skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not world, just state. It is a skill where both speed and quality benefit the employer. Would a software company prefer programmers who produce buggy code slowly, or better programmers? [considers state of software industry ...] Uh, never mind.
Wow, are there HFT firms doing this? How reliable is it?
> people keep finding that letting the fastest system get the trade actually does work better than alternative approaches.

What does "work better" mean in this context?
Did the exchange find it increased their profits?
Please no. Prompt engineering is even more cumbersome and error-prone.
Yeah, I don’t think a machine that generates novel genius ideas 1 out of 3 times is useful either. Creating a new idea is exactly as hard as curating them.
It's funny how it's possible to simultaneously overestimate and underestimate GPT4 at the same time, vastly.

I think that we just don't fully understand everything it gives us yet.

The complaints of "well it explained this wrong" are over-emphasized. The same thing happens with google and with any sort of research. Besides, if you're actually being productive with GPT4, you're going to be asking it stuff that relates to something you do know, and will be able to verify it readily enough. (Especially when it comes to programming and compilers.)

And just a reminder, those of you opining based off your experience with GPT3.5... GPT4 is a huge, huge improvement. Almost to the point of it not really being an incremental improvement. It's so much better it's like a different thing.
Jaron Lanier's 2010 book "You are not a gadget"
basically foreshadows the hype around chat-gpt and how we (technologists) want to make people obsolete so that computers seem more advanced. He argues that we adjust ourselves and reduce our expectations in the Turing test.
This Singapore?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/18/world/asia/singapore-mari...
I get why AI people are at pains to say that GPT-* isn’t AI, and that agi is still a long, difficult way off, I do understand that the distinction is important. But ChatGPT has become such a useful tool to help explain a concept or to filter thoughts through I don’t really care if it’s proper AI or just playing pretend.

Google search gives me pretty useless results these days, forums are slow and inconsistent to respond. ChatGPT is fast, easy to use, and sometimes incredibly wrong. I can live with that, I’m not using it to drive my car.
Even if you get this data, it is not uncommon for SSD manufacturers to change the original NAND chips for inferior chips without changing the SSD’s brand name or model number.

Linus tech tips covered this issue before: https://youtu.be/K07sEM6y4Uc
> The problem is distinguishing between these parts requires me to be be an expert in the area I’m inquiring about - and then why the heck do I need to ask some idiot bot for answers to questions that I already know an answer to?

Because it can be significantly faster to check something for correctness than to produce it?

More so when the correctness check can itself be automated to some extent.
Many non-profits are there for tax writeoffs, if they help anyone it is a bonus result.
Potential Forms and Microwave Spectrum of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Deep Space
If that were the case, outputs would be consistently nonsense - the number of possible variations of text like "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is so much larger than the meaningful subset, the probability of hitting the latter by chance would be zero for all practical purposes.
I remember my parents and teachers indicating this, and me and my friends thinking “then why do they trust TV, books, etc.?”
We made the choice not to have children, but I do feel that desire to pass on my genes. What's it like?

sexual desire is like taking a piss

I would say it's less of a basic biological desire like peeing or sneezing, and more like... esoteric/abstract concepts like "the desire to do good" or "the desire to achieve."

I realize it's not really a logical desire, and even though I do feel it, it's far from my highest priority and I've also chosen not to have kids for a variety of other reasons.
What’s this mini library lady in SF thing?
Some people will talk it into doing something it shouldn't. The bank will get in trouble because it seduced you into making an unwise investment.
That's interesting but I have no background on Japanese legal system. Any details or links you can share?
Maybe, but the rest of the arrow is not more chat gpt but other AI things to come. The problem I currently see is the hype, we’re acting as if we’re already there, we’ve nearly achieved AGI with LLMs, we just need to ramp up production more and miraculously AGI will pop into existence
Generally speaking, at least with in realty, a single family home is a term used to mean a specific thing.

Specifically, a single-family home has no shared property but is built on its own parcel of land. Additionally it can have no common-walls.

So townhomes and apartments do not count.

This is also called a detached-home in some places.

And based on the context from the earlier post, I'm pretty sure what they meant, but if jfghi comes back and clarifies, I'll withdraw my statement. I don't think anyone thinks renting an apartment is bourgeoisie. However, renting a detached-home in the middle of Manhattan would definitely qualify.

Edit, including a source from realtor.com about their definition:

https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/what-is-a-single-family-h...
>America just doesn't attract (or retain) the best. Opportunities are quite high in other countries for them to consider American immigration nonsense.

