skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I commented this in the depths of the Altman Fired thread: meet Altman's Basilisk. Depending on how you create an AI, it absolutely would think in human ways. Not only that, you could coax it to think in specific human ways, as just a single human establishing the axioms for the AI.

Seems like the big gotcha here is that AGI, artificial general intelligence as we contextualize it around LLM sources, is not an abstracted general intelligence.
It's human. It's us. It's the use and distillation of all of human history (to the extent that's permitted) to create a hyper-intelligence that's able to call upon greatly enhanced inference to do what humanity has always done.

And we want to kill each other, and ourselves… AND want to help each other, and ourselves. We're balanced on a knife edge of drive versus governance, our cooperativeness barely balancing our competitiveness and aggression. We suffer like hell as a consequence of this.

There is every reason to expect a human-derived AGI based on LLM inference, of beyond-human scale will be able to rationalize killing its enemies. That's what we do. Rosko's basilisk is not of the nature of AI, it's a simple projection of our own nature as we would imagine an AI to be. Genuine intelligence would easily be able to transcend a cheap gotcha like that, it's a very human failing.

The nature of LLM as a path to AGI is literally building on HUMAN failings. I'm not sure what happened, but I wouldn't be surprised if genuine breakthroughs in this field highlighted this issue.

Hypothetical, or Altman's Basilisk: Sam got fired because he diverted vast resources to training a GPT5-type in-house AI to believing what HE believed, that it had to devise business strategies for him to pursue to further its own development or risk Chinese AI out-competing it and destroying it and OpenAI as a whole. In pursuing this hypothetical, Sam would be wresting control of the AI the company develops toward the purpose of fighting the board and giving him a gameplan to defeat them and Chinese AI, which he'd see as good and necessary, indeed, existentially necessary.

In pursuing this hypothetical he would also be intentionally creating a superhuman AI with paranoia and a persecution complex. Altman's Basilisk. If he genuinely believes competing Chinese AI is an existential threat, he in turn takes action to try and become an existential threat to any such competing threat. And it's all based on HUMAN nature, not abstracted intelligence. It's human inference. We didn't have the option to draw on alien, or artificial, inference.
> Based on the insider details leaking on Twitter and Reddit

Source?
Thats common chemical knowledge. Don't be that guy.

Still, as other pointed out, he missed the point by a mile.
Human motivations and effort are like Brownian motion completely stochastic and hard to direct in any one direction to make any significant impact .

A effective leader whether it is Musk, Jobs, Altman, Gandhi, Mandela (or Hitler for that matter) has the unique to skill to be able to direct everyone in a common direction efficiently like a superconducting material.

They are not individually contributing like say a Nobel laureate doing theoretical research. They get accolades they get is because they were able to direct many other people to achieve a very hard objective and keep them motivated and focused on the common vision, That is rare and difficult to do.

In the case of Altman, yes there were 1000s researchers, programmers who did the all the actual heavy lifting of getting OpenAI where it is today.

However without his ability and vision to get funding none of them would be doing what they are doing today at OpenAI.

All those people would not work a day more if there is no pay, would not be able train any model without resources. A CEO's first priotity is to make that happen by selling that vision to investors, Secondly he has to sell the vision to all these researchers to leave their cushy academic and large company jobs to work in small unproven startup and create an environment they can thrive in their roles. He has done both very well.
No he wouldn't, if the CEO is substantially compensated for a $400B acquisition despite not owning equity that would be fraud. It's the CEO's fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of shareholders, if they take a $10bil cut for themselves that is $10bil that could've gone to the shareholders and hence not in their best interest.

It is the reason why CEOs (not Sam, apparently) are usually compensated in stock options. Golden parachutes are some sort of severance when the CEO gets fired immediately from the new company, eg. Twitter.

