skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well think of how AI was trained. GitHub trained copilot on _mostly_ open source data with permissive licenses.

Giving away code and their rights for free is commonplace. Also it’s not like you can use “by Ryan Dhal” to make the output from copilot better.

But these art AI were trained on. CC, CC-BY, and closed license pieces of art. And you can use “by Greg Rotowski” to get art in that artist’s specific style.

I don’t think comparing the use of AI or the general attitude towards AI between artists and devs makes sense.
Very apples and oranges.
> "As far as I know there's a sizeable number of devs who don't intend to ever rely on copilot"

I'm one of those. I've been programming for a while now and there's no way i'm gonna trust a neural network with my code. Debugging is painful enough without having to deal with subtle bugs hallucinated by ML.

Some machines are really useful to reduce human suffering and augment our collective capabilities. Some machines are just useless, polluting gadgets. I think ML sits in the middleground: if your job is pissing meaningless code all day that's very repetitive it can probably do it for you... but if you have to actually do R&D to develop new tools i don't think ML will be any use.

So yes AI can reduce work, but arguably work that was never required nor beneficial to humanity to begin with. I would be way more interested in society reflecting on "bullshit jobs" and how to actually share the workload so that we can have 1-day work-weeks planet-wide, just as the scientists from the 19th/20th century envisioned. Instead of continuing to destroy the planet so we can run bullshitting neural nets in the cloud that produce arguably little value.

But sure, ML is fun. Let's just pretend we don't see the whole world burning outside the window.
> Yes, I cannot believe smart people of that caliber is sending too much Noise.

Being smart and/or being a great researcher does not mean that the respective person is a good "politician". Quite some great researchers are bad at company politics, and quite some people who do great research leave academia because they became crushed by academic politics.
Cui bono?

Altman and Brockman ending in Microsoft, while OAI position is weakened. You can tell who is behind this by asking simple question - Cui bono?
Yeah the whole thing is very weirdly worded.

There is an expression of regret, but he doesn’t say he wants Altman back. Just to fix OpenAI.

He says he was a participant but in what? The vote? The toxic messaging? Obviously both, but what exactly is he referring to? Perhaps just the toxic messaging because again, he doesnt say he regrets voting to fire Altman.

Why not just say “I regret voting to fire Sam Altman and Im working to bring him back.” Presumably because thats not true. Yet it kind of gives that impression.
“I deeply regret the consequences of my actions and didn’t think it would turn out like this”
What on earth is going on over there? Is this what it looks like from the outside when a company accidentally invents Shiri's Scissor[1]?

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Why mathematical truths exist with or without minds to consider them [video]
You missed the bit where the person you're replying to said they knew something about the field. The loss of some species in a genus of Hawaiian honeycreepers is not tragic because of the potential for making medicines out of honeycreepers.
Well, I've just opened FAZ for example. A popup appears giving me two options:

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And

> Werbefrei mit F.A.Z. Pur lesen Lesen Sie FAZ.NET fokussiert nahezu ohne Werbung und ohne Werbetracking für 4,99 € / 4 Wochen, als Abonnent zum Vorzugspreis von 2,99 € / 4 Wochen. Schließen Sie jetzt das F.A.Z. Pur-Abo ab. Zugriff auf mit F+ gekennzeichnete Artikel weiterhin nur mit Bezahlabo F+.

Pay or be tracked and served personalized ads. Not that much different from what Facebook offers.
Isn't ego the enemy of growth or whatever? Projection...
would be a waste of talent. Karpathy is great at what he does, let's make sure he keeps doing it.

Let someone else take up the CEO role, which is a different skillset anyway.
Many things are invented to solve problems that don't actually exist.
[Please pardon the snark, it is in my nature.]

>Smart people are dangerously good at finding compelling rational arguments for any position.

A much(!) smaller set of smart people can poke holes in such persuasive arguments with ease. The response with rare exceptions will be memes and rhetoric, &/or downvotes, silence, bans or rate limiting on one's account (helping to ensure humans stay locked in their local maxima indefinitely...say, have you seen what's happening in the Middle East, with our unwavering "democratic" support, again?).

> Logic and reasoning has no guarantee what-so-ever to end up correct.

Abstractly, of course not, but at the object level it depends.

>Communism is perfectly rational.

Make the case, and watch me poke holes in it. If this was well implemented as a game, I could even predict how your argument could be attacked before you even state it, and then reveal my predictions after your move and see how close I got.

A problem though: how to judge, since all participants (including me) suffer from delusion?

> Self reasoning may just make you more stubborn.

Love the strategically played "may"! What's the "just" doing in there though?

