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Agree completely with your point. Moving their funds from the train wreck was smart.

Shaming those that withdrew their funds reminds me of meme stock culture where participants shame sellers and make holding “no matter what” the highest virtue. The suckers that listen to that bullshit are the bag holding losers.
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Oh man... if it will be as stupid as us humans we are completely doomed. For now lets assume what it most likely is: not emerging anything, just a very good simulation of that emergeance.

I mean we already did stupid chat bots in the 90s with convoluted if-else-spaghettis that imitated Eliza. That could already hold for some sentences... GPT-4 now holds much longer, but still you can easily drive it to the point where it starts "looping" and not provide much more value, especially if you are more expert => makes me so far hope that this length will grow more, but still.. in my "sessions" did not (gladly) find anything emerging beyond the first wow and surprising answers... not even close to that.
Human instincts only apply to the systems that they're "evolved" to handle (or the systems we can readily observe and learn from).

Think about big systems. The moon is a ginormous rock that's so big it is visible from thousands of km away, but it just hangs in the sky because it's moving so fast it can cheat gravity, but we can barely even see it move. Or think about how a star can somehow explode because it starts running out of fuel (and our sun is just yellow hot - you can do that with a blow torch, but it's powered by a nuclear explosion - I guess it's got quite a bit of surface area?). And little things are even weirder, consider how fast the proteins in your cells bounce around. Then there's quantum - our gut intuition is so out of its comfort zone it's basically meaningless.
Checkout the confidence level of alignment in the below excerpt. "probably". Will this be the standard for future deployments?

"Finally, we facilitated a preliminary model evaluation by the Alignment Research Center (ARC) focused on the ability of GPT-4 versions they evaluated to carry out actions to autonomously replicate and gather resources
—a risk that, while speculative, may become possible with sufficiently advanced AI systems—
with the conclusion that the current model is probably not yet capable of autonomously doing so."
The AI also regularly misuses terms and gets things wrong
I promise you this: nothing about working with COM induced feelings of “transparency” or ease.
But a possibly better and more optimized implementation can't be put in place until the current one fails, that's the core issue here. Many people want reforms to the banking system, bit the system is defended fiercely until it's un-ignorable. This is a defense of god awful ways of doing things so the general public can ignore it.

Banks directly acting to help their competition? Why? Isn't that how competition is supposed to work?

What we're seeing is yet another version of capital and capitalism in decline, and rich financiers are still claiming the empire is wearing a wonderful robe. News flash! he's wearing nothing at all.
Here's some things must be true if consciousness is an illusion:

Qualia does not exist

Subjective experience does not exist

Consciousness does not exist

There's nothing wrong with acting unethically or immoral because nobody actually experiences any harm because nobody experiences anything

Does anyone really think that's true?
FF is "front front", i.e. engine in the front, drive wheels in the front. (Or: ~all regular every day cars.) FR is front-engine rear-wheel-drive (i.e. "sports" cars), etc.
I thought it was funny because I've seen similar complaints from linters, e.g. clang-tidy's readability-identifier-length plus readability-identifier-naming, or pylint's invalid-name. (clang-tidy at least is smart enough to exempt loop counters.)
Ask HN: Is GPT-4 the end of CAPTCHA as we currently know it?
If it is, what will replace it?

If it isn’t, what evidence do you have?
Agreed. Technologies like these need regulation.
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We have a tendency sometimes to prematurely abstract pieces of code.

I am okay with copy-pasting code but after the second or third copy-paste, you should probably at least consider asking, “Should I abstract this into its own function?”
At least we are considering it.

Late last century we wired up a bunch of computers together and unleashed it on an unready world without even considering that it might change everything. And we hadn't even begun to think about security - we literally trusted that everyone was who they said they were!

This is a step forward
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That’s a surprising amount of difference in performance. Wonder if it would still hold true on current GPU’s.
Agreed. I’m working on something to try to get back to that. But I’ve been bumbling through so many diff ideas that who knows if it’ll ever see a launch, let alone adoption.

I think it’s fair to ask power users to come up a little to become a programmer, but then they get a much better system to their liking.

