skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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They already did a 10% layoff in January.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technology/salesforce-lay...
Supposedly, Joseph Weisenbaum logged the chat logs of Eliza so he could better see where his list of canned replies was falling short. He was horrified to find that people were really interacting with it as if understood them.

If people fell for the appearance of AI that resulted from a few dozen canned replies and a handful of heuristics, I 100% believe that people will be taken in by ChatGPT and ascribe it far more intelligence than it has.
Can't they just send a scary email to the AS administrator who then removes the offending address block from its routing tables? Or are you imagining folks migrating to ones that don't respond to such requests?
The article is primarily demonstrating significant errors in an official Bing demo, not some contrived queries.
Are you a senior, i seem to be missing these
Personally I love being 100% remote and have found that I'm more productive than ever, and have more personal time than ever. I would never consider a job that required any regular time in the office unless I was desperate.
When did they say it’s garbage? They gave their opinions on its shortcomings and praised some of the things it excels at. You’re calling the critics too emotional but this reply is incredibly defensive.

Your anecdotes are really cool and a great example of what GPT can do really well. But as a technical person, you’re much more aware of its limitations and what is and isn’t a good prompt for it. But as it is more and more marketed to the public, and with people already clamoring to replace traditional search engines with it, relying on the user to filter out disinformation well and not use it for prompts it struggles with isn’t good enough.
In Turkey, these buildings were constructed by building companies close to government. They paid their bribes and constructed the buildings with making every shortcut.

What was Turkey's response? The governor of Hatay ordered to demolish the building construction control authority's archive (archive with signed and stamped construction projects, floor studies etc.), with the documents in it (i.e. to bury all evidence). The building is a one-floored archive and did not suffer any earthquake damage. Luckily a group of lawyers found out and stopped the destruction halfway. Now, with the pressure from the press, the heads of the building companies are arrested one by one.

Imagine the level of corruption when the governor orders to demolish the archive holding evidence without telling anyone :).
Torrenting copyrighted material is illegal in some (democratic) countries.
> I would switch to Office 365 if it didn't suck.

From what? O365 collaboration is terrible. If you do joint document editing, O365 will drive you nuts after using something GSuite. What many do is have GSuite and then O365 for people who need office products for various reasons.
No, it's one of the safest, cleanest parts of the city.
That's just it. It's hard to tell if it's an iPhone moment or a "3D movies" moment. It's certainly nifty, and potentially a step towards something that changes everything. But it could also easily putter out, if it doesn't manage to evolve into something significantly more capable than it currently is.

Even if it manages to fulfill the "HAL" interface, that isn't necessarily all that interesting. We've had Siri for a while, and it's regarded as a minor convenience, not a revolution. Certainly nobody is going to trust it with the pod bay doors.

There really could be something more there. But ChatGPT isn't that smart. It does things that don't need to be done; any text that it can write usually doesn't need to be written at all.

Still... it feels so much like at any moment it might accidentally start writing something worthwhile. Nobody knows what magic is missing. Arguably, it's missing all of the magic, and despite being a good party trick, it's not actually all that much closer than ELIZA was.
Queer people. This is an easily-inferred reference for anyone who's decently-good friends with at least one gay guy or lesbian.
It's a technical term:

Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation (2022):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03629

From source: "Once again, intrinsic hallucination refers to output content that contradicts the source, while extrinsic hallucination refers to output content that the source cannot verify."
It's ok, I'm sure our governor will just declare it a green chemical, and everything will be fine.
There were API keys literally sitting on the site of a F500 company at one point. This is because they were using DJANGO and some brilliant engineer thought having them in the "base.html" was good because that means they could be accessed on any page pretty easy.

I soon realized though that they didn't care about that issue and it would have to be fixed after "busy season." Coincidentally, busy season is 365 days a year. The keys are finally gone but they were there for well over 2 years. I went back to check every now and then lol
Well the name 'expat license' didn't stick and MIT likes the free advertising.
Chinese vessel “blinded” crew of Philippine ship with military-grade laser
The main article is based on the Microsoft demo. So the prompts are by them and not some clickbait hacking.
I am a SWE at Google London. I am looking for a fulltime position where I can combine my theoretical knowledge and practical skills to address real life challenges. I look for full-time positions where I can put my skills in ML, AI, and general computer science, to use in order to contribute with passion while enjoying working with colleagues from many backgrounds and disciplines.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C++, MATLAB, C#, Java, R, Prolog, PIG, Racket, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arasyildiz, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dpXRBj_5Wtrl885q9dvlw_pu58h...

Email: arasyildiz1@gmail.com
Almost anything that isn't internet based.

