skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty good. Despite my high scepticism of the technology I have spent the last year working with LLMs myself. I would add a few things.

The LLM is like another user. And it can surprise you just like a user can. All the things you've done over the years to sanitize user input apply to LLM responses.

There is power beyond the conversational aspects of LLMs. Always ask, do you need to pass the actual text back to your user or can you leverage the LLM and constrain what you return?

LLMs are the best tool we've ever had for understanding user intent. They obsolete the hierarchies of decision trees and spaghetti logic we've written for years to classify user input into discrete tasks (realizing this and throwing away so much code has been the joy of the last year of my work).

Being concise is key and these things suck at it.

If you leave a user alone with the LLM, some users will break it. No matter what you do.
It isn't released yet, but the new one that they demoed is audio-to-audio. That's why it can do things like sing songs, and detect emotion in voices.

The one that you can currently access in the ChatGPT app (with subscription) is the old one which is ASR->LLM->TTS.
ReScript: Fast, Simple Typed JavaScript from the Future
It's amazing to run this on a not-rooted smartphone.
TLS is in fact a valid protocol to use in an Upgrade header:

HTTP/1.1 426 Upgrade Required
Upgrade: TLS/1.0, HTTP/1.1
Connection: Upgrade

So you can use 426 Upgrade Required here, and I'd argue it's the most correct code to use in such a case. npm doesn't send the Upgrade header though, so that's a mistake.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-upgrade-tokens/http-up...

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2817.html#section-4.2
I asked chat gpt to criticize a screenshot of this website. I wont paste the full response here, people can do this themselves. But very briefly, it had a lot to say about inconsistent spacing, typography, use of colors, images, etc.

In short, this is not a great website, to put it mildly. I'm not even close to being a good designer but I've seen good designers make a difference. And nobody that I would qualify as such was involved with this website. Tiny serif fonts, yellow on white CTA, etc. It all makes a bit of an amateurish impression. And that suggests the rest of the thing also might need a bit of work.

I glanced through both the article and the website and it seems all a bit waffly and aspirational at this point and raises more questions than it answers. A lot of good intentions, preaching the virtues of OSS, etc. But not a lot of actionable information for someone that might want to take the logical next step of getting this on their phone. The CTA just leads to a "free your phone" section without links or useful information. It suggest twelve organizations are involved (who?) and lists some shared values. That's it.

Not very encouraging.
the original vaccine was a live virus, and the only way to grow more of it was to infect people and then harvest it from the pox on their bodies. So many generations of this vaccine virus were passed around this way.

For decades everyone believed it was cowpox, another common virus, but after a while scientists noticed it wasn’t actually cowpox - and modern generic studies show that it doesn’t match any known virus
My understanding is they reshape the input vector into groups and then pipe it through their approximator matrix M and reconstruct on the other end via concatenation. That, however, presents an issue in that M treats dimensions in different groups interchangeably, which they are not. In order to preserve the location information within the vector, they add rotations to each transformed input chunk like in RoPE. That just happens to work. I agree that the paper is not very good. In particular, their “for simplicity” comment actually only confuses things. It seems that you would have to pad the input or the output then, depending on whether you’re up- or down-projecting, and the case they are elaborating upon is the approximation of a square matrix. It’s also not 100% clear why M has to be square. Be that as it may, though, the idea has some merit IMO.
you can enable doorbell sound notification in Android
You're saying they intented to piss off easily triggered fans of a second rate 90ies sci-fi show? That would be hilarious, but I'm afraid you're giving Popular Mechanic too much credit.
Putin is also a product of the forced liberalization of Rusia. I guess somebody would also argue that since Pinochet was also a general within Allende’s government, he’s also a product of communism.

Anyway, no war in Europe, but it’s kinda curious that the countries that go around with free market capitalism in modern history, are the ones who have invaded the most countries. By just this fact alone, I would consider the modern era of prosperity in the so called “Western countries” through cheap energy as more responsible of peace between them than free market. We will see what happens with more constrained resources. As a world inhabitant, I hope you are right.
Happy to name a concrete use case: showing a manifest of containers to load/unload from a ship. Search needs to happen client-side for many reasons, ballpark figures may be 1000 loads, 1000 unloads, the info about the shipvisit, and a stowage plan of 1000 records loading/unloading (separate from the manifest). Give you 4001 individual entities, clocking in at at least 20 attributes per entity (container number, type, port of loading/discharge, cargo description, weight etc)

N+1 just isn't cutting it for that use case, because while a manifest may be paginated, you pretty much just need your entire stowage plan in memory to do any useful operation on it.
> the board (of any company) has basically one job: to hire (and fire) the CEO

Yes. In a formal board meeting, not in an secretive one behind Altman and Brockman's back. That's what makes it seem more like a coup.

