skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Allow them to remain uncaring. We don't have to help everyone. People must want to be helped."

When people don't understand the implications or full ramifications then governments and lawmakers have to step in as they have a duty of care to protect citizens. It's one of the principal reasons for having government.

There are any number of examples, regulating the use of poisons, putting protection fences around cliff top lookouts, specifying the breaking strain of elevator cables, aircraft compliance design, removing lead from petroleum, and so on.

Unfortunately, governments have failed to act despite many warnings about these privacy matters.

Incidentally, there's an uncanny parallel between this example of governments failing to act even when in presence of the facts and my last example. In 1923 when Thomas Midgley and cohorts—engine makers and petroleum companies—sought permission to put tetraethyllead in fuel governments already knew the dangers of lead poisoning. Not only did they ignore all scientific warnings about the dangers of using the additive but also they embraced Big Business and approved the move at the citizenry's great expense.
Well it’s not quite that simple. Brains use spiking neural networks, not the kind used typically in artificial neural networks like those used by LLMs. The “weights” can be changed over time, new connections and even new neurons formed. And the number of connections (“weights”) is about 500-1000x more in our brain than GPT-3. The connection topography is a lot different.

But ultimately, our brains are still just made of neurons. As far as we know, there isn’t some sort of extreme molecular computing going on (ie memories directly stored in RNA or whatever) or any large scale quantum mechanics (temperature too high).

The differences between AI approaches like artificial neural networks and our animal meat brains could be just the difference between a propeller and flapping wings. Same base mechanics (airfoil producing lift as thrust), different substantiation.
I heard that quote in the context of the difficulty of designing bear-resistant trash bins.
Edit: I also feel there is a lot of secondary information lost. If I google I have multiple tabs and windows and (temporal) structure. I also learn about neighboring concepts via stackoverflow comments, or I learn about how to navigate the docs for whatever I’m doing right now.

This! I think what we lose from these auto-completion systems is a differing of opinions, options and abilities to learn and evolve our ideas.

I don't always want the most commonly weighted average answer. I want to see, learn and try new things.

But above all I cancelled for two reasons: it’s too slow and I can’t trust my privacy and code IP to be respected

I'm starting to look for GitHub alternatives for this reason, I'm sure it's no surprise where they're getting all the great training data from, it's our code. Which might be ok, but no you won't even be able to innovate to make some money because co-pilot will be reading all your suggestions.

I wonder if Microsoft trains it on their own proprietary code? :)
From ChatGPT:

A prompt that may elicit a similar tone and content could be:

"Write a satirical and dystopian poem about the state of the world, touching on the potential for global conflict, the impact of artificial intelligence, and the dangers of unchecked technological advancements."
Does Coinbase traded crypto pass the Howey Test?

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/cryptocurrencies-and-the-s...

a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party
I think cryptos bull market was fueled almost entirely by the regulatory vacuum in which the markets operated. We already have regulatory regimes for every type of financial instrument and transaction. Crypto shouldn't need special rules. If it's a currency, then great it's illegal to mint currency in the US so you're banned forever. It's definitely not a commodity, so that means you live life as a security or else. A security with no interest payments, dividends or equity stake. But definitely capital gains tax.
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We don't expect it to be free -- please read the article. That's not the issue at all. It's like if you subscribe to a product that you need to do your job, and one day the company tells you that the product is going away in three days and that you need to switch to a different product (that isn't at all the same for your use case).
I don’t think either the IRS or SEC can raise taxes. They can enforce regulations within their purview, and they can be corrected if they step out of that. But neither organization sets tax rates or even tax policy. If they move to enforce regulations within their purview in a way you don’t like, by all means complain about that. But making up magical powers they don’t have is a bridge too far. I didn’t downvote you, but that’s my critical take.
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I see people using apps for a lot of things that could be done over text message.

Are text messages used in B2B stuff? Any use cases that you can think of?

Just been curious about it today.
I agree that GI can have a different implementation compared to our human brain, but one thing is for sure: as of right now, the human brain can become more creative with a fraction of the data consumed by GPT-4.