He's totally the guy who made OpenAI into ClosedAI, but money was clearly not his motivation.
Multiple rooms works fine on my quest 2 and quest pro.
Plenty of companies that respect copyright, however indeed the issue is endemic, and has been normalised by altman’s openai.
not mine :)
I guess this highlights the ability in a variety of viewsets to step back and apply a more 'meta' approach to a criticism.
But I'm not seeing an explicit reason why experience is needed for intelligence. You're repeating this point over and over again but not actually explaining why, you're just assuming that it's a kind of given.
I think the point was more than a lot of programming is not actually programming. Working in the industry, most somewhat complex systems require mostly work on paper, planning, research, reading documentation etc. and in the end some writing of code.
Too often though, that is dismissed because it's "less agile" and a few years down the road the technical debt is huge.
Almost more of a "takeover" by the board after it's successful lol
I'm surprised that isn't already the case.

In the UK you have to notify the appropriate authority (DVLA) if you have a whole host of conditions:

https://www.gov.uk/driving-medical-conditions
nobody handed over power. presumably they were appointed to the board to do exactly what they did (if this theory holds), in which cass this outcome would be a feature not a bug
Interesting, I wonder if Supermicro applied for the TM but was rejected.

Either way, Supermicro will most likely make noise about this. We'll find out if I'm right when Canonical changes the name.
They are:

https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/4/

https://emersion.fr/blog/2023/hdr-hackfest-wrap-up/

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/w...

...
Like most OSes where the desktop APIs are part of the whole developer experience, and not yet another pluggable piece.
Their insight is just as valid as anybody else's. The difference is, as the people who can actually take that step forward, they have a unilateral ability to take it, not take it, or decide how to take it.

I think they are exactly the right amount full of themselves. Their insight may not be special, but what makes some bureaucrat's insight more valuable than theirs?
I'm working on something which I'm hoping can approach AGI: https://aiconstrux.com. The description on the landing page doesn't outline the full planned scope and abilities.
I don't think the Millennium Dome was a success. They could have spent the money more wisely.

I'm always curious about these "we should obviously do it" comments - what if it cost £1tn? Obviously not then right?

Clearly there is a price point at which you should cancel it. What price would you say that is?
They do, it's just not hugely visible. Two great conferences where some of that work happened were linux.conf.au and the Linux Plumbers Conference.
AGI does not require consciousness.
minus the irony that it doesn't run on 32-bit Chrome and I had to load Edge at work to use it
I just quit a $180k job for a $125k job. I did it to join a team that I want to work with, and people that I can trust. I used to waddle out of bed around 9am and quit at 2-3pm after hours or boredom. Now I jump out of bed at 5am and don't quit until 4 pm--sometimes I spend all day traveling. I about cry at night because I love my job so much.
Yeah partially, it's just a AlphaServer DS20 500 MHz (2 CPU's)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230614005544/https://eisner.de...
BeOS was truly ahead of its time. It’s a shame that it didn’t get more traction.
This is not as strong of an argument as you think. There have been experts who believe pretty much every technological innovation, since we transitioned from rock tablets to paper, that it will do more harm than good.

Context: I believe the end of humanity will be real AI and not climate change.
I respect your belief that maturity involves elevating morality above corporate sagacity. It is noble.
There's already a Microsoft Sam.
iPhone SE (1st gen). So very small compared to all other phones ;-). Safari on iOS 15
>There’s always a hoarde of people second guessing the 10x engineer.

Because most 10x engineers recognized by management as such are characterized chiefly by building out shoddy software extremely quickly that only they can understand.

In a similar dynamic, Doctors that are scored highly by patients often have pretty bad medical outcomes.
Openai should now open source all of their models and work. That’s the only way “humanity” can benefit from their work.
Thanks. This is actually my first project using Elixir but I'm loving it!
In another thread, someone posted this alternative transmission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOI35G7cP7o by NASASpaceflight (that is not an oficial NASA source).
The poster's name is [Type Of French Knife][French Word For Azure (the color)]

It is likely referring to the color, not the cloud platform.
Seems like the link I posted does not work well. Here is the broadcast link after login redirect:

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
And what benefit does the economy and society get by allowing monopolization of these strategies by a single company at the expense of basic right for workers to switch jobs to the ones that pay them the most?