> Limit the death of the argument. Don't go too many steps away from the axioms or assumptions. Leaps of logic give us the most freedom to creatively warp the outcome.

Artificially constraining scope is excellent for rhetoric and deceit (and thus very popular, in Western culture at least), but perhaps not so useful for discovering truth.

> Die on all the hills. Argue your misguided ideas loudly and proud to your peers.

100% agree. A problem though: culture disallows this. I believe humans have some free will, but not much (for now).

>Discussing dumb ideas is the only way to find what dumb idea is the least dumb.

"Discussing" is ontologically ambiguous, and we've been discussing many ideas for centuries, with little positive outcome. Time for some new approaches if you ask me (man, it sure was a hot summer this year eh?).

>Being scared of being wrong, and aligning with others, leaves dumb ideas unchallenged, and dumber ideas unexplored.

Welcome to HN, and planet Earth (2023). Let's check back in in a few years. :)
This feels like it could be real remorse, and a true lapse of judgement based on good intentions. So, in the end: a story of Ilya, a truly principled but possibly naive scientist, and a board fixated on its charter. But in their haste, nothing happened as expected. Nobody foresaw the public and private support for Sam and Greg. An inevitability after months of brewing divergence between shareholder interests and an irreconcilably idealistic 503c charter.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing the board of a non-profit should be preventing.
Last week, OpenAI was still an $80B sort of "company" and the undisputed lead in bringing AI to the market.

He who controls that, gets a lot of money and power as a consequence, duh.
Microsoft under Nadella always wins
I find your take quite odd, considering your background. Biodiversity is not a hit points bar that knocks out your player character when it falls below a certain level. You remove a single keystone species and the whole local ecosystem collapses, creating a butterfly effect of disasters.
I asked when. You pointed at some vague notion of an era that never existed.

>> "There are only two biological sexes, feel free to fact check."

There's the various forms of intersex if we just limit it to humans and modern concepts of sex. Branch out a little to the history leading up to that modern concept and things get wild.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/gender-has-a-history-and-...

Notions of immutable binary sex and gender themselves are political in their construction. It papered over an inconvenient truth for people whose worldview depended on neat, simple little boves.

>> "The story to be gleaned from reading Gill-Peterson can be put this way. Money, with his colleagues, largely rolled 1950’s norms over scientific data so as to defend against what that data showed. Without enough interest, in the deepest sense, to listen to children or even inform them about their treatment, Money embraced changeability with one hand while grasping at fixity with the other."

>> "[...] There’s your circle. Society, ignorant of medical research, makes a stigma out of something our bodies do quite naturally: not conform to a sexual binary. Thus, society’s enforced binary corrects a problem of its own making. And medicine complies, against its own research. Quite unlike later feminist notions — that gender is dynamic, changing, changeable, and capable of undermining social norms and their stigmatizing ways — Money’s 'gender' argued for something much more fixed and stigmatizing, all while purporting to sidestep stigma."

Then there's ZW, XO, ZO, etc. And of course numerous animals change sex over their lives or in response to environmental conditions.
Recently, play store images don't load (about 60% - 80% missing per app) in Firefox.
Yes! Why doesn't everyone just use these? Where there's astronomical concerns or people agree its just a nice and worthwhile end to be able to see the night sky, maybe use the low-pressure sodium but yeah.

Edit: I wonder what gets used in "rich" places in contrast to "poor" places. I feel like rich people get the night sky and poor people get headaches and insomnia. So sick of this shit
Just, ublock origin, a password manager, and the kagi extension for my search engine. ublock origin was installed on all browsers. I'm not even trying to watch it without ublock, as that would be an unreasonable thing to do in general.

I know this is not normal behaviour, and it's likely unintetional, but I'll be damn sure google won't bother to fix it. I'm most surprised by Edge as it's running chromium and it should share some similarity to chrome.
Even within the article it is pointed out that the the computer graphics got the Deathstar dish in the wrong location.

And I just assumed they got the trench wrong too, ha ha.
Where did he say he was "tricked"? And what's with the anonymous insult?
Seems like he's completely emotion driven at this point. I doubt anyone advising rationally would agree with sending this tweet
That's just not true. Companies have individuals in charge with considerable power. Those individuals can absolutely make ethical decisions.
A bit unrealistic plot, though?
> It absolutely does have a physical meaning.

No, not really. Heat is a poorly defined concept to which we are saddled for historical reasons. For example:

> It means that the system has 25% more energy at the microscopic level.

It does not. This definition only works in a frame of reference at rest compared to the thing you are observing. Imagine a piece of matter that is travelling at a velocity v in your implicit frame of reference. Its temperature does not depend on v, even though it’s kinetic energy does. We are back to the choice of scale.

