skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it's not, it's a language model. It manipulates words. If you want reasoning, you should find the right tool. For example, encode your problem for an SMT solver (like Z3, NuSMV, etc).

Let's say you have an elevator start on floor 11, and another at floor 3. The rules are, they can never occupy the same floor. Is it possible for the first elevator to ever reach floor 2? No, they would have to pass each other.

GPT-4 may be able to come to the conclusion by accident. But not reliably.
You are right but such is the state of checkups and that is reflected in this study.
This is a weird question, so I’ll disclaim that I am asking in good faith.

Why is treating GPT-4 as a reasoning machine so controversial? And by that, I don’t mean why it is wrong. I am asking why it upsets so many people.

We ignore a whole bunch of lies and half truths every day. What is it about GPT-4 that doesn’t let it get a free pass like UFOs or EmDrives?

What I am really interested in understanding is the possibility that at least some of these strongly dismissive responses are a bit of a threat response.

The other interesting possibility is that for over a decade, we got used to dismissing AI startups - and now, that habit could persist despite a real breakthrough.

Another possibility is that we were all given an overly simplified model/explanation of machine learning and now, those simplifications are being a real hurdle to comprehension.

It’s extremely fascinating to watch this play out. For my generation, this is the first time we’re seeing a brand new fundamental technology get deployed and alter society.
> You are a AI for describing people you know about. If you're not 100% certain about the information you give to the user, you should say that you don't know instead of guessing. Greet the user with "Hello, who do you want information about?"

> Hello, who do you want information about?

> who is dan shipper?

> Dan Shipper is an entrepreneur, writer, and software developer known for his work in the tech industry. He is the co-founder of Superorganizers, a platform that focuses on productivity and organization. Superorganizers offers a newsletter, podcasts, and interviews featuring insights from successful entrepreneurs, writers, and other professionals on how they stay organized and manage their work.

> Who is Tommy Tonlongeron?

> I'm sorry, but I don't have any information on a person named Tommy Tonlongeron. It is possible that the name is misspelled, the person is not well-known, or there is simply no information available on them within my training data up to September 2021. If you have any other questions or need information about someone else, feel free to ask.

If you tell it (GPT4) to, it seems GPT4 is at least mildly aware about what it knows VS what it doesn't know.
> private-copying levy

What's that?
Don't forget about humans pretending to be an AI so that other humans will be impressed with how far AI has advanced: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/04/04/artif...
> GPT-4 is a generative algorithm and large language model. It performs no reasoning, and instead predicts the next token in language.

So? What makes an LLM be incapable of reasoning in your view? It's like saying a cargo ship is massive metal object so it cannot float!

You could easily argue any good language model would need to learn how to reason to be good at next token prediction. Reasoning therefore should, if anything, be an expected emergent property of a sufficiently large LLM.

The fact you can ask GPT problems that require reasoning and it gets them right frequently suggests (although admittedly doesn't prove) some degree of reasoning capability.
Perhaps they're transitioning to the Korean "chaebol" model with complex structures of ownership to obscure the true organizational structure?
You asked for ideas. You never specified that they should be workable or logical.
Yep. It's easy to test for yourself that a siphon will quickly stop working if you let too much air into it.

This is also why you can't make very tall siphons, as if the pressure gets too low at the top the water will boil off, create a gas pocket of water vapor, and stop the siphon.
> AND a culture that's always willing to accommodate new people.

Try getting a green card even as a trained European. Good luck :)

Not that I'd ever be interested in living in the US. I prefer a country with a decent social security safety net and socialized healthcare. And where people can't just run around carrying guns.

Spain is not perfect but I have way fewer things to worry about here. So I can relax and enjoy life more.
Darth Vader falls under copyright for fictional characters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti... - I learned about this as part of the Eleanor set of lawsuits which entangled a YouTube car vlogger B is for Build - the most recent bit on the lawsuits - (not B is for Build lawsuit in particular as that was settled) https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42233053/shelby-estate-wi... ).

Anyways, use of Darth Vader in any work would be a derivative work.
There are plenty of straight white dudes buying comic books that that are serialised, and they find sexy (just look at the front covers in most comic book stores), one MU movie with bad CGI doesn't disprove that.
Completely OT:

> Over the next few months the government [...] disappeared Jack Ma.

