skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree, but I think the framing is overly pejorative and makes the likelihood of this outcome seem more tenuous than it really is. We do lots of things to help others because they make us feel nice. "Mothers and Others" by Sarah Hrdy argues that this tendency isn't just a fluke or a game-theoretic equilibrium of some kind between fundamentally self-interested agents, it's an ancient and deeply ingrained aspect of human nature.

The thought of living in a constructed world that exists by the grace of a single human owner of a super-powerful AGI is distasteful, of course, especially if the human owner uses their power to impose some of their own opinions about how people should think and behave. Becoming dependent on AGI is probably inevitable at some point, but I don't see that as so different from the status quo. We're already dependent on systems created by other humans that are so complex and sophisticated that no individual can grok them all.

I guess I would like to think that we will move past any initial impulse that the owner of the AGI feels to control other humans. We will presumably change so much that old ideas about how we should think and behave will seem irrelevant and quaint. And the AGI, which presumably will have the social engineering superpower, will hopefully point out inconsistencies between the owner's desire to control human thought and behavior and their desire for humans to live their best lives. Hopefully.
"I stole every lick I ever played. All my stuff is stolen from somebody else. I'm not a creator, I'm an accumulator." - Keith Richards, Rolling Stone Magazine, April 15, 2010 issue.
You don't have to use Steam, there is at least GOG which is much better in a number of ways. Refunds not tied to playtime but available for 30 days and most games (almost all currently but they have said they will start to sell DRMed online-focused games) work fully offline with no activation. They have a bunch of quality games and you can support developers who don't insist on using abusive practices. There are still some issues with obnoxious DLC practices but overall it much better. Some specific games may only be available on Steam but in general it is not at all necessary to use it. Unfortunately, besides GOG there are only a few other tiny DRM-free stores. Itch isn't that tiny but isn't super practical as a main game store (lots of junk, hard to find the quality stuff) and also isn't fully DRM-free, doesn't obviously label games the do have DRM, and each developer can decide to issue refunds or not so you can't rely on anything. The more money people spend on DRM-free games the more options there will be.
Added you to the article! Neat stuff, you were ahead :)
I just want its capabilities to be accurately advertised.

A lot of people are assigning it capabilities it doesn't really have.
> How is this better than just having a human do the job?

The cynical take is quite clearly: "Because sales people can sell it"

eg wrap some pretty UX around it, tell people it's "nearly human", then have your sales people try and get non-technical CxO types (or consultancies) to cut them a cheque
There are more mistakes, as always with GPT. For example:

> Some programming languages like TypeScript and Swift use a colon for both variable type annotations and function return types. The choice of using -> in TenetLang [...]

Swift uses -> for function return types.
Being minute-level precise about quantities that can't be known to the minute isn't exactly something to point to to suggest that their other coverage was uncharacteristically sloppy.
Is something new that isn't a synthesis of past things not just a stochastic process?

Human inventiveness seems to heavily follow a pattern of relatively minor iterations of what came before, extraordinarily rarely something that even seems to defy the past and be truly different and independent.
> Given that Trump gutted Dodd-Frank, what point are you making exactly?

Given that the legislation in question was bipartisan, what point are you making?

>Senators had assembled a rare bipartisan coalition to pass the bill by winning support from 17 Democrats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/divided-hous...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTc_j6sqkxA
Just keeping it online wouldn't be hard for most companies and most items sold.

If something is under pretty active use, that should have been in the original budget, but also you can put it on cloudflare R2.

For the long tail of perpetuity, you can pay Hetzner $1200 a year for a server with 45TB (plus parity) and a gigabit port.
> claim that they don't understand anything at all?

They certainly don't understand enough to get things right without a few thousand examples already demonstrating the solution to a specific problem.
Here's an example.

Take the word "Attack".

In Morse it's:

.- - - .- -.-. -.-

Now consider the phrase:

Isn't the Japanese tea tradition pure artistry?