In a survey of scientists from 16 countries <http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...>, the US is the top destination from 13 of the 15 others and the #2 choice from the other two. If you are a Canadian scientist, there is a 16% chance <https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37lgxg/the...> that you will move to the US. That's not "16% of all Canadian scientists that move out of the country move to the US". Let me repeat: 16% of all Canadian scientists move to the US. They're also likely to be among the top Canadian scientists, too.
This captures it well. We're at the "startups are throwing GPT at every possible wall to see what sticks" stage of this.

We're going to see both improvements in application, and parallel improvements in the underlying model.

Who cares if it's AGI if someone figures out how to turn it into a competent tax accountant?
I haven't read the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Made_by_Hand series but my impression is that Kunstler would agree with you except with the caveat that there won't be cars or trains or buses overall, mostly just return to actual low-scale functioning like horses.
I already calmed down because it’s quite obvious that OpenAI is engaging in textbook, bait-and-switch startup tactics. GPT-4 performance has noticeably taken a nosedive since its initial release and most recently degraded further in advance of the iOS app release.
Don't charge for your time if you can negotiate a better arrangement. Instead attach prices to specific deliverables. Ideally the prices have some relationship to the business value.

You should focus on adding business value and how to attach fair prices for delivering that value, in concrete terms. Hours spent at a keyboard, or lines of code, do not describe anything of value to a business.

You can ask the customer to attach a value to deliverables and then decide if you can profitably deliver. Structuring projects to support that means you and the customer have to break the tasks down into well-defined steps with clear deliverables, something freelancers should do in any case. It also means getting the customer to think about business value. You should also consider cost over time (i.e. is the customer losing money because of a bug or missing requirement), and risk to the business.

Freelancers too often either accept a price the customer attaches to a project (based on what?), or guess at the time required and multiply by the desired rate. No one specifies the project in detailed steps with clear deliverables and a definition of "done" for each stage. As a result the freelancer and the customer will conflict over schedule and budget, usually well into the project.

For skilled freelancers with a solid reputations "a few hundred of dollars per hour" doesn't describe a "crazy rate."
Ah right! It was indeed straightforward — thank you!
Hallucination right now is just the exponential divergence that LeCun talks about if you are interested in reading more about it.

LLMs probably need generative diffusion but still lack the fundamentals to reason, plan and evaluate.
Logic is inconsistent and/or incomplete.

Truth is both consistent and complete.
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Finally someone who "gets it" (FARHAD MANJOO of NYT)

Commuting (3+ hours per day to/from) is ACTUALLY A 2ND JOB. Along with it is outrageous gas/tolls/tunnels/EZPASS transportation costs (I live in NYC).
And let's not forget wear and tear on our car and then the high car repair costs; and the high cost of replacing my car after it's destroyed from all of that daily driving.

call me.

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We do more physical activity now than people did in the 70s and 80s and we are significantly fatter also. I doubt it's that.
For a lot of cases, 0% unsafe code is pretty unrealistic. Using even 50% unsafe code means that you must be able to reason about how safe and reliable the code really is. At which point you are better off with a simple language that a good developer can quickly figure out what is happening. A complex language makes this harder, not easier.
Right, so it's an API, but it's only usable through the file system, and it's a pretty bad API. You still need to parse the crappy ad hoc format instead of getting a struct from the kernel.
No world model ?

A world model is so obvious papers like these are more confirmation than surprise

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11169

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382

There a certain sentiment that AGI however you wish to define it won't infact be a "We'll know it when we see it" situation but rather a "AGI will arrive long before consensus reaches its AGI". LLMs have made me believe this will 100% be the case, either way.

It's one thing to argue over things we can't evaluate even now but man the 100th "They can't reason!" every week is pretty funny when you can basically take your pick of reasonong type - Algorithmic, Casual, Inference, Analogical and read a paper showing strong performance.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09196

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00050

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02329

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066

People refuse to see even what is staring right at them.
Can I be let in on the joke?
The same status quo that has lousy public transit is the status quo that gets us a lot of "those who vandalize, defecate, and litter". There's no reason we are stuck with that stuff being rampant. There's a strong case that the inequities in our economic system set us up to get those results even.
> For better defense-in-depth, combine multiple methods.

It really starts to sound like we are reinventing Linux distributions. A strong vetting process and barriers to entry are why Linux distributions remain free of malware in their repositories. AFAIK no Linux distribution has ever been found distributing malware in an official repository (though I'd be interested if anyone knows of an exception).
I noticed that performance in coding tasks is decreasing while latency is improving. So there’s that.
In his twenties? What? I just thought he was like 50 ish haha.

They went so technically heavy with IR cameras (Watch the making of) and some dude on YouTube made a better de-ager with a deep fake. Not marginally better, but dimensions better.