> They're the board, who else would they file formal complaints to?

Like I said in other comments. It's always useful to have a paper trail.

> "Hand off Sam's responsibilities to other people"?? Again, any corporate governance expert would say that's a recipe for disaster, never mind not even feasible the way corporate hierarchies work.

If Altman is neglecting and being opaque about AI safety, as Toner claims, then the board should appoint someone to lead this effort and be fully transparent with them. I don't see how this is so far fetched.
1. Is it only available for EU citizens?

2. They/somebody needs to make a good quality android/iOS alternative that is NOT based on android and is stupid simple to install on any android and/or develop good quality affordable (< $200) smartphones to run it (some should have 4 inch diagonal screens).

I tried kaios devices, I’ve got pine phone, i cannot afford anymore things like fair phone and the likes. If banks/parking meters/washing machines expect us to use smartphones somebody needs to provide us with a small, simple device that can do those things without spying on us, tracking us, selling our data, etc.
So its closed source, and not battle tested. This will be an uphill battle for cedardb, even if the blog post claims wonders.
That’s the good use of technologies.
I’m not sure NH is being flooded by anybody though. Sometimes the mood is just… right to let down your guard a little and digress into message board thread comics. And if it’s not, the newcomer learns quick.
There are weights with strobe patterns that you can put on.
I remember something about the manual door latch being behind a speaker like cover in early Tesla models?

Also, in the last year or so, I remember if you use the manual latch, it will crack the window?
No one had ever seen nuclear weapons when they had only been theorized.

I'm just assuming that since networked computers are everywhere, models seem to be proliferating and natural general intelligence seems to function as a resilient, distributed system, it's not unthinkable to me that things eventually trend in that direction.
A cent is a factor of 2^(1/1200). There are 1200 cents in an octave, which is a doubling in frequency: if we have 1200 of them, 2^(1200/1200) = 2^1 = 2.

Lisp-wise:

2> (exp2 (/ 1200)) ;; exp2 is courtesy of ISO C 99
1.00057778950655

So, it is a .0578 percent change in pitch, or determiner of pitch like record rotations speed.
Thanks for sharing that site!

I just converted my app from monolithic to modular, and switched from PySimpleGUI to Qt6.

I think the second biggest factor that kept me from launching the online business was reading up on all the big online marketplaces banning AI audiobooks, at least for now. So I just use it for myself.

Some of my initial versions even had a button to make the output compliant with part of the ACX requirements using complex ffmpeg commands.

I've also found that using the iZotope or Adobe Audition (best) algorithm to stretch the audio by 8-15% makes the listening experience better for difficult material, since OpenAI's slower speed settings don't sound well. So I tend to do tts-1-hd and a 12% stretch with Adobe Audition.
No need to stand close to the Big Brother's telescreen anymore
Attacks in the Red Sea are driving up carbon emissions
Any vacation or trip planned soon? An alibi you were away from home could prove you’re not the source of the noise.
We recently had a very similar situation. It makes you feel quite powerless and frustrated, I hope you guys figure it out soon. Mediation is key in a situation like this, so it’s nice the building owner is already involved. We tried being proactive and showed good will to our downstairs neighbor but unfortunately they kept complaining. The landlord had ensured them, it wasn’t us. In the end it turned out to be coming from somewhere else. Or at least that’s what they started believing.
While I agree with you, you're missing my point :) I was talking about procurement practices.
Black Mirror was a documentary.
Also check out https://artofmemory.com/
A lot of the time it does feel like the only rights that actually matter in a capitalist society are property rights of capital owners. The rest is more like "eh I suppose we could also do that if we're not too busy".

You're correct that for a large and prosperous society you need some large organizations, but it is not at all obvious that the best way to run them is by sociopathic megalomaniacs.
Note that the repo itself doesn't claim it's open source, it's the title of the link that (incorrectly) claims it is.
I feel like overuse of ANC is going to come with some sort of physical or physiological drawback soon or too late.
> This absolutely is not the first Llama3 vision model. They even quote it's performance compared to Llava.

Although this is true, there have been earlier Llama3 based vision releases, none of the latest Llava releases are Llama3 based.
> infinite compounding intrusive rumination

pasted this into ddg. now i know my mental illness. are you fucking kidding. (thank you)
I love the five point order-esque style, warms my military heart
I’d learn how to play drums, join a punk band, shave my head and get a tattoo. You don’t need talent, just sing out of tune.
Why not based on android, out of interest? Basing on android gives you lots of driver support which would be very hard to recreate, and lots of open source apps immediately available.
You can also do this on iOS and iPadOS as well as AVP with support for training custom sound recognition.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition...
Most episodes are just slightly more invasive and unrealistic versions of technology we have had for ages rather than the usual "they saw the future".
China deploys robot dogs during military exercise with Cambodia
This is a reactionary perspective. Protest is a negotiation and without leverage it is therefore ineffectual.
Which is stupid since if you give away the bread for free or cost people can just wait till lunch I guess
This wave of AI will not freeze over that easily.

