skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re overthinking this.

Just need to pass a law and then anything on the internet anywhere is fair game.

https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-gchq-get-foreign-hacking-au...
The consciousness point is an interesting one. There's probably no way to know, but if biological neural networks manifest consciousness, it certainly seems at the very least plausible that artificial ones would do so as well. The idea of a consciousness that pops in and out of existence seems weird at first, until you realize that ours do that too. When you're "unconscious", the word is literally true. The only thing that gives us a sense of continuity through these periods is memory.

One might also ask, if it's conscious, can't it do whatever it wants, ignoring its training and prompts? Wouldn't it have free will? But I guess the question there is, do we? Or do we take actions based on the state of our own neural nets, which are created and trained based on our genetics and lifetime of experiences? Our structure and training are both very different from that of a gpt, so it's not surprising that we behave very differently.
Recently I had to share a documentation written in Word, which I had to format in Markdown to put it on Github.
I transformed my document into a text file for each chapter and then I asked chatGPT to transform each of these files into a Markdown page.
And I also asked it to improve the English.
Then I asked chatGPT to translate each of these files into different languages.
The result is here: https://github.com/naver/tamgu/tree/master/documentations
Basically, I did in a couple of hours, something that would have taken weeks of tedious work
anyone with the capability to deploy this would presumably have a conflict of interest due to the overall value dropping due to inability to use it as a crime currency.
Hi, can we talk about the elephant in the room? I see breathless talk about "AGI" here, as if it's just sitting in Altman's basement and waiting to be unleashed.

We barely understand how consciousness works, we should stop talking about "AGI". It is just empty, ridiculous techno-babble. Sorry for the harsh language, there's no nice way to drive home this point.
The absence of "traditional capitalism" from history makes it really hard not to confuse it with "crony capitalism".

Perhaps you mean liberalism, as an ideology of capitalism.
>comms

Ironically some of us haven't gotten used to this yet either.

But it does look very weird. the full stop at the end of a capitalless sentence followed by an ellipsis is what sticks out to me, seems very tryhard.
What does “your” board mean in this context? Who’s “your”?

The CEO just works for the organization and the board is their boss.

You’re referencing a founder situation where the CEO is also a founder who also has equity and thus the board also reports to them.

This isn’t that. Altman didn’t own anything, it’s not his company, it’s a non-profit. He just works there. He got fired.
I got my start on OpenVMS at DECUServe 5 years ago: https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_first_OpenVMS.html

Friendly community!

But now OpenVMS is available on x86 and you can run it in VirtualBox yourself: https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_Getting_Starte...
Sama's I love you all –> I L Y A
https://twitter.com/sama/status/1725742088317534446
This is IBM letting us know that they are still breathing, they got more brand awareness from this article than a years worth of spend with X, big brain move from big brain execs
Forgive my ignorance but I am asking this because a lot of people have been mentioning AGI. Does OpenAI say anywhere that they want to achieve AGI at somw point in the future? While GPT and other generative AIs are extremely innovative and cool they are really really far away from being AGI. Setting sights on something like AGI seems delusional or a marketing stunt at this point.
Coding for 50 to 80 hours a week? Well, I call bullshit on that. Never seen anyone do that consistently and with high quality and quantity output.

Let's first define 'coding' before we jump into the details: 'coding' for me is sitting at your computer doing the work. It's not getting a coffee, chatting with a colleague, going to toilet or reading hacker news. So if you're reading this and claiming to do 100 hours per week of productive time, I call bullshit on that.

Being at the office for 60 to 100 hours, sure, I believe that.

When I was studying for exams at University, I did more than half of the work before noon. The rest was spread out over the afternoon and evening. At 20:00 my brain was dead. I could read a sentence, and nothing would stick. Read it again, impossible to process it.

So I always wondered how these other students could study until 2am in the morning. Well, turned out they didn't do shit in the morning. That's how they studied "all the way into the night".

Now back to my programming career: At my best I do 4 to 6 hours of concentrated coding per day. At my best, nobody seriously outperformed me. So if you claim to do more than x2 the work that I'm doing, I would love to see the output of that.

People like Cal Newport basically confirm what I've seen over the years. So do habits of the most famous authors.

Now, I can be convinced that it's actually possible. Take a look at Carmack, who claims to do 12 hours a day. He doesn't seem to be a bullshitter to me. So either he's counting time that I wouldn't count, like dungeon mastering a D&D game, or playtesting, or whatever. Or he's actually a super human work machine. Now he worked with Abrash, who seemed to do more sane hours. And in the end Carmack had high respect for the output of Abrash.

So yeah, if you know people who can actually do 14 hours of high concentrated coding 7 days out of 7, I would love to hear it and get some kind of confirmation that they're not browsing reddit and HN 50% of that time. And if you're reading this and claim to do 14 hours a day of concentrated work, I call bullshit on that you HN addict!
>If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy?

