skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice strawman - whatabout hybrid, I have to admit I'm impressed. I mean agency at the state-level, whatever that means. As to what the government does during wartime, that's something already decided by the people a priori, democratically. The current leadership didn't invent the procedures right now, on the spot, they were already the law or the law allowed for them. I would extend the same logic to the citizens of Russia and their 'agency' to elect a new leader.
The Hour of Judgment is nigh, and the Moon is cleft asunder. But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is but transient magic."

Oooooh it is TIME
Lol I had the same thought reading that headline. I wonder if the author even realizes that not all generative AI is ChatGPT (probably not because the bar for 'tech journalist' seems to be quite low).
I knew what MBS were before they blew up.

CMBS issuance has also just about locked up this year, so don't bet it isn't still going to be relevant.
> Well, your government is "anyone" to define what harm is

I'm saying the government is largely sufficient. In areas where it isn't, such as industrial chemicals, pharma, etc., companies can work in a regulatory manner to craft governance. But the less it's needed, the better.

> The folks dishing it out weren't doing it for fun or to build strength in others, they were doing it because it advanced their own interests.

I was saying this tongue in cheek, but are you suggesting we should place more limits on free speech because it can be used to get ahead? That's 1984 thought policing.
What if you could lean on ChatGPT and do any skilled job in your society?
lol I use co-pilot and there is no way this stat is true.
Wow, so this guy's research is taking meaningful steps toward molecular assemblers. Super cool. Maybe he can figure out how to assemble a useful form of graphene while he's at it, haha.
Yeah, but they are talking about 99+% of the population here, so I assume that's not just the bay area, or we're really in a bubble.
> There’s a statistic that floats around the internet claiming more radioactivity harm from coal power than from nuclear power, based on the principle that coal power is essentially aerosolizing tons of particles with ever-so-slightly-higher-than-background radioactivity and there’s a lot more coal than nuclear.

Fun fact, it would be a very easy engineering lift to convert coal plants to nuclear (you already have the steam turbines built and ready to go!). However, the moment they switch from a coal plant to a nuclear plant, the existing radioactivity left over from the coal burning operation would immediately get a nuclear plant shut down.
This is good mostly for improving quality of software and reducing technical debt.
But not much good for innovation.
Hard to put my finger on why that shit is so objectionable, but yeah, your response deserves the reddit equivalent of a swift kick to the groin.
> you adjust as needed to support new employees

the adjustments may not be possible. People tend to build rapport easier when physically close by, and this rapport is how trust gets built up over time, and only by having this trust do knowledge and institutional culture gets transmitted.

I do believe that junior/new grads who come into a fully remote work place would have a harder time to build trust with existing employees, get less mentorship, and/or find it hard to "gel" properly.
Is it Wells Fargo?

I get these exact phone calls from Wells Fargo because they bought my mortgage, I don't have any other accounts with them. Since they bought my mortgage I've never even been in a WF branch. They call from the closest one, which isn't very close.

They are the only bank that's ever called me like this. I have had accounts with many different banks.
If the Ukrainian revolutionary government didn't get to work on the Sunday morning of 23rd Feb 2014 just to vote to abolish the law on language policies that had given the Russian, Romanian, and Hungarian languages the official status of regional languages in Eastern Ukraine, this might all have been avoided indeed. Crimea had only got annexed after 4 days of this stupid move against their own citizens of the "untrustworthy regions".
unit test definitely a great use of copilot.
How does the model know what SVB is? How does it know there was a bank run on it? What assets did it have? Why were they bad? When did the crash happen? What was the final outcome? Your prompt didn't add any of that context. It still needs to fill in all these details from, say, a bunch of news articles. But then the people who write these articles will eventually go "hey I can just use AI". So ultimately where are these core facts about our world that the machine spits out coming from?
The data seemed to be pretty much all cities, since low population places can't have large absolute differentials. Something about DC and New York bring the ladies. Maybe it makes sense that San Francisco would have tech bros, but why Los Angeles?

It didn't especially seem to line up with the usual red-blue lines, though the sudden shift in Florida seemed notable.

I am suspicious of it overall, but I'd need a lot closer look at the methodology to justify that.
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there are many people, many opinions about the bar. But formal definition is the same: AI which can do large variety of tasks performed by humans. So far we are still not there.
Kali devs know that people do this, so they've modified their processes to address it. If you know what you're doing with Linux, you're likely fine.
> - absolute fantasy… no one who was qualified for the job would take it with that company for what they were offering

This is what we call the 'I can't find any qualified domestic candidates, so I need to sponsor an immigrant' hiring strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory

> You wouldn't assume that a sugar high reveals a deep truth about the way humans are supposed to behave

I don't know what supposed is supposed to mean, but even a sugar high reveals some things.
But that would always be the case and wouldn’t explain the pandemic bounce. You need there to be a sudden relative increase in this type of behavior at the beginning of the pandemic.
That paper is famously misleading.

