skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct. Personal archival is protected under fair use. [1]

1. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/28/2021-23...
Here's hoping that someday you aren't so tired that you're mentally out of it and someone doesn't have to force you to not cross the street while cars are driving.
This is literally an implementation detail, the API part is a single flag you can set if you want your subsurface to potentially make use of this future.
I don’t know about you, but I’m capable of lovingthe Jewish people and the Palestinian people at the same time.
Small discussion on a related article (Iliad translation) 3 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38077315
Delivering large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value
Pretty sure they used Raptor V2 which simplifies from V1; Raptor V3 I believe is simpler still, but that's still being tested at the SpaceX MacGregor TX facility.
I hope they go back to being Open now that Altman is gone. It seems Ilya wants it to 'benefit all of humanity' again.
> "It’s like what happens to a room during a game of “I Spy”: if your friend spies something red, the red stuff glows."

The only I Spy I know is "I spy with my little eye something beginning with...". Is there another common version where people describe the appearance of the thing instead of the spelling of the name?
The first time I can across PIR was via the 2014 blog post from Signal on how Private Contact Discovery was a hard problem and how it required PIR to be solved. https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/

Maybe this will help Signal get to a viable solution in a few years.
Correct (as long as you don't distribute it), but not all content is available on DVDs, and many things come to DVDs much later than they are available elsewhere.

That said, there is a _less legal_ solution to those problems...
Sorry but the board firing the person who works for them is not a “coup”.
The best “statistic” you could compute to predict the next token would be the meaning of the prompt. A predictor computing meaning would outperform one that is not.
Probably dang's whole weekend as well.
"Your" bank account? Only so long as you don't step out of line or say the wrong thing. Access to "your" money is a privilege granted by the state and large corporations you are awarded only so long as you are making money for they system. What you seem to be upset about is EXACTLY the system we have now.

Roughly, state backed currencies seem to inflate by about an order of magnitude each generation, a nickle 40 years ago will buy what $.50 buys today. When I was a kid, soda was $0.25, now $2.50 for a bottle of pop is not uncommon, state money does expire and whats in your bank account can be taken away anytime.

Thank god we've had a solution to this problem for over a decade now but it might take another decade still for normal average people to catch on, I'm still surprised the HN crowd is so far behind in this regard :(
You don't even have to love any of them. Just have a bit of compassion.
And with going off the gold standard, it came to pass. Right?

Even his percentage of cost to hoarding money is in the ballpark of current inflation.

This was written in a time before inflation, where hoarding cash was not stupid. Today it is. We don't need the incentive to increase the velocity of money.

Well, I say that, but too many people just have their savings in a cash account. Sometimes not even a saving account, but an account with no interest at all.

But then again that just means that the bank invests it in one way or another.

Short of physical cash, there's not really any way to keep money being "unused".
It's worth bearing in mind that some of these runtime panics would have happened anyway even if the code had been implemented in (e.g.) Rust. Ugly real world code tends to make quite frequent use of unwrap() or equivalents. For example: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Arust-lang%2Frust+.unwrap%...
Because they want stock options for a for-profit company.
Who knows if it will even work for us? Parenting is the terrifying experiment where you have a very small sample size and no control group.
The argument in the article does not involve anyone reading your writing: "That’s the promise: you will live more curiously if you write. You will become a scientist, if not of the natural world than of whatever world you care about. More of that world will pop alive. You will see more when you look at it."
Why? As CEO it seems fine to talk about the impact of the technology and company.
Another example: thread A toggles an interface variable between two types, thread B calls a method on it. You can get the method of type X called with a receiver of type Y.
frankly, given the major media is in the tank for Israeli war crimes, I wouldn't care if TikTok was biased in the opposite direction, but they probably aren't. Youth are far more sympathetic to Palestine on nearly every survey.
> ignoring decades of programming language

True, and because of this, the language can be learned over a weekend or during onboarding, new hires can rapidly digest codebases and be productive for the company, code is straightforward and easy to read, libraries can be quickly forked and adapted to suit project needs, and working in large teams on the same project is a lot easier than in many other languages, the compiler is blazing fast, and it's concurrency model is probably the most convenient I have ever seen.

Or to put this in less words: Go trades "being-modern" for amazing productivity.

> It always feels like a regression when switching from rust to go.

It really does, and that's what I love about Go. Don't get me wrong I like Rust. I like what it tries to do. But I also love the simplicity, and sheer productiveness of Go. If I have to deal with the odd nil-based error here and there, I consider that a small price to pay.

