skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, I suspect AGI is possible right now with a similar system only slightly more sophisticated than this one. The right "glue" for existing models, and plugins to existing data sources all coordinated in a system. GTP-4 would do the managing, and handling, and some simple template API and handler script would allow it to call instances of itself or other models, track recursion depth, and automatically remind GTP-4 to stay on track and always use the correct 'templates' for requests. It could also remind it to create a condensed summary of it's goals and state that gets repeated back automatically to act as long term memory, and increase the effective context window size (edit: this is single variable external memory).

I am afraid to explain this, because I have tried a preliminary version of it that I supervised step by step, and it seems to work. I think it is obvious enough that I won't have been the only one to think of it, so it would be safer to put the information out there so people can prepare.

I see a big disconnect on here between people saying GPT-4 can't do things like this and is just a "stochastic parrot" or "glorified autocomplete," and people posting logs and summaries of it solving unexpectedly hard problems outside of any conceivable training set. My theory is that this disconnect is due to three major factors:
* People confusing GPT-4 and GPT-3, as both are called "chatGTP" and most people haven't actually used GPT-4 because it requires a paid subscription, and don't realize how much better it is
* Most popular conceptual explanations about how these models work imply that these actually observed capabilities should be fundamentally impossible
* Expectations from movies, etc. about what AGI will be like, e.g. that it will never get confused or make mistakes, or that it won't have major shortcomings in specific areas. In practice this doesn't seem to limit it because it recognizes and fixes its mistakes automatically when it sees feedback (e.g. in programming)
Which head unit did you choose? I’m looking to replace my factory default 2-din.
welcome to the service economy!
As a sibling points out, some of the fears do turn out to be founded eventually. I also take issue with lumping together objections based on disproved memes ("hippy" ones) and pure speculation (Skynet) with ones based on observing reality critically. Even though I'm not much a biotech scare person myself, I do respect that people with philosophical stances somewhat different than mine can be more scared by the road that we're on.

People argue from historical precedent (by itself a pretty weak argument when there's no understanding of underlying mechanisms) by picking some ancient panics from lifestyle magazines and putting them next to modern concerns that have intellectual weight behind them. For example, when you actually read the famous "bicycles leading to murder" article, it's pretty clearly either satire or extremely light compared to writing about serious issues from that era. Think "top X reasons to hate TV series Y" websites.

It's possible that a bunch of things will get us, or are getting us by aligning well with changing generations, news cycles and cultural fashions long term. Let's say people lived in a preindustrial city with the level of carbon monoxide in the air rising very slowly. Older people start to complain that people are becoming more sluggish. After the initial wave of hubbub on the marketplace it turns out they still live, the life goes on. By the third generation, say, the city may be laughing that people were fearmongering about it since forever, and don't even notice that they are very symptomatic: right before they do all fall asleep.

I would classify surveillance dystopia into the slow trainwreck category, with most people not understanding the ramifications or not caring, the rest being gradually worn down, new generations being used to a situation worse by one or two steps. It would be "poetic justice" if such things resulted in some spectacular movie disaster down the line, but I don't wish this, it wouldn't be worth it just to "prove" some people right.

The future could be just worse than it could have been, but technically livable. This doesn't mean people that tried to stop the trend were laughable and behind the times. This is also my expectation about global warming. What a combination of such things could do, it's a different story.
> (why would you lend money for 10 years at 3.5% when you can lend money for 3650 successive 1-day terms at 4.75%?)

That's the thing, you can't know that. Rates could go up, down, sideways, or in circles over the next 10 years. A 10-year bond locks it in to a predictable rate and payment schedule.
As a current GM Volt owner who had been considering the upcoming Blazer and Equinox this is very frustrating and basically rules out GM vehicles.

I use CarPlay daily and it is my preferred way to personalize the car. Yes, I do use Maps in CarPlay because that is where my Contacts are and that is where I am searching for businesses and use that to find directions. I don't want to switch to another system just for directions and traffic notices. I don't care about routing to chargers on a daily basis. the only comes into play on a rare road trip.

I also use CarPlay for listening to podcasts using OverCast. I absolutely don't want to give that up just to make GM happy.
Yeah, there needs to be some interface where you the human can set certain values or a source of truth for both you and the AI to reference and possibly manipulate if the prompt requires it.
What's the mechanism for that drop? The Fed doesn't just drop interest rates when everything is going well in the economy. The usual trigger is that some exogenous crisis happens like the Asian financial crisis, the global financial crisis, or COVID-19, and then the Fed drops to stimulate economic activity. Take a financial crisis out of the picture, because everyone who assumes there will be no financial crisis is explicitly taking a financial crisis out of the picture. Why would the Fed drop rates?
This is not a fad. This is like the advent of writing.

