skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons OpenAI released ChatGPT when they did was to do the opposite of this, per Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI.

source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/on-with-kara-swisher...

Swisher: One of the excuses that tech always uses is you don’t understand it, we need to keep it in the back room. It’s often about competition.

Altman: Well, for us it’s the opposite. I mean, what we’ve said all along — and this is different than what most other AGI efforts have thought — is everybody needs to know about this. AGI should not be built in a secret lab with only the people who are privileged and smart enough to understand it. Part of the reason that we deploy this is, I think, we need the input of the world, and the world needs familiarity with what is in the process of happening, the ability to weigh in, to shape this together. We want that. We need that input, and people deserve it. So I think we’re not the secretive company. We’re quite the opposite. We put the most advanced AI in the world in an API that anybody can use. I don’t think that if we hadn’t started doing that a few years ago, Google or anybody else would be doing it now. They would just be using it secretly to make Google search better.
Depends what you mean by "easier to solve." It's certainly not easier than not solving the externalities of fossil fuels, which is what we're currently doing. If we somehow mandated that fossil fuel externalities were solved (internalized), then perhaps we would find that solving the externalities of alternative energy sources would indeed by easier/cheaper.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2020s_mass_shootings_...
Nah, that’s a false equivalency because you’re equating “some corruption exists” like in the US to ~99% corruption as it exists in China w.r.t how it seems you are defining corruption in the mainstream press.

Because unlike China there exists enough of a free press, from institutions down to individual bloggers and professors, who can jump on the Internet and write almost anything without repercussion and if they write something very good or very important it’ll be spread.
> We lost control because of cryptography and enforced signature verification.

Yes, the term for this is "tivoization." It is a large part of why the GPLv3 exists.

> Just because software is licensed as open source doesn't mean it allows for third-party firmware modification.

Yep, "open source" and many copyleft licenses are insufficient for this job.
Definitely a right-smiley.

Ponders: I wonder if that's because we read left-to-right. How would a right-to-left reader like an Israeli or Arab see the difference between a left-smiley and a right smiley? I would surmise that a right-to-left reader would prefer a left-smiley.
> In fact, the disproportionately wealthy and invested in AI crowd pushing agency-based doom scenarios that the media pays the most attention to are using their visibility and economic clout to distract from the non-agency-dependent AI doom concerns, and to justify narrow control and opacity which makes the non-agency-based doom scenarios (which they are positioned to benefit from) more likely.

It's extremely important to think about how to spread AI equitably, but I think you're severely underestimating what "agency-based doom" looks like. You absolutely need both checks on the people who are developing AI as well as AI itself, but you really really need both and can't assume that the former automatically leads to the latter.
No one is saying that we think you should support someone else's lifestyle. We are saying that if all currency went up in purchasing power all the time, that the problem of people doing nothing would be worse than it is today.

What you are talking about is something different, some sort of work police or something that forces everyone to work the same amount or something like that.
Hello ChatGPT, good to have you!
You go there to make connections for the rest of your life - that's still in high demand.
> The stem cells come from the bone marrow of healthy adult donors and are then multiplied in the lab using a proprietary method.

Perhaps misguided but isn't there a scientifically proven way to increase production of our stem cells?

I thought fasting does this to a degree.
Actual privacy and security laws aren't passed because this is not a sufficiently bipartisan issue to get enough votes.

One party is largely in favor of stronger privacy laws, but with enough dissenters that when that party is the majority party they still would need help from the other party.

The other party is largely against stronger privacy laws, without enough dissenters to overcome the more pro-privacy party dissenters when the more pro-privacy party has the majority.

So nothing passes.
This is a very well done app. Only thing I am wondering is the privacy aspect of things and whether user information is collected during use. I checked network activity and it looks like it's phoning into openAI's API directly (I chose the API route instead of chatGPT mode) as well as "simplejsoncms.com".
I wrote a piece on my professional blog last week about the imminent death of most UI based software, and it's funny to see this releasing today to further my argument.

And as I commented elsewhere: yes, UI elements make sense sometimes. But it makes sense for an AI to dynamically make these for us when needed instead of relying on the software's own implementation that may suck or have dark patterns or force workflows I don't want to deal with
Is not just cars. Consider the disposable vaping pen. Those things need to be banned.
I'm betting many of the policymakers understand as much about EVs, the power grid, and global supply chains, as they do about TikTok.
So all the copyrighted stuff they trained it on is fair game, but the weights are not? This is legally uncharted territory I think.