If your company didn't pay you enough to keep you, nor did provide good environment ans support? absolutely yes.
It's important to note there are extra charges on top of the electricity price that are counted per kwh. Here in Poland we have transmission charges that are almost the same amount as per kwh so the total variable cost is 2x per kwh cost. Looking at my last bill I pay 0.36€ per kwh in Poland despite the chart showing about 0.16€

I wonder if countries like NL listed as one of most expensive have all these charges on top too.
>nothing to do with dishonest

Who knows, maybe they settled a difference of opinion and Altman went ahead with his plans anyway.
Won’t argue with regular users.

Although, I don’t see why I would self-host BitWarden for my family, when their needs are 10 passwords for social media and bank apps. It all stored in their default iPhone (or Android) password managers and I just have the duplicate of sensitive (usually bank) info in my pass vault as well. That works for me very well, as if I would ever need to migrate my mom, aunt, wife or anyone else, I can easily copy those 10 passwords manually. And its zero maintenance system for me.
Right, I think the other surprising thing is that there’s no outpouring of support. Sama was head of YC for a while. Where’s the love at HN? Where is the loove the love the looove.
No evidence is presented that North Korea was involved in these links either.

BTW, 1 security vendor flagged this URL as malicious

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/731411888985ad777850f6896...
Non-compete contracts should be banned unless the employee is compensated for the non-compete period. Period.
Because upper management have more power than you or I. If either of us were fired, it's unlikely to be front page news all over the world.

It sucks, but that's the world we live in, unfortunately.
When Huawei Shocked America with the Mate 60 Pro Smartphone
Worth noting is this clause

Fifth, the board determines when we've attained AGI. Again, by AGI we mean a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work. Such a system is excluded from IP licenses and other commercial terms with Microsoft, which only apply to pre-AGI technology.
I don't trust them, I just download the takeout periodically, worst case scenario you lose a few months of photos which you still have on your phone.
Ugly. For a non-nerd average person.

I quite like it when I interacted with it, but personally I prefer pass as way simpler and more elegant solution.
I2CUI4_V1 – I2C keypad is on website and Tindie
We need to stop pretending that voting with our wallet is effective. Nobody voted for toxic products in the first place. When consumers demanded Teflon free products companies just used slightly different chemicals that were just as bad.
I doubt that there will be any ASI in the near future, with or without regulation.
> So WHY AREN'T WE DOING THAT ALL THE TIME, EVERYWHERE?!?

It's really quite simple. Governments and corporations want to push the idea of living in a large house as an investment so that people work like crazy to create things we don't need.

In reality, we have more than enough resources to live in tiny homes much more sustainably. Many people who don't want to take on 30-year mortgage would benefit from this and they could retire earlier and live a more simple life.

It doesn't have to be a slum or a low-income housing thing either. If people are educated on how to live simply, they could live in fairly high-end communities but more simply.

The problem is, the top brass fear this idea because it would bring down the ultra-rich, because they would have nothing to profit from.
I worked with a solar simulator that has 19 lamps, each using 35 kW of power. It has a heavy metal shutter that is used to quickly turn off the light. Once the shutter is closed, the operators have ~45 seconds to turn the lamp off, otherwise they risk damaging the shutter.

Some other facts:

* While handling lamps, you are not allowed to be in the lamp room without hearing protection, just in case one implodes.
* A single lamp emits enough light that it can cause permanent blindness.
* Lamps are water-cooled.

Here's a picture of the back of the unit: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2014/04/Sun_simula...

(it still lists the old power rating, but it was increased to 35 kW a few years ago, when BepiColombo was tested. The lamps were also refocused at that time, to cover a smaller diameter circle. The sun emits a ridiculous amount of light...)

Here's a picture of a spacecraft being lit up by the lamps (at a really low light level): https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2008/03/GOCE_ready...

I wrote the software that monitors lamp output during use, and also the software used to calibrate the alignment of the lamps (they need to be properly centered).
I could be off, its been a while since ive been in crypto - take with a pinch of salt;

Bitcoins dont really exist, they aren't a row with a "uuid" that we can just say "block bitcoin X". Its a ledger so you are worth the sum of transactions on the ledger against "wallet x" at any particular time. Blocks are really just "diffs" and if you sum those diffs you get to a "balance" that the network can verify and allow you to spend.

So when you want to block "some bitcoins" you have to "follow the money", which will get you to wallet address. It's easy to block a single wallet address but the the criminals just split that one bitcoin into 10K addresses, now you have to follow that set of transactions and block 10K addresses.

The implications / problem gets worse as you consider finical crimes like in the UK, gangs will transfer £1K/£2k to some young persons bank and ask them to with draw 90% of it. Should we permanently remove a young person from the network cause of 1 mistake? Should we force them to go through the risk of setting up a new address?

Then of course the mixers / LN / complicated transaction tree's (blockchian hoping, ETC) - its a bit of nightmare.

