skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t call that an innovation - I’d call that the antithesis of openAI’s supposed mission. Sure, offer an API. But release the code and weights too, so I can inspect it.
Good point!

I feel what humanity is capable of is on a whole other level, though, as we combine collective action with shared goals, novelty/intelligence, etc.

But I won't claim that's a well articulated argument.
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> llegal actions should be dealt with by the police and the courts. Apart from providing evidence, the company should stay out of things.

Illegal actions often violate company policy. Indeed, there are often legal mandates that company policies must also effectively address illegal conduct or else the company will be liable for the conduct.
Prior Navy Nuke here. We called it PRO (Point, Read, Operate)- we’d point at the thing we were going to manipulate, state what we were manipulating, and announce the completed action.

For certain procedures we had a second party (“reader”) observing and acknowledging each part of each step.

Operator (Gesturing anti-clockwise while pointing at valve XYZ)
Operator: Opening valve XYZ.
Reader: Opening valve XYZ, aye.
Operator: Valve XYZ is open.
Reader: Valve XYZ is open, aye.
Operator: Indications of flow
Reader: Indications of flow, aye.

People can still get complacent, and things can still get missed but the deliberate mentality goes a long way. Now when GitHub makes me type out the repository name before I can delete it, I sometimes copy/paste... YOLO.
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> it's a language model designed to continue a sequence of words.

If a language model were able to do this task perfectly, it would be indistinguishable from intelligence, because continuing a sequence of words requires reasoning. You cannot conclude that has no understanding based solely on what it is trained to do when the task it is trained on would be sufficient to demonstrate understanding were it to fully succeed. There are lots of reasons to be skeptical of its potential, but this isn't one of them.
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This definitely has potential. Thanks for the tip.
Continued development may be stalled (patreon currently paused) but hopefully it's just temporary. Would definitely be something I'd want to help crowdfund.
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I definitely agree that our brains work wonders and I'm not denying the main point you're making at all, but there is also an element of confirmation bias inherent here because you'll never look for the notes you don't remember taking. Going over old notebooks I've been astonished at the patterns I've uncovered of thinking about similar ideas and having similar insights over and over, each time not recalling that I've been on the same path at an earlier time.
It's a huge coincidence that I'm beginning to enter into the world of emacs owing to org-mode after being a vi(m) user for about 15 years now. Of course, I'm doing this with evil mode which I'd say gives the best of both worlds. vim's editor keys are much more intuitive and easy on the hands than emacs'.

Hoping to eventually learn more of org-mode and use it more diligently.
Oh yeah, Access was great for prototyping and I've argued as much here several times. I've built Access prototypes in earlier jobs.

> But the real fix is to simplify web stacks for smaller projects

We've already done that. RoR, Django, ASP.NET MVC, etc. etc. It's super easy to get something working out of the box. But at some point, you still need to understand what your database is doing and optimize for it. Some level of complexity is inescapable.

And you could probably argue that as back-end has gotten simpler, complexity has just expanded to fill the void. Now we expect fancy JS interfaces on top of them, too. And phone apps.

I have no doubt all of the things I mentioned will get simpler, but I can't foresee anything that will make software devs irrelevant in on the immediate horizon. I suppose at some point BAs/PMs (people who gather requirements and draw wireframes) will be able to write code, and we'll start to compete more with skilled BAs. But that's still not the end of the entire profession. Gathering requirements is still hard.
It would seem that this can be easily analysed scientifically.

To give a simple example: if, hypothetically, someone thought that GPT-3 is good at basic arithmetic (1 plus 1, 1000 times 3 etc.), they can provide a template for how to ask GPT-3 questions about arithmetic. Anyone can then verify that this template results in accurate answers, by asking randomly sampled questions using that template.

This verification method could be applied to pretty much any problem. Has anyone done anything like that?
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Not that I intend to do the research, but I'd love to see a combination of deep frame semantic extraction laid on top of GPT-n. The formal logic constructions associated with frame semantics have a shot at pushing text models at least away from logical and ontological contradictions.
Yea, from the conversations I have had with the guys over at hypermesh, their tools are way more developed than the stuff MSC and Siemens put out. I am not well versed in the ANSYS or Abaqus.
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So we are now holding the NYP to impossible standards that no other publication must meet.

A paper is not even required to ask for a comment from a subject of an expose. Thousands of stories are posted on Twitter every day by news outlets that did not request or include a response from their subject.

