skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am probably being very optimistic, and obviously China's success won't be replicated exactly.
This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing
If you have to select the matching images from 9 images and you are feeding each of those images to GPT4 and asking "is this a <TARGET>?", I don't think you're going to get a response back to complete the captcha in time (e.g. <30s). This will change as the models advance.
Nice theoretical prompt, where's the result?
The motives are different this time. Those in the know are deliberately downplaying and misdirecting to stave off panic and political meddling. So far it seems to be working. The people I know who aren't following closely don't seem to realize how we may be on the brink of something very big. And these are very smart and technical people.

I do wonder if the intelligence agencies are already deeply involved. If OpenAI is working with them training no-guardrails AIs.

I also wonder if the CCP/PLA is pushing Baidu's AI efforts, or if Baidu is working on its own and trying to avoid official attention.
not parents
The use of the word 'empowerment' in modern feminism itself, even by center-left collective, is the proof that we lost the last battle in the class warfare. Goldman, Beauvoir and feminists used emancipation. Now I even hear French feminist use 'empowerment', and that's just sad.
I see them on the street fairly often.
New startup name: is the -ly suffix played out yet?
It seems to attract VC like a magnet.
> Having worked in the space on-and-off since my PhD, the pace is not "overwhelming". You just started paying attention to it.

Really? Maybe I too only recently "started paying attention to it", but it's way above my other go-to example of churn, which is JavaScript ecosystem - and that has a benefit of mostly being fashion and faux-innovation. There's nothing comparable I can think of that's been advancing as fast in recent years as AI/ML.
https://blog.quastor.org/p/architecture-wayfairs-ad-bidding-...
> We've been sold on the idea that money is scary and we shouldn't touch it ourselves.

We have? I guess I was passed over when that sales job happened.

> > We should 'trust' people who know these complicated finance things better than us.

That's not how I look at it. How I see it is that when I'm operating in the established monetary system, I have some amount of protection and recourse available to me if/when things go wrong. With cryptocurrency, I have none.

To me, that's a really significant difference, and is in the top 3 reasons why I avoid cryptocurrency.

It has nothing to do with "trusting" financial institutions, or feeling like money is too complicated to understand.
That's exactly what it is despite the "gpt bros" playing it up. It's literally a scaled up Eliza, that has billions of substitutions instead of tens. People just get dazzled by it and read too far in to what it's doing
The per annotation cost of simple image tasks in MTurk can be as low as $0.0003
> Right; their single-card-brand partnership agreement is a tool for getting lower credit card processing fees.

Volume rates in general are extremely common.
You never noticed an issue, that doesn’t mean you avoid getting counterfeit items etc.
hnswlib? Best of the bunch imho
> You can't know if the answer was real or stochastic parroting.

I feel like at some point we will have to come to terms with the fact that we could say the same for humans, and we will have to either accept or reject by fiat that a sufficiently capable AI exhibits consciousness.
That's actually quite a bad summary with some hallucinations included (tourism, hospitality, AI screened resumes, focus on the pandemic). The summary I got was after I copy/pasted the contents and it's pretty much on the mark. Not sure why there is such a difference:

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Big tech companies like Meta and Amazon have announced massive layoffs, with American tech firms having announced 118,000 sackings so far this year. However, techies have been mostly spared, and the axe has fallen mainly on business functions like sales and recruitment. These functions had grown steadily as a share of tech-industry employment in recent years, a sign of bloat. The recent layoffs may release talented tech workers back into the job market, which could benefit other sectors struggling with digital reinvention, such as industrial goods, carmakers, banks, health insurers, and retailers. Some of the laid-off techies are also helping fuel a new generation of startups.
Hobbyist builds ChatGPT client for MS-DOS running on a 4.77 MHz IBM PC from 1981
I've interacted with multiple financial services that do the same thing. This is not unique to paypal.
The Bank Regulators Are Disappointed
Almost all crypto at this point can be linked back to a person since it’s mostly bought through a few large exchanges that the government has complete insight into.

The only way for it to not be traced outside of monero and maybe a few others that have no adoption is buy in cash in person and transfer it to a never before used address. Mine it yourself and never mix it with your other funds.
Even if you don't have much data, SQLMesh will save you time over dbt. Iteration is an important part to developing data pipelines, and fully refreshing your warehouse every time is wasteful and can slow you down.

Trying out SQLMesh is easy, you can import your existing project and leverage SQLMesh's runtime. At the very least, you can add unit tests to your project.

You can see a more detailed comparison here https://sqlmesh.readthedocs.io/en/stable/comparisons/.
China and Russia are partners, allies. Are you one of those people who sits there furiously praying they’ll fight WWIII against each other? It’s delusional.
Twitter Outreach Startup with a 1.5B profiles and Automated tools
If it is ever a threat to their revenue, they will 100% block the apps.
Sounds like one would have to pay extra for the privilege then.

