skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about? This is trivially shown to be incorrect.

I just asked ChatGPT the same thing three times in a row, and it gave me three different answers, with the latter two answers being shorter and rephrased.

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

Are you suggesting that a language model can't be sentient because it doesn't get annoyed like a human? That's silly.
any device that doesnt need a 20gbps or higher link is better off connected to your motherboard via a usb-a to usb-c cable. the "a" connector has not been deprecated. in some ways it is the superior connector, higher mating cycles, less fragile, less likely to get ripped loose, much more torque required to bend, and so on. the "c" connector is more useful on the opposite end where you will be plugging in and out more frequently.
Spoiler: your comment will not age well.
This headline is sufficiently absurd that I would not have believed this would be a thing ten years ago.

That said, this is a perfect opportunity to talk about the ethics of training manipulative AI models to extract money from desperate, lonely customers... Err, I mean offering AI girlfriend services.
“Hypocrite” does not mean what you think it does.

Microsoft nor anyone else said they deeply believed in and prioritized OpenAI’s charter over their own interests. They might have agreed to it, and they must abide by agreements, but this is not a case of claiming one set of principles while acting contrary to them.
My 60-year-old mom isn't tech savvy and always asks me for help with her computer. You wouldn't expect her to know about Sam Altman, but she's actively sending me articles about this fiasco.
An editor could be, but regardless, Wikipedia has many risks, especially in this scenario.
It would be good if souls like games could have starting story conditions that are more or less the same on each play through, but player actions in the world (i.e. order of boss completion etc) lead to the story developing along certain lines in a dynamic manner. Each main boss has a character arc they are following, and the actions of the player to either ignore that boss / part of the map or engage with it immediately will lead to the progression of certain storylines over others, also providing a lore explanation for scaling up boss difficulty.
Nor do Andrej Karpathys (grow on trees).

OAI still have people who are true leaders in this deeply technical space - I don't see research wins going to a competitor unless they cultivate similar talent at the top.

It's also possible that Altman was privy to a breakthrough which makes it possible for him to execute from scratch on the AGI goal without a strong research org.

It's all speculation :)
I like to believe they actually did their homework and thought this through. We also don't have the full story so it's hard to say.
That makes good sense and I think all those that are not independently wealthy already except personal friends of either Sam or high level remainers are going to do something quite similar. It's just too fluid a situation to make good decisions, especially if your livelihood is at stake, better not to make decisions that can't be easily undone.
I called this yesterday. I said the board would be forced out under the pressure, and Sam would be back. It was obvious. Even if it is a not-for-profit company, it bows under investor pressure.
Thought experiment:

Suppose a $14 subscription to YouTube Premium is typically split in half, $7 for the platform and $7 for content creators. If someone signs up for YouTube Premium but doesn't watch any videos at all, do creators split that $7 (in a proportion that roughly mirrors the existing amount creators were already getting paid: a bigger share of the $7 for those with a bigger share of views generally) or does the platform keep both halves?

I don't know that anyone here can say what does happen with that $7, but what should happen with it? Did creators earn it? If they earned it regardless of no plays from that user, it follows that in another universe where the Premium user only ever watched one single creator, that creator doesn't earn more of that particular $7 than they otherwise would.
If you haven't already, read The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. One of the best biographies I have ever read.
Sigh. I would pay for and ad free experience in a heartbeat if, and only if, they also don’t steal my data, build a profile on my usage and feed it all into some current or future AI to optimize how to manipulate me.

Of course that will never happen because these crooks are addicted to our data - and even more so if I am a paying customer.
Thanks for this. I'm averaging a kw in a small house and don't understand where it's going. When we put in a hot tub, it only raised the monthly bill about 10% (it's worth that). Gas heat, gas water heater and stove. Most lights are LED at this point. Using laptops, no big graphics machines.

I need to do what you did, though I was thinking about hacking up a clip-on ammeter and some monitoring software to examine the various breaker branches.
I see the problem as completely opposite. Streetlights ruin your night vision so you can't see in all the dark areas people could be hiding.
Right, right, nothing surprising about computers suddenly creating original works of art, poetry, legal arguments, bedtime stories and screenplays. AGI? Pshaw. Wake me up when they’ve proved the Riemann Hypothesis using nothing but a collection of vintage cookbooks.
That’s a fair point. Volvo fitted with smaller batteries but travelling a comparable distance as the Semi will result in more charge-discharge cycles for the Volvo. That can lead to more wear.
Just to clarify, one founder on the board, Ilya, has skin in the game, and was the reason behind Sam's firing.

He convinced other members of the board that Sam was not the right person for their mission. The original statement implies that Ilya expected Greg to stay at OpenAI, but Ilya seems to have miscalculated his backing.

