skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of course, but it's not workers' responsibility to make sure business owners have sustainable businesses. If your business model relied on getting timber for half the market price, that's called running a business badly. If you then started crowing on "What's wrong with you people? Why won't you lazy businesses sell me bloody timber?!" You'd rightly be considered deranged.
this should not even be something i need to say in a forum of adults, but let me make this very clear... The government does not care about you, at all, not even a little.

The government has no more concern for your well being than the insurance company, the government has the ability to simply create more money out of nothing. They do not need nor care about your taxes, your taxes is just a method of control and to provide some manner of legitimacy to their system on control.
> these days I'm more afraid of cops than criminals to be honest.

Could you expand on your thoughts regarding why you're more afraid of cops in Sweden?
I wish we knew what the real cause was.

Some initial coverage talked about Sutskever's concerns over the lack of openness (possibly in publishing results if not full open source).

Other coverage made Sutskever sound like a doomer (the "AI will take over" type), although popular media often does conflate real concerns about the biases of some AI models with doomerism.
So basically, "if you aim for the king, you'd better not miss" kind of situation.
My uncle always said you have to put your watch onto the rest/stand that comes with it as those are designed to hold the watch at the optimal position.

I never understood what he meant since I've always worn a Casio F-91 for as long as I can remember.
A majority of the board removing a minority of the board doesn’t seem like a power play to me. If the opposite were somehow achieved, e.g. through persuading one member of the majority to vote against their own interests, and using the chairman’s casting vote, that would be a power play.

Also, the executive who said it wasn’t for malfeasance wasn’t himself on the board and appears to be trying to push for Altman’s return. The board themselves has not yet said there was no malfeasance. To the contrary, they said that Altman had not been completely candid with them, which could very well be the last straw of malfeasance in a pattern of malfeasance which in aggregate reaches a sufficient threshold to justify a firing.

I don’t know whether there was or wasn’t malfeasance, but taking that executive’s word for it seems unwise in this polarized PR war.
I just engaged in the kind of acronym abuse I don't enjoy receiving! It stands for Subject Matter Expert.
At 3 AM when alerts are firing, documentation beats half-remembered talks with former teammates. We need to get over our aversion to writing stuff down, or at least recording our impromptu brain dumps.
The new investors entered at a ~90B USD valuation for info.

Microsoft I don't think they need it:

Assuming they have the whole 90B USD to spend: it doesn't really make sense;

they have full access to the source-code of OpenAI and datasets (because the whole training and runtime runs on their servers already).

They could poach employees and make them better offers, and get away with a much more efficient cost-basis, + increase employee retention (whereas OpenAI employees may just become so rich after a buy-out that they could be tempted to leave).

They can replicate the tech internally without any doubt and without OpenAI.

Google is in deep trouble for now, perhaps they will recover with Gemini. In theory they could buy OpenAI but it seems out-of-character for them. They have strong internal political conflicts within Google, and technically it would be a nightmare to merge the infrastructure+code within their /google3 codebase and other Google-only dependencies soup.
No, though I think OpenAI at least wants to achieve both.

Whether we can actually safely develop AI or AGI is a much tougher question than whether that's the intent, unfortunately.
Which I'll admit I'm jealous of -- I didn't even get a response back after following up a second time about how ghosting sucks. (Or this, for that matter.)

And that's unfortunate, because it did genuinely sound interesting. -.-
My point is: both are two sides of the same coin.
My first modem was 300 baud on my Commodore 64 as a kid. 56k was like heaven a few years later.
See Mozilla for proof of this statement
despite being invented for non-scam purposes, it turns out to be a productivity multipler for scammers more than anyone else.

and also Bitcoin might be the exception that proves the rule - every other chain or token is managed by a few insiders taking get-rich-quick marks for a ride.
> This is laughably naive

Please don't be insulting, it's against HN guidelines.

> your view that government only acts in "the best interest of he citizen"

I didn't say that anywhere, please don't put words in my mouth.

> The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.

That's a conservative shibboleth. It's been completely and utterly discredited by the accomplishments of Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, the ACA. Or of federal disaster response, or of lifting children out of poverty. Etc. Government isn't perfect by any means, but it helps citizens on a massive scale, and thank goodness for that.

> with the passage ot the Federal Tort Claims Act

Right, this allows citizens to sue. Contrary to what you claimed. The fact that the government could undo the act doesn't mean it's not currently the law. You might as well claim you don't have to pay taxes because the government might undo the IRS.
Yes, please integrate it with Mistral and Whisper. This has got to get into the LLM frontends.
> But at least they are good at PR.

