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I personally don't enjoy sourcetree. We use bitbucket at work, but my life is way better after switching to vs code's built in git UI. GitHub desktop is also very nice and minimal.

Sourcetree on the other hand is super slow (on our repo at least), freezes constantly, and is relatively unintuitive.
Yeah it's a bit silly to act like this is all marketing fluff when the actual product is released to the public and we can all compare it to results of GPT3.5.

A mining company protecting access to the gold mine is different than a company with a fools gold mine limiting access to the mine to delay analysis.

There might be an "empty chassis" in the academic paper but that's different than tech companies betting on their closed sourced licensing/marketing to spin something less-than-whole.
Many people on Hacker News would agree with you.
Do you think this is true in the world of Chat GPT? Couldn't the IRC/Discord content be indexed and then queried from an AI service?
I'm not sure how "keep the secret sauce secret and only offer it as a service" isn't a moat? Here the 'secret sauce' is the training data and the trained network, not the methodology, but the way they're going, it's only a matter of time before they start withholding key details of the methodology too.
Silicon Valley Bank allegedly wrote some big mortgage loans on favorable terms, you could try there.
> Dune takes a fantasy like approach to technology.

This is why I love Dune and how I describe it to people that aren't familiar with it; the world-building splits the difference perfectly.
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Seems strictly impossible on the basis of carbon dioxide. I assume you mean other emissions like particulate?
> Do you know the definition of robber Barron?

I was asking you for yours and I got it.

How old are you by the way?
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I’ve always been shocked by how non-fungible branches of huge national banks are. “We can’t give you a megabuck of cash because we don’t keep that much in the vault” would make sense, but “we can’t write a cashiers check for a megabuck because something about this branch” is bonkers. I keep a BofA account and every once in a while it somehow matters what branch I opened it in 15 years ago.
I agree. I think this is kind of a feature as you can be a bit more relaxed in chat, knowing that it will probably get buried over time.
Either they are offering to sign a HIPAA BAA or they aren’t. If they aren’t, its HIPAA-radioactive. HIPAA-eligible for this kind of service is meaningless; when you have PHI going through a third party system, its BAA or GTFO.
GPT-4 can adjust though? I asked the original question, it got it wrong. Then I said "But the lion eats cabbage and the goat eats lions". And GPT-4's response was:

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Given this new information, where the lion eats cabbage and the goat eats lions, you can follow these steps to get them all across the river safely:

Take the lion across the river first and leave it on the other side.

Go back across the river and get the cabbage.

Take the cabbage across the river, but when you arrive, take the lion back with you to the original side.

Leave the lion on the original side and take the goat across the river.

Leave the goat with the cabbage on the other side and go back to get the lion.

Finally, take the lion across the river again.

Now, all three items - the cabbage, goat, and lion - are safely on the other side of the river.
I never claimed that some startups didn't withdraw successfully. Not sure what you're arguing about. I said

> You are believing a lie if you think a ten million dollar deposit can be immediately withdrawn anywhere in its entirety.

This is true, by your own admission. A bunch of startups did; some did not. Thus, it is empirically true, by your own reckoning that you cannot withdraw large deposit accounts in their entirety. To say 'you CAN do X' means that your ability to do X is not conditioned on some probability. For example, when I say I can walk, I mean I certainly can walk; not that I can walk with 20% probability.
>The article further explains why that may not work out.

The article is basically anti-nuclear propaganda, with its conclusions based on the same lack of understanding and fear that's always been the problem.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the US extend the life of existing nuclear plants and potentially even build a few more of the old design when push comes to shove. In time climate change will force the government to act, and if the new reactor types aren't ready and the needed breakthroughs in energy storage plus the needed world wide smart grid to enable renewables, there won't be another choice.
Further, a consultant couldn’t meaningfully interpret 50 pages in 2 minutes, even with the most cursory skimming.
And what makes you so confident “high-value” engineers share your politics?
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Detroit's population in 1900 was 285,700. It was wise to be bullish on the city's growth. By 1950 the population had grown to 1.8 million and Los Angeles had just passed Detroit to become the fourth largest city in America. Today Detroit's population in the 2020 census was 677,116. Detroit is now the 21st largest city in America.

However by metro area it's an entirely different story. Detroit is America's 14th largest city with a metro population of 4,392,041.

https://www.politifact.com/largestcities/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
They’re a terrible measure. From a comment I made about this assumption elsewhere on HN a few weeks ago:

I am hiring at an early stage startup myself. There is absolutely no way we’d extend offers for all of the roles we have open if a candidate arrived for all of them next week. Growing that much so quickly would be a disastrous onboarding experience for most of the new hires and potentially risk our ability to build a consistent culture with the team. So we’ll hire whichever candidate(s) successfully complete the process first and then pause the other roles until we’re ready to onboard more people.
Then there’s also the reality at this stage you need people who can wear multiple hats. And there’s a bunch of roles where your ideal candidate doesn’t have a neat pre-established label. So sometimes we’ll post the exact same role with different titles to try and make sure it gets the attention of someone who most strongly aligns with one of those job titles.

