skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refer to my point on past inputs. If a human suddenly said to the machine "change of rules, now you have to play by these new rules" the AI suddenly gets immensely dumber and will apply useless solutions.
> He’s sort of the Don Knuth of US political biography.

Who's Chernow in this scenario? Maybe Ron Rivest?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "transsexual maximalism" as an ideology ?
...Which is more or less what many of us have been citing all along as a reason why cryptocurrencies are bullshit that shouldn't even be allowed to exist.
There are lots of 1 book/1 user DRM schemes in the library world. That's how all checkout based digital systems work today.
(Full disclosure: I asked GPT-4 to write a witty comment in style of HN which would reference the phrase "industrial revolution and it's consequences").
I think OP meant autonomous in the sense of motivation. It has no motivation to do anything aside from wait for someone to ask it to do something.
> its algorithms that do exactly what their creators tell them to do

This is very much in doubt :)

> They run on binary computers that only do exactly as they are told.

This is true in first approximation. Every CPU instruction runs exactly as it is written, that is true. This is probably the interpretation of "only do exactly as they are told" to someone strictly technology minded. But even with much simpler systems the words "huh, that should have not happened", and "I wonder why it is doing that" are uttered frequently.

The interpretation most humans would attach to "only do exactly as they are told" is that the maker can predict what the code will do, and that is far from the truth.

After all if it so simple, why did the google engineers tell their computer to tell lies about the James Webb Space Telescope? Couldn't they just told it to only tell the truth?
I used to live in NYC, here are a few that come to mind...

Art/museums... top notch collections

Restaurants... you can find any type of food here

Sports.. I used to go to the US Open tennis every year...
then there is football, baseball, MLS soccer.. all of these are within 1 hour

Sit down at a restaurant table on a sidewalk and just people watch

Broadway shows

Concerts

Beaches are close by

Hunter mountain for skiing is not too far

3 airports that have flight going everywhere

Those are just a few........
Somehow paying someone relatively well in a low-paying country does keep the rich rich(er) and at the same time creates a larger pool of poor people.

It's possible to be the worker who's paid relatively well and still be exploited. That worker then becomes complicit in the exploitation.

Pitting one workforce against another is an old trick used to control them all.
OpenAI Tokenizer
The entire UWP API was a fractal mess of poor decisions implemented sloppily, I can't say I'm surprised. There's so many footguns and glaring oversights that most people probably just gave up on it before they got this far.
>"That's surprisingly modest. 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable."

To me it's not modest, because I don't plan to stop using the software after just 3-4 years.
Can you expand on " he clearly lack support". Bonus points for facts over opinions.
They also lack taste — Just as Steve Jobs used to mock Microsoft; but it increasingly seems that the tables are turning.
People say it's NOT unique to Windows Snipping Tool but other tools that use this workflow for pngs as well.
Sorry, my writing was crap...

I meant to say that now the model is in production, it definitely needs to maintain and or improve performance...
Many companies that couldn't hire before now are in a hiring spree.
"Demand minimizaton" ia a fancy term for "restricting human rights"

That "solution" may help with trafficking, but hasn't solved the issues of:

* right to pursue a living wage wity honest work

* right to pursue sexual health

Farming and manufacturing also have trafficking problems. Should it be illegal to pay for cars and food?
That's with an American privately owned company. Now you can imagine their deals with corrupt governments in banana republics.
More than half of the layoffs will affect staff at its non-billable corporate functions, the company said, sending its shares up more than 4% before the bell.

The second paragraph in the article.
Both answers are wrong though?
Exactly! and this mostly happened in the regions where the OP's preferred candidate won. This is clear scam.
It protects you from investing in private companies like SpaceX IF YOU ARE POOR too, you are welcome!
Football presenters are often former players, and they're seldom wrong on the same level as not knowing how the consumer fundamentals of how an MMO takes money from players. That seems like an error comparable to a presenter not knowing that football stadiums sell food.
Nice comparison. I think register renaming is more like doing SSA renaming on a trace than register allocation, though.
My first thought was that we would have been best buddies if we grew up together, the second thought was I problably would not have grown up at all :)
It's all "employees" not only "devs".
Ex-Goldman Trader Looks to Sell Bonds on the Blockchain
You'd think that cutting employees would affect annual growth in that case.
I am not sure how much bigger, but definitely much bigger IMHO. Otherwise you wouldn't be capped at 25 requests every 3h. That number is small enough that makes me think the inference costs/hardware needed are much bigger than 3.5.
No. No! NO!

HTML and CSS are not the answer. If anything, you should be scared off by the fact that webpages require at least three languages to implement anything useful (HTML, CSS, and JS), and that doesn't count whatever you could use for a backend (PHP? I'm not a web developer, so I don't know what the cool kids use, other than maybe Node.js.)

