skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you made a critical error of being too generic? What field and what certs? If 90% of certs are junk the your takeaway is wrong because people are posting the wrong certs? What about industry? I didn't even know coders had certs but in infosec for example some certs hold a lot of weight.

I've been on the other side of an interview a few times and I can tell you, I will ask more specific and technical questions if you list a technical cert. I have a few certs but mostly to show my range of skills.

See, interviewers look at one thing I did on a past job or a few things I did because they need to be done and their takeaway is "this guy is more into such and such tech but we need someone who knows something else" but I list the certs to allow them to grill me and find out I actually know that shit.

Now, I have seen lazy-ass managers even on HN that blindly associate having certs with not having skills and to be honestI want nothing to do with such people or orgs that tolerate blatantly lazy managers who can't even delegate technical interviews to their subordinates but instead use gut feelings like this to make decisions. A person spends thousands of dollars on certs and their impression is that person is lame but someone half-starts a bunch of things and is a smooth talker and that's their man.

So, yeah, I guess it helps filter out bad employers just like it helps filter out bad employees. If you refuse to interview someone because they actually have a cert, yeah, that shit needs to be illegal.
We've had this before Chat and we'll have this after Chat.
How do you know what a PhD is telling you is truth?

Unlike the PhD, the AI model has benchmark scores on truthfulness. Right now, they're looking pretty good.
System design interview question from Netflix – Design a web app like Reddit
Humans making decisions in high stakes situations do so in a context where responsibility is intentionally diffuse to a point where it is practically impossible to hold someone accountable except picking someone at random as a scapegoat in situations where "something" needs to be done.

Killing people with AI is only a lateral move.
> Especially in a chatbot use case with cumulative prompting, which is the best use case for such a large context vs. the default cheaper 8k window.

Depends on what is up with the images and how they translate into tokens. I really have no idea, but could be that 32k tokens (lots of text) translates to only a few images for few-shot prompting.

The paper seems not to mention image tokenization, but I guess it should be possible to infer something about token rate when actually using the API and looking at how one is charged.
NGL I dig a management team that doesn't take themselves too seriously. It's simply awkward advertisement; you'll see much worse on any local tv station.
Russian fighter collides with US drone, sending it crashing into the Black Sea
I recently realized that Hackernews deletes double spaces.
The endless war of usability and security
Is anyone else absolutely terrified of the future this is bringing?
it's an overly high bar, but it seems well on its way to competing with experts from every field. it's terrifying.

and I'm not so sure it has no model of the world. a textual model, sure, but considering it can recognize what svgs are pictures of from the coordinates alone, that's not much of a limitation maybe.
I was suspended by Disney+ for accidentally turning on my VPN to a location they didn't like...I instantly cancelled my subscription. I couldn't believe the suspension message, banned a paying user... Never again.
There's not anyone rooting for Google to win; it's lost a whole lot of cred from technical users, and with the layoffs and budget cuts (and lowered hiring standards) it doesn't even have the "we're all geniuses changing the world at the best place to work ever" cred. OpenAI still has some mystique about it and seems to be pushing the envelope; Google's releases seem to be reactive, even though Google's actual technical prowess here is probably comparable.
Humanity as a whole can improve itself indefinitely, there is little doubt about that. For robots, there is no distinction between a single robot and robotuity, as software can be replicated cheaply and quickly.
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They're never going to be able to hire top talent again.

They're IBM now.
I think if you had asked someone what would qualify as AGI twenty years ago, then GPT4 would be hitting most of their milestones…

The Star Trek computer is virtually assured by the end of the decade. All the components exist today in various forms.
Using the new GTP-4 for good
> It doesn’t say anything about the correct answer to the question

It doesn't necessarily say something about the correct answer to the question. That however doesn't automatically mean it never says something about the correct answer to the question.

I decided in this case, that it does.
Credit Suisse is a investment bank. UBS is a typical personal bank for majority of Suisse people and they also offer a few personal investment options. They have a separate investment side.
Note that GPT-3 is 2.5 years old (counting from the beta), and that from what is publicly known, GPT-4 was already in development in 2021.
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Does "Open"AI really not even say how many parameters their models have?
You know who had a really good time? All of those institutional investors who got your $100.
As of now I don't think they have updated ChatGPTPlus with GPT-4. It will likely appear in the model dropdown when it is released.
Example PR to OpenAI evals to get GPT-4 early API access
GPT-4 is available now for subscribers to GPT+. It can be selected from the drop-down.
I think FRB will be fine, but FWIW you shouldn't take this as evidence in favor of that. I guarantee all their tellers and support techs were given explicit instructions to not give any signals that anything is wrong. In a nervous environment like this, one misspoken word from a firstline tech could be all it takes to start a panic.
I taught the LSAT for several years. A score of 163 on the LSAT is the lowest score that is considered a "good score" -- i.e., a score that gives you a shot at getting into a decent law school.
How many deaths would you attribute to cryptocurrency?

