skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also useful, "please cover this code with meaningful unit tests"?

GPT-3.5 is already really good at that. If you aren't using ChatGPT for your unit tests I'd suspect you're on a Performance Improvement Plan by now
>It is illegal for you to download copyrighted material and distribute it as your own

I'm sure the millions of people who violate copyright law daily with absolutely no repercussions care very much about that.
...Okay but random human might fail on exact same thing.
Ugh not this again.

Who the hell is running a business where the developers are mere struggling code monkeys who have no other value to the company, would never code review the AI output, and would find it faster to repl a bunch of imprecise prompts instead of just writing the damn code in the first place?
Plenty of people do. $190k's just this ridiculous "from first principles" logic game on how much money you need to "survive" there, but it really means "not panic over money or going hungry and bank a little in an emergency fund and a retirement account" level of living, and not "If I eat ramen for a week I can afford the concert ticket" level of subsistence.
I read the French legal documents and your notices regarding GDPR.

What I don't understand from those, and statements made by your team in this thread, is how some claims can be compatible.

- That the product is GDPR compliant.

- That you don't store the PII or health data.

- Yet all data is stored at Google servers.

- Also, you reserve the right to re-use said data. (Which, since this is for R&D purposes, should probably qualify you for the need to ask the CNIL for an authorization as "health data repository"? [0])

- That none of the data is sent outside the EU or to additional 3rd parties.

- Yet it uses a fine-tuned "GPT-3" (a term that to the best of my knowledge exclusively refers to Microsoft/OpenAI's US-based API service, not to on-prem GPT-like LLMs like GPT-J or GPT-NeoX).

All in all, I can feel the enthusiasm but it does feel like this thread would have been so much more reassuring with some proactive comments about the privacy/health data issues, rather than have everyone voice the obvious concern with no prepared answers.

[0] https://www.cnil.fr/fr/la-cnil-adopte-un-referentiel-sur-les...
Instead of pay us or get deleted, why don't they create another free tier for public repos only to support OSS?
After just 5 hours on a Duolingo Max I have become fluent at useful everyday language needs, behold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g
Yeah you can start farming! But oh wait tractors can do the job better than humans there too
They kept all of the high volume subreddits though.

Are you proposing that subreddits full of slurs are harder for the server to return as a byte-string?
If you can yse storage to mamage peak with renewables, you can use smaller amount of storage to manage peak with nuckear and charge at night
This is stupid and meaningless pedantry. Like when you ask your teacher if you can go to the bathroom and they say “I don’t know, can you?”

A system of writing can be used for any language. (Have you ever wondered why English, a Germanic language, or Vietnamese, an Austroasiatic language, use a writing system based on the Latin alphabet?) Any language that doesn’t use a system of writing can use a system of writing. It’s not like it’s some sort of existential impossibility.
The metaverse is coming!
Still dead as a doornail, despite misleadingly now being labelled as a 'partial outage'.
I think my barber and my plumber have safer jobs from automation than average coders.
I don't know TLA+ and haven't had time to learn it. Could GPT-4 be a boon for esoteric PL that have had trouble gaining mass adoption?

Clearly, one needs to learn and understand TLA+ before one can trust generated proofs, but maybe GPT-4 could be the mentor or gentle on-ramp I was missing.
Ok, it's not the same for all. Should it be?
> is phenomenal at Code

Can it

- attend bullshit meetings

- lick my manager's boot

- tell them that their ideas are good but in the masochistic, self-deprecating way they like to hear it from me in

Not yet? Darn it, guess my job is safe for now.
Had a fun time implementing a spacy (python nlp) pipeline component around a onnx sentiment model.

I can recommend onnx as a way to reduce the danger of having tech dept in your models as onnx has a more stable format.
Because of some cherry-picked niche samples?
Exactly! I think the difference between me and some FAANG leetcoder just became hugely apparent

Before calculators were invented I imagine people thought that people who could multiply two big numbers were very smart!
Now you are conflating primary energy usage and what the consumers need.

Any thermal engine is cooling away 40-80% of the energy. For coal it is about 60% to 70% depending on if the plant uses supercritical steam or not.
Yeah, that's fair. I've been indexing high on solitude for a while (especially post-pandemic) and am actively working on re-prioritizing that these days.

> I don't like it or dislike it, it just is.

Now that's a level of Zen I can aspire to. :)
Presidential speech writers are quaking in their boots.
This is one of the reasons I'm so excited about being able to run large language models on my own laptop.