In my book, the fewer langauges you use, the better: I will even extend this to Qt and QML (and it should be pointed out that I am passionate about using Qt and QML!). Multiple languages necessitate (often fragile) bridges to work together; plus, they take much more time and effort to learn. If you could learn one language and use it to make an app, wouldn't you jump at that instead of learning 3 or 4 languages before you could make an app?

Others have already added some great comments about the wisdom (or rather the lack thereof) of integrating a web browser into the OS. Myself? I don't wish anybody a future of bloated webapps for everything.
gpt4:

months in alphabetical order

Here are the months in alphabetical order:

April
August
December
February
January
July
June
March
May
November
October
September
What makes you assume it’s a moral judgment and not a liability/risk-driven business decision? I’ve almost never observed large businesses, including banks, passing up a chance to make money because of their moral scruples.

> The other day I got a notification that was "FYI we sold your shares in company X (NASDAQ listed)". They've decided they're no longer keen on weed companies and have taken it upon themselves to fix my portfolio to remove such evilness.

You are aware that cannabis is still federally illegal, right?
I've been rather unimpressed with Bard when asking it "common sense" type of information. It's limited memory is also a problem when trying to have a meaningful conversation with depth.

I spent a few hours last night trying to work on a story outline with Bard's help and while individual responses were sometimes okay, Bard regularly forgot about plot points and character traits we decided on earlier in the conversation and that was frustrating. ChatGPT is much better at conversational memory, but provided much less interesting results to individual queries.

Unlike other commenters, I think these artificial limitations aren't about spending or competency, but rather out of fear. Google is afraid of their bot turning racist, or saying things that could embarrass them.
From the article:

> More than half of the layoffs will affect staff at its non-billable corporate functions

So presumably a lot (most?) of these laid off individuals are not devs
> Personally, I think it's an interesting choice, but it may not be for everyone.

That's the point, I think. If I were in their shoes, I will also start with a slow rollout that limits the number of users to better understand how my product is used before making it GA.
My impression was that they take a lot of government money and technically keep a lot of government employees classified as private ones. My brother-in-law leads a software team that works on state benefits systems I believe.
Fiverr for the corporate world with 100x pricing.
> It is great to see how Lanier has grown up.

Indeed. It would be interesting to study how he became one of the go-to guys for hot takes on any new technology, considering that he hasn't developed any new technology in the last 40 years or so.

Only Cory Doctorow, perhaps, matches him when it comes to famous for being famous. Sorry, an awesome set of dreads doesn't make you a "guru".
Learn to develop AI software.
Accenture isn't a tech company, so this doesn't count
While a lot of these companies are dev heavy, many of those laid off are not even developers
When I was a kid my mother would give me a tablespoon of foul-tasting castor oil as a laxative.

Since learning about the ricin connection it's always been a source of bemusement whenever I think about it.

Edit: presumably by 'a lot' you mean milligrams (by ingestion) and not micrograms. From my understanding eating 100mg would be a certain death sentence.
Submission statement:

I shared some experiments on r/interactivefiction I made last night with regards to writing interactive fictions using chatGPT and am posting it here because I think it could be interesting to the HN crowd.

Interactive fictions are text based role-playing games you play on your computer. They were popular in the 80s and the scene is still alive to this day (although not commercially) with amateur hobbyist writing dozens of IF each years.

The most popular way to write these games is to use Inform7. It's a lovely language that reads like English and encourages an aspect-oriented style of programming through the use of rules instead of functions or methods like in more conventional language (anybody interested in predicate dispatch should take a look at Inform7. Some really interesting ideas in there).

Well it turns out ChatGPT4 seems even more suited to writing Interactive Fictions in natural language than Inform7 itself. Yesterday I taught him some mechanism to support multiple layers of enunciation so that we can have interactive fictions told in the first person, past tense. In addition to that I made the plane of narration a playable world with its own player-character, sitting in a chair, listening to the narrator that you incarnate on the plane of the narrated action. You can even argue with the narrator in the narration's plane in order to alter the course of events in the narrated action plane. Oh and last hour I implemented support to save and restore games.

I'm in awe as this is something that I worked on a good 10 years ago for many months, and ChatGPT brought it alive last night. It just took me a few hours to write the prompts I showcase on this reddit post. As someone who took courses in interaction/enunciation linguistics, the results are amazing.