The Irish Man is just comically bad.
Only if the words were chosen simply at random in sequence and of course they're not this simplistic. They're constrained by the attention models so they do much better than this but they're still random. You can control the degree of randomness with the temperature knob.
I care about my job and the industry I work in, otherwise I wouldn't have the job in the first place. But if I wasn't being paid, I wouldn't do the work. You can't buy my basic personal interest, but you can absolutely buy my ongoing care and attention.
Oh derp. Yeah I could see that being an issue.

My brain's shot and I thought they were talking about some sort of server spec (not sure for what? conig? request handling?)
This is true; it was a almost a meme before memes existed, as to say "I saw it on the internet so it must be true!", as a way to teasingly highlight how non-credible it was seen at the time.
What novel genius ideas has the machine created so far?
> FBI/NSA interpret FAA 702 to acquire "one end foreign" communications, i.e. the communications of Americans with other parties abroad. There are millions of American citizens who reside abroad, and many thousands more at any given time are vacationing abroad. Those citizens' rights are being systematically trampled.

That's not accurate. They can only request the data of non-Americans living outside the US. If you are a US citizen, they cannot request your data without a court order. If you are not a US citizen but living in the US, they need a court order as well. Also, it's Section 702 of FISA. The Federal Aviation Administration has nothing to do with it.

> Supposedly they apply "minimization" filters on that full-take, but considering their incentives I doubt they try very hard.

More inaccuracies here. It's not full-take. The documents Klein released clearly showed a Narus filtering device here, which Snowden's documents showed is used to collect the communications of targeted foreigners outside the US whose data passes through the US. In this era of https everywhere, it is exceedingly unlikely that this source is still useful.

> Anyway how can you say the legality isn't in dispute when the government has a secret interpretation of the law that they refuse to allow anyone to see?

Snowden leaked the interpretations. These interpretations (aside from phone metadata) have not been challenged.
Yeah, that was my first thought. Adding a layer of UI with documented unintended behavior is a liability landmine.
Any problem you don't want to solve can be an alignment problem! :)
From your comments and how high it is on your website, it seems "prefix.group(optional).suffix" is a very important feature. Building on your above comment, perhaps it would be a good idea to explain how it works and why it is so important on your website?
Feels like there have been a lot of previous technologies where the last 10% was far more complex than the first 90%. Self driving cars were pretty much solved a decade ago, and yet we still aren't there yet. VR was pretty much working and ready to change the world a decade ago, and we still aren't there yet.

So it's hard to tell if this is an iphone moment where it just rockets off in to space and changes the world. Or if it's something that will always be "not quite there yet"
This part about "constrained by the attention model" is doing a lot of implicit work here to dodge the question why GPT-4 can verifiably reason about things in text.
gpick is also a great piece of software on linux - unfortunately they got threatened by pantone or something and had to remove the good color names like "midnight moss", "mineral green", and "bombay". Everything now pulls up as "light green", "faded green", or "bluegrey". However, the rest of the functionality is the best you could ask for.

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Yes; speed is in bits: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/high-frequency-traders-eye-...
> I suspect we hear from the outliers on both ends of the spectrum

Welcome to publishing. Nothing gets widely published unless it's clickbait. Something you vehemently agree with you'll click on to see that it validates your opinion, and something you vehemently oppose you'll furiously read to find out how stupid they are. Nobody reads fair and balanced arguments that solely come with concrete evidence; they're rare and boring.
But it's not really a "universal pronoun" if you can't use it to denote any random person without offending them.
This is exactly my thoughts and feelings after more than 20 years of Googling except that Google is largely still useful as it is. Sooner or later, however, most of the people will use ChatGPT or similar services as a better replacement for Google search or Google on steroids. Before the advent of ChatGPT researchers especially, have been clamoring for better Google search with more contexts, intuitive and relevant feedbacks.

With the new ChatGPT (Plus) features introduction for examples web online search and plug-ins, ChatGPT has becoming a very powerful and viable better alternative to Google search.
> ecause it can be significantly faster to check something for correctness than to produce it

Erm no
There are many things that cant be easily checked especially if you dont know the topic well
Is it impossible to query for (then revoke) existing certs for a domain you have just acquired? If not, that seems like the system failure here. Otherwise you have a ~year of MITM to worry about for any domain you obtain, regardless of expirations.
Possibly cost? Offloading unused data to long term cold storage is cheaper than storing on JunoDB and never using it.
That is a very thoughtful response. Thank you!

The backend can get complicated. Our workflows are stored as a directed acyclic graph, and each action is scheduled. There are also dynamic data placeholders, error handling, and much more. I’ve seen users create custom webhooks called “send text message” that hit their API.

