skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ilya might be a believer in what Eliezer Yudkowsky is currently saying, which is that opacity is safer.

https://x.com/esyudkowsky/status/1725630614723084627?s=46

Mr. Yudkowsky is a lot like Richard Stallman. He’s a historically vital but now-controversial figure whom a lot of AI Safety people tend to distance themselves from nowadays, because he has a tendency to exaggerate for rhetorical effect. This means that he ends up “preaching to the choir” while pushing away or offending people in the general public who might be open to learning about AI x-risk scenarios but haven’t made up their mind yet.

But we in this field owe him a huge debt. I’d sincerely like to publicly thank Mr. Yudkowsky and say that even if he has fallen out of favor for being too extreme in his views and statements, Mr. Yudkowsky was one of the 3 or 4 people most central to creating the field of AI safety, and without him, OpenAI and Anthropic would most certainly not exist.

I don’t agree with him that opacity is safer, but he’s a brilliant guy and I personally only discovered the field of AI safety through his writings, through which I read about and agreed with the many ways he had thought of by which AGI can cause extinction, and I as well as another of my college friends decided to heed his call for people to start doing something to avert potential exctintion.

He’s not always right (a more moderate and accurate figure is someone like Prof. Stuart Russell) but our whole field owes him our gratitude.
WhatsApp channels solves the same problems, plus it's by trustworthy ( /s ) Meta.

No non-tech people use RSS knowingly.
My comment is being misread as an argument for a single timezone for all of USA.

Kindly re-read.

I was arguing against daylight savings adjustments twice an year. Not against having multiple timezones per country / region. My comment was simply that timezones should be sufficient without the need for DST.

What I said ...

>> We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country, and EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment.

Simplified ...

>> cant imagine why US, and EU need so much adjustment.

Pardon any poor punctuation.
noob ai here, but is it gonna be challenging because of something intrinsic to gpt4? or about collecting equivalent amount of data to train a comparable model. Because I see Facebook releasing their models down to the weights
Or they could be loyal to the e/acc cult.
I have no inside information, but a biographical book written with exclusive interviews to the person basically means it's a PR book. It maybe also has interesting and true things, but that's like justifying that he knows engineering because his mom said so.
And the new CEO was a consultant to Anthropic, apparently. I'm only grateful I don't have to make sense of this drama.
This is a public forum, why are you so against a differing perspective that you go through two rounds of trying to essentially say there's only one way to think about it?

There are some things that are too much work for anyone to call it merely volunteering, and should be compensated. I don't care if you find that opinion acceptable.
Actual title: Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
Asserting against whom? Your sleep?
a hint - the "M$" thing is not smart or funny, just old.
Huh? There's plenty of AI doomerism amongst academics, see Bengio, Hinton, etc...
Let's add it to the lmsys arena and we'll see how well it can compete.
yes, but although we can all be replaced in a company, some of the people can be replaced much harder. so, i wouldn’t say that the number is high but maybe (and i only speculate) some of them are key people.
Bitburner is in the list, and it's an excellent game where you have to code (JS/Typescript). The date 2021 is wrong like many others in the page: it's probably the introduction on Stream, because the game goes back to 2016. It's an open-source game (reading the source code is sometimes recommended) and can be played in the browser at https://bitburner-official.github.io/

It's a long and rather hard game, but I liked its learning curve. You'll need to understand the way the "world of the game" works, then define and code a strategy. Then other "worlds" appear, where other strategies are required. I enjoyed playing it and I have 5k lines of TS code in my Git repository for bitburner.
Ending up at sqrt(n) doing a visual linear regression on a log plot doesn't mean the same thing to me. It would be better to frame the discussion as an illustration of the limitations of big-O analysis in real world cases, than to say that the big-O of a linked-list is really O(sqrt(N))
Was Sutskever really that instrumental to OpenAI's success, if it was at all possible for him to be surprised at the direction the company is taking. It doesn't seem that he is that involved in the day-to-day operations.
It's usually because they don't allow localities to add sales taxes. Here in Japan, sales tax is 10%, everywhere (except for groceries, which is 8%). You don't have to worry about an extra 0.5% from some municipality; it's the same everywhere.

The US gives way too much control to local governments.
The URLs are different, suffix instead of the typical prefix, that's not really content negotiation.
Many here are engineers and scientists interested in smart ideas and devices. We Woz types seek a Jobs type to fret about economics.

Sometimes an unprofitable idea suddenly becomes profitable due to changing technology, circumstances and people.

The ideas are still cool.