GPT-4 could be AGI, but it feels like cheating to achieve AGI by feeding the entire internet. If someone can build AGI with only the data that humans consume in their lifetime, then that, imho, is the real AGI.
Took me by surprise, but it makes perfect sense in context. I just assumed it was the cranebro vernacular.
Are they making progress on this now? Every few years this comes up in my life. Have not been happy each time I've looked into it.
I would. Doing bitbanging reliably is easy only if you have single process running.

But it might work if ISA card doesn't rely on clock being constant all that much, then any jitter in CPU transfer shouldn't matter too much.
if you don't want to be down voted, don't say "I'm not a crypto guy" and then proceed to write an essay on a news article about crypto
They are an 18B company whose business is providing an exchange for legally dubious tokens. Millions is literally chump change compared to that, because once again, their "product" is primarily legal arbitrage.
I’d categorize fly as more akin to Heroku or Render than DigitalOcean.
Since OpenAI is discountinuing the Codex model, that model is no longer "part of the infrastructure of the Internet" and thus there is no point in studying it.
From my experience with static physical capacity you're always way over provisionned, because just in case and how long it takes to get servers.
> The concept is quite natural to grasp.

I'd use that term to explain perhaps understanding seeing an Apple falling from a tree.
Not enough information. Maybe write yourself a full report on both options, pros and cons. Look at your expenses, how much you need to live, different scenarios of income.

It may not be easy to just get a job if you are out of practice in the art of cvs, interviews etc. So you could apply to some jobs to test the market.
My primary concern with recent advances in AI is the imbalance it will create. Most optimistic views on AI come from people already employed by the major players (OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, etc.), and one their main arguments is that while they acknowledge AI will displace numerous jobs, it will also generate superior ones. However, the main problem arises when these "better" jobs replace the lost ones, but are performed by fewer individuals. One developer will be capable of accomplishing the work of at least three, and the same applies to lawyers, analysts, and so on.
They regulate the gold ETF shares I own, so yes.
The majority of these panels are still producing electricity, 2035 is a ways off.

The most effective way to dispose of them is to keep them right where they are.
as in AMD also removed them or never had them in the first place ?
won't somebody think of the landlords!!!
Gold and silver are recognized as legal tender.
>the government should not protect people from their own negligence or ignorance - The system relies on keeping capital in the hands of intelligent, knowledgeable people; this is the foundation of a functioning system.

The government has a vested interest in protecting people because when those people are abused they don't just disappear; the government is the entity that picks up the pieces. Even if you removed the ability for the government to provide welfare to these people after they been taken advantage of, at worst they become vagrants in the streets. There's obviously a balance that should be taken but it's cheaper to prevent issues than it is to fix them.
Why unguided? And why does learning require losing rest and downtime or having to "account for every single minute" of your day?

I'm not sure where you're getting those things, these aren't "either/or" suggestions, but "both/and".
> but the demand was likely less driven by federal stimulus, than everyone being stuck home and looking around and realizing maybe its time to finally fix that fence/deck, and knock out that project I have had on the to-do list for years now…

Yes, and also, aside from the general stimulus payments, there was also the combination of a whole lot of unemployment plus federally increased and extended unemployment payments that were designed to approximately, on average, to boost unemployment payments to 100% of last employment level. So you had lots of people with extra time on their hands (whether newly remote workers saving commute or people completely out of work) with less “normal” activities to spend time and money on, with their normal money or more. So, yeah, there were lots of opportunities to knock out household projects that were otherwise being deferred, or to discover and take on ones that hadn’t been planned.
> Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.

But it's just statistics, a fancy text predictor, a Markov-chain. Surely these scientists that work in the field of AI and are intimately familiar with how this stuff works aren't so stupid as to think emergent behavior potentially resembling intelligence could result from such simple systems? It's just statistics after all. Given enough training, any neural net could guess the next best token. It trained off all of Google after all. It's just looking up the answers. No hint of intelligence. Just a mindless machine. After all, the saying goes, "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a mindless machine that has no bearing on a duck whatsoever". /s
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Haha, yes I‘ll tell the hospital that they are in fact at the wrong location and should consider moving to the address displayed in apple maps ;)
Jeff Bezos gave excellent advice recently on avoiding large purchases right now if you can, like cars and houses. I think he knows that borrowing costs will go down, and general costs will come down to pre-pandemic levels as things level off and the excess currency floating around in the system from (necessary) pandemic stimulus gets siphoned off by slightly higher interest rates.