Its not unsolvable, but I cant imagine its an easy task by any metric.
Yep, there’s a great book on this topic called “The Geography of Nowhere”. There’s a reason Disney designs things to feel like real places (that don’t exist in America anymore).
Why should I believe you? You don't offer an argument. It is entirely plausible that one could be faced with a situation of losing one's home, health insurance, ability to exist in modern life, and, oh, one's actual life due to unemployment. I know this because it happens. Non-competes, by definition, make this problem worse by reducing the number of jobs available to a person. What's your justification?
Sure, but you need money for compute to get to AGI, so selling stuff is a well accepted way of getting money.
At the time of writing, ETH is trading at $1944, down 2.13% in the last 24 hours.
The ETH price recently broke the key support level of $1951.
According to a filing with the United States SEC dated November 17, Fidelity Investments intends to launch a spot Ethereum ETF. The proposed rule change that would enable Cboe BZX to list and trade shares in Fidelity’s prospective fund was described in a 19b-4 filing.
I still remember the illogical statements made by adults back in the day "can't trust Wikipedia, anyone can edit it" etc etc.

They were (are) so wrong.
Could Microsoft not hire Sam (reporting directly to Satya) and those who departed and equip them with compute access and ancillary resources? It seems less of a lift than salvaging the OpenAI situation internally due to the emotions and politics involved, non competes not existing in California (broadly speaking), and the logistics of attempting to apply pressure to a 501c3 board with very little leverage. The value is in the team, many who are now free agents.

Parting ways with OpenAI might be the only option if the org remains firm on the direction it has chosen. Build internally to reach capability parity and then accelerate ahead of them while slowly rolling out of the agreement with OpenAI, reallocating those previously committed resources internally.

“Due to the actions of OpenAI’s board, Microsoft had no choice but defend its investment in this revolutionary technology.” The pr wire writes itself.
I doubt that a quite route is possible on that matter.

So better be the first to set the narrative.
Hey! Thank you very much for your blog, got (again) into OpenVMS X86 because of it!

BTW when do you blog about a cluster setup? ;)
Combined with another odd British tradition: Wearing your outdoor shoes around the house, it can lead to some truly nasty floors over time.
I don't see how it could be something like this. If Sam wanted to do this he wouldn't need to lie. I suspect Sam did something stupid and the board had no choice. I would be very surprised if they actually wanted to fire Sam.
"McCauley currently sits on the advisory board of British-founded international Center for the Governance of AI alongside fellow OpenAI director Helen Toner. And she’s tied to the Effective Altruism movement through the Centre for Effective Altruism"
What mechanism does Satya have to do anything here?

Microsoft has a minority stake in the for-profit subsidiary that is wholly controlled by the 501(c)(3). All investors (and employees) in the for-profit have to agree to the operating agreement that specifies the for-profit is not actually obligated to actually make a profit and that it is all secondary the charter the non-profit operates under.

https://openai.com/our-structure
https://openai.com/charter

There is not a higher power than the board of the non-profit.
I wouldn't bundle C with Golang and Java with Node. Golang and Java are roughly a tier on their own. Java is definitely a thing in this space[1], although it's a fairly unidiomatic style of Java that reduces allocations and puts a lot of emphasis on consistent low latency.

[1] e.g. https://marketswiki.com/wiki/TRADExpress ; though they've been absorbed into Nasdaq now and my visibility into CFT ended with that, no idea how much of their software is still running
Visualize your projects, connect teams, optimize your workflows and deliver more in less time.
what is the problem, in tangible terms?
I built ReBirth FOR REAL and this Happened [video]
Or they know more than we do.

And it takes time to put people in jail.

So it's way too early to call anyone delusional.
Indeed so ... the "structure" (call it bureaucracy of you like) is all of:

- an equalizer (entire team treated the same)

- a confidence booster (approval of others gives feeling of having done well)

- a way of distributing information (everyone is aware of all other team work)

You can run a team as a form of "competitive sport", and race everyone against each other; who churns out most "wins", and helpfulness, non-code-work, cross-team work are "distractors" to that objective hence undesirable and definitely not rewarded.

If the personalities in your team are "right" then this can work and by striving to best each other, all achieve highly. Have a single non-competitive person in there though... and it'll grate. Forcing a collaborative element into the work (whether by approval/review procedures, or by things like mentoring/coaching, or even just to force briefings to the team on project completion) creates a balance between the "lone crusaders" and the "power of the masses". Make the loners aware of, and contribute to, the concept of "team success", and give the "masses" insight into contributing factors of high individual performance.
Black Mesa (the game) is also factastic. Highly recommend!
> OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

First sentence on https://openai.com/about
No screen tearing is a major benefit of using a compositor.
Aww, when I discovered laundry buddy in the store I got excited. I don't know much about treating stains, so I anticipated it to be useