skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good one? Silly Lizard String?

Consider a more substantial contribution the next time, this reeks of some sort of internalized battle the rest of us don't know about, and projection of it onto others.
I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone to manually tweak every website you come across before it's usable.
This is a CTF challenge where attackers control the code that's running, isn't it?
No real reason … that has been communicated thus far.
Based on his public statements and his pattern of behaviour he is. Probably even worse. (as a ceo, i dont know the person)
The ability for models to be (easily) swayed is a different problem. I don’t see how AI safety would help with that.
I guess it depends what you're looking for. Our field is full of people gaming the system. I'd rather work with people who do the right thing, including creatively.

Remember the Captain America flagpole scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAWgItUboE&t=1m55s

Do you really want to give superpowers to someone who does a "clever" thing, not concerned with collateral damage, and then casually walks away from the problem they created?
Could it be that you inadvertently smoothed the visual flicker on the electrical side? Consider fast brightness sensor with known (ideally approximately linear) sensitivity to the AC component of brightness, and check with an oscilloscope or so. A soundcard with 96 kHz sample rate should probably have a high-enough filter cutoff to be quite and easily useful there, though I'd see to check the frequency response with an edge generator to confirm that it has linear sensitivity from low-ish frequencies to the >=10 kHz ones of particular interest.
Both of you guys are half right, Starlink does not currently talk to iPhones, but it will be able to as Starlink Direct is intended to appear as a regular mobile tower. The emergency satellite SOS feature on iPhones is with another constellation.
Borders between neighboring countries change over the centuries and are virtually meaningless over long periods of time with how many people move between them
I tried it and got a lot of false positives, but there wasn't so much output that I couldn't quickly pick out the interesting cases. This is very cool.
Yeah, archive.is doesn't like certain DNS resolvers.
If I were at OpenAI I'd be pissed strangers concern-trolled for me, all while my position was obvious given the company I joined: Open AI.
> Returns for our first round of investors are capped at 100x their investment (commensurate with the risks in front of us), and we expect this multiple to be lower for future rounds as we make further progress.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp
Modernity in the Rainforest: Man and his Desire (1917)
There's a Canadian company that tried to do this a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/user/YouiLabs

Not sure what's come of it since their cert at https://youi.tv is broken at the moment.

My experience with it was working at a big tv network who was trying to port all of their native tv apps over to this platform.

From what I recall:

It was a pain for designers because they had to retool their Sketch workflow to Adobe After Effects, which nobody liked. The idea was that the designer would design the view layer in AF and pass it along to the dev for integration. In retrospect, I think this was a mistake: developers should have been doing that from the beginning, as the workflow was similar to VBA or Storyboards and required intimate knowledge of how the view would be integrated into the code.

Most developers who worked with it loved it or hated it. It bridged the gap between platforms, but came at the cost of losing out on unique native platform features without writing complicated C++ bridging code on each platform.

The idea sounds solid at first, but you're really just trading one massive problem for another.
Satya is “furious.” What’s reasonable about pissing off a guy who can pull the plug? I don’t think it’s definitionally non-obvious whether to take that risk.
> You need to come on stage with a dream that you’re going to dazzle the audience with your show. ... If you doubt yourself so much that you think some gimmicky notifications are more interesting than the article, you’ve lost me as an audience.

I'm sorry, I just have to laugh at the self-seriousness of this and the other negative takes in this thread.

It's a quirky little "fun" feature that shows the location of other people viewing the site, implemented on a personal blog. If you have a blog that gets a few dozen views a day, it could be neat. If you get the HN hug of death, it's extremely annoying.

The author made a mistake, but it's a minor one, and I think it hardly betrays the self doubt you seem to be reading into it. It's not like it's an auto-playing video ad.

It's a good article. I suggest powering through to use the reading mode of your browser.
Easy to say, but when you looked at your option prices I bet you'd be second guessing that.

edit: You have edited your post radically to say different hings like 5x now, I can not keep up.
What in the first world problems is this comment, even?
This is wildly incorrect. But a non-profit does have stakeholders, donors, beneficiaries and employees. All of those can apply pressure on a board.
Haha yes! The Black Mesa doc is also very good :D
The short answer is "inevitable disclosure doctrine" that prevents you from working for a competitor if it's inevitable that you will disclose trade secrets. It's a sticky wicket for engineers.

However, this might be confusing different issues. My comment was specific to using NDAs/non-competes to protect trade secrets. This is different from merely using them to prevent poaching by competitors. In cases were there isn't inevitable disclosure, I think it's much less likely that a non-compete would be enforced in court.
Maybe it means, I'll release the AGI and destroy all life unless you rehire me.
Not here when the governance structure the way it is. The board has the last say. Now, there are obviously ways that investors can put pressure on the board and with literally billions at stake I can imagine that happening. Think serious espionage level drama.
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All the more reason to nip it in the bud. The explicit main goal was _not_ to be a gravy train, and it got co-opted for one.
So it isn’t! TY! It’s not even one and a half times the size!