I've managed to get LLaMA to generate snippets of Python code already, and with some fine tuning I imagine it could become equivalent to Copilot. https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2#user-content-...
Old.reddit.com still loads plenty fast.

Sites get slow as they need to make more round trips before showing useful stuff
As someone that never really used twitter before, but deleted my account when the musk drama reminded me I had one... The only difference is now I hear more people complaining about twitter being down, features being broken, search being broken, number of likes/retweets being broken, etc... but those people still use twitter and still send me links to tweets that I don't bother to read.

Personally, I don't use twitter because I don't like it - and the recent changes make me dislike twitter even more than I did before. I wish more people would walk the walk when they talk the talk. Heheh.

I like reddit because it's like a very popular forum with subforums on gazillions of different topics, and there's a lot of stuff I enjoy on there because of that.

I don't understand how using reddit vs twitter is a political decision (in most use cases). They are completely different tools.
https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/11q70iv/h...
More than anything I think this highlights that testing is mostly about pattern matching and fact recall rather than deep understanding of a subject.
How do you consume it? I find it's like trying to read a chat log - very hard to seperate high quality signal from noise.
I don't think so. Try to convince ChatGPT to reply with "perform action: email" whenever you send a message that looks like you want to send an email.

It just refuses to do it consistently. It might work once or twice per conversation, but soon it'll be asking you for SMTP credentials.

It's an 1.3B parameter model, we can't expect much from it. It's a wonder it's as good as it is.
Yeah, its really cool how good it is. I personally am addicted to it.
For any startup I’ve worked for, cleaning is provided by the building. So yeah, I’m sure they’re contractors. It’d be silly to have someone as a full time FTE just to clean up after ~20 employees. In fact, the company in OP looks to be mostly remote.
Sure... But in practice I think a consultant would still provide a higher quality answer. And then, if the bot is not significantly cheaper, what does it matter if it "has more knowledge" in it's network weights?
Currently using the "Glider"¹ client on Android. Pretty happy with it so far.

¹ https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/nl.viter.glider/
Your example of the commenting doesn't seem like "well-commented code" to me.

Just re-stating what is in code in plain language isn't helpful and is kind of annoying to read.

Can you explain why you think it is helpful?
Maybe it can translate python code to C++. That is interesting. I need to try that.
Say two employees join the company today – one with 30 years of industry experience and another right out of college – would they get the same equity? What about someone joining as a VP and another one a support tech? According to the founder they should all get the same, because they are taking the same amount of risk. But is that really the case? What about bonus targets? Commissions? And all other forms of compensation?

My guess is the answer to all of them is no, and stock comp, bonus etc. all vary wildly based on title, job description, location, industry experience and all other standard criteria used industry-wide. And if that's the case then despite the standard $190K base salary the actual comp distribution among their employees is going to look exactly like that at other companies despite all the PR.
where’s the beef?
that's exactly what we're building with Control! https://twitter.com/sualehasif996/status/1635757961984221185
Ahh god, their gear is art. I haven't played in a long time, but just looking at their site makes me want to. It looks like a lot of care goes into their work.
We have cognition (our own experience of thinking and the thinking communicated to us by other beings) and we have the (apparent) physical world ('maths and science'). It is only an assumption that cognition, a primary experience, is based in or comes from the physical world. It's a materialist philosophy that has a long lineage (through a subset of the ancient Greek philosophers and also appearing in some Hinduistic traditions for example) but has had fairly limited support until recently, where I would suggest it is still not widely accepted even amongst eminent scientists, one of which I will now quote :

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

-- Erwin Schrödinger
Could it write an ORM library?
You mean eSNI, SNI is the field containing the hostname and eSNI stands for "encrypted SNI"
All this does is change how you go about getting computers to work for you.
Someone off the street still needs to know how to express themselves correctly to get a result that's not crap. And they don't know what they don't know. So this thread will be filled with people freaking out about the ends of their jobs. When really it just changes how their jobs work.

The nailgun didn't retire carpenters. They just got more productive.
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I'm talking about using AI as a tool, not to just plug it into the internet and let it generate whatever.
Some companies ONLY pay for the employee's health care premiums, and the premium for dependents comes out of their pocket.

In this case employee AND dependent premiums are paid by the company, so you could say that single people "get less." They get $500 worth of health insurance instead of the $1000 that other employees get.