I feel like there’s so much unnecessary complexity these days in different JS frameworks, CSS approaches, build and dependency systems, etc.
Correct for the exact opposite reason. Our homes use less and less power as better insulation becomes widespread. Italy for example just had a massive campaign of incentives for people to renovate their homes to better power saving.
And what percentage of these funds were just withdrawn from FR by skittish depositors?
I feel safe too, and I'm amused at the dynamic. GPT could do a lot of the things I do, but it would take someone who knows what I know in order to explain the task in sufficient detail for it to do that.
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Jokes often work with subverting expectations. In this case you're surprised by a message that doesn't belong and then you remember where it comes from and likely relate it with how frustrating those ever changing rules can be.

That's why the joke works.
"General Chemistry" by Linus Pauling.
Without the sarcasm, yes :)
> imagine when they realize one overworked highly paid senior can replace 10 juniors

This already happens, the market is just not very efficient about it, e.g. a highly paid senior dev is not working at a company that only needs 2-3 developers, they're working at Google with 100's of devs.
Can I suggest a different interpretation of the sentence you quoted? You seem to be interpreting it as “we focus on safety challenges not because the rewards of doing so outweigh the costs, but for indirect reasons”

I think what they are actually saying is “please don’t interpret this extensive list of safety challenges to mean that the dangers of AI outweigh the benefits, but because we think a detailed analysis of these dangers will encourage others to develop more responsibly”.

Or more succinctly “we wouldn’t be inviting PR problems if we didn’t think it was important to warn other players.”
Wouldn’t that be a matter of perception and written history rather than the factual past?
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Either that or "Backend for Frontend." I only heard this term recently at work the other day from an adjacent team to mine that uses this pattern:

https://medium.com/mobilepeople/backend-for-frontend-pattern...
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35190811 with a clickbait title.
Personally, I think "AI Agents" are going to become a thing.

Basically, rather than being just a chatbot, if we can give the AI the ability to make HTTP requests, it can literally interact with the world around it. To me, this feels like a question of when, not if.

Once the "chatbot" can interact with Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Tinder, etc. some really scary stuff can start to happen (because people will program them to):

* AI agents will start impersonating real people with the intent of stealing their identity, performing bank fraud, conning friends and family out of money, etc.

* AI agents will destroy dating sites, and probably be used for blackmail.

* AI agents will be used to engage customer support staff and trick them into giving access to your online accounts.

* Propaganda bot farms will go from being "relatively easy" to "absolutely trivial". Have an agenda you want to push? Flood every social media platform with fake activity on the topic.
Not just that, but it will also understand what everybody is talking about on WeChat etc. It can scan every word that 1.4 billion people say to each other and alert the authorities whenever a "newly forbidden topic" is even insinuated. No "river crabs" anymore, the GPT would understand it!
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It wasn't deliberately killed. The problem was that VB6 had weird semantics and behavior by the standards of other languages, but .NET was designed primarily around Java's semantics. Rather than pollute their nice next-gen platform (that they wanted to standardize through ECMA even!) with lots of VB6 compatibility goop, Microsoft chose to change VB with a new version that was closer to a normal .NET language. For example, in VB6 parameters are always passed by reference, but in C#, Java and VB.net they're passed by value.

They also didn't seem to care much about being fully compatible, for example VB6 had some fairly basic features that WinForms didn't have.
Weren't they technically ok before the run as long as there wasn't a run?
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Not really, if I feel the need to add some description in a list I would likely make a table instead.
That's just not the case at all. You can certainly buy mods from the Minecraft store (or whatever it's called). But you can also write behavior packs and make skins and textures without paying for anything (besides the base game).

My son and I spent some time making custom weapons and the like using a tool called Bridge (https://bridge-core.app/). It's definitely not as powerful as modding once was in the Java version of the game, but you can do lots of pretty wild stuff with Bedrock if you're willing to jump through the hoops.

One "mod" that recently caught my eye was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUWRK0Jy9d0

Yeah, you have to buy it with "Minecoins", but I can't get too upset that Microsoft has allowed devs to monetize their efforts on the platform. There's still plenty of free stuff available and nothing to prevent kids (or adults) from taking a crack at their own mods.

My son was just recently playing with a site called Tynker, and without any help from me managed to get a custom item into the game, so if an 8 year old can do it, it's about as accessible as you could hope for.
I've been able to give it arbitrary blocks of code and have it explain how they work.