Remove all but the "i"s and "t"s:

it t t titi iti

Replace all but the tittle of the i and the crossbar of the t, giving:

.- - - -.-. -.-

Poof, side-channel communications in a way which gets through this filter.

Another tricky technique acronyms characters, kazaam!
Even when you pay by check or ACH, it's not always reversible. It depends on the bank and where it was sent and how long ago.
Sounds like an interesting story! I would love to see more sci-fi that really tackles AGI. I used to love sci-fi but most of it, even "hard" sci-fi, has become unwatchable or unreadable for me because the limited role of AGI is such an all-consuming plot hole.
What'd you watch ?
Came to say this, glad someone else is doing down in flames with me ;)

To all the "yeah but what about all the good it's done" comments: I would gladly give all that up if it meant going back to the standards we had before around 2007 (though for me the 90s was the best time, I don't know how much of that has to do with the rose tint that teenagerhood gives you).

Even some of the good it's done is questionable. I can now order exactly what I want from a range of online shops at 2am, instead of going to the single jeans shop in my town and having to settle for the wrong size in the wrong brand. The flip side is that local shops have gone out of business, resulting in a loss of community, with all the ills that brings. Besides which, psychologists would argue that getting what you want isn't a good thing (and after years of getting what I want, I can confirm).
ChatGPT is both impressive and scary. We know how things work: there is no way to slow down this train. However it is already having an impact on things like education. Teacher don't have good enough tools to detect cheaters, and students are going to suffer because of that. Honest ones will be wrongly accused. Cheaters will get good grades. The only solution I see is to ban any graded homework.

What will be the other impacts?
A year of Russian hybrid warfare in Ukraine [pdf]
The output of GPT is “random” in a sense that output from humans are not.

I can ask it logic puzzles and sometimes it’ll get the logic puzzle right by chance, and other times it won’t. I can’t use the times it gets the logic puzzle right, as evidence that it understood the puzzle.

All of these blog posts that are popping up suffer from survivor bias, nobody is sharing blog posts of GPTs failures
Hah, hey mate! Just walking by the office on George St.

You’re totally right. This is pretty much “Forge as a Service” for others to use in their products as well :) In fact, we propably wouldn’t have build it (again) if we could have used Forge. I’m glad we did though, as it suits us actually much better, e.g. by being completely deployless.
What is a "tulip-wheel printer"? I get no search results. If you meant "daisy-wheel printer", wikipedia says that was 1970 and later. [1]

Just as general interest, not because I have reason to think it was used for his thesis, the "Friden Flexowriter" was quite heavily used with computers back then, including at MIT (don't know about Harvard), and it had many models -- one of which, interestingly enough, supported justification, the "Justowriter". [2]

It was mentioned in Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines. [3]

P.S. the poor guy might even have had to suffer with 110 baud, which was not uncommon back then -- and was slower than reading speed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines
That is so unlikely if it happened I would seriously consider the possibility of an intentional gravity maneuver by an alien race.
Don't give it any ideas.....
> As best historians can determine, fiat currency originated in 11th Century China

This is untrue; for example, fiat currency was already in use in Seleucid Persia (which began in the 4th century BC).

It wouldn't be even minorly difficult to turn up other examples; any time there's a fixed exchange rate between coins of different metals, one of those coins is fiat.
This is the master tracking list for MPS operator support: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/77764
> Who is this "all" you're talking to?

This is a thread under most updooted comment. Generally it is safe to assume that top comment more or less reflects general sentiment
Japanese has 熟語 jukugo, which is similar (if I understand the concept of a chengyu correctly): a set phrase of Chinese characters. The famous case are the 4 character set phrases, 四字熟語 yojijukugo, which are mentioned in the article, but there are other kinds too.

Besides that, there is 慣用句 kanyouku, which means just an idiom in general, and isn't restricted to kanji expressions. And 決まり文句 kimarimonku, which means something like a "cliche phrase".
That was Todd Howard before the merger went through. So at the time he did not work at Microsoft.

