skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would go even further. People are not even that advanced stochastic parrots. In the similar task, we failed just as spectacularly as the GPT-4 did right now. Rust, Zig, Julia, Kotlin, and dozens smaller "new" languages fail to bear a smear of originality in them. Their authors remixed old ideas in different proportions and got different grammars as a result.

It wasn’t an originality contest, so there’s at least one non-sequitur in that statement. Everyone can create an original syntax, given modern character sets and formatting abilities. The key issue with that is the amount of developers who want to learn and switch between these is low.
The fact that it adapts it state to fit the data isn't interesting in itself. An image recognition system forms a lot of macro structures around shapes or different logical parts of the image. Similarly an LLM forms a lot of macro structures around different kinds of text structures or words, including chess game series or song compositions or programming language tutorials. It is exactly the same kind of structures, just that some thinks those structures are sign of intelligence when they are applied to texts.

Can such macro structures model intelligence in theory? Yes. But as we see in practice they aren't very logical. For example in this article we see that its markov chain didn't have enough programming language descriptions, so it veered into printing brace scoped code when it said the language had whitespace based scoping. Similarly in popular puzzles, just change the words around and it will start printing nonsense since it cares about what words you use and not what those words mean.

Edit: Point is that existence of such structures doesn't make a model smart. You'd need to prove that these structures are smarter than before.
I don't know who is reading this who can help. If you know someone closer to the fire, pass this along.

OpenAI -- its people, its buildings, its servers -- need nation-state level protection. This is an ICBM you could put on a thumb drive -- in fact, it's far worse than a loose nuke, because a nuclear weapon has a geographically limited range.

There need to be tanks and guards and, like, ten NSAs in a ring formation around this thing. At pain of x-risk, do not treat this like a consumer-facing product. This is not DoorDash.

This isn't a threat to national security. This isn't even a threat to the entire geopolitical order. This is a threat to the possibility of a geopolitical order.

OpenAI's assets -- its people, its servers, its buildings -- just became the most desirable resources on the planet. It behooves any actor with ambition to secure at least a copy, and ideally, capture at least some of the people who created it.

It doesn't matter if the threat actor is China, or Russia, extraterrestrials, or mermaids. You will find out who wants it shortly. But you know now -- you know from game theory, the body of mathematics that has kept the peace since the invention of atomic weapons -- what happens next.
In the early 1980s our family got an Apple ][+ computer and I started printing out my book reports, etc. for my 5 and 6th grade assignments. My teachers didn’t want to accept them at first thinking that I must somehow be cheating. I’m not sure what that would have involved. Maybe they thought my parents were typing writing them for me and to cover it up, they typed it so the handwriting wouldn’t be different? But it was clear from the content that I wrote them myself, so eventually they accepted it. Here I was trying to make things nicer and they just couldn’t believe it!
Isn't managing employee satisfaction part of running a business?
100% agree. It always irks me that we’re using AI to solve “problems” that don’t exist (the automation of creativity and relationships, things that make us human) while not putting as much effort into real issues facing the world today (poverty etc.)
The thesis has even finer horizontal spacing, creating a perfect centering effect of variable width line numbers, while the rest text on the same line is grid aligned. It's not something you do with a typewriter, unless you are a computer science PhD.
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Why is it called T/Roff? Because of NROFF.

Why is NROFF called NROFF? Because of RUNOFF.

Why did DEC call it RUNOFF? because there was a strong tendency to short names for commands. 6 letters in 6 bit notation fit in a 36 bit word: the Dec-10 which had runoff, had 36 bit words.

RUNOFF begat NROFF begat TROFF begat DITROFF

OFFset printing. Indirect transfer of the image to paper from a plate, which can be photo-litho exposed.

If you can control the phototypesetter, you can print at higher quality than you can type.
When we're creating something "new" -- are you positing that it isn't built on top of other ideas, being combined in new ways?
Write plugins and workflows in Golang easily
It's totally possible that humans don't do reason. It's possible that the parrot in our brain makes the decision, and then the "frontend" of our mind makes fake reasons that sound logical enough.

But it's just a possibility, and I don't find it's particularly convincing.
ChatGPT Plus is the platform, GPT4 is the model.

(ChatGPT+ allows you to specify which model you want to use.)
> then I can choose to continue renting it, or not. The decision is in my hands.

That is not implied by the term rent. Very often rentals are for a fixed amount of time. Especially for video game rentals, back when they were common.

I think rent implies you have limited control better than license does.
So it is proof that GPT4 still makes mistakes. But just one reported mistake in a very long session. And it could fix itself if prompted.
Last year, when Blake Lemoine was fired by Google for claiming his AI was sentient, a lot of people on this website sensibly noted that the danger of these chatbots was not that they were sentient, but that average people could easily be tricked into thinking that they were.