Now we have people claiming that not only does NYP have to request a response from its subject, it must also provide them the subject with source material for their article. Ridiculous.

Also, Joe Biden isn't even the subject of the NYP article - Hunter Biden is. Yet you are implying that Joe Biden must have been given the full source materials of the article and an opportunity to examine and respond to them, or else Twitter can block the story.

Was Trump afforded the same opportunity to examine the source material of the NYT story about his supposed tax returns?

The NYT still hasn't released that source material!
Not really.

The problem isn't coding or not coding or whatever. It's the problem of expressing complex logic and calculations to meet your ends. If you can't express those ideas on a computer then you're not going to get anywhere making software.

The problem is that kind of thinking is hard, and requires the use of something more complex than the no-code tools available now or in the foreseeable future. The nifty part about programming is the concepts are transferable to other areas. No-code tools generally don't offer that - you learn how to do Minecraft or Excel, but then when you're out of that tool your skills don't apply. I see this with young people frequently now. For example, a bunch of Excel VBA functions that do essentially the same thing but with a number in their name to determine some functionality. When asked why they don't they just pass the number as a parameter to a single function the answer is that's too difficult and what they have works fine. This is from a recent graduate in engineering.

Making software without coding doesn't really do anything but let you assemble pre-made parts. That's fine for some relatively simple thing, but will never give you the power of coding.
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Great point! This is actually one of the key challenges that we are solving, via our direct account integrations.

The challenge with file based statements is the variation in formats as you rightly mentioned. Something that code based statements solve automatically.

Happy to walk you through a demo right away - https://calendly.com/raunak_dembla/introduction-to-decentro?...
Probably easier to make the sale if you demonstrate a relaxed, unconcerned attitude towards camera privacy - "Of course your employees won't mind being spied on, ours don't!"
Using WeChat or Alipay in China does not require anything other than the app, which is quickly opened. Merchants just have pieces of paper with their QR code on them, and the payment is nearly instant. NFC is extremely finicky and much slower. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen lines held up by people needing to wave their phone or credit card around to get the NFC recognition to work.

As someone who has visited China, it truly feels like stepping back in time when coming to the U.S. with regards to payments.
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Delta Amex with 100,000+ miles is used for automated bills, $95 fee. Pre-covid I made back the $95 fee by saving on checked bags etc. Will be cancelled in January due to covid.
My investment in AMD is so small that it seems silly to pay for analyst reports.
I don't care about short term, and I have enough faith in my own research to keep believing in a brighter long term.

Are there any public resources dissecting an earnings call? Doesn't have to be recent or AMD.
Do American consumers spend a lot more money on American credit cards than European consumers spend on European cards?

Obviously I think the fees are pointless.
> Think of it as the trolley problem in real life.

Well exactly... doesn't that show you that it's a bad idea? People don't know if they could bring themselves to throw the switch even if everyone thinks it makes rational sense.

You're taking a rational, well-considered, strategic decision... and making the interlock a messy personal emotional one unrelated to the actual issue at hand. That sounds like the wrong way around to be doing things?
I don't know, with Google I see two scenarios that are difficult: "this product has been discontinued" while you're relying on the car, and some random Youtube moderation algorithm getting triggered by a comment you wrote eight years ago and blocking your account, leaving you stranded outside your car.
The original paper is full of comparisons and benchmarks. It includes a section on arithmetic.
> You seem to be writing that a simple language is somehow harder to scale for large teams. My experience is the exact opposite - too expressive language make devs have different dialects and be too "clever" for the teams long-term good - and I'm pretty dumbfounded that you can try to make sense of that.

It doesn't matter what language you use - cleverness will come in anyways. Only the way it is achieved is different. Cleverness in the case of go will just be difficult to understand reflection, where it will be difficult to understand types in Haskell.