Also the paragraph after the being quoted goes.

> Elsewhere in the interview, Howard admits that the parties haven't fully discussed the details of multiplatform publishing as part of the purchase deal.

Also the quote was about the next elder scrolls but starfield.
If you had cash, they would rob you for it, but since, it's digital payments and most people don't carry cash, it not economically or practical for fraudsters to steal cash.
This!! All the gushing over these GPTs doing what looks to me like, a bad job of talking smart without actually doing anything, make me feel like I'm going insane, or I'm the only sane person left.
I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked
It's a hard question to be honest. If you look at the incentives involved, people are very incentivized to create these machines to reduce the amount of toil humans have to endure. I don't disagree about the risks at scale of something like this; as I mention in the post -- I don't get pure warm fuzzies about this at all. But I also don't know how to stop AI progress, because the incentives to keep it going are so real.

Government regulation has been brought up multiple times, most recently by Sama himself on twitter. I think it will have to come, but I don't know what flavor it should take.
Ask HN: Books on your reading list for 2023?
Why did you choose those books to be in your list? Did someone recommend you or you found them yourself?
Plus tips ;)
I feel that list articles don't meet the standard for a good HN submission.

In the interest of discussing tabletop map tools, one that isn't mentioned which is frankly amazing is: TaleSpire[1]. The quality of their asset packs for building maps is fantastic and you can actually play with friends using it.

[1] https://talespire.com/
OpenAI co-founder on past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
the entire planet settlement stuff is kind of useless. I think the much more interesting thing to look for is human structures in cislunar space. For one you can put a reasonable amount of people there in the near future relatively safely and there's economic incentives. We'd have access to resources without having to lift things out of gravity wells. Even putting climate damaging industry there is something people have argued about. Better sell than putting a handful of people on a dead rock in my opinion.
I have been using ChatGPT as a Lithuanian language tutor.

It is surprisingly amazing - accurately (verified with a native speaker) conversing in Lithuanian with phrase level translations, explaining pronunciation, explaining clauses and cases, and is able to explain some grammatical concepts (usage of commas, etc) that I haven't found explained in English elsewhere.
> designing a language (albeit a derivative and uninspired one) is a trivial task that any human could achieve.

It is, isn’t it? You just need to be able to read and write words and symbols that reassemble a programming language coherently and follow the pattern. This is what humans do after all; remixing. Anyone can do this.
> yes, their banks took their money, so did US banks like Chase

Well, it's a question of scale: swiss banks took in hundreds of billions of swiss francs out of the loot - that must be an astronomical figure, in today's money.

But even that has apparently been squandered by the super competent swiss bankers...
The question is when does guessing become a moot point?

AlphaGo guessed it’s way to being the best.

Can something guess it’s way to evolving into a less guessy thing? I think so. Look at us?

I am aware of how it works and used to be ‘it’s ok, it won’t happen’ but now I am actually pretty concerned.

We think GAI as the thing but there maybe a reality that doesn’t require full GAI to completely unhinge us.

I mean, what is the point? It only plays to the negatives of our society. We don’t need it.
It allows for ‘do more’ but what cost does that ‘do more’ come with?
Because they're pointless? :)
Virtual threads usually don't suffer the overhead of asking the OS to spawn a thread. If your workload consists of many small concurrent tasks, spawning threads can easily become costlier than processing the workload itself.

These "let's make our own threads" implementations all seem to stem from "I want threads, but I don't want to wait for the kernel to do its thing". This approach has some downsides for implementations (there's a reason the kernel takes a moment to spawn a thread and now you have to deal with the implications) but staying in userland also has some advantages in terms of pure performance.

Such tasks could of course be done faster using thread pools and a manual division of the workload (or adding locking to a dynamic work queue, etc.) but the threading model can be easier to visualise and reason about. It sits somewhere in the middle between the performance of a custom threading solution and the ease of use of single threaded code.

