skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't everyone studying for a bachelor's degree in applied physics have to work out things like critical mass and how to avoid premature explosion?

At least we did when I was studying for my Applied Physics degree in the mid 70s. It was not regarded as even slightly controversial that we should do so nor that it was especially difficult. It was simply one of the problems set in the nuclear physics course.

Of course we didn't go into the same degree of detail as Dobson, Pipkorn, and Selden and our solutions would probably not have been as effective but that was mostly because it was the thought process rather than the ultimate result that was important.
> Why?

These AIs (GPT-4, Stable Diffusion) are being trained on human output. How can you far exceed the capability of humans if you are being trained on human output? The limitations of human cognition are present in the training data. It's no coincidence that Stable Diffusion/MidJourney are producing artworks about 97% as beautiful as the most competent human artists, and we never see something far more beautiful than what a human could produce even by chance. Ditto with the code that GPT-4 produces. It inherently can't exceed the capabilities of the most competent human, because such solutions are not present in the information available in the input data.

Let's take Go as an example. The reason DeepMind created a superhuman Go agent is because of unlimited self-play. But if DeepMind limited itself to training only on games that humans have played (analogous to how GPT-4, Stable Diffusion were trained), this take-off would have been impossible. At best, the resulting agent would have been as intelligent as human players, perhaps very slightly better, but not much. That's why I think LLMs need to go the way of self-play or self-teaching somehow if we expect them to ever get far beyond humans intellectually.

> The last two years show that throwing more compute at this during training and execution is clearly helping.

That's because these models were far below human capability and have been catching up to human capability. This doesn't refute the thesis. My prediction applies from the point GPT is as about as smart as the smartest humans.
Ok, let's open some new positions for totally noble poeple to expose the truth. Anything less than noble should be put in prison regardless of the truth exposed. Any takers? Meanwhile let's see what b.s mainstream media is pushing. They are not less than noble and deserve the whole attention.
Having worked at a different FAANG (and more recently than 2010), I'm kind of on Mark's side with this one. It got to the point where I worked that anything that executives said would be leaked pretty much immediately, so we hardly ever got any information ahead of when the general public did. From what people with longer tenures said, there used to be more information shared with the company at large, but they had to curtail it due to the constant leaks.

Obviously I don't mind people leaking things that are cause for serious concern (i.e. whistleblowers), but yeah it results in kind of a crappy company culture when the people setting the direction for the company are afraid to share their plans with the people actually doing the work. Maybe that's just inevitable for a company with a hundred thousand employees, though.
The amount of tuition that the incoming Freshman class pays is more than enough to pay for all other edu classes expenses.
But is it possible to refer to them here?
Apparently people who use AI will be equally replaced. Just this past week, hundreds of AI projects were made obsolete in a single moment as noted here when Google and Microsoft decided to make AI part of all their tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH-2BHDYNfk

Then, shortly after that, these multi million dollar models were shown to be almost replaceable by a $600 dollar model by leveraging the larger models to train the smaller model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xslW5sQOkC8

It is going to be total bedlam with the disruptors disrupting the disruptors in faster and faster cycles.
I don't mean that it's thinking all the time. But the part between input and output could probably be described that way, if only loosely.
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Then kroger buys them, like they've been doing for years.
Regarding the introduction to this essay..

Isn't some of the magic of being an agent in this world taken away when you are following a set of instructions to a T?

Unable to make decisions for yourself without consulting your "virtual assistant" about something as trivial as if you can use y milk in place of x milk seems like a sad reality to me
I think there is a very easy explanation.

There is a rock and a hard place for banks because low interest rate debt tends to be safe from default. But drops in value when interest rates rise.

After 15 years of zero interest rate policies by the Fed and other central bankers, banks are now sitting on huge amounts of safe from default low interest rate debt. And now that the Fed is raising rates the value of that debt is falling hard.

My opinion is this is all on the Fed. They caused this problem, they need to fix it.
I just used this at work the other day to calculate similarities between different data models that had overlapping children models. One of our teams was going to go through manually to check these overlaps and consolidate, but by using this clustering algo based on Jaccard distance we were able to give them clusters to consolidate up front. Super cool stuff!
What I find most interesting about chatGPT is that it correctly parses what I tell it. Even if it generates a BS answer from time to time at least it understood what I was after.

That in and of itself is monumental and will surely at the very least change how we interact with computers. It reminds me very much of the Star Trek Ship computer.
> If you truly support democracy, then you accept ...

Heh Heh Heh

That sounds like you just did the "with us or against us" thing the commenter above you just pointed out.

Very ironic. ;)
can we see it?
Hi Justusw!