And now here we are: it seems we tech people are every bit as susceptible to this kind of thinking as the average joes we looked down on.

Actually look at this “language” that GPT-4 has written: it’s just a mishmash of features from the most commonly blogged-about existing programming languages. It has no conceptual insights, no original ideas, no taste that isn’t cribbed from one of the few languages it’s copying from.

There are cases where getting a short distillation of the mean opinion of The Internet is useful. But designing a new programming language is clearly not one of them, mostly because the chatbot is not “designing” a language—it is guessing the most likely response to a question about programming languages.
For clarity, was the "it" at hand ChatGPT or GPT-4?
Yeah Uber had this, twice actually as a private company; once with Softbank in January 2018. And then again with Coatue / a few other investors in July 2018.

There's a bit of game theory at stake, as to what you tender. You want to cash out a certain amount to diversify... but if too many people say yes, then your stake is whittled down to due to oversubscribed interest on the selling side.

You get one shot to put in for your % number, and it will either be that, or proportionately lower depending on every other eligible employee's interest in selling.

I recall the max was throttled at 50% vested shares, or something like that anyway for Uber. And you had to have a minimum number of shares vested to participate (low tens of thousands overall as I recall?)

Anyhow, I put in for the maximum both times which worked out because that % got whittled down since the tender offer was filled on both occasions (as I recall).

(P.S. Not that it matters for the story, but $40/share in July 2018 and just under $33/share in January 2018 ended up working out great compared to what happened subsequently.)
Scientists demonstrate time reflection of electromagnetic waves
It's "gesagt-getan" in German so it's a combination of two words in the order mentioned in TFA
I view colonizing Mars with anything other than robots, even if it can be done, as a pointless exercise.

And I don't see how a colony on Mars even helps with probes. We send material from Earth to Mars and then send probes from Mars? How is that more efficient? Do we even know what materials could theoretically be mined on Mars? And probes are launched with gravitational assists.
Could be a cultural thing, but can be a smart choice. A smaller dog will enjoy living in an apartment and a "limited" (from a canine view) urban life more than a bigger dog.

They're also easier to entertain, especially because many people don't know how to entertain/exhaust their dogs without getting exhausted themselves. No, you're not supposed to run marathons with your dogs. It's much easier to train them to fetch stuff like frisbees and you can sit in a chair all day for all they care.
I said other planets' moons. :)
This is my first time encounter with this particular 4-character idiom. As a Chinese person, I'm amazed by my ability to comprehend both the writing and the underlying meaning effortlessly. In China, a similar sentiment is more commonly expressed as 坚持初心 (jiān chí chū xīn).

Interestingly, this phrase has gained significance (a buzz world in politics) since Xi came to power a decade ago, that party members should remain steadfast in upholding the original mission of the Communist Party...
Fwiw, according to the WEF in 2021 1/3 of Nigerians used cryptocurrency.

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/how-common-is-cryptoc...
had the same issue with the "TenetLang" chat thread -- will have to keep that in mind.
In general I think it's better for the dog to be small if the apartment is small.

But yes, greyhounds and similar breeds are easy to satisfy: Run a few hundred meters once or twice a day and they'll sleep off the rest.
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Does Shoshikantetsu mean - Integrity without Compromise?
There has to be more genetically going on than physical dimensions alone. Boston terriers have almost identical dimensions, so much so they’re frequently mistaken for each other by people not familiar enough with either or both breeds, but don’t typically have such severe respiratory problems.

I mean I don’t generally recommend either breed unless someone is really prepared for the dog they’re signing up for—frenchies mostly for health factors, bosties mostly for the enormous energy commitment. But they’re very different breeds in a very similar exterior physical package, enough to confuse people very enamored with one or both.
I generally agree with your comment, I'll just reply to some specific points (by the way, thanks to you and to the other commenter who replied to my comment, good points all across).

> People are used to Comic Sans. That doesn't make it a good choice.

Sure. Familiarity is not a sufficient condition. I was assuming well designed fonts for reading several paragraphs.

Comic Sans is suitable (and well designed) for comics. But it is so overused everywhere that other fonts would be preferable for this - I know it seems I contradict myself since I'm also stating that familiar fonts are better, but I think there's a difference between such fonts and more neutral fonts that need to be used for several paragraphs. And I believe familiarity for the more neutral fonts can help because you don't have to "decipher" the font anymore.

> Some designs call for something that stands out in a unique way.

