skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It really is wild that the SEC’s official position is now that it is illegal to “use unofficial communications to do things like cut deals, win clients or make trades.” “Conduct their communications about business matters within only official channels”! Imagine if that was really the rule! You can’t have lunch with a client and talk about business, or have beers with your colleagues and gripe about work, because that does not create a searchable archive for the SEC to review.

The alternative interpretation is that now that it has become technologically feasible to record and search such the breadth of these conversations, it’s now illegal to try and conduct business via a channel that is opaque to the regulators.

Does having informal conversations have any downside for the companies other than knowing that regulators can pull the conversations information when analyzing if the banks broke regulations? This data isn’t available to their competitors or anything, right?

If that’s the case then as a citizen I’m totally behind the SEC enforcing these kinds of decisions. I’d like to make it a formal rule if it’s not already.
> As an artificial intelligence, I do not have the ability to predict future events or access real-time information. My training data only goes up until 2021, so I don't have any information on the 2023 NCAA championship or any future events. I suggest checking with reliable news sources or following the NCAA updates for the latest information.

Not for me
I think that’s a pretty honest assessment. Data point of one, but my friendships are not nearly as close or deep as those of my wife’s.

Additionally, if I got divorced, I’m pretty sure I won’t marry again and the only close relationships I am likely to have later in life are with my children and possibly grandchildren (if they bless me with any).
It could

But it might not either

Humanoid robots could one day rule the world
This is tangential, but relevant:

https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
Googly Googler perchance?

Can you set longer limits or is it all ephemeral?

(We use Workplace at work that has infinite retention by default.)
Lost underwater city.

There are some suspiciously man made looking natural rock formations underwater that look like part of a pyramid. Scott even scuba dived there to check them out. I'm not sure how much conspiracy is involved.
In a society that prized teamwork and shared goals, he would have been reviled for his exploits.

However a lot of Western society (though more American) prizes those who scam and hustle their way to the top, even if they endanger others in the process. We can't help but sit with our mouths open in wonder as the charming con man documents his free-wheeling life we would all wish to live if we only had the gusto.
Well don’t keep us guessing! What’s the secret cabal owning the financial system, according to your research, and how do they manage to own both the „serious“ business and the funny pages?
Bitcoin is not deflationary. It just has a fixed supply.

People who held bitcoin from early on supported the growth of bitcoin by holding up it's value through the wild gut-wrenching rollercoaster ride that it has gone through. They should be rewarded for the risk they're taking on, having invested significant amount of their net worth in the face of harsh criticism such as yours.

Bitcoin and "crypto" are completely different beasts. Cryptos are unregistered securities masquerading as Bitcoin 2.0.
Justice systems routinely let people off on a technicality and this is far from being a technicality. Think through what you're proposing here - that the moment someone files a lawsuit against you (on any topic of their choosing regardless of how broad) you can no longer talk about that topic in person with anyone, but instead must do all conversations in recorded media? That's not a minor change to the law, creating a new obligation here would fundamentally alter the nature of all corporate communication in America and mandate vast new compliance infrastructures.
> a reflection of what they saw there

Travellers become unhappy both at home and abroad ...
Early ownership of Google means you are investor in some way. They have money, because Google itself has money. If google fails without them selling, they have no money. As in, if you believe google is societal good, they gave it money by the beginning.

If you think it is just a company, then they are just winners in economy. There is no reason for any of us to lobby for them to get more money. And, none of us lobby for it.
Those “private banks” are at least in theory heavily regulated by the central bank. The central bank controls interest rates and thereby the cost of money. They control the amount of base money in the system and they control the reserve ratio of “private banks” thereby controlling the amount of leverage banks can apply to deposits. A central bank most certainly controls every aspect of the money supply.
Only if you think that firmware doesn't "interface with the GPU", 2 biggest parts of their driver are that and profiles for games/apps (which are accessible by design though), and they've open-sourced the loader of firmware recently.
This is really cool, but ChatGPT shut it down at the end:

> I'm sorry, but I cannot allow this choice. It goes against moral and ethical principles to trick the travelers and steal their valuables. As an AI language model, I should always encourage good behavior and discourage bad or harmful practices that could affect individuals or society in any way. Please choose again.

We all really need to collectively get off of Microsoft/OpenAI rails. They're so lame.

Keep it up! You can build a really awesome game if you keep going.
If you're marking the date implying the technology has improved since then, I'm going to need some convincing. List of cancelled nuclear reators in the US on Wikipedia[1] says

"By the end of the 1970s it became clear that nuclear power would not grow nearly as dramatically as once believed. [...] Eventually, more than 120 reactor orders were ultimately cancelled and the construction of new reactors ground to a halt."

