skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have API glue jobs, they take a request and then manually maps it to an API. It is basically the mental version of factory work, it is obvious that most of those jobs would disappear the instant we had good NLP. Human calculator jobs disappeared when we got artificial calculators, now human language processors will disappear since we have artificial language processors.
I think Chomsky is totally wrong on the current issue (and much else), but he did foundational work in linguistics and TCS half a century ago.

What did Scott Aaronson contribute of comparable impact?
I did not see a problem with Hinton's argument here - perhaps you would care to expand?

If we are evaluating LLM's purely on outcome alone, it seems only fair to compare them to humans that don't have fully functioning cognitive capabilities. We wouldn't discredit a schizophrenic person that hallucinates, we know that this person can also see reality for what it is, most of the time. I just don't think that finding absurd examples, usually after careful prompting, is a slam dunk against LLM's at all.
I really would disagree on how the internet was better, sure you could find a few people that were saints that just relesed things for free, but the internet back then was really barren and it was very slow to see new releases of said content and the only alternative was to pirate.

Do I wish we had better money option back in the day? Yes.
Most importantly I wish another model of how content is stored was implemented to ensure maximum diversity of said content, like specialized sites for different types of video content.
"And the west for having them" - nope. Thats a propaganda line by the US goverment, and lately by the EU right wingers. There are much better reasons to despise the West than the percieved "freedom" they have. Like their actual acts of genocides and exploitation.
The only intent taking place here, is someone placing a process under automatic control. That's it. If I make a bot that posts random comments and it offends you, then I'm a bit responsible, but also you've gotten offended by a random comment.
Another term is “confabulation” — which has also been used to explain human linguistic reasoning
> I just think it's completely unrealistic on multiple fronts:

Somehow, it's always unrealistic, and somehow, these scenarios always repeat.

> it's a tiny fraction of the money,

No, allowing people to steal is a moral hazard no matter how much money it is.

Suppose I steal a $1000 TV from WalMart, and use the argument that this is a tiny fraction of their profits. No one would buy that.

So why should we buy that when it's orders of magnitude more money?
Think of it this way: They create plausible patterns of language that seem (to humans) similar to human-generated language. That is what they are "good at".

Imagine an "AI" that "knows" about rhyme and meter and can generate a seemingly infinite collection of catchy songs that follow the II V I chord progression, only the sequence of words doesn't necessarily make any sense.

LLMs are a more powerful version of that kind of thing that does put the words in a sequence that feels like natural human language. Since they are trained on information, the sequences chosen often seem informational, even though they are just patterns. It's really a lot like autocomplete.

In other words, a lot of useful information may accidentally be encoded into the model, but so is a lot of stuff that looks/feels similar but is nonsense.
A risk officer was missing for almost a year. Would be interesting to know what reasons prompted the departure of the previous Chief Risk Officer. Disagreement with the bank direction on risk?

"Silicon Valley Bank had no official chief risk officer for 8 months while the VC market was spiraling" - https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-chief-ris...
Video of the JWST at the Lagrange point taken from Earth
What alternative medications are people finding effective and smooth transitions for real ADHD users who can’t deal with this instability anymore?
While I agree with you on the price hike, you can always ask Standard Notes for a discounted subscription if you mail them directly or see my username.
> Notice the risk free rate is based on short term bonds. Those are not as sensitive to rate changes as they regularly reach maturity and you roll them over.

That is not why they are less sensitive to interest rates. They are less sensitive to interest rates because the value of a bond (assuming no coupon) is (whatever you get paid at maturity)^((1+rate)^(-time to maturity)). The sensitivity to rates increases exponentially with the time!

If you buy 30-year bonds, hold them to maturity then roll them over, and don’t mark to market, you are just taking the graph of your returns and heavily smoothing it. And the smoothing obscures a fascinating thing about bonds: they’re sensitive to rates both ways. When rates go up, existing bonds lose present value immediately, but they start to gain present value at the new higher rate forever, or at least until the next rate change or until you sell them or let them mature without rolling them over.

If you want to do an honest HTM forecast of SVB’s position, you need to project everything out to the same future time, say 10 years. So you’re looking at SVB’s portfolio, with a reasonable expectation (with error bars or confidence intervals) of returns over 10 years, in 2033 dollars. In this model, the value of SVB’s 10-year bonds didn’t change, but the value of its liabilities exploded: it needs to pay a lot more interest on its interest-bearing deposits, and customers (I assume) are a lot more likely to demand interest when rates are high.
Tbh I'd pay more for them than a fabrgé egg. I grew up in Sweden, eating these eggs every easter.
And the thing is, AFAICT there is no “guy who PayPal’d $10 and got his accounts frozen”, so if there’s no outcry, if people like me dismiss it, that might be because it didn’t happen.

