skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see where you're getting "conspiratorial". It's no doubt just that, y'know, warrants shall issue upon probable cause. If you give information about yourself to someone else, and the cops reasonably suspect you of a crime and can convince a court to that effect, then they can get the info. There's absolutely no new or weird law enforcement powers needed.
If the context window grows from 32k to 1m, maybe the entire history would fit in context. It could become a cost concern though.
I don't understand why people like to fantasize the worst case scenarios.

Sentient things appreciate eachother. If you have a pet, you are most certainly benevolent to it: you house it for free, you feed it, and you entertain it.

Even if we assume AI becomes a few orders of magnitude more intelligent that humans, why would AI treat humans differently from the way we treat pets?

I don't see the drawback in being housed, fed, and entertained by an omniscient AI (who may also enjoy post cute pictures of their humans on the future AI social network)
JPMC is the only Tier-4 Global Systemically Important Bank in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemically_important...

The reason it would be hit the hardest is because it's literally the biggest among entities deemed Too Big To Fail.
While I like to joke about Google products failing as much as the next guy, you've got to give them credit for mostly being focused on research and publishing their results publicly.

Other than, you know, a company that calls themselves "Open"AI, who now even consider it too dangerous (due to competition), to even release the number of parameters of their most recent model, much less talk about the actual research.
So fire them. It's bizarre that companies appear to think that you should do cargo cult interviewing, sometimes multiple rounds with months of waiting around, then hire people, fail to lead or develop them, then just dump them en masse.

Hire them and if you can't get the performance you need, then you due them. Alternatively, hire them as contract-to-hire if your head of HR has conditioned you to be terrified of doing what you're allowed to do in the US.
If you actually care to be informed you will at least try to find a source yourself first, even to use it to disprove me.
> Where is the concrete evidence that human intelligence can be simulated by a Turing Machine?

Short of building such a machine I can’t see how you’d produce evidence of that, let alone “concrete” evidence.

Regardless, we don’t know of any measurable physical process that the brain could be using that is not computable. If we found one (in the brain or elsewhere), we’d use it to construct devices that exceeded the capacity of Turing machines, and then use those to simulate human brains.
Don Knuth: The Dawn of Rigour in the Art of Programming
Stereotypically american? Uh, I dont think so. Americans find this massively fucking weird.

Now friends or family raising money locally on behalf of an ill loved one... that is more common
Fuck all (i.e. nothing at all), maybe?
It could give you a new strategy that is built from the parts of other known strategies. But would it give you the best one?

Let's say the training corpus contains stories that compare example strategies. Each part of a strategy is explicitly weighed against another: one is called "superior".

Now all you need is a prompt that asks for "a strategy containing all superior features". There are probably plenty of grammatical examples elsewhere in the model that make that transformation.

All the work here is done by humans writing the training corpus. GPT never understood any of the steps. GPT just continued our story with the most obvious conclusion; and we made certain that conclusion would be correct.

GPT doesn't play games, it plays plays.
Doesn’t Docker rewrite firewall rules?
In my current reading conditions (on my phone, outside, nighttime) I couldn't even tell there was any text. They all appeared the same solid grey.
> set of ideals held by many white southerners.

I am a white southerner and have been for more than five decades, in all that time I have never met a single person who holds this view. I think if it was “many” I’d have encountered at least one in that time.

Sure you get the random redneck flying a tattered confederate flag outside their broken down trailer, but ascribing an adherence set of ideal to a complex philosophical hero worshipping belief system is probably a bit of a stretch.
true that. 40% of the code is AI generated doesn't mean any of it actually runs. Morely likely we're on the hype cycle of AI generated code right now.
I asked it to compare and contrast the political landscape in Spain in 1935 with the US in 2023 and it produced four paragraphs, then instantly erased everything it wrote, and replaced it with "we should talk about something else" and disabled the input textbox.
Cats and dogs apparently evolved over thousands of years to be endearing to humans so we’d take care of them. How many cat/dog ancestors do you think were eaten by humans during that process?
Can we not have semantic arguments on HN? You know what I meant.
I said less conspiratorial in context of the third option because the other two were obviously much more sketchy options? Obviously if the investigators had a lead on particular social media usernames they could get warrants for them.

Unless you mean you think it's "normal" for police to ask Google/Twitter/etc for data dumps of every single account that ever connected from x IP address?
If you have a method for hiring exactly the right people, that those people will put up with

Yeah, hire and then show actual managerial skill. If you still can't get the performance you need, then fire them. Tech hiring culture has become completely bananas and it wastes insane amounts of resources.