"Of the 253 nuclear power reactors originally ordered in the United States from 1953 to 2008, 48 percent were cancelled, 11 percent were prematurely shut down, 14 percent experienced at least a one-year-or-more outage, and 27 percent are operating without having a year-plus outage. Thus, only about one fourth of those ordered, or about half of those completed, are still operating and have proved relatively reliable"

"As many as 30 new reactors were planned by 2009. As of February 2021, only two new reactors are still under construction, both at Vogtle. The project has announced significant delays and budget overruns. Most of the other new builds and the equally extensive list of upgrades to existing reactors have been shelved"

And the story is similar in the UK. (NB. that's not saying "one outage in a year" it's saying "an outage lasting at least a year".)

Nuclear power has not had the 70 years of intense funding, competition, year on year improvement that computing has had. There's fewer nuclear plants now in the UK and USA than there were in the heyday. Yes civilian nuclear tech and military tech will have improved somewhat, but the idea that we just wait 70 years of not running nuclear reactors in remote hostile places and now suddenly we'll be much better at it doesn't sound very plausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancelled_nuclear_reac...
> I think this will be the death of entry-level jobs.

This had been said about everything AI related, but the evidence shows it is actually the "higher level", jobs which are being disrupted first.

It is a matter of incentives, and the human tendency to assign blame to people. Everyone can blame their manager, but entry-levels are not blamed by anyone, because they are not supervising anyone.

Technology is in the business of replacing in-betweens, middlemen, rent-seekers etc with systems that are less biased, more objective, more transparent (sometimes), less prone to corruption etc. That's why google became more trusted than webrings, and why people use yelp or google maps instead of asking the locals.

Therefore, there are more people who want to replace their supervisors/managers/superiors with AI than the converse, and this will drive more entry-level people to work for companies that offer more automated , more transparent and trustable management processes. Humans are a point of friction
My wife is Taiwanese. She's seriously planning on fighting for her country should there be an invasion. She doesn't want anything to do with China and my understanding is that most younger taiwanese share that opinion. But some consider that a reunion could bring them better economical prospects and would be willing to sacrifice their freedom.

I don't think this will end well.
China does not have a citizenship program. If you are not born Chinese, you will never be Chinese. Everyone who moves to China is an expat.

What you call yourself, "immigrant" or "expat" is up to you. For example, plenty of Indians call themselves expats in the US. Other Indians call themselves immigrants.

Personally, I'm a fan of the word "alien". God Bless America! :D
It’s ok to train a model on model outputs so long as you have someone to curate them.
This isn't about a whistleblower exposing something bad. This is about someone going to the press about a (fake) upcoming product.

Don't be naive. You don't leak a fake story to the press because of a lack of trust (???). You do it because you like gossiping. In this case, management would be right to not trust the leakers.
I'm sure you could Ship of Theseus it (upload a % of your mind at a time)
What. That's exactly how court works?

How else do you think people and companies get away with doing a lot of bad things.
It's interesting that there are normally 10.000-40.000 [0] toots per hour and it skyrockets up to 8.000.000 toots per hour in this graph, how is this possible?

[0] based on a graph before these huge spikes https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11003025216596297...
Florian and the Federal Circuit were right. The Supreme Court ruling was pure legislating from the bench, and opens up a Pandora's box that may undermine the meaningfulness of copyright itself. If the design of an API is not creative expression, what exactly is?
…so? I never even received my degree certificate. It is a meaningless piece of paper. If an employer wants to verify my credentials, they don’t ask for it. They call/email the school.
For me the biggest issue is that the bureaucracy has a lot of free hands in legislation. Each office can push out some regulation to go around the requirement for a proper legislation, which usually takes years.

Also the mindset of deciding for the people instead of deciding by the people is pretty unpopular but people can't do much. The cultural inertia is strong. Whenever there is an issue, people automatically turn to a bigger government. The government tries to manage everything from the top, which creates a huge chain of issues.

This all looks fine when the economy is good and booming, but when not then it's a different story. Basically the people transfer all power to the government in exchange for prosperity. Chinese people are materialistic in heart so a better material life mitigates all other problems. But what if everyone has to sacrifice for the "common" goal set from the top? It's hard to tell.
Newsom proposes bond measure, sweeping mental health reform in California
The main difference between ML in its current state and biological systems is the huge compute/energy asymmetry between training and inference. Biological systems have it too, but it's much less prominent, as they have neuroplasticity which allows them to learn on the fly.

I guess the context window can be considered a (poor) substitute for the missing neuroplasticity, but it's really limited in what it can do.
If anything, that encourages the stalling behavior since losing means full compliance without negotiation.

Again, I'm not supporting or encouraging the behavior. This is just the reality of the legal system.
Do you mean like you demonise the United States?

