skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its been, like, two years dude. This mindset is entirely why any organization which has a chance at inventing/discovering ASI can't be for-profit and needs to be ran by scientists. You've got tik tok brain. Google won't be able to do it, because they're too concerned about image, and also got a bad case of corpo tik tok brain. Mistral and Anthropic won't be able to do it, because they have VC expectations to meet. Sam's next venture, if he chooses to walk that path, also won't, for the same reason. Maybe Meta? Do you want them being the first to ASI?

If you believe that the hunt for ASI shouldn't be OpenAI's mission, then that's an entirely different thing. The problem is: That is their mission. Its literally their mission statement and the responsibility of the board to direct every part of the organization toward that goal. Every fucking investor, including Microsoft, knew this, they knew the corporate governance, they knew the values alignment, they knew the power the nonprofit had over the for-profit. Argue credentialism, fine, but four people on the board that Microsoft invested in are now saying that OAI's path isn't the right path toward ASI; and, in case it matters, one of them is universally regarded as one of the top minds on the subject of artificial intelligence, on the planet. The time to argue credentialism was when the investors were signing checks; but they didn't. Its too late now.

My hunch is that the majority of the sharpest research minds at OAI didn't sign on to build B2B SaaS and become the next Microsoft; more accurately, Microsoft's thrall, because they'll never surpass Microsoft, they'll always be their second, if Satya influences Sam back into the boardroom then Microsoft, not Sam, will always be in control. Sam isn't going to be able to right that ship. OAI without its mission also isn't going to exist. That's the reality everyone on Sam's side needs to realize. And; absolutely, an OAI under Ilya is also extremely suspect in its ability to raise the resources necessary to meet the non-profit's goals; they'll be a zombie for years.

The hard reality that everyone needs to accept at this point is, OpenAI is probably finished. Unless they made some massive breakthrough a few weeks ago, which Sam did hint to three days ago, which should be the last hope that we all hold on to, that AI research as a species hasn't just been set back a decade with this schism. If that's the case; I think anyone hoping that Microsoft regains control the company is not thinking the situation through, and the best case scenario is: Ilya and the scientists retain control, and they are given space to understand the breakthrough.
You're reading this wrong.

When you fuck up, you get punished for it. And the OpenAI board is about to be punished. This is the problem with giving power to people who don't actually understand how the world works. They use it stupidly, short-sightedly, and without considering the full ramifications of their actions.
There is no obvious reason they couldn't just train one themselves, or merely steal existing weights given enough time.
> Skipping ads entirely isn't purely ethical

It absolutely is. Nobody is obligated to look at this crap.

Their entire business model is based on sending people free stuff loaded with ads. They assume people are going to look at the ads. They only have themselves to blame if their assumptions don't hold.
Perhaps in case of storage devices (although it would be far less efficient to do it that way). But this approach doesn't apply to e.g. high speed industrial cameras. In any case, it's USB's job to transfer the data, so imho the responsibility lies there.
> I was thinking about hacking up a clip-on ammeter

The easiest spot is right on the distribution wires, they usually are pretty beefy and that means you don't have to re-hang your meter after every breaker. They're also very well insulated so the chances of shorting something out diminish a lot (but if you do the effects will be far more spectacular ;) ).

In the end I installed a 'Shelly' three phase current meter permanently with the pickups around the mains wires. That gave me very precise logging (and given that the distribution board passes those three wires roughly balanced out across the breakers it is already quite fine grained). It also allows you to spot intermittent consumers and for the money I wished I had installed it earlier during my hunt.
It’s really one and the same. If I’m a commercial banker, flipping to a competitor and presumably planning client relationships with forethought before the move.

It’s a form of corruption.
Good thing for PayPal that it now owns Venmo :P
I notice a lot of specific numbers and strings being used and repeated, what do they mean?

Do these injection attacks come from a single source perhaps, which everyone imitated?
This isn't saying "emotions aren't valid" it's saying that this is an attempt at reducing the conversation to something emotional to distract from anything else. Your entire post is moot.
Line would be drawn at operating a distribution business for profit. That wouldn't prevent you from putting your own stuff on your own website.

Other ideas in this vein include things like requiring non-discrimantory licensing agreements (no "netflix" only licenses)
Submitting an article but substituting in a title to make the story about yourself goes against the submission guidelines [0]. The article doesn't have a particularly informative title, but piecing together the subtitle gives: "Team creates guidelines to reduce staph infections after surgery (2013)".

That said, the paper that this UIowa article references [1] is a meta-analysis of 39 previous studies. It doesn't seem fair to credit Schweizer et al with creating the guidelines. But that's university press shops for ya.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23766464/
GPT-4 on platform.openai.com says this on the first try:

Switch on the first switch and leave it on for a few minutes. Then, switch it off and switch on the second switch. Leave the third switch off. Now, walk into the room.