Tech management in the US 1) can't hire competently, 2) can't lead, 3) can't develop those under them and 4) can't man up and fire the employees they mistakenly hired and failed to lead.
Not yet! It's on my list. Have heard lots of good things from folks who are tho.
Given that not all animals keep pets, I think it's clear that the complex evolutionary pressures that result in 'cuteness' or pet ownership aren't necessary for sentience.
Yes.
Usually it requires more scraping strategies for proprietary websites like paid news sites. But for general articles where <p> is used it usually works good.
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As someone who worked in crypto, this assessment does not match my experience. I was always paid via normal payroll methods and never in tokens.
If you has this level of data, wouldn’t it be trivial to label the images?
> I don't understand why people like to fantasize the worst case scenarios.

The biggest TV show this year is literally yet another zombie apocalypse[1]. This is the easiest part to understand.

What got frustrating was when all the effective altruists got all distracted about the AI Overlord Problem and stopped doing actual charity. But it was the charity thing that annoyed us; no one wanted to deny them their sci-fi proclivities.

[1] Albeit a really great one that's really about the meaning of happiness and belonging that you should absolutely watch.
Why would the ISO for this be unbootable on vmware vsphere? I've verified the checksum that all looks good. Attaching it to a VM and setting it as connected on start up etc and it still cannot find a bookable device. Frustrating because I really wanted to try thos out. I set VM hardware to Linux Other 5.x 64-bit too.
The “day in the life of being a tech worker” tiktoks felt like the top for me.

People filming themselves eating free snacks and doing yoga and whatever else other than working.
I asked GPT-4:

"Leto II Atreides, a character from Frank Herbert's Dune series, is a highly intelligent and prescient ruler who exists thousands of years after the Butlerian Jihad, an event where humanity revolted against thinking machines and artificial intelligence.

Considering the context of the Butlerian Jihad, Leto II would likely have a complex view of ChatGPT. As a highly advanced AI language model, ChatGPT might be seen as a potential threat to humanity's independence and autonomy, given the lessons learned during the Butlerian Jihad.

Leto II might say something like:

"Though the ChatGPT technology may offer convenience and assistance, one must remain vigilant in maintaining the boundaries between human thought and machine. The Butlerian Jihad taught us the dangers of relying too heavily on artificial intelligence, as it may erode the very essence of humanity. We must be cautious in integrating such technologies, ensuring that they serve as tools to enhance our lives without supplanting our innate abilities, creativity, and decision-making."

In essence, Leto II would likely emphasize the importance of using AI like ChatGPT responsibly and with caution, taking care to preserve the balance between machine assistance and human independence, to prevent any potential resurgence of the issues faced during the Butlerian Jihad."
I can't lie, if I was on a Teams call with someone who was doing this, it would come off as quite unprofessional. Kind of like using a bunch of emojis in an email about a serious topic, I think it should be relegated to consumer use.
Human training data still currently holds a place of use, but it’s extremely time consuming to produce and frequently full of errors. Long term, future consumers and producers of information statistically speaking by volume will be AIs, not humans.

My guess PG knows this, but for whatever reasons is saying otherwise — given it’s pretty obvious; even currently, my guess is machine learning algorithms already easily consume and produce more information than humans. Yes, currently one might argue the ML is the result of humans producing it, but only matter of time before the code writes the specs that write the code that collects the data that get converted into information that’s used to repeat the process based on an objective it defines and independently evaluates.

Honestly not sure why PG is even thing on HN anymore given he rarely comments on HN, or if he does, it’s under pseudonyms:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
Then again Bing is structured to have an inner monologue...
I would not even bother interviewing someone with FAANG on their resume at my current company. They’d definitely expect more than I can pay. I’d also assume they would be bored or complain about doing grunt work that can be common in a small company. Many places know they are not top tier, or rather, they’re satisfied with what they get from programmers who work for less.
Think of how we treat ants or cockroaches. If they at all inconvenience us or even appear in our home, we kill them. We go as far as developing specialized poisons they take back to their nests to try to kill the whole colony.

It isn't hard to envision a future where the intelligence gap between humans and AI is closer to humans vs ants than humans vs dogs.
I support HSR but does it not seem like $100b (about $3k per Californian) for this project is a bit too much?

If it’s $100b or nothing I’ll take the $100b but it seems like we could probably have paid less. At these costs it makes HSR a hard sell in the rest of the country except the NoVa-Boston corridor
excuse me sir, are you blind by silicon? greedy is to train ML models on copyrighted data of hundreds of thousands of people with far beyond the amount of power Disney have!

also how many people are responsible for stuff like ChatGPT... 300? getting the bulky of their trainning data from, again, who?

it feels the monopoly history is re-inventing itself, now with fancy computers replicating human behaviour
How is this unique to Apple though? Every other smartphone company does this. It was innovative in 2012, now it’s as common as a wheel.
Crypto companies have a more sinister reason for keeping job postings up.