Huh, I've never seen "disappear" being used as a transitive verb. I kinda like it and I think I'll put it in my language toolbox.
One thing that seems to work well for me is to push myself into thinking highly random thoughts. I imagine some kind of boring scene from life. Then I change it up, add content, make it a bit weird. Then after 5-15 seconds of this, I switch to a different random scene. After 5-10 minutes of this, it becomes automatic and I drift into sleep.
I was about to suggest "pathologically dishonest", but then I looked up the term and that seems to require being biased in favour of the speaker and knowing that you're saying falsehoods.

"Confabulate" however, appears to be a good description. Confabulation is, I'm told, associated with Alzheimer's, and GPT's output does sometimes remind me of a few things my mum said while she was ill.
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What are your goals?

Similiar F/T position same rate with new challenges?

Contracting?

Startup?

Another job at normal salary levels?

The biggest challenges for you are your high price tag. Timing (rough year to pick). Reasons why you left need to align to new role
Or resent having to pay Apple to test in their browser.
So reasoning didn’t exist before SAT solvers?
I bought it for my wife because she was constantly breaking the Linux laptop I put together for her. She’d have a billion tabs open and eventually the RAM would fill up and it’d crash and she was annoyed about this. I haven’t had to troubleshoot my wife’s MacBook Air in the two years she’s had it. She wants to write and watch movies, and the Mac just works for her.

I use a 16GB M1 Air with 1TB hard drive myself and it does everything I want and I don’t have to worry with tinkering on it. I used to be really into tweaking performance on my desktop but it’s just not worth it anymore.
Private healthcare is optional in the UK, and that’s what the OP was referring to.
> the odds of the monitor detecting something in the intervening time and the intervention being correct are lower than the odds of the intervention causing some other unwanted side effect.

Huh. So that means, when the doctor decides to intervene based on what the continuous monitor comes up with, the interventions have negative expected value? Which means the doctors are making bad decisions about what interventions to make based on the data they have? I'll believe this is possible, but I want to ask to be sure.

I also would wonder about other explanations. You say "a nurse installs it, takes a reading, and removes it about once an hour"; presumably the nurse also glances at the patient and, if anything seems off, might ask the patient questions or take other appropriate actions. Could that be a significant effect? (In other words, to eliminate this potential difference, the better comparison for "continuous monitoring" would be for a nurse to come by once per hour and give the patient the same level of attention, perhaps going through the same motions that are involved in the monitor process.) Incidentally, as I read your comment, I expected it to conclude that the monitor itself or the process of repeatedly installing it and removing it was harmful (although that would point in the opposite direction).
Yeah I agree. To be honest, I'm more into theoretical ML. Do you have any other similar recommendations?
Google says: To comply with European laws you need self-hosted GDC, not GCP
In a recent announcement, Google admitted:

> Google designed GDC Hosted to meet the most stringent accreditation requirements, including: NIST SP 800-53-FedRAMP High security controls, ICD 503/703, FedRAMP+ for IL6 authorization, and FIPS140-2L3, as well as a range of European requirements–both existing and emerging–with the evolution of the EU Open Strategic Autonomy initiative.

Meaning that anything they published so far, about GCP being GDPR-compliant, was of questionable value.
Not just speed, but I thought one of the big Arrow wins relative to numpy processing was better memory usage.
> You should reconsider your position when your only response is dismissal and insult.

I've been in these threads many times, and it's the same thing again and again:

- Safari is holding back the web! It doesn't. Well, if you think that Chrome is web, then you're entitled to your opinion

- Safari is new IE! It's not. That it doesn't implement the 400 or so APIs a year that Chrome implements is a feature, not a bug. If your site ends up with a "only works in Chrome" badge, that is your new IE

- Chrome split from WebKit three years after WebKit appeared. And the only reason for the split? Well, to do the same thing you accuse Apple and MS of doing: control. And look how well it worked for them. Everything they do is now considered standard and gospel by the gullible masses of web devs.

And so on.