Plato opined that people would lose their facilities for memorization and the passing of oral histories would falter and die. He was correct about that. We don't have the same techniques and same facilities to memorize the Iliad verse for verse, epithet for epithet as the ancients did.

He was incorrect about that being as ruinous as he imagined, but it was as dramatic an impact on the human race as agriculture was to hunter-gatherer society.

I think we're at one of these societal delineations; before agriculture and after, before writing and after, before generative AI and after.
This particular example isn't actually an issue in Nim. The first letter of a nim identifier is case sensitive, so while `my_thing` and `myThing` are normalized to the same name, `my_thing` and `MyThing` are different.
> But now you're asking the government to regulate against a hypothetical damage that may never occur.

That is entirely reasonable ask, especially when the harm could be large. It's a lot harder (and often impossible) to put a genie back in a bottle once it's out.

> I remember having the exact same discussions on HN about autonomous vehicles over a decade ago. The consensus then was that autonomous vehicles would make truck and taxi drivers obsolete within 5 years, and that this massive, sudden loss of jobs would cause a lot of social unrest.

So some internet commenters' schedule was wrong, but that doesn't mean the bigger point was wrong. Some people thought we'd die in a nuclear war in the 80s, and they'd still be prescient if it turns out we die in on in the 2030s.

Technologists tend to be pathologically optimistic about technology, and tend to hand wave away the problems it will cause. It's important to keep that attitude in check, because they sure as hell don't seem to have the wisdom to do it themselves.
No. The SteamDeck is specced like a 4-year-old APU laptop and has a 35W overall cap. You can do a lot of things with that, but the Shattered Lands isn’t one of them.
The whole svb Fiasco I'd like to an army of amateur armchair Economist opining on unrealized losses without a full understanding of what they are. At the end of the day they are still a profitable asset yielding positive returns with a guaranteed payout when held to term.

I think this is a great buying opportunity for banking stocks and have put my money where my mouth is.
Complain, that is not acceptable. Forcing people to be a member of a corporation is not on
Because there’s no guarantee rates will stay at 4.75% for 10 years. Getting 4.75% for 1 year and then 0% for the next 9 years is objectively far worse than getting 3.5% for 10 years.
You're making a lot of assumptions about the facts of the case and the opinions, and they're simply... factually incorrect.

> but the case seems to revolve around Gonzales wanting to legally compel the town / its police to perform their advertised jobs

That is incorrect. It's about a specific law which required the police to perform a specific task, which they repeatedly refused to do.

> Furthermore Gonzales's argument would seem to rely on the idea that police are a special type of citizen that carries certain intrinsic responsibilities

It doesn't. That wasn't the argument at all.

> I haven't read the decision

In that case, I'd suggest you do that.
Some of those high coupon CDs came from really distressed banks (e.g. Zion)

Your observation is likely over fitting to some of the CDs tied to risker banks.
That's the way to go! Good to hear you're closely iterating with early adopters
Washington state successfully sued Purdue for millions of dollars over their contribution to opioid dependency. It hasn't made the tabloids because it's an example of government doing things right that doesn't sell well to people who want to complain about regulatory capture and corruption.
Definitely not alone. Some VP doesn’t get it and is going to find themselves in a new job elsewhere after they figure out what they just committed themself to.

I love GM cars once you remove their terrible UI and escape to CarPlay/Android Auto. The biggest issue with cars is that they rely on a touch screen for controls and the UX is awful. I now have an Audi and a Porsche and the MMI suite is Android based. This isn’t too bad but the services and mapping are far behind Apple and Google.
It's been said elsewhere as well, but if one is willing to spend that much on a car, or can at all, they usually want exactly what they want beyond just the UI.
Looks like Google dodged a bullet in acquiring them all those years ago
Anyone remember Dreamweaver or Microsoft Word HTML output? I imagine the AI generated code will be a lot like that - massively over-constrained and over-engineered to fit the impedance mismatch of a WYSIWYG (what you speak is what you get) editor.

You thought GUIs were bloated and slow before? Just you wait!
When your car payment is $400/month, what’s another $80? /s
If you were caught holding $1 million in investor funds designated to pay your employees salaries for the next X months and you learned there was a real risk of your bank failing.

Knowing that only $250k of those funds were FDIC insured, would you have left your funds in the bank and hoped for the best?

If you answered Yes, how would you explain your decision to your investors or employees?
I remember ads in some of my father's science fiction paperbacks as a kid. As such, it wouldn't be unprecedented.
Their market cap at their peak was nearly triple the offer, they probably figured they were rejecting life-changing, never-work-again money for life-changing, empire-building levels of money.