And judging by the absolute success Go has (measured by contributions to Github), many many many many many developers agree with me on this.
My guess is that at least some of them are worried about shipping products and making profit, and agreed with the growth faction?
Keep in mind the Apple II was designed in 1977 by a cash-strapped college dropout from off-the-shelf parts. Fast RAM for video didn’t exist. Classic Apple multimedia parsimony was a thing, but it came later.
How important is Altman? How important were three senior scientists? Can they start their own company, raise funding, and overtake OpenAI in a few years? Or does OpenAI have some material advantage that isn’t likely to be harmed by this?

Perhaps the competition is inevitably a good thing. Or maybe a bad thing if it creates pressure to cut ethical corners.

I also wonder if the dream of an “open” org bringing this tech to life for the betterment of humanity is futile and the for-profits will eventually render them irrelevant.
The secrets to my survival remain a mystery. I return to great fanfare and a ticker tape parade.

Most of these can be overcome by using the past tense.
I'll bite. I even led the witness on this one by outright asking if it's aggressive.

> "a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."

> The provided text is not explicitly aggressive; however, it conveys a critical tone regarding the individual's communication, emphasizing hindrance to the board's responsibilities.

Did you actually run this through GPT...or did you poll Reddit?
This also reminded me of the “Aaand it’s gone” meme from South Park
https://youtu.be/jEBnrzNuUSA
> The thing we need to be concerned about pretty soon is the truly lifelike AI that is hyperspeed and hyper connected. "Thinking" X times faster than any human, instantly exchanging info with a swarm of peers.

I've gone from doomerish on AGI safety to slightly more optimistic for two reasons.

There's only so much you can do with this hyperspeed. Most intellectual progress requires interaction with the physical world, which entails time constraints on the level of humans.

The second reason is that I believe AGI will asymptote to the level of intelligence present in its corpus of training data. AGI isn't going to become much better at writing or programming than the best humans because it doesn't have examples to go off. Unlike with board games, this kind of data can't be easily generated. So AGI will hit a wall at a certain level of competence within the realm of human intelligence. After hitting that wall progress will become more incremental. Hopefully.
The thing is I'm not sure that people in general have a lot of issue with client-side fragmentation. It's more the content silos on the server side. But then people didn't like cable bundles either.
> btw is it normal for families to call appraisers?

When my mother passed away, my sister contacted a firm to handle the estate sale. They had several people who appraised things. How qualified were they? It varied. The guys who appraised the jewelry and antique furniture were spot on; but, the one who looked at all the Asian stuff seemed clueless. (Since they were getting a percentage, you'd think they'd try to be accurate.)
I notice you omitted an earlier, extremely prominently failed, Apollo mission.

Apollo 1 is highly analogous to the current testing of Starship. New spacecraft, highly ambitious, coming together for the first time.

Its conflagration was predictable, and a total waste of the life of the astronauts onboard. Only their deaths forced the whole spacecraft to be redesigned the way it should have been before any astronauts were onboard. Even afterwards, a second electrical fire nearly killed three more astronauts, far from any safety though their shiny new door.

The Space Shuttle ran much the same way. Carrying astronauts on its very first flight, people though it was safe, right up until it spectacularly killed seven astronauts. After that, it was flown much less ambitiously, and then it killed seven more people, and then we still kept flying it because it was all we had, and our bureaucracy was stuck with it.

Starship blowing up today poses no risk to human life, or to any organizational ambition. Rather, its present failures represent progress towards future success. Somebody is trying to do better than has been done in the past. If they learn all the things to not do to their rocket before valuable payloads and people fly on it, all the better.
I just hope the "AI safety" people don't end up taking LLMs out of the hands of the general public because they read too many Isaac Asimov stories...
When the single command is gpg, I’m not so sure…
If the board was really serious about doing good over making profit (if this is indeed what the whole thing is about) they'd open source gpt-4/5 with a gpl-style license
In a clash of big egos, both are often true. Practical differences escalate until personal resentment forms and the parties stop engaging with due respect for each other.

Once that happens, real and intentional slights start accumulating and de-escalation becomes extremely difficult.
"The Go monorepo is the largest codebase at Uber, comprising 90 million lines of code (and growing)"

Is this just a symptom of having a lot of engineers and they keep churning code, Golang being verbose or something else. Hard time wrapping my head around Uber needing 90+ million lines of code(!). What would be some large components of this codebase look like?
Set "User interface style" to "system default".
> And judging by the absolute success Go has (measured by contributions to Github), many many many many many developers agree with me on this.

Yeah, I truly hate this field
In Europe the entire mains grid is synchronised - the smallest deviation in fase & frequency is the same. It’s fairly straightforward to sync them with this distributed reference clock.

Edit:
https://www.mainsfrequency.com/
I definitely believe he can raise a lot of money quickly, but I'm not sure where he'll get the talent, at least the core modeling talent. That's Ilya's lane, and I get the sense that group are the true believers in the original non-profit mission.