It's all about marketing for crypto companies that have tokens on exchanges. Their goal is to raise the token price so they can dump on retail. Having many active job postings show that they're active in development and they have plenty of money to keep the project going. If they don't have any job postings, it can be interpreted that they've already rug pulled.

It's all part of how they fool the gullible.

There are literally analytics companies that use job postings as a data point for crypto companies to see if they're active or rug pulled.

Keeping job postings up is free.

Source: Worked in and consulted for a few crypto companies years ago and analyzed many crypto scams.
If I killed someone while performing heart surgery on them, claiming I didn’t know how to perform heart surgery would hardly be an effective defense.
What happens if you don't actually spend VC money? Do they still get partial ownership?

This is the first time I hear of a situation like this, and I'm really curious.
You know what people treated like shit do? They go find greener pastures to spend their lives in, taking any of their benefits to humanity with them.

Sure, random comments of insignificant value like these will probably continue being created. Valuable content, though? That's a different story.

"This is why we can't have nice things." is a saying that accurately reflects what could happen if the "AI" community doesn't stop behaving like uncivilized barbarians. Personally, I'd prefer to have nice things.
Debugging Dockerized Go Applications with VS Code
Why should we give them credit for failing to build a working product and instead spamming research papers to conferences?
The majority of head injuries cycling are to the side, from falling at low speed. Certainly if someone is going at 30mph or above they should be wearing a helmet. But only a minority of cyclists will ever get anywhere near that speed.

> I find it extremely strange that some bicyclists would choose simply not to ride at all just because a helmet is required.

It comes down to convenience. Driving has to contend with congestion and parking, public transport with schedules and stops, cycling with bad drivers and maybe weather. Adding one more inconvenience can swing the balance towards another transport mode.
The problem is AI neither loves us nor hates us; but we're made of atoms that it can use for something else.
My brain can certainly recreate something it’s seen before. And it can certainly create something similar to a thing it’s seen before. It’s legal to do the latter and illegal to do the latter. Imperfections on the exact recreations don’t affect the legality of it.

Am I violating copyright law because I am merely capable of producing a copy of something? Obviously not. Why should the model be?
“Come to a conclusion” is probably wrong; “synthesize a response to a prompt based on the training data provided” is probably closer. Still, it’s what you and I would do when answering a question using information we’ve accumulated from reading various sources.
> Unless you mean you think it's "normal" for police to ask Google/Twitter/etc for data dumps of every account that ever connected from x IP address?

I don't see where "data dumps of every account" is substantiated anywhere, you're introducing that as a prior. They no doubt had a suspect[1], got something incriminating, took it to a judge and that was enough to get Meta or whoever to cough up the logs. If you're genuinely curious just wait for the court case and follow it. The defense will be presented with all the warrants and will challenge things if they don't look legal.

[1] No doubt because someone got sloppy with opsec and posted something from the wrong account. It's always something like that. Crime is actually really hard to do anonymously.
So it has come to this....
The attributes that define a human-pet relationship (altruism, kindness, empathy) are probably not closely related to sentience. There are other sentient species that do not exhibit these characteristics. Rather, these attributes arise from social behavior. AI, even if it can imitate social creatures, is not a social creature. Why should we trust it to treat us in any way at all?
It definitely wasn't AI generated.
Some subset of owners of sick pets DO enroll pets in experimental treatments, which i know from a life among animals. In a personal case, the results amazed the oncologists.
Microsoft's bet on Azure unlocked an AI revolution
I really wanted an online Pokémon-like experience that didn't require having a console and that didn't suck
Amazon dropped their AI resume reviewer because it would literally downrank you [0] if you attended a women's college or HBCU. anonylizard is talking out of their posterior in this particular thread.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
> there's absolutely no way dumping a patient's entire medical history into this thing could possibly be considered ethical

Emphasis mine, but isn’t this a rather extreme view to be taking? Ethics deals in the edge cases, after all, so we can easily imagine a scenario where patient consent is obtained and the extra computational analysis provides life-saving insight.

Conversely, the output could mislead the doctor sufficiently to cost the patient their life, so I’m not making any absolute statements either ;)

For the record, and pedantry aside, I do agree with your overall point. Dropping patient history into this thing is incredibly ill-advised. The fact OpenAI retains all your input, including to the API, and provides no low-cost options for privacy is one of the biggest hurdles to major innovation and industry adoption.
> With all the hype and euphoria over ChatGPT

This thing is going to take your job, and here you are downplaying it.

I write Rust on a daily basis and have gotten plenty of good suggestions.

Have you seen how fast this is accelerating? All the money and attention in the world is going to descend upon AI, and it will just keep advancing faster and faster.
Manhattan Beach is a nice city. The median for SFH is close to 4 million.
Don't worry. CCP and all kind of malicious state actors already have a copy.
Do you trust our government to respond to AI unemployment in a quick, effective, and fair manner?
> Was it very poor?

