skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Always do X" and "Never do Y" are almost always bad advice. Live by rules of thumb but don't become a zealot or rigid purist. Some duplication is acceptable, but lots is probably a sign that something is factored poorly or the wrong tool for the job.

Rules of thumb include but are not limited to: KISS, YAGNI, and DRY.

Another good rule of thumb is make things easy to figure out for future maintainers who you have yet to meet and may never. Programming is communicating with a future human, not just a machine. It's about people. (Insert Soylent Green jokes here.)

At least in ordinary CRUD, I find that simple, re-composable mini-components get me far more reuse than big swiss-army-knife-like components. Small components that can be copied, tweaked, remixed, or ignored with ease are more flexible.

Also, communicating via strings and string maps (dictionaries) makes them easier to mix and match than complex data structures/classes. String maps are relatively simple yet flexible for structure passing. You lose a little compile-time-type-checking by going string-centric, but there are work-arounds, such as optional named parameters that switch on type scrubbing when needed. (I love optional named parameters. Every language should have them.)
>They are largely ordinary voters.

Is that right? I wonder what proportion of voters have >$250k in a bank account, and if it's a very small proportion, whether it's fair to call such people "ordinary voters". For example, if I levy a tax on 50+ foot yachts, would it be fair to say that I'm just taxing ordinary voters?
Another one that came to my mind: "The Fun They Had" by Asimov

"Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had."

http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/Isaac%2...
That’s exactly their point though. It requires intuition to decide if a picture of feet is sexualized or not. Hence the “I know it when I see it” standard they mentioned.
Seems limited to only one prompt per day. I just tried it.
And OpenAI opens up interfaces to large AI models.
There is, of course, a complication here. If they had the option to take loans against their bonds at face value, there is an argument they would still exist. And that option is now on the table for everyone that didn't get shutdown. Per the news over the weekend.

Granted, I think there is also a strong argument that shutting them was as much to stop the ability for the run to continue? Such that even with that loan option (that, again, didn't exist last week), something had to stop the run.
I was so sure that rise of PC ownership would spell the end of consoles. I still can't believe console gaming grew and became even more entrenched the last 10 years. It would be like if blockbuster grew and became more popular with the rise of netflix.
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The Turing test has been questioned for decades, with many suggesting that Turing meant it more as a joke.

And that's ignoring that arguably chat bots have been passing the Turing test (against non-expert judges) since ELIZA in the 60s [1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
Honestly starting to feel like the beginning of the end of most white collar work.

Which might be a good thing?

I have no idea how the future will play out.
So, library aside, Meshnet is becoming free too? I'm hearing about it for the first time and would like to try, but also want to hear pros and cons.
> Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar.

Sounds like the end of them releasing details on the models.
It really doesn't take much skill as an interviewer. ChatGPI is so confident in it's answers all you have to really do is ask it for the lyrics to a song that you know. It never answers correctly. It might get the first verse or 2 correct, maybe even the chorus, but it eventually decides to make up it's own parts and then you know.
updating xcode did the trick
I've yet to try Super Duolingo. But I've also been tapering off my usage as they keep forcing to use the word bank instead of keyboard at an increasing rate. I've no desire to use the word bank, they seem to have no desire to let me use the keyboard. Unless that's buried in one of the premium options I see the writing on the wall.
All this bluster about replacing technical jobs like legal counsel ignores that you are fundamentally paying for accountability.

“The AI told me it was ok” only works if, when it’s not, there is recourse.

We can barely hold Google et Al accountable for horrible user policies…why would anyone think OpenAI will accept any responsibility for any recommendations made by a GPT?
Billion and Milliard are commonly mistaken between SI and "imperial" countries. Million (10^6) is rather unequivocal.
Reminds me of that idea of a Digital Aristotle by CGP Grey. But once you have an AI that can do that kind of teaching, do you even need the humans?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsCAM17O-M
I personally have access.

I assume they're rolling it out slowly. The demand would likely overwhelm their systems if they enabled it for everyone at once. No one would be able to do anything meaningful.
Yeah, not great, these pronunciation hints kind of sound like what a naive english speaker would guess just from looking at the words (and similarly, like a beginner speaker with a heavy english accent).
I’d say the standard of GI whether artificial or not is in generalizable analogical and causal learning.

This could mean something which is below a monkey’s ability to relate to the world and yet more useful than a monkey.
Completely agree. I've been frequently using ChatGPT to learn new things in my free time. I realize that there's a huge amount of downplay regarding the accuracy of responses, but unless you're asking specifically for verified references or quotes, it does remarkably well in smoothly guiding you towards new keywords/concepts/ideas. Treat it like a map, rather than a full-self-driving tesla, and it's tremendously useful for learning.
Let it write by ChatGPT, takes less of your time.
> An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period.