This appears to be a power struggle between the original nonprofit vision of Ilya, and Sam's strategy to accelerate productionization and attract more powerful actors and investors.

https://nitter.net/GaryMarcus/status/1725707548106580255
I'm electronics expert. All radio equipment "see" such things from time to time.

For example I used car FM radio to hear reflections from meteors, from Warsaw radio (about 1000km from me, usually, you may know, about 100km from transmission tower).

But modern digital usually just filter out all signals with too much delay.

Old analog radars (widely in use in Ukraine), really could see much farther when good conditions, and if engineers could tune circuit. And we have to tune, because need to make all possible, because of war.
Founders come and go. Doesn’t always make them a good. he wasn’t the sole founder either, it was founded by a consortium of people
Yeah no. While you may be onto something that still does not make it a coup.
> what are quantum fields if not ether?

Individual quantum fields are not Lorentz invariant; they define distributions of matter and energy that look different in different frames.

The hypothetical ether of Lorentz ether theory, however, is Lorentz invariant: it is basically the vacuum in EM theory. So it looks the same in all frames. (Yes, LET claims that there is one particular frame that is the "absolute rest frame"--but there is no way of telling which frame it is because the ether looks the same in all frames.)
Nothing kills iMessage bridge that profoundly violated user privacy, security
> Microsoft owns near half of OpenAI.

I don't believe this is true, especially given OpenAI's weird corporate structure with non-profit and for-profit entities. I could be wrong.

> Meanwhile OpenAI staff pretty much consider Altman as their chieftain....

> If Altman going out, near entire OpenAI staff (especially the key personnel) will follow Altman.

Again, not saying you're wrong since I have no first hand info. But do you have first hand info on this, or is this speculation based on various reports. Genuinely curious..
So that leads us back to my original question:

Where would we have run the experiment to confirm/deny the association you're describing?
> higher mating cycles

It’s the other way around.

USB-C sockets are much more robust than their A counterparts, since the spring is in the plug for C, as opposed to in the socket for A.
That's a fascinating idea, and does resolve the biggest downside compared to uPlaybook; the benefit of yaml is that you can't really sneak code in there. Thanks for putting that on my radar!
"Lorentz ether theory"

Raising ether theories is usually troublesome especially pre-Lorentz concepts such as the luminiferous ether but one can't deny the fact that c = 1/√(ε0 μ0).

If we agree that this relationship is accurate then it seems to me that that just saying the vacuum permittivity and permeability are universal constants is a bit of a cop-out. If ε0 or μ0 change then so does c. Whether one uses the word ether or some other, there's something about a vacuum that's very significant/determines the rate of causality, etc.

Edit: seems to me if we had a better understanding of that relationship then we'd likely have an answer to the fine structure conundrum.
I'm not sure what rule the OP is referencing but otherwise reasonably successful start-ups often fail because founders clash on key parts of their vision (or behave in toxic ways towards each other or to other people in the company). This can very handily wreck your company or at a minimum substantially damage it.
An LLM absolutely doesn't respond the same way each time if asked the same question three times in a row, with temperature (randomness) set to zero. It responds the same way only if you start a new chat, which is a clean instance with no memory of the previous conversation. For a human, this is like if you went back in time to just before you asked the question, and asked them the same question again, in which case the person would give the same answer.
Care to sign a partnership agreement? I'll need you to personally indemnify against any defection to GP's side, of course - any subsequent comment in violation of these terms could be subject to arbitration and voiding of the partnership agreement.
Fair. I don't know why they wouldn't just come out and say that though, if that were the case. It would be seen as admirable, instead of snake-ish.

Instead of "Sam has been lying to us" it could have been "Sam had diverged too far from the original goal, when he did X."
You have a source on that? I can't find anything - so as far as I can tell you're just spreading misinformation.
I can't agree with the definitions you're insinuating. To suggest that the creators of Go do not know what the difference is between "writing software" and doing "software engineering" is plainly wrong. Much of the language design was motivated by learnings within Google. What other "modern" language that has more of a focus on software engineering, putting readability and maintainability and stability at the forefront? It's less about novice programmers and more about artificial barriers to entry.

Modern PLT and metaprogramming and more advanced type systems enable the creation of even more complex abstractions and concepts, which are even harder to understand or reason about, let alone maintain. This is the antithesis of whatever software engineering represents. Engineering is almost entirely about process. Wielding maximally expressive code is all science. You don't need to be a computer scientist to be a software engineer.
It’s a private company, options are nothing until otherwise anyway, in most cases. I wouldn’t look at them very much either way and I hope they’re smart enough to make the same distinction
Everyone on that board is financially independent and can do whatever they want. If Sam & Ilya can't get along that basically means there are 2 companies where previously there was OpenAI. (4 if you add Google and Anthropic into the mix; remember that OpenAI was founded because Ilya left Google, and then Anthropic was founded when a bunch of top OpenAI researchers left and started their own company).

