?
You're probably right. There's a lot of code for those processors that's not going away.

Too bad though, the 6809 is the pinnacle of 8-bit CPU architecture. It's the result of analyzing the practical shortcomings of the 6800 and other CPUs and redesigning the ISA. It has 16-bit index registers and 16-bit arithmetic, addressing two of the 6502s most annoying drawbacks. Additionally, it has support for stack based locals, position independent code and a LEA instruction. All those make building a high level language compiler much easier than other 8-bits.
Mesopothemia was based on morals as far as we know, and they lay the foundation for many technical and scientific advances. And your rights are based on religious and ideological morals. Why do you believe the debate about Roe v. Wade exists? Why do we consider infidelity so bad it can break a contract of marriage? What is marriage? Those are not laws of nature.
> societies without wealth disparity end up poorly for everyone. As in starving.

If this is meant to be a reference to Soviet-style communism, then all that shows is that centrally planned economies run by dictators end up poorly for everyone.

They don't end up without wealth disparity, though. In fact, USSR had the highest wealth disparity at "peak communism" under Stalin, when well-off party bureaucrats and high-ranking professionals hired housemaids - openly and legally - to clean their large apartments and dachas, while attending high school required paying money.

Another way to think about it is that USSR was a society in which capital was still controlled by a small elite, but collectively as a corporation (the Party). A particular apparatchik would be living much better than the average worker for ultimately the same reasons - because his lifestyle was financed by wealth produced by other people who did not have the claim to the wealth they produced under the law. But he didn't own his cars and his dachas personally; he merely used them so long as he retained his rank within the Party (which for many people could be a lifetime thing in practice, purges aside).
In addition, way back in 1993, Apple released speech recognition with the original AV Macs (which were outfitted with 55 MHz AT&T 3210 DSPs in addition to their 25+ MHz Motorola 68040s) which was then also supported on the PowerPC Macs released the following year (that started at 60 MHz)
Agree, that's a very good summary. Would love to see some benchmarks for the two approaches.
Well if you used to have attention and now you do not, for the same proposition, then the proposition is no longer as interesting as it used to be.

This may be due to reasons specific to your proposition or it may apply to propositions generally or categorically.

You ought to find out which effect is the case for you first.
Heck IA will even temporarily IP-block you just for loading an archived page with too many images. It's a very useful resource but often also very painful to use.
Confessions from an Unpleasant Woman
The wealthy, when incarcerated (eg Weinstein, Spector or Cosby) are quite safe as they can and will easily afford to pay into to the prison protection rackets.
How much latency is acceptable? If you're off in the woods somewhere far from the cloud, sure, but it's less than 10ms to ping Google.com for me, and if the speech-to-text engine runs faster than realtime, I don't see why processing remotely is a problem. 10 ms is nothing.

Still, the transcription part is already here today. The Google Translate app has a transcribe app that does this (runs locally; does not do magic AI "pick voice out from crowd"). My father-in-law has been using it for years. When I'm in a loud environment, the app I use on iOS is called Big, which just displays large text on the screen.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/make-it-big/id479282584
There's a reason why often we hear a disclaimer "views are my own, not employer's".

A statement by an official employee has been made, it was widely publicized and never corrected. The onus to correct a false statement by an employee is on the company. With the amount of publicity, Microsoft definitely knew about this false advertisement, but did not want to correct it, because it was in Microsoft's interest for public to believe it was the official truth.
OpenAI whisper
Welcome to living in a society.

If OpenAI didn't offer high compensation, then it wouldn't have been able to attract the talent that it did.

Feel free to run your company off of Doge coin donations from EA orgs if you like.

But personally, I don't think anyone would have been able to make the frontier models that OpenAI did even if SBF himself funded the whole thing.

To actually succeed in the space you need money, top talent, and GPUs. And you can't get that if your plan is to shutdown the company.
Starlink's disruption of the space industry
Really good overview of Starlink's effects on the wider industry at large from satellite manufacturers/operators to astronomers.
> Similarly finding any shape in a random set of points is much more likely than the odds of any one shape.

Obviously. But that’s not the point (no pun intended). My point is that most of the "shapes" would be just an unstructured shape—if you can even call it a shape. "Familiar" shapes will be much much unlikely to form that "uncommon" shapes. (Hopefully this is obvious because the number of familiar shapes are much much fewer than uncommon shapes.)

Let me use another example to help you understand the point. Suppose a monkey is given a typewriter and a sheet.

Is the probability of getting The Declaration of Independence is as likely as the probability of getting one particular gibberish sequence of characters? Yes.

Should we surprise if the monkey types any proper one-page English essay? Yes.

In case it's not obvious, that's because the number of possible ways to write a proper one-page English essay, albeit humongous, is nothing compared to the number of possible ways to arrange characters in one page. In other words, it's very very very unlikely to happen.
>Real estate is not cash. It's cash spent.
But it is hoarding wealth.
"that also didn’t hurt anyone"

Can I have some of what you're on? It sounds like fun.
Seriously, nobody in the entire world has been adversely affected by the widespread adoption of LLMs?
Is it a surprise that US schools do what they are rewarded for doing, that they don't do what they are not rewarded for doing?
Google cuts a check, antitrust law prof. calls it silly, ridiculous or desperate
Such a great idea, I have always wondered how much knowledge we have destroyed surely we could've learned a lot from a culture that has been around for 60k years.
Mitsubishi Electric Recognized for fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube [video]
Maybe authors can tag sentences/paragraphs with acting directions while they write to facilitate acting. Seems like there's ways for some human input to streamline process.
Not really accurate. There are tons of tenured profs who are well-positioned to reveal reasons why QCs are fundamentally infeasible (and those kind of stories play well in the media). You can read about Gil Kalai's arguments here:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-argument-against-quantum-...

In any case, I'm happy to bet on this.
> So if you occasionally forget and use http when you meant https and are worried about the consequences of that, you should just implement your own HSTS checking layer?

Or use a library to do it. The core fetch functionality shouldn't have to deal with HSTS. There may be legitimate reasons to fetch over HTTP even after you received an HSTS header - for testing purposes, for example.

> Why not just implement your own fetch wrapper that throws if it's not an https connection?

That's the developer dealing with HSTS.
(Edited: reconsidered exposing my own ignorance of history as soon as I pressed send)
I haven’t tried art yet so I might like it but I have a few musical instruments to learn on my list but they’re nowhere near the top.
2:07 "Well, Google's argument is, let's see, shall we call it 'silly', 'ridiculous' or 'desperate'."
The bigger issue is that a malicious interceptor could inject javascript. The site may not use javascript, but the users almost certainly have it turned on, and accessing a non-https site means that any man in the middle can inject malicious javascript.

HTTPS is about protecting the client.
Maybe, but the C&C Red Alert 2 used as an example is relevant, because Electronic Arts has released the previous games in the series as 100% free downloads, but not open sourced them.

So the original Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun are free as in beer now.
That doesn't do diarization, unfortunately. Try https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization or something similar instead.
Musk profited of what he saw benefited him, yes he pushed forward EV technology and put other carmakers under pressure which is good. But he is an completely unhinged egomanic who has no respect for working people, even those working for him and often lies for his benefit, to workers, shareholders and reporters, this is documented hundreds of times
Imposed and enforced by whom, if not the law?
Reading a lot and from certain point on writing if I get something new to say.
It also has one of the best user-interfaces of a text-based roguelike ever. And when I say "interface" I don't just mean the graphic design, although that's amazing too.