Clearly yes.

If you think there has been no damage to startups since Thursday... well, you're wrong. This episode just made us all poorer. There will be more regulation, there will be exponentially less goodwill (and our industry was already struggling on this front). Any remnant of an image of "tech" being smart or special somehow is totally shot.

So yeah, spending just a bit more time thinking about how to manage risk would have been a more wise approach.
Yeah no. You are just making shit up
> They no doubt had a suspect[1], got something incriminating, took it to a judge and that was enough to get Meta or whoever to cough up the logs.

So literally what I said in my original comment:

>> Or, less conspiratorial, the investigators had some leads on x group of accounts -> got warrants for account IP addresses -> confirmed hypothesis.
Why not? We should ask how the alternatives would do especially as human reasoning is machine. It’s notable that the errors of machine learning are getting closer and closer to the sort of errors humans make.

Would you have this objection if we for example perfectly copied a human brain in a computer? That would still be a machine. That would make similar mistakes
My inbox has a different story for you.
Interesting post. Thank you.

The paragraph that suggests that “words” go into the head but they don’t necessarily have meaning is a profound idea.

David Hume would have agreed: concepts need to be built on prior experience, and young minds typically don’t have enough of those building blocks at their disposal.

This is why when I teach a class - math, science, entrepreneurship, whatever - I always begin each new section with vocabulary. I want students to first learn the words and concepts that are key to building the new concept. I never know how diverse my students are with respect to basic knowledge.
If Paul Graham is expressing every conceivable thought then he’s not a very interesting person to read because he has no perspective on anything.

But if a model starts generating better content than Paul Graham in a nice curated form, then yeah, Paul Graham ought to find a better way to spend his time because he is not adding value.
> Once you have >$100k in your chase accounts they'll start doing that.

Is there a good reason for this other than if you're about to buy a house or something? Most of my net worth is in investments; very little is in checking or savings, because it doesn't seem like there is any benefit to that.
Lidar Reveals 650-Square-Mile Maya Site Hidden Beneath Guatemalan Rain Forest
1000 foot view:

East is old culture + institutions, west is new. Think new york + boston vs LA and SF. The east coast was settled long before cities on the west.

In broad strokes, men look to make something new / upend the existing order, and women fit into existing structures. Mirrors the age-old biological reality - men can concieve at any age, with multiple partners. Women have a limited reproductive window and carry the blood cost of reproduction. Women are more stable as caregivers, men are higher variance.

Not to say it all goes down like that, obv social norms change and people can be whatever they want, but the "bare metal" underlying biology has an impact.
Why are you putting AI in quotes, out of curiosity?

My priors tell me that great art will continue to be made, both with and without these new tools; and that people will simply re-adjust to a new normal of sorts.

What are you suggesting exactly? That all the creators are so weak-willed that they simply stop creating? Or are you implying that they are going to all go live on some sort of "no-internet-allowed" island together?
This looks fantastic! I guess you're calling the recently announced ChatGPT APIs under the hood, just curious, how much is this costing you right now?

Are you planning to leave this running as a free service? Surely it will be costing you a lot in terms of API pricing?

Most similar services running on the ChatGPT API seem to be open source or let you paste in your own API key, I'm guessing to make sure the users are paying for the API usage.
Did they say it meant nothing? No.

Theyre just saying its more complicated than "all the south = racist" which is obviously true on its face
Imagine people making weapons for themselves and the like by using AI. It will be regulated like hell.
"RR808" is roof repair glue, but maybe the OP is from the UK.
I don't consider this a bug caused by safe code. The bug is in the unsafe code, sure, but not in the safe code. Maybe the safe code triggers the bug in unsafe code. Maybe the unsafe code triggers undefined behavior, then anything can happen.

My point wasn't that rust is bug-free, but that certain classes of bugs will not exist in the safe portion, which significantly reduces attack surface.

Additionally, my point was to compare languages without safety guarantees like C to safe rust. Your statement is true, but it doesn't do anything to counter what I'm saying, which is that entire classes of bugs (namely the most common critical c bugs) are not found in safe rust, which is still the case.

Worded another way, within the boundaries of safe rust, you will not find a cause of a memory corruption bug. Things that can be the cause memory bugs include: unsound unsafe rust, c, kernel-level manipulation, random bit flips, malicious hardware, etc etc. I consider none of those to be bugs in safe rust, and additionally, they can cause bugs in all other programming languages as well.
That happens all the time. I asked it to write a parody of Bohemian Rhapsody about fraudulent ghost hunters, and every time it got to “killed a man” it would erase the song. The censor filters are too strong, and chill legitimate uses.

If you want to see what word is tripping it up, run a screen recorder. It’ll be some specific combination of words that trigger the moderation bot to undo the message.