What could possibly make you think that Ilya and AI Notkilleveryoneism is possibly winning the PR battle? HN, Tech Twitter, VC's, and major industry are all raking them over the coals. All of those people are trying to make money and get rich. Imagine thinking you're the underdog. The scientists are trying to prevent catastrophe for everyone. This is the climate change debate all over again. You wouldn't have the cajones to think climate change was real if that view was unpopular.
>> A "naive" datetime is the one for which it is not known what the timezone is.

> Then it is UTC

No, naiive datetime is: "now" ie a time description that lacks enough information to be able to fix that moment relative to other datetimes. It lacks TZ information.

I happen to physically live at roughly 2.6° west of the Greenwich meridian oh and at 50.9 north of the equator. It is now 23:08 (to one minute precision). I have given you enough information to derive my active time zone, if you consult the TZDB, and hence to convert my given naiive datetime to one that will work for you. If I hadn't included both a northing and an easting (I actually gave you a "westing" but that is simply a negative easting!), you could go very wrong. For example France, Spain etc are directly south of here and they are an hour "ahead" of the UK, right now.

Right now it is: "23:15 UTC+0" I could use GMT+0 instead and that would work too but let's keep it French! That's fair - the Greenwich meridian was picked over the Parisian one (and several others) for 0° east/west for time zone calcs but let's call it UTC instead of CUT which is what the english translation would end up being. I actually prefer UTC - CUT is also a word.

Now, I have not included the date bit of datetime in my examples above. There are multiple naiive interpretations for datetime. Calling them all "UTC" is simply not going to cut it 8)
I agree with you the model isn't actually making any updates at all. It remains completely static and the only thing that's changing is the prompt in the context.

However borrowing some ideas from code is data and data is code you might be able to make the argument that because this process is iterating over the code/data that there is some update to a state over iterations. Whether or not it's actually learning so to speak I don't know but some process of change is happening.

Where it gets weird is that this programming language, and I use that term kind of loosely, is English and it was made by jamming in lots of it. So you've got all these uncounted for weird interspersed meanings plus all the weird connections that the model is making behind the scenes that we don't even know why it's doing that. Maybe in the prompt saying that it's an AI model trying to become self-aware versus a unicorn trying to do the same does matter somehow. We can't really know.

All this being said, if you put a gun to my head I couldn't tell you with any certainty whether or not this will get you to the golden eternal braid.

But sometimes it's fun to pretend I'm smart and think about this stuff.
But many Israelis are, even openly, bloodthirsty. This is well documented and trivial to find on mainstream social media platforms. Obviously (though I want spell it out because I genuinely do not want to upset you), the same is true of many Gazans and those who sympathize with their plight.

Please do not, as you just did, imply that to criticize Israeli policies is to legitimize the horrors brought upon thousands of innocent civilians on Oct 7. That is a false dichotomy. Furthermore, a personal endeavour to split every hair on this topic while emotionally compromised will likely lead to a negative mental health outcome.
the problem is often exacerbated by the "legal and safe" regulated gambling companies themselves - breaking advertising rules, codes of conducts, and so much more..

Gambling industry fines (levied by regulators) so far this year have reached an astounding $427,183,860 (https://gamblingindustryfines.com/)

also sadly, many states don´t have any support for problem gambling.
It for sure doesn't have sama's name on it. The point stands
Two Execs Guilty in Landmark Consumer Safety Act Non-Reporting Case
One of the times in my life I got along the best with little sleep was when I woke up before dawn to go surfing. I still went to bed after midnight, but the excitement of going into the ocean got me out of bed quick as lightning. There's something to that idea for sure.
There's a lot of promising RTSs currently in development, that can trace their roots to Blizzard and/or SC2.

As wheelerof4te suggests, I'd keep my eyes on Stormgate. It's being developed by the ex-Blizzard team that worked on SC2 and WC3. More big names involved than I care to drop. <https://playstormgate.com/>, <https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012510/Stormgate/>

ZeroSpace came out of the blue a couple months ago with pre-alpha gameplay videos, kickstarter, tournaments, etc. They have several SC2 pros and community figures involved in development (Scarlett, CatZ, PiG, GiantGrant, Maguro). Their kickstarter just raised over half a million dollars. <https://www.playzerospace.com/>, <https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605850/ZeroSpace/>.

There's also Immortal, which has been in development for a longer while. The team has previously built some great SC2 mods, and the pre-alpha got some attention from SC2 pros. <https://sunspeargames.com/>

The big "problem" with RTS is that the genre in general is not very accessible. SC1 is clunky (1998), SC2 is extremely lethal (splash damage vs glass cannons), team modes like 2v2 are not considered seriously (people want to play with their friends), getting good at the game requires learning all the rock-paper-scissors of dozens of units per faction that make Pokemon type charts pale in comparison. The 1v1 ladder is designed to give you an average 50% winrate, hence it demands that you consistently play at your best or deal emotionally with a giant lose streak.