With go, every line of code will be simpler when compared to Haskell (picking Haskell as an arbitrary example here). However, the go program will also 10x bigger. And complexity grows over proportional with the amount of code. In the end, the understand what the whole thing is doing you will have a harder time compared to the more dense but also much shorter code in Haskell _if you are very familiar and experienced in both languages_.
>In China it's quite common for the merchant to have a static printed-out QR code for receiving payment

"for the same amount of security" should be implied. If we're talking about what's possible, credit cards can also be processed fully offline by using an imprinter (eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Credit_card_imprinter.JPG).
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as someone who has made money as front-end developer, & saw the error in my ways. I will say the industry is not interested in simpler things. they're not interested in making the web faster for everyone. your typical insert framework here web app is slow on a laptop and even worse on mobile. now throw in hiring, it means everyone thinks their app should be on react or whatever, when it doesn't warrant it to be. look at Basecamp for apps that work without a major framework.
things like htmx exist but community is small.

so yeah, props to the author for making a proposition for something that would work.

but nah, frontend work this days is about making everything complex from getting the project running to the build steps and even deploying the project.

though one area, I will say frontend is now better on is testing: cypress, jest and react-testing library are nice things to work with.
> Besides, another languages can throw away the parentheses entirely so neither users nor editors don't mentally or visually have to.

Which mainstream languages have no brackets?
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This is something I've wondered about too. If I were to guess, these might be potential roadblocks (no pun intended):

- Insurance, since you're transporting others stuff at highway speeds

- You still need a CDL driver right now (not cheap)

- Economics - the failure of Starsky Robotics might offer some clues here

- Interstate Regulations on Driverless testing (?)
Not the person to whom you asked this question, but I'm also a user of TabNine. In my experience, the "recommendations" / autocompletions provided by the tool are usually very short (probably less than 20 characters on average), and I don't use it for terribly complex chunks of code. Where I like it most is in the initialization of common code chunks like `if` and `for` loops, using variables instantiated in nearby preceding lines. It figures out things like `for(customer in customers)` as I'm writing `for`.
ECMP typically doesn't split a single flow over both connections, and due to hashing might very well try to send multiple flows over one connection while underutilizing the other. Typical ECMP as far as I know also doesn't handle links of different speeds very well.
Not new to politics either. As mentioned 2012 had a gold mine of new digital sources available. Votizen was pretty interesting at the time. The Democrats had a huge advantage of having a younger & more tech savvy base that used these.
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Well, when reading running text they are a distraction. They aren't parsed by the same part of your brain that parses text, and they require interpretation (and embody ambiguity). They are like the junk photo required by Medium for each post, only scattered through the text.

I happily use emojis when sending texts, making FB posts and the like, but I wouldn't put one in a comment here even if HN supported them.

I don't care about the "professional" aspect the OP mentioned, simply that they are cognitive junk that get in the way of reading a document.

That said, I also agree with the comment by camdez parallel to yours: "If that's the biggest problem, things must be going pretty well."
Never used org as it seems too complicated from the getgo. Although I feel exactly same as you and that's why I've decided to use some free time to build a tool that would help solving the abstract problem of "organising life" easily and efficiently. I plan to create something with the flexibility and convenience of a textedit but functionality of a full fledged personal management tool. Would be happy to share when its ready. https://forms.gle/Vexu6jaZBgnHRoCm7
And when OpenAI says that your two entirely valid use cases are a safety concern, and denies you api access, what will you do? Better keep those ML engineers handy.

If you think this isn’t a concern, I’ve already seen it happen with my own eyes, rather than hearing about it second hand. They encouraged someone to make a writing tool. That someone then spent roughly six weeks prototyping, iterating, and giving constant feedback. All signals from OpenAI were “Yes, awesome!”

Then one day they simply declined to let them ship. Anything. Anything even resembling “a tool to generate huge quantities of outputs.” Which was, you know, the whole point.

You play, you pay. And I hope you’re ready to pay, because you won’t have your magical genie unless the magical genie’s caretakers believe you are sufficiently worthy.

I cloned as much of OpenAI’s API as I could: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1312299759592333318?s=2...

All that’s left is to reproduce a substantially similar model. Which is doable, but will take time. In the meantime, tread carefully.
At the start of his latest video he indicates the fact that it's not in the readme/end user marketing and just appears in an internal test case, and also that test case appears to be only obtaining metadata and not the video content seems to have changed his mind somewwhat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCrJM-MrKyI
Yeah, I think it's as simple as you start modeling entities in the world around you, for making predictions when deciding on behavior, then include a self in that model.