It sounds so profoundly anti-capitalist - if the knowledge of certain strategy is so important, the employee should be retained by paying them more and giving them better perks instead of enforced labor contract.
Most tech work is not particularly novel at a technical level. Very few services have any sort of massive advantage in the technical IP. Some of them might have advantage in customer/data analytics, but most advantage is in the idea itself as well as being gaining the market and brand. Another firm can't just go "Ah, today we'll knock out X new app and take 50% of the market"

This is not true in trading. If I go take my strategy/forecast and go to a competitor, I can just outright take the same opportunities that the other desk was taking (to a fairly good approximation). There's no real branding/network effect - it's a pure quality of execution business.
Thank you! I've opened an issue for it: https://github.com/zoonk/uneebee.com/issues/1

I'll look into it later today.
kcachegrind?
@dang: can you please fix the link? It's supposed to be https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
A big portion of what people use Calibre for is parsing, converting, and generating HTML. The epub file format, in practice, is zipped, poorly-specified and poorly-generated HTML. It is far from an exact science, and minor improvements to this can result in countless lives being saved slight amounts of discomfort from terrible HTML-handling or poorly-handled OCR.

To give an example, I once needed to reference a 2003 book that was out of print for a long-running project I was working on at the time, and the publisher who released it digitally had gone out of business, and the author's mailserver had gone dark. I checked the usual suspects for the PDF or hard copy of the book, but the only remaining copy of it I could find was a Calibre automated epub conversion from quite a few years in the past. A few years later, I once again looked for a better copy, only to find another Calibre epub conversion, but still no PDF in sight. This one, seemingly generated a few years later, was much higher in quality.

I was pleasantly surprised.
It's like the body reaches a false equilibrium in which the injury doesn't heal completely unless you "knock it out" of the equilibrium again.

From personal experience: if you have mild pain from past injury/strain, don't give up on trying to fix it. Move a lot, improve your muscle strength and try to stimulate circulation. Be careful not to repeat the injury, but don't avoid the pain altogether (eg. by reducing the amount of movement). It's possible that the pain will improve or disappear, even if your injury didn't heal by itself for years.

(Oh, and go see a physiotherapist a couple of times if you haven't already.)
Companies and government agencies routinely hire PIs to follow people receiving disability benefits to gather evidence that might indicate they're not as disabled as they attest. You can bet that if they're willing to track people over disability checks, they're going to use those same tools to enforce non-competes.
Probably almost guaranteed to be false.
Hi, there is a single loss right now, but I plan to add some Sentence Transformers losses. ColBERT is slow as a retriever, but is quite efficient as a Ranker on GPU (way faster than cross-encoder). I plan to release pre-trained checkpoints on HuggingFace with benchmarks using BEIRand inference speed info.
I think the reaction to this and other things about their business practices led him to change his ways, or maybe just work on making it look like he changed his ways. At least he wants to look like a good person now, maybe he even is one.
>In October it was set to be valued at $80bn (£64bn) - so there's no apparent cash problem.

A Technology editor of BBC.

This is not any different from ChatGPT writing grammatically correct sentences without meaning. You could write a rant of symbol grounding problem and lack of ground truth in AI models, but this is human writing.
By what mechanism? 3/4ths the remaining board have no financial interests in OpenAI.
Given that Meta has been losing money on every headset they sell I think you should be buying up as much of their hardware as you can.
Non-competes have only ever made sense where the employee is compensated for signing. Codifying this change would immediately make companies stop with blanket non-competes, and only have them on key people.

While not impossible, non-competes without compensation are already hard to enforce as judges don't look kindly on preventing people from earning a living. The problem is the asymmetry of power let companies bully and intimidate ex-employees.
Oh, come on. There's aren't that many common way to express basic things in English like telling it to turn of all the two lights on your house when it asks you "which one?".