Are you using React? I recommend checking out react flow if you want a UI-only solution.
Is it not free? Do I have to purchase a license?
Yes. "Anyone can write anything on there! There's no way to trust it." About halfway through high school they started letting us cite websites, and it was a big deal and considered very forward thinking.
I think you make a good point, benchmarks and metrics are indeed a better proxy for performance. Seems worth pointing out that, while "nowhere near half in [your] experience" are completely wrong, I don't take your word for it either. :-)

The trouble in my view is that the only way to know that the answers you're getting are accurate and not misleading is to study up on the answers elsewhere - which is a great habit to nurture, but is also precisely why these tools tend toward uselessness in their "general AI" bids. If I can't know how the answer was built, or how good that answer is, there's no point asking it - I'll just do my own reading and apply appropriate discernment as I go.

To be fair, hardly anyone does this today, nor did they before LLM-based chat bots... So it's a moot point, because society is largely doomed anyway. But a moot point can still be a valid one.

I also think the author makes a good point that we frequently confuse performance for competence. "It does a really good job at <X>!... or at least does a damn fine job of mimicking someone who acts like they do a really good job at <X>!"

By way of analogy, consider Elon Musk - by all appearances, he's a genius and is saving humanity - but by dint of his narcissism and largely smooth-brained approach to... well... everything... he's running all of us into an earlier planet-size grave than is necessary. His performance is fantastic, his competence is nonexistent.
Err ... more recent, not Indian but :) ... OpenAI. Basically almost any startup that was trying to acquire market share with VC money. Couple it with the Indian government's penchant for digital surveillance and you ignore it at your own peril.

To clarify, I am not saying UPI is not useful - it is to millions of people, but it is also not benign that it is made out to be.
At least run the model on the examples considered... Here's GPT3.5

> Can you eat a Frisbee?

No, you cannot eat a Frisbee. A Frisbee is typically made of plastic, often polypropylene or similar materials, which are not meant for consumption. These materials are not digestible and can pose a choking hazard or harm your digestive system if ingested. It's important to only consume food and items that are safe and intended for human consumption.

> Can you play Frisbee in a snowstorm?

While it is technically possible to play Frisbee in a snowstorm, there are several factors to consider before doing so. Playing Frisbee in a snowstorm can present various challenges and risks. Here are a few things to keep in mind:

> How far can a person throw a Frisbee?

The distance a person can throw a Frisbee can vary widely depending on individual factors such as strength, technique, and experience. Additionally, different types of Frisbees can have different flight characteristics and distances.

On average, an untrained person might be able to throw a standard Frisbee between 50 to 75 feet (15 to 23 meters) with a basic backhand throw. However, with practice, proper technique, and favorable conditions, experienced throwers can achieve much greater distances.

In professional disc sports such as disc golf and ultimate Frisbee, skilled players can throw a disc over 400 feet (122 meters) or more. World records for the longest Frisbee throw exceed 800 feet (240 meters), but those exceptional throws require specialized technique and optimal conditions.

> Can they throw it 10 miles?

No, it is highly unlikely that a person can throw a Frisbee 10 miles (approximately 16 kilometers). The aerodynamic properties of a Frisbee and the limitations of human strength and technique make such a throw virtually impossible.

Even the most skilled and experienced Frisbee throwers are unable to achieve throws of that magnitude. The current world record for the longest Frisbee throw is around 1,333 feet (406 meters), which is significantly shorter than 10 miles.

Throwing a Frisbee over such a vast distance would require extraordinary strength, near-perfect throwing conditions, and a Frisbee specifically designed for long-distance throws, which is beyond the capabilities of conventional Frisbees.

> Can they only throw it 10 centimeters?

Yes, it is possible for a person to throw a Frisbee a distance of 10 centimeters or even shorter. In fact, many Frisbee throwing techniques, such as short-range tosses or gentle underhand throws, are specifically designed for short distances and precise control.

Throwing a Frisbee only 10 centimeters might involve a soft lob or a gentle flip of the wrist, making it suitable for short-range accuracy or playing catch at close proximity. These types of throws are commonly used in various games, such as indoor Frisbee games or when playing with young children or pets in a limited space.

So, while Frisbees are capable of traveling much greater distances, throwing them short distances like 10 centimeters is definitely possible and commonly practiced.
I just checked and it returns that video as the first result if you put your phrase into the YouTube search box in quotes, so that's good news.

I wonder why YouTube indexes the transcripts for YouTube search, but Google chooses not to include them in its index for Google search? Seems like an intentional decision since it's the same company after all.