Start simple, "there's delicious food lodged between those fingers and if the fingers relax the food will fall to the ground, falling food is bad, don't relax those fingers", then add depth. Eventually you reach a point where you also model peer animal entities ("if food falls because fingers relax, that guy will take it") and from there it's only a very small steps to also model a "self" to go with all those "others". That's basic consciousness. At this point you are only a few linguistic principles away from diving into philosophy.
They might not even be able to measure that small of a difference in the spacecraft's acceleration, to be honest. We're talking about a difference in grams of a spacecraft that's somewhere north of 1000kg right now - wet mass was maybe 1529kg at launch [according to NASA; Lockheed said the bus could be up to 2000kg at launch, so I'm not sure who to believe being honest - it's a little hard to believe they'd risk things and short the mission on that much hydrazine], dry mass 860kg, split the difference and it's probably around 1200kg [or up to 1500kg] currently.

It's a little easier to believe they could detect whether or not they got 60g by the last significant digit change in the moment of inertia from their instruments by nulling out the rotation... It's a little harder to believe they could detect a difference between 0 and maybe 500g in the sample return container via their acceleration data. I doubt they even know how much hydrazine and helium is left with all that much precision - at more than hundred grams a second burned, it's easy to believe there's some amount of accounting slop.
One could argue that if they really knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be in a blocklist in the first place.
Yes, let's move the soul from being an emergent property of the staggeringly complex arrangement of billions of neurons to their electromagnetic byproducts. It's cool because instead of grappling with the consequences of material reality we can satisfy our dualists instincts by ascribing consciousness to mystic energy despite it being equally mechanistic in the eyes of modern science.

I want to see the college debate where the negative position fires a HERF gun and asks the audience if they feel like they just lost their souls. (Given our mobile phone addictions, many might say yes.)
"Excel is still the biggest and most successful no-code tool"

What's interesting is that many users build quite complex formulas and spreadsheets, yet Excel's formula and VBA syntax is (in my opinion) harder to learn than other programming languages. For example, I'd argue a language like Ruby is simpler in many aspects than using VBA or building complex formulas.

Like Microsoft, Google Sheets also has quite an ugly, clumsy feel to its syntax.

The terrible programmable usability of these products (Excel and Sheets) could only have come from the mind of a developer (harsh I know, but true).
Melbourne in Australia. Restrictions will be easing very soon though :)

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I don't think this is odd at all.

If you look at the space, there's the Waymo approach - which is safety and comprehensibility first - and not very many companies taking this other than Cruise.

Instead, you have this pile of companies who are pursuing mostly-deep-learning solutions, including half a dozen startups of various levels of craziness and Tesla. That scheme is unlikely to actually result in a safe outcome.
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> And you may just need to fire a bunch of otherwise good people to get rid of it.

We're talking about bias here. While I don't disagree that it would get everyone to step in line firing people who did nothing wrong seems like a high level of collateral damage.
I'm trying to think of a historical analog.. something that was always on the cusp of discovery and often hyped up but either never realized or only realized after many many delays. My partially educated mind thinks of two things -- alchemy and the philosopher's stone -- and flight.
I seriously, seriously beg to differ.
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The statement you quoted should not have been stated so confidently in the article. That statement is the "amyloid hypothesis," and is approximately the equivalent of saying "computer scientists have conclusively determined that tabs are superior to spaces." Basically, you'll start a flame war (although one with more societal importance than tabs vs spaces). Here is an article with a relatively neutral take on it: [0]

At a basic level, it seems very likely that alzheimers is a spectrum disease with multiple driving causes, so trying to lump it all under one mechanism of action is probably not the best move anyway. So without going too far into flame war territory (read [1] for a more flamey perspective that I strongly agree with - I won't pretend to be unbiased here), let's just say that from my perspective, articles to the public should not be blindly citing the amyloid hypothesis without contextualizing the controversy and billions of dollars of failed r&d spending in the space chasing a result.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05719-4

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...
I think it's because the question asked about US vs China
Do we have an unambiguous, universally accepted definition for consciousness?
is a driver still more expensive that all those equipments + the risk of "truck pirates" that might steal the whole thing on the way?

Even in the U.S. truck drivers are not that expensive.
For the startup time issue, there is EmacsClient[0]. Although, I just typically leave an Emacs window open at all times.

But I did use vimwiki for a while in the past and it was a good middle ground if Emacs feels like too much “extra” to lug around.

[0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsClient
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Apparently be models are improved by adding a kind of attention to them. I thought that was a good way to think of it.
Thanks! The corresponding graphs in the paper show that it's OK at two-digit operations (except multiplication), but it doesn't generalize to bigger numbers. This would seem to support LeCun's statement that there's a lot of over-hyping going on.