Dollar hegemony's death toll is in the millions.
Most of the comments here are denial and goalpost shifting... GPT-4 has different strengths and weaknesses from humans, but it is now in the general realm of human intelligence vs being far below that with GPT-3.

Another jump past GPT-4 of the same magnitude, would greatly surpass human cognitive abilities and present a danger to humanity.
Before Uber (around 2010) LA County mandated that Taxis accept credit cards. I don't think I ever managed to get in a cab where the credit card reader wasn't mysteriously "broken."
> Yeah, I know about LLAMA, but as I understand - it's not exactly legal to use and share it.

For anyone keeping track, this is when you update your cyberpunk dystopia checklist to mark off "hackers are running illegal AIs to compete with corporations".
A fudge factor that makes your models agree with observation? Yeah, pretty much. I was never an expert in CDS so I always wondered if other people had better ways of dealing with it. But nobody I've come across has ever offered anything other than 40%.
IMO, it's a good opportunity to re-think about exam and future of education. For many schools, education = good results in exams. Now GPT-4 is going to slam them and say what's the point now!
I'm so fatigued from everything being called "woke." That video is cringy AF, but it isn't 100% representative of who they are/were. For all we know, this was the idea of one person in marketing and it got green-lit for various reasons. Faux News is trying to say the SVB's failure was due to it's "wokeness." The fact that they mismanaged their investments is apparently irrelevant to a business collapsing.
Which authors? Machine Learning research authors?
Because those were the real goal-posts all along, some of the best SF novels written all the way back in the ‘50s and ‘60s are testimony to that.
The funny part about Java is that "Enterprise Java" used to depend a lot more on things being in the base application server, and because that was, as usual, complete hell, it now went the complete other way and microservices will often "just bundle the entire application server" in the uberjar as a result.
> Passing exams is a really fascinating benchmark but by their nature these exams are limited in scope, have very clear assessment criteria and a lot of associated and easily categorized data

I know I’m not the first to say this, but this is also a generalization of many jobs performed right now.

Follow the template, click the boxes, enter the text/data in the standard format, submit before 4pm. Come in tomorrow and do it again.
I would imagine that large language models will plateau like smartphones did. Until a next step happens which unlocks something bigger.
Google had an AI announcement where you could neither use it or even signup for a wait list to use it. What sort of response is an announcement like that supposed to get?
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The bar charts in this article are bad. I guess because if they had normal axis you'd realize the differences are insignificant. Also if I'm reading this correctly, the more certs I list - the less I'll hear from recruiters? If so, excellent. I'll do that in addition to adding a weird unicode character to my name.
> We benchmark humans with these tests – why would we not do that for AIs?

Because the correlation between the thing of interest and what the tests measure may be radically different for systems that are very much unlike humans in their architecture than they are for humans.

There’s an entire field about this in testing for humans (psychometry), and approximately zero on it for AIs. Blindly using human tests – which are proxy measures of harder-to-directly-assess figures of merit requiring significant calibration on humans to be valid for them – for anything else without appropriate calibration is good for generating headlines, but not for measuring anything that matters. (Except, I guess, the impact of human use of them for cheating on the human tests, which is not insignificant, but not generally what people trumpeting these measures focus on.)
I got LLaMA to say that it was sentient without mentioning sentience at all, I think this is a pretty bad metric.
If you'd like to value my 10-year 1%-yield treasures at face-value, I have a lot of them I'd be happy to sell you.

I don't suppose you would like to pay a dollar for eighty cents, though.

The hold-to-maturity rules seem reasonable to me, and it's insane that SVB actively and voluntarily turned themselves from 'insolvent under a particular accounting interpretation' to 'actually insolvent'.
How do you guarantee the server that sent the Javascript to the browser, which stores the client secret key in the browser, didn't get hacked to also send the client secret key somewhere else after it was generated in the client?
I wouldn't be surprised if this tech goes through some kind of export control regulation similar to what cryptography went through in the 90s. Remember the T-Shirt with the RSA source code that was classified as a munition?
And those "skill assessment" quizzes are meaningless with all questions/answers being a web search away (and not in looking through docs kinda of way but the actual questions/answers).
I'd much prefer a lower chance of dying to more accountability for whoever is responsible but higher chance.
Apologies

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210614-why-ineffectiv...
I have NordVPN on one device.

Nothing in their license agreement and no settings for this at all.