Indeed. I was assuming a standard web page, or a standard web app here to convey information or be functional. For such pages, I don't think it matters if the font is not exactly at the same size when rendered as when designed. The page is already going to be rendered on widely different screens and dispositions and its design should be reliant on such changes. Maybe choosing the default sans-serif font (for screens) with the default size is best for accessibility: you can be reasonably sure it will be displayed well for users with their settings.

Now, with font stacks, you can leave out the outliers and pick a font size that's not at the edge of readability.
Anthropic launches Claude, a chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Let me introduce you to the concept of Informational Warfare.
Yeah, I can corroborate this

I tried using chatgpt 3 for light research onto British occupation of Afghanistan and poppy production, I wanted to know potential books/authors which covered how long back Afghanistan might have been an exporter of poppy/opium and it ended giving me some really bad quality answers including stating that one author had actually written a book called "Opium and the kung-fu master", which is not a book at all! But an older Chinese action movie decrying the evils of opium addiction...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtHS0zJ2D8
Azures global outages have all been DNS more or less.

And AWS has had a few of those in my 13-14 years I have used them :D

Azure reliability sucks more for sure though. Especiallly networking.

Edit: us-east-1 going down disrupts most of global AWS pretty severely fwiw.
It sounds like this is providing a sandboxed wasm runtime as a service is that right?

I think in this case the landing page is lacking in technical details to the point where it’s hard to understand what the product actually is. I like the general idea of firecracker as a service and sandboxed code as a service though.

Even the webhook example doesn’t really show where scriptable fits in, I think what you’re trying to say is that the customer can write some code to integrate the product with their slack and then the service will call the customer’s code in a sandboxed environment which is how the customer can extend the product right?
Why not freeze the atmosphere into artificial comets to send the excess atmosphere to mars to terraform both at the same time?
As far as I understand, the author argues the typewriters of the era couldn't do that. I have no knowledge about what typewriters existed back then, but any criticism of that claim should also be specific to the time period and not just typewriters in general. (I find it plausible that typewriters in the 60s had the feature you describe, it's just not clear).

For the use of whiteout, for example, the date claim is much more specific in the article.
No it doesn't. It means cash is becoming more abundant/cheaper, i.e. it's scarce/expensive now compared to the future.
Failures are proof, successes are not, a broken clock is right twice a day after all
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https://archive.ph/uaesK
I don't think that the model they are using is private. You can download it[1] and run yourself. Looks like it is GPT-NeoX which was fine tuned using the open source LAION OIG dataset[2].

[1] https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/GPT-NeoXT-Chat-Base-...

[2] https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/OIG
Why is the entire company suffering? Do they need to raise funds?
I understand the idea, but I don't understand why your product is easier to use than aws lambda
Also, Stripe isn’t spending any money on this.

It’s instead become an opportunity for investors to buy lots of Stripe equity (which the cofounders are usually very stingy with—see the percentage of the company they sold during past rounds) at potentially very cheap prices since the sellers don’t get to set the price!

Stripe’s incentive to keep the price high is that it becomes the price point that employees would expect future stock vests to be awarded at. Not sure how strong an incentive that is exactly though
> According to your logic that's proof that humans don't understand anything.

Well, it's reasonable to conclude that the people who constantly making "stupid mistakes, assumptions, and biases leaps in logic" don't actually know what they are talking about.
I agree on principle, but we already know for sure it will be used as it is in advertising, politics, news reporting, and pretty much every field in which there is constant need of new tools of mass manipulation. It's probably too late.
Yeah, I find llms are really useful for taking premises you supply, and trying them out, or exploring inconsistencies in them. It's decent at the synthesis kind of creativity (mashups, remixes, etc) but it isn't smart enough yet to make really big inferential leaps that we would consider more original.
The actual PhD thesis[pdf], the topic of discussion:

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

Found here [0] with two copies archived:

* Dennis Ritchie’s personal copy [1]

* Albert Meyer’s copy [2]

[0] https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies...

[1] https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10278497...

[2] https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10279097...
In there is a note that Wolfram is working on, or at least thinking about, the big unsolved problem - useful robots. Robot manipulation in unstructured situations is still very poor. But maybe someone will figure out a way to apply newer machine learning techniques to that. Google had a research group working on that, but they haven't been heard from in years.

The approach of the large language model, where you have a huge training set of general purpose info and a small prompt for the current task, might possibly work.
I just put a little half and half in my coffee. Or have unsweetened iced tea. Or diet soda (which I should really stop having).
This makes me wonder, does Japanese have an equivalent to the Chinese concept of a chengyu?
To be honest, neither has most people here, most people working at openai, or the hypemen around AI.
The simple answer? It’s too scary and nebulous for most people to handle - so they attack and deny it.
Check out KoboldAI community, they're collaboratively finetuning and hosting GPT-J, NeoX, and now LLAMA models for free, as hobbies.
Venus has the problem of spinning the wrong direction though.

