skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a difference between some people sometimes needing to be reminded to do something, and them flat out not being able to do it due to fundamental cognitive limitations.

GPT4 isn't "flat out not able to do it" when reminded. My point was that I have had the same experience of having to prompt step by step and go "why did you do that? Follow the steps" with both fully functional, normally intelligent people and with GPT4 for similarly complex tasks, and given the improvement between 3.5 and 4 there's little reason to assume this won't keep improving for at least some time more.

> That's because GPT4 has been custom tuned and trained on that specific task as well, along with many others. It's that training, why it was necessary and how it works that the paper referred to previously was about.

So it can do it when trained, just like people, in other words.

> They will infer from that they work cognitively in the same way as humans

And that would be bad. But so is automatically assuming that there's any fundamental difference between how they work and how human reasoning work given that we simply do not know how human reasoning work, and given that LLMs in increasing number of areas show similar behaviour (failure to e.g. fall back on learned rules) when their reasoning breaks down as untrained people.

Again, I'm not saying they're reasoning like people, but I'm saying that we know very little about what the qualitative differences are outside of the few glaringly obvious aspects (e.g. lack of lasting memory and lack of ongoing reinforcement during operation), and we don't know how necessary those will be (we do know that humans can "function" for some values of function without the ability to form new lasting memories, but obviously it provides significant functional impairment).
Here in Germany nobody would move based on an offer, only based on a signed employment contract. Of course you can terminate the contract, but there commonly is a clause that you can't terminate the contract before it starts (to protect both parties from the other party backing out). And even if that clause doesn't exist, by law there is at a minimum a two week notice period, so this example of a company walking back on it a week before isn't possible. And while relocation reimbursements typically would contain a clause that effectively vests it over X years (meaning you have to pay part of it back if you quit) this clause legally can't apply in a case like this where there's no fault of the employee (he wasn't even there to potentially do something wrong).

Despite these basic protections, we still manage to hire people around here.
In previous jobs I’ve always given notice after receiving an offer. In hindsight, I realize that was pretty dumb, but it was a different time, long ago. Going forward I will absolutely wait until my first day on the new job to give notice to the old one. It’s not fair to either employer, but getting an offer pulled after quitting an existing job scares the hell out of me.
If you are a good employee and you handle your departure professionally, you can instead tell your old employer that your new job fell through and go back to your old job.

If you burn your bridges on your way out, then you can never go back. What happens if your new job lets you go after a week? If you are worried about a job pulling an offer a week before you start, you should be worried about it being pulled a week after you start.

You are protecting yourself from an offer being pulled before you start by exposing yourself to extra risk if they pull the offer after you start. It seems like a poor trade.
How would you know people are using it otherwise? Better than an empty feed.
I think the difference is that OpenAI wants to sell their text generation services to big companies that will show AI content directly on their platforms (think chat support bots), whereas Bing is selling eyeballs to advertisers (who also don't want their ads shown alongside porn by the by).

If OpenAI has the reputation of serving up porn to whoever asks, there's no way the Walmarts of the world will sign up.
1. Have you read Andy Matuschak's guide to prompt writing? Your post reminded me of it. https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

2. Do you have any sort of guide or principles for note-taking? I'm always debating whether or not it's worth taking notes, and when I do take notes I'm debating what the best way to do it is. (Hierarchal/bulleted information like in your post, or summarizing things in paragraphs, or what) A lot of times it's unclear to me what information is worth writing and it frustrates me.
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I've also not worked for mega-corps, but I've also had good experience with writing things into contracts and having them agreed to.

I find it odd that people are fine with contract negotiation when it comes to remuneration but treat actual contract clauses like holy text that can't be changed.

There's even a good chance that what you think is "unchanging boilerplate" is boilerplate that gets updated all the time and barely anyone is on the same contract anyway, or that it is very job role or department specific.

That said, I've mostly worked at SMEs which can be more flexible anyway, and getting a contract change is a good indicator of their general flexibility so perhaps works as a good filter too.
You can see for yourself (assuming you have the model weights) https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python

I get around ~140 ms per token running a 13B parameter model on a thinkpad laptop with a 14 core Intel i7-9750 processor. Because it's CPU inference the initial prompt processing takes longer than on GPU so total latency is still higher than I'd like. I'm working on some caching solutions that should make this bareable for things like chat.
Just explored Taleblocks, and I'm impressed by its user-friendly interface and AI-powered features. It simplifies the process of turning text into engaging videos, making it a great tool for content creators and marketers alike. Excited to see how this platform evolves and streamlines video production further.
Or maybe movies and TV shows are expertly targeted at someone who isn't you?
Agreed, not until I have a signed employment contract.
I have been interested in this idea for a while, but it seems that no one else is.
>> If your argument is simply that symbols and numbers can't contain meaning because they are symbols and numbers, then you've worked your way into a tautological box that I, nor anyone else, will be able to free you from.