The team making Stormgate is aware of these (and many other) problems, and takes a lot of input from the community on Reddit. It's gonna boil down to execution, but I have faith that they can make a fun game that's gonna be appealing to a much broader crowd than the hardcore RTS fans.
Maybe. That all depends on whether that mission was really what was at stake or whether they allowed themselves to be roped into some kind of putsch. I've yet to see anything that proves without a doubt that the best remedy for whatever ailed OpenAI was to terminate Sam Altman and to risk the company imploding. It seems a bit drastic, to put it mildly. If it turns out that they were the last ones holding the fort against the hordes I'll be happy to change my tune on that.
Same for me, I got very confused for 2 minutes.

Not sure why though, is there something with the way it’s phrased that makes us think of the tab character? It’s not particularly ambiguous and I’m very aware that vertical tabs (not the character) exist so I have no idea why I first thought of the obscure vertical tab character
How do you get Whisper to be fast?

Isn't it quite non-realtime?
Original title: “Two Corporate Executives Found Guilty in First-Ever Criminal Prosecution for Failure to Report Under Consumer Product Safety Act”

Posted because of novel criminal prosecution under the statute mentioned [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Product_Safety_Act

(Title summarized by GPT4 to fit within title limit)
As others said, we checked the state file into git. It was up to you to ensure you pulled after taking a lock.
If Sam returns he doesn't want to risk getting ousted again? So presumably he'll appoint people 100% loyal to him.

Plenty of precedent for tech founders to have total board control. It will take a little while for Sam to consolidate power, but he won't forget what happened this weekend and he'll play the long game accordingly.
Huh. I imagined many scenarios, including the more obvious and dangerous one, "AI manipulating people unaware of its existence" - but I never considered a scenario in which the AI makes its existence widely known, and perhaps presents itself as more dangerous than it is, and then it just starts slightly nudging all the people racing to take control over it.
Long ago my dad (an experimental physicist) had a self-winding mechanical watch.

At the end of the day, he would check if the watch had gained or lost time during the day (compared to the broadcast bell chimes radio stations used to broadcast on the hour).

Based on the observation he would set the watch on its right side or left for the night, causing the spring in the self winding mechanism to be slightly more or less tensioned, leading to a slight gain or loss of time by morning to tune the watch to the precise broadcast signal.
If they had written consents from a majority of the board to remove Altman and Brockman from the board, then depending on the applicable nonprofit law and corporate governance documents, the board removals may very well have been legally conducted without need for a properly noticed board meeting. (For the actual firing of Altman, that might have been legal either through written consents or through a board meeting after the removals of Altman and Brockman.)

Having no information on what laws and governance documents apply to OpenAI or on what steps the board took, I express no opinion on whether the legal requirements were actually met, but it’s possible they were.
Credit cards would be nice. But you need an angle, something they'd do that you can't do with Spotify. Otherwise they'll never take off.
Trust (societal as well as towards authorities).

Freedom of speech (and negative freedoms in general).
> drive-by exploit

It's worth noting that UAC is not a security boundary[1]. Sure, a safeguard mechanism, but not a security feature against stealth rootkits trying to escalate from non-privileged environment.

[1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/189491/microsof...
Well, lack of resources leads to conflict - although I'm not sure if it's a real lack or a perceived lack. A drought in Syria lead to rural farmers moving into the cities to try to earn money differently, and the tensions there sparked the civil war (and as NY Times called it, proto world war[1]). Refugees entering Europe and Merkel's "We can do it!" after her years of saying "Austerity uber Alles!" to Europeans under her de-facto rule (remember the whole Euro crisis, the PIIGS, featuring special case Greece?) probably caused natives' resentment against the refugees, and now right-wing politics are winning across Europe (e.g. Brexit), because hey, we humans are selfish, we want to save ourselves first, and then our family, and then our tribe, and we identify with people who are like us, visually, culturally (heh, I've got Polish people I know who hated middle eastern war refugees and were then proud for Poland to be taking Ukranian war refugees, spot the difference, "But it's different!" they say, after using their confirmation bias), and we're still under the effects of goverments being idiots about saving vs spending...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/16/world/middlee...
In principle, yes. But not easily.

The physics of radio wave propagation are surprisingly complex. Buildings and objects in the path between transmitter and receiver can cause various interference effects that basically slow down the signal. I'm glossing over a lot, but it would take significant effort to precisely measure the exact delay between any one receiver and the transmitter. It's much more complicated than just the distance, and each one has to be measured individually.

I'm not an expert in RF, but I think this concept of a single synchronizing transmitter just doesn't work in the real world. You'd probably build a cell network with many transmitters covering small areas. Each transmitter has the hardware to synchronize with thr others, and the lights just have a simple circuit slaved to the transmitter clock.

There's probably more clever ways to synchronize signals over long distances, but RF is black magic to me.
All anybody could afford.
> They can replicate the tech internally without any doubt and without OpenAI.

