skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that fusion is a very common process that inevitably happens to even the simplest elements if you just make them hot enough, we just don't know how to do that in a controlled manner. We don't really know what intelligence is, how it came about, or how we would ever recreate it artificially or if that's possible. LLMs are some pretty convincing tricks though but that's on the level of making some loud noises behind a curtain and calling it fusion.
It’s cool to see people recognizing this basic fact — consciousness is a prerequisite for intelligence. GPT is a philosophical zombie.
Isn't that guilty until proven innocent, then?
Thanks. Here is my conclusion

- Majority of people find it useful at the price point. (only 2 disagree it seems from all the comments here)

- Instead of using chatgpt, directly using OpenAI API might make more financial sense and I might need to write a wrapper on top of their APIs (or use one that is already there)

- Limits are 50 or 40 per 3 hours. API to test that - https://chat.openai.com/public-api/conversation_limit (1 person say they have not hit the limit and there seem to be no limit, I cannot test that unfortunately)

- There is a waitlist for ChatGPT+ So I cannot pay even if I want to. :(

- Almost everyone agree GPT-4 is a lot better. (High school vs Degree level as someone has pointed out)

- There seem to be a cost dashboard with ability to set limits for API.
It is strange that the article doesn't compare and contrast to full-screen direct scanout, which most X11 and presumably Wayland compositors implement, e.g. KDE's kwin-wayland since 2021: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/502

Maybe that is because full-screen direct scanout doesn't take much (if anything) in a toolkit, it's almost purely a compositor feature.
Why do we use blue-background-with-yellow-text for medical school lectures?
Look, lots of people are just…stupid. Ignorant. Uninformed.

The median IQ is 100, it’s calibrated that way. Meaning half of people have an IQ lower than that.

A lot of money is spent to convince/coerce people of all sorts of bull-shit.

Unless you’ve spent a lot of time around poorer/lesser IQ people, it is probably hard to understand. You think they should just try harder, think better, etc.

Also, other very informed and intelligent people vote for all sorts of policies on different sides of the political divide. And have at least decently thought out reasons for doing so.

I’m moreso politically aligned with the HN/reddit crowd, but have lots of family and friends across the political spectrum. You just have to talk to people in a non-judgmental way to learn a LOT.

Best tip if you’re feeling like passionately arguing politics in good faith, befriend some lawyers with differing political leanings. They’re the best for this over beers and won’t make things personal (if you don’t).
I've seen the bugs of multiple 10x engineers multiply together for 10^n x bugs
i'll post one of my favorite related facts about noncompetes. Famously, California bans them, but this was not an intentional policy choice for the sake of entrepreneurship. It was done in the 19th century and almost by accident.

David Dudley Field II was a jurist who drafted a code of laws which was adopted by New York state. After this, motivated by his study of English common law, he made an updated code of laws which included a provision banning noncompete agreements.

This model code was not accepted by New York, and just floated around for a while, until it happened to be on hand when California was becoming a state, with nobody thinking much about noncompete agreements.

North Dakota also adopted the Field Code and also bans noncompetes.

https://www.restrictivecovenantreport.com/2013/01/north-dako...
Oh, lol, I never knew that.

I created a script that dumped my library of 1000s of books to .txt and then grepped them.
Eventually it will 'win' though.
PM? Part milliliter?
I cant even begin to imagine the abuse the new cel and ilya will face from the army of incels that simp for altman and the old openai. Terrifying times and the mob has been startled.
What’s wrong with being another Woz? The money?
I worry I've already tainted the responses by bringing up my view of his writing XD. Later, I promise
I think it’s that the _window_ has rounded corners, and you don’t want the content appearing outside the window.
Florian is great. He learns a new piece of audio production kit every week, makes original tracks on that kit every week, great guy. I love his videos. The fact that he even managed to snag an elusive sponsorship which cannot bias his reviews is also awesome, as there is a steady supply of gear to review as a result.

Klangfauber, a music gear retail store, send him new releases to check out. As a retailer, they have minimal investment in whether he likes them or not!
I know that Tesla, for example, has either reduced or eliminated Cobalt from their batteries. Changing composition can reduce material cost.
Should Data Centers Be Kept Cool–Or Warm?
There's a lot of people who buy the games but still prefer to play on other machines - Steam Decks, PCs, etc.

This is especially true for Switch games that run poorly on the Switch, like Tears of the Kingdom.

This might be legally piracy in some countries, but I suspect most people would consider it morally fine.
The 4 board members still there are all pro-safety and alignment, so it seems likely.
Where should I find all the good, secure projects?
Post meridiem.
These people are not "board members by career". If this move says anything, it's that they are really committed to their principles.
Again, I'm not sure why you and the other person are just out for blood and keep trying to make it personal, but you can clearly feed it into NLP/ChatGPT and co and even the machines will tell you the actual wordings are aggressive.
This is on point. This whole mess is indeed an alignment issue. The fact that this came as a surprise to him could be an indicator of insufficient engagement with the board.
General strategies of trading on financial markets. Entirely different than working at Google.
Milli- is "m" and "M" is mega-. You'll be off by 9 orders of magnitude if you confuse the two.
What you’re advocating for is normalizing the stealing of company IP.