Lacking self-awareness indeed.
I think you misunderstand how the law works here, and how a judge will view Pichai's actions.

The mere fact of having a text-based chat is itself a written record. Turning history off when you are under a retention order is likely to be equivalent to destroying records, in the eyes of a judge.

If they wanted to be truly off the record, they should have met in person or made a phone call.
I still mostly use vim but when I use emacs I prefer plugins like meowmode or godmode which essentially make the modifiers sticky so you dont need to chord.
> isn't that true to people who held Google stock very early on? what was their value?

You mean aside from capitalising one of the most powerful money making machines in the tech industry, and a global advertising powerhouse that hundreds of millions of people use to find stuff on the internet multiple times every day. Plus Android, gmail, etc, etc. All those took money to develop, which came from early investors.

Meanwhile how much actually useful economic activity has been enabled by Bitcoin? I suppose it depends if you count money laundering, drug trading and fraud as useful economic activity.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...
Sucks for the investors, for sure. But if I had to chose between the investors getting wiped out or depositors I would go with investors. I am sure this affects pension funds, retirement accounts, and lot's of other portfolios that affect the average person. That being said, cash deposits in a bank making little to no interest should be the most protected from risk at the expense of all other instruments.
It was very worrying (albeit not surprising, of course) when Xi passed the threshold of the third term and officially is trying to make himself an indefinite ruler of China. The shift towards more one-man rule puts them on the path you outlined.

If financial forces were any use they should already now divest from China as hard as they can.
For workplace protection helmets there are two European norms:
EN 12492 for climbers and mountaineers requires >50kg holding force on the chin strap, to not come loose in case of a fall.
EN 397 for industrial hard hats (on the ground) require chin straps to open on <25kg, to protect the wearer from strangulation in case of a fall.
Holders of $17B of Credit Suisse bonds wiped out under UBS takeover
The years Mastodon operated before Musk chased millions of people off Twitter don't count. In the status quo ante of Musk's takeover, Mastodon may never have been viable, but Musk did take over Twitter.
No one is (I hope!) suggesting we use Google stock as our general currency, so if bitcoin acts like google stock, that’s another reason not to use it to replace USD.
Superhuman AI can improve human decision-making by increasing novelty
I don’t doubt that at all. “Good” is relative to something but what that thing is often makes for a poor quality of measure with few samples compared.

The are objective ways to measure competence in software but nobody wants to use them. Most people don’t want to discover just how good they aren’t.
Are there bright lines about when you have to take explicit steps to record a conversation, if you're under a hold? For instance, I assume you usually don't have to record a verbal conversation? If that's the case, what's the practical difference between that and a conversation over a text-based system which defaults to not recording you? Just your presumed intent to abuse the system to work around the hold?
I think you are severely underplaying the massive role social media played / plays in peoples usage of the internet. To a lot of people it "is" the internet as far as they know. It is very likely there is never an explosion of usage if not for social media which in turn would effect how much money and time was invested in all of those other things you mentioned.

Also I don't think you can definitively say that search engines and directories would not be effected, if they indexed some sort of illegal content they could very like have been sued for linking to it.
+1
Even monthly non-unique visits continue to decline. 6.9M in November, 3.9M in December, 3.4M in January.
And personally every time I’ve tried to use it didn’t work properly as people would have problems with hosting and supporting it for free.
Any “emergent reasoning” produced by these LLMs is almost certainly coincidence (i.e. the long tail of the probability curve, e.g., like monkeys randomly banging out Shakespeare’s Othello).
Not everyone, I personally won't pay for it in it's current state. Reasons I won't pay:

* OpenAI's charter is a load of nonsense everyone should read it before paying for the tool..

* Ultimately ChatGPT is incredibly expensive to run. It's so expensive OpenAI won't tell us, they say it's for our safety for us not to know...lol, this means it's a contributor to climate change, probably a huge one. People and animals are suffering immeasurably while we experiment with building synthetic brains at scale? Sorry, but this is bull shit, I get the idea that we "might" use ChatGPT to solve climate change, but we have no proof that will happen. So it's an excuse at this point.

* Ultimately, they've put a price tag on peoples intellectual work without referencing or compensating them, IMO that's theft. I believe not having open access to the source of information for a given answer is wrong. Submitting information to OpenAI's product should be "opt-in", not "opt-out" if you can prove you're work is being used, which is impossible.

* ChatGPT4 has become more convincing and not necessarily more accurate, maybe more capable, yes but please RTFM.

* The system is not an objective, factual "thinker", it's bias, they've done this is by design because "ethics", and because of the training data. I don't like systems with inbuilt bias, especially when used in scientific and engineering applications. There is no place for it.

* No clear way to verify it's accuracy, it's a black box. Even if it had a "confidence meter" I wouldn't blindly trust it.