It's all the same classic personification of LLMs. What an LLM can show is not the same as what it can do.

The model was already present: in the example game moves. The LLM modeled what it was given, and it was given none other than a valid series of Othello game states.

Here's the problem with personification: A person who has modeled the game of Othello can use that model to strategize. An LLM cannot.

An LLM can only take the whole model and repeat its parts with the most familiar patterns. It is stuck fuzzing around the strategies (or sections of strategy) it has been given. It cannot invent a new divergent strategy, even if the game rules require it to. It cannot choose the winning strategy unless that behavior is what was already recorded in the training corpus.

An LLM does not play games, it plays plays.
In our experience there was so much they could have done. I just compare it to our experience with SVB which got us no-personal guarantee credit cards, availability of venture debt, access to mortgages (something I would have done if a local credit union hadn’t stepped up). Chase never did any of those things with us. They need to step it way up if they want to win startup business long term and not just in the wake of a crisis.
That model will be out in a few years. GPT-3 175b only took two years until someone trained an open source equivalent that could run on a few gpu devices.
It's mostly not greed. If you had a billion dollars, and are willing to lose money on a housing project in support of the poor by operating it against market forces, I think that would be a noble thing to do if you would actually follow through. It's easier to say than do though, and I don't think it would work out the way you think it would. If you think about the evolutionary forces driving such a system, that type of philanthropy would be unsustainable and would have a tendency to die out. And eventually that housing would get taken over and become subject to normal market forces again.

It's pretty hard to fight against the market consensus on value, no matter how good your intentions are, unless you could establish some sort of monopoly. In the absence of that, if you sell something for less than its value, you'll end up creating some weird dynamics. You'd invite scalpers, corruption as people compete for access to the resource, and people would probably create secondary markets anyway where they hold the lease and sublet for more than its cost. (Whether legal or illegal.)

There's a reason why home prices in the form of a 30-year mortgage on a home historically have a monthly price close to, but slightly less than, the price of rents. Being a landlord involves financial risk, maintenance costs, liability, and work. That work, the willingness to take on the risk, etc. has a value. That value is approximately the monthly price of rent minus the monthly mortgage cost.

...And actually, historically, it's not even a great value. Renting, and investing spare cash that would otherwise be tied up on a down payment has in many cases been a better investment.
You’re confusing what is a central tenet and what may occur as an outcome of a poorly executed version of the principle. By that same logic, tyrannical despots could be argued as a stated goal of socialism.
Millions of people dont pay taxes and cross the road in the wrong place.

You cant setup a cinema and charge ticket for the movies you stole.

Its the money making side that matters - not individuals ij a private house
> No, only SVB and Signature enjoy infinity insurance.

No, only the balances of SVB and Signature at the time of the failure of the former banks have that. There’s no prospective guarantee inheritable by an acquirer. (Admittedly, any bank that could reasonably bid for them, especially for SVB, would probably independently qualify for the systemic risk exception itself if it suddenly failed, but also any bank that could reasonably bid wouldn’t be in any near term risk of that, either.)
In my experience it's more like 80-90%, given the right prompts. Very little needs to be changed, usually
If they don't now they will in the future, if they think there is money to be made. Why wouldn't they? They could even charge a premium for the service.
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I think they should reuse some brands that are available again instead of wasting a new name. I could suggest MCI, Charter, Blackwater, etc as all names that would be befitting for these "oops" rebrands.
When you start a startup, especially a venture-funded one, you really only want to be innovative in one area: your core offering. It doesn't make sense to spend an innovation token on your bank. So you go with something tried and true, that's done it a million times before with a million other startups. That was SVB.

Going with something else has potential downsides that you may not even be aware of (as the OP describes).
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Clients are free to provide a contrast dial independently of that. For example there’s a Font Contrast extension for Firefox.
No doubt. There’s more money in maintenance programming than green field development. But there's no startup stock option lottery ticket in maintenance work, just a steady income.
Something I saw with a chart shows that despite massive layoffs recently total Microsoft headcount has only just returned to pre COVID-19 levels. On a long term trend from 2008 to present it's still a significant increase.
I think of it similarly to the "fish in water" story - there's a lot of things about your perception that you won't can't really realize until they're changed - like how your nose is visible to your eyes and each eye has a blind spot - your brain filters out anything that's always there because it's not important to survival

A sugar high does reveal a deeper truth about the way we enjoy sweet things, that you would never even know you're missing if you never had sugar.

This is also kinda why people react so dramatically when they try a new food or see colors in different ways - it's a wild experience to find out that the way you've been perceiving the world isn't the way it actually is, it's just a narrow slice of reality. "Narrow slice" is a phrase you could look up to read more about this idea, the book Flatland also does a great job of explaining it, or thinking about how other organisms only see infrared light and we can't see it at all
> Zero chance this is linear. A 20% increase would be expected to create more than a 2% decrease.

I think this effect is probably complicated by generated demand.

Think about a city like SF or Seattle. Adding a lot of vacancies may not drop prices much for a while. Instead, it'll suck in a lot of people from the surrounding area. It's only after there is enough new construction to overcome that effect that people will see price declines in the city.

Of course, if SF or Seattle is sucking in people from the surrounding areas, then the price of real estate in those areas will decrease substantially. It's all about what you measure.
Looks like Google has turned into AltaVista.
Does that mean that tech companies should only have tech literate people on their boards?
Ah yes, Midi-chlorians.
Bank of America Gets More Than $15B in Deposits After SVB Failure
The author pretty clearly knows that not all generative AI is ChatGPT if you read even the first line of the article.

However, the vast non tech readership wouldn’t know what generative AI is, but nearly everyone and their mother knows what ChatGPT is.

So the headline is extremely effective in conveying what Google’s demo does while being understandable by the largest possible audience. It’s an extremely valid and appropriate headline.
Yea, the story isn't how banking online is anonymous and magic, its about how branch banking is extremely regional, and how few of them deal with "pre money" startup financing, and were _structurally_ unprepared to handle it. "I have 35M but need to slowly spend it down until the next funding round" is not what most businesses in LA look like, and the cash infusion presumably allowed the bank to expand lending in the area, and business banking. And when those funds leave, well, there might even have been layoffs.
Of what relevance is it what percentage wanted to join NATO in 2010? NATO expansion didn't force Russia to invade Ukraine. Nor did internal conflict over the disposition of Crimea force Russia to invade. You steadily bring up irrelevant complexities to paper over the simple truth. Russia is solely at fault and only Russia can end it. Until then let the western world continue to support Ukraine until Russia breaks.
Maybe they should take a page from Blizzard and roll out Facebook Classic?
Doesn’t Apple only really have like… 3 levels? Twice a year feels like overkill.
I think it’s more interesting that they track this.

I’d be more interested to see the other stats..

How much code is AI generated and then modified.

How much modification is typically needed.

How often suggestions are not used/abandoned/deleted.
The paper does not offer enough details on how GPT-4 is implemented. And the paper also says in its Section 2 that "We plan to make further technical details available to additional third parties who can advise us on how to weigh the competitive and safety considerations above against the scientific value of further transparency". That is, no technical details to general public. If this trend continues, I'd say companies will be crazy to think that they can always rely on OpenAPI's APIs, so the arm race of building LLMs will be on, if it has not already started.

Also, the most valuable part of the paper is p15 - p18, the credits. /jk It gives me three pieces of information:

- The credit list contains 200 people, give or take. It's going to be hard for universities to compete with OpenAI without intercollegiate collaboration.

- On the other hands, it's amazing that OpenAI can build a product instead of a research model with only 200 people. Big companies should really take notice.

- OpenAI just gave us the org structure for building a GPT competitor.
I feel BLS is a bit of a lossy dataset imo - their classification for professions is a bit meh (CIS for all types of Software adjacent roles for example).

USCIS Datasets might be useful as a proxy but aprochryally white collar immigration to the US basically tanked from 2020 onwards due to a mix of COVID restrictions and xenophobia so I'm not sure if such a proxy would be useful in the 2020-2023 timeframe compared to anytime between 2010-2020z
I'm thinking of that scene in Billy Madison where Steve Bucscemi is crossing names off a list. Poor Alex!
Presumably you forgot the 'r': https://rclone.org/
It will only be a thing if the AI is sentient AND (big and) here decided to do this type of stuff for whoever owns it (unlikely).

Until then, people will have to do stuff to survive.
Hospitals are not storing the data on a harddrive in their basement so clearly this is a solvable problem. Here's a list of AWS services which can be used to store HIPAA data:

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-eligible-services-re...

As you can see, there is much more than zero of them.
This may be an implementation detail to obfuscate GPT weights. OR it was to encourage selecting the best answers to further train the model.
I just added an Ask AI feature to our product to help customer who want to write inline javascript functions to modify workflows with code instead of UI... so far it generates amazingly good code with a realtively simple system prompt.. that just let's the AI know ahead of time details about our API such that when a customer says: "Write a function to search for a lead in salesforce with jsforce and update an activity record with the duration of the call." It can really generate code that does just that... I do have to tell it to use a specific jsforce library or it'll just generate non working code... but IMO that's unreal and amazing...