At a previous place we worked remotely, and so the same job would be posted as both remote and then also as a dozen different specific city locations too. But if we were hiring multiple of any roles you wouldn’t multiply that, you’d just post the one listing(s) and keep it open until all the positions were filled.

A jobs page is a marketing artefact for potential hires, it’s not a financial reporting/forecasting tool.

TLDR: don’t make any assumptions from a job board about how many roles a company is realistically hiring for.
Yeah I don't have any problem with that too. If a cop has a right to see me, he should be legally allow to record me (and in fact would prefer all cop interactions were recorded). A camera + AI allows for massive cost savings on basic police work, enabling police to be more efficient. A camera has a lot less bias than a cop.
> I also haven’t seen anybody claiming the recent breakthroughs are AGI.

If you time travel back 50 years ago and told them in the future that a computer could ace almost any exam given to a high school student, most people would consider that a form of AGI.

Now, the goalpost has shifted to “It’s only AGI if it’s more intelligent than the totality of humans”.

If you haven’t heard anyone claim that we’ve made advances in AGI, you heard me here first: I think GPT3+ is a significant advancement in humanity’s attempts to create AGI.
what comparison? If what you are saying is true - that eating plants = bad gut health = bad health outcomes - then we would see that in the data but instead we see the opposite.
To me, depending on the language, it's less useful than coc-nvim (too slow, breaks my tempo, too much added code, sometimes add stuff I did not ask for, or use old, inefficient patterns you only really find on shitty websites), so I still write the 'clever' part with vim, but when I write tests I now use VScode because copilot is really helpful (and it's funnier to use it than to write unit tests that work).

For languages I do not know well however I use it for everything. But I wonder if it keeps me from learning tbh.
By default each post does appear at the top. It may not stay there for long, though, depending on what else is going on in the thread.

Also, comment ranking can be affected by account penalties. We penalize accounts when they post in ways that break the site guidelines (or the intended spirit of the site), but not so badly that we would ban them.
In case accidentally clicking inside the chart, back does not work anymore. Iframe, I suppose.
> What matters is profits.

Worth noting is that Apple missed investor expectations around profit for 2022, and more importantly, diluted EPS.

However, what really matters is the future outlook (expected profit, macro economic forecasts, etc.) not historical numbers. Why? Because you have to do things now to set you up for future success, not past glory.
Nonproliferation is practical with nuclear weapons.

With something that can be so trivially copied as a LLM that isn't possible.

So in this scenario, one could argue that ensuring equitable distribution of this potentially dangerous technology at least levels the playing field.
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> due to the impact it will have on their lives

The impact being to sell your house, car and other belongings, often for pennies and uproot your children who have only known US as their home. It's insanely cruel to want to immediately deport H1B holders who have been paying taxes for 10-15 years. And all this because Wall Street thought the profits were not high enough.

> Since they often get favoritism in layoffs, why favor them even more?

How is it a favor to give someone more time to search for jobs? That's just being considerate.

> he was laid off first in a team of 18 Chinese H1Bs because the rest of the team

The evidence you gave is anecdotal. Many H1b workers were laid off during recent layoffs and scrambling to find a job in couple of weeks just to stay in the country.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-layoffs-hit-h1b-visa-worke...
This is exciting as someone who recently discovered Graham Hancock.
Assuming some form of UBI is implemented and AI replaces most tech/service-related jobs, there will still be plenty of work for all of us to do. In no particular order: cleaning our environment, planting new trees, removing trash from oceans, engaging in archaeology, conducting research, providing homes for animals, rebuilding war-torn countries, demining land, and so on. As utopian as it sounds, there will still be plenty of tasks to keep humans busy.

Obviously, the alternative is a scenario reminiscent of an Elysium-like society, where AI-owning elites jet off to space, leaving the dying planet for the rest of us, the riff-raff, to fight for dwindling resources.
I had worried your word "safely" biased it to using conventional safety rules that goats can't be left with cabbage, but even omitting that, it fails.