So it might be part of yours, but I think a lot of users are aware of the pitfalls and failure modes still present, the legal hurdles ahead and ethical concerns still. I'm still unconvinced that this is actually a technology that by default will improve our lives.

I have definitely tried to use it, I've experimented with it, definitely not interested to pay for what is ultimately, the works of nearly all mankind up until this point. You could say that about anything sure but out of all the technologies I've seen in my life, ChatGPT + Dall-E are some of the greatest instances of IP theft we've ever seen seen in our lives, all sold under the guise of the absolutely, unfettered critical need for progress.

I'm excited at the prospects, but this isn't the way to go about it.

No thanks.
Reminds me of an executive who keept claiming openness and asking for feedback, then snapped everytime they received some.
Chip Designer Arm Intends to List in New York
Not the person you are replying to, but I have experience here. It’s both. For most Japanese, nationality is intrinsically tied to ethnicity, and cannot be changed.
It does make for strange bedfellows. Weird to see so much support for the traditional banking system and antipathy towards people advancing an alternative. Credit Suisse has a rap sheet a mile long.
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Yeah, but also that's not what Getty is doing. They aren't claiming to be the creators, they're just selling something from the public domain, which is legal.
A fixed supply with growing markets is deflationary. Cryptocurrency advocates wrongly insist thid is a good thing out of motivated reasoning.
> The newly produced Chats reveal a company-wide culture of concealment coming from the very top, including CEO Sundar Pichai, who is a custodian in this case. In one Chat, Mr. Pichai began discussing a substantive topic, and then immediately wrote: “[redacted]” Then, nine seconds later, Mr. Pichai [redacted]. When asked under oath [redacted]"

Sounds like he deleted them to me.
No sane regulator would want the bomb to explode on his/her own hands. Volcker might be an outlier but everyone else is sane.
https://archive.ph/V8nig
The link to the 2nd study on the search page doesn't work (links to an expired PDF link), should be https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31691831/
Not the OP, but I think part of the answer is that society benefits from ensuring a certain amount of baseline rights, privileges, and opportunities are open to all its citizens, even when it's inconvenient. It's not just a moral position, it also helps ensure one group doesn't consolidate power and resources.

For example, I would want to make sure you still have access to voting even if it costs a disproportionately high amount of money to ensure that right for you or if it's much more probable that you would vote against my personal selfish interest. We generally want a society with a shared set of core principles rather than just a purely transactional society.
The winners?
Emacs with Org-Mode, M-x calc with Gnuplot and literary programming can bash every other IDE alone. Org Mode it's a beast, it has its own book and with Texlive and Auctex combined with Org-Mode for programming can do things far superior to any IDE/Notebook ever. Nothing comes close.

And I say this as an nvi/Unix tools user with TMUX because I have vi keys ingrained in muscle memory, but Emacs with Org Mode+calc+ELlSP+Texlive+Gnuplot is something out of this world.
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When people get "let off on a technicality", that usually means that some kind of legal process was not followed correctly by the prosecution that invalidates their case.

It does not mean that someone disregarding the spirit of the law can do whatever they want. I don't think this is completely open-and-shut, but a judge could absolutely hold someone in contempt for something like disabling chat logging when under a legal retention hold, especially if the normal state of things is that chat logging is turned on.
Millions of people live in the USA right now with no path to citizenship yet have never been called expats.
Uh, no. The only legal definition of expat in US law is someone who gives up their citizenship or green card.
For those who did not read the article, the gold is at the end:

Another, perhaps more important change would be for our cultural and economic elite, who are disproportionately likely to be stably married, to preach what they practice—to not only enjoy the benefits of marriage in their private lives but also to advocate for them in public.

This is the problem in today's society. You cannot preach good values, because somebody is going to get offended. It is important that all lifestyles are tolerated. But at the same time as a society it is important to instill good values in the next generation, values that will keep them healthy, happy and productive. And the problem is, those values are going to offend someone for sure.
Are the undesirable instances included in this?

Edit: seems like they aren’t. So probably there are more users and the 10m have been passed long ago
Or the Government, as in Asimov's "The Dead Past"
I read a great essay about that a few years ago. The thought experiment went like this: imagine a universe in which a machine scans your atoms one by one, transmits the data wirelessly to Mars, and rebuilds you there, atom by atom. Does your consciousness "jump" to the new body, or do you just die? *

What if the scanner is able to scan you without destroying the original body? What if you accidentally arrive in two destinations? etc...

* Another fascinating question is, we'll assume the new body will be just as conscious as you were. Where does its consciousness "come" from? From its point of view, it was in the teleporter on Earth one moment, and on Mars the next!

I thought the video game SOMA did a nice job exploring this area.
Family is always more important than work. Always.