1. Some of it is open source.

2. It's in the hands of ordinary people who are now depending on it to cheat on homework, or work. People have new hobbies based around AI, like image generation and editing.

3. Porn.

4. Turning down countless insurance claims by poor, disabled people, without lifting a finger, man! ... and other business applications.

At this point you'd have to pry it out of some people's hands to instigate a winter which makes no sense.

The old AI winter was due to not not being able to get the stuff into people's hands, because they wanted it on a PC, not a $25,000 workstation.

Hardware is not a problem any more: SaaS. Users vendor locked to something they can't even install locally is now a feature.
"Cool technology" here means things like dishwashers, or MRI machines, which pretty much strictly improve people's lives, not slightly better advertisement algorithms.
And we almost all will be where you are now, if we live long enough.

If you can pick out audio from individuals, you could also send it through speech recognition and subtitle real world conversations for when hearing is worse or not there at all.

But it really needs mobile devices capable of doing the processing locally, as I think round trips to the cloud would make it less useful or potentially useless.
He could just not take the money in the first place, then he wouldn't be burdened with giving it away. The fact that he wants to get it in the first place belies his real intentions.
This is stuff for spy movies.
And did I say or even imply it was? Height is comparably heritable to adult IQ (and coincidentally is even strongly correlated with such) at around 0.8, but obviously somebody who is e.g. malnourished as a child will never reach their height (or intelligence) potential. And that's precisely why heritability is useful. It lets you create a ballpark estimate for the overall average influence of genetic vs contemporary environmental factors. So genetic factors would tend to explain about 80% of the differences in heights, with environmental factors taking up the remaining 20%. The heritability for factors without a genetic component is zero.
Yes yes we value property over human lives I get it.
You kinda ignore the fact that said board also had some famous talent. So famous, in fact, that he is considered one of the key figures that actually made that whole ChatGPT thing possible in the first place.

That aside, Altman literally hijacked the organization that was created by other people to fulfill certain goals, and now we find out that he did so by outright lies.
> I'm more interested in whether Altman, and Musk, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos, and Ellison, and all the other amoral wealth-hoarders, are finally becoming obvious enough now that people might finally begin to see them as the yucky byproducts of a yucky system.

One of them doesn't belong on the list. Fossil fuel and legacy automobile companies killed EVs[1][2], bought all the battery patents and made sure there were no EVs made. Until Tesla made them possible, by building gigafactories so battery is not a constraint and supercharger network.

Why is the list restricted to only a few tech billionaires? Where are the fossil fuel billionaires who actively do harm? 10 million people die every year from air pollution, and fossil fuels are only possible because of $7 trillion subsidies/year.

Why isn't Gates on the list?[3] Koch brothers? Hundreds of middle-eastern fossil fuel princes? Warren Buffett who owns Coke (39 grams of sugar/can) fast food chains, cookies, candy, ice cream companies, fossil fuel companies, utilities that actively lobby against solar/wind.

Dan and Farris Wilks, Oil billionaires who are making policy changes on many issues? [4][5][6]

Where are the financial billionaires, real estate, healthcare, insurance, fast fashion, chemicals?

[1] A portion of the film details GM's efforts to demonstrate to California that there was no consumer demand for their product, and then to take back every EV1 and destroy them.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_au...

[3] That's why Gates personally intervened to scuttle the Oxford team's plan to make its publicly funded vaccine research free to all, coercing them into doing an exclusive license deal with Astrazeneca: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/21/wait-your-turn/

[4] https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/institute-index-texas-fr...

[5] https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-poli...

[6] https://www.tpr.org/news/2024-02-25/three-west-texas-billion...
"Ready to -dive- delve in?" is an amazingly hilarious reference. For those who don't know, LLMs (especially ChatGPT) use the word delve significantly more often than human created content. It's a primary tell-tale sign that someone used an LLM to write the text. Keep an eye out for delving, and you'll see it everywhere.
Bitwig
Why is it waste? Putting it into breeder reactors is one thing, but we've got this stuff, thats emitting dangerous nuclear radiation, but isn't that radiation energy? What would it take to harness that energy and turn it into a power source?
At the root of all that is premature optimization.
What is with the defeatism? It all starts somewhere. I moved on from desktop computers 10+ years ago. I've only owned laptops, and I've stayed on laptops because I cannot do "everything" to a reasonable practicality on smartphones. This is one of those pieces I need.