And sometimes, we collectively give away devices to purify water, save lives, or keep away mosquitoes -- out of compassion. It's not dead yet.
My favorite was that part from Financial Times:

"Investors were hoping that Altman would return to a company “which has been his life's work”"

As opposed to Sutskever, who they found on the street somehow, yeah?
> This then causes young men to decide they should be in open relationships because it's "more logical"

Yes, which is 100% because of "LessWrong" and 0% because groups of young nerds do that every time, so much so that there's actually an XKCD about it (https://xkcd.com/592/).

The actual message regarding Bayes' Theorem is that there is a correct way to respond to evidence in the first place. LessWrong does not mandate, nor would that be a good idea, that you manually calculate these updates: humans are very bad at it.

> Also they invent effective altruism, which works until the math tells them it's ethical to steal a bunch of investor money as long as you use it on charity.

Given that this didn't happen with anyone else, and most other EAs will tell you that it's morally correct to uphold the law, and in any case nearly all EAs will act like it's morally correct, I'm inclined to think this was an SBF thing, not an EA thing. Every belief system will have antisocial adherents.
I think he's not as known in the outside world but it's really difficult to understate the amount of social capital sama has in the inner circles of Silicon Valley. It sounds like he did a good job instilling loyalty as a CEO as well, but the SV thing means that the more connected someone at the company is to the SV ecosystem, the more likely they like him/want to be on his good side.

This is kind of like the leadership of the executive branch switching parties. You're not going to say "why would the staff immediately quit?" Especially since this is corporate America, and sama can have another "country" next week.
This is really harmful and unethical work. It will be used to hurt millions of elderly people with scams. That's the real application that will happen 100x more than anything else. It's unethical and harmful to release tools that will be overwhelmingly used to hurt elderly people. What they should do about it is: Stop releasing models. Only release a service so that scammers will not use it. Also, only released audio that is watermarked, so that apps can tell that a phone call might be a scam. When they share models with researchers, use previous best practices: post a Google Form to request access.
It is likely that wherever Altman goes next, @gdb would follow, and _he_ is deeply loved by many at OAI (but so is Altman).

CEOs should be judged by their vision for the company, their ability to execute on that vision, bringing in funding, and building the best executive team for that job. That is what Altman brings to the table.

You make it seem that wanting to make money is a zero-sum game, which is a narrow view to take - you can be heavily emotionally and intellectually invested in what you do for a living and wanting to be financially independent at the same time. You also appear to find it “disturbing” that people support someone that is doing a good job - there has always been a difference between marketing and operations, and it is rather weird you find that disturbing - and appreciate stability, or love working for a team that gets shit done.

To address your initial strawman, why would workers quit when the boss leaves? Besides all the normal reasons listed above, they also might not like the remaining folks, or they may have lost faith in those folks, given the epic clusterfuck they turned this whole thing into. All other issues aside, if I would see my leadership team fuck up this badly, on so many levels, i’d be getting right out of dodge.

These are all common sense, adult considerations for anyone that has an IQ and age above room temperature and that has held down a job that has to pay the bills, and combining that with your general tone of voice, I’m going to take a wild leap here and posit that you may not be asking these questions in good faith.
Sam Altman will not return as OpenAI CEO after talks fail – reports
What's wrong with that statement though?

It's the AI era - VCs are going crazy funding AI startups. What makes you think Greg and Sam would have a hard time raising millions/billions and starting a new company in a week if they want to?
> He's presumably referring to a geologic timescale. This [1] graph is telling. There have been numerous extinction events, even before the existence of humanity.

All of those were caused by global Earth-level geological events or extraterrestrial objects such as massive asteroids. The latest extinction event is caused by a single species. It is absolutely an exceptional extinction event and the only one of its kind.

> Human industrialization is certainly causing plentiful destruction, yet it will also likely be the one thing that may possibly save the lives of countless species.

Technology will never not create more problems as it attempts to solve problems caused by other technology.
For coding tasks (without API access), especially in a conversational setting, Phind has been by far the best one for me. I sometimes still compare it to ChatGPT with GPT-4, but it almost always comes out on top (not missing the point of the questions + amount of required editing for integration into codebase), and it does produce the answers a lot faster.
IMHO Twitter drove its own need and now that it has pretty much gone no one wants the hassle of serving a new master.
also ".rss" to get a RSS feed
> This is a list of some uses of environment variables from fairly widely used libraries and services. This shows that environment variables are pretty widely used.

Widely used, yes. Used as in read. Why do any of these need to change at runtime? And if they do - why are they environment variables?