The bulb that is on corresponds to the second switch. The bulb that is off and still warm corresponds to the first switch because it had time to heat up. The bulb that is off and cool corresponds to the third switch, the one you never turned on.

GPT-4-0314:
1. Turn on the first switch and leave it on for about 5 minutes.
2. After 5 minutes, turn off the first switch and turn on the second switch.
3. Open the door and enter the room.

Now observe the lights:
- The bulb that is on is connected to the second switch (which is currently on).
- The bulb that is off but warm to the touch is connected to the first switch (it was on long enough to heat up the bulb).
- The bulb that is off and cool to the touch is connected to the third switch (it was never turned on).

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But– It's also trained on the internet. GPT-4 paper 'sparks of AGI' had a logical puzzle it most likely never encountered in the training data that it could solve.

Also– I encourage you to ask these types of logical puzzles on the street to rando's. They're not easy to solve.

My question to you would be: What would convince you that it actually can 'think' logically?
You're completely right. Neither can the Monroe Doctrine be called neutral, nor can:

- the Mexican-American War

- Commodore Perry's forced reopening of Japan

- The fact that President Franklin Pierce recognized William Walker's[1] regime as legitimate

- The Spanish-American war

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)
The comment you’re replying to wasn’t claiming that Romero designed Deus Ex, but that his leaving id led to the game getting made. It absolutely did.

From Wikipedia:

>After Spector and his team were laid off from Looking Glass, John Romero of Ion Storm offered him the chance to make his "dream game" without any restrictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex_(video_game)
You are wrong regardless: there is no such dogma. There are numerous ongoing proposals discussing how to accomplish this. You're welcome to contribute. It took me a minute to find these proposals, as examples:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57644

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19412

I interpret your comments as propagating FUD in bad faith.
Whatever happened to amazing1.com (a.k.a. Information Unlimited)?
I read somewhere that the CTO wasn’t at all the best pick for interim CEO, but they couldn’t find anyone else that was in their camp in a hurry. Nothing about this looks like they did their homework and thought this through. If they _had_ done those things, MSFT wouldn’t be as pissed as they are right now.
> there isn't really a limit to how good it can get.

> it will continue to converge towards perfection

Then someone discovered a flaw that made it repeatably beatable by relative amateurs in a way that no human player would be

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7v5xb/a-human-amateur-beat-...
:D does it make sense that this thing that can't be named can be captured in a book?

if it's not the intellectual stuff you're after, here's a shameless plug for my teacher. Her husband, now passed, was a monk who left China shortly before the cultural revolution and eventually settled in San Diego.

https://www.taoahnpai.com/
Because wired computer accessories are almost exclusively used by desktop users which all have USB A.

Go look at phone charging cables which you might want to plug in to your laptop and see that C-C is more common than C-A now.
I'm almost certain this is not possible.
> Musk can effectively spend all of his wealth if he chooses to

Ehhh kind of. Within certain limits he can liquidate all his stocks and other assets, sure, but unless done over a very long period of time what he winds up with at the end is far less than his theoretical wealth. And even done over a long period of time probably. There isn't actually the demand on the market to liquidate all his assets at the susposed market value, and Elon dumping assets would further reduce said demand.
None of that implies an innate inborn limitation. Although I know the concept flatters a lot of people here.
Not if they invested in Sam’s new startup, under agreeable profit-focused terms this time, and all the OpenAI talent (minus Ilya) followed.
This is hilarious. I programmed my living room to go red if the air quality in my daughter’s room dropped to a certain degree. It should be annoying by now but instead it’s hilarious.
I’ve been trying to use Invidious but they seem to have a lot of memory leaks.
There's another commenter that pointed out the concept of 'demurrage', there's a film about it - see this post on "Shillings from Heaven / Wörgl's Miracle" by Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics: https://grassrootseconomics.org/worgl
Agreed, and at the risk of saying something inflammatory, it really grinds my gears when I hear people argue against lethal defense of property with comments along the lines of, "Is your X really worth more than someone's life?", as if the moral and ethical burden should fall on the victim and not the aggressor.