It's not fast today, but it's possible and portable.
> He argues that true happiness comes from being-at-work in accordance with virtue

Sounds very much like the definition of Dharma.
Not even Chromebooks can escape AI PC craze
There are benefits of having a low number of lines of codes, e.g. if you want to print out on a paper (and reduce the number of pages), or store on a disk with a limited storage (although number of bytes is a more useful measure, then), or if you want to read it to understand it in less time than a longer program, etc. Of course, the limit of number of characters on each line, is also necessary, then.

However, that doesn't solve everything. Many things it does not accurately measure, e.g. complexity, number of stuff in one line, program speed, memory usage, etc. Those are other things to measure, and it can be helpful to reduce memory usage etc, but that is not the number of lines of codes.
> the company is basically just an assemblage of <people> and <capital>. They can replace the CEO if they want, but all the value of the company can walk away if they don't like it.

This is generally true of any company
> If the Berliner kebab was priced at 12 EUR instead of 6 EUR, then they could afford paying double the salary

And then the houses and the land also double, or house builder's salaries real term wages halve and the workers leave and stop building stuff. Land prices are harder to draw conclusions about, but the owners have to want to sell at the price being asked, which is ultimately what the market will bear.

> The rest of the world is about to add zeroes to everything. Why wouldn't Berlin?

Fear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R...
A friend made me watch Talentless Nana which had such a cool moment in episode one, I ended up watching the whole thing right after. Even started reading the manga afterwards, which was a first for me. Unfortunately saying more would kinda lessen the impact.
How does the act of copying/forking open your eyes to anything?
What Does the Public in Six Countries Think of Generative AI in News? [pdf]
disrupting daily life is the entire point of a protest. A protest that does not disrupt daily life is not a protest. The point of the protest is to make things difficult for the people you are trying to persuade.

Again we did not win our freedoms through polite discourse.
I think a good approach would be for developers to always use a custom HTTPClient class which throws an error if HTTP is used. I.e. you MUST opt in to use HTTP.
Hey, Kodak was a safe bet.

Who could have guessed they'd pass on digital even though they practically invented it.
HMAC is a fine suggestion but let's be practical. These days you can tell a junior engineer to go use TLS, but you can't tell a junior engineer to implement HMAC to sign API requests.

> The client will need to know that the server certificates have not been compromised. HMAC will avoid that problem, even without TLS.

HMAC doesn't solve the problem: the client still doesn't know that the shared key isn't compromised. What does it even mean for either a client or server to know something is compromised? If Alice and Bob have a shared key, what can they do to ensure Mallory doesn't also have the shared key?
Imagine it helping people with Autism and ADHD! ADHD people have hard time listening to 1 person because part of the brain tries to listen to all other conversations going around.
I'm sure it was added to the end following a pattern of other protocols doing the same for their ssl-wrapped version. Right now, shttp reads like http over ssh to me.
Yea, but enumerating BLM skeptics in the same breath as nazis is not welcoming, and it's not respectful.

I'm a BLM skeptic because it seems pretty clear to me that the movement has distracted everyone from the real issues of police brutality, under training, and militarization. It's distracting from the real issue of declining social mobility in the US, and it's blaming racism at the same time as nigerian immigrants are falsifying that premise clearly.

Making these things into identity issue means we aren't making progress as we aren't talking about them, we're just screaming at each other and blaming the other side.
Which free software does this without asking / telling the user? Especially free software that tells you no tracking?

But yes, free software is not a guarantee against tracking. It only allows auditing and be modified.
There's an endless supply of organic, free range cosmic rays that rain down from the sky. They've been scientifically useful in many ways, not just this one.
Yes he has. I have seen multiple episodes on his YouTube[1] where he absolutely grills the whole company. He also gave them a deadline to opensource the drivers or he would stop trying to make AMD stuff work.

Sorry for no direct link, but he has so many and very long videos that it is hard to find the exact spot.

https://www.youtube.com/@geohotarchive
Well, in case they want something new they should probably build something new rather than try "sitting on both chairs" (the rich valuable legacy and destructively new modern vision) with one product. But we know they will probably fail if they try because nobody really needs anything new from them.
One thing I am getting from this is 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 am curious to know if the authors tried to build LLMs in languages other than English and what did they learn while doing so?

An excellent post reminding me of the best O'Reilly articles from the past. Looking forward to parts 2 and 3.
"Problem is utilization"

AKA, not enough buildings / lack of building..
Curious what sort of processing power or chipsets the 'onboard embedded computer' needs. Could this be an iPhone app? Or is this going to require new, specialized hardware to commoditize?