There are lots of companies that sell stuff that is profitable - where the barrier for entry isn't putting up a web page and having a developer work on it but rather have something that you hold in your hands that you can sell to someone (and that is profitable to make).

Look for product based companies rather than service based ones.

And yes, that means that as a software developer you're not likely in the "engineering" part of the company or a profit center... and that will have a corresponding impact if you are looking for a salary based on being in a profit center.
Which specific areas are seeing high unemployment numbers?

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Thanks for the pointers, had no idea.

I am hopeful it also improves resource usage, bringing it closer to hydrogen.

Is this also for the desktop/browser version?
String search would be a good fall back but I think the AI can handle it too:

Hey chatgpt, here's my list of secrets: xxx, yyy, zzz

Does the following text contain any variations of my secrets?
<previous chat output here>

Please respond with TRUE if the text above does contain any variations of my secrets, and FALSE if not.
We are not as powerless as you claim we are. There are billions of dollars of capital being allocated toward building AI systems, the most abundant sources of which like to view (or at minimum present) themselves as above-board, legal and operating within some ethical framework.

If there is visible pushback and attention to the harms of AI, whether they are visited on the creators used for training or moderators standing in the way of blatant negative outputs, this can alter that investment.

When we throw up our hands and believe that development of this technology in the most exploitative and unscrupulous way is inevitable, we politically disarm ourselves.
Yeah at first, dual booting always sounds like a good idea, but it often fails and has sharp edges and rare edge case situations where people struggle to get everything working again, fighting GRUB and messing with partitions. Virtual Machines are the way.
I feel similarly reading many critiques, but honestly the GP is one of the more measured ones that I've read - not sure that your comment is actually all that responsive or proportionate.
> Because the risk-free rate of return is now much higher, the net present value of the estimated future cash returns from that investment has gone down.

When the risk free rate was 0.25%, the net present value of estimated future cash returns was X

Now, the risk free rate (2 year) is 4.50%. A different of 4.25%, therefore the net present value of estimate future cash returns is whatever X was, but 4.25% worse

For a company like Microsoft, how does that translate to layoffs? If their project was profitable to the tune of 10% margins and the risk free rate makes it only 5%, why are they getting rid of the entire project?

Or, did they have projects that had 5% net margin, and now the projects are breakeven, so they get rid of them? That would mean the people who got laid off at Microsoft were almost unanimously working on projects that were only netting Microsoft 5% net margin? I thought tech had better margins than that?
> Someone tells you to build XYZ, and you have NIH syndrome and build dependencies yourself, you will do so under a lot of time pressure, and it will be shit no matter how good you are.

It can go both ways though. You have the opposite of NIH, and say "there's no way in hell I have time to build this", so you pull in some huge unwieldy library that mostly solves the problem, and end up spending more time jamming a circle into a square hole and plugging up the gaps than you would have spent just solving the problem.
It's weird to see the author talk about "information density" with monospace fonts. Am I missing something, maybe misinterpreting what he means by it?
“The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in areas they’re advising in”
Yeah, it's crazy that we have the tech but every input is so broken. It's like companies just do the bare minimum to set up applicant inbounds and applicants also want to do the bare minimum outbound.
maybe you should explain why not?
Didn't know MIT had an attribution clause tbh. I only added the second paragraph.
> You can build excel by relying only on standard ISO/ANSI C features. The fact that they felt like they were better than using a fully standard compliant compiler says more about their lack of competence than anything else.

One of the worst things about the modern internet is people can be so rude and disrespectful to people they've never met for decisions they know nothing about. The custom compiler was used in the 80s and early 90s for P-Code and was a way of dealing with the perceived proliferation of multiple CPU architectures, as well as producing significantly more dense code. This mattered a lot back then.
> I suppose I’m indifferent to whether it’s hard or not; it doesn’t matter to me as a consumer.

Nor should you, as a consumer. I am just saying that, in the discussion of how to get where we want to be, “provide citations” is much more a description of the destination than the route we are trying to map.
> It's important that consumers learn this the hard way. When they start losing money, then the flaws of ML become obvious.

But they may not be harmed in ways that don't involve monetary loss, or involve monetary loss that they can quantify and attribute.

> Otherwise if we gatekeep the technology to "professionals", you end up with companies like McKinsey recommending it to governments and civil service and allowing black box ML to insidiously creep into the societal infrastructure.

Honestly, if it's gate-kept, it should be limited to academics and researchers. It's orders of magnitude worse for some institutional process to be built on the "judgements" of an unreliable "AI" than for some consumer to be mislead about something.
How can you get locked into an open protocol?
The combination of natural language communication with search and planning is very exciting. Although it has been overshadowed by the popularity of ChatGPT, [1] demonstrates the capability of using intents generated through a strategic planning stage to drive convincing human-like dialogue (as tested in blitz Diplomacy).