The way you solicit clients from a prior company is downloading the client list, exporting to a personal drive, quitting, then using the list to poach.

I’m fine if that’s your intention, but let your employer know upfront that you won’t protect confidential company data.
I think the surprising truth is that all of these people are essentially replaceable.

They may be geniuses, but AGI is an idea whose time has come: geniuses are no longer required to get us there.

The Singularity train has already left the station.

Inevitability.

Now humanity is just waiting for it to arrive at our stop
> simple and low effort

You would agree the OpenAI is neither ? the comparison doesn't do well then?
I played with a version where the AI creates the text and the options, but trying to add a new mechanic (you have to select, in the text, two words that unlock each option).

https://www.theabysstalksback.com/
People here love to pretend 100k is an outstanding overpay
I'm new to this, are there Twine stories somewhere that I can download? Do you know? Does Twine "play" them? Sorry, these questions are very rudimentary.
I'd love to know the answer to that. This is fantastic work, but it'd be a shame for it to be scunnered by rounded corners.
The FTC isn't the org with much power over employee rights. That's the DoL.
I would rather have one of you than ten people who dig the ditch in front of them.

You will see the distance to be travelled and say let's build a airplane.

but incentives in most companies demand "progess" hence most projects start by piling the car high and driving off. it's when they are attaching floats to the car and paddling across the atlantic shouting progess reports back to shore that the value of automation comes to mind

don't worry about the ADHD - embrace it. (my hint - of the boring has to be done, make it the only thing, have nothing else).
Yes, along with the departure of gdb. From jph's view, there was no philosophical alignment at the start of the union between AI Researchers (that skew non-profit) and operators (that skew for-profit) so it was bound to be unstable, until a purging happens as it had now.

> Everything I'd heard about those 3 [Elon Musk, sama and gdb] was that they were brilliant operators and that they did amazing work. But it felt likely to be a huge culture shock on all sides.

> But the company absolutely blossomed nonetheless.

> With the release of Codex, however, we had the first culture clash that was beyond saving: those who really believed in the safety mission were horrified that OAI was releasing a powerful LLM that they weren't 100% sure was safe. The company split, and Anthropic was born.

> My guess is that watching the keynote would have made the mismatch between OpenAI's mission and the reality of its current focus impossible to ignore. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that cringed during it.

> I think the mismatch between mission and reality was impossible to fix.

jph goes on in detail in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1725714720400068752
I know it’s not done to comment on the page design. But here it is anyways: the page is nonscrollable on my phone and the images are much wider than my screen. So I cannot see the screenshots. Even when I rotate to landscape, I can only see a part of the image.
A 12 week residency for the world's top technical founders
Viewed with another lens, North Korea has quickly become one of the biggest production penetration testers, with a focus on making the cryptocurrency industry safer by demonstrating how much security some exchanges are lacking. If these exchanges actually did their job and hired competent people, maybe they wouldn't frequently lose user's funds.

All for the cost of ~$US1.65 billion per year. I wonder if this would be cheaper or more expensive than a high-profile security consultancy covering the same surface area.
Not for principals/ founders. The law applies to employees.
Anyone tried the Linux version on Apple hw?
Not an actual live feed. It looks like the launch will be soon. Official details can be found here: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
Sam Altman: The extraordinary firing of an AI superstar
You're ignoring the fact that he's repeatedly attacked advertisers by name for leaving, for example for "hating free speech" or being "too left-wing", and that conservative influencers have in the past rallied these efforts by calling for boycotts.

You're focusing on whether his attacks would be morally legitimate, which is besides the point (that hasn't stopped Musk in the past). His base would find it convincing, because many on the right refuse to admit that it was antisemitic.
The implementations are pretty neat. Especially this one.

https://httpraccoons.com/418
I mean, the board doesn't have equity and the for-profit subsidiary is profit capped
I'm a bit divided on Calibre. On one side it's very versatile and useful. On the other side had it so many data loses over the years for me, that it's disturbing, and I stopped using it regularly. I wish there would be a good robust alternative. But at this point Calibre is such a Moloch..
Could you tell me what software you are using for syncing?
Why doesn't Calibre have a "real" app for iOS like Kybooks that can both render almost all formats relevant (epub+mobi+azw3+pdf+txt+rtf+(audibooks possibly and additionally but its also orthogonal in some sense structurally) and serve as the root folder/Library for all of them?