(Asking this makes GPT more effective when I ask it make further changes. One reason I do this is when I start a new session with ChatGPT discussing code it helped me write previously, especially if I've gone away and done a big refactoring myself.)

A very simple example is that I asked it to write some Ruby functions that would generate random creature descriptions (e.g., "a ferocious ice dragon", "a mysterious jungle griffin"). It did this by generating three arrays (adjectives, locations, creature types) and randomly selecting from them to build the output string. I then asked it to explain how many different descriptions it could generate, and it explained that multiplying the length of the three arrays would give the number of outputs. (125 for the first iteration, 5x5x5).

I then asked it how it would increase the number of possible outputs to 1000, and it did so by increasing each of the three arrays to length 10. I then asked it how it would generate millions of possible outputs, and it added extra arrays to make the creature descriptions more complicated, increasing the number of permutations of strings.

This is not the most sophisticated example, but it shows what GPT can do when it can combine "knowledge" of different areas.

If it's able to combine the solutions to known problems in a straightforward way, it can accomplish a lot. Beyond a certain point it needs guidance from the user, but if used as a tool to fill in the gaps in your own knowledge, its enormously powerful. I it more as an "intelligence-augmenter" than a "human-replacer".

See my comment here where I went into more detail on how I work with GPT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197613
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So it can't help people to write crime novels and the like.
Software development seems safe for the time being, but as someone who has both paid professional translators and used ChatGPT for translation, I'm certain GPT is obliterating some jobs.
Samsung is remarkably good at making Android worse.
My favorite C++ joke -- "Your friends can see your private parts".
The cost of buying both the physical and kindle version ain't much more.

Or if you sail the high sees under letters of marque, you could buy the physical and "obtain" a digital copy.
Two problems with the analogy: The artisans fields where machines took over where hundreds and thousands of years old. We understood them very good. And maybe more importantly factory automation is deterministic and needs to be, as opposed to generative ML.
This tech is so powerful, cutting so close to the last of human output that’s uncopied, advancing so fast, I have an incredibly hard time imagining it ending in a space that deserves a muted a reaction. It seems like it will either dramatically change society or fail. And I have quite a hard time imagining failure.

It seems on par with the Industrial Revolution, at least. Which, easy to forget, was a huge deal that totally changed society.
Right, something along the lines of Donald Hoffman's The Case Against Reality
How is it any more dangerous than existing cloud storage use?
Doesn't the bump map use more data than the extra vertices?
Absent central planning and approval for everything, I’m not sure who the “we” would be that could slow progress.

The US largely won the early internet. Maybe wiser people in some other country consciously decided not to move for the valid concerns you mention, but if so, the lack of complete homogeneity among people rendered their care moot.
> I don’t believe, for instance, that OpenAI is really using a 175B parameter model for ChatGPT or for their other language products (here is an interesting analysis I saw recently that makes the same point, with some caveats), but they have an incentive for making people believe that they’re using a 175B parameter model and that it’s actually critical to use a giant model like that.

We saw this with Dall-E2, there was an incentive to make it seem impossible for this tech to be ran or even safe to be ran outside of the OpenAI walls. This is in part the claims of size and power required but also clever use of safety theatre to make it seem too dangerous for you to be allowed to use it while they claima business advantage.

I believe the same will happen with language models, they will have their stable diffusion moment too when someone is incentivized to make something that would work for the masses rather than incentivized to lock up the value.
That is good news. It remains to be seen if there will be other problems that take longer to discover.
That's as may be, but you can't just change the common definitions of terms to win the argument.
Interesting take.. especially as I often wondered, watching and loving animals, if not our ""intelligence separation"" from them is not to a large degree because of the language.. (and the wisdom storage and transfer that comes with it).
Yea it says to me that there is a huge cultural imprint on what is "good" and what is "bad" and wondering who gets to determine those rules for such wide-reaching platforms. It's one thing for IG to ban nipples, but what happens when such a pervasive tool as these LLMs ban something deemed "harmful" by a handful of developers?
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Yes just rsync should work if you are stopping everything on the first system. The second system should be completely switched off. If you can just mount the drive, that’s the way to go.
> Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made headlines over the weekend when his claim the Ukraine war was “launched against” Russia provoked laughter from the audience during a forum in India. But I was in the room and can report he also received applause and indifference.