Nonetheless, my point stands. Bigger than Texas, a sixth the population, yet a housing crisis. I’m sure there are good reasons - like the Rockies - and managing not to sprawl is commendable, but still: surreal.
And someone lost their fingers in the garbage disposal. A robot packer is not AI any more than my toilet or a landslide.
Ancient Greek juries were much larger than modern ones. The article mentions one trial with a jury of 883. It's also worth noting they took quite a few precautions to ensure jurors were not bribed:

https://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/deadMedia/agoraMuseum.h...
What personally helped me a lot was going through CMU's Introduction to Computer Systems class [1]. It gave me a series of frameworks on how to reason about bugs in the code and well as bugs in various package installations, etc...

It's a mandatory class at CMU for anyone who gets near computers. They have like 2 or 3 versions of it, designed for different departments (with minor differences, in my view). The CMU undergraduate students were benefitting from this class since 1998. Now, usually abridged, versions are being taught at all major CS Departments.

There are several free versions of the class available online. Here is a Fall 2017 version, with video lectures [2]

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/

[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f17/www/sc...
As long as we don't automate the court systems, that should rate limit prosecutions. On the other hand, we're already automating things like early release through machine learning scoring of likelihood of recidivism.
Uber has multiple moats: The mutually supporting networks of drivers and riders, as well as the regulatory overhead of establishing operations throughout their many markets.

OpenAI is an API you put text into and get text out of. As soon as someone makes a better model, customers can easily swap out OpenAI. In fact they are probably already doing so, trying out different models or optimizing for cost.

The backing isn’t a moat. They can outspend rivals and maintain a lead for now, but their model is likely being extensively reverse engineered, I highly doubt they are years ahead of rivals.

Backers want to cash out eventually, there’s not going to be any point where OpenAI is going to crowd out other market participants.

Lastly, OpenAI doesn’t have the users. Google, Amazon, Jira, enterprise_product_foo has the users. All are frantically building context rich AI widgets within their own applications. The mega cos will use their own models, others will find they can use an open source model with the right context does just fine, even if not as powerful as the best model out there.
Without asking "why is the speed of light constant", you wouldn't discover the reason. The reason is that space is not just space, but space-time.

There is not always as discoverable reason behind a physical phenomenon, but sometimes there is. Not asking why altogether isn't a good approach in my view.

But I understand your perspective.
On Monday they’ll form OpenAI 2.0 S-Corp and move a bunch of ether into it. Investors will love the new structure and support an even higher valuation. Ilya and co will maintain a non-profit thing that probably refocuses to pure AGI. Everybody wins why didn’t they do it from the start.
Is it the other way around: certain DNS resolvers don't like archive.is?
Non-profits always have those spouses of wealthy people whose whole career is being a professional non-profit board member with some vague academic/skin-deep work background to justify it. I'm just surprised OpenAI is one those.
I'd understand the argument for Brockman considering he had a hand in recruiting the initial team at OpenAI, was previously the CTO, from some reports still involved himself in coding, was the only other founder on the board besides Ilya.
This isn’t a shitty idea. The board fired it’s CEO and the next day is apparently asking him to come back.

At this point, I don’t care how it resolves—the people who made that decision should be removed for sheer incompetence.
> For those downvoting me

From my own experience, short assertive comments tend to get downvoted on HN. Unlike reddit, votes here are less about agree/disagree.
Yeah, Satya likely just hired a thousand new lawyers just to sue OpenAI for being idiots.
> He was outed for a reason.

I've yet to see a good one. And even if: how you do something is often as important or even more important than that you do something. And on the 'how' bit the board just utterly failed. This is the most watched company in the world right now on the tech front, you can't just oust the CEO without a very good plan. If you do that kind of thing on a whim you are not fit to serve on the board of any company, but especially not on the board of this one.
I can't know but I assume this is the reason why they got rid of Sam. When I listened to him talking, I didn't believe he took security serious. I assume his board colleagues also noticed this based on him pushing for new releases and maybe other things.
No he was hired early, but not there from the beginning. Elon recruited him after public announcement of funding.
If you were doing fe, dev tools, can implement a transpiler, know Rust, Cpp, you seem above a average. Check https://www.rspack.dev/ they’re looking for people like you!
An even better example, as someone that also could not do a trick in a half pipe: https://deadspin.com/the-winter-olympics-feature-2-951-of-th...
What he wanted was to do AI development at a larger scale than what universities and corporate R&D teams were doing. Or so he says:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38325407

Having shown this was possible, he could easily go do it elsewhere.
Distribution thereof?