No disagreement here -- wage slavery is just that -- and, in utopia, we would have the robots do everything. But, as the error message goes, "you cannot get to there from here."

It's like seeing an ideal endgame config on a chess board but realizing that there's no combination of moves that will get your knight into position in time.

Delicious pie, very much in the sky, and any attempt to get there looks like it involves mass surprise unemployment, which, as a general rule, tends to destabilize.

Moreover, none of this actually affects or interacts with your original claim, that (more or less) the coming disruption will be similar to previous, smaller disruptions, for values of 'similar' that allow one to compare outcomes.

Again, the better model is habitat loss. ICE and other inventions increased this habitat; AI seems poised to reduce it sharply.
OpenAI are using it internally a lot; they used it as a co-author on the GPT-4 paper, and 'with great impact on functions like support, sales, content moderation, and programming.'

Here's 25+ more of the first GPT-4 enterprise customers:

https://lifearchitect.ai/gpt-4#customers
It's not good or bad, per se, unless it's actionable and quantified.

- quantified: What's the difference in default probability between ranks 1-8 and rank 9? what about between rank 10 and rank 200? Without quantifying or at least qualifying what this ranking means, it's impossible to assess the accuracy of prediction in either direction.

- actionable: What do you do with this information, and what is the cost of taking that action?

An absolute ranking based on four statistics without even explaining the relationship between the statistics and the ranking is the statistical version of blogspam.
>> Training with loads of more data isn't a viable long term substitution.

Depends. In principle, you can't learn an infinite language from finite
examples only and you need both positive and negative ones for super-regular
languages. Gold's result and so on. OK so far.

The problem is that in order to get infinite strings from a human language,
you need to use its infinite ability for embedding parenthetical sentences:
John, the friend of Mary, who married June, who is the daughter of Susan, who
went to school with Babe, who ...

But, while this is possible in principle, in practice there's only a limit to
how long such a sentence can be; or any sentence, really. In practice, most of
the utterances generated by humans are going to be not only finite, but
relatively short, as in short "relative" to the physical limit of utterance
length a human could plausibly produce (which must be something around the
length of the Iliad, considering that said human should be able to keep the
entire utterance in memory, or lose the thread; and that the Iliad probably
went on for as long as one could stand to recite from memory. Or perhaps to
listen to someone recite from memory...).

Obviously, there are only a finite number of sentences of finite length, given
a fixed vocabulary, so _in practice_ language, as spoken by humans, is not
actually-really infinite. Or, let's say that humans really do have a generator
of infinite language in our heads, but an outside observer would never see the
entire language being produced, because finite universe.

Which means that Chomsky's argument about the poverty of the stimulus might
apply to human learning, because it's very clear we learn some kind of
complete model of language as we grow up; but, it doesn't need to apply to
statistical modelling, i.e. the approximation of language by taking statistics
over large text corpora. Given that those large corpora will only have finite
utterances, and relatively short ones at that (as I'm supposing above) then it
should be possible to at least learn the structure of everyday spoken
language, just from text statistics.

So training with lots of data can be a viable long term solution, as long as
what's required is to only model the practical parts of language, rather than
the entire language. I think we've had plenty of evidence that this should be
possible since the 1980's or so.

Now, if someone wanted to get a language model to write like Dostoyevsky...
Implicit teaching comes to mind
What does that mean? College degrees aren't like passports. Can't you just order a new copy? I haven't seen my college degree in 15 years
In my city, we had a month of enormous BLM protests. The result was an increase police budget and less funding for schools and parks.

I honestly don't see that kind of mostly peaceful mass protest as productive anymore.
UBS has been very clear that they intend to gut the investment banking arm and continue the universal banking arm.

This should prove a cash cow for UBS so long as they ruthlessly trim CS.

The final deal is a bit different from OP 3.3bn, 100bn liquidity and 8bn indemnity from losses (more than market value of CS Friday!)
> He's been open about at one time believing a conspiracy theory himself, for a little while.

Absolutely disgusting. How could he?? But which one? MKULTRA*? Operation Northwoods*? Flat earth? Illegal domestic surveillance by the NSA*? Operation Gladio*? Tell us which one, so that we may denounce him!

* Oops, this one's real lol
Also worth noting that CS India hired ChatGPT as their CEO; the first company to do so.

https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/organisation-appo...
Did Chamath short Credit Suisse?
Maybe never...but he had the signal 2 weeks ago in E118.
I don't really see how it would? 'Made in China' is often associated with low quality anyways, so why would this make a dent? I hope you know that Samsung is a South Korean company.
https://archive.md/EmhLs
I think we should be clear that scientific racism is a case of an infohazard that is not, in fact, true (even if one can make a convincing, though ultimately fallacy-dependent, argument for it, usually by ignoring the falsification of the "sets of facts" which underpin it). The trouble is that admitting that is also a sort of infohazard, for certain people.
Me as a 31 year old I climbed exactly this one with my young nephews.