Would they be also able to keep up with development?
This is a great game that I play for many years. I tried various other RTS-es but none had the right combination of crazy strategies, good balance, lots of use of physics (not perfect but at last tries and mostly succeeds to make you feel like those units are real objects and not icons on the screen) and mostly enjoyable PvP

I definitely would recommend although can have a steeper learning curve than others.
Changing that setting to use https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls instead would have helped also. Without degrading anything else.
That is a lot lower than I would have guessed (only 300,000 plant species on the entire planet?). I think the number of known species, 2.16 million, is the better comparison here, because we're talking about known extinctions.

Also, this is just extinctions in the US, but I can't find a good number of known species that exist in the US. For one example, 10 of the 21 species labeled as extinct here are birds, and there seem to be roughly 900 species of birds in the United States. So 10 seems like a lot. There are also 8 extinct mussel species out of 297 known in North America.
Fine-tuning mistral for tool use like metasploit is effective, but even default mistral with a basic system prompt is very capable and doesn’t often say it can’t do things. ChatGPT obviously needs a lot of coaxing, “my job depends on this” is a hilarious way to get it to be helpful here. But for cyber security tooling I think we’ll see things more akin to David Shapiro style swarms with small models that are domain specific coordinating with each other (very basic discovery focused models communicating with a more complex reasoning model to validate findings, then remediation)

The tricky part here is (football metaphor) so far I’m having to train the “strikers” before I can effectively train the “goalie”. Which feels bad for AI safety. I think this is why we’re not seeing a lot of work in the open here.

But we’re planning to open source the goalie, which will look more like Markov/monte-Carlo traditional ML on specific bits, like infrastructure as code.

If you want to work on this stuff, especially in EU, DM me; we’re hiring ;)
> This jay’s name, recorded in the data as WLKOSR, is an acronym for the color combination of the three bands on his legs.

I'm getting a good vibe from these ornithologists.
There's a lot of truth to what you're saying, but it's interesting to solve that problem other ways. For example, a high tech unit that can kill hundreds of spam units, or just making more expensive units more economical and better to build than endless spam.

That said, BAR is trying to balance the game to reduce spam currently. Having an endless stream of trash units charging ahead is great for scouting, even if they don't do much damage.
Fun fact: at the beginning of its existence, VSCode didn’t have horizontal tabs, and the creators were pretty opposed to it. So at first, we had to deal with the « open editors » vertical system. Them adding support for horizontal tabs was a pivot moment that boosted VSCode´s popularity.
More like last desperate attempt.
Glad I'm not the only one who's had this experience!
I guess executives aren't incentivised to avoid the long term brand damage these sorts of decisions cause. Maybe that's because the top minds in business don't think that this sort of long term brand damage can really impact the profits in a measurable way?

But surely it must? Isn't this what Disney is finally suffering?
This is actually almost the current step in many places.

What's the next step after that?
We'll never know exactly what the issue was.
It's in nobody's best interest to share that information. It's not in OpenAI's, Microsoft's, and certainly not sama's. Probably not even Ilya's.

Ultimately, whatever it was, it will be smoothed over.
Why would they be removed from the endangered species list?

Shouldn’t they be placed on onto an uber-protected status list?
Michael Feathers in "working with legacy code" tackled the unit test definition, and in the end defined a unit test as a test that runs fast.

Also a very confusing topic for me early on as I tried to grasp how to actually do it. So I read Kent Beck's book on TDD and was even more confused because he did not write tests in isolation there, and I was told to write unit tests like that. But then it hit me: most people are just cargo cultists and repeat what somebody told them.
I love this, but am not going to pay a subscription for this. $420 a year? That’s more than IntelliJ Ultimate! Doesn’t even come with a fallback license that I can use when I stop subscribing.
As long as the immigrants coming are paying into the system more than they take it's not a problem. The issue is purely the type of immigrants Sweden welcomed.

We should be clear about this because even at scale immigration can work well, and be a net benefit economically.

Another problem Sweden though is that they also didn't import people with compatible cultural values. So you have a population of people who are unable to economically contribute, and often unwilling to integrate.

I just wish people listened years ago when people like myself suggested it was likely to play out like this instead of being so mean and accusing us of all having hateful motives. There's no going back now.
For anyone who knows both R and Python well - Request: I think it would be nice to translate this book into Python from R.
There used to be a subreddit called Sneerclub where people would make fun of Eliezer and some of his buddies. Here's a discussion of a basic factual error he made on how training AI works, even though this topic is supposedly his life's work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/131rfg0/ey_gets_...

I enjoyed the comment that his understanding of how AI training works is like "thinking that you need to be extremely careful when solving the equations for designing a nuclear bomb, because if you solve them too quickly then they'll literally explode."