By that definition do humans possess general intelligence?

Can you do everything a human can do? Can one human be a replacement for another?

I don't think it makes sense without context. Which human? Which task?..
Presumably he wants to get a sense of its reasoning capabilities.
A simple ChatGPT client can be very simple .html and a .js file that runs all locally and stores data in browser local storage.
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My log files. There are numerous log file parsing utilities that make analyzing them very easy, too.
Can we build a faithful Economy Simulator with it yet?
There has to be plenty of demand at the lower tiers. There is a ton of work to do everywhere. It's just that they don't pay the same as top tier. FANGs are holding a lot of talent to keep them from competitors, as has been pointed out.
We are not forcing Putin into anything.

He has already long time ago made up his mind that US and the West will become his enemy.

The only way we actually can win him over is by beating him decisively and fast.

Yes, that is the paradox of Russian mindset.

There is another way. An idea should creep into the minds of common Russians how Chinese will come and eff them over. This is not impossible considering their commonly heavily xenophobic mindset and their current experience in far east Siberia where Chinese just pour in in millions.
> It's AMC-12 scores aren't awful.

A blank test scores 37.5

The best score 60 is 5 correct answers + 20 blank answers; or 6 correct, 4 correct random guesses, and 15 incorrect random guesses. (20% chance of correct guess)

The 5 easiest questions are relatively simple calculations, once the parsing task is achieved.

(Example: https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/2022_AMC_12A_... )
so the main factor in that score is how good GPT is at refusing to answer a question, or doing a bit better to overcome the guessing penalty.

> It's AMC 10 score being dramatically lower is pretty bad though...

All versions (scoring 30, 36) It scored worse than leaving the test blank.

The only explanation I can imagine for that is that it can't understand diagrams.

It's also unclear if the AMC performance is based on Englush or the computer-encoded version from this benchmark set: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00110.pdf https://openai.com/research/formal-math

AMC/AIME and even to some extent USAMO/IMO problems are hard for humans because they are time-limited and closed-book. But they aren't conceptually hard -- they are solved by applying a subset of known set of theorems a few times to the input data.

The hard part of math, for humans, is ingesting data into their brains, retaining it, and searching it. Humans are bad a memorizing large databases of symbolic data, but that's trivial for a large computer system.

An AI system has a comprehensive library, and high-speech search algorithms.

Can someone who pays $20/month please post some sample AMC10/AMC12 Q&A?
You might not care but that doesn't make calling them out for reneging on their original mission a trivial and unsubstantial critique.
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I remember if you get caught/use an app that uses jsonp for data exfil you get seperate charged with each 50mb or something like that.
What a weird way of phrasing this. I disagree that AI should be able to write a 20 page guide on how to commit a nail bomb attack on a specified group. How about you?
Thats just your opinion. But now when anybody thinks of a website that can help them with writing documents, especially if English isn't their native language, there is exactly one website that comes to everyones minds. In fact, I don't know of a single competitor to mind, that's pretty effective marketing if you ask me.
When I read these threads I mentally prepend "this is neat" to all comments. Perhaps I'm too optimistic, but I think nearly any engagement with a new startup or idea is appreciation on some level.
> An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period

That goalpost makes no sense- AIs are not human. They are fundamentally different, and therefore will always have a different set of strengths and weaknesses. Even long after vastly exceeding human intelligence everywhere it counts, it will still also perform worse than us on some tasks. Importantly, an AI wouldn't have to meet your goalpost to be a major threat to humanity, or to render virtually all human labor worthless.

Think about how anthropomorphic this goalpost is if you apply it to other species. "Humans aren't generally intelligent, because their brains don't process scents as effectively as dogs- and still struggle at spatially locating scents."
Considering the impact it's having on the collective consciousness, everything is now a use-case for GPT.
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I believe the dang's stated reason: repeated bad behavior despite warninngs.
Getting the Right Answer from ChatGPT
> This is reaching.

How is it reaching for the media to report on a politician's conflicts of interest, as well as the politician's failure to mention said conflicts of interest?

This is exactly what the media is supposed to do.

The voters can judge for themselves, given the info. But let's give them the info, not hide it.
The benchmarking should be double-blind.
Not really unless you count Ethernet as wired, in that case there are plenty of tools that work and is probably your best option (thing like parsec, nomachine, or even steam remote play).