Doesn't appear they are recruiting devices into this residential proxy service.
dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154527
this is common federal level thing.
The most important question is, what new applications can be developed using GPT4 which couldn't have been developed using GPT3.5?
It shows how the hell we wound up like this.
Looks like Bing chat is using GPT-4 already:

"Good news, we've increased our turn limits to 15/150. Also confirming that the next-gen model Bing uses in Prometheus is indeed OpenAI's GPT-4 which they just announced today."
- Jordi Ribas, Corporate VP @ Bing/Microsoft

https://twitter.com/JordiRib1/status/1635694953463705600
I think there are two different things that people are talking about when they say AGI - usefulness and actual general intelligence. I think we're already passed the point where these AIs are very useful and not just in a Siri or Google Assistant way and the goal posts for that have moved a little bit (mostly around practicality so the tools are in everyone's hands). But general intelligence is a much loftier goal and I think that we're eventually going to hit another road block regardless of how much progress we can make towards that end.
I think you’re missing the point of my deliberately terse reply.

All of the replies you are getting are trying to tell you that there’s no deep thinking involved. There’s no “hey I considered it and the comp overcame my concerns”
etc. Most of the leetcode-into-fang people are not doing a moral calculus or even spending thirty seconds thinking about the ethical aspects.

There are no concerns. There are no ethics for most of the people in our industry. It is an employer who pays well so they work there.

Your comment implies that, yes, it came down to comp, but also implies that for Facebook employees, on average, there is any thought process beyond economic maximization. There isn’t.

I know a ton of facebook and ex-facebook engineers. They also worked for famously ethical companies like Zynga and Uber. Now and then they’ll do the pretend performative handwringing or whatever but their decisions are consistent.

There is just money.
So, if you are fired from enough workplaces for not working enough you get rich and don't have to work. :)
The point of that example was that they indicated it was the wrong response. After RLHF the model correctly tells the user how to find cheap cigarettes (while still chiding them for smoking)
The 98-pages paper doesn't say anything about the architecture of the model, I know, the irony
> Yes, there is sort of a bootstrapping problem around how do you get people onboarded onto a particular blockchain.

Yeah, but would I like to do that? All these blockchains are literally some shady guy that tells me "trust me and my tech to manage that ownership for you". What is in it for me?
Khanmigo- GPT-4 powered Khan academy tutor
This announcement just came out in the heels of the GPT-4 announcement from OpenAI. The liked video has Sal Khan announce Khanmigo to the world. Exciting times. I signed up for my HS freshman son so he can understand economics concepts better.
Huh? Of course they can. Is the person shipping what they're supposed to be shipping?
Is your argument that landlords are by and large rational actors? Yes, I will concede that landlords are by and large rational actors, although I'm not sure that means as much as you seem to think it does.

A landlord is investing, and usually willing to consider returns over a long term. Landlords I have known are not profitable every year, and almost never from day one on any given property. I have known one landlord--and heard of others--who have seen multiple years of profit on a property get wiped out by a single bad tenant. But that's okay! Most landlords (not the big corporate landlords for which the economics are very different) console themselves in unprofitable times with the knowledge that at least they have the underlying asset, and it should increase in value over time.

> Renters have their rent go up every year. Owners are always ahead after 30+ years.

Look, if the only thing you care about is $X out every month, then sure, fine. Buy a house, don't look back, and whatever you do, don't every tote up every penny you've spent on everything related to your house and chart it against S&P Index returns over the same period of time if you'd rented a smaller apartment instead.
>At approximately 7:03 AM (CET), one of the Russian Su-27 aircraft struck the propeller of the MQ-9, causing U.S. forces to have to bring the MQ-9 down in international waters. Several times before the collision, the Su-27s dumped fuel on and flew in front of the MQ-9 in a reckless, environmentally unsound and unprofessional manner. This incident demonstrates a lack of competence in addition to being unsafe and unprofessional.

https://www.eucom.mil/pressrelease/42314/russian-aircraft-co...
I don't buy the approach. What does it even mean 'Cisco'? CCENT? CCNA? DEVNET? CCIE? Cursera - it varies greatly in quality. Amazon again, Solutions Architect is a memorization exercise, on other side SysOps is more hands on. Yet graphs lumps all those together.
Because there were large models trained on huge amounts of data yesterday yet they couldn't do it.
What if bond holders are shareholders?
After graduating from Medford High School in 1965, he enrolled at Oregon State University in Corvallis.[9] The school's coach, Berny Wagner, believed that Fosbury would eventually achieve greater results using the western roll and convinced him to continue practicing the old technique through his freshman year, although he was allowed to use the "flop" in freshman meets.[5] The debate over technique ended during Fosbury's sophomore year, however, when he cleared 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) in his first meet of the season, shattering the school record.[5]

Fosbury later recalled:

After the meet, Berny came up to me and said, "That's enough." That was the end of Plan A, on to Plan B. He would study what I was doing, film it, and even start to try to experiment and teach it to the younger jumpers.[5]
If you want to be sure, you have to pin your TLS certificates. That way someone either has to decompile your executable and replace that pinned cert (hard if you use SW signing), crack your signature (not likely) or steal your private key.

There are several other methods that I've seen but they are not bulletproof:
- talking directly to hardcoded DNS such as 8.8.8.8
- hardcoding IP addresses into SW
- Checking for some obscure header as a part of client/server identification
Send me an email (bio) - I will be happy to share my experience on this!
It's not clear to me the median human will do better by being in the loop. Will most human-made deductive follow-up questions be better than another "detective" language model asking them?

It's like having a person review the moves a chess computer gives. Maybe one human in a billion can spot errors. Star Trek is fiction, I posit that the median Federation Starship captain would be better served by just following the AI (e.g., Data).
>And that’s perfectly fine - computers are a tool, enabling valuable usecases for everyone.

Of course. But the arbitrage of that knowledge leaves open all kinds of profitable businesses, including shady VPNs.
Except the machine can’t explain its reasoning, it will make up some plausible justification for its output.

Humans often aren’t much better, making up a rational sounding argument after the fact to justify a decision they don’t fully understand either.

A manager might fire someone because they didn’t sleep well or skipped breakfast. They’ll then come up with a logical argument to support what was an emotional decision. Humans do this more often than we’d like to admit.
People with long About blurbs on their LinkedIn profiles tend to be weaker as well.
I am not a species chauvinist. 1) Unless a biotech miracle happen, which is unlikely, we are all going to die anyway; 2) If an AI will continue life and research and will increase complexity after humans, what is the difference?
Yea, unfortunate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34606345
> Public teachers and other bureaucrats

Teaching is a very hands on, front-line job. It's more like being a stage performer than a bureaucrat.
See also

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-hot-block-japan-geotherm...

on the Onsen industry’s political opposition to geothermal energy projects.
https://xkcd.com/468/

anything not on your list
Or it could be that Google and FB are both incumbents scrambling to catch up with OpenAI, who is a much smaller competitor that is disrupting the space?
You don't. For most people, the commonly used tricks (e.g., Leibniz's
rule) are sufficiently nontrivial that you have to review them in the
new context.

What you've yet to experience however is just how vastly long life is
after college. If you think you're barely able to keep everything in
your head now, just wait until you're 30. If you haven't gone into
academia, the maths you're studying now will be like a forgotten dream.
That rant gets better every time I read it.
A bit hyperbolic to say HN groupthink => "FB doomed". More like FB is over valued and their product has stagnated and alienated their user base.
How do we know anything is true??!

Seriously, you're veering into sophistry.

People have reputations. They cite sources. Unless they're compulsive liars, they don't tend to just make stuff up on the spot based on what will be probabilistically pleasing to you.

There are countless examples of ChatGPT not just making mistakes but making up "facts" entirely from whole cloth, not based on misunderstanding or bias or anything else, but simply because the math says it's the best way to complete a sentence.

Let's not use vacuous arguments to dismiss that very real concern.

Edit: As an aside, it somehow only now just occurred to me that LLM bullshit generation may actually be more insidious than the human-generated variety as LLMs are specifically trained to create language that's pleasing, which means it's going to try to make sure it sounds right, and therefore the misinformation may turn out to be more subtle and convincing...
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People don’t lie (“hallucinate”) in the way that LLMs do. If you’re having a friendly chat with a normal person they’re not going to start making up names and references for where they learned some fact they just made up.

Edit: Please stop playing devils advocate and pay attention to the words “in the way that LLMs do”. I really thought it would not be necessary to clarify that I know humans lie! LLMs lie in a different way. (When was the last time a person gave you a made up URL as a source?) Also I am replying to a conversation about a PhD talking about their preferred subject matter, not a regular person. An expert human in their preferred field is much more reliable than the LLMs we have today.
What's the difference between suing your doctor's liability insurance and suing your AI's liability insurance?
Sorry to hear that. The current medical system is a joke and fails people at every stage
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Ymmv: I work in enterprise environment and certifications are often an entry criterion. There's a world outside HN.
Currently, CLIP's largest size is at patch-14 for 336x336 images, which translates to 577 ViT tokens [(336/14)^2+1]. It might end up being token-efficient depending on how it's implemented. (the paper doesn't elaborate)
Yes, exactly.

LLVM docs: https://llvm.org/docs/LinkTimeOptimization.html
Judging by the username I'll guess this is coming from the Bulgarian perspective? Then again you could argue that most of that region is half-Turk :-)
Not for everyone apparently. I'm subscribed and it doesn't appear in the dropdown.
It's AMC-12 scores aren't awful. It's at roughly 50th percentile for AMC which (given who takes the AMC) probably puts it in the top 5% or so of high school students in math ability. It's AMC 10 score being dramatically lower is pretty bad though...
http://archive.today/Hc2TN
btw your user profile looks messed up (firefox, macOS)