Berlin Frohnau is a very rich part of Berlin, so finding this quality of playgrounds is not that typical in Germany.
It's not that different though. 'Fasces' means 'a bundle of sticks bound tightly together', which signifies how the uniformity of a people can be made into a powerful instrument put into the hand of a single person. In the case I gave the customer demands uniformity from the workers. It's a sort of fascism but on the level of an individual's psyche rather than an entire nation.
I'm not sure I understand this. How are they holding on to his degree? A physical copy? Couldn't he just ask his University for another one?
Yep, that is a likely outcome.
The point is you injected a loaded political term into a thread that is literally about boot camps having little value.
It certainly wouldn't be a program that I would recommend to anyone that wanted to actually learn how to program.
I wasn't trying to defend Oberon per se but separate goal-specific loop constructs. Yes, not having `exit` in other loop types sounds problematic.
Uhh that's why we need an international accord.
In 2014 I worked with a company in Beijing for a few weeks. The local engineers all had pretty long and packed subway commutes from various outer developments, so my first guess would be that "affordable housing in the city center" is long gone for most major cities.

The surface-level infrastructure was interesting, it felt like Los Angeles - much more than it did Manhattan or SF aboveground - just blown up 3-to-5x. Wider streets with more lanes of cars, big mega apartment complexes just all four times taller than the common 5-story ones, etc.
And those people living in rural areas (which are required to sustain societies, unlike urban areas) would become poorer and less educated as time went on due to the economic inefficiencies of serving them well. You are arguing for the emergence of class stratification as if that's somehow the desired version of our society, which is just insanity. There is a _reason_ we share costs as a society! Free market thinking is shallow and should not be applied here, full stop.
> they were able to control toy mice by blinking, for example.

Anyone who's tried a neurosky knows that blinking is super obvious when looking at the graphs because of the electrical action motivating the muscles which results in that blink. The problem is that doesn't extrapolate to anything else - training yourself to move that third arm you never had is actually really hard, if not impossible.
With each “improvement” over running a rack of servers in a closet at the office, the fraction of each team I’ve worked in that is dedicated to system administration has increased.

One part time person should be able to easily manage about a dozen physical machines. Good luck getting a part time person to set up a kubernetes cluster, ci pipeline for the containers, implement a bunch of custom operators, and then monitor the result.
"Ever" is an exceptionally poor word choice in Zuckerberg's email. Imagining a scenario where something bad is being done (intentionally or not) isn't that difficult. I believe there are circumstances that NOT whistleblowing would be a moral failing.

"But no realistic situation would require you to leak" is not a good strawman defense for Zuck's word choices. There is a broad history of whistleblowing in America being the necessary first step to unravel bad things. You don't even have to leave Silicon Valley to find Theranos, the Google/Apple/Facebook no-poach collusion, etc.
What is the predicted bounding and the ground truth bounding, as related by a stop sign? I have no idea what's happening there.
Except both crises were caused or amplified by the governments. Not "we".
The difficulty in making a nuclear weapon is in making a clean, effective, efficient, and high powered one. Making one with a relatively low yield is really not especially difficult. The principal difficulty is merely obtaining the fissile material.

Two hemispheres of accurately machined fissile material, a vacuum pump, some really solid steel tubing, and some TNT will make a bomb.
As someone tasked with unwinding a grandparent's ultimately-less-than-economical dream, please check in with your descendants before binding them into a sticky situation.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your heirs is freedom. (and an organized will/estate)
>This has been known for years.

I used to do this. Still have a strong tendency to, and have to resist it. Everyone's lived experience is different, and I'd wager there is a large percentage of people across the globe alive now who have never, and will never, have any clue about Frank Abagnale and his story.

And that's okay.
I don't think it'd be illegal at all.

I think a number of people misunderstand that the reason why a lot of companies have a "Don't talk about why someone left" de-facto policy is because if there's any ambiguity it's probably not worth the cost of having to defend yourself from a possible libel lawsuit, and not that it's against any law.