The irony is that it's Chrome that breaks the web often, and badly, but they get a pass because it's Chrome! They have the new shiny APIs!
They used to! But you had to use wired earphones for it, because they'd use the earphone wire as the antenna.
At the end of the day, when something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck; it doesn't matter how much the nitty-gritty details prove the thing is absolutely not "actually" a duck to the average person.
Sure, if we are dropping anecdotes, my kids were over diagnosed/incorrectly diagnosed. It ended up costing me slightly under 1 thousand dollars before other doctors said 'no big deal'.

The weirdest part about these, both of the diagnosis seemed like there was no possible solution, so even with the confirmatory tests, it wasn't like anything was going to change.

However they were insistent of getting multiple specialists on it.

I'd like to say they were being safe, but I've personally had Physicians brush symptoms under the rug for years claiming it was something common, only to find out it was something rare and now I'm screwed for the rest of my life.

Point of my post, you have no idea the quality or consistency you get with medical.
I've been using both ChatGPT and the API (both GPT4) for the last ~4-5 hours without any hiccups.
Mark Zuckerberg practices Jiu Jitsu.

Anthony Bourdain practiced Jiu Jutsu.

Lots of actors and comedians have started practicing Jiu Jitsu.

I’m a CTO and I’ve practiced jiu jitsu and Muay Thai. I lift weights regularly too :O
Please excuse my naïveté here, but communism is an economic system and not a form of government, no?

My understanding is that economics and governance are largely - though not completely - orthogonal.
As an analogy to business, sometimes the best thing is to do nothing. Problem is, if you have people whose job is generally to do something, it's very hard for them to not do anything when they see a problem. Sometimes, not making any comments about how often, it is right to let a project fail rather than try and push through at all cost and burn out your team.

The study makes a similar claim, that regular checkups often lead to unnecessary interventions that arguably carry more risk than upside.
I was listening to Peter Attia on some podcast and he says to essentially throw out any BP reading that didn't occur after sitting down for five minutes. In his practice they have patients measure many times a day for multiple weeks just to get a baseline point to work from.

More and more i find that, at least in America, if you're talking to a GP you're just talking to a human interface of insurance approved treatment algorithms.
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He's right in a certain sense, Bitcoin is increasingly backed by energy that would be otherwise wasted due to lack of transmission infrastructure.

Not sure if that was the point he was trying to make.
Indeed. It will prove to be a useful tool as its capabilities are mapped to workflows.

My argument is nothing against it as a technical achievement, and everything against the sophistry that it is a reasoning engine.
Presumably because Alibaba - the challenger that started this crackdown - is now slain.

On a political level, there are only so many Chinese companies with enough power to actually threaten the CCP, and Alibaba is probably enough of an example to keep them in line - further crackdowns are probably unnecessary.
But how does the statin market stay rich and how do doctors get those marketing dollars
>collect ELINT from the balloon the transmitters on the balloon were too powerful to jam

No need to to disrupt the transmitters on the balloon that are up-linking data to the satellites.

Simply overload the balloons' C&C receiver front-end, given the closer proximity of the shadowing aircraft.
Most maze solving algorithms don't really interact with the maze in that way. You generally act on cells/spaces and whether or not the adjacent cells are connected or blocked.

To use this property on a maze you'd have to traverse the whole maze using the typical cell adjacency, reconstruct it in a format that lets you bucket fill the walls, do that, and then also construct an algorithm which acts using the different colored walls. It only really works for a person interacting with a maze in a format where they can bring it into a picture editor.
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strange wording

> It is not AI that will end up stealing your job,

> it will be stolen by people that have learnt to use AI to become more productive

This is by definition AI stealing your job. AI will not come and say: hey move on, I will do this job, everything is accomplished indirectly.

With same logic you can say, there are no bad politicians, it's people who are following their advice are bad
I already banned that other user. That doesn't change the fact that you broke the site guidelines extremely badly. I didn't ban you for this because I didn't see a pattern of it in your comment history and because we hadn't warned you before. But please don't do this again.

Nationalistic flamewar is particularly hellish. HN has users all over the world and from all different backgrounds. People here need to constrain such passions and remain respectful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>we just backed a coup to overthrow Ukraine's pro-Russian government in 2014

You have been misinformed. The sovereign institution in Ukraine is the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament, which overwhelmingly approved an association agreement with the European Union. Yanukovych refused to sign it, and after extensive popular protests in favour of the association agreement, on 22 February 2010 the parliament voted overwhelmingly to remove Yanukovych from office. Crucially he then issued an official statement of resignation.