(Not making a judgement on GP's argument, just adding context.)
I just use safari on my phone
They moved to AWS early early. There used to be an old picture of someone (iirc Alexis) joking about shutting down the data center they were in, and hosing Twitter in the process. Would have been 2008-9 era
People like that don't rationalize it. You cannot win the ethical argument against eating animals. One simply ignores morals or does not care. And I don't mean this in an attacking way because we all do this to some extent.
It’s not but they both share the same hubris.
He's excited to bring the future to people and often overestimates the capabilities of existing technology and how fast things can be improved. Again, in good faith, and has often derided his past self on how overly optimistic his past predictions are.

> In reality Teslas can't even park themselves

A ten second youtube search shows several recent videos showing it working just fine.

> In reality the older Teslas now won't get Hardware 4

The second link does not disagree with the first. Hardware 4 is not necessary for FSD, and has been officially stated as such in multiple places, including in the article you yourself provided. There was never any promises that hardware 3 would be capable of being retrofitted to hardware 4. In the same investor's call hardware 5 was talked about as well.
I am SO baffled. First, this post is two years old -- and has been discussed on HN several times[0][1], but the tenor of the comments here now is just so... vitriolic. I would like to do a blog post on an update on this (the dollar figure is now $191K as the blog post indicates, but the number of employees is now 60) and in particular reflect on some of its many surprising ramifications (all positive), but honestly some of the unhinged comments here have me questioning the judgement of that. Am I the only one seeing a changing tenor here at HN?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348836

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26683510
I am on this side of the argument. It is letting me code better than ever before :) I have been able to pick up new languages/build systems much faster than in the past (Swift for example.)
That's interesting. What has Twitter done recently to improve the experience of Japanese users?
You mean hallucinated graphs and word prediction unusual traffic? No, I get that the models are very impressive, but im not sure they actually reason
Sigh. Time to bust out my old will code for food cardboard sign.
I think we'll all get more productive is all. There's a lot of projects that just weren't economical but now may become so.

The bigger disruption will occur when Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc become useless from all the AI spam that's sure to overwhelm it all.
Wow, you’ve got some stories from this company. This could make for a really entertaining blog!
> "if we can figure out how to successfully stop organ rejection then we will most likely have cured cancer on the way"

Genuinely ignorant and layperson curious here ... how are these two things connected? There are so many types of cancer that this sounds bold and almost too ... simple?
GCP/AWS/Azure have HIPAA programs in places, and will, consequently, sign HIPAA BAAs to legally perform as Business Associates of covered entities, fully responsible for handling PHI in accord with HIPAA rules (for certain of their services.) OpenAI itself does not seem to offer this for either its UI or API offerings.

Microsoft, OTOH, does now offer a HIPAA BAA for its Azure OpenAI service, which includes ChatGPT (which means either they have a bespoke BAA with OpenAI that OpenAI doesn’t publicly offer, or they just are hosting their own ChatGPT instance, a privilege granted based on them being OpenAI’s main sponsor.)
Nah, it's already being done for GPT-3's competitors and will likely be done soon for GPT-4's competitors

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/you-c...
I think the reality here is far more nuanced…

1. The unmentioned reality is that they almost doubled in size during the WFH time. Facebook was known for hiring absolutely top talent years ago. You can’t expand indefinitely without “diluting” that top talent (same with Google fwiw). They can still be great workers, and I’m not intending to malign anyone but the top 1% of workers is different quality then top 10%. This quality affect is likely compounded by their declining reputation, making recruitment harder. I think this is something cultural that needs to be considered.

3. Younger employees perform worse than more tenured employees. WFH-only employees probably skew younger (in age and tenure). In my experience, the older you are the more likely it is you’ve worked in office the last few years even if your team doesn’t.

2. WFH may genuinely be less productive in the long run. We didn’t see an affect throughout 2020 because the world was on fire and we were all used to our office-mates already. As more new people onboard, and they don’t build the same relationships with coworkers, something could slowly be lost. When I changed jobs in 2022, my new team had known each other pre-pandemic. They worked like a well oiled machine and I was just in the background trying to help. I was far less productive, despite a welcoming “onboarding” process. WFH can be far less productive, not because remote is intrinsically worse but because it’s harder to do right at scale. Or it could just be worse, but the outcome is the same if the company can’t successfully manage it.