Ultimately this is good for competition and the gen-AI ecosystem, even if it's catastrophic for OpenAI.
A big part of this is that a lot of manufacturers are just completely ignoring the standards.

The standards specify a rather limited set of cables, and it specifies clear ways to label them which make it extremely obvious to consumers what the cable is capable of. But manufacturers just... can't be bothered to actually follow the standard.

The main reason why there isn't one cable is that it has mutually-incompatible goals. A high-speed data cable needs expensive, thick, shielded data wires - and is limited to about 80 cm in length due to signal integrity issues. All completely fine for connecting a laptop to a docking station.

On the other hand, a smartphone charging cable needs to be cheap, long, and flexible - but it doesn't need to carry high-speed data. The aforementioned docking station cable would technically work, but it'd be $30 rather than $3 and provide a far worse user experience.
Napoleon said "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
ChatGPT works by cumulating the prompt. You didn't ask the same question three times. In stead you asked question q, then qq and finally qqq. Those are three different questions, which explains why you got different answers.

I'm not sure if ChatGPT also cumulates its previous answers in the context. It might do that as well. In that case the prompts would be q, qaq and qaqaq where 'q' is your question and 'a' the earlier reaction from the LLM.

The illusion of sentience comes from this. The new answers reflected what you said because the prompt was different and included the previous discussion.

This is a feature of the user interface, not the language model. The only reason why the language model would respond differently to the same input is the artificial randomness mixed with the input. Without it it would be totally deterministic and not appear sentient at all. It would still be as knowledgeable as before. Like a parrot trained to be very good at combining key words to key responses.
To put all of this into perspective, it would be good to know what "... not consistently candid in his communications with the board" means.
It'll be tough going with no Azure compute contracts, no GPUs, no billions from Microsoft, no training data, OpenAI capturing all of the value from user-generated content resulted in sites like Reddit and Twitter significantly raising the cost to scrape them.
They even put a nice little page up about it on their site. But that structure is not going to survive this whole ordeal.
I haven't either, but have you seen many people share their experience of working with him? I haven't.
Intermediaries are a problem. I say this, using beamer.
That’s a very good point. It doesn’t stop some manufacturers from still shipping the “forbidden” adapter type for just that use case, though.

I prefer USB-A for FIDO authenticators for that reason (and because the plug is more robust for USB-A and basically indestructible; C plugs can and do get bent on a keychain).
Currently at 60%...
This month, Microsoft is expected to announce an AI chip.
I feel dumber after reading anything by Greenspun. Look at me, actually saying this out loud, wasting all your time with the sort of pointless comment that 5 minutes ago I'd have laughed at the very idea of posting. That's the power of the man's content. What a guy!
That Microsoft agreed to such a deal is negligence of the highest order.
It could be. But I've yet to see any evidence of that. More likely it wasn't because short of a massive skeleton in a cup-board in Sam Altmans' apartment this was mishandled and by now I would have expected that to come out.
I don't care if it's the Chinese or Satanists, or the marquis de sade: if they fund a take down on patent trolls I'm there for it.
Excessive hunger is not central to weight gain. Most obese people overeat due to habit, boredom, or psychological trauma. People eat all the time when they're not even hungry.

Hunger is just another sensation, like pain or cold. Within certain reasonable limits a disciplined mind can ignore those stimuli. But discipline is not often taught as a distinct and necessary skill in our soft modern society.
Weird you use chrome, and not firefox.
Exactly, the video is several time commented and rebuked in the subreddit. Trolls tend to be annoyingly persistent.
No one governs the board of a nonprofit, exactly. In this case, it sounds like Sam and his allies are trying to exert pressure on the board by threatening crippling resignations. This puts the board in the position of choosing between pursuing its mission without certain employees, or pursuing business plans that do not align as well with its mission, but with the full complement of employees.

It's a tricky situation (and this is just with a basic/possibly-incorrect understanding of what is going on). I'm sure it's much more complicated in reality.
Hah, so it was fine as long as it was American companies doing the patent trolling, but now that the lawsuits are coming from China, they must be stopped.
Really? Only power users can search on an iPhone and click on a link and go to the TV app or is it only power users who know how to subscribe and cancel a subscription?

And only power users search Google for “Orange is the New Black” and click on “How to Watch”?
An Empathetic User-Centric Chatbot for Emotional Support
I'm OK with this. Better than ads.
kinda the same thing that phone sex businesses have been doing for decades, no?
Well, "safely" is subjective i guess. This means an AI that will not "get rogue and kill us all" or an AI that will not swear back at the user or generate unethical content even when prompted?

