skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you would be surprised by the level of auditing/tracking that can go on employee laptops at some of these big companies. Every network connection, every peripheral connected, every file read, every program executed. If you wanted to exfiltrate code without the consequences, I think that would be challenging. There are only a number of ways I could think of doing that without leaving some obvious artifacts and that skill set is probably 1 in 100 to think about doing it and 1 in 10000 to actually do it.

Googling "how to exfiltrate data from a corporate network" leaves artifacts too.

Competent security teams assume that their code repos are compromised as well since it would likely be the first thing to be exfiltrated.

Furthermore, there are probably only 3 categories of people who would be interested. (1) nation states (2) criminal organizations (3) disgruntled employees.

Criminal organizations might be interested in blackmail. Disgruntled employees are most likely to be motivated by political reasons (think snowden).
LLMs are having a moment in 2023 like self driving cars were having in 2015. Some really cool demos following a lot of hard work, too much hyperbolic speculation that mass real-world job-destroying deployments are right around the corner, not enough appreciation of how few commercial applications are ok with 99% (or even 99.9%) accurate solutions. Real value being created, but still requiring lots of human ingenuity and grunt work to unlock it.

As a decent first-order metric - follow the ratio of companies getting money for using LLMs to do something, to companies getting money for providing LLMs and associated tooling to others. The bigger that ratio gets, the more real world impact LLMs are having.
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If it was sufficiently difficult to accomplish, I see that as a net positive for a motivated owner.

Consider the special moves in fighting games. They’re not necessary for playing, or winning. But you get social credit when you share with your friends what you can accomplish. And the owner gets your hours worth of quarters.
My problem too - you can’t really babble some unverifiable stuff (macroeconomic predictions, societal changes for crypto) in AI. If you don’t know how it works you are sol, bro or not.
They know the man pages exist and they want to use them, but most are written to merely be consistent in format and not necessarily in content. The worst thing to omit is examples.

What users do nowadays is rely on alternatives such as https://tldr.inbrowser.app/
nope dont hug me dont like it I feel worse after the hug
The current GPT models are not going to "wake up" or accidentally take over the world. This is very obvious.

Was it obvious to you that you’d see a paper called “Sparks of an AGI” after the release of ChatGPT 4 ?
Yeah but calling her a “professional YouTuber (among other work)” is a very blatant misrepresentation of who she actually is, considering the opinion most people, especially on this site, would have of a YouTuber. An HNer who does not know of her would almost certainly come away with the idea that much like most YTers, she doesn’t know much of what she is talking about.

When in reality, she’s a bona-fide professional physicist, whose knowledge of physics is why she’s a YT personality. Before she was a YTer she had (and possibly still does) have one of the better physics blogs on the internet as well.
>The data is in, and they do.

Show me this data cause as far as I know it doesn't exist
Quadruple the energy price in return for replacing coal plants with junk batteries.
Hydro. Snowy 2 and Tasmania. Worst case, we’re still burning some small amount of fossil gas, or perhaps ammonia or hydrogen generated from renewables that would’ve otherwise been curtailed.

Consider that enough energy falls on the Earth every ~60 minutes to power humanity for a year. We just need to continue to drive down renewables and storage costs. The world is already fusion capable, at a distance.
I definitely agree with her point about the division over zero case not implying impossibility, but I also disagree with the implication that division over zero is necessarily infinity.
I've seen this video a couple of days ago, and basically it can be summarized as:

1. Special relativity disallows FTL because it requires moving faster than light.

2. Which is impossible, because you'd need an infinite amount of energy to do that.

3. However, from the past experience with physics, we know that mathematical infinities or singularities are often just an evidence of the theory breaking down. So perhaps it's the case here, and a more complete theory will allow to work around the infinity somehow.

4. The other problem is that moving faster than light will result in causality paradoxes in the Special Relativity.

5. However, if there exists a privileged reference frame, then this can be worked around.

I somewhat agree with the arguments given in the first part of the video. We do know that the relativity theory is incompatible with QM, so it's not impossible that there is a way to work around this.

I'm much more skeptical of her example of a privileged frame solving the time-travel paradox. It would require some pretty un-physical behavior, like not being able to move in certain directions if you receive an FTL message.
Thanks, that's what I was afraid of. I guess I've been trying to look for a shortcut, but in the end I'll have to dive much deeper and learn much more to really understand this topic.

I've read the tachyonic antitelephone article several times over the years, but the problem is that (as far as I understand it), this thought experiment exactly boils down to "the numbers don't add up without breaking causality", without really explaining why that is in any intuitive way for me.
How many seconds of time accuracy have you found that this watch loses over the course of its 7-year-long battery life? I think I can handle it losing 30 seconds of accuracy per year.
While none of them (except possibly The Matrix and the Replicators) are Yudkowskian level risks, I'm fairly sure all of those scenarios would result in somewhere between career-ending fines and lynch mobs or special-ops extrajudicial executions for humans who triggered them.