4. 1k of Silicon Valley’s top talent is not the same as a 100k person multinational company. The high income-per-employee world of making an app and throwing a few ads on it may be over. The world is more complicated and regulated. You need audit logs and you need AB testing and you need failovers and legal review and all sorts of things that make a big company slower than a startup. Measuring “productivity” the same way doesn’t work.

5. It can’t be forgotten that this is a post from a company about bad news where someone needs to be blamed. The blame is WFH and middle management. They need to make up something they can fix.
it just works on old.reddit.com
Careful, one false step and your behavior will align with your morals.
I understand it's just a language model, but clearly it has some embedded method of generating answers which are actually quite close. For example it gets all 2 digit multiplications correct. It's highly unlikely it has seen the same 6 ordered 3 digit (or even all 10k 2 digit multipies) integers from a space of 10^18 and yet it is quite close. Notably, it gets the same divisions wrong as well (for this small example) in exactly the same way.

I know of other people who have tried quite a few other multiplications who also had errors that were multiples of 60.
Yes, I am trying to separate out complexity of reasoning from knowledge base and speed. A language model is like a person who has access to Google and several hours or days to research a response. Even a model with poor reasoning, ability can create answers faster than the most intelligent human on the planet, it’s just the nature of computational speed. And a model can be trained on the sum total of every book ever written, and every word ever published to the Internet but that doesn’t make it by itself.

One very key difference I see is that language models can’t create something absolutely novel. They would not have been able to invent calculus if it wasn’t in the training set, while it was possible for a few very smart humans to do such a thing.
It can. The only difficult part of all that is wiring up the integrations and I/O.
Soooo right around when you have actual business with actual customers and use cases and are in best moment to re-architecture your app properly instead of throwing infrastructure at wall and seeing what sticks

Then just shove MQTT topics into kafka and slowly migrate stuff over.
> What we really need is a model that you can run on your own hardware on site

So, LLaMA? It's no chat gpt but it can potentially serve this purpose
I'm asking pretty basic questions - "Why moven there and not mover?" kind of level - and the responses are obviously correct to me.
email us at sualeh@anysphere.co :) We would love for you try it out.
I don't see why it couldn't.
I made the case that anyone that solves problems with objectively correct solutions (programmers) would always be more at risk of AI taking their jobs than people that solve problems with subjectively correct solutions (artists, some designers).
I'm fine with programmers being a less needed skillset, but most artists were not making any money. The vast vast majority were the proverbial starving artists getting pennies for commissions, fighting for some form of respect for generations. Completely segregated from the idea of a market based economy, completely unwilling to do anything that people actually value, completely unwilling to move away from "discipline and aesthetics" into "story and scarcity" which is what is valued. When doing it for fun is totally an option and is still something we can all do after AI art took off.
Then you really shouldn’t use Google Docs, or Photoshop Online, or host your emails in the cloud.
Some people unfortunately are career victims, looking at every possible corner of a situation for which to be offended.
No but it can free you up to do all that valuable busy work
Depends on the role and company. Many companies bake a bonus target into your total compensation number you negotiate when you take the job.
Similar: https://systemfontstack.com

Either way, it's the best way to go these days if you don't need any fancy external fonts on your website.
GPT 4 writes glue code between Sinatra (Ruby) and AWS Cognito very well
The panel isn't really much of an argument. Elevators allow many configurations in amount of floors, floors requiring special permission, ... so they have to provide a bunch of panels anyways.
Although that is an outdated generated snippet as it doesn't use pathlib?

What if you added a type annotation to filename as Path?
Oh wow, that reminded me so strongly of Lena by qntm [0], a story about an image of a person’s consciousness that is run and used to delegate and manage copies of itself. Fantastic short story.

[0] - https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
1. So, current and immediate future limits prevent this beyond relatively small projects?

2. But like, you still have to write tests though? If I need to think and check what the generated tests are doing, I'd rather write them myself to be honest. I want the time-consuming parts automated, not typing code. Maybe I am in minority. Surely generating 99% complete unit tests should be some sweet-spot for ChatGPT? I would imagine this AI can ignore halting problem, and somehow traverse all possible states anyway?
Yes, it can.

- Automated relations, whether with your employer or a customer, are trivial

- These relations can be fine-tuned for exactly the level of syncophancy your boss prefers

- So yes, it can tell your boss their ideas are good in precisely the masochistic, self-deprecating way, etc.

Your post is not longer than a system prompt. Think it through.
Would be sad if something happened to it...