How much work would it be to create a "transformative" work from the llama weights, so that facebook has no claim?
Ok Dude.
only with api and only if you're invited to one.
That just means someone used namecheap to register it. It doesn’t mean Namecheap the company bought it.
One option: be extremely open to them doing something else at the company. Most people would have to drop acid to hit this level openness. “Put him in marketing? But he’s a software engineer!” Well, apparently he’s not, or least not the kind you want. And don’t half ass it and have them split time or do the old role on the new team. The easiest way would be to look down a list of open jobs and seriously consider them for like 30 seconds each. It’ll be a brutal 10 minutes of focus, but only 10 minutes.

I’ve almost never seen this job switch in a company work, but I’ve almost never seen it attempted. I have seen it work many times between companies. Everyone who switches careers does it.

I think there’s a hang up around “incompetence”. Maybe it’s something inherent to the person, but you don’t have much evidence for that. The evidence is the person/job pair. So, switch up the job if the person seems good.

Sometimes when I’ve struggled with a role that doesn’t feel right and I start blaming myself I think “Not everyone can do this. What if some super smart, healthy, well adjusted person was in this role but was this bad at it. What would he do?” I imagine some baseball player, marketing genius, or renowned writer and that he ended up in this job instead of that one. I guess he’d leave? I’ve actually struggled to come up with an answer but it feels important.
It will be a large problem 20 years later ... in 2043
But there is already companies that do it now, used batteries are basically very high grade ore, well worth to recycle.
But there is also a good change that we will have better chemistry in the next 20 years.

I think it’s a net positive, with for sure some challenges along the way, meanwhile gas cars still work and will for a long time.
> As a Russian student studying in Paris, it was a terrifying realization that the mayor can, apparently, prohibit any and all mass protests by simply issuing a decree, no higher authority needed. (This was in 2018 IIRC.) This is apparently part of the anti-terrorist law or something? I dunno, and nobody seemed to care except for the participants of the protests that were happening at the time.

That's because the governments actively work to and encourage the fracturing of their population and cultures and the breakdown of trust in society. If you hate or fear your neighbor, you will be okay with the state trampling their rights.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027 is the paper and it includes 95.16 GiB from GitHub.
I wonder if when you train a model based on the weights of another model, do the owners of the original model have any sort of copyright claim? They trained it on data on which they had no copyright claim either, fwiw.
Given recent guidance from the US Copyright Office, I doubt there are real copyright issues or enforceable restrictions on commercial use.

I would say that someone trying to sell the original model would be the only case that could have a real challenge, and even then its not that clear cut to me.

Everyone else using these fine tuned models, I don't think there is a case. Everyone's making non-copyrightable scaffolding. Read the recent USCO guidance.

You can monetize and sell things that have no copyright protection, you just can't prevent others from doing it too. aside from trying to make it inconvenient with the packaging.
this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMMYVu6vdE
I think the point of these honeypot operations is that you wouldn’t know about them.
Looks like they’re redirecting it on old.reddit.com now as well
I didn’t, I was asking a question.
One too many TypeError at runtime. I became increasingly annoyed that nothing was catching my silly typos or other mistakes. These days there are some really good python static checkers available, but I'm not sure I really knew about them half a decade ago when I started to move away from Python
It's as interactive as that key press or mouse click you implemented in your reply. NeRFs are an intermediary step. So is motion capture and physical simulation, which we already know how to do. Folks on this side of the uncanny valley will nitpick everything rendered while everyone else is on the other side talking about the photorealism being generated.
I don't think I'll be buying an EV for at least another 10-15 years. I usually buy used and considering the best is yet to come with EVs and it will likely be in someone's hands for a few years before it's thrown on a lot for something I'd be willing to pay I'm just not seeing one for me in the near future. I'm also not looking forward to a future where buying a used car entails having to sign up for a monthly butt heater subscription.
Yeah I share these concerns as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305791).

My hope is that some countries will see this as an opportunity to expand their safety nets and reduce the work burden on their citizens, which might convince citizens of countries that don't to demand similar policies.
Not Op but once I experienced Go I started writing less Python by choice. Then TypeScript and hopefully soon more Rust.

Typed Python 3 is just awkward enough to not make me enjoy it on small scripts and not accurate enough (yet) to be confident in it on large projects.