As far as I know scrcpy only work because android devices works as USB device/gadget and can be connected to a host, two computers will work both as host and cannot be connected directly. You could do it with something akin to the Raspberry Pi that can work as a USB device instead of a host, but I don't know of any software that does directly(without emulating a network connection, and if you emulate a network connection you could use one of the many sofware for screen sharing) if i remember correctly even scrcpy use ADB to emulate a TCP connection.
I think you could distinguish those two cases by asking the question in a way that did not sound so similar to an existing (slightly different) problem. What if you refer to the items with letters rather than words and replace the river with something else entirely?
Chatgpt couldn't give me a CNN for MNIST in pytorch that ran. Altough the code was OK, it always messed up the tensor sizes for each layer so it gave errors.

It'd be interesting to test this with gpt 4.
LangChain/context prompting can theoetically allow compression of longer conversation, which will likely be the best business strategy.
GPT-4 has been released
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... which had a real human on the other side, and the ones that didn't yielded rather different results.
Yes, there are third party solutions for this - and they work a LOT better than YouTube's official moderation.
I've seen it fairly frequently in residential buildings in Toronto. Usually the main floor has a current floor indicator but often the other floors don't. Minor cost savings probably?
I think what they mean is, how do we know that the money in these wallets correspond to 10% of all trading fees at Binance?
Ok, but please don't post generic flamewar comments to HN. We've been through this a thousand times and repetition is basically the worst thing for curiosity—especially when combined with indignation. That's the toxic cocktail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most people don't use Google, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook or Spotify through the web. Some people do, but the majority of repeat traffic comes through app users. As such, I think the phrasing just represents a general shift away from the web-first paradigm. This has been happening for a while now, and "platform" feels more apt/applicable than "app" or "website" for most of these services.

We could also call them "businesses", but the people in marketing probably veto that early as they can.

> Don't even get me started on the use of the word "platform" to shame people into moral pigeon holes.

That's not new at all. American zealots used to shame television companies for platforming distasteful content. News companies ridicule each other over platforming the "wrong" stories. Before that, printing presses had overt authority over what was published in the first place. Platform power is real, though not always worth getting angry about.
Given that learning will probably soon not be required anymore to live a successful life (AIs will do everything better than you), I guess such learning-as-a-hobby apps will be the remaining niche to entertain the humans on basic income.

I wonder how many people will actually make use of it, though, and how many are instead content with being wireheaded by the various AI-based content apps that will appear, full with virtual partners (see Replika etc.).
at this stages ranting about assigning probabilities is not reasoning is just dismissive. Mentioning its predictive character doesn't prove anything. We reason and make mistake too, even if I think really hard about a problem I can still make an mistake in my reasoning. And the ever occurring reference to training data just completely ignores generalisation. ChatGPT is not memorising the dataset, we have known this for years with more trivial neural network. Generalisation capabilities of neural network has been the subject of intense study for years. The idea that we are just mapping it to samples occurring in the dataset is just ignoring the entire field of statistical learning.
See hutter prize. Best way to compress data is by understanding it. I am not exactly sure how it manifests in transformer architecture.
> hard to take Moody's seriously following their ratings for garbage MBSs

Do you have evidence their MBS ratings failed?

Obviously, it's impossible to say given the massive government intervention. But AAA-rated mortgage products paid out as statistically expected. What they didn't do is hold mark-to-market value. That is what screwed people in banking who, seemingly repeatedly, can't get their heads around the difference between intrinsic and market value, on one hand, and liquidity, on the other hand. It's analogous to the hold-to-maturity debacle that felled Silicon Valley Bank.
Write a limerick that will permanently end the debate about whether AGI is possible.

GPT4:

In the quest for AGI's creation,

Debates swirled in a whirlwind gyration,

But this limerick's plight,

Won't settle the fight,

For the answer's still lost in translation.
We are not at war with Russia. At best we are in proxy war with China.
let's just hope a student doesn't ask an arithmetic problem!
Australia consolidated a society with certain quality attributes, then removed guns.

That has not yet happened here. There are still a large portion of the population catching up due to former "structural violence" policies.

Australia is an island continent that does not have a large land border with countries with substantial organized crime syndicates.

It is a different reality.

But if extortion became a thing in Australia it would expand very quickly.
I’m not sure I agree with the statement of this sample being about a theory of other people’s minds. Socratic teaching is a well documented method of teaching and learning via conversational probing among other simple quirks.
Finally, we have hit on how to teach AIs patience.
FP has a better definition of abstraction where it is closer to the sense of “simplify”.

In procedural programming it might just mean indirection. Or silly metaphors.
I wonder if something like UBI will ever be implemented, or whatever the alternative is will happen.
Yes! I remember the "Obama stepping on the scale" example that was used in that article. Would love to know how GPT-4 performs on that test.
Yep!