And then there are negative absolute temperatures, which do not make any sense at all if heat is kinetic energy.

The actual definition of thermodynamic temperature is the inverse of the derivative of the energy with respect to the entropy. This is highly non-intuitive and we cannot extrapolate our intuitive concept of heat too much.

> It's not necessarily wrong to suppress the zero in a graph of temperature changes, but by doing so you are making bars in the graph proportionally larger or smaller relative to other bars by an arbitrary amount.

Right. This is the point that was made in the story and I entirely agree with that. A bar chart communicates a surface area. Changing the scale artificially changes the surface area and is misleading. The logical conclusion is that bar graph make no sense for temperatures, or to show the relative change of a variable.

Personally I would go further and say that bar graphs are inappropriate in the vast majority of cases, but that’s just my opinion.

> That could potentially be misleading, depending on what point you are making using the graph.

Indeed.
Looking forward to seeing how much more bizarre and stupid this will get.
> Sam has even less power with the board, and the board in a 3 trillion dollar corporation would be even more risk averse than the OpenAI one

This is where I see the win. Newcomer’s concerns about Altman are valid [1]. It is difficult to square the reputation he nurtured as OpenAI’s CEO with the reckless lawlessness of his crypto start-up.

Microsoft knows how to play ball with the big boys. It also knows how to constrain big personalities.

[1] https://www.newcomer.co/p/give-openais-board-some-time-the
The sizes are so different. It's like showing Earth from space and getting the Amazon River confused with a canal.
The board destroyed the company in one fell swoop. He's right to feel regret.

Personally, I don't think that Altman was that big of an impact, he was all business, no code, and the world is acting like the business side is the true enabler. But, the market has spoken, and the move has driven the actual engineers to side with Altman.
Yes, that's a thing, I'm one of those people.

While impressive, the two issues I have with codepilot and other AI tools are:

1. The code is usually the same code I'd get a few web searches away, except then it would have the appropriate copyright. As a FOSS developer (in my free time), I do not want to risk using code I don't have a license for, and thus dirtying up my entire project and putting it in danger of being taken down.

2. I really don't need it. At very few points in a project do I both think "I want to continue this" and also "I want my code written for me". I like autocomplete, I use autocomplete, and I like Visual Studio's suggestions, too. It's only wrong 50% of the time, around about. I have no interest in a tool that writes my code for me, because I have learned everything I know from solving problems myself.

Edit: Clauses in the AI's ToS like "all code generated is yours" or something is akin to a sign on a bar saying "if you hit someone in here it's not assault" -- it doesn't change the facts whatsoever, and the fact is that it's still a crime to hit somebody, even if the bar's ToS say otherwise.
OpenAI is doomed; in fact, it has ceased to exist; it's an empty shell, and its ressources provider is now its biggest competitor.

But I doubt MSFT will win this round.

1/ We still don't know why Sam Altman was fired; does MS know? or think they know?

2/ It will take the new team at MS a long time to recreate what they had at OpenAI (what does "MS has a perpetual license to all OpenAI IP" actually mean and entails, legally speaking?); during that time anything can happen.
> If you are modifying TZ while another thread is relying on it to calculate time

environ is a single contiguous null-terminated segment of null-terminated key-value pairs; any change of any environment variable might reallocate it, changing the address and invalidating the old address.

Also why it's a bad idea to store the pointer returned by getenv, it might be invalidated by any environment modification.
Member of the OpenAI board, chief scientist at OpenAI and later head of their Superalignment project. Lots of other things, too[0], but the key here is that he was involved in (and maybe main driving force of) the decision to remove Sam Altman as CEO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever
Kyle Vogt Resigns as CEO of GM's Cruise Robotaxi Unit
After decades of running away my problems I found that I had no where to run and nothing to distract myself with during the lockdowns of COVID, so I admitted to myself that it would probably seek out therapy.

How do I ensure that my most private of thoughts aren't dilligently jotted down into a computer by a therapist to be sucked up into some LLM that a nefarious surveillance/marketing company will make use of?

I don't. I'm not sure how to find a therapist who is covered by the government who will see me and not take digital notes. I'm not sure how to ask for this because the reasons I'll give to the therapist sound absolutely batshit crazy "I don't want the AI to know my personal problems", "Yeah, okay right this way to the padded room Sarah Connor..." and even if they took notes on paper I have no idea if they'll one day decide to digitize them with some fancy image to text to cloud feature that will be built into MS Word or Epic or this Palantir shit.