In other words, they didn't see a future where they could fail.
Steam runs fine on Linux, FWIW. KDE's a better Windows than Windows these days.
At least two possibilities:

1. You could be beholden to investors who bought in at a higher valuation than the offer.

2. Never-having-to-work-again can only be measured relative to a sustainable lifestyle, so this turns on what kind of lifestyle you want. If you are content to live in a one-bedroom apartment in Topeka you need a lot less money to never-have-to-work-again than if you want a ten acre horse property in the Hamptons and a private jet. To sustain that kind of lifestyle without working takes a hell of a lot of money.
In principle the grand jury should be a check on prosecutorial overreach, but in practice they virtually always rubber–stamp anything brought before them.
This is right on, and I normally roll my eyes at comments that single factor X means we’re all doomed.

But the looming CRE crisis isn’t making it into the mainstream consciousness, even though its big driver (WFH and its ramified impact) is being well reported on.
Airphibian – Air Facts, 1947
Would've preferred locking it into offline mode with a permanent warning banner. There's something sacred being violated when you can't run an offline application on the exact same hardware and software on which it was originally purchased.
I would actually be very interested to hear from a lawyer—or at least someone with legal knowledge—why Roblox hasn't been prosecuted for this. These children are creating value for the company, and they're being compensated via a currency which can be converted into dollars. How is that not payment for work?

If Robux could only be converted into Amazon gift cards, I would still argue that was a labor violation, but I could at least understand why the case was murky.

Can Uber hire 16-year-olds to drive for them without a work permit as long as they're paid in special UbiCoins which are converted into dollars later?
What is group?
It also, in my pay opinion, needs a memory store.

I need to be able to save something to a variable and call back that exact variable. Right now, because it’s just pure text input of the whole conversation, it can forget or corrupt it’s “memory”.

Even something like writing a movie script doesn’t work if it constantly forgets characters names or settings or plot points.
If the truck is pulled over for whatever reason the listed driver needs to be in the driver's seat. Thus the change has to be done in the past. Why do I suspect the database has no audit records?
In my head, "tech" refers to the segment of the labor market, not the product that the company produces.

We can race to the bottom on the true definition of "tech" as far as actually producing new technology but in this context it doesn't matter.
The incredible awkwardness of expressing the wrong token in the exchange. Like after having paid someone and they say "thankyou" and you say "you're welcome" automatically, but it's wrong to say that.

A friend once answered the phone with "Hi, I'd like to speak to John in sales please" and even though (or because) I recognised his voice I was paralyzed for a moment. "But I rang you". I almost had to lie down.
Thirty Years' War
Singapore is a parliamentary democracy with elected members of parliament and president. It is certainly not a "totalitarian country", although it could be considered authoritarian compared to western democracies.
Gpt plus langchain agents is quite scary

It will use every tool you give it to reach the goal you give him. It will try forever if needed.

I bet state actor are already plugging in tooling to register social account and automate credible propaganda. Maybe not with gpt itself, but privately hosted fine tuned models.

This can win elections.

You can plug wordpress and build infinite blogs with infinite post with the unique scope of building mass around a topic.

This can alter Wikipedia, many people don't ever check sources and take it at face value.

You can not only build fake research paper, but fake the whole research team and their whole interactions with the community and investor.

This can fraud millions.

Tools enable this today.
Some context would be really nice indeed.
Why are the example outputs in the Figures ungrammatical?

>A text can describe the given image: a herd of giraffes and zebras grazing in a fields. In addition, there are five detected objects as giraffe with score 99.9%, zebra with score 99.7%, zebra with 99.9%, giraffe with score 97.1% and zebra with score 99.8%. I have generated bounding boxes as above image. I performed image classification, object detection and image captain on this image. Combining
the predictions of nlpconnet/vit-gpt2-imagecaptioning, facebook/detr-resnet-101 and google/vit models, I get the results for you.

Is it just that the in-context demonstrations are also ungrammatical and ChatGPT is copying them? It feels very unlike the way ChatGPT usually writes.
Sure you can, but last I tried (admitedly a good long while ago) the exe included everything except that fucking Visual Studio DLL that everything requires.
Came here to ask this. The ellipsis is in the headline and repeated in the article. What is it supposed to imply?
A personnel purge without enacting any structural changes is not particularly useful, and it is often the action of a group who wishes to capture the corruption for themselves, rather than actually fixing it.
> There's very little power for the citizens to actually do anything.

How much effort did you expend before declaring that change is futile? The NYPD has political power because they worked to establish relationships with politicians and spent money to hire lobbyists that keep these these politicians accountable to their interests. On the other hand, most people would have trouble to name a single city councilor.
As far as I understand it, it still uses Bluetooth to establish the connection, but the rest is done over Wifi (someone can feel free to correct me if not).
Probably the true in the long or even medium term, but there is a short term “node” not far away.
It definitely speeds up my programming but it makes mistakes here and there (like any programmer) that need to be fixed. For me it’s a lot faster to proofread code or adjust the prompt than write it from scratch. And of course there’s cases where the AI can’t come up with a decent solution and it needs to be written from scratch.