https://theconversation.com/russias-foreign-minister-got-lau...
If deposits kept increasing they might've been ok, but startups had been withdrawing the cash they had raised during the pandemic, deposits were decreasing rapidly before the solvency issues were thought about. At that point there is a very real scenario where the bank runs out of money and depositors are screwed.
You can also plot a middle path. JavaFX Scene Builder for example supports CSS, style sheets and custom themes, but also supports visual design and layout. However people with a graphics design background would still need to learn a bit of UI design like how to make responsive layouts, and they wouldn't be able to use Figma anymore. Animation also isn't that well supported. Still it can be done, it's mostly a case of investment.

The Jetpack Compose guys are trying to do it the other way around - generate layout code from Figma files.
Sure, but you could refer to the lineage of a dozen languages. Most of the world runs Java and evolving it takes care and consideration not to alienate a massive user base and ensuring that it evolves in the right way, not quick responses to fashions and trends.
Why won't you accept this isn't a workable solution for the vast majority of people? Comments like this give me a brief moment of wanting every engineer in tech (me included) to be laid off and replaced with excel people
Wow. That's an awesome project! God damn customers, who needs them...
Does this really happen often? I’m not saying it doesn’t, I’ve just heard the claim repeated often while never having seen it myself. Maybe because every project I’ve been on was far over-complicated rather under.

A small, crappy prototype would also go far in sussing out requirements. But I’ve generally not seen that included enough in the development process for most big corporate internet projects.
What do people use for "DMARC management"? I get these reports and do nothing with them at the moment because I haven't taken the time to understand them. Is there an open source tool that can help?
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What is the "bank alignment problem"? Binging it turned up dry.
Shouldn’t that be “simpler by a factor of 2.8” instead of “65% simpler”? The number of triangles is reduced by a factor of 2.8 (268/96). If “simplicity” is the inverse of the number of triangles used, then a 65% increase in simplicity would translate to a reduction of the number of triangles to 1/1.65 = 61%, whereas it’s really 1/2.8 = 36% (which I guess is where the 65% was derived from as 1 – 35%).

Just nitpicking about the confusing use of percentages here.
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I’ll give it a go! (And just in case some sarcasm or something came across, my last comment was sincere.)
I don't know. VB is still 10x easier than React. The gap is so obvious.
25 year olds don’t. 70 year olds do. We had a friend who died at 55 from health problems. Lots of “so young”s to go around.
> And second, because it's very easy to go from a good guideline to a dogma. All you need is a few people to misinterpret your guidelines. Heck, a lot of people haven't even read the guidelines. They just parrot what someone else paraphrased on Twitter.

Another issue that's never explicitely mentionned is the vastly different calibers of programmers and engineers in the field.

I'm pretty sure John Carmack, Linus Torvald or Donald Knuth's definition of "good code" is quite different than $BODY_SHOP_RESSOURCE_1389's.
It’s a shame the Russian jet didn’t crash too.
>>An anti-bank-run by the other banks

This is actually pretty terrifying when you think about it...

Its indicative of just how much a shell game fractional reserve banking truly is.
A few months ago I asked ChatGPT to implement pong. It didn't do so well: https://gist.github.com/Netruk44/6e384cb315475bebc8e4e0f1d09.... It's visibly pong, but it doesn't function.

Flappy bird is more complicated than pong, and GPT4 apparently did it in 'one shot'. I think there's improvement being made, even if it's not as impressive as you'd like it to be.
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Thank you! That was driving me nuts trying to find it.
my problem with this, and I think others share it, is that nothing came out of the situation to fix the conditions that made it happen.

The best we got was the Volcker rule (RIP). and even that wasn't nearly enough. If you're "too big to fail" you're _too fucking big_.
Yes, but also stop them contributing in any way what so ever, including diligently upstreaming.

AGPL throws the community baby out with the bathwater.
I hear you. But I’ve never joined a Slack or Discord as a way of getting support for a dev product.
Why does it have to be a separate group?

What makes you think that the AI researchers who perform these breakthroughs can't possibly be the ones who are concerned with collateral damage and harm that the tech they are developing could cause?
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