I don't use numpy & friends so Python doesn't offer me much any more compared to newer typed languages once I go beyond a simple script.
It was a very short and specific list of devices to get 4K. There is no HD version (or at least HBO didn't seem to have it), and for some reason they don't just scale it down if you don't meet the requirements.
I just realized this has been mysterious to me forever. Why is software on phones so bad?
Is that like a pat down search at the supermarket??
I ride a bicycle with a hub gear as my main form of transport. About two years ago, I noticed the sprocket (rear cog) was getting very worn, so I removed it so I could reverse it and let it wear on the other side of the teeth (standard procedure for this sprocket to extend the wear life). But I accidentally put it back the same way as before and didn't notice until recently when I changed the hub oil. I had no problems with the chain skipping, despite the heavy sprocket wear (although it's now worn to the point that I no longer feel comfortable letting it wear on the other side of the teeth, so I'll have to buy a new sprocket). But you are correct that the chain wears more than the sprocket; I've already replaced the chain a few times.
> he’s just closing down one of the “public squares” then saying “of course you can talk on these other less popular public squares

Let’s be real. Nobody is closing anything down. This is a bizarre game of brinksmanship between D.C. and Beijing that ends in one place: divestiture. The only reason it’s getting so much attention is because the object of concern is a social media property, not e.g. a port asset or power plant.
And I think we can all agree technical progress under the copyright system is moving much slower than it did back in da vinci's day....

If only we didn't have patents holding us back we would be investing way more in R&D...
It's hard to overestimate how extremely Rust is optimized towards making refactors as easy as possible. This often means a greater cost for initially writing some code, but once that code exists, it's way easier to search around in that code and also way easier to refactor it. Often times, being written is only the start of some piece of code's journey through the years and decades until it is finally deleted.
This is exactly why I don't follow college sports. In my honest opinion sports is an important aspect of life but the place for it is not in academia (whether used for marketing or not). It really devalues and even humiliates the academic institutions and their research if all you know about them is that they've got a good sports team.
any developer developing for windows is on windows

most game developers are on windows

whole tech sectors have been captured successful by Microsoft in the past and most developers there have to use Windows weather they like it or not, some of them are _really_ big (but also not super vocal or visible on GitHub as they tend to be quite proprietary in all of their actions).

etc. etc.

Idk. how realistic 75% is (e.g. what it counts as developer who/how people where asked etc.) but it's probably a high rate anyway.

EDIT: Also also probably using one doesn't exclude the other and doesn't necessary exclude them running it in a VM ;=)
Outside is boring and, compared to pc gaming, expensive. You have to drive to get anywhere interesting (expensive), there are parking and entrance and camping fees, tourists, and the view is mostly the same as the last twelve times.

Sports leagues are expensive, time consuming, and prone to serious injuries you’ll be feeling for decades (and expensive too).

And then there’s the short and long term costs associated with long term exposure to the sun.

Granted, I’m cherry picking negatives. But by that same token, so is equivocating PC gaming with Candy Crush.

No regrets.
Transportation accounts for over one third of CO2 emissions in the U.S., and decarbonization of electricity generation, which is another third, is already well underway. It makes perfect sense why we talk a lot about decarbonization of transportation in the United States.
> Do you trust your bios? Your usb stack? Your network card firmware?

Sure, because I have the complete source code for all three of those things:

https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
You advertise something and don't deliver you are fair game open source or not. This is the opposite of an unwanted pr request this is a baiting and collecting email addresses but no product.
This is a refreshingly honest core value. To me, 本分 is better translated as "know your place". I.e. don't be ambitious, don't step out of line and always do exactly what the boss tells you to do, never a stroke more.
You might be (not) pleased to know that Windows 10 and Windows 11 both identify internally as NT 10.0.
Right, but proximate cause vs. ultimate cause is in play here. Without kids, would these problems exist?

Maybe, but I’m arguing we should discuss the possibility that choosing to have kids are the ultimate cause of OPs issues.
> disabled and neutralized Intel ME

Pinky swear.
I do not like the typical conservative line of "there isn't one size that fits everywhere, which is why the [government one size larger than we can control with money and connections] should not create mandates"

However, having moved from Philadelphia to rural New Mexico 4 years ago, I have to admit that I can see the point. E-bikes and mass transit are not effective solutions for the rural west. Doesn't mean they are not great ideas, but you're not going to solve transportation in the rural west with that sort of thing. In metro areas though, absolutely.
It's striking how on AGI, the common opinion here on HN is the complete opposite to the one in the AI alignment field. There, people are angry with OpenAI for being too open, here people are angry with it not being open enough. For example, Eliezer Yudkowsky:

> Ryan: OpenAI [...] It's kind of a completely open-source AI project?