Too many assumptions.

>> Do you have some competing idea of how it works? It would behoove you to share it with the thread.

Yes, I do. It's a language model. It is trained to model the text in a corpus. There's no mystery there and there's no reason to assume it's doing anything else than what it was designed to do. It's a machine. People made it. It does what it was made to do. Other explanations of its behaviour are fantasies.

And computers aren't brains. Brains may be computers, or they may not, but you can't look at brains and draw conclusions about computers. For the same reason that you can't look at planes and draw conclusions about birds.

>> The use of backpropagation and gradient descent allows us to search the space of all possible models starting from a randomized model, and find a model that does this by nudging our model to be a little more capable at it over and over again.

If you haven't already, you should try implementing backpropagation, or even just gradient descent/hill climb, and observe its behaviour for a while. I suspect that, if you haven't done that, the experience will clear a lot of the rosy clouds about what backpropagation and gradient optimisation can really do.

Anyway this is getting a little too long-winded for me and I don't have time to continue the conversation. I must respectfully bow out. Last word is yours and thanks for the interaction.
Well, chargebacks are not possible for ordinary bank transfers. The problem is that the they are too slow and not convenient enough. This is a software / standardization issue. Credit: PayPal is successful despite it only offering very short credits in order to ensure quick transfers. And in physical shops credit cards often seem to be no more than a convenient way to pay without cash. In Germany you can actually pay in all shops and restaurants with a form of debit card, which is just as convenient as paying with credit cards, but has less fees for the shop, since there is no credit card company in the middle. As a result most people don't own a credit card. This doesn't work so well online though.
Including forcibly treating people who refuse treatment?
Not true.

First of all, most of the temperature rise only happening close to the surface with average surface temperature rise being only about 1.5F or 1C since 1901.

This article says deep ocean water is projected to warm up by only 0.2C during next 50 years: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/deep-ocean-warming-subt...

Furthermore, at around 4C which is what deep ocean water is close to (everything below 200m is essentially 4C), thermal expansion is almost nil. For colder water thermal expansion is actually negative.

4C is when water is at its densest. It is not an accident that all oceans are 4C, because 4C water sinks to the bottom and anything colder or hotter than 4C floats up. This remarkable property of water is what causes even shallow water to be fantastically stable in temperature -- a lake that has more than couple tens of meters in depth is likely to be 4C at the bottom throughout the year whether it is frosty winter or hot summer above it, unless some kind of powerful event is able to mix the water in the lake.

Now, the small temperature differences will definitely have outsize effects on water circulation, ocean currents, life and weather. But I doubt they will cause meaningful sea rise unless somebody can calculate otherwise?
Even if they do change, any other site now or in the future that uses the previous functionality will work because you already implemented it.
It was certainly the only option when I signed up otherwise I would have been fine with a u/p on their site. Perhaps I was part of some A/B testing?

I only signed up because the IRS said they were closing the BofA/Wells PO boxes. Perhaps they were bluffing.
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> Even in the American legal system "I said don't do that" is not a shield against liability.

Also IANAL. As someone offering open source software for free, what shields you against liability in the American system?
This is how most games are developed as well. https://www.whatgamesare.com/vertical-slice.html
Predictable only insofar as it has to follow some simple rules. For example, if you own a good G, that you could use to satisfy either a desire D1, or a competing desire D2, you will choose to use G to satisfy the greater one of these two desires at that point in time.

Repeatable is even untrue, unless I misunderstand your meaning. First of all, the ranking of your goals or desires is not assumed to be constant over time. Also, it is not assumed that your world model is constant. Quite the opposite, it is often explicitly emphasized that humans have the ability to change their mind about things, for example by learning.
I discussed this with an AI language model (GPT-4), and the general idea I gathered was that in the EU, it's possible that the "no warranty" clause in open source licenses could be invalidated by consumer protection laws, while the rest of the license remains valid. This could potentially expose authors to liability, even as their work continues to be used for free. However, it's important to note that this information came from an AI and should not be considered legal advice. The specific application of these laws may vary depending on the jurisdiction and circumstances.
It's dead already in the sense that you won't see this stuff published on the news or anything.