They have an app but it always tiptoes around doing exactly this! No servers or local server stuff or at least don't force people to have that preexisting structure in order to do a facile and intuitive things. Was the implicit act of competing with Apple's Books apps compelled against?

If they would do just that, they could have all the donations/money they would ever need
I think there is ample evidence that technology separates people, and that taking efficiency to its logical conclusion is not beneficial for humanity because it promotes resource usage that is unsustainable. I have thought a lot about this topic and prefer not to write endless essays in every comment, though I have written more detailed analyses about the dangers of AI elsewhere.

The problem with AI is that for a lot of people, work gives meaning, and having AI to do almost anything that can outcompete them will take away that meaning. That is certainly not rubbish, because this sentiment has already been expressed by many in the creative field. That psychological phenomenon exists.

It's sad that you have to resort to such responses such as name-calling.
Do you drink out of a metal water bottle, drink juice or milk, or eat anything out of a can or carton? If so it’s lined with plastics.
warm. vent the heat to hot air turbines for energy production. duh
How smart would any human be without training and source material?
This was mad crazy. I’m interested as to why he was fired? What could’ve been so big that the board just had to be like yep he’s going?
Thank you for the pointers. Frankly I mix up the modes a lot usually, trying to get a good answer, and since it's been a few weeks (I kind of got annoyed and stuck to ChatGPT-4 from then on) and I can't immediately recall if Creative Mode does that specifically. My memory is all modes do, but that may be wrong. So I'll follow your advice and also noted who to ping on Twitter, cheers :)
BeOS and Haiku allowed exposure to kernel graphics buffers decades ago (https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/BDirectWindow.ht...), which bypass the roundtrip to compositor and back. A companion article describing the design is here (https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue3-12....)

After 25 years, GTK joins the party …

With no native video drivers, moving a Vesa Haiku window with video playback still seems smoother than doing the same in Gnome/Kde under X11.
LibreLingo is great but they focus on language learning only. My idea is to go beyond language and build an app that allows us to learn anything using interactive lessons.

Eventually, I want to have a plugin system to have different lesson types for other subjects.

Plus, I'm going to use UneeBee to offer cloud products for enterprise, school, and creators. It will get much more complex than LibreLingo's current scope.
As an outsider, I can talk to AI and get more coherent responses than from humans (flawed, but it's getting better). That's tangible, that's an improvement. I for one don't even consider the Internet to be as revolutionary as the steam engine or freight trains. But AI is actually modifying my own life already - and that's far from the end.

P.S. I've just created this account here on Hacker News because Altman is one of the talking heads I've been listening to. Not too sure what to make of this. I'm an accelerationist, so my biggest fear is America stifling its research the same way it buried space exploration and human gene editing in the past. All hope is for China - but then again, the CCP might be even more fearful of non-human entities than the West. Stormy times indeed.
> Once the software is released under a license you’ve created a legal contract granting those terms.

I’m not a lawyer but I’ve followed the “is it a license or is it a contract” thing for 25 years now. One important part of the confusion here is that a contract requires mutual consideration; unilateral “contracts” aren’t contracts at all. The long-term argument is that the source code is subject to copyright which implicitly would not allow distribution; the license is what grants additional permissions on top of what copyright does and doesn’t allow, and thus probably could be revoked.
They still stand to benefit personally, do they not?
> Critical" as in rejecting and overthrowing the established order of things

Exactly what I'm talking about.

Look, it seems you are passionate about it, but you act like CT modern/young proponents. Critical Theory is overblown, because of its limited praxis and because it is mostly symbolism, signaling. It should have died 30 years ago. And yes, the same signaling as in 'virtue signaling' (this is also a neo-marxist/postmodern word btw). By engaging in both (mostly) wrong and superficial criticism, you are signaling yourself, and seems to attribute to CT a power, reach it does not have, not really. You are attacking symbols and representation, but not the idea itself (which is totally part of my criticism of CT), thus your criticism is unactionable (has no praxis, see the similarity?), and you won't convince anyone using it as a cornerstone of their research that they're wrong.

Admittedly, if someone use it as a cornerstone of their research, that research won't go that far, or is pseudoscientific (psychoanalysis), but using it as a limited tool is alright.

[edit] and according to the site you linked, it is taught to doctoral students, which is fair, I think at that level most people know to use a tool like that.
I'll tell you what mate, if you can point to evidence of the specific ancestor of his that was disposed from Hampstead Heath and when that happened I'll concede the point.