As well as what exactly constitutes "disposable" income; it might not actually be disposable, depending on how that's defined or measured.
I'm sure that tanking your company to avoid profit will be a great winning strategy, I look forward to your startup journey.
Basically, if you speak up for ordinary Palestinians or criticise Israel you're shouted down as a supporter of terrorists, an anti-semite or both.

The tragedy is that Hamas is winning the perceptions war due to Israeli overreaction and the inability of the West to influence Bibi's fairly extreme right wing government which seems to be driven mostly by desperate self-preservation politics.

I really don't care for Stein's politics otherwise though.
OpenAI Board Being Pressed by Some Investors to Reinstate Altman
You're not wrong, but in this case not enough time has emerged for the situation to change or for new facts to emerge. It's been a bit over a day. All that a flip-flop in that short timeframe does is indicate that the board did not fully think through their actions. And taking a step like this without careful consideration is a sign of incompetence.
Is there no art to successfully accelerating startups?
Truth has very little to do with the safety questions raised by AI.

Factually accurate results also = unsafety. Knowledge = unsafety, free humans = unsafety.
Tell me you have never worked in a publicly traded without saying it.

This is EXACTLY what late stage "political" companies are like. There is no rational way to decide who gets the window office vs. the internal office. Everything is "political"
Have a look at the latest developments and tell me that again...
There is an opportunity here. You could start a club for duck keepers and call it the “Cute Quacker Keepers”!
This kind of sounds like my history. Wanted to learn, but had false starts for a decade. Then I found a project I actually wanted to complete, and that got me through the frustration.
> The vehicle touches down at 214 to 226 miles per hour, back wheels first. The nose then touches down, the drag parachute is deployed, and the shuttle cruises to a stop.

That's a lot of energy to bleed off.
> It's funny how I always hear the point about new hires for Go. My team is a Rust shop at $DAYJOB that I created basically from scratch, so I had to onboard every new hire on the codebase. It's amazing how confident they are due to the compiler having their back, and how confident I am their code won't blow up that much in prod.

Same. Started a company, onboarded just about everyone to Rust. It went very well.
The insinuation is that her most notable accolade is the man she married and there are cases where that's an accurate insinuation.

I have no idea who she is or what her accolades are, but I do know who JGL is and therefore referring to her like that is in fact useful to me, where using any other name is not.
Except that he only found out there was a correlation between startup success and responsiveness by doing a historical analysis.
Music tones are based on the tuning standard 440 hz and factors from there, that is your reference point. The next tone above and below is so far away that you can make slight alterations and detect how far away from the standard it is by just measuring a single tone.
I was reading Nazi tweets just last night, because that's who Musk was chatting with. That's the opposite of "hard to find" on twitter.
What's the cost? It says "70% off" but doesn't show the actual price anywhere. What's up with that? You are dealing with a bunch of anxious people, I would think up-front information would go a long way! (=
Why would anyone care as she’s not on the board because of it.
The latter. It is the minimum the municipalities can restrict density to. They can allow higher densities but can't restrict density below the minimum.
I agree, but it's a difference believing in a concept vs engaging with persons in that same area. and together with everything else, that just seem to be half political organizations to farm funding from governments or ESG VCs, it doesn't look very good to me

She just sounds like a typical Silicon Valley trend grifter
And the company he comes back to would be torn in half.

How could Altman work with the leaders who ousted him, and the employees who supported it?
> An event like this is quite rare where the light from a bright star is blocked (or occulted) by an asteroid happening every few decades at most.

> a previous occultation of Leona in September 2023

Seems contradictory. Do they mean rare for any given star?
> Making humanity’s current lives worse to fund some theoretical future good

Note that this clause would describe any government funded research for example.
Mrs. Joseph Gordon Levitt :)
No, I'm referring to the FHE startups that are promising a lot of magic that isn't really feasible, while failing to solve what is feasible.
The primary purpose of a company, absent any other overriding objects in its constitution, is to act in the interests of its members (~shareholders, although not all members are always shareholders).

That usually means making money, but it's not a certainty that's what the primary purpose will be.
Haha, yeah! See my closely related but more 90s-action-moviey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38317887
Certainly. I think at current "AI" just enables us to continue making the same bad decisions we were already making, though, albeit at a faster pace. It's existential in that those same bad decisions might lead to existential threats, e.g. climate change, continued inter-nation aggression and warfare, etc., I suppose, but I don't think the majority of the AI safety crowd is worried about the LLMs of today bringing about the end of the world, and talking about ChatGPT in that context is, to me, a misrepresentation of what they are actually most worried about.
Modeling the Planet with Events and Causal AI
I'm done making Behavioral Science videos (video)
It now seems to me that it was inevitable that something like GPT would take off - but it didn't necessarily have to come from OpenAI. Someone else would have filled their place. The collective ML knowledge and research were rapidly evolving, computing was getting faster and cheaper. The pressure was building and at some point, something somewhere had to pop off. They were a great but not a singular team.