I think I need to experiment with it more and find ways to write more statically defined stories, but in terms of open world with content generation, this is top notch and billions of light years ahead in terms of what you can do with Inform7 in this domain.
This is also consistent with the typical naming convention of properties in Unreal Engine.
According to an article in the Financial Times (gated), more than half the cuts would be coming in corporate functions (i.e. back office) and not client-facing roles (i.e. sales, delivery, dev, etc.).
https://www.ft.com/content/346357fd-4fb5-4794-9706-807eaf767...
I feel like somewhere around the release of Windows 8 Microsoft's OS division completely lost the plot and they've been coasting on profits from their other divisions ever since.
What is fair about anchoring candidates to an average wage set by otherwise competitive buyers who are now using 'transparency' to signal to each other, let alone +10%? That's collusion against employees.

If I can get the same talent for less, I will buy that. However, if that talent costs less because their government has imposed market conditions that remove the persons opportunity to earn closer to what I would pay them based on the value of their work to me, then I am exploiting an arbitrage of talent in that closed and manipulated market vs. adjacent ones.

It must be nice to read this thread and be confident that not only will people in tech still work for less than they are worth, but they will even assert the obligation of others to do so.

Facebook employees have an average revenue per employee well above a million dollars, is a web developer working for them only worth the $10/h that other employers are have agreed to offer them because they are from a poor area that enforces these policies, or does this developer earn an equity portion of the millions in value they are creating? Even if it were $100/h, that only seems attractive because most people don't understand contracts, negotiations, numbers, or economics.

If you want to know who wins, it's political parties who sell out their populations to global companies by using manipulations like this to suppress the value of their local labour market, and when they attract more foreign companies exploiting this, they get the revenue to spend on getting re-elected by the smaller coalitions they are paying off with the proceeds. Maybe this would have been less controversial if they had marketed it as, "Your bargaining power will be sold out to global corporations and you will be happy."
Why not debunk everything I just wrote instead of attacking me personally?

Google is your friend and you can verify everything I said about:

Tinubu's drug trafficking indictment: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61732548
I asked Bard for local restaurants and it listed ten. Two had the wrong type of food (saying it was Mexican instead of Italian for example), two were closed and had been so for years, and two were entirely made up. Only four were completely correct.

I asked it for information about a show and it summarized it correctly but then hallucinated the hosts as two entirely made up people with fake careers. It even linked websites to the show with the correct information but made up this false info.

It's even worse than Google search which is already middling.
At this point, almost half of their revenue (7.5/16B in Q1 2023 from the 10-Q filing) is for their outsourcing / "managed services" business.

They expect half of the reduction to be in their non-billable corporate area.

It's also fascinating to realize that their REVENUE per employee is ~85K USD.
1% change in revenue can result in a material deviation in net income and cash flow
No, they don't. They're still the world's most visited page [citation needed] if they start to automatically integrate Bard into every search they have their 99% of market share even with an inferior model.

They have a few more years to pull that off.
That's deprecated.

It is now useStrongEffect()
Built couple of apps on Stacks network. Check out hiro.so
80% or so of their revenues are still from Google Search. The only money they have to invest is from selling out their users to the top bidder; this is not a group positioned to invest in Trustworthy AI
I think it optimizes for readability.
This HN story on Verse 3 months ago has a detailed PDF slide presentation and 376 comments:

Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf] (peytonjones.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946933
Months are not in alphabetical order.

And largest city is an ambiguous answer: per area, moskow is, by population its istanbul.
The title of the post, that it's more likely to drive us (assumedly meaning it's users) insane, rather than destroy us.
Archive: https://archive.ph/NHeX8

Companies site: https://www.pv0.one/
It reminds me of the Firefox users who to this day view Mozilla with contempt for having deprecated old add-ons or some barely used feature (highly recommend reading your average pale moon user's reaction when pale moon does the same)
You can also find that information on page 23 of their quarterly filing with the SEC [0]

0 - https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/us/accenture2/SEC/sec...
How do people determine the "current rate of progress"? There is absolutely no empirical standard to evaluate the performance of AI systems. How is this anything else but a gut feeling? And how is that feeling different from any other period? Minsky et al famously declared that AGI was away a few months of hard work, and they did it for the same reason, they lived through a period of dynamism in computer science. People definitely said it after Deep Blue beat Kasparov.

Progress in AI doesn't imply that we're dangerously close to AGI, just because people at any given time are amazed by individual breakthroughs they witness.
That's what's happening on my email team.
They are Number 1 with Office.

That allows them to enter new markets.
And push new tools under the Office subscription.

If there was a more dominant player in the Office Tools space, then they might be stuck playing catch up.