That question generated this code: [I did not write anything beyond this point]

Here's an example function that searches for a lead in Salesforce using jsforce and updates an activity record with the duration of the call:

```
exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
const jsforce = require('jsforce');

// Create a connection to Salesforce using the access token and instance URL
const conn = new jsforce.Connection({
instanceUrl: event.salesforce.instanceUrl,
accessToken: event.salesforce.token
});

// Search for a lead with the given caller number
const lead = await conn.sobject('Lead').findOne({ Phone: event.activity.caller_number });

if (lead) {
// If a lead is found, update the activity record with the duration of the call
const duration = 10; // Replace with actual duration of the call
await context.ctm.update({
activity: {
id: event.activity.id,
duration: duration
}
});
} else {
console.log('Lead not found');
}

};
```

Note that this function assumes that the caller number is stored in the Phone field of the Lead object in Salesforce. You may need to modify the code to match your specific use case. Also, the duration of the call is hardcoded to 10 seconds in this example, but you should replace it with the actual duration of the call.
I hope this disrupts Intuit’s sleazy business model propped up by mega donations/lobbying to keep its dominant position on charging for tax preparation.

I would love to ingest my tax records into a secure GPT like system running locally that understands every tax code and scenario to maximize my return.

How long before this is possible? I love that megacorps can’t pay off OpenAI or try to acquire them to stop their tech from killing off their SaaS business models.

The fact that GPT-4 is passing bar exams makes me hopeful that this evens the playing field for lay people without the resources of the wealthy across all fields, better guidance and starting points to navigate legal, financial, medical issues, etc. What a time to be alive, truly!
why is it so common for people to think psychedelics are opening us up to what is ""real"" or some deeper truth

Because the very changes in brain chemistry you're talking about affect your ability to determine whether something is real or not.

Many psychedelics cause Apophenia, Pareidolia and other disorders. In loose terms, the ability of your brain to determine what information is meaningful or not is affected and you begin to over interpret the meaningfulness of things that happen and your own thoughts. So your idle thought becomes some earth-shattering revelation.

Something similar can happen to people with Schizophrenia. They'll be walking down a street and see a license plate XUE-383 and the function of the brain that tells whether something is meaningful or not misfires, telling them that this is very important. The brain then tries to explain why this is incredibly important, hence hidden messages, spies, all sorts of things.

You can of course be on drugs or schizophrenic and understand this is what is happening but it's hard to override an emotion with logic.
I'd say closer to 40%. You almost ways need to adjust the parameters of function. Almost always need to rename variables, etc. And this is writing mostly boilerplate too.

For more custom stuff, I mostly just ignore the suggestions since they are mostly useless.
This sounds like plausible deniability, and not legal problems, at the hobbiest level. Not something I am going to worry about.
> They also always seem to conclude that the answer to these problems is to keep these machines centralized in the hands of big companies and governments, which is a very strange conclusion when they tend to get paychecks from those groups.

I'm not sure who you mean by they.

I'd suggest a vast majority of the public mindshare (in the US at least) of technology gone wrong and dystopias come from sci-fi.

In general, I have not noticed sci-fi making such conclusions. I rarely notice them drawing any hard conclusions. Readers often come away with a mix of emotions: curiosity, anxiety, excitement, wonder, or simply the joy of stepping outside one's
usual reality.

What I read and watch tends to paint a picture more than pitch or imply solutions.

- 1984 seems to make the opposite point, right? It is the classic example of the surveillance state. as such, it is a counter example of centralized power.

- A Scanner Darkly (movie) explore the question of who watches the watchers. It does not paint a pretty picture of the agency doing the surveillance.

- The Ministry of the Future shows how a government agency can't really do much without widespread decentralized underground support. As drones get cheaper, civilian activists become terrorists who assassinate climate unfriendly business people. Spoiler alert: it may not fit the pattern of a dystopian novel.

- Her (a man falling in love with his OS) explores the personal side in a compelling way.
Sounds pretty silly to at least not have it reviewed?
The author must have never seen a rerun of Beverly Hill Billies growing up. The bank President was constantly courting the attention of Jed Clampett and his family!
Probably as in there is and you can link me to it??
SVB may be called something different today, and probably something different in the near future, but we all know what we're talking about here.

Like I said downstream - if my bank fails next year (or 10 years from now) and I do not get infinite deposit insurance - then where are we? Just the well connected get special treatment? Seems so...
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