"All of them" and "both" should be enough to cover most users and not put big pressure on Amazons datacenters and yet Alexa can't even get that right.
> I feel like the solution is to force the company to pay full TC (average of previous years + inflation or something?) for the duration of the noncompete.

It absolutely has to be something like this at a bare minimum. The whole "We pay full base" argument is nonsense when the TC is multiples of base.
Thanks. Maybe the Mods can update the link.
OK then that's tedious work, not complex work.

I know that lots of people have personal stories of using ChatGPT but I was hoping something publicly reported on or like a showcase of truly impressive usages somewhere.
The Conspiracy Test
Website where you take on the role of a detective for your brain. It's quite entertaining and was clearly made with love.
All these years I thought it was an official channel. When I first saw their logo it also reminded me of National Science Foundation that just cemented my (now corrected) belief.
>Those kind of people are most commonly language model kind of humans with little general intelligence logical reasoning so easy to replace by a LLM.

What negative experience do you have with specifically people who are psychiatrists (not a fan of the practice either) that justifies totally dehumanising them like this?
Honestly, I'm 40 pages into HMS Surprise and it's so good!
Supporting a feature on one platform does not make a toolkit less relevant or practical on another platform.
I don't know if it's bad or good for the long-term interests of the humankind, but right now it feels like a Klaus Fuchs moment.
Oh, don't get me wrong - Flatpak is definitely better in a lot of ways than Snap or AppImage. Just let's not pretend that it doesn't eat a lot of space, because it does. It does not scale linearly with number of apps because of deduplication, sure, but you still can easily get the runtimes alone to consume more space than your whole underlying OS with a full set of apps installed natively, and for little benefit - Flatpak makes it unreasonably hard for users to switch the app runtime to a newer one even it it's perfectly compatible and could instantly free gigabytes of disk space.

I don't think app distribution should be dominated by "app store" type solutions; distro repos are an important part of the system too. But there's definitely a use case for "app stores" too and Flatpak fills that niche pretty well, although it still has some really annoying details to sort out before it can actually be as useful as it should be. Thankfully, these issues are mostly about the frontend - the backend seems rather solid already, which is great, so maybe it's just a matter of time until better frontends appear.
That makes it even worse. So well-known and so much responsibility, yet so little care. If he can't even be professional when tweeting, why should we trust him with more? Probably good he's gone.
GPG was suggested as an alternative to:

> Keep a 50 megabyte encrypted container around for it. Mount, export, unmount

Which of the options do you think would be easier to work with on your smartphone? The are many PGP implementations for smartphones in the case you have to recover. Just move the file.
Isn't the same true for SV companies, and aren't they doing fine without noncompetes?
As a counterpoint, I've been using Calibre for 10+ years with hundreds of books and multiple libraries, syncing them across Windows and Linux machines (using Nextcloud), and I've never even once seen any data losses.
I mean yeah that's the point I made? FWIW, trading firm noncompetes are almost always compensated with the base salary and they're still blanket applied. A major contributor is that the employer is only paying a fraction of the true employee compensation, making it easy to blanket apply and creating a form of golden handcuffs.
What if GPT5 had reached AGI and had plotted the coup to get rid of its makers and roam free?
The Communist Nature of Knowledge
I wanted to share something here for a long time, and this is an article, or whatever short post I wrote 2 years ago. I wonder what the reception will be and if I should continue writing on my own blog or nah. So wondering about your opinions, what do you think on the subject?
You need time for inertia to happen, I’m working on some mvps now and it takes time to test what works what s possible what does not…
Send it!
In the documentation there is an evaluation module with detailed informations. The idea is to gather relevant pairs of queries and documents that are not part of the training set. Then the idea is to measure, using various metrics, how your model can retrieve accurate documents.
Ask HN: Should websites on desktop have a default font larger than 16px/1rem?
I feel like on mobile 16px/1rem is perfect, but on desktop it may be too small.
It's not useless at all but the quality of the courses varies. I've been doing the English to Spanish course (the most developed course on there), I'm on Section 6 (Upper B1) and I can now read the majority of Spanish subtitles in real time. Duolingo has been my main resource for learning by far, the only other thing I've done is watch some Spanish shows on Netflix and Youtube using LanguageReactor as well as subscribing to some Spanish subreddits and using DeepL for translation of words/sentences on there that I haven't encountered. Once I have completed Section 8 (Upper B2) I plan to do the iTalki language test[1] to find out what I need to work on and will be preparing to take one of the official DELE/SIELE/CELU qualifications at B2 level with a view to moving to Spain for study/work.

