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Wait holy shit this is at least partially true though? https://openai.com/blog/will-hurd-joins

Forgotten Realms is definitely its own universe with its own canon and everything, and apparently the movie is pretty faithful to it.

The point of a corporation is to be a legal person that is considered as a physical person in various ways for purposes of a lawsuit.

That's literally why it has the Latin root corp, meaning body, in the name.

Programming languages are stupidly information dense indeed, but if that's the most major roadblock, I don't see why throwing more compute at the problem won't eventually solve it. GPT-4 is already handling a very stupid amount of information density.

It honestly seems sort of like a straight path toward an LLM that can hold a whole codebase in context and can produce new functionality on command. Fundamentally, software is just taking inputs and producing outputs; we will almost certainly be able to define those and let the LLM do everything in between within a year or two.

This basically matches my experience in trying to get it to do the right thing. BEING VERY EXPLICIT AND ANGRY WORKS TO REINFORCE A POINT. Specifically telling it to not do a thing it will otherwise do is often necessary.

The only part that surprises me is `Output should be in markdown format`. Usually being that vague results in weird variation in output; I'd have expected a formatted example in the prompt for GPT to copy.

>Someone wrote this, someone can change it, and anyone in the git log can be held accountable for what they did

Uh, not really, no. The whole point of neural nets is they independently discover novel and unexpected ways of predicting the probable answer.

Any Web 2.0 system's basic premise is that it provides a space where humans can be humans. The bedrock assumption is that people can POST things that a server will instantly and automatically display publicly, and that the server owner will not instantly become legally liable for what they post.

This mirrors pretty well how the rest of the world operates. If I walk into a Macy's and start screaming libel or inciting a riot, the Macy's Corporation is not liable for that speech. Why should a 'digital property' like a social media site work differently?

Of course, it doesn't totally erase the server owner's liability. If someone posts child pornography that my server displays, it is my responsibility to remove it as soon as I become aware of it, just as it is Macy's responsibility to escort the libel-screamer off the premises. Failure to do that can confer liability onto me.

To break this consensus is to break the ability to foster human interactions on the internet that mirror how humans interact in the real world.

>The reality is that most people, EVEN technical people, don't actually understand the Internet.

Nothing gives me Gell-Mann amnesia quite like the comments that get upvoted on HN posts relevant to the particular area in which I work...

The problem is that with modern ML-based recommendation systems there is not really an "algorithm" at all.

Which is probably the reason that particular promise from Musk never actually went anywhere.

One time about a year and a half ago I Googled the correct temperature to ensure chicken has been thoroughly cooked and the highlight card at the top of the search results showed a number in big bold text that was wildly incorrect, pulled from some AI-generated spam blog about cooking.

So this sort of thing can already happen.

How exactly do you go about explaining something like "I live in another state but I'd be happy to fly in for 1-3 days a month" on a resume

(Asking for a friend)

I had both of these things. Loved CyLandia so much, nearly got addicted to that game at one point. The only problem is I never knew or even heard of a single other human being in real life who had one...

>As long as you are taking the GLP-1 inhibitor drugs you will lose or maintain weight, but as soon as you stop you will gain a lot of weight back.

Sounds like the opposite of a disaster for pharmaceutical companies.

Well, on the upside, the demand for this is so great that cheap generics shouldn't be too far away, right? And it seems like an insurance no-brainer to cover it for life, right?

If it was truly 'inevitable' it would be priced in

Yep. He said just now that Twitter is "in the fast lane to bankruptcy":

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604626103326253056

It's not obviously not doxxing to post publicly available information about the locations of aircraft. It never has been and it never will be.

I guess by thing of the past soon I don't mean ChatGPT will literally end coding challenges immediately, but whatever comes next (analogous to DALL-E 2 -> Stable Diffusion -> Midjourney 4 -> ???) probably will. For junior positions first, then mid-level...

Have you tried asking it your company's tech interview coding challenge questions yet?

I have, and I'm pretty convinced coding challenges are going to be a thing of the past soon. Either that or there will need to be extreme anti-cheating measures in place.

This comment is just silly.

So you think a job at a startup is more secure? You think a job at a smaller company is more secure?

BigTech layoffs might make news because they're Big but plenty of smaller companies will be laying off as the economy contracts, too. Also 99% of Amazon employees will be fine and the ones that are fired, at least on the corporate side, will find new jobs quickly because the rest of the industry is clamoring to hire ex-FAANG. Hard to see how working there is some huge risk.

The entire industry is shifting to WFH. I can tell because of the beeps.

I swear in 1 out of every 5 or 6 calls to a customer service line I hear an intermittent beep go off every few seconds in the background. I used to think it was a call center thing. But then I realized it was a smoke alarm beep.

Not only is every customer service rep working from home now, but for some reason they'd rather deal with beeping than change their smoke alarm batteries.

Okay, let's take a look at the context where the multiocular o was used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O

I see that near it, there is an ef (Ф) with a very tall stem.

Why should that not be included as a standard unicode character? Surely it is used more often than the multiocular o.

You may say "it's a decorative flourish", which is of course true, but so is the multiocular o. Should we allow every conceivable decorative flourish into unicode? What is the standard for where flourishes become distinct characters?

Sure it's possible, but there should be a higher bar than "it's possible it's used more than once" for meriting inclusion in the standard keyboard of billions of devices worldwide.

You are conflating backward-looking inflation (money has gotten 10 percent less valuable over the past year) with forward-looking inflation (we should lend at 12 percent interest because we expect money to get 10 percent less valuable over the next year). The former doesn't guarantee the latter; the latter is unlikely and gets unlikelier the more interest rates ratchet upward. That's why they are incremented - at a certain point inflation will inevitably reverse, and that point is likely below 12%, so going to 12% would unnecessarily knife the economy.

Honestly it probably deserves the Pluto treatment: decertification as a character. One historical use in the 1400s doesn't merit a character and never did.

Well, there are two classes of criminal.

The petty crimes are committed by a small but very vocal minority of homeless people who are severely mentally ill and/or severely addicted to meth/opiates. They can afford to live here because everyone has apparently decided the most humane thing to do is to look the other way while they struggle, freeze, and eventually overdose and die on the street.

The larger-scale thefts are committed by organized crime operations that essentially operate a business of stealing and reselling stuff because of notoriously lax law enforcement. Think the opening scene of Requiem for a Dream, except an entire crew doing that, over and over and over. They make a lot of money doing this -- and drive up the cost of basic essentials for other working class people who have to buy what they resell because they clear drugstores out. They make enough to live comfortably, despite the high cost of living, apparently.

Some of these charts are atrocious chart crimes.

This one is particularly bad: https://i.imgur.com/hfHmvhP.png

This entire line of argument over whether we are in a technical recession is pointless and dumb. We are in a uniquely weird economic situation that is clearly bad but less bad than a typical recession, and it would be improved if inflation fell.

Since the baseline fear level was "inflation will keep going up and the Fed will keep raising rates, sending us deeper into a recession in the process", this seems extremely encouraging. If inflation has peaked and is starting to fall, we will get out of this much less painfully than prior recessions.

>Humans would be "gluing things together" in just the same way

I'm often struck by how stark this is in ancient fantasy art. The 'monsters' are usually just different animal parts remixed -- the head of one on the body of another, things like that. Fundamentally, we're all doing DALL-E-ish hybridization when we're being creative; it's very difficult to imagine things that are truly alien such that they're outside the bounds of our 'training data'.