Anyone saying programming jobs are in trouble don’t really know programming. You can’t just have someone from the bizdev team prompting ChatGPT for JavaScript code and just doing copy/paste…it would be difficult to even come up with the prompt without sufficient programming jargon knowledge.

Like the article says, the tool will allow programmers to work faster and therefore tackle more things. Expectations will go up but I don’t think the jobs themselves are in trouble.
Oligopoly allowed by network effects.
My point was that mathematical symbols are also context dependent and yet they work and are useful, so I don't get your argument of context dependency against APL's symbols.
OK, yeah, that seems fair.

The boxes that I really want to keep working, boringly and predictably, I run the LTS versions on.

Maybe I am just getting old, but 2 years between LTS releases mostly doesn't feel all that long to me any more. 18.04 feels quite recent, and 20.04 not long ago at all.

I mildly regretted updating to 18.04 because it broke some smallish things and did not give me anything at all I wanted, but it was bigger and slower. I had to reinstall the Unity metapackage, but that got Unity working again fine, and I just ignore GNOME.

20.04 didn't break anything at all as far as I can recall.

22.04 didn't break anything on my desktop but it got me NTFS3, which I wanted. That _did_ break things because of the weird way I dual-boot, but I fixed them and it's fine now.
No, it's an official HSE communications channel. It was already prevalent before the cyberattack, but at that point, nearly all non-clinical comms moved to WhatsApp.

You just get added to the relevant groups by your manager (obviously there's also unofficial social groups) and that's where you'll get 90%+ of rosters, clinical updates, service bulletins, etc.
Of course it's not there yet. For once (?) we are having this discussion before the wolves are at the door.

And yes, there are more important things to worry about right now than the AIpocalypse. But that doesn't mean that thinking about what happens as (some) humans come to trust and rely on these systems isn't important.
Can't wait until it turns into a 10x rockstar! /s
Garbage collectors, type systems, modules, polymorphic functions are not syntactic sugar. Asm also isn’t syntactic sugar, if only for the polymorphism (how many different CPU instructions are MOV in Asm again?); or just the fact that it’s text and machine code is binary code, while desugaring code doesn’t change its language.
Killing a few people with your supply is an actual sales tactic called 'Hot Shotting' (a term for a lethal dose). When dealers cut and package for delivery they'll make a few extra strong and give them to well-known junkies who will then overdose and potentially die, in the process proving who's selling strong drugs. "That must be good stuff, Kevin died from it and they barely revived Sue."

Not only are street drugs inherently unsafe, the dealers view their customers as so expendable they're willing to kill them for advertising.

To fix this we've got to switch to government supply, but only when we simultaneously wipe out the illegal supply and suppliers, so that we don't simply compound the problem. Our interventions are like antibiotics. They lose their power over time when misused. They're best employed heavily in a cocktail and used fully.
Its actually not that unexpected, a big contributor is inflation.

If you've any experience with Argentina, or other hyper-inflationary events, there comes a point where your labor is more valuable to you than what others are willing to pay you for.

When the store of value is degrading rapidly, and wages in general always lag, those with options will do something else.

Most companies I know simply are unwilling to adjust their wages for inflation. When we were in a 2% inflationary environment, and that 2% could be counted on year after year as being stable, it was more reasonable.

With inflation in the double digits, with real inflation according to previous more accurate methods showing roughly a ~33% loss in value YOY, and the corresponding increase in taxes (as inflation increases your taxes increase as you enter higher tax brackets for the same value), it makes a lot more sense to use your efforts for yourself instead of being on the open market.

Factor markets and producers decide what they are willing to accept, and with a moving goal post in terms of a currency store, it makes more sense to wait in sheltered assets and produce goods you'll use.

People in general won't accept doing $1,000 in work and by the time they can spend it only having $700, or worse for example $1.

Do you think they will continue doing that work moving forward if they have no expectation of getting anything comparable in value in return?
Which became a self fulfilling prophecy in my experience: you buy a deal on a personal service like a hair salon, the staff assume you won't be a repeat customer so they give you terrible service which does not inspire you to return.
Why does the Fed want to keep rates as low as possible? Their mandates are to provide price stability and maximize employment, not keep rates as low as possible. Unemployment is very low so they are doing well in terms of maximizing employment, but inflation is still running hot, so the logical thing for them to do is keep rates high enough to stave off continued inflationary pressures.
Many reasons. Telegram is less evil then Whatsapp and it's best in class UI/UX. It's a compromise.

Signal is horrible to use and inconvenient for most people but with e2ee.
I've seen videos [1] which suggest otherwise. Surely it is better than 3 fps.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nonPo0o1aR0