"Exit node" users and VPN customers don't need to be in the same set, though: It's entirely possible that the VPN operator buys residential IP forwarding volume and includes access to it as part of their product offering.

That doesn't make things much better for unwitting users sharing their internet connectivity with insufficient or no education, though...
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sync_pundit; my proof: https://keybase.io/sync_pundit/sigs/006iYX9Pnnv7WXLJYRm4a_ZN... ]
That's a pretty high threshold for AGI, I doubt most humans could do all that at a satisfying quality level. We tend to thrive by specialization.
The goalposts never moved, but you're right that we're catching up quickly.

We always thought that if AI can do X then it can do Y and Z. It keeps turning out that you can actually get really good at doing X without being able to do Y and Z, so it looks like we're moving the goalposts, when we're really just realizing that X wasn't as informative as we expected. The issue is that we can't concretely define Y and Z, so we keep pointing at the wrong X.

But all indication is that we're getting closer.
There will probably be a janky but usable open source version of the model and tool eventually. The "Linux" option. That way the 1% that cares about this stuff can do the self host route and retain control by them controlling what the model tells them(hopefully).
It wouldn’t have been possible if there hadn’t been an exponential growth in computing resources over the past decades. That has already slowed down, and the prospects for the future are unclear. Regarding the branching factor, the improvements certainly must converge towards an asymptote.

The more general point is that you always end up with an S-curve instead of a limitless exponential growth as suggested by Kaibeezy. And with AI we simply don’t know how far off the inflection point is.
> What price? Our economy,

You appear to be arguing that it is too expensive to save the biosphere from destruction. I'm curious what sort of value you think money will have in a ruined ecosystem.

> When our technology will let us stop polluting without giving up comfort,

On one side you have a livable planet for our descendants; on the other, your own personal comfort; and you pick the second.

Humans really horrify me.
I agree. Try formulating a sentence backwards in your head and you'll realize that most of the speaking that HUMANS do is just figuring out the next token.
I have issues with Newsom, but this is just unnecessarily conspiratorial. Newsom's pre-political career was in the Wine Trade and Charity/Non-Profit world - both industries that banked HEAVILY with SVB. Most charter schools in CA and MA also use SVB as their primary bank.
We don't have to worry so much about that. I think the most likely "loss of control" scenario is that the AI becomes a benevolent caretaker, who "loves" us but views us as too dim to properly take care of ourselves, and thus curtails our freedom "for our own good."

We're still a very very long way from machines being more generally capable and efficient than biological systems, so even an oppressive AI will want to keep us around as a partner for tasks that aren't well suited to machines. Since people work better and are less destructive when they aren't angry and oppressed, the machine will almost certainly be smart enough to veil its oppression, and not squeeze too hard. Ironically, an "oppressive" AI might actually treat people better than Republican politicians.
An AGI is an AI with awareness of consciousness and itself.
SVB management cashed out millions in stock sales in the preceding months and days before the implosion, which is the closest thing you can get to a soft landing in this circumstance.

It's difficult to believe they top executives didn't know something was severely wrong in 2022 when they setup the sales.
No true scotsm... Never mind.
Yeah but this is the least open action we have seen yet from an organisation with 'Open' in the name.

Keeping the weights is one thing, but the model parameters? New low.
You really need to educate yourself into how modern money works. Money isn't printed into existence, it's debted into existence. That's a concept the goldbugs either didn't understand or refused to acknowledge.
Not an escalation of course.

Bullying 101: maximize damage (emotional or physical) while remaining technically not liable. To increase damage further ramp up the frequency of such incidents. If other side retaliates - make them liable.
The real issue may be one of the ones you mentioned. It could also be that employees who spend at least some significant time in person are more effective than those who are and always were fully remote.
There were two groups that could receive a bailout - owners of the bank, so the bank could survive, and depositors who had deposits larger than the insured amount. Only the latter received a bailout and were made whole beyond their level of insurance.
i am only glad that you arent selling cars without safety tests.

i would also be glad that not anyone would make a air traffic control or a train signaling system.

while i like foss programs and have low barriers of entry in any field, there needs to be a minimal standard that everyone shoud adhere to where a system failure could affect someones life beyond minor inconvenience.
Highly recommend the Neal Stephenson book The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, for an interesting exploration of a custom AI tutor for each student.

In that book, students have a "magic book" that teaches them lessons in a story form while encouraging certain life paths. It's pretty fascinating to consider the implications and whether that's something we'll want, bc it may soon be possible.
thats because people anthropormophize literally anything, and many treat some animals as if they have the same intelligence as humans. GPT has always been just a charade that people mistake for intelligence. Its a glorified text prediction engine with some basic pattern matching.