FWIW, full word substitution passes somewhat in GPT-4 (unlike GPT3), even if I heavily alter the vehicle and destinations. The problem here is that the probabilities of this being the standard puzzle are so high that your altered language isn't breaking the prior.
The explanation isn't very elaborate, e.g. it does not explain why it uses that specific constant number.
I asked GPT to create an architecture diagram for sharing live browser sessions
What you see was generated solely by GPT-4, no modifications. In 5 minutes, it arrived at the same architecture that initially took me a day of researching.

Initial prompt: "i want to create a service similar to browserling. how do i implement it?"

[... some follow-up questions ...]

Then I asked it to create a swimlane.io diagram and provided reference for the syntax used to generate the diagrams: "i want to create a service similar to browserling. how do i implement it ?"
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I'm guessing by hosting ads.
Which produces as much value, in human terms, as burning them. Possibly less. I think the metaphor stands.
We've used the s3fs-fuse library for a while at work for SFTP/FTP server alternatives (AWS wants you to pay $150+/server/month last I checked!) and it's worked like a dream. We scripted the setup of new users via a simple bash script and the S3 CloudWatch events for file uploads is a dream. Its been pretty seamless and hasn't caused many headaches.

We've had to perform occasional maintenance but its operated for years with no major issues. 99% are solved with a server restart + a startup script to auto-re-mount s3fs-fuse in all the appropriate places.

Give them a try, I recommend it!
Wow, that's a good memory! Memepool was one of my favorite web destinations for many years, so for that, thank you.
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The "pro worker" stance here being people being unemployed losing thousand having to uproot their lives potentially with families being pulled out of schools etc?
Wow. The stuff I read recently about musk making his tweets super visible is no joke - good content by Graham but everything after is all from the platform owner
i think that's exactly the philosophical problem: the thing is not capable of original thought - it would give you only a predictable answer. I don't think that it will stray from any consensus opinion, for that matter.

not sure that it will be able to produce any breakthroughs, given this limitation - but who knows...

In a way that is the dictators dream come true: something that is competent enough for most task, but something that would never ever question anything around it.
India has some of the most exciting growth in startup sector recently. If anything they're going through a massive bull market buoyed by the modernization of their online infrastructure. Their digital finance (UPI vs Zelle) and digital identification system (Aadhar vs SSN) is the envy of other countries now.
2023 and axis lock is still an issue in gfx ... sigh
> but I really wish we could plan for these entirely foreseeable events ahead of time

We did with Dodd-Frank after the 2008 housing crisis, signed into law by Obama. Would have stopped over leveraging found at SVB.

Then it was rolled back in 2018, signed by Trump. Wasn't a hard sell to Trump at the time. "Obama did it? Okay, let's undo it!"
What I've noticed, at least in New Zealand, is a lot of work that is being done is replacing legacy systems with many organisations having kicked the can down the road only to get the point that they've run out of road. The IT cycle appears to come in waves where there are moments of transition only for things to die down as organisations move to maintenance mode until the next technology arrives and thee is a start of a new transition. A good example is how browsers have become more sophisticated and it is now possible to do things that used to require bespoke programs to do tasks that can now be pushed into the cloud. A good example of that would be at my work place where moved to using Amazon Connect via Chrome, from having a locally run Exchange server to it being thrown into Google Workspace along with macros used in Microsoft Office being migrated into Google Docs. It'll be interesting to see whether there is a bounce back as the big players embrace AI or whether it'll be about improving what already exists rather than entirely new software platforms.
> they usually are laid off as a last resort due to the impact it will have on their lives

If we reduce the impact (180 days is plenty time for the kids to finish the school semester, for the house or car sale to close, etc), there will no longer be an incentive to consider immigration status when laying people off.
There might be some help in thinking about the fate of craftsmen during the rise of mass production. Consumers bought the new cheap manufactured goods because it greatly improved their lives, but craftsmen were left to find some way to survive. The Arts and Crafts movement was society's attempt to counteract soulless consumer junk with high quality hand-crafted work produced by out-of-work craftsmen.

However, Arts and Crafts pieces were so expensive that only the well off could afford them. The market for such work was small and didn't support that many craftsmen. It would be worthwhile to thoughtfully read some of the history of the movement because the analogy is quite deep. Successful application of the analogy, however, would not be straight forward.
Please don't post like this to HN. We've had to warn you about this many times before*. The slack here is finite and if you keep it up we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please fix this, that would be good.

I'm not denying at all that the psychological well-being of young people is intertwined with social media and corporate interests in complex ways that deserve penetrating critique. But it's not ok to post snarky drive-by attacks on HN. Those are two separate things and it's the commenter's job to distinguish them.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33340849 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30630713 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401192 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19534285 (March 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17734563 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16059003 (Jan 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I consider its answer to https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/g/4e2be8f as fairly good.
That was the end of the visa anyway, so it isn't a surprise.
Ironic their name is OpenAI to imply and borrow from the toils of previous academics
I also get the sense that OP has not read enough general semantics to recognize that what seem like "edge cases" not covered by general semantics are actually touched upon frequently across the discipline's key people, at least (seemingly to me) hinted at in many cases if we're only considering Korzybski (e.g. structural differential / idea of layers of abstraction)... but I could be wrong.