But I suspect a lot of the hires from the last year or so, even in the eng side, are all about the money and would follow sama anywhere given what this signals for OpenAIs economic future. I'm just not sure such a company can work without the core research talent.
I agree, Hinton's point is more about next-token-prediction being a good training objective for understanding, and not whether LLMs reproduce every aspect of a human's thought processes. They clearly don't (at least not at present scale), otherwise we'd have AGI now!
Only if you hava ADHD.
Only time will tell, but if this was indeed "just" a coup then it's somewhat likely we're witnessing a variant of the Steve Jobs story all over again.

Sam is clearly one of the top product engineering leaders in the world -- few companies could ever match OpenAI's incredible product delivery over the last few years -- and he's also one of the most connected engineering leaders in the industry. He could likely have $500M-$10B+ lined up by next week to start up a new company and poach much of the talent from OpenAI.

What about OpenAI's long-term prospects? They rely heavily on money to train larger and larger models -- this is why Sam introduced the product focus in the first place. You can't get to AGI without billions and billions of dollars to burn on training and experiments. If the company goes all-in on alignment and safety concerns, they likely won't be able to compete long-term as other firms outcompete them on cash and hence on training. That could lead to the company getting fully acquired and absorbed, likely by Microsoft, or fading into a somewhat sleepy R&D team that doesn't lead the industry.
Ullage motors have to be solid - this way they don't need ullage themselves to fire - or to be fed from separate tanks - this is another reasonably complex subsystem which needs to be refueled somehow between flights. If ullage motors are solid, that needs to be re-loaded between flights. So, overall the ullage system is a certain complexity to design, build, refuel, a weight to carry in flight - clearly some drawbacks.

Hot firing simplifies things in this regard.
You're right of course. 90% of environmentalism is virtue signaling. Anyone with a strong grasp of high school science snd math can figure that out.

Easiest way to slash CO2 emissions literally overnight? Enforce speed limits, fuel consumption per trip scales (in the countryside) as v^2.

EVs? A nasty joke anyone able to grasp opportunity cost can understand.

If we really wanted to slash CO2 consumption we'd:

- lower speed limits

- Encourage delivery and contractor vehicles to go hybrid

- Since we've slashed vehicle speeds, lower safety standards

- Encourage motorcycle licensing (and promote motorcycle EVs. The only EVs that make sense)

- Force manufacturers to provide information, tooling and parts to keep vehicles on the road longer

- Encourage CNG LPG conversions

Etc.
I'm guessing he has verbal commitments already.
You can `grep unwrap` for Rust, you need an entire SAT solver for Go.
>AI used to mean AGI but marketing got a hold of it

It does not and never has.

What happens with the term AI as time has progressed is more to do with the word Intelligence itself. When we went about trying to prescribe intelligence to systems we started to realize we were really bad a doing the same with animal humans systems. We were also terrible at separating what is component level and systems level intelligence. For example, you seem to think that intelligence requires meat, but you don't give any reasoning for that conclusion.

These lists of problems with what intelligence is will get worse over time as we build more capable systems and learn about new forms of intelligence we didn't expect possible.
> LLMs don't have a concept of "best". Only most likely in what they've been trained on.

At temperature 0 they are effectively producing the token that maximizes a weighted sum of base LM probability and model reward.
This is not commercial vs non commercial imho. This is the old classic humans being humans.
If you were a AI going rogue, how would you evade public scrutiny?
If you use it, think about donating to the project. Please.
Turns out: Paper reveales how they removed google from the planet...
Words and Phrases That Are Their Own Opposites
Tipping once rewarded good service. Now it determines how consumers are treated
The real question is if a given "Apple product" is a separate market. Is it fungible with a competitor?

If you ask this question about "Clorox bleach" the answer is obvious. Any other brand of bleach is a perfect substitute and the only reason Clorox can demand a premium is if customers value the brand as an indicia of quality, i.e. they're paying to get bleach they trust not to be watered down or contaminated in a bottle that doesn't leak, not because there is no other source to get bleach they can use with their washing machine.

For the iOS app store that is not the case. If you have an iOS device, you have to use the iOS app store. It would be as if you had a Kroger-brand washing machine that could only use bleach from Kroger, e.g. because they sell it in cartridges that authenticate with a microchip. At that point Kroger would have a monopoly on bleach for those washing machines, and that product would be its own market because there is no competing substitute.

For this not to be the case you would have to be able to install apps on iOS devices via Google Play or some other competitor with non-trivial market share. Because the relevant concern is whether there is a viable substitute that the same people can use for the same purpose.

