skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The time dilation is constant everywhere always?
Ultimately this sort of thing gets justified as "I'm picking on people my own size", or "I'm defending the regular person against these other powerful entities".

Even billionaires like to think of themselves as Robin Hoods.
Presumably, under a contractual relationship tied to their licensing agreement with OpenAI. So, this kind of threat undermines confidence in Microsoft's contractual agreements.
Lol. Ok: first, you get 25 hamsters...

No, more seriously: we started off by pulling all the breakers and to go 'from scratch', then every time I re-connected a breaker I monitored the increase in power draw. This took a bit of time but after a while we figured out there were a number of really bad consumers: my PC (which had a very high end graphics card in it from a machine learning project a couple of years ago), the NAS (which had 12 bays), an older fridge (though I thought it was quite energy efficient, but this really wasn't the case), a water heater hidden under the kitchen cupboards (that one took forever to track down), some smaller loads but still considerable (a couple of studio monitors, game computer that was on standby when not in use, a large studio mixer, a massive pump for the infloor heat that worked just as well (or even better) with the lowest setting as the one that it was on) and then a large number of really small loads that were always on but rarely needed.

Removing all of those saved us 2/3rds of our power draw, we went from 30 to 35 KWh to around 8 to 10 KWh / day. After that it was relatively easy to get to '0' using solar panels and another batch of them and we were suddenly offsetting our gas usage with surplus electricity (which the power company buys).

No hamsters were harmed in the preparation of this message.
> Advertisers have cared about placement for as long as advertising has existed

And advertising executives care about not having to monitor Elon's Twitter account in case he tweets something stupid on a Saturday.
> and nobody is going to want to work there or partner with them

Before this I wasn't interested in joining OpenAI despite having seen colleagues jump ship to them, but I now very much am. It works both ways.
> grammer

(sorry! :))
The one thing I don't quite like about active cables is that they didn't use Dallas One-Wire or i2c or uart. Otherwise, it seems to work fine.

Hobby level stuff would be a lot simpler if any old microcontroller could talk to a PPS supply, interrogate cables, etc.
I do not disagree with anything you said. Only that’s a different subject from the event being reported. If we were to talk about content moderation, then the first thing I would address is that the CEO appears to be an absolutist in regard to freedom of speech, whether this is a genuine philosophical stance or just an economic strategy (hate content drives traffic and at the same time is expensive to moderate) is a matter of debate, but from what I gather it’s probably the latter. That’s why I think he’ll certainly not be the one championing safe online environments. But in any case, “detecting hate content” is the fastest route to outright censorship, since the definition of “hate content” will always come from those in power. Hate content can be anything someone powerful don’t like. How we manage that? Where we draw the line? Honest questions.
Talent following

Financial backing to make a competitor

Internal knowledge of roadmap

Media focus

Alignment with the 2nd most valuable company on the planet.

I could go on. I strongly dislike the guy but you need to recognize table stakes even in your enemy. Or you’ll be like Ilya. A naive fool who is gonna get wrecked thinking doing the “right” thing in his own mind will automatically means you win.
Proposing something is one thing and having the final laws and regulations ready for you to dissect are another. Is it not possible to say 'this is a good idea' without having it taken to the most extreme possible point and then required to split hairs over hypotheticals?

Are you arguing for a consumer first perspective or an ideological one? Because if you care about consumers you are not approaching dialog in any way that seems proactive to that. If it is ideological then your motive is just to win based on a belief that you are right. One of those things is productive and one is not.
Can you give examples of ways in which the UI is bad? and should be better implemented?

Also you can disable the little animation if you don't like it the preference is "disable animations" under look and feel.
You know that now, with the benefit of history. At the time the fear of someone else developing the bomb first was real, and the Soviet Union knew about the Manhattan project: https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/cold-war/page-9.html.
Not really.

The deal was that MS was going to give them billions in exchange for 49% of the for-profit entity. They were also reportedly waiving the azure bill since their interests are aligned.

MS is saying that if we give you 10 billion dollars and don’t charge you for azure, then there are some obvious strings attached.

OpenAI is presumably free to do what the rest of the players in this space are doing and pay for their Azure resources if they don’t want to play nice with their business partners.
considering all the articles over the past few months on the general theme of "AI will kill us all," I'd say that yes, there are people who are concerned.