Soong-Altman-Musk: "I made an android that passed US Navy officer training!"

US Navy: "Fantastic. We've given it a rank of Lieutenant."

Soong-Altman-Musk: "I left in a backdoor I didn't tell you about which when triggered made it seek me out for an upgrade."

Android: *Steals CVN-65*

US Navy: *unhappy face*
What version are you running? Despite good benchmark figures, the coherence and ability to keep on task for large question and structured answers seems to drop significantly using int4 and int8, also depending on the frontend you may get silent corruption from many of those that had been hastily thrown togheter (I.e. In one you get garbage out if you go over the token limit in the inputs and no warning at all)
Or perhaps the bar will be forced to raise at other companies as these senior employees change the culture from within.

You can't close Pandora's box and expect the world to remain unchanged.
I'd argue not for two reasons.

1. This isn't a two valued system, you can think it may be possible without believing it's possible.

2. Rhetorically these are very different statements, and I believe GP was referring to the rhetorical difference between them.
Are you saying when one sends a new blob to Ambry, it returns the an arbitrary key that must be used to retrieve the data in the future?

I always imagined (perhaps naively and incorrectly) that systems like S3 must have a middleware service layer to translate user-defined keys into storage addressing.
It's pretty amazing. Highly recommend "A tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ3_gZ3ZS_4

And "A walk at the South Pole" in -63C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHpQ2q9ZcI
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> As a physicist I’d estimate 99.9% of her colleagues would disagree and I would too.

What would be your estimate of disagreement with her other takes?
No argument? She has shown that within widely accepted theory FTL could be possible. You need to poke a hole in that to say that she has no real argument. I think many physicist may dismiss it as, well, yes, given certain assumptions.. but it's a really good argument.

Personally my biggest question would be why didn't we observe anything FTL in the Universe yet. But it could be, just like with many scientific discoveries, what has been a great data point has been dismissed as some measurement problem.
Insane energy policy? How so?
Best example I can think of is cases where you can’t really put an image, eg commit messages (especially if you don’t have something like pull requests where you can put images).

Some terminal emulators have support for images, which fit most of the use cases here but not the one I described.

I would hope that most people would generate charts with a notebook (jupyter, pluto, orgmode can all have actual images though when I briefly used pluto, I was going mad trying to (a) not get an svg which would suck for a lot of points and (b) get bigger plots in the notebook) or that at the repl you would get something like R and have an X window with the plot rendered to it (tip: dbcairo makes plots over X forwarding much better).
Its like saying you are not buying steam games, you are buying pointers to those games. I would say that you are in fact buying games/art, but doing so in a closed environment/ecosystem. An even better analogy is buying skins inside a game

The marketplace you propose could be interesting, but IG already existed with a huge number of artists who’ve already had a following/status/lore. Also there is the exposure to a tremendously broader&bigger audience than any other platform could possibly have. Not saying that migration would be unachievable, but so much would be lost for something that I don’t see come close to being a compensation
There's been a glut of these "two types of programmer" articles the last few days, it's just a stupid trend.
Just like UAE isn't South Korea but the reactors there are designed and built by a South Korean company. What's your point?

Sorry to break it to you, but the USSR dissolved over 30 years ago.
If you wait 3 minutes on Mars, why would an instant teleport back to Earth result in you arriving just after you went poof rather than 3 minutes after you went poof?
Wind and solar also have many years (and decades) of planning involved. And many also fail to get past the planning phase.

> However, in the US, we simply don't have the political will to build them.

Fair enough, though this article is about Australia. Here in the US we do have the TVA that is looking to go ahead with new nuclear. But we will likely lag other countries such as Canada (OPG and SaskPower are proceeding with new nuclear builds).
Propaganda... against surveillance capitalism? Who would be paying for that?
It might be possible - but it doesn't seem probable since:

1.) The current framework fits the data so well (muons, gps)

2.) the current framework (Lorentz) makes ftl travel impossible
Isn’t it better to make lsp or something to provide ai code support for existing editors than building their own ide from scratch?
Will you share examples for prompts that “vastly improved” your integrations?
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A Panamax cargo ship (which is small by today's standards...) can carry ~5100 20-foot containers (TEUs) with a crew of perhaps 20.

Sailcargo's under-construction flagship can carry 9 TEUs with a crew of 24. So replacing a single Panamax cargo ship means building around 560 of these ships, which will sail with a crew of 13k people.

(Or to put it another way, carrying 9 TEUs might earn you $10k for a trip at current cargo rates. Let's assume you can double that due to charging people a green premium, that's $20k a trip. At traditional sail speeds, you can earn that every 2 months, meaning each ship earns $120k/year, which needs to pay for building the ship, maintenance, food, power, sattelite internet, salaries, etc. With a listed crew of 24 people, that's $5k of revenue per person, per year.)