(NB: starting a new process is not "at runtime")
That’s not Refusal to Concede. That’s conceding completely. By taking time out of your sleep you’re officially conceding that you can’t fight forces that impose this onto you, so you’re going to take it onto “you time”.
A good test for this theory could be the price and availability of the less finely tuned e-bikes, eg based on the 8-fun swxk front hub motor manufactured since the 00's and the low tech pedal assist sensor (as opposed to torque sensor).
Nukes, power grids, planes, blackmail, etc. Surely you’ve seen plenty of media over the years that’s explored this.
Well I wasn't referring to her Threads posts. I was referring to her recent Tweets.
Or transition to post-C
Well, no, that's beyond the scope of the article. It also doesn't mention e.g. the origin of the Skylab project, which was more or less "what else can we do with the hardware we developed for landing on the moon and with the people we hired for it?". But, Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab
I'm also pretty suspicious of people in forums like these who say nothing can compare to GPT4 and they're miles ahead of everyone else etc. How much of that is venture capital speaking?

It's not quite where it is (or was) with Tesla, where it was hopeless to know what was sincere and what was just people talking up their investment/talking down their short, but it's getting there.
Where is this? Just ballpark it.
It's a bit too late for that. Cassettes are picking up steam again (particularly because they're cheaper than anything else out there) even among people that don't have any nostalgia for them. People want something tangible.
After all those years, I still love RSS. It's great what you can do with it. After struggling to keep up with releases for all the tools, frameworks and packages I use for programming, I built Versionfeeds.com which sends me all those releases directly into my RSS feed. It's absolutely great.
https://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/

put 5000€/month, Klasse 1, Berlin.

Netto = 3094,05 €. That's 38,11%.

42% is not that far.
Bunch more people have left since, I think including Karpathy
Prescribing Vit D without Vit K2 (and possibly) Magnesium is simply malpractice. I take Vit D myself and after a few minutes of googling it is abundantly clear that it should not be taken in isolation.
What do artists actually need?
So it's a big deal because he has a cult of personality?
From the article -

> Microsoft supports multiple monitors through its Windows App, custom display resolutions and scaling, and device redirection for peripherals like webcams, storage devices, and printers. The preview version of the Windows App isn’t currently available for Android, though.

That's pretty interesting!

> The Windows App is also limited to Microsoft’s range of business accounts, but there are signs it will be available to consumers, too.

I think it'll be useful for developers who work across multiple systems.
But with secondary and tertiary modifiable and searchable memory systems like MemGPT, the sum of the parts is not static, and can even introspect and reflect on and suggest modifications to its own code and protocols.

It's already learned so much that in many cases it's just a matter of addressing and combining what it already knows, with what new knowledge and instructions you can fit in its token window.

See my post about my experience with MemGPT debugging itself and suggesting improvements:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344033

This approach to recursive feedback and self inquiry, and other comments in this thread, vividly remind me of my friend Jim Crutchfield's work on feedback and chaos theory, and his amazing video with groovy music, "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kn3djJMCE

A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1984). Original U-matic video transferred to digital video. 16 minutes.

See https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/chaos/films.htm

Citation: J. P. Crutchfield, "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback". Physica 10D (1984) 229-245.

https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/chaos/pubs/stdvf-title.html

Possible spatio-temporal attractors:

1. Fixed point or equilibrium

2. Limit cycle or periodic oscillation

3. Chaotic attractor: (spatially coherent or incoherent)

4. Noise-driven spatial structures
I read something a while ago: when trying to interpret the truth of what is happening, the value of public statements is only that it's an indication of what that source would like the public to believe. And when looked at that way, that signal does have value. Not as truth, but as motive.

So that helped cut through all the cruft with this. There was a lot of effort behind putting across the perception that the board was going to resign and that Altman was going to come back.

Looked at through that lens, it makes more sense: the existing board had little incentive to quit and rehire Sam/Greg. The only incentive was if mass resignations threatened their priorities of working on safety and alignment, and I get the sense that most of these resignations are more on the product engineering side.

So I don't really think this is a twist that no one saw coming.
> I think it's funny how much credit Hinton gets for AI. His contribution is pretty much just keeping some grad students on the problem.

Yes, clearly overrated in terms of credit. Doing foundational work in the field going back to the 70s which laid the groundwork and inspired the resurgence of neural networks in the late 80s. Being a solid community organiser throughout his career and keeping neural network research alive through the more formal statistical methods dominating for over a decade. Supervising and thus raising many others who themselves contributed greatly to the explosion of neural network utility we have seen since around 2010 until now. Should I carry on?