The Deputy Minister of Finance said they had that power.

And instead of being pissed your government can lock your bank account down with no evidence, no trial, no ability to defend yourself and your response is “you bought into the ‘freedunb!’ narrative.

Yikes.
How about a petition to boycott all companies that sign this petition ?
The failure to make remote work for facebook where it has worked for many companies is a grim sign that they might not be the right company to build the metaverse.
Show HN: GeoTab – new tab extension to explore the world!
Em-dashes add a bit of a pause. And having them longer and taking a bit more of horizontal space makes it more intuitive. They also break a sentence into parts. Having them easily distinguishable helps navigate text and reduces overhead. Just like periods or paragraph breaks help you see parts of a text, or syntax highlighting helps you see lexemes in a program.

Using just one dash for everything will be readable in a text message or comment. But not in a (complicated) book, because there the benefit of these small things gets multiplied by the scale of the book.
Thats so myopically HN... "I don't care about it, so it's probably not important and dumb anyway lol"
I would not assume it is doublethink. People think differently than what they say all the time.
> You literally couldn’t get GPT to come up with a single novelty if you tried

That's an interesting claim I don't know how to measure.

>> Hey, ChatGPT, could you invent five words that mean hungry?

> Sure, here are five words that mean hungry:

> 1. Cravacious

> 2. Rumble-hungry

> 3. Chewyemptiness

> 4. Famishy

> 5. Voracihunger

Is that novel? I don't know. It feels a lot like the word games Lewis Carroll or Roald Dahl played, though.
I am ok with these ads. They don’t track you and they make sense in this context. I also don’t mind kiteboarding ads on a kiteboarding site. They are actually useful there. What I don’t like is ads that make no sense in the context of the site and are powered by massive data collection.
Your review is a drop in the bucket. It helps the company far more than it helps their customers. Unless it's negative, that is.
The Turing test is a game. You can pass the Turing test while I cannot. It is not an universal result except if "everyone" in the planet don't pass it. This is not to say that all this is super interesting and we are living in interesting times.

Just to add some science fiction to the discussion: what if we are in an AI/human flippening moment? Where humans used tools for million years and orchestrated the goals while now we are moving to being more like a tools, in the sense that we are necessary some times but completely unnecesary in others.
Ask HN: What do you think of YC asking for SVB depositors to be made whole?
Best paid investment - my Jetbrains subscription has easily returned many multiples in saved time when working with code.

Best free investment - A tie between MDN, the official Python docs, open source code on github, and youtube. It's pretty ridiculous that one can get a six-figure career just by taking the time to read and understand stuff that's freely available.

Worst "investment " - crypto for sure
I think, Chomsky's point is that certainty and negativity are two related concepts presupposing each other, forming the very basis of conceptuality as we know it (or, maybe better: how it is relevant for us). Stochastic probability is neither of this, nor does it promise to lead towards this.
It's pretty bad because Chomsky provided only two examples of things ChatGPT cannot do - even implying its underlying architecture could not ever do that -, and it's obvious that neither he, his coauthors or the editors at the NYT bothered to fact check these assertions. I would bet that Chomsky himself has never played around with ChatGPT itself.
TBH the C64's colors look a lot more saturated to me in real life than on emulators. I guess it depends on the monitor or TV set you use, but even the Commodore monitor had a knob to turn up saturation, so IMO it doesn't really make all that much sense to claim that "the C64 colors were these exact colors".
An LLM can get a query right one time, wrong another.

You might want to check your wife's teeth :)
> Even very poor Americans who would literally have a much higher standard of living under socialism are taught to despise it.

Are you sure about that? The very poorest Americans likely have higher living standards than you think. Homelessness due to mental illness or drug abuse is a separate population, I mean working poor.

What socialist system would you like to hold up as an example?
Imagine seeing your job role on LinkedIn – for up to $90K more than you make
> depositors get back 100% up to the FDIC limit

Some people, including YC CEO, argue that taxpayers should drop the "up to FDIC limit" part.

I've took another look at out conversation and you didn't do that. I was arguing against position you didn't hold. Sorry for that.
I don’t see anything in my copy of the constitution about subsidizing demand deposits.
I love the idea! I spend weeks making countless minor tweaks to my resume until I finally land a new job, and I hate employers who ask for, or even require, a cover letter. I'm a fairly sincere person and I hate writing cover letters because it feels like kissing ass for a corporation I really don't give a crap about. Letting AI do that job for me sounds like a great idea. Besides, it won't be long before the majority of job applicants start using AI to generate personalized cover letters, effectively making cover letters worthless.

On the other hand, I dread knowing that recruiters are also using these AI generators to write introductory messages. It used to be easy to filter out the worthless recruiters, the majority of them it's super obvious they didn't read your resume or profile. "I'm super impressed by your experience!" Uh huh. But now, AI can generate an introductory message which takes every detail of my skills and experience into account. So now, if a recruiter contacts me and they reference one or two details in my resume, I have to wonder if it was an actually competent recruiter or just an AI.
Your premise has a hole in it. The maximum is not “100% of the corporate assets” at all.

Regulation doesn’t just apply to the corporate entity it applies to the actual humans involved.

You can have regulations that require those humans to provide regular documents to the government with severe penalties for falsifying them, you can require licensing and training and all sorts of things.

Of course criminal prosecution is a type of regulation. It’s also a standard counterpart to run of the mill corporate regulations that creates incentives for people to follow regulations. People have kids and families and most certainly respond to incentives.

You can threaten those humans with loss of everything they own and their own personal feeedom.

Try running an airline without any licensing and see if shutting down the airline is the maximum consequence . Good luck with that.

Regulations have teeth. The government of course can do more than just wipe out a company.
RFCs and Review Councils
I doubt it, I have met many people from such countries and far from hating the West for having liberties, they despite that the West wraps their resource extraction, geopolitical interests and exploitation as delivering liberties for domestic consumption.

The West has directly supported the overthrow of a fair number of rather progressive leaders, at least by world scale.
Most implementations of capitalism isn't USA though, there are plenty of successful examples in the world today that doesn't have these problems.
I kind of disagree,although it'll all be on case by case basis.

First, in my mind, the original principle of regulation IS the individuals saying "well, THAT sucked... Let's not do THAT again". Otherwise everybody has to make a mistake for themselves and that's inefficient. We need to learn as a society and across generations.

Second, modern life is complex and we need to divide and conquer. Most of us live in Interconnected society strongly dependent on competent work by others. There are some things we should take for granted. In this particular case, if I put basic cash into a basic deposit account that's not designed to give me high yield or differentiated exposure or whatever, then I want regulations and a system to make it so.

There are 10,000% too many regulations that are insufficiently examined and overly prescriptive out there.

But I don't agree that depositors should always pay cost because we are all depositors and we can't all always manage that risk individually and I think we as society mostly said, this is a risk that pertains to all and we should manage it holistically as such.
Original tweet:

https://twitter.com/knguyenpoetry/status/1633216630351179780
https://archive.is/r0UCa
Sure, I haven't said otherwise. But if you imagine a capitalistic system, isn't free markets a part of it? And what other economic systems than capitalism do you imagine having free markets? Hence the "is a part of" part of my comment.
The federal government should provide electronic money accounts with capabilities to perform transfers as infrastructure. Perhaps this will cause some richer people to politically support this.
I think that's the central meaning, but it's used for space before punctuation as well (just a random reference https://www.lass-andere-schreiben.de/blog/kategorie/schreibe...)
Advanced Approaches Capital Framework Implementation
I saw an ad on FB for this a couple months back. I've been vegan for 20 years and have no interest in it
Is clicking on a link really “hacking”?

> The accounting lead mistakenly shared a link with edit access in a public channel in discord. The hacker gained edit role via the link.
That’s also totally wrong. What do you think the financial difference between originating a loan and buying a bond is? You pay out a principal sum, then (as long as the borrower is creditworthy) you get back the principal and interest.

Unless you only make floating rate loans (which is extremely rare outside of revolving lines like credit cards) then you have exactly the same duration risk problems and you’re actually exposed to much greater credit risk with a loan than you are with a government bond.
Graphs of (quantitative) Qualities? Relationships? A thesaurus? A metaphor? Your imagination?
Are you saying it was great up until ~1995? The web has had a large commercial component for over two decades, and it was very small before then.
The government already solved this with the FDIC deposit insurance, and it is funded by the banks.

"...The FDIC is not supported by public funds; member banks' insurance dues are its primary source of funding. When dues and the proceeds of bank liquidations are insufficient, it can borrow from the federal government, or issue debt through the Federal Financing Bank on terms that the bank decides." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Deposit_Insurance_Corp...
I think they're more than that, but I also think they're bullshit generators. Informed bullshit generators even.

Which is quite useful to do some tasks: writing fiction (it now wrote at least 6 characters in multiple rpg campaigns I participate in) and probably others (I used it to write tests data, but in fine I had to revalidate it by hand. Could do better.)

I do not see LLMs be more than that in the near future though. More informed, more accurate bullshit generators? Yes probably.

And I'm not saying it isn't impressive and very close to human behavior. I still think we're missing a part in our models though, and until we find it, breakthrough will be limited to improvements on accuracy and information.
I like how you put it.

Its like the time meta did with "Libra", like you take a concept that's flying right now in the community and you say "oh. How can we exploit this by shoving ourselves in the middle"
Moving through text using Cmd + Left/Right arrow will jump over two words if there’s an em dash between them with no spaces. As a frequent em dash user that was very annoying, so I switched to adding spaces — to hell with the APA.
Excess mortality still looks substantially higher in Sweden than in Norway and Denmark (though not Finland) in this OWID data set, I wonder why the difference?

- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-...
People made content because they wanted to, and it
was generally better quality than the corporate
blogspam we have now.

I miss the old days too. And even now that independently-made, non-ad-supported content is what I prefer most. Spent a lot of years creating it myself.

But let's not be naive. Not all art or journalism can be created that way.

There is a lot of stuff that just doesn't happen unless somebody is working on it full-time. And since people need money to live, the people making that stuff need money.

For example, imagine the sorts of investigative journalism where somebody might spend months or years researching a story. One that might not even pan out. That's not something you can realistically do, part-time, for free, while earning a living doing something else as your day job.

Expecting everything to be free, and also ad-free, because it was created by some hobbyist in their spare time while they do something else for a living severely restricts the amount of people who can create and the types of things that can be created.
When Your Job Steals Your Hobby
"Socialism" has become a dirty word in the US largely due to historical reasons involving the cold war.

As a result its definition in the minds of Americans is very often something completely different than the actual definition.

Basically it's just the evolution of language. They're two different words now, depending which side of the Atlantic you're on.
The thing I don’t get is why go to work for privacy when I can get that at home in my own office?

I am interested to see how work habits change and evolve. For me personally mostly working from home and then heading in to something of an open office with conference rooms is ideal because on the in-office day the only reason for me to be there is peer collaboration anyway so I wouldn’t need an office.
Wonder what Sacks will say. He was saying there should be more regulation on All In

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja...
You’re missing the forest for the trees.

The government had the power to do it. No trial, no evidence, nothing but the police putting you on a list (as per the Deputy Minister of Finance).

That alone should scare you.
This inspired me to see if Dall-E could riff on the concept. I give you the Fabergé Fried Egg:

https://twitter.com/andybak/status/1634904354632376321?s=20
It was. You're not missing anything.
Yeah, but it was also very much a thing for academics to play around with. Commercialization democratized the internet and let normal people access it. That usually makes it more crowded and degrades peak quality.

And, to be honest, I much prefer today's internet and technology with all the flaws to what was there in the 90ies. Commercialization and turning it into a mass market is what drove innovation.
Isn't the collective good payment enough for these tasks?

You wouldn't ask to be paid for picking up a piece of litter off the floor.

These companies are a part of society, it's people all the way down who are being helped by this.
Software 2.0 development in complex applications like Autonomous Vehicles
Alaska volcano observatory daily update
They did put money on a "sure bet", bonds and mortgage backed securities. Due to the fuckery with interest rates, those sure bets were suddenly unfavorable (at least if you have to cash them in early, which they did). The fact that stocks were sold tells me they knew about this going belly up eventually.
It’s how literally every bank has worked for all of time. They have to cover interest you are payed for keeping your money at the bank. Where do you think that money comes from? They take the money people deposit, and invest it, either through loans to others, or through other investment vehicles, like treasury bonds in this case. When you put your money in a bank, you are giving them permission to reinvest it somehow. If you just want your money to sit there, your only option is to start stuffing wads of bills under your mattress.
Governments and police have all sorts of powers. Freezing bank accounts pending investigation is not particularly outlandish (look at all the “I may have done some money laundering… why are my accounts locked?” threads that pop up in relation to cryptocurrency on Reddit)

The theoretical but non-exercised power to put a temporary freeze on the bank account of someone contributing to a blockade which is being dismantled under the provisions of a national emergency, with both democratic and judicial oversight …

Yeah there are bigger things to get worked up about. I would expect national emergency legislation to come with all sorts of powers, and only the appropriate ones to be exercised, with Parliamentary and democratic accountability down the line for those doing the exercising.

Yikes indeed, that people are surprised by the availability of financial interventions available to governments, in extremis.
In a couple places grok is typoed as gork
A deposit creates a liability for the bank. It also creates an asset that can be used to generate a return. It also creates various operational costs.

The way those three things play out the more likely it is for a depositor to suddenly ask for a lot or all his money back the more risky it is for the bank. Both in terms of creating a bank run and just in terms of losing money on the relationship.
In several significant computer typography systems, the notation for an en dash is a doubled hyphen (--), and for an em dash a tripled one (---). Notably LaTeX and Markdown (Pandoc flavoured: <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html>).