Otherwise this just looks like an individual trying to take something from public ownership into private ownership on the sly. Like a land owner trying to fence off a public footpath.
Wouldn't it be enough that someone located not-in-the-US to do any sort of business with a person in the US, for the US government to now consider that part of their jurisdiction and get involved? Just one random example from Wikipedia, but there are a bunch more cases of the US acting "outside of their jurisdiction": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_Sky_Global

Similarly, I guess North Korea could look at things the same way.
Emerge (YC W21) is hiring a Senior Front end Engineer (remote, small team)
Thank you for reporting this issue. I'll look into it. If possible, please can you share what phone and browser are you using?
OpenAI literally kicked off an AGI race, which is exactly the thing you do not want to do if you’re interested in AI safety.
I’m not going to debate or justify non-competes. I’m also not advocating for them.

All I’m doing is calling you out that when you join a company, you’re voluntarily signing all of the contracts. It’s not some kind of involuntary act of slavery. A responsible adult is presented a contract and chooses to sign it. That’s the opposite of involuntary.

Your argument is it’s involuntary.

That’s what we were debating. I wasn’t debating the contents of the contract. I personally don’t see a major need for non-competes and is overkill in almost all cases.

I’m simply tired of the “I’m a victim!” mindset of blaming others for their own actions. It’s your fault if you signed a shitty employment contract. Next time read the fine print, or don’t sign it.
Who can fire the board ? Who decides ?
For me nothing beat scrolling with an unlocked scrollwheel on my old Logitech mouse. It could keep spinning for >10 seconds and allowed super fast scrolling. Though FPS games with weapon switching bound to the mouse wheel did not like that feature at all...
And these immigrants can afford the houses that native Americans can't afford?
A non profit board is not as professional as a public company board.

Looking at the people on the current board, it doesn't seem they have a lot of experience being independent board members in large public corporations.

No non-profit has this level of public scrutiny, It could just be that they were sloppy because they are not professional board members.
Yup. Put your money where your mouth is

If that person was so valuable, had so much knowledge, had so many contacts etc…prove it in the only way business owners really understand
Duolingo introduced drawing Hanzi a couple of months ago. Worth checking out their approach if you haven't seen it.
I guess this is what happens when you sell your company to Microsoft.
But sending billions of dollars to fund wars overseas is done because it’s humanitarian and the “right thing to do”.

How the homeless are treated tells me all I need to know about the people in power.
I think something between slums and housing would be better. Something like pods in Tokyo, which can provide shelter,
security, sleep and that all important mailing address. The pods could be installed in otherwise useless properties. Of course building to high safety/fire standards.

Bigger pods or a “vlan” of pods for families.
You can buy things with euros outside of Poland though, just because Poland doesn't use Euro as a currency doesn't mean it isn't one. Most cryptocurrencies aren't currencies in the sense that no one accepts them for anything other than regular currencies or other crypto. There are rare exceptions to this, but that's exactly what they are - exceptions.

>why and how do currency exchanges exist, then

I hope this isn't a real question.
This is Olek Madry and Jakub Pachocki we are talking about. Check out their respective dblps if you don't get it. It's a kind of loss that will be hard to recover from.

In relation to other comments here. There is "coding" and there is "God's spark genius of algorithms" kind of work. This is what made the magic of OpenAI. Believe me, those guys were not "just coding". My bet is that it could be all about some research directions that were "shielded" by Sam.
> The psychological effects of AI on society will be devastating, which includes people relying less on each other and becoming more narcissistic

That's one way it could go, but I doubt it. I expect LLMs trained on human interactions will produce their best outputs for the same inputs that cause real humans to produce their best output — "please" and "thanks" as appropriate, because even if it hasn't got real feelings on the inside, it's doing a great job of acting like it has them.

> There should be limits to technological development and limits on computing power

That's in the recent White House executive order:

""" (ii) any computing cluster that has a set of machines physically co-located in a single datacenter, transitively connected by data center networking of over 100 Gbit/s, and having a theoretical maximum computing capacity of 10^20 integer or floating-point operations per second for training AI.""" - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action... (remove the ^ from the quotation to find in the link, there was the usual problem with superscripted numbers when I copied it)

> OpenAI should be destroyed by the courts and dismantled into nothingness, along with every AI division of every tech company and every AI research laboratory in the world.

Courts can only do what governments empower them to do, and it's important that that's plural governments because there are ~200 nation-level ones competing with each other. You'd have to get over a huge quantity of distrust and secret racing to reach even the level of legal agreement, and (given the perceived benefit of being the only defector from the POV of those who believe all the risks are managed) the legal aspect by itself isn't sufficient unless everyone's also willing to escalate to kinetic enforcement, hence what Yudkowsky was calling for earlier this year:

"""I called for law and treaty at the state level, and "airstrikes" against "rogue datacenters" as a last resort if diplomacy failed; individual terrorists are not famous for having the authority to call in airstrikes, nor are their targets "rogue" from international order.""" - https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1650334606812680193
If the AI bots provide better health care then the psychotherapy meat puppets won't it be a win? 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. People often become psychologists to treat their own mental issues so even the meat puppets share the weakness of suffering from hallucinations.