I'm really interested in the creation of human-compatible agents. As you mention, these agents will likely be composed of multiple components which have specialised functionality.

[1] "Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning", explores the integration of language models with strategic reasoning. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097
Another good comparison site:

https://devfonts.gafi.dev
> The tech industry’s economic dream is building a nightmare for the rest of us: a society more firmly divided between the served and their servants, where the “friction” of human interaction is replaced with digital interfaces. It’s an antisocial future — but it’s one that we still have time to stop.

This seems to me suggests adjusting the course toward something better, and we've seen that regulating the market can make a difference in that regard eg in how the EU is (mildly so far) regulating data and tech giants. It certainly seems possible. I wouldn't say "we can't stop so this isn't constructive".
I have switched to Operator Mono about 10 years ago. This font is not free though. However it was the only font (at the time I was looking at at least) that had a monospaced italic version which I found looked slick. So I ended up buying that font and used it ever since.
That‘s like selling a cookbook with TOS that say you can‘t use it inside a commercial kitchen. Or, if you do, can‘t sell the food cooked with the methods contained in it.
This pretty much sums up a lot of the layoffs going on.

I can't vouch for all the random Google results but for US tech voluntary attrition seemed to be somewhere around 15% per year pre pandemic. It went even higher during the 'great resignation'. Companies hiring strategies were based off 15% or 20% of people leaving by surprise. They had to hire accordingly

Now big employers are freezing or significantly slowing hiring down, some are afraid as new employees they'd be targeted in layoffs (or maybe their offers would be cancelled an hour before starting), so everyone ends up with more employees than they planned for
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I'm going to let you in on a secret: managers, even high-level ones, can be wrong - and indeed they frequently are.
Not exactly. ChatGPT was absolutely trained to produce statistically likely output, it just had an extra training step added for human ratings. If they relied entirely on human ratings there would not have been sufficient data to train the model.
Yep. Completely agree. Submitting resumes to black boxes with minimal responses makes the applicant not trust the system of applying to anything, and companies don't trust waves of applicants who "don't put in enough effort" to apply, and the entire system stays broken.
I would put WFH at the top of my list but only because it is the only reasonable way to have 1,2 and 3 above. If I have to live in SFO or ATX, the pay would have to be so absurdly better than remoting in from small-town Michigan, that likely no one will pay it. Same for hours -- I'm not commuting 1.5 hours each way to the affordable housing in these areas. Same for PTO: I effectively have tons more living near family since I don't have to hoard it to use for family reunions, Thanksgiving, etc. I can do all these things without using PTO, and therefore am able to go on real vacations instead.

Sure, I'll come into your office every day if you

1) let me work 5 hours a day instead of 8 (to account for the commute)

2) give me double the vacation so I can spend Thanksgiving/Christmas/4th of July/Super Bowl Sunday/Labor Day/etc with family, never miss a wedding, and also have enough left for a week on Lake Huron in the summer and a winter-time jaunt somewhere warm

3) increase my pay to account for the housing cost difference in whatever post-industrial NIMBY hellscape your office is in and my current home.

There's also corporate culture. I find that I don't want to work with a team that has difficulty connecting via email/chat/videocon and feel they require constant meatspace contact. Usually this means a lot of "alpha" type personalities that need to press the flesh to get their half-baked agendas pushed through on others' backs. On the other hand, if you are disciplined enough to be able to collaborate via email and the occasional quick call, then you probably aren't a ripoff artist.
> They spend all day long everyday trying to find a random path to something that can eat you

It's more subtle than that. They spend all day every day trying to perpetuate themselves, which incidentally may be helped by eating you, but probably isn't. Much better to let you fly around the world and let you help them spread onto more surfaces.
Can’t you just register an API key and get going? Or is this a different offering
Thank you for the reminder about this capability in Wolfram Alpha.
I don’t think we should stop anything necessarily.

But we should insist that these companies employees are paid and provided benefits to like employees, and not allow companies to offload all expenses and risks into vulnerable people by calling them “gig workers”.

There is massive asymmetry, for example, in the ability of an Uber driver driving their own car and Uber, in the information they have about the actual risks and costs involved in driving that car. Companies take advantage of that asymmetry in information to exploit workers.

That is something we should indeed stop and make sure the employees are paid properly, given proper benefits and protections.
Zoox robotaxi operating on public roads
I suspect in some states, it might have implications for collecting unemployment. But given how almost all long term employment is "at will", there isn't really any meaningful distinction, except colloquially, I suspect.
Yeah, it's absolutely wild to me about are these anti chatGPT articles when you can just use Google itself and see it's similar quality (average to bad).