If the corporate drama / PR kabuki that this one company has gone through the past couple days has markedly changed your opinion of the question of "AI safety" then I suggest you may have needed to examine it in more depth before the drama, anyway.
Gravitational lensing and time discrepancies with atomic clocks, among others, would be obvious anomalies that would have led to relativity theories. Not to mention the actual speed limit of not being able to make anything move faster than light and the inability to find a reference frame for light to be moving in.

Once you start trying to measure the speed of light compared to your own speed it becomes quite obvious that there’s a problem with not being able to measure anything but c regardless of the movement of source and receiver.
Definitely agree with that. And it's media vs. media, so they both have to sell a narrative since the stronger story, not who's actually right, will win.
That's why Logitech has multi device Bluetooth mice! Not sure about keyboards but they probably have it.
Against whom? Elon? I can see how you would think I hate him but who is subject of the division here, that implies groups.
They received much less than 10 billion, and it's mostly in credits (so really about half the value), in exchange for exclusive access to the world's most advanced LLM?
Not really, you would phrase it to your customers or investors as a way of mitigating risk. You can probably apply a price tag to that risk by estimating the impact of a data incident vs. the likelihood of one happening. Different businesses have different risk appetites, and I would hope that a board or C-Suite is thinking about what level of risk is acceptable for their business.
You may have discovered the reason that the low effort predators are there, as well.
look at the backgrounds of those board members... cant find any evidence that any of them have experience with corporate politics. theyre in way over their heads.
Microsoft owns near half of OpenAI. Meanwhile OpenAI staff pretty much consider Altman as their chieftain. If Altman return, the board has to resign. If Altman going out, near entire OpenAI staff (especially the key personnel) will follow Altman. Then board still has to resign because OpenAI collapse internally. So either way, the board has to resign...difference just when. Board did bad moves. Obviously a few factions developed likely jeoulous of Altman fame.
Really? Aka Sam has the ability to start a new business and take the contracts with him and Ilya doesn’t. Because that’s table stakes. Exactly.
They've been rolling out rapidly varying and inconsistently-behaving (between users/refreshes) changes in a pretty explicit attempt to break adblockers and complicate developing new ones. You're probably either just not in that cohort yet for some reason, or have already received the improvements that keep ubo working - people's experience varies widely with this wave, probably by design (difficult for blockers to study) and to try to judge impact.
Yep. There's the apparent legal leverage,

and then there's the real leverage of money and the court of public opinion.
That's the intent of the arrangement, but there's also limits - when that pursuit of profit begins to interfere with the charter of the non-profit, you end up in this situation.

https://openai.com/charter

> OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity.

My interpretation of events is the board believes that Altman's actions have worked against the interest of building an AGI that benefits all of humanity - concentrating access to the AI to businesses could be the issue, or the focus on commercialization of the existing LLMs and chatbot stuff causing conflict with assigning resources to AGI r&d, etc.

Of course no one knows for sure except the people directly involved here.
You mean Greg?
I had to read it multiple times to understand you wrote Computers to mean Servers.
The creator of this github repo is the same person who publicly called for the release of the infocom adventures after Microsoft acquired Activision. (HN discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37893794)

I don't see mention of a license in the repo, but I wonder if informal permission was given to make the sources public?
is that codified in the the contract between them though?
Microsoft, through the stock price, has much more to lose than OpenAI. The can apply pressure but don't have full control of the outcome here.
Typically I get it wrong 100% of the time, i.e. I was in the right orientation but misaligned so it does not work, so I flip it, fails again, and then I swear and flip it a second time.
I've used Calibre for years and I like it a lot. It quite good for creating or editing e-books (oh the ghastly things you see if you look inside an e-book...)

The Calibre UX is fine. The real UX divide isn't desktops / laptops vs. smartphones / tablets, but rather content creators vs. content consumers. Modern UX is oriented to content consumers but even there manages to waste too much space and has become too flat and minimal. But once your application is at least partly for content creators, a dense interface is ideal and comforting.

I've haven't experienced any data loss with Calibre except when the e-book editor crashes while checking a book for errors. This has always been due to memory exhaustion (2 GB limit) when checking books that were unnecessarily complex (see “ghastly things” above).

SumatraPDF opens EPUBs almost instantaneously, but at the cost of not rendering every aspect correctly. As I recall the documentation is clear about this limitation.