The cost/benefit of that changes if there's no ambiguity, evidence of truth is after all a good defense against libel charges (in most sane jurisdictions...), and if the reason is "big" enough they may feel obliged to make it known.
Mainstreams are the Journal and Financial Times, but practically every genre has droves of researchers cranking out everything from the questionable to prescient. (Almost universally, free blogs are the former.)
Have you used any BCI text input methods? I can assure you that typing with a keyboard is much faster and accurate than a "direct interface."
> Moreover, many traditional wars were not simply about defeating the enemy. They have been an opportunity to demonstrate courage and heroism. A brave warrior was not one who cowardly shot from a distance but one who bested the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

IIRC in a video about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana the video claimed that rifle gave a x10 advantage (that was not enough for the British in that battle). Honor is nice, but I'd take x10 every time.
What type of interpreter were most 8-bit BASIC implementations?
I dunno, man. Net migration numbers don't lie.
Between this, the leaps VR is making (e.g. PSVR 2) and the rapid advancement of LLMs, I feel like we’re all working our way towards the gloop tanks from the first Matrix film - except in the real world we’re spending a lot of money and effort to get there on purpose.
My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500
Defamation that questions someone's ability to do their profession is in a special class. You don't want to be the slightest bit wrong about anything in that, i.e. were they misquoted or overheard instead of talking directly to a reporter? Might some employer somewhere who would hire them view any such distinction as different?

Similarly, they leaked data but didn't or he lied and they were entering the phone market? Details wrong could be a long civil case, all the details right could still be a long case.. The only reason to engage in that kind of behavior is to sabotage yourself.
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Climbing gym :)
Constraint based style sheets?

https://gss.github.io/guides/ccss

I think this has great potential and I have been meaning to try it myself although I find the syntax somewhat wanting.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Samsung_SSD_Firmware
Read that interview yesterday… makes you think about her slightly differently than before
That, lets not underestimate the necessity for education and awareness.

There is only one ocean on planet earth and we all need to do our part to protect its ecosystem.
68k extra employees and facebook of 2010 was better than today.
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Do you want more?

He didn't know pac's relation to he-aac, or digital FM was renamed hd radio (which uses mdct, based on he-aac, based on pac). I was volunteering for the debian booth and thought Debian and raspberry pi os had no relation.

None of these things matter because you're just being an asshole.
That would go against the nature of such software. Let's treat users as adults. There should be warnings. But this is a feature. Users shouldn't be able to eg. select weak crypto algos, there is no additional functionality in that. But setting whatever pin is a convenience, and users should be able to decide what threat vectors they accept.
> ridiculously ancient copy of bash macOS ships as part of their protest against Free Software does not have this feature

Well, bash changed their license from GPLv2 to GPLv3. So it is reasonable anyone who was using the old version would reconsider.

> that was actually due to Apple holding us all back

I know Apple does this and that their policy also unreasonably extends to GPLv2, but the GPLv3 really is difficult even for people who only want to write open source code unless they buy into everything GNU.
I pay my electricity once per months, not per minute.
>What I find ironic is that as businesses leave China, they move into the exact same type of culture in Vietnam and India

most of those are just Chinese shell companies or doing final assembly on parts made in China to get around sanctions and as a PR stunt by big companies to appease DC by claiming they are moving out of China
I've used this amazing deck for learning Chinese:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/7mjmjc/bes...

This looks like a nice Anki deck for reviewing system design concepts:
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer

You might also be interested in Alex Xu's System Design Interview Book.
what is a children model? I'm curious but can't really follow what you wrote, can you add a bit more context?
> random people at GHCQ
Things do change over the time. And if you are so willing to look back I am sure you'll find enough trash in a history of your own country.
Hey HN, I am super excited to luanch our very first MVP version of BulkGPT to the community. BulkGPT is designed to streamline your ChatGPT experience by allowing you to submit multiple requests simultaneously and export the results to a single CSV file.
Don't forget the one in Noorderplantsoen ;)
This reads like it was written by someone cosplaying as an adult. A college degree is not an irreplaceable piece of paper to be guarded with your life - otherwise it would live in a vault somewhere. You can trivially have the certificate reprinted.
Still unclear because Israel is not a net food exporter while Saudi Arabia is. Unless we're talking about some other way to slice it (which I was unable to find any data on).
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This is interesting. Can you remember any examples of this kind of misdirection?
The first of the batched releases being on the eve of the Democratic National Convention and proceeding daily if I remember correctly right up until shortly before the election. Get real.
Ah, for the 6 people in the world who have that?
I’d assume the each member of the fortune 500 will train their own once they have a plausible use case.

For instance, Domino’s Pizza has been in this space for at least five years. (The idea is to mount a camera on the egress size of conveyor oven, and have the AI grade each pizza in real time.)
People use products, not abstract technology.
Sorry, I mistyped my original comment. I meant to say that non-teaching costs have not grown faster than teaching costs. From the article:

>Again, everything is per FTE per year. So support cost (student services, academic and institutional support) is roughly comparable to instruction cost (teaching), and the two have risen at similar rates in the 1999-2013 window. Research expenditures, meanwhile, have been pretty flat.