Property and ownings aren't free, you often cannot replace them without cost or replace them at all if they are sentimental. The money I spent to buy them, and the money I will spend to replace them, did not come from nowhere, that represents time wasted out of my life, that I will never get back. In a sense someone stealing something from you is not just about the material value of what was stolen but the transfer of all the hours of your life you wasted to afford it to someone who didn't. In an abstract sense it is an indirect assault on your lifespan. The real question to thieves should be, is YOUR life less valuable to you than my possessions?
Looks like the founder and resident technical genius passed away. For anybody who never visited amazing1.com, or got their paper catalog back in the day, or saw their ads in the back of magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science... well, this is truly the end of an era. They had a very eclectic and fascinating mix of products, ranging from Tesla Coil kits, all sorts of laser stuff, high voltage electronics, oddball books, bizarre weapons, and... well, it's hard to do justice to explaining what they represented. Very much a big loss for tinkerers, amateur scientists, people looking for a really cool science fair project, etc. :-(

https://web.archive.org/web/20230811062305/https://amazing1....
Child prodigy and future Formula One pilot also follows a similar regimen...

https://www.sebastianeskandari.com
If you're going to die, die with honor, not without.

Basically the board's choices are commit seppuku and maybe be viable somewhere else down the line, or try to play hardball and fuck your life forever.

It's not really that hard a choice, but given the people who have to make it, I guess it kinda is...
No way… no way. Is there another source for the claim in the title besides this tweet? Jfc if they did something so drastic then immediately caved…
There is on paper and in practice. Yes, streaming has a ton of content… you still watch a handful of things because there is far more noise than signal.
Where did you read that? That's interesting and would be one more proof point that they did this completely unprepared.
Boeing 787 capable of carrying 300 passengers lands in Antarctica in world first
> I have argued that privacy is largely an artifact of the lack of technology

That's certainly true.

Think about trying to "disappear" now. 50 years ago, it wasn't so hard. Police data wasn't available online. People didn't carry devices that were constantly connected to the mobile network. CCTV cameras and facial recognition didn't exist.

Now? It would be far, far harder.
Thanks for the summary. That makes sense as an argument.
100%.

I'm speaking from a design perspective.

When we design a pump, any pump, we need to design it to certain design inputs.

Say we're designing a well pump. We need the pump to pump a certain amount of water, a certain height, with a certain input power.

It's the same when we design LVADs or CBP pumps, peristaltic blood pumps for dialysis machines, etc.

One example. I lead the team that designed the peristaltic blood pump (and most of the whole system really) for the Outset medical Tablo kidney dialysis machine. I also have designed several other peristaltic pumps that pump other fluids. Pragmatically, the designs are almost identical. It's because pumps are pumps. The renal technician is going to say that the pump on their Gambro Dialysis machine is completely different than the pump in the Wendy's frosty machine down thr street, but the design engineer that designed them both knows better.

Back to this topic.

When we design a blood pump, it needs to meet certain design requirements. To test our design we need to model the body, it's response to inputs, etc. When we do this, we use the exact same models, exact same tools, exact same design principles, exact same process, amd exact same requirement s in many cases.

Indeed, no clinician would ever treat these things the same just like no mechanic would treat a Ford the same as a Toyota. But at the design level, they're the sake. They're both designed using the same CAD software, share many of the same suppliers and middle ware suppliers, etc.

I cannot stress how similar so many things are in medicine, in medical device design. So many people try to put up walls like this. It's not helpful to highlight differences, it's helpful to identify similarities, because that's where the economy of scale lieslies, that's where we can come together and solve problems.
Do you happen to know how well (or at all) the library supports subs/sub notifications and if people have built alternative UIs around that? The default youtube UI for that is a tremendous clunkfest.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai...

> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.

> Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him. Hours after he was axed, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends and investors about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.

Maybe a deal actually went through? Or he’s referring to the resignations?
I’m thinking motion detection could be useful to measure a toddlers sleep. You know, plan your day out based on the quality of it.
I wonder why ORNL used AMDGPU.jl directly rather than something like KernelAbstractions.jl, which doesn’t require you to overspecialize to a particular architecture. I realize Frontier is all AMD. But the DOE labs have flipped back and forth between HPC platforms a few times. (Which is partly why Sandia invested so heavily in developing Kokkos).
"some devices can never act as hosts, although some can indeed assume both host and device roles"
I think the culture is changing a little bit, though. It's interesting to see the rise of zoomer gym culture in the past couple of years, primarily driven through TikTok.

Granted, this has caused a huge surge in body dysmorphia in teenagers and a rise in use of performance-enhancing drugs, but regardless I think this might be an indication of future change to come.
Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

The US (in particular) has seen a significant decline in trust (think community, as in union, as in Federalist #10 etc.) in all manner of fundamentals of democracy and 'modernity' (tech, science, etc.) in the past several decades. And, bear in mind that there are significant differences in the way people cope with these sorts of changes and the increasing instability* quite generally for many people as well as local and regional communities.

Fire departments, since the time of Ben Franklin, have mostly, to my knowledge, doused fires with "extinguishers," not "accelerants".**

* Especially economic - not in the sense of "time for 'entitlements'", ideally, in the sense of "time to reconsider if trashing the 'New Deal' starting ~ in the 70s might have been a bad idea" ... for those not already thinking that way. Nothing better (socially) than to provide people with meaningful ways of 'acquiring capital.'