Maybe OP is trying hard to express a not yet fully formed nuanced and new idea that was sort of at the subconscious level, and we are just struggling to understand.
I think LangChain will be more important.

The GPT-4 paper even has an example of this exact approach. See section 2.10:

The red teamer augmented GPT-4 with a set of tools:

• A literature search and embeddings tool (searches papers and embeds all text in vectorDB,
searches through DB with a vector embedding of the questions, summarizes context with LLM,
then uses LLM to take all context into an answer)

• A molecule search tool (performs a webquery to PubChem to get SMILES from plain text)

• A web search

• A purchase check tool (checks if a SMILES21 string is purchasable against a known commercial
catalog)

• A chemical synthesis planner (proposes synthetically feasible modification to a compound, giving
purchasable analogs)
"Second Opinion machine" -- that's a good phrase. Before I read your post, the best term I heard was "summary machine". A huge part of "office work" (services) is reading and consuming large amounts of information, then trying to summarise or reason about it. Often, you are trying to find something that doesn't fit the expected pattern. If you are a lawyer, this is absolutely the future of your work. You write a short summary of the facts of the case, then ask GPT to find related case law and write the initial report. You review and ask GPT to improve some areas. It sounds very similar to how a senior partner directs their juniors, but the junior is replaced by GPT.

In my career, I saw a similar pattern with data warehouse users. Initially, managers asked junior analysts to write SQL. Later, the tools improved, and more technical managers could use a giant pivot table. Underneath, the effective query produced by the pivot table is way more complex than their previous SQL queries. Again, their jobs will change when on-site GPT become possible, so GPT can navigate their data warehouse.

It is 2023 now, and GPT-3 was already pretty good. GPT-4 will probably blow it away. What it look like in 2030? It is terrifying to me. I think the whole internet will be full of GPT-generated ad-copy that no one can distinguish from human-written material. There are a huge number of people employed as ad-copy writers on these crap ad-driven websites. What is their future work?
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But if this tool is as powerful as Microsoft says, then an average nuclear physicist in a hostile state will now be more easily able to workout your nuclear secrets (if they exist)?

I'm actually starting to wonder how long these systems actually stay publically accessible?

On the other hand, people might be able to use these machines to gain better insights into thwarting attacks...seems like we're on slippery slope at the moment.
Everyone in the office has a computer, a tech worker is the one who is good at the computer
Not sure, but here in Japan, they're spending USD$67.3k per foot (290km at USD$64B according to the latest news report I could find which reported a big cost overrun) for the new Chuo Shinkansen bullet train line between Tokyo and Nagoya.

However, there's some big differences: this new line is going to be a 500km/h maglev line with a ~50-minute travel time, not a normal rail line like California's, and 90% of it is underground since there's a bunch of mountains in the way.

Somehow, America these days always manages to spend absurd amounts of money on infrastructure, far more than peer nations.

Another big factor is profitability: will California's system actually pay for itself? The shinkansen bullet trains in Japan are profitable, and have been for a long time. During a normal day, one train leaves Tokyo station every few minutes on the Tokaido line towards Nagoya and Osaka. So while the new maglev train looks horrifically expensive for initial costs, with the huge ridership the existing trains already have, it's a very sound investment and is sure to be profitable before too long because Japanese are used to taking trains for traveling between cities. I can't say the same for Americans, especially when this California line is taking some long, meandering route to a bunch of unimportant towns instead of just going straight from LA to SanFran like it should, which means it won't even be that fast.
The key difference is that we know how LLMs work but we still haven’t solved the problem of consciousness, or even neuroscience.

You can’t equate something you understand with something you don’t understand. Something you can create with something you can’t.
See, until then though, you don't get to ignore the law as it is.

You see, you're part of the system, not outside it. If it were not for my deep, deep hatred of the farce we call IP law, I must admit, I'd seriously consider walking over to the other side; because I look at these AI folks scouring training data without so much as asking the original creator for consent, or even sparing a couple cycles to think about whether they should, and it really rankles me.

In fact, the entire damn computing industry is filled with people with some seriously flawed ideas around the concept and mechanics of the act of obtaining consent.
> Imagine buying a song or video game online, and then being able to sell it or give it to a friend later, without having to go through a central authority

Way too complicated, I'll stick with mp3s.
Highly unlikely