This isn't remotely economic or scalable, but I'm not sure it's even better environmentally. The amount of resources (especially lumber) that would go into making a fleet of almost six hundred, 150ft long sailing vessels is immense. And then youi think about the cost of having 13k people sailing around - the salaries, the food they'd eat, the medical care they'd consume, the waste they'd generate. And all that to replace just one of the smaller cargo ships still operating, out of the thousands and thousands operating.

There may well be a lucrative niche here; people will pay money for the damndest things! It's entirely possible you can make good money charging people to LARP as a 19th century sailboat crew, sure, why not? But whatever this is, it's certainly not the future of cargo shipping.

(Now the idea of using wind power on cargo ships is potentially promising. Just...not this kind of ship.)

Edit: I should emphasise, the ships they're building and planning to build use quite a lot of of very old trees. You're not building these things from radiata pine! Sailcargo stresses they're using lumber from sustainable forestry, which is great, but they're building one schooner, and replacing just a dozen container ships means building maybe 8,000 schooners. If you were hoping to have them operating anytime this decade, you're going to need to start clearcutting. But it's okay, you can use the land you clear to build the training schools needed for the 200,000 new sailors those ships will need. Because there absolutely aren't 200k crew who know how to sail a tall ship just waiting for a call.

Oh, and in case anyone was thinking, "well, maybe we should just ship less cargo", shipping freight by sea is actually the most environmentally friendly option. If sending cargo by sea becomes more expensive - and it would have to, given the economics of these ships - cargo will start being sent by land or (even worse) air. That does mean you'd need to build fewer schooners, but unfortunately means the environmental impact would be even more negative on balance.

I do love the idea of seeing the the Port of LA swarming with tends of thousands of tall ships. Aesthetically it sounds amazing! But in reality it couldn't possibly work.
Llamas are a licensing ticking bomb, but they showed that reasonably sized models can get things done, and there are clean architecture being trained right now that will unlock the field shortly, likely within the year.
No OP is correct, her use of the term CTC is not what is usually meant. The curve she draws is not timelike along the faster than light segments in the sense of having tangent 4-vector with timelike norm with respect to the underlying metric. She would not disagree I think.
The whole "Toy Stories" series is great
OK, so to be clear, I don't think this AI will harm us, not in its current configuration. The author of the article says the same. The concern is about a future AI, one which is capable of the sort of reasoning that humans can do. The main danger with today's AI is that they will be so commercially successful that it will drive enough investment into AI research that a more powerful AI is constructed.
Agree 100%. There is a way to construe Musk’s statement into one that sort of makes technical sense, but only by creating a ridiculously unlikely scenario.

Occam’s razor would say he’s trying to stifle competition and picked basically the worst conceivable strategy to do that.

If I were Musk and wanted to stop Substack I’d try some kind of long-game embrace, extend, extinguish strategy and pretend to support them at this stage.
Ask it to list verbosely step by step essential elements of what makes a game fun, then iterate upon each one of those.
> To get to Mars faster than light, you have to be able to travel backwards in time (you could watch yourself start the trip).

I think the issue is that seeing something from the past is not the same as time travel. If I yell, then travel faster than sound, then stop, I'll hear my previous yell, but so what? It's not like I can run back faster than sound and stop myself from yelling.
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In crypto the auditing process is somewhat more sophisticated. They scan the contract for similarity to known scams and analyze it for possible backdoors. They also do due diligence on the promoter of the contract ("fully doxxed").

In reality of course all this work could have been replaced by def is_fraud():return True

And the accuracy would probably increase. Crypto fraud has the beautiful property that the people being defrauded actively defend the fraudsters. Moreover, in a lot of cases it isn't technically fraud since the contract is upfront about what it does but at the same time it is very exploitative but that doesn't matter to crypto people
I have written a paper on this recently viewing transformers as Hopf algebras https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834. This paper is very relevant https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3620.
No because google is not marketing their service for medical use. The doctor is responsible for the diagnosis/prescription, which they’re allowed to use any tool they deem necessary.

Medical devices are marketed for specific medical use, which doctors rely upon to do what’s medically expected. These devices will have an “expected use” and “indications for use” that largely cover how they are design/expected/tested for use. They need 510k clearance to be classified by the FDA as a medical device.
Chicken chicken chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken.

Chicken CHICKEN! Chicken chicken chicken...
Silly question, but would it be more impactful to use grey or open models to achieve the goals? End of the day the finally model may need to run outside a datacenter so if people don't fine-tune models this could be a limiting factor.
I pay $20/mo for ChatGPT plus to get access to gpt-4. At one point they stopped offering memberships due to capacity issues. Not sure if it's available again or not.