These are money saving tips. In general, if you want to go beyond basic services/privileges, you’re gonna have to pay more.
Apple is famously protective of its trademarks against small software companies.

I forget the details so I can’t Google it, but twenty years ago there was a case where a Mac developer had a name collision with an Apple product, emailed Steve Jobs, and he replied with “No big deal, change the name.” — the little guy was expected to bear the burden of coming up with a new brand, but Jobs was (in his own view) kind enough not to sue.
And how does unproductive activity enable one to purchase that energy on the global market?
It seems that you may not be fully informed about the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, often referred to as the Smith-Mundt Act. This significant piece of legislation aimed to shield American citizens from being influenced by propaganda disseminated by organizations such as the CIA.

In 2012, the act was updated to accommodate the prevalence of the Internet, and has led to an increase in the spread of government propaganda. Individuals who unwittingly perpetuate these false narratives may inadvertently be contributing to the deterioration of the Western world, all for the benefit of a select few who manipulate situations for their personal gain.

It's essential to recognize that remaining ignorant on such matters is not acceptable. We must strive to educate ourselves and be critical of the information we consume. If this is your first exposure to the Smith-Mundt Act, it may be time to reflect on whether you have been misled in the past.

Also, "whataboutism" only serves to stifle meaningful conversation and hinder our ability to understand different perspectives. To foster a healthy exchange of ideas, we must commit to evaluating arguments based on their merits, rather than resorting to discrediting tactics that have been employed by evil political parties you think you're against.
There is no law criminalizing the utterance of certain words, that's absurd. By your logic saying 'I'm going out doors to weed the lawn' or 'Our neighbor was arrested for illegally selling weed' are somehow evidence of crime.
Ask HN: Startup banking recommendations (good app/online experience)?
I was searching on reddit and pretty much 100% of the threads are recommending a credit union. I think it is hit or miss. Plenty of credit unions have terrible online experience. In light of SVB failures and what not, what's HN's recommendation for an amazing online bank that offers checking/savings accounts for businesses? We're talking about less than $1M in cash. Where do you bank with your startup/LLC?
But probably to be fully super conscious is impossible. Can a mind really comprehend itself in his totality? When a mind understands something, is changed, and if that something is the mind himself then is going to chase a moving target eternally.
People keep saying things like this, and rarely offer up the name of any better card when asked.

Apple Card offers 2% cash back on all Apple Pay purchases, which... exactly matches my no-fee card from Chase. Except I have to choose how to use the 2% from Chase when it eventually is available, while I can spend Apple's 2% the next day via Apple pay. I threw the metal card in a drawer when it arrived, so if your goal is tell people not to use the physical card, then sure, I'm with you. But I don't think that's the primary use of the card.
Not sure what this thing is doing. Sounds a lot like that infinite Seinfeld AI show.
What sort of expectations are you seeing that you'd call absurd, out of curiosity? No agenda here, just also trying to sort through hype and reality.
Though it says it was exploited before Google's disclosure (not sure if disclosure is referring to the timing of the patch, but the linked Google post is from 6th March).

> This privilege-escalation flaw, which was exploited prior to Google’s disclosure
Carbon fiber isn't better because of strength, but because it's a lot easier to keep somewhat light while making aerodynamic shapes.
> .. we can abstract, and formalise, and prove, and demonstrate. You can't do that just by predicting. That's a power over and beyond modelling data.

I think we will find this not to be the case. And of course, many people like me do think that the ability to predict well enough implies the ability to do everything else.

Since I wrote my reply, I found two other posts on HN that seem relevant to that if you want to read more:

AI vs. AGI vs. Consciousness vs. Super-intelligence vs. Agency
https://secondbreakfast.co/ai-vs-agi-vs-consciousness-vs-sup...

Simulators (Self-supervised learning may create AGI or its foundation)
https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/

Here is a quote from that last one - I am still reading it since it is long, but

> ... I call this the prediction orthogonality thesis: A model whose objective is prediction can simulate agents who optimize toward any objectives, with any degree of optimality (bounded above but not below by the model’s power).*

> This is a corollary of the classical orthogonality thesis, which states that agents can have any combination of intelligence level and goal, combined with the assumption that agents can in principle be predicted. A single predictive model may also predict multiple agents, either independently (e.g. in different conditions), or interacting in a multi-agent simulation. A more optimal predictor is not restricted to predicting more optimal agents: being smarter does not make you unable to predict stupid systems, nor things that aren’t agentic like the weather.
How much functionality does it have compared to Orca?
Sounds pretty certain that you would never be asked this question, since it is not a matter of public record (or at least, not the public records these systems tend to use)
With the argument, we (speaking as a european) should ban Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and so on.