As a hobby though I don't think it will ever die. You'll see a lot of this stuff on personal blogs or websites. A lot of software engineers include a photography section on their site.
> Maybe that's why Twitter had blocked retweeting links containing to Substack.

That seems to have accelerated the shift for some to Substack [1] (imagine if Google blocked searches for Bing or Brave!). Suppressing Substack makes the Twitter brand look weak and nervous.

1. https://reason.com/2023/04/10/elon-musk-matt-taibbi-twitter-...
In true quantum form, it both is and isn't a breakthrough simultaneously.
I wrote it using a framework whose most recent release is substantially different than what GPT-4 was trained on.

I quickly learned to just paste the docs and examples from the new framework to GPT, telling it "this is how the API looks now" and it just worked.

It helped me do everything. From writing the code, to setting up SSL on nginx, to generating my DB schema, to getting my DB schema into the prod db (I don't use migration tooling).

Most of my time was spent telling GPT "sorry, that API is out of date --- use it like this, instead". Very rarely did GPT actually produce incorrect code or code that does the wrong thing.
The idea would not be for a network. It would be to increase the odds of being part of a runaway success.
They're named in the style of the Apple, apple ][, and Apple ///.

Adrian specializes in mostly Classic mac and apple hardware
No. drugs like LSD can cause schizophrenia after they are stopped or even after one dose in susceptible individuals.
They are too selfish to feel anything. But fwiw, I will try.

“We are sorry that this incident happened and will look at our process to see how we can avoid situations like this in the future.”

Feel better?
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My state job did (& it was normal) all i9 w4 stuff on 1st day of joining.
Something something 100 monkeys with a typewriter? I'm expecting some margin of error introduced into these models that produces a surreal fever dream era of AI generated content on the internet.
The Alcubierre drive gets around this by bending the spacetime around a craft so that portion of space is moving and not the craft through space. And beyond that, traversable wormholes aren’t completely ruled out yet
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Not necessarily. The density of water peaks around 4ºC. So as oceans warm between 0º and 4º, they actually contract in volume.
Alright, yes, it’s possible to define witchcraft as ‘arcane engineering’

It’s still witchcraft.
"I'm a professional Zoom meeting attender. Occasionally I write code."
Knowing that it is a developmental disease does nothing to prevent / treat it. There are many diseases that we can recognize as developmental, yet do nothing to prevent (autism for example).
With the weird exception of the audience for https://brands.town, an instance full of and for #brands. Though the game there is actually culture jamming, satire/farce, and LARPing fake brands for amusement, and not actually a place for real advertising either.
Alpaca is the Napster or LLMs
> If only we could give -10 days notice

Don't let your dreams be dreams!
Personally I haven’t had that problem. I can readily distinguish spam from non-spam by manual review ~99% of the time. If I could train or instruct an LLM to do the same as I do now, I would be happy. My current false-negative rate with Bayesian spamassassin is more like 50%.
It's not. You can always fire someone who doesn't do their job. It's slightly harder to fire someone for having the wrong haircut. You can always try constructive dismissal, the penalties are peanuts. Or buy out their permanent contract, it's pretty cheap like an American sign-on bonus.
You're putting words in my mouth. I never used the word "regulated" at all. I said "controlled" - meaning the government should not be the sole entity allowed to own and operate a factory that produces jeans. (I hope that's not the contentious point here.) I believe jeans manufacturing should be regulated by the government, but not controlled by the government. And even if the government gives up control, it does not give up its ability to regulate.

Do you agree that, even though the government does not itself manufacture a pair of jeans using taxpayer money, the government can still prosecute theft of those jeans? If so, it should not be a stretch to understand that even though the government does not issue a certain private sector money, it can still prosecute theft of that private sector money.
You can still run into the same issues. As the blog author.

For me, if you're going to be making a move, you've already decided you're making a move. Worrying about the other side withdrawing the offer doesn't worry me that much, especially since in quite a few country there are legal requirements about job offers.
Extremely hilarious to see no discussion here given the previous threads on this case were absolutely deluged with uneducated, know-it-all comments about the same.
Just like in the R example, I think.
dont these apps display the most possible outcomes with a percentage rather than just a single outcome? They should
malloc doesn't always return null when it should
> US society isn’t some anti-sex dystopia

Not a dystopia, but certainly US society has, shall we say, a very strange and complicated relationship with sex and nudity.
Why do you belittle yourself so much?