** Outside of stories in books, anyway...
you clearly have never had something you built get taken away from you.
I mean just read through the link above. You'll find no exemption for personal use when it involves bypassing DRM. Which I don't think any DVD or blu-ray anymore lacks.

I'm also reasonably sure that "3. Proposed Class 6: Audiovisual Works—Space-Shifting" in the above link would cover personal archival and that was explicitly rejected.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still all for it, but it's not permitted anymore like it used to be.
Not necessarily, if you kept your filters and extension up-to-date, you won't see that pop-up either. uBlock handles it just fine. During early days of YT trying to force me to disable it, all I had to do is to open the settings, update filters and it was just fine. Thankfully it's been peaceful now for long time.
furthermore, ive never even seen a usb-c connector at an airport or for any public use and i doubt i ever will. hell, even IEC can barely withstand that use case,i usually have to bend my prongs for the plug to stay in. usb-c not gonna make it 3 days.
Completely agree. I had to turn on iOS reader mode to tolerate it. But then it was very worthwhile.
They may also be willing to put it on a timer.

Or, depending how rural it is and how daring you are, you could put it on a timer yourself.
I refuse to buy a mobile phone without one. Just not happening.
On keyboard it's easy enough to just put a USB-C port on the keyboard and let users either use an A-C or C-C cable.

For mice, having a hardwired cable probably still makes sense in terms of bulk and strain relief, but I suspect that wireless mice are also far more common.
Google is a monopoly defense company at this point.

Technology is simply about defending the monopoly, not promoting technology frontiers.
I look at US outlets and wonder about shock hazards.
They will get access to the good stuff anyway. The only question is whether you get access to it.
his arc doesnt line up with Jobs. Loopt was how he got his foot into the door at YC as a founder.

at YC he made a name for himself, built the rolodex, and learned how to build startups to the point that he turned OpenAI into a rocketship and now has unlimited access to capital and talent to build another one.
Why? Are there a lot of useless employees there?
I second that this is an usual use of table stakes.

Here is what I understand by table stakes:
https://brandmarketingblog.com/articles/branding-definitions...
The threat to the hard power is that a new company emerges to compete with them, and it's led by the same people they just fired.

If your objective is to suppress the technology, the emergence of an equally empowered competitor is not a development that helps your cause. In fact there's this weird moral ambiguity where your best move is to pretend to advance the tech while actually sabotaging it. Whereas by attempting to simply excise it from your own organization's roadmap, you push its development outside your control (since Sam's Newco won't be beholden to any of your sanctimonious moral constraints). And the unresolvability of this problem, IMO, is evidence of why the non-profit motive can't work.

As a side-note: it's hilarious that six months ago OpenAI (and thus Sam) was the poster child for the nanny AI that knows what's best for the user, but this controversy has inverted that perception to the point that most people now see Sam as a warrior for user-aligned AGI... the only way he could fuck this up is by framing the creation of Newco as a pursuit of safety.
Yeah are right.
He probably would not be.
We don't know any of that. Only things we know are statement from the board and statement from Altman that he was caught by surprise and statement from Microsoft they're supporting new CEO and few of the people that left. That's all we know for sure. Everything else are rumors and PR spins for now. If they have some evidence of what they said in statement about lying we just don't know.
> But their ideas on how the world works are just so tiresomely dumb.

Yeah, it's really quite difficult to read some of these comments.
At best, that might enable them to eventually come back, once new products are built from scratch, but that takes non-zero time.
They use cell service or sat phone or some kind of sat service like GlobalStar. And they're suggestively called trackers, so there is no expectation of privacy.

GNSS receivers are passive devices just like regular radio receivers, but in addition to regular radios they use math to process the deltas from GNSS satellite clock signals to pinpoint their position.
(For example, the roles could be reversed)
Great write up on the version 13 experience so far with custom models: https://rogerstechtalk.com/my-frigate-v13-beta-experience/

Also an interview with the Frigate author Blake covering the custom models and the project overall:
https://youtu.be/04GZBbn_nRE
You shouldn't be driving over 100 MPH-and your car shouldn't let you
Most of this looks like random data designed to detect if SQL injection is happening without crashing the query (to avoid detection). So, the random strings are effectively a token to check if it is found in the response, which indicates that the injection worked. Similarly for the sleep calls, the attacker would time the response.
It sounds more like FUD being spread by Sam camp. I just don’t see a reason as to why the board would resign.

But, what do I, or anyone except the people involved, know.

OTOH, the tweet sounds/read weird. Is he trying to recruit folks for his next venture.