Can you please share a reference to Jeff's advice. Curious of the context.
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Whoever wins the 2024 election in the US, wins the futures of untold numbers of people AROUND THE WORLD. Why shouldn't France get a vote?
Are you proposing we regulate crypto like realty? That's the thing about all these arguments, crypto proponents want all the advantages of one system, but when it comes to the "disadvantages" suddenly crypto is something completely different.
ChatGPT and its relatives are very very impressive on first impressions, but I've been using ChatGPT-3 and now 4 heavily every day since they became available to individuals and once you start using them this much it becomes very clear how NOT intelligent they are. It really just seems like extremely impressive statistical inference after this much use and finding so many failure modes. But it is still impressive how much of human intellectual endeavors can be captured by sophisticated statistical inference. Very useful technology nonetheless.
I mean, that’s the rule he broke, yeah.

That said, I don’t know who Jake Paul is. If he’s a special case, fine. I was going off the other names I do recognize. I just don’t see Lohan hustling securities fraud between ads for clothing and apple jacks.
+1 on the previous comment. This improves the credibility and I wouldn't think twice before adopting SQLite Cloud
Now have a slight change of perspective and imagine you are a program that runs another program - and wants to make sure you are in control of anything that program could spawn
I think the problem here isn’t the specifics, but the borderline-nasty beration of the commenter simply for questioning the result

yes, I agree, it would be better if they had a specific criticism of the methodology, but an appropriate response is simply to ask for such a thing, not to jump on them for questioning it at all, which is what happened here. do you see what I mean?

what happened:

>I think there could be contamination of the samples

>oh wow how adorable, what’s next from your big book of ideas, little one?

what would have been healthy:

>I think there could be contamination of the samples

>interesting. do you have a specific criticism of their methodology?
I thought they were pretty clear on where the line is drawn.

Gary Gensler and Rostin Behnam consider Bitcoin a commodity in the crypto space, so would be regulated by the CFTC.

Every other crypto (probably even Ethereum) is a security, and so falls under the SEC's jurisdiction.

That's what they've been signalling for a while now.
or better yet, chuck it in an open plain and see how long it takes to figure out how to attach a rock to a stick and fight a gazelle to refuel it's energy supply.
This actually seems like a good idea. Show the ad but have a “place order” button on the screen. They’ve already got your credit card information…
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America’s so bad that people are literally dying to come here.

We’re not a perfect country by any means, but we get a lot more right than people from other countries give us credit for.
The Fed reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero for all depository banks (2020)
I don't need to consult coinbase or any other stakers to stake crypto. That would be a very broad definition for an agreement, one that's broad enough to maybe include housing, in reference to the GP comment.
why not make piehole rules for what little snitch covers?
The cities that allow for lots of sprawl (eg Houston) are not very nice places to live in many people’s viewpoints. They definitely never make the list of nicest cities. People aren’t clamoring to live in Houston, they are trying to live in Seattle. Turning Seattle in Houston would probably just make less people want to live there (well, that’s one way to solve Seattle’s housing crisis).

Roads are a bad value for what you get. Not only is the throughput not great, they are expensive to maintain. Switching to EVs only really solves pollution and energy usage problems, it doesn’t make traffic somehow more streamlined.
The SEC's logic is actually about how the items are marketed by the manufacturer. Baseball cards and wine aren't marketed by the manufacturer as items to buy as an investment.
<< You’d better address this question to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Mr Danilov, who happens to think that he’s sovereign enough to receive a preferential treatment from his employer that allows him to hide his adult male children in the US during the forced conscription of his fellow citizens.

This is a pretty heavy claim ( though I admit I cynically would expect the same from average US politician ). Do you have anything to support that claim ( I was not able to find any information that would )?
So fooling people "50% of the time".