I like the PocketBook app a lot and use it to read books on smartphones. But it has some basic rendering quirks; for example it can ignore margin-top and margin-bottom on paragraphs, seemingly because it does not apply CSS precedence rules correctly. It took me five e-mail exchanges, including sending a very simple hand-rolled EPUB illustrating the problem, to convince the developers that there is a problem.
> said stupid things (e.g. no evidence that masks are a good idea for healthy people, back in the era of the mask shortage

That wasn't "stupid", that was a cynical lie. I.e. if you believe masks worked, that would be a murderous lie, designed to sacrifice "less important" people to the advantage of "more important" ones. As I remember, it was admitted as such (a deliberate lie), though I remain unconvinced it actually had any effect at all in reality.
Care to give me an example of anti-white rhetoric by ADL? I am all ears. They track hate groups.
The Microsoft is now a good guy is just a PR scam. I got asked by a Microsoft employee to add support for Azure on my OSS work on my free time: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/issues/180

He never made the PR and was just there to ask me to implement the thing for his own benefits ....
I think that mass availability of weight loss drugs like Ozempic could be the single biggest transformation of public health in the first world in the last 50 years, on par with the contraceptive pill. I don't think it's possible to tackle this problem from the supply side, previous attempts have failed miserably. Normally I'm not one to have such a cavalier attitude towards this type of intervention, but this is a crisis that warrants an immediate solution. The healthcare savings from this alone could easily be in the billions.

I'm 21 with a BMI of 28, 6'4". I'm pretty sure I have some sort of eating disorder. It is so f*cking hard not to overreat. Ozempic would really help me out here, because willpower alone is not enough for me to fight a billion dollar industry trying its damndest to make me addicted.
I believe the gamification is a patch for the courses themselves not being engaging enough, if you're intrinsically motivated to learn a language the gamification part can be really off putting. Me and most people I met on my journey of learning Chinese have used Duolingo at some point, but most people seem to feel it was not a great investment of their time. Anki on the other hand has zero gamification and looks really boring, but somehow has better long term retention with serious learners. But then it has its own set of problems.

I'm currently trying to get the best of both worlds by building the app I wish I had while starting learning Chinese. Currently actively looking for partners as well. If anyone that groks language learning is interested in building such a thing do send me an email at sasja.ws@gmail.com and lets talk about it.
It's not magical; it's just agnostic. Some AI believers appear to be quite confident in their understanding of how the human brain works, despite the fact that those who have dedicated their entire lives to studying it will be the first to tell you that they ultimately have no idea.
> doesn't make a whole lot of sense to refer to heads of state as having the wealth of the state

Caesar Augustus was personally very, very rich. The British Crown has, similarly, its own private assets.
> e.g. Satya is furious

Oh! So, now you got him furious? when just yesterday he made a rushed statement to standby Mira.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/17/a-statement-from...
You might be on the wrong website then
Haha I see you’ve never had a contract with Microsoft. They are hyper aggressive and full of explosive gotchas.
I used to kill off services I didn't need on my Windows NT 4.0 Workstation ... I could get it down to thirteen megabytes of RAM used.
> Everything just assumes that without Sam they’re worse off.
>
> But what if, my gosh, they aren’t? What if innovation accelerates?

It reads like they ousted him because they wanted to slow the pace down, so by design and intent it would seem unlikely innovation would accelerate. Which seems doubly bad if they effectively spawned a competitor that is made up by all the other people that wanted to move faster
Luckily Eliezer has written hundreds of approachable essays on the development of his epistemic processes over at lesswrong.com so you too can learn rationality and derive the killeveryonism conclusion yourself.

(/s since this is the internet)
No, he is an ass and cruel, that makes him bad. Praising hitler and supporting antisemitism has nothing to do with any "tribe" leader.
Linux is getting better steadily. Still has some largish holes, like poor support for cloud storage if you're not running your own.
If you live in a sufficiently low density area (rural or suburban with large lots) you can put the two networks on different channels and they won’t meaningfully interfere with each order.
> The Walter Issacson biography quoted Kip Thorne as saying if Einstein didn’t come up with relativity, likely no one would have for 30-40 years after.

Even for general relativity, it is not clear whether this statement is true, see

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_di...

According to this Wikipedia article, it seems that David Hilbert came up with a different way of deriving general relativity at about the same time as Albert Einstein.
I think the analogy is something like: if you have a simple distribution over all words, then that's just word frequency. Obviously not a good predictor. The 'information' necessary to predict the correct next word contextually is just not there if you're predicting words in a vacuum. In order to be practically useful and predict the right words _in context_, the model must be conditioning off of more of the sentence/document (aka more information). So it should not be surprising that a 'glorified autocomplete' has some degree of "understanding" as it would be impossible for it to be any good as an autocomplete-er otherwise.
Disney + just added them to the plan I already paid for the next 12 months for when it didn’t have ads and I had no idea they were a part of the deal
Transform Your Phone into a Remote Presentation Controller with This Rust App
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I understand your point, but keyboards and mice aren’t the correct target I feel. I haven’t had a non USB-C peripheral in at least 4 years.
The only reason why output from a generative LLM appears intelligent or sentient is that it parrots a random sampling of texts written by intelligent and sentient people.