Is that really where you want to go.
Same reason I can eat a single donut and be fine while my best mate won't stop until the box is empty

People make poor decisions, a lot of people make poor financial decisions, what is a great tool when you're educated is a catastrophe for others

The new wave of "pay later" payment systems is clearly a way to artificially boost consumption in the short term
They're alluding to the cost of acquiring a customer for GS through Apple Card.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/18/apple-card-is-a-d...

> Goldman Sachs spent a lot of money to help launch Apple Card and its other consumer services. A report from January 13 revealed the bank's consumer credit division lost $1.2 billion in nine months last year, and the losses were primarily related to the Apple Card.

> "In the consumer platforms, we did some things right. We didn't execute on some others," Solomon told CNBC on Wednesday. "We probably took on more than we should have, you know, too much, too quickly."

> Goldman helped launch the Apple Card in 2019 and reportedly spent roughly $350 to acquire every new Apple Card customer. And in 2022, it scaled back its efforts to turn its consumer savings business, Marcus, into a fully-fledged digital bank.

> Executives of Goldman's collection of businesses known as Platform Solutions believe its consumer division may break even in 2025, although that target was initially by the end of 2022. However, the bank isn't giving up on the Apple Card.

> "I think we now have a very good deposits business," Solomon said. "We're working on our cards platform, and I think the partnership with Apple is going to pay meaningful dividends for the firm."
This isn't a new model, it's just new code.
That didn't seem to have anything do with it being an Apple card, though?
In california the social safety net is so shredded that basically if you cannot create a profit for a company as a human you're dead. They'll pay half the population to kill off the other hald until police can be automated and then they'll use machines to kill the remaining half.
Yup guantanamo north I've heard it called. Like 30 people have died in houston jail while awaiting trial in the last two years alone. It's endemic to the point of being basically intentional now.
By any evaluation you can carry out, GPT is generally intelligent. There is absolutely nothing narrow about GPT-4. And you see the sentiment in recent research. Look at what they're being called even with the skirting around the AGI word.

General Purpose Technologies (From the Jobs Paper), General Artificial Intelligence ( from the creativity paper). Look at the second bit, they just switched the words lol.
The problem is that you cannot pay debt with a credit card.

Same way like you cannot pay your mortgage with a credit card.
> I believe this has been extended to mean "on device", which is interesting.

I don't like the connotations this carries. This is almost openly talking about reaching all the way into peoples' hardware to run your software, for your benefit, on them, without their knowledge, consent or control...
The VC move would be to cut out the middleman, Jagex can sell a service that DDoSs itself; pay enough and they'll take down a world; pay more, they bring it back up.
This is the bargaining phase of denial.
I've observed this in artists and other AI communities, where they comfort themselves with "But every job will be automated" "UBI is coming~". Its just a way to avoid making the hard transition.

People who don't understand the basic 'theory/math', won't even understand things like parameter count, or the tradeoff between intelligence and response-time/running costs, a very important consideration for any real project.

From everything we've seen in AI thus far, it has become more complicated, not less. Prompt engineering has not gotten easier, with the explosion of use cases, it takes real skill and imagination to understand how to optimize prompts.
Looking at stable diffusion, new techniques like controlnet are incredibly powerful but beyond the average person to use. LORAs make fine-tuning accessible, but also expected of any professional in the future.

Every white collar company beyond a hundred people, in the future, will probably want their own fine tuned models/plugins/model grounding. Hiring people to deliver even 10% extra accuracy is worth it because AI's are so useful. People need to understand how they work under the hood.
Then advocate for banning American social media companies in European countries. This type of "whataboutism" keeps coming up every time the news breaks about the USA banning or restricting Chinese tech companies. It misses the point.

The point is that EVERY country needs to concern itself with its own national security, local laws and regulations. I wish that every country would embrace freedom, free trade and the open Internet and that we could all just get along ... but those are my personal value judgments being applied. In the current world of foreign relations, countries are going to act according to their own national interests, whatever those happen to be. Each will pretend that it is the one taking the "right" position, and each might behave hypocritically in the moment. The question of who is "right" and who is "wrong" will vary according to your own set of moral principals and beliefs.
at this point getting a 0% loan for 2 years is more interesting than the difference between 1-2% cash back.

i used to be really into optimizing cash back but it just ends up costing more mindshare than it is really worth.
I feel like it is more likely that we will discover that it is humans that are actually not a general intelligence. We are just a complex machine responding to stimuli and consciousness is just an illusion coping mechanism that prevents us from going insane. Perhaps this doesn't matter and as long as some AI is equal or greater than humans at general intelligence it still brings up the same concerns.
>Executor