Similarly Google Pushed it's office tools under the Gmail for Domains ( Suite, Workspace etc ) Subscription.
They used that domination to enter new markets.
How is that relevant? A human will also get immensely dumber. Of course a lot less then an AI right now. The point is AI absolutely can do things a human can't.
> I said it before, and I will say it again: If ChatGPT 3,4,5,... can take your job, maybe youre not really providing that much value.

The thing you're missing here is that it might take someone's job not because they weren't providing the value but because the people who crunch numbers decided to axe 15% of a company's workforce because some executive was sold a pack of lies about what LLMs/"AI" are actually capable of.

It's fine if that happens to one company who then finds out the hard way. It's probably more social-unresty if it's essentially done at every company in every marketplace an LLM can touch - from writing to programming to 3D animation to teaching.

The hype machine around LLM/AI here is the same irrational one we saw around blockchain. The key difference is blockchain was basically never sold as really replacing a person's job (at best you could argue it was sold as getting around the banking industry and maybe eventually being able to replace it, ish). The primary sales pitch of these LLMs is essentially "do more with less".
At a company like this i doubt it.

I've got a few buddies working in huge consulting firms, they can spend weeks or months on the bench waiting for an appropriate projects to come up.
Often it's really not possible to muster the personal responsibility you seem to be demanding here. The village needs to get better at helping these people for whom it's really hard to help themselves, instead.
Doesn't seem perfect but this is also an original Wii and not the Wii U:

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

I'm not sure if MOL will work on the newer kernel used by Wii U linux though.
Yeah, that’s a problem now a days.

I’ve pretty much taken to waiting for a series to end and then binge watching because too many I’ve been interested in just get canceled in the middle of the story.

Probably part of the problem since I don’t show up in the weekly viewing stats but, oh well.
Clearly means even his Vice Presidential Candidate could not win his own polling unit, polling unit, not ward, not Local Government, not State.

https://punchng.com/nigeriaelections2023-datti-loses-polling...
Can you point me to a clip on YouTube that you would consider to be good Bollywood VFX? I've mostly been exposed to the most comically bad Bollywood VFX.
I searched and didn’t find any identical prior comment
From their technical report [1]:

> 2.12 Acceleration

> OpenAI has been concerned with how development and deployment of state-of-the-art systems like GPT-4 could affect the broader AI research and development ecosystem.23 One concern of particular importance to OpenAI is the risk of racing dynamics leading to a decline in safety standards, the diffusion of bad norms, and accelerated AI timelines, each of which heighten societal risks associated with AI. We refer to these here as acceleration risk.”24 This was one of the reasons we spent eight months on safety research, risk assessment, and iteration prior to launching GPT-4. In order to specifically better understand acceleration risk from the deployment of GPT-4, we recruited expert forecasters25 to predict how tweaking various features of the GPT-4 deployment (e.g., timing, communication strategy, and method of commercialization) might affect (concrete indicators of) acceleration risk. Forecasters predicted several things would reduce acceleration, including delaying deployment of GPT-4 by a further six months and taking a quieter communications strategy around the GPT-4 deployment (as compared to the GPT-3 deployment). We also learned from recent deployments that the effectiveness of quiet communications strategy in mitigating acceleration risk can be limited, in particular when novel accessible capabilities are concerned.

> We also conducted an evaluation to measure GPT-4’s impact on international stability and to identify the structural factors that intensify AI acceleration. We found that GPT-4’s international impact is most likely to materialize through an increase in demand for competitor products in other countries. Our analysis identified a lengthy list of structural factors that can be accelerants, including government innovation policies, informal state alliances, tacit knowledge transfer between scientists, and existing formal export control agreements.

> Our approach to forecasting acceleration is still experimental and we are working on researching and developing more reliable acceleration estimates.

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
I personally use this one: https://daylio.net/

How do they compare?
I looked them up, forgetting were I heard them from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture

They went on a buying spree over the past 3 years. I wonder if they are using this financial environment to get rid of people that came with these purchases.
>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The concerns are, in the short-term, ability to pay debt service out of current revenue, and, in the longer term, assuring the GDP grows faster than debt. Neither of those requires balancing the budget.

I agree. I don’t mean balancing the budget in an accounting sense. I mean getting spending down to sustainable levels. It just isn’t sustainable right now, and the only two possibilities I see is to either get that under control or to buy government debt with “printed” money, causing inflation which will decrease the real value of the debt.

Seeing the flagrant incompetency and immaturity in Congress, I’m betting on the latter.
The actual product is the user interactions. ChatGPT etc is trained on examples in the thousands. What google will be doing is trying to get 100s of millions of labelled interactions by getting the users to do it for them.

Then they’ll use those to train its final model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
I think I've seen this episode of The Orville.
I'm confident the output of chatbot won't be literally taking over the world and killing all the humans.