I think it is absolutely clear that Hinton has contributed plenty enough to get a massive amount of credit for where we are today. The kind of mentality at display here is akin to ahistoricity on the level of saying that Gordon Moore "just started a company" after Apple released the M1 under the delusion that there is not a direct lineage between what we have today and breakthroughs and efforts in the past. Believe it or not, but we stand on the shoulders of giants and cutting them some slack is not the same as downplaying the impact of people more active in the present day; that are gradually becoming future giants.
You isolated Mexico for some reason. Your source cites 50% for Mexico and other Latin American countries. Also, while it is true that there is significant (Southern) European admixture in Mexico, it is much less represented among those who come to America.
It’s worth pointing out that you’re dealing with a partisan libertarian who’s comments are constantly downvoted. If you’re looking for a coherent intellectual argument you won’t find it here.
Estimating Pi with Random Numbers
A take oft-said but not oft-discussed decently: where is Google? A whole year after ChatGPT and all we have is a limping-along Bard? Still shocks me. "May you live in interesting times" indeed. I really truely always assumed it was a given that Google would lead the AI future - but...here we are, the talk of the town and Google isn't anywhere.
is it just me, or is Altman not a dead-ringer for Burke (horrible corporate asshole) in "Aliens"?

i mean physically - i'm not suggesting anything to do with chest-bursters and the like.
It is quite clear the true purpose of OpenAI is the exact opposite of the name, meaning it is to run ahead of the curve, understand the impact of developments, and ensure they are locked away by any means necessary at least until they can be exploited by groups represented by the board.

Altman was trying to play this game in parallel with commercialization, which brings a whole pile of conflicting groups into the picture. People have utterly underestimated the depth of interest represented by the board.

It is highly amusing how many of the EA cult are on each side, and how both will portray whatever they are pursuing entirely for personal goals as for the greater good when in reality no one has a clue.
It’s a big deal because he’s extremely charismatic and well connected and that matters much, much more for a tech company’s success than some programmers like to think.
But isn't Ilya's thing that open sourcing it is too dangerous?
I think you got that backwards. There's a quote here[1] (sourced from court documents) from the director of admissions at Stanford that he was admitted:

> Dear Elon,

> As per special request from my colleagues in the School of Engineering, I have searched Stanford's admission data base and acknowledge that you applied and were admitted to the graduate program in Material Science Engineering in 1995. Since you did not enroll, Stanford is not able to issue you an official certification document.

> Sincerely, Judith Haccou, Director

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/54065/did-elon-...
Newsflash. Altman is no Steve Jobs.
Doesn't Microsoft own access to everything OpenAI is working on prior to AGI? Couldn't Sam and his team get hired by MSFT and continue their work?
As the domain is highly regulated, healthcare app development requires complex functionality and high security during patient data processing. This guide explains some aspects of healthcare app development such as features, ecosystem, regulations, and costs.
Not a vector map, but a highish-resolution of ODT's Hobo-Dyer Equal Area Projection [South at top]:

https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730456_7730456_118706...
Millions of elderly people are already getting scammed by overseas call centers so unless we do something more significant this tech will not make one iota of a difference.
>And what's worse, anyone who will fancy the idea of investing into a new language will have a hard time justifying its worth. After all, when you read about several months of hunting for bugs, you definitely don't want to be that person.

Yea, that would be me. Julia seemed like a good fit but I don't want to spend months bug hunting someone else's language
Instead of sacrificing flexibility by building one monolith model that does Audio to audio in one go, wouldn't it be better to train a model that handles conversing with the user (knows when the user is done talking, when it's hearing itself, etc) and leave the thinking to other, more generic models?
Do we really need "baby poop green" and "baby shit green" though?
> Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Microsoft hasn't embraced that ideology in close to more than a decade by now. Might be the time to let go of the boomer compulsion.
I wouldn’t call the entire YC community a cult of personality. And that’s just a subset of his network.
It is not entirely useless, but it is an extremely inefficient way to learn.
As much as @sama is not exactly "great" (World Coin is...ehem). The firing reeks political strife and anyone have enough days at any office knows what happens the next year at OpenAI will be anything but grandstanding for those "revolutionists" to stamp out any dissenting voice and fertile ground for the opportunists to use the chaos to make things worse. Most of the employee's prime objective will be navigating the political shitstorm than doing their job. The chance OpenAI stay as is before ChatGPT is little to none.

Better run for the lifeboat before the ship hits the iceberg.
All the more reason he will have one within a week. All sorts of people are raising millions for AI. One of the creators of modern startup venture capital who is buddies with many of the creators of modern startup venture capital as well as the CEOs of the major tech companies is unlikely to struggle here.
Can’t use an IAM role to auth to the bridge, it only works with user’s keys.
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I randomly chose 30% to represent a seemingly large non majority sample which may not be representative of the underlying population.

I have no idea what the actual proportion is, nor how investors feel about this right now.

The true proportion of researchers who actively voice their political positions on twitter is probably much smaller and almost certainly a biased sample.