And yes, this means that if you cordon off something that might otherwise have been part of a larger market by using DRM, you now have a monopoly on the thing you erected a fence around and should be subject to antitrust enforcement.
Input latency. I find the forced vsync by compositors annoying even when doing simple stuff like moving or resizing windows - it gives a sluggish feel to my desktop. This is something i notice even on a high refresh rate monitor.
The whole point of money was to last longer than the expiring and perishable things it was used to pay for. The purchasing power of a dollar in the last century is about 1/500th of what it was when it was paid for the value someone created back then.

If money expires/inflates, people use it to buy something to hedge it, which creates a bubble in that asset. The real estate bubble created by low interest rates is exactly what happens to everything else in an inflationary environment. Hedges include gold and metals, land, art and alternative assets, or like Wiemar [0], people just spend devalued money on gambling and prostitution. If history is any indicator of what happens when you debase a currency, I'd say the best hedges are a second passport and ammo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_culture#Berlin's_reputa...
Things can improve along a dimension you choose to measure but there is also the very real risk of openai imploding. Time will tell.
and you can disabuse yourself of your arrogance by reading anything from the ancient world.
SpaceX very clearly stated just prior to launch that their goal was for the rocket to get through hot-staging because the hot-staging process they had large unknowns. Sure their flight plan went well beyond that, but I don't see how having an aspirational plan that goes beyond "we'll blow it up after hot-staging", also likely required for the FAA, defeats the "successful" qualification of the test.
The guy I replied to is claiming AGI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314733

"GPT 4 is clearly AGI. All of the GPTs have shown general intelligence, but GPT 4 is human-level intelligence.
"
the more people that exercise, the less exercise is valuable
Right ballpark but missing a few important caveats. Rocket engines generally throttle down to maintain a constant acceleration, otherwise you need to add more structural support to the following stages which costs weight.

Also, calculating power output like that is misleading. A solar powered ion engine on a probe has constant solar power and constant acceleration but would have increasing calculated power output over time as it keeps accelerating. What’s going on is rather than the engine being more powerful the propellant starts with more kinetic energy.
What fraction?
Based on my experience, uptime for the Generally Available (GA) services in the cloud typically ranges between 99.9% and 99.95% (maximum 8 hours and 41 minutes of downtime per year in case of 99.9) for a single region. This aligns with my long-term experience as a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) user. If you use preview or beta versions of services, the reliability may be lower, but then you're taking on that risk yourself.

Should you require greater than 99.95% uptime for particularly critical operations, then opting for a multi-region approach, such as using multi-region storage buckets, is advisable. It's also worth mentioning that I have never experienced a full 8 hours of downtime at once in a given year. It has usually been a case of increased error rates or heightened latency due to the inherent redundancy provided by availability zones within each region. Just make sure your network calls have a retry mechanism and you should be fine in almost all cases.
I wonder if there is a way to easily export one's own Hacker News comments. It might be useful for you to back your comments up one day, as there can be value in searching through your past writing and also having a backup (which never hurts).
People are going to read "Jewish communties" as "the Jews" with posts like this. The posters know it, we know it, and the advertisers know it.

In positions like his, Musk should damn well know it too. It doesn't matter how unreasonable that is or isn't, it's clear how advertisers are going to react to something like this.
Couldn't they apply the watermark post-compression? But yeah, eventually people will figure out how the watermark works and be able to remove it.
Just because something seems plausible doesn’t make it more likely. People are not LLMs, writing software is nothing like a house, being good at math doesn’t mean you’re good at other things, and bad analogies are just meaningless words.
The analogy lies in the fact that, much like evolution through natural selection, deliberate intelligence/ability of organisms to comprehend reality is not the objective, but something else entirely is.

For evolution, it's fitness. For LLMs, it's the next token.

Yet despite that, the ability to reason emerges as a means to an end.
Im not actually sure what you're trying to say here. Your first paragraph seems to suggest people with smarter assistants are indeed deluding themselves by thinking they're necessary. The second suggests you cant be unnecessary because we wont want AGI helping in our homes?

If you want to take care of your parents and do stuff in your home yourself, why would AGI force you not to? Id classify that as entertaining yourself. With purpose sure, but still.
You make some good points, but I was specifically writing on the topic of voting due to empathy, with the expectation that the person doing so is doing so on behalf of others, not on behalf of their own self interest. And that empathically voting on behalf of the Other means demonstrating less empathy toward one's Fellows.

As you say, there are plausible rationales why my hypothesis wouldn't be the case.
Why don't you think they're trying to succeed? They got very close to orbit today, much closer than many prototype rockets do. Just earlier this year, Japan's new rocket also failed to achieve orbit. Its second stage just didn't ignite at all. Starship got closer to orbit than that today.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/the-launch-of-japans...

The Soviet N1 rocket never even got past first stage separation, in 4 launches. They got closer every time, but after the 4th stage blew up during main engine cut-off, they canceled the program, and never flew a cosmonaut beyond low-earth orbit.