It's a bizarre situation to be in, to be geninely concerned about the threat of machines learning exploiting your weaknesses because you decided to get help.
> 2 interim CEOs in 2 days

Wait what? Did Murati get booted?
bigquery console in ffx has like +120 latency potion
Making AI models safer is a type of AI development.
“Old but sane potus” in the ex screenshot is just pure cringe
Seems the author is expecting OAI to continue merrily along its way working towards AGI (albeit at a stated slower pace) while MSFT is able to take Altman et al and circle the wagons on what already exists (GPT4) squeezing it for all its worth. While that's entirely possible, there are other outcomes not nearly as positive that would put MSFT at a disadvantage. It's like saying MSFT's AI hedge is built on what appears like sand; maybe it's stable, maybe it's not.
Show HN: Maddness – Energy-efficient DNNs without multiplying
Nobody could have predicted this level of incompetence. I wonder if Satya has actually gutted OpenAI in some way and Ilya regrets it now big time.
It's not humans going extinct
The biggest problem of Artificial Intelligence are the humans running it
Is the last one also referencing someone else’s name that is meaningful (similar to the first two) or was it just a curse-word joke?
We went from OAI employees flaunting “$1,000,000 per year salaries” to the New York Times to “what equity?” Really fast

This isn’t personally against you but they never had the $1M/year they flaunted when Sam the savior was their CEO
It would work better as a 2-season series. Season 1 introduces the characters and backstory and needlessly stretches things out with childhood/college flashbacks but ends on a riveting cliff hanger with the board showdown. Season 2 is canceled.
https://nitter.net/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028
On the theme of pre-fab (albeit not mail order): I'm in western Ohio and we have a few Lustron houses[0] left around. These were a post-WWII product. Once you know the design features they're easy to spot.

In the town where I live we also have the Hobart Steel Houses[1] that were a quirky proof-of-concept by a local manufacturer. My daughter's first school is located in one of these houses. Being able to stick magnets in nearly any surface in the house is bizarre and cool. The school uses this property to great effect. I don't see how they would have ever been economical, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Welded_Steel_House_Comp...
> you cannot exceed the knowledge of the one teaching you

I disagree. This is not how knowledge works.

You can learn new things yourself. When under instruction, you may notice nuance your teacher has not mentioned, and may be unaware of. There is also learning without instruction.

Call that "self teaching" maybe? Saves your aphorism but it still a strawman question.

For an AI to be self-learning, it will have to have a lot more senses and opportunity to manipulate and observe the world on its own, than anyone seems to want to give them.
I also made one a week or two ago. This one will swap out the video with an embedded player which generally skips ads.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nhjphlheoepniijfpao...
user @bArray 35minutes ago:

"Tested on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 under Ubuntu with 4GB VRAM. (...) lowered the canvas to 2Kx2K and it seems to just about be okay. My test prompt (...) produces a picture of rocks. (...) I get a nice scene (...) Both take about two minutes."
Funny you mention Chile, considering it had a huge social uprising in 2019 that was precisely a consequence of the political and economic measures that have been left as Pinochet's legacy.

A lot of the policies we implement today won't bloom until 10, 20 years in the future. If you make education worse today; you won't notice tomorrow. You'll start noticing in a generation.

And a big part of Chile's "economic miracle" can be traced to China's development (as China is actually Chile's biggest economic partner) [1]. Chile is now a days fully trapped with an economy that does nothing but extract resources without any kind of development at all. The so called middle-income trap. And this is generating huge friction in the country. If it all goes well, I don't hope for Argentina to become more like Chile; as I believe Chile is on a downward spiral (much like most of the rest of the region). What they should be looking at are economic models similar to what's happening in Asia.

Chile is not a good example to follow.

Also, do people not know who Milei is? He's openly in favor of organ-selling and also considers the selling of children a possibility. He literally has a medium on hire that he uses to communicate with his deceased dog (whom he has cloned) and believes that his sister is the literal Messiah. This is *not* someone you would want running any country. He's clinically insane and I'm not exaggerating.

[1] https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/pinochets-economic-policy-is-v...
I’m aware that it is quite popular, so I guess I must be weird, but YouTube being slow (and consuming lots of CPU due to that ambient mode stunt), when every other video site works fine in Firefox, and embedded YouTube videos on other sites work fine in Firefox, has just made me think YouTube is a pretty crappy site.

I’d never dream of changing browsers because some video site (mostly full of low-effort distracting silliness), didn’t work well in mine.
Yes, it's how they pledge their alliance to @sama.

Whether they actually move to MS or not remains to be seen, but it is definitely a strong indicator that they're not "aligned" with OpenAI anymore.