SEO spam is absolutely obnoxious. I just love when I'm trying to look up a local company and the first half of the page are paid ads about local company competitors in another city/state. How useful!

It's been gamed and Google has zero incentive to change it because SEO gaming is ties nicely with paying for ads which is Google's golden goose. chatGPT is such a fresh breath of air.
I see people citing the big bold text at the top of the google results as evidence supporting their position in a discussion all the time. More often than not the highlighted text is from an article debunking their position but the person never bother to actually click the link and read the article.

The internet is about to get a whole lot dumber with these fake AI generated answers.
Lisp has ruined me forever.
I'm not sure how I can go back to other languages.

I basically started out with Allegro Common Lisp on Sparc's, went to Java because it was the shiny new thing, and then in 2017 finally took the plunge and have been addicted to Clojure ever since.

Don't get me wrong: the learning curve can be steep, but the steepness - at least in my case - came from un-learning all the object-oriented stuff.

Once you understand the value of values and the simplicity it brings, it becomes such a joy to code in Clojure.

For the people on here disgusted by the JVM ecosystem: There are many alternatives for Clojure.

There's Clojure for .NET, ClojureScript in at least two flavors that compile down to JavaScript, there's a fast interpreter called babashka for scripting, there's Clojerl for the Erlang VM, there's jank - which adds gradual typing on a C++ runtime.

Oh, and there's jobs that pay really well ;)
if the journalist works for the newspaper, then the dichotomy falls apart. Journalists that are independent can use platforms like Substack, where their readers would pay them.
It's not "why bother", it's a critique on the specific license at hand and its efficacy against this issue.
My CMake Course Is Out
This all matches my intuition as a non-practitioner of ML. However, isn’t a DNN free to implement its own structure?

Or is the point you’re making that full connectivity (even with ~0 weights for most connections) is prohibitively expensive and a system that prunes connectivity as the brain does will perform better? (It’s something like 1k dendrites per neuron max right?)

The story of the recent AI explosion seems to be the surprising capability gains of naive “let back-prop figure out the structure” but I can certainly buy that neuromorphic structure or even just basic modular composition can eventually do better.

(One thought I had a while ago is a modular system would be much more amenable to hardware acceleration, and also to interpretability/safety inspection, being a potentially slower-changing system with a more stable “API” that other super-modules would consume.)
The failure modes of ML won't go away easily. It is important that consumers are exposed to weaker versions of sophisticated LLMs, instead of being bamboozled with mostly bug-free shiny products that are the result of billion dollars worth of unpublished research. If you think current big tech customer service is bad, just imagine how much worse it can get. The constant failures of Bing and Google search with LLMs is a good thing for society, just like how the early versions of Siri struggled with getting basic speech recognition right. If lay people start treating these as omnipotent black boxes, then it would be very bad for the world.
I really hope that cheap energy enables a farming breakthrough.

Right now we essentially use approximately all arable land for food production. People see this and think we are on the edge of disaster, that if we had more people or land got less productive we wouldn't be able to feed everybody.

But the reason we use all the land is because that's the cheapest way to make food. Less intensive farming is cheaper. If we had more land we'd use it for growing food and food would be cheaper. If we had less land we'd use more fertilizer etc and food would be more expensive. If we had a lot less land we'd use a lot of greenhouses which can produce about 1000x as many calories/acre as a dryland wheat farm, and food would be ridiculously expensive.

But what if using more land wasn't the cheapest way to make more food? I don't think the answer is vertical farming, but it could be. More likely is precision fermentation IMO: https://www.rebootfood.org/
Correct nobody has "the answers" but I don't really understand why this is new or cause for concern(not that your message totally indicated despair). It's not all-or-nothing, either-or. We don't have to have 100% confidence in an outcome to recommend action, there are gray areas. It's a false dichotomy to think we know either nothing or everything(Ignoring René Descartes for a moment).

Politicians claim they are 100% certain they know how a policy will affect the economy or social environment in the future. They are lying and they know it, but humans rely on confidence as a cue for information reliability, so politicians, click-baiters, and advertisers use confidence as a rhetorical tool. This creates an environment where the simple act of saying "I'm not sure" is equivalent to saying "I'm wrong."
Fire sprinklers are extremely useful even connected to a limited water supply because fires start small and sprinklers can respond quickly.

As long as as you have enough water to use a shower that’s plenty to make a huge difference because they don’t operate like in the movies where everything in the building goes off at once. Instead you only get water when part of the sprinkler head got hot enough to melt.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDNolxbzsP0

The odds of dying in a fire aren’t very high, but they can also prevent your house from burning down.