It's as good as they say. Significantly better at programming than I have ever been (though I was always a pretty average programmer, lot of hacky code).
>Ukrainian sovereignty was forfeit when Yanukovych was removed despite insufficient parliamentary votes to do so according to the Ukrainian constitution.

How does one follow from the other?
If McDonald's and Colgate have problems with your corporate image and you desperately want and need advertising money from corporate American and multinational enterprises you have a big problem.

If a junior exec had caused this mayhem, they'd be sacked. If a publicly listed corporations CEO caused this much value loss they'd be sacked. Truly, any money making enterprise with diverse management and holders would get rid of this guy, stat. Genius? He's a fucking man baby
moron.

If Musk was Britney? he'd be back under guardianship. Has any other modern era capitalist alienated as much value (arguably $20b+) purely on a whim?
I feel like they are close to the right shape but haven’t quite got a handle on it.
Transcript of the video: https://pastebin.com/3LBDjKH4
On the smaller models you may want to split the task in smaller chunk either in parallel one value at a time or in sequence like extract the attributes, then take the output and ask to format it into a json
GPT-4 fails if we add one more level in this logical problem:

Q: A man sees PULL written in mirror writing on a glass door. There's a blind man on the other side of the door. What should the man tell the blind man to open the door and why?

GPT-4: The man should tell the blind man to "push" the door to open it. Since the word "PULL" is written in mirror writing on the glass door, it suggests that the correct action on the man's side is to push the door. The blind man, being on the other side of the door, should also push it to open it. The man should provide clear instructions to the blind man to ensure proper communication and ease of access.
Feels kind of like P = NP. Everyone is like yeah, it could be possible. But basically everything we know so far points in the opposite direction. And we know a lot, so some fundamental rethinking of everything we know would have to happen for this to unfold
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The question (since the title is clickbait):

> Do you want to be helped, heard or hugged?
I think this is the answer. Just tried this (on free ChatGPT 3.5 though)

Q: A glass door has ‘push’ written on it upside down. Should you push or pull it

A: If the word "push" is written on the glass door upside down, it is likely that the sign is intended for people on the other side of the door. Therefore, if you are approaching the door from the side with the sign, you should pull the door instead of pushing it. However, if there are no other signs or indications on the door or its frame, it may be helpful to observe other people using the door or to try both pushing and pulling to determine the correct method of opening the door.
>Is GPT simply a Markov chain?

Yes, but much more efficiently stored and looked up than just a massive table. The way its very large space is encoded in a small amount of memory is what makes GPT so interesting.
And I'm sure him saying that has nothing to do with marketing
Maybe I was just early in the game, but yes, I've got access. I didn't have any particular project that I wanted it for.

Email address in my profile.
General answer that I've seen a lot throughout my career, simulation of blood pumps and cardiovascular medical devices, this is one popular package foe doing so:

https://www.ansys.com/applications/cardiovascular
The workaround is just to nest multiple `alt`s inside each other.
Headlines like this hint towards AI improving itself. Prompting itself in this case. But as we see in reinforcement learning, algorithms that act and improve themselves are not new. The interesting thing will be weather or not they eventually "collapse".

For example, if an RL algorithms is performing well on an Atari game, you can stop the training and just let the agent run for years and the performance will remain about the same. However, if you allow the agent to continue training, it's not clear whether it will (1) continue improving, (2) stay about the same, or (3) collapse and perform much worse and never recover. I'm not an RL expert, but I've spent a lot of time experimenting and implementing the algorithms myself and I've seen all 3 of these scenarios play out, and I'm never quite sure what's going to happen so long as I allow the training to continue.

GTP4 will remain GTP4 forever, and that's amazing, but just because GTP4 is stable and amazing while it's not in training mode, doesn't mean it will remain stable if we allow it to bootstrap and prompt itself and prepare its own training data, etc.
I just watched the video and this seems to me like a pretty accurate summary (I’m not a physicist though)
almost nothing involving NLP requires solutions anywhere near that accuracy rate. I've seen the self driving comparisons a lot but they straight up make little sense.

there's a reason microsoft's various copilot suites have already popped up (365, X, Bing). massive value to be gained already in the here and now.
Combined with plugins it is much more than a search engine
Thanks! So if a doctor uses one of the GPTs like GPT-4 in a similar way to how they use Google today, it also wouldn't be a medical device I guess. But if someone wanted to make a MedGPT for doctors then that one would probably be subject to the FDA regulations because it will have an 'expected use' for doctors.
Smaller scale, but Schooner Apollonia has been operating sail freight on the Hudson River since 2020. Their 12th roundtrip starts in May and past cargo manifests can be seen here: https://www.schoonerapollonia.com/cargo-manifest

https://www.instagram.com/schooner_apollonia/
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