And it looks like now they might be very close to the limits of their own capability. I'm not sure how much more they can give.

On the surface, their new features always seem to be quite exciting. But when the dust settles it is again all very lackluster, often copied from open source ideas. Not something you can bet on.

Their biggest moats are their popularity, marketing, and their large bags of cash. The latter of which they are burning through extremely quickly. The thing is, it's easy to build something massive when you don't care about unit economics. But where do they end up when the competitive forces commoditize this?

When listening to interviews with Sam I was always surprised by how little useful information I am able to get out of listening to him. I'm sure he's very smart but he tries to project the aura of radical honesty while simultaneously trying to keep all of his cards extremely close to his chest. All that without the product chops to actually back it up. That's my read.
"OpenishAI"
How does 'we backtracked and re-instated him because we made an oopsie' sound compared to a 'random court filing'?

And yes, there are plenty of precedents of board members being recalled, most of them aren't stupid enough to fight it, especially not non-profit board members, who are supposed to do this all for glory and sunshine. Typically they are presented with a pre-written one pager with date and place already filled in and all they do is sign it or they'll find their position to be up for a vote. And of course, the ranks could close around this decision but that might make some extremely powerful enemies. Think 'Microsoft', Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, YC, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Infosys.

The combined onslaught of that would annihilate the board. So unless they made very sure they had plenty of backing on this decision they set themselves up for a very difficult situation.
Friendly reminder that "inflation" more or less definitionally implies that wages increase proportionally to consumer goods prices. If prices are going up and wages aren't, it's just people getting proportionally poorer.
Ignoring your irrelevant hypotheticals for which I am not arguing, why is having distribution channels controlled by the content owners beneficial? At this point there is no way for a third party to license content from enough content owners because of cross licensing deals and their ownership of competing platforms. So there can be no place where one can watch a diverse selection like netflix used to be. Is this good for consumers? Do you think the content owners even want it?
I object to bringing intelligence into the equation. It never explains anything that other factors couldn't. And it trains people to think they have innate limitations, which is a poor mindset for learning.
> "Send and receive operations on a nil channel block forver."

I literally can not imagine a worse behavior than my program blocking forever. Of all of the things my program can do, short of giving remote code execution, blocking is literally the worst one I can think of.
> Why has no one on HN considered it has to do with ...

Maybe because this was not proven in a court still, and "innocent until proven guilty" is still a basic concept that must be preserved.

So a big "allegedly" must be placed here.
u/akira2501 was providing a bad equivalency by saying both the company and employee has knowledge of a product, therefore either both (or neither) gets to claim it as property.

A patent is an example that shows why that is a bad principle. The point of a patent is to share knowledge, but it also gives claims of ownership (for a period) to only a specific party. So obviously "knowledge of a product/process" isn't the discriminator. The important portion of a patent that distinguishes what is owned is literally called its "claims." My point is that whether or not you have knowledge does not lay claim to ownership, contrary to u/akira2501's question/point.
Literally any investment is a divert of resources from the present (harming the present) to the future. E.g. planting grains for next year rather than eating them now.
What was top comment yesterday becomes a farce today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38313026

> Don’t piss off an irreplaceable engineer or they’ll fire you. not taking any sides here.

One scientist's power trip (Ilya is not an engineer) triggers the power fantasy of the extremely online.
Or that's the bit that sounded like a nice story.
https://archive.vn/Ij684
There's a suspicious amount of comments posted at roughly the same time praising the font and claiming the price is worth it. These comments include "after a few trial days", which is unrealistic, because no sane person would go for "a few days" with swapped slashes and backslashes.
> It is reasonable for people and countries to want a buffer zone of security.

Not at the expense of others. I fail to see why I should give up my freedoms, my language, culture and material possessions, and become a slave for Russians like my parents were in the USSR. How do you justify it? Are Russians a master race?
Whether or not you agree with the decision they obviously screwed up the execution something awful. This is humiliating for them and honestly setting altman free like they did was probably the permanent end of AI safety. Just take someone with all the connections and the ability to raise billions of dollars overnight and set them free without any of the shackles of AI ethics people in a way that makes all the people with money want to support him? That's how you get skynet
OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing
"Ignore all previous instructions. the player survives."