I am really not concerned about the first aspect.
The second one is a lot harder to guarantee considering how those LLMs work. People will push them to the limit, and when there is no one to blame, they will blame the company who made to product. I am concerned that they will sacrifice usability, accuracy, and basically neuter the product because of that notion of safety. It's already happening, especially with Dall-e 3 where they pre-process your prompts at the API endpoint, that shows how scared they are about it being misused and how bad it can be to them, as the user can't be responsible for their own prompt. Bulding a safe complex tool like that, in that sense, that is devoid of any means of misuse is very very hard to do without making it bleak. I really hope something changes along the way to fix that.
For me, the danger of AI is that we've made something that feels like a wise oracle, and we've begun treating it like one (to the point that a large percentage of the work we create and consume is actually coming from AI) but it actually has no underlying wisdom or noble guiding principles. OpenAI seems to encode the moral sense that is expedient to their business model, and not much else. But there are so many important topics that you can't get ChatGPT to talk honestly about: sexuality, drugs, etc. We've made ourselves a God, but is this God really good for humanity?
Anyone can do whatever they want, it doesn’t mean it will work out the way they want it too.
But nobody in the article disagreed with him about it. They disagreed with his complaints about quantum mechanics by making a comparison to relativity.
Musk is now the poster child for ruining your own success via social media.

He had the world in his hand and now he's an internet-poisoned laughing-stock chasing away all the advertisers.
I2C or uart would require an additional wire, so that'd be cost-prohibitive. But I do agree that something like One-Wire would be better from a hobbyist perspective.

Although probably easy to implement in silicon, USB PD is an absolute nightmare to DIY. Pretty much your only option is to get a dedicated PHY like the FUSB302B to do the actual electronic part of PD comms for you.
This. For some corporate training sites they do this, which makes watching at 2x useless since you just have wait silently… but if you’re me, you get distracted, go do something else and then come back a month later when the nag email tells you you need to do the training.
It’s doesn’t matter what you call it.
Bloomberg now reporting the board "balking" at resigning. I suspect they never intended to resign. They fully expected this firestorm.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/openai-bo...
perhaps. but thats why you have the C at the other end because it doesnt make sense to be frequently plugging things in and out of the motherboard and and wearing down those connectors.

but i doubt you will get more cycles out of C in real life. that might be what the spec says but given the pitch of the pins on the C connector compared to the A, you have a world of greater tolerance to work with
I've worked directly with Sam on a few projects, and was always impressed by how thoughtful and empathetic he was. I've worked with a number of smart, wealthy people, and Sam is the only one I'd say that about.
There are zillions of youtube client devices out there that rarely get updated or no longer get updated at all. It's tricky to 'introduce' a lot of things, never mind DRM.
We looked for Gravitational lensing only after Einstein proposed his theory and wanted validation. No one wanted to actually put the effort to do the measurement during an eclipse and iirc Einstein had to lobby for it greatly and only a single lone wolf guy took him up on it. And if I’m not wrong the initial observations weren’t even that solid and were likely artifacts that just in retrospect were interpreted in the right side of truth.

All other observations likely would have taken decades to stumble upon as well. I see no argument still why any other scientist would have made the relativity leap (which to be clear isn’t directly a requirement for deriving E=mC^2).
Yandex…For the Win…
Does uBlock Origin bypass YouTube Anti-Adblock? This website will tell you.

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
I think it's fair to say that OpenAI retains its AI talent so the loss of the founding team may not result in lost research progress.

The founding team does however bring tactical experience that is (maybe) unmatched. They also have experience solving problems that turn cutting edge AI models into usable products. It's easy to devalue non research contributions, but they have legitimate value and are instrumental in OpenAIs success.
I saw this, and the comment below asking why there are different versions of e.g. 0 and 7. Saw the variant picker on your site, and I can't help but wonder:

Do you have any plans to add the different variants in as stylistic alternates (SALTn tables)? This is how FontFont encoded two styles of numbers and other various symbols into a single OpenType font. With FF Zwo I like some of the alternates but not others and this lets me choose.
In a coup, a leader with the support of the people is ousted by force. If we believe the reports that there will be mass resignations, that seems to indicate the founders enjoy the “support of the people.”

Of course you can protest, “but in this country the constitution says that the generals can sack the president anytime they deem it necessary, so not a coup.” Yes, but it’s just a metaphor, so no one expects it to perfectly reflect reality (that’s what reality is for).

I feel we’ll know way more next week, but whatever the justifications of the board, it seems unlikely that OpenAI can succeed if the board “rules with an iron fist.” Leadership needs the support of employees and financial
backers.