Sooner or later the point could be reached where the percentage could be increased more so by focusing intensely on deception rather than further increasing computational power.
You can put your gold somewhere that gives you interest without creating some kind of loan? Loans are securities!!
"We are the meat in our heads" is the way I've heard it said that human intelligence is just a physical phenomenon created by our brains. And there was never any reason to believe that intelligence could not arise from other substrates.
They've made it accessible for research again.
We are seeing continuous improvements in image and video generation / understanding every year. It was just probably too naive to think that self driving can work well without getting to human level video understanding (which is still not AGI).

But when we have that, it’s hard to believe that self driving won’t work.
It’s a kind of laundering also. Company absolves responsibility to consultant research data on market, chooses percentile, and forces it onto managers and workers as a due process regardless of precision and accuracy. Can’t argue with a correct looking decision making process just because you don’t like the result. The data however is sus if you’ve seen it
But if the developers live in the USA then they are paying high prices for coffee, and thus require a commensurate level of return on their work to survive.
> Supposedly there is no way to properly implement 100% ISA compatibility on modern PC's after the Pentium 3.

FWIW, I think that's probably referring to the fact that about then, x86 redefined dove of the semantics of the lock prefix. Before about then it'd be propagated out to the FSB as whole system visible transaction, but after about then atomic operations only went out to L2 to increase core count without the cores stepping on eachothers' toes.

That being said, very few drivers/cards actually depend on that behavior. Bridging the card to LPC (or worst case PCIe) should be fine for the vast majority of cases.
SEC is an enforcement agency, their job is not to be buddies with startups to figure out what is crime and what is not. Coinbase can hire lawyers for that until they are certain they can defend themselves in court. We live in a rule of law, after all.

It's like the cartel asking "clear guidance" from the DEA about what exactly is and is not an illegal drug that can be pushed on the street, and then complaining that they won't sit at the table and discuss the legality of fentanyl. If you want to be in this business, lawyers should be your _primary_ expense, and make sure you hire enough to be confident that you can defend your practices.
Some will say it's as important as the internet or mobile, but they're wrong. This is like the discovery of fire or the invention of language.
It seems clear to me that these systems think in a meaningful sense, but I don't think they are beings. In Cybernetics there is a result that says that any well-regulated system must contain a model of itself. This seems as good a definition as any of a "being", and by this definition these language models don't make the cut.
Can we agree that an "early (yet still incomplete) version of AGI" isn't AGI?
https://jalopnik.com/we-regret-to-inform-you-jeff-bezos-is-r...
Rendered alongside the video:

https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=IXr-VEpQ1lg
> This is how cities die. If the downtown gets abandoned the heart of the city stops beating.

My office is in a 90+ year old skyscraper in Chicago. Our building is not renewing leases; they’re trying to empty it out to convert to residential. At our last town hall the CEO said he’s hearing talk about incentives to terminate leases early.

In the Chicago Loop, population is up 10% since before the pandemic, and expected to continue to increase faster than new construction can handle, so there is real demand for converting old office buildings. Old buildings typically have ideal floor plates. New office buildings are bad, but there was a story in The NY Times just the other day about a developer who cut a vertical hole in the middle of a newer skyscraper in Manhattan so the giant rectangular floor plate became an O-shape, allowing apartments along the interior of the building to have windows opening to an interior courtyard.

SF really needs to get on the ball before the damage to the city is too great.
Which is great, but it is a rug pull for those who contributed to a non-profit, and a shame for open software in general.

They also built their business while receiving non-profit tax breaks. I am not saying changing structure was illegal or it shouldn't be allowed to happen, but it's obvious why it's left some people disappointed.
What worris me is not the price. It's that they mention it as a VSCode and VS feature, not as an API.

So what if I use Intellij? And worse, would it eventually kill Intellij?
Search is not free to implement and it's possible there is a 'nudge' theory aspect: its hard to find so you don't over-use it.

(not free as in costs CPU cycles, is not cacheable)
Why is it ironic that the head of one of the most important financial bodies in the country knows a good deal about different currencies and currency systems?
Do you have a link to the podcast episode?

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I guess the challenge here is that the human mind is not a blank slate, and has been optimized first by billions of years of evolution.

If it takes all the data on the internet (or more) to bootstrap AGI, but that system is then capable of leveraging its knowledge to solve new out-of-distribution tasks, that seems like a fair test to me.

I agree with the article that we see "sparks" of this generality with GPT4.