In order to play the game of go effectively one needs to have a model or theory of how the game of go works. That's a very simple model that can be defined by a simple formula. That's why it is fairly easy for a neural network to learn how to play the game of go very effectively or even infinitely effectively.

A lot of what happens in the world can be modeled in a similar vein by a very simple mathematical model like the game of life. But there is also a lot that cannot. I do believe that eventually also human understanding is just a model of the world that we feed input from perceptions and gain output as opinions, but it is way more complex than the current large language-trained models.

For a very simple example, a LLM would answer a prompt the same way every time unless it wasn't fed some randomness. Can you imagine any sentient being that would respond the same way every time if you asked the same question three times in a row?

I cannot. I would imagine any sentient object would give a different answer every time. The first time it would give you an honest answer based on what it knows about the topic. The second time it would be a little embarrassed that you repeat the question, as if you hadn't heard the first answer. The third time it would be pissed off and think you are a troll.

A LLM does none of this. It doesn't remember you or your previous questions. It just keeps hallucinating.
This is an awful metric for such a discussion, almost seems disingenuous.
To add to that because it may not be clear for everyone, if they leave the knowledge will sprout other companies that will directly be able to compete with openai with different flavors. If this happens that mean OpenAI may really well be finished and that really well may he the reason why they try desperately to save what they can. Microsoft has a lot to loose here to both in cloud income and because they would loose their enormous tactical advantage they have so far.
Oh I read this one! Very delightful reflections on taoism from a logician. Dated a little poorly in parts but overall great
True, but they also have a lot of sway over what other engines do
The end of the article discusses special relativity's philosophical stance, and is rather interesting.
Two reasons:

1. USB-C is more technically complicated, especially when you want to create a host, and especially when you want to do anything faster than USB 2 speeds. Fully-integrated chips for USB-C are still quite rare, so you have to hook up a handful of different not-exactly-cheap chips to add a USB-C port. On the other hand, USB-A is pretty trivial and can be added at basically zero cost.

2. There's still a wide USB-A ecosystem out there. Having to use adapters suuuucks, so people want to have at least some USB-A ports in their system. Moreover, a lot of more-trivial peripherals feature USB-C ports rather than pigtails, so you can easily connect them to USB-A ports with A-to-C cables.

The balance will slowly shift towards USB-C, but it's not exactly surprising that USB-A is still quite common.
That would maybe be the best example, quantum entanglement is quite the mystery to me though (and to everyone?).
Maybe you can have entangled semi-classical fields? (e.g. fields entangled without intrinsic photon-like particles)
That is fairly meaningless, though. My six year old CODE keyboard could be USB-C today if I wanted, it uses a detachable USB cable. They wouldn't even need to make any changes to the keyboard other than including a different cable.
The concept of a variable is just the tip of the iceberg: the syntax for dealing with variables (e.g. assignment vs. testing equality) is difficult for newbies to grasp.

Next level of difficulty for newbies is arrays: understanding expressions to set and get values in an array; variables that hold indexes; non-numeric indexes; each of these is a potential huge stumbling block for newbies. And remember, these are just basic programming skills. Things get much harder from there.

The concepts of data manipulation, let alone the mechanics, are difficult for many newbies. Some never get past that point.
There is an electric mining truck: https://electrek.co/2022/11/23/caterpillar-demonstrates-firs...

Already in operation: https://youtu.be/6TxMeHRq1mk?t=178
What does any of that have to do with whether it's a "coup" or not? "Coup" has an implication of illegitimacy, but by all accounts the board acted within its authority. It doesn't matter if it was an ill-advised action or if Altman has more leverage here.
You run Google’s algorithm yourself and secretly pull data from the internet when necessary.

yeah isn't this the same offline viewing? why do you need a new algorithm for that? we've known about this forever. obviously, if you download the database and access it, this is more secure than being online , but way slower. Regarding the library example, this too has easy solutions: checkout many books at once, have a stranger check out the book, etc.

This article seems to do a poor job explaining what exactly this solves, only that it's revolutionary. The metaphors are not helpful.