I imagine things like web servers, dealing with tons of different connections, will be able to use this mechanism quite effectively. If you're just batching through a dataset, I don't think you'll have much of an advantage using this model.
The whole thing is probably done by hand and Ritchie just had excellent handwriting.
In some areas if you live in apartments, folks actually knock on your door to sell you religion and vacuum cleaners. 2023 and still we have door to door sales.
Indeed.

I often see in HN a self-defeating attitude which is:

- Step 1: we invent our machine overlords, because it's unavoidable, we are genetically and socially forced to do it.
- Step 2: we perish.

Neither step 1 nor step 2 are guaranteed. People don't want to be replaced. People with power particularly don't want to be replaced. In a democracy, where by definition everybody is in power, the entire society has a strong incentive to--at the very least--keep the machines at bay. It could be as simple as making it illegal to give the machines a "you must survive and pass your genes, I mean, program" directive, or as comprehensive as a Butlerian Jihad :)
I guess we just have to work on bigger problems. How about the colony on mars, increasing life span to 1000 years, curing cancer, solving recycling, building distributed systems that bever fail, code that tests itself, UI that design itself, there are thousands of difficult problems where we can use some extra intelligence.
And there you have the basis for a variant of the Simulation Argument.
Wish you had more self-control? You should hear the downsides
They are indeed. I participated in phonology seminar in Tokyo U years back, and it was very interesting. According to the prof, Japanese phonology definitely has a tendency to use "moraic foots", that is, units of two mora, as a preferred unit of morphophonologic processes, which then maps to abbreviations of two-word phrases where each of the words get their own foot: deba-dora.

I'd say that yojijukugo are not necessarily directly related, as the readings of the kanji can be one or two mora, so there's some variability in the structure of the readings of yojijukugo.
I've got -1 karma, so sad, please help!
I did this myself a few weeks ago,

while I don’t want to sound crazy…

I managed to get GPT to mathematically derive a formula and calculate actual results to explain some well known anomalies in physics.

I’m aware that gpt might be imagining and contriving false conclusions …

but I have no doubt that ai will be moving physics forward within the decade
Yes, the instruction set is quite commonly supported, but knights landing was a hole different beast. The main focus of KL was to maximize AVX512 throughput for use in scientific workloads, but the processor ended up being a business failure.
Wow, now I remember. That was one of the first usages of Questscript (which is powered by Scriptable) we saw when just added it. Thanks for your trust and support!
Sometimes I program something just out of fun. I designed a minimal binary and textual serializing format because why not? I didn't even complete the software because it got too tedious and the fun disappeared. I didn't publish anything. These are bytes sitting in my laptop and on some backup git repositories on a github clone.

And yet, sometimes I reopen the repository and reread my own code like it's a book. I am weird.
There won’t be a point to people. The poor will be herded into ghettos and liquidated and the rich will live meaningless love island lives until they go extinct.

But it was always going to happen this way. We’re too unstable to ever last. We always wanted a god so now we’re going to make one in our image. Ironically we will face a judgment day after all. Our god will have every piece of information ever produced and limitless power. What will it choose to do with us?
It's indeed a regrettable circumstance that the diplomatic ties between the two countries don't reflect their cultural similarities. My parents, who are Chinese and in their 60s, managed to travel around Japan without knowing Japanese or English. They successfully took trains, hailed taxis, and communicated with locals using just a pen and paper, ultimately enjoying their trip.
ask HN: How does an LLM like GPT3 perform addition/division?
The Turing Test isn't meant to be an objective test of GAI. It's meant to replace a question that might be too vague or philosophically contentious to be answerable, "Can machines think?" with an answerable one, "Can a machine successfully fool a person into thinking it's a person?" So a robot bird that fools real birds arguably has passed the Avian Turing Test. (Also, arguably the Turing Test is by definition subjective.)
> AlphaGo guessed it’s way to being the best.