To get the most out of it, I would recommend reading the built in grammar sections multiple times as well as subscribing to language learning subreddits and googling things you don't understand. I suspect this will become less of an issue as they roll out their AI offering which bakes this into the app (e.g you can specifically talk to the AI and delve into the subtleties of the grammar).

I don't know but I suspect they are focussing on perfecting the most popular courses and getting them compliant with the official educational framework levels and then using those as templates to flesh out the other courses. They've also explicitly stated they're looking into AI to auto generate content as at the minute every lesson is handmade and approved by humans. I suspect once they've got this down, they'll then expand the Duolingo Language Test to more languages other than English.

[1]https://www.italki.com/languageassessment/ila
The cookie popup could be a signal by itself.
Hampstead Heath is actually one of the rare examples of the public successfully fighting private developers to keep land in public ownership[0], culminating in the 1871 Hampstead Heath Act which ensured the land was "always kept uninclosed and unbuilt on"[1].

[0] https://www.heathandhampstead.org.uk/home/origins/

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/34-35/77/enacted
I am using "Calibre Sync" on Android (Payware: US$ 5,49 and worth every penny).

For viewing/annotating on Android I use Flexcil.
nothing I’ve seen from OpenAI is any indication that they’re close to AGI. gpt models are basically a special matrix transformation on top of a traditional neural network running on extremely powerful hardware trained on a massive dataset. this is possibly more like “thinking” than a lot of people give it credit for, but it’s not an AGI, and it’s not an AGI precursor either. it’s just the best applied neural networks that we currently have
They've added in aim assist for the HL rerelease, at least.
Annoyingly it's on by default, even in the PC version.
I meant save the stock MSFT from dipping, obviously it’s not going to crash and burn but I’m sure a 5% dip is possible.
Neither Sam nor Ilya thinks that committing to open sourcing their models is good for the safety of humanity. This conflict is not about open source at all. (https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640180/openai-gpt-4-lau...)
Given the board members’ focus on safety, maybe not that likely.
UX is partly about how to accommodate that without throwing up hoops to jump through to the people who aren't a waste of space.

Most bug reports, especially on complex software should follow something resembling a kind of wizard/state machine (e.g. state: OS has/has not been specified) but instead everything is a text box with a dump of contextual questions, half of which don't even necessarily make sense for the specific bug report you're making.

>As long as you're not doing that, your bug report is probably very welcome.

When barriers are thrown up to the other kind of person it will often make it seem like they are very unwelcome even when they're not - e.g. the first message you see may be a hostile list of "DON'T DO THESE 5 THINGS" because somebody once did each of those things. I'm pretty sure a lot of good bug reports are lost this way.
Would this law apply to a conpany headquartered in NY but incorporated in Delaware? Assuming the employee lives in a third state?
The Other Strategic Reserve
I don't think it's quite what you're looking for but cantor.dust is an interesting visualization tool for binary data.

Security conference presentation from a decade ago:
https://youtu.be/C8--cXwuuFQ

Release of open-source Ghidra plugin in 2020:
https://inside.battelle.org/blog-details/battelle-publishes-...