Maybe there is more paperwork if they let you go on the first day (but for the HR people it is just doing their job - to do that paperwork!), but I don't think so. It is also very common to have a short (1 week max) notice for the probation period, so they will let you go if there are any issues. The reason why you had a job was most probably not the amount of paperwork they would have had to do had they really wanted to fire you. Maybe you were doing your job right?

And what if you are without a job for some time? Unless you are just starting out from nothing, your you depend on a visa, it is not the end of the world... Some people even do it on purpose.
Zuckerberg is culturally very different to Larry and Sergey. VR was definitely an unusual choice, but if you look at the other choices he has made, he responds to the market.

The point with dual-share class is not that the person will automatically do things that are financially terrible, it is that you are beholden to that person's choices. Larry and, to a lesser extent, Sergey are known largely for making bad choices that benefit their employees/friends.

I think this is also due to the nature of their business: Google's search business is the most profitable business in the history of capitalism, you need to deploy almost no capital, you need almost no employees, and you can produce hundreds of billions in revenue...there is no business like it. Zuck is clearly aware that their core business is in decline and has been for a number of years so has been forced to make strategic choices. Google have had to do nothing, their execs are comical, the founders are clearly not up to it...but it doesn't matter. The result they get is nothing to do with the inputs going in.
Also worth checking out https://github.com/saharNooby/rwkv.cpp which is based on Georgi's library and offers support for the RWKV family of models which are Apache-2.0 licensed.
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What I wonder about is: rising wrt. what? Did they take into the account the possibly vertical movement of tectonic plates?
The problem is that if you’re laid off before your start date, you wouldn’t get paid. Despite relocating.
>Ford, along with its rivals, are scrambling to upgrade existing facilities and build new ones as they shift from internal combustion engine vehicles to EVs. Ford has said it wants the production capacity to sell 2 million EVs a year globally by the end of 2026.

Tesla is expected to exceed Ford's 2026 milestone this year. It's safe to assume Ford is 3 years behind Tesla, and won't be able to catch them before the 2035 EV mandates.
> So you can just as easily turn the analogy around and say people are the "cheap but worse" option.

No, because this is a factual question with a factual answer. You need to actually know which is more dangerous.

> FWIW, we have been able to create processes to manage risks with unpredictable humans, why couldn't we with AI ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Because humans and AI are different? We are much better at predicting when humans will be wrong than with AI, for one.
Poland saw recently that fully depending on neighbours for energy is insane.
The emergent behavior from devs now is going to be overlapping employment between jobs to safeguard themselves from this kind of shenanigans.
Your first day on the new job should be the day you put in your two weeks notice at your old job. Ramp down and ramp up accordingly.
This advice only applies to USA though.
If I were Apple I'd be thinking about the following issues with that strategy:

1. That RAM isn't empty, it's being used by apps and the OS. Fill up 64GB of RAM with an LLM and there's nothing left for anything else.

2. 64GB probably isn't enough for competitive LLMs anyway.

3. Inferencing is extremely energy intensive, but the MacBook / Apple Silicon brand is partly about long battery life.

4. Weights are expensive to produce and valuable IP, but hard to protect on the client unless you do a lot of work with encrypted memory.

5. Even if a high end MacBook can do local inferencing, the iPhone won't and it's the iPhone that matters.

6. You might want to fine tune models based on your personal data and history, but training is different to inference and best done in the cloud overnight (probably?).

7. Apple already has all that stuff worked out for Siri, which is a cloud service, not a local service, even though it'd be easier to run locally than an LLM.

And lots more issues with doing it all locally, fun though that is to play with for developers.

I hope I'm wrong, it'd be cool to have LLMs be fully local, but it's hard to see situations where the local approach beats out the cloud approach. One possibility is simply cost: if your device does it, you pay for the hardware, if a cloud does it, you have to pay for that hardware again via subscription.
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It's really tiring. It's everywhere on HN, I deal with it everyday at work, and everywhere else I look.

Instead of it being criticism, the commenter could've seen it as a positive. Every time a site changes, you discover functionality you haven't implemented yet. Over time, you've implemented more and more. It's progress. Progress is good. Choosing the negative interpretation is so endemic and arbitrary and simply unnecessary.
It sounds like OP had a signed employment contract.

> Thus, the contract with me has been terminated 10 days before it was supposed to take effect.

Apparently a contract that allowed no-cause termination. I'm not sure what that contract is good for exactly, but I think this is common in the USA. Whether it's legal in the UK I couldn't say.
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