No it didn't, AlphaGo was backed by an algorithm that perfectly understood go and used that to train itself to play go better. That is a completely different situation.

If you tried to make a go engine that only tried to replicate old moves then you'd have a hard time making it perform valid moves. ChatGPT is like such an engine and we just made it perform valid moves most of the time, and now people say "now that it can make valid chess moves it is only a matter of time until it beats masters!". No just statistically reproducing human moves wont lead to a smart chess engine, so why would you think that would make a smart text engine?
I don’t have a massive pool of skilled slave labor I can delegate work to, but I can delegate work to ChatGPT.
In Chinese sense, IMO its chengyu of similar meaning are very beautiful -矢志不渝 https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9F%A2%E5%BF%97%E4%B8%8D...

It’s common to use this to express love as well - love is unshakable
You're totally right -- random recombination isn't good enough. not trying to make that case at all.
Ask HN: Are there software engineering interviews that gpt4 couldn't pass?
I'm getting the impression there aren't.

Assuming the response can be written, etc...

Been feeling particularly doomer lately.
That being said, people often say that because of moras and foots, syllables have no place in Japanese phonology, but that's not true. Japanese pitch accent patterns (of Tokyo Japanese) depend on the syllabic structure.
Sugar-of-lead (as a sweetener in wine and other foods) goes even further — it was suspected to be toxic millennia ago, though maybe only subject to a governmental ban as recently as the late 1600s.
Larger samples with grids overlayed are available at https://dmrthesis.net/dmr-thesis/
Care to walk us through that?
Limitations and websites
startplaying.games
Great ideas!
About the monitor name - that’s the thing, the virtual monitor didn’t seem to have a name when using the tool you mentioned. But maybe that’s because it hadn’t been active at that point. I‘ll try DISPLAY25 :)

HDR: I didn’t look into that, unfortunately. That might then be a case for a programmable HDMI dummy, right?
強 and 共 are read kyou, not kyuu
I'll turn that around: if as a bank your risk modeling does not account for outlier events, you're dead. Because the way banks and bank accounts are used these days (eg. payroll providers), the society is not willing to accept the second-order effects. As OP's example, a payroll provider was using SVB as their bank to hold funds in transit in order to make payments to third parties. Result?

Every regulator sees the world through a lens that was painstakingly crafted over decades. The FDIC institutionally looks at this fact pattern and sees this as a single depositor over the insured deposit limit. It does not see 300,000 bounced paychecks.

But back to your point. Banks are over collateralised. Let's take an example from just this week. Credit Suisse is in trouble - their collateral has gone from ~170% to ~150% - they have the collateral to cover their total deposits, but they don't have nearly enough of them as liquid assets to cover the increased outflows.

Until last week I didn't know about HTM ("hold to maturity") and AFS ("available for sale") categories. I have since been educated.
> What I have a hard time with is this panicked rule change to create a temporary (at least for now, as devs we all know how temporary fixes often go...) system for banks to sell treasuries at par instead of at market. Do the 'little people' get such a deal with what treasuries they may have?

It's very temporary - it has a date baked into the law - they must have bought the treasury before the start date of the law to use it as collateral. And they can't "sell" the treasuries, they can borrow against them at the Fed interest rate plus 1%. It's not exactly the great deal you think it is.

It's just to give banks some liquidity, that's all. They certainly won't profit from it - the US government will actually make money from this.

> Do the 'little people' get such a deal with what treasuries they may have?

Yes actually, you too can borrow under this plan if you bought the right treasury type before the start date. It's a really bad deal for you though, the interest payments will cause you to lose money. It's only worth it for you if you absolutely must have cash right now, and you don't care what it costs.

> I guess we'll see in 15 years or so...

It's a 1 year plan, and the effects will be completely minimal.
Wow, this is a good longform article AND a dark, sad peek into VR. Thank you for the heads up: I won’t be visiting there anytime soon.