Wow, now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long long time. I must have missed when they opened the code. Nice! I remember back in the day when I was first learning about 68k emulation and Basilisk II was the one everyone I knew used despite Fusion PC and SoftMac (with prerequisite rom card) was also popular. There was always something amazing about Executor's vision to make a complete solution which required no rom file. I wasn't sure if they'd ever get there but I was enthralled that someone was actively pursuing such a path.
what can be seen as overwhelming is the pace of news hitting the mainstream and that you might be expected to have seen if you're active in the industry

I'm annoyed by the large amount of minor projects that are interesting but belong in specialised news hitting front pages of large sites, and then people expecting you to have checked them out just because of it
An even more fun experiment will be to have two models running in perpetuity, constantly talking to each other, but constructed to act as though they were two sides of the same model.
>> and 73% of Hungarians are in some urban area

And what is the definition of some urban area in Hungary? Do you really believe a small towns with 1000-10000 inhabitants have electric car rentals available?
> Serious question: is it typical to describe client-side computing as “on the edge”?

Somewhat; its consistent with, e.g., Google’s “Edge TPU” designation for its client-side neural processors.

> I thought running something on the edge referred to running it in close network proximity to the user

Typically, but on the client device is the limit-case of “close network proximity to the user”, so the use is consistent.
Meanwhile: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-relyies-on-consultant...
His security-liberty quote. It's easy to frame this as "trading the liberty of free speech and free association for the security of being free from Chinese propaganda," and I agree that we should be discussing the validity of that framing as fervently as we possibly can because at the face of it, it appears to be exactly that. Every argument against that framing seems to be trying to carve out an exception for the purpose of security, often with extreme language of existential threat.
I actually like the definition of consciousness that Douglas Hofstader (of "Godel Escher Bach : An Eternal Golden Thread" fame) develops in his book "I am a Strange Loop".

At its simplest, consciousness is merely a feedback loop. When something perceives its own actions affecting its environment, it has a spark of consciousness. Consciousness, by this measure, is easy to recognize, and spans everything from unintelligent systems to massively intelligent systems.

The concept of "I" grows naturally from perceiving what is and is not you in your environment. The need to predict other agents, the capacity to recognize that other agents are also conscious and intelligent. All build off of the fundamental cycle.

All of it from a simple swirling eddy of perceiving and reacting.
Understanding oneself "in totality", and being able to consciously access any part of ones operation, are not the same thing.

Superconscious doesn't mean understanding every implication of one's own operation. But that self-reflection won't be limited by inaccessible operations.
>BRICS members don't even vote in each other's favor in the UN.

The United States is frequently at odds with its G7 partners when it comes to UN votes, especially those involving the Middle East. Does that mean the G7 is fake?
Good times and brings back a lot of memories! My favorite hack (right after upgrading my Mac Plus to 4MB of RAM) was using SteppingOut! to create a large virtual screen to improve scrolling in Sim City (basically by eliminating scrolling in game and using SteppingOut! instead to virtually pan around). The amount of hours I spent playing Sim City - yowza!

This inspired me to dig into a box I haven't yet unpacked after a recent move and I have MacUsers from 87-91, a few MacWorlds and some other misc late 80's/early 90's computer mags. Should be some fun going through them again. Looking back at the advertisements are hilarious - also looking forward to re-reading some of Dvorak's columns again. He sure served his purpose well - I would often turn to the back page first when I got a new Mac User - looking forward to getting incensed at his hot takes. Ha!
>India is buying Russian gas

There is no expectation that every country in the world cease buying Russian fuels, that's why the price cap was put in place. And India is abiding the price cap. The hysteria about developing countries buying Russian oil/gas is mostly from the media, but so long as Russia is barely hitting breakeven prices then there is little reason for Western governments to care where India or others get their energy from.

Europe is cutting their dependence because it was/is actively being used as a weapon against them.
Absolutely no potential for misuse here
Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs across major economies – Financial Times
Python Packages: A Primer for Data People
Just because we're still a ways off from AGI, doesn't mean that the space isn't developing rapidly right now. I'm not sure autonomous driving is a fair comparable.

It's pretty crazy how much better AI offerings are today than they were a year ago. Non-Tech companies are now actually using it (and paying for it), which is a night and day difference from where it used to be.
Bretton Woods II ended today (2022)
> Volume rates in general are extremely common.

This combines “volume” with “exclude our competitors”.
I'm thinking of the stories I've read about developer burnout. Then tweets where people say developing is 90% debugging and 10% writing code. These systems would hopefully reduce burnout, shorten troubleshooting times, and identify problems before code is rolled out to Production.
Maybe. I work in an NLP research division of big tech. I just watched ChatGPT obsolete five years of applied NLP systems. We took open problems we were working on and saw that ChatGPT solved them out of the box.
they wanted to know what my surname means

In a case like that, threaten to contact a lawyer because they are engaging in discrimination against you on the basis of (I assume) national origin. Unless your name is something like 'John International-Jewel-Theft,' they have no case.