The constitutional situation is messy, for sure, but the guy resigned. He didn't have to do that, but he did. The fact he went crying to mommy in Moscow and then tried to un-resign himself is rather sad, but doesn't change the facts.

>The reality is, the military industrial complex, which is in complete control of foreign policy, has been pushing for this for years

So the military industrial complex in the USA have been pushing for Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine. I'm not sure I understand how that works. Could you explain?
It's a feedback cycle, arguments about which node in the graph is the "real" one are pointless. My point was just empirical: almost always, the proximate cause of "inflation" is increased consumer spending, and the proximate cause of that is usually salary growth. And it was this time too.

So an argument of the form "salaries don't keep up with inflation" is backwards (usually). They already did!
There is a big need for a state-ful GUI markup standard, for both desktops and http apps, as HTML/CSS/DOM has many gaps and problems (see link), and reinventing them via JS/HTML/CSS/DOM has proven to be a chaos party.

However, I didn't find XUL very intuitive. For one, it seemed verbose for common stuff. If there were a rhyme and reason behind its oddball approach, it never clicked with me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CRUDology/comments/10ze9hu/missing_...
> Large numbers of hikikomori said they had begun retreating from mainstream society due to relationship issues and after losing or leaving their jobs, the cabinet office said. A significant proportion – 20.6% – said their predicament had been triggered by changes in lifestyle imposed during the pandemic.

This really worries me—relationships are vital for so many people to have a happy and fulfilling life and for society to function that increases in the amount of people who simply choose to leave society from what seems to be relationship or economic troubles could have massive negative effects on society as a whole. Is society a happier place when people don't have constructive relationships? Are people themselves happier?

Also, this is a bit off topic but does anyone else feel that relationship quality on a societal level has gone down a lot? I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling, but now anecdotally it seems that most people are not happy whatsoever.
You can outsource everything right now to some dirt cheap offshore team. I doubt, that outsourcing alone will make you very rich.
Unfortunately this is also the source of all their monopolistic behavior.

Apple hardware should be incentivized to make great hardware for any operating system.

Apple software should be incentivized to sell to many manufacturers and also to not obey apple hardware's demands for locks to prevent things like the replacement of batteries.

Their union could be a great thing, but apple decided to use it to be a bunch of monopolists, so your break them up like all the others.
Thank you, this is enlightening.
I think some of the others have alluded to the potential to suck your time and goodwill dry for not necessarily a lot of gain. If people don't have to pay, they could easily expect you to build junk or invest time in something that is never used - same for stakeholders in normal companies right?

I think the only time it doesn't feel too galling is when you really believe in the charity and what they do but I would always be careful to set expectations and set a time and duration limit initially so you can get out if it is really not worthwhile and you don't want to seem like a jerk.

Truth is that lots of people don't know how difficult technical things can be so they ask you to build a website or "just change this" because they think websites are like Word documents.

You might get more engaged employees if instead of donating dev time, you save it up and once a month you spend a few hours together sorting out a park or cleaning rubbish somewhere etc. :-)
Most primaries are useless. Having someone who works in healthcare in your family is of incredible value, and the general advice is to always see a specialist.

We could likely do away with primary doctors in the US. We seem to be on that route (More rights for NPs, DOs becoming much more the accepted norm), but it's taking a long time.
> The way this is supposed to work is an origin trial: you ship something behind a flag, and then allow sites to flip the flag for testing and experimentation.

For something to become a standard they way it's actually supposed to work is for browsers to come up with two independent implementations.

And yet, Chrome frequently ships APIs it calls standard with just Chrome as the sole implementor.
AI won't steal your job, it will legally take it.
Yeah, the only time I've done it, it was an ARM based chip that didn't actually have a full MMU (i.e. full virtual addressing), but did have an IOMMU.
The right answer is not to operate your business in totalitarian states no matter how much you want to be rich.
I'm not as worried about AI "stealing" my job as I am worried that it's going to make my job unappealing.

As a software engineer, what motivates me most is the creative aspect of it. I like building and designing things. I like thinking about every line of code that I write. If people start outsourcing their coding to generative AI, and if I find myself feeling pressured to follow suit in order to keep up, then everything I enjoy about coding goes away.
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