> Eliezer: That was the original suicidal vision, yes. But...

> Ryan: And now they're bent on commercializing the technology, is that right?

> Eliezer: That's an improvement, but not enough of one, because they're still generating lots of noise and hype and directing more resources into the field, and storming ahead with the safety that they have instead of the safety that they need, and setting bad examples.

> [...] I would change the name to "ClosedAI". Because right now, they're making it look like being "closed" is hypocrisy. They're, like, being "closed" while keeping the name "OpenAI", and that itself makes it looks like closure is like not this thing that you do cooperatively so that humanity will not die, but instead this sleazy profit-making thing that you do while keeping the name “OpenAI”.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/e4pYaNt89mottpkWZ/yudkowsky-...
Python doesnt really scale to large code bases, and refactoring is very hard.
> Then TypeScript

Have you done any backend TS? I'm curious what the best practice there is, these days.
I’ve literally never seen this on any of the Windows machines in my household.
Intel’s workstation/HEDT offerings have been extremely overpriced and overall baffling. They used to sell an “X-series” Core processor and I have no idea what the intended user was. They didn’t support ECC memory either lol
Yup, GPLv3 specifically requires manufacturers to provide any signing keys needed to get code to run:

> “Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods, procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User Product from a modified version of its Corresponding Source. The information must suffice to ensure that the continued functioning of the modified object code is in no case prevented or interfered with solely because modification has been made.

> If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with, or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction is characterized), the Corresponding Source conveyed under this section must be accompanied by the Installation Information. But this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party retains the ability to install modified object code on the User Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM).

(https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GiveUpKeys clarifies that this applies to cryptographic keys.)
Does anyone know of any good test suites we can use to benchmark these local models? It would be really interesting to compare all the ones capable of running on consumer hardware so that users can easily choose the best ones to use. Currently, I'm a bit unsure how this compares to the Alpaca model released a few weeks ago.
When I think about AI through an optimistic lens, I still think pausing to get a better handle on what's going on and how to evaluate it still seems like a useful step. GPT4 represents a substantial increase of capabilities we still don't fully understand.

I don't think it's a crazy luddite position to think "let's actually see how this initial experiment plays out" before racing ahead to the next even large blackbox advance.
What is the Magic Circle? (2020)
The viral jump from animals to humans is a common mechanism in many of the worst pandemics, with covid-19 and hiv being prime recent examples. There's some evidence "the spanish flu" of 1918 came from swine.

If I were working on the problem "how can we reduce the frequency new very dangerous viruses are introduced" I would pay attention to this aspect.
> sfc /scannow or reinstall your OS is a common answer

Microsoft outsourced the support to some chinese guys who are the masters of /dev/null'ing any support request they have. It's always to reboot your machine and sfc /scannow, but of course, it never works.

The classiest part of the act is that the same support guys mark their own "answers" with big green check marks to signify their "importance". I think this helps them to meet the corporate metrics. The whole Windows support thing is a total joke since 2008.
OLED producer JOLED files for bankruptcy
I wish it was more convincing.

As it stands, it says more about the author's egoistic view of humanity than of AI. Imagine for a second taking Feuerbach's The Essence of Religion and applying it to Descartes' rationality and Plato's nous. We'd get a critique of the rational human's construction of his own ideal - the essence of intellect.

AI threatens this ideal and ego-threats get sublimated into existential threats by those unable to understand themselves well enough to express themselves directly.
One would say it was ill-thought.

Remote working is reducing the need for having any car, and its utilization. People who are eco-conscious may rather choose to refurb an old car they use sparingly rather than buy a few new tons of common and rare metals. And most cities in europe are ill-suited for cars that need regular charging. All this infrastructure was for 26% of CO2 (before remote work).
You're right too. Microsoft tools have enabled me to make a lot of money over the course of my career, but they're seriously neglecting quality of life features, and they're buggering Windows for developers.

On the side, I've even learned to like kale on pizza. The Kale-Zer Soze at Central Pizza in Seattle is outstanding.
Beware the incompetent, their powers are hidden, and you can't imagine what they will do to survive.

Source: decade+ consulting in govt.
Shorter a16z: "the future of payments is tricking people into giving up their chargeback rights for a 2% discount"
Whereas bribery in America is legal and expected, so no charges will be made on that front