Nobody is going to want to live through either those days or those nights
I know I’m being pedantic, but that would be a low ratio.

But I understand the point being made and my pedantry just a peculiarity of English meaning having a strong word order dependence than many other languages.
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My chihuahua-pit mix loves people, and gets excited about other dogs just to try to get people introductions started. Once she’s met the other dog she loses interest and just wants to hang out and see how the humans get along. She’s clever, because she knows I don’t much like random people but she knows I like dog people.
It's funny becasue I feel exactly the same about the LLM denegrators.

It feels like you will only be happy if we are able to prove that the LLM has a soul.
> And one possibility might be that AIs could “improve themselves” to produce a single “apex intelligence” that would in a sense dominate everything else.

That's not what worries me. It's when AIs learn to distribute work to other AIs and humans. Once that starts to work, machines are going to be better at coordination than humans, simply because they have more I/O bandwidth.
I think I can argue that it's rational to take care of the most pressing issue you face in a given circumstance. I know we as humans aren't very rational, which is why for example I'm typing this message right now instead of working on a task a client wants done today.

BUT we can probably agree it's a generally good thing to focus on bigger problems before smaller ones.

It seems whether or not marijuana causes cancer is an open question: https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana...

> Whether smoking marijuana causes lung cancer, as cigarette smoking does, remains an open question.67,70 Marijuana smoke contains carcinogenic combustion products, including about 50% more benzoprene and 75% more benzanthracene (and more phenols, vinyl chlorides, nitrosamines, reactive oxygen species) than cigarette smoke.67 Because of how it is typically smoked (deeper inhale, held for longer), marijuana smoking leads to four times the deposition of tar compared to cigarette smoking.71 However, while a few small, uncontrolled studies have suggested that heavy, regular marijuana smoking could increase risk for respiratory cancers, well-designed population studies have failed to find an increased risk of lung cancer associated with marijuana use

Meanwhile, alcohol kills 74,000 people each year in Germany https://movendi.ngo/news/2019/04/18/study-germany-has-an-alc... and costs the country 40,000,000 euro for healthcare costs.

Yet a cursory look at your comment and submission history finds nothing on the topic of this (compared to weed) HUGE killer in Germany. Maybe you're taking up the fight somewhere else, but I think, just like I'm not going to finish this comment and get right back to work, you probably are laser-focusing on this objectively minor health issue (weed usage) for whatever reason, perhaps reefer-madness propaganda? I'm not sure, I'm curious why you think it's an issue compared to something like alcohol, that actually kills lots of people in Germany (I couldn't find any statistics tracking how many people
are killed each year in relation to weed in Germany, but my understanding of the drug is that the number should be 0 in terms of actual overdose).
If you work for a decent sized company then shady extensions for captcha solvers are no go anyway.

Most captcha problems are with public vpn providers whose ips are blacklisted.

Hard to tell from OP information.
> Did I say move it to production?

It was implied in your comment.

The point of C2rust is that the artifacts it generates are extremely transient, they don’t get modified they get replaced and if the rustified version is awkward or hard to grok you just get the C version from
Git to validate your understanding, because it’s the exact same thing.
No. Advertising and the need to drive engagement has made the world worse.

At the root of most evil in the western world is advertising, it is just hidden well because it is good at moving the blame to, e.g, tech.

Also those movements were there before tech.
I wouldn’t say 100%. As a former number theorist-turned-SWE I’ve done a bit of tinkering applying ideas from basic p-adic analysis to low-level computing: https://kevinventullo.com/2020/12/21/2-adic-logarithms-and-f...

Nothing too earth-shattering but it’s plausible something generally useful could come out of it.
I would think that this is due to the need to raise money for the final product?
Aviation pro here… I am not so sure that Zipline does.
https://archive.today/L7WXa
Nobody can afford children. Or maybe everybody?

In most western societies there is now a totally overblown standard of what you are supposed to provide to a child. Yes, it's good to talk about what children need or even to argue what is optimal. But the best you can do is all you can do.

My personal opinion: If you feel an honest need for children and have the opportunity, don't wait. Maybe there are some reasonable caveats or reasons to wait a few years, but not many. People with a desire to have children (some people like me don't have it) won't be much happier without having at least tried than in a "suboptimal" situation after becoming parents.
Two thoughts:

The AI will help us build the hardware faster

The collapse of the knowledge and service economy will cut into taxes faster than any other sector. This will incite governments to do something very fast.
I feel it is more like "stick to your initial intention"
Has there been any advancement towards showing that it does? 10 years ago there was nothing, I know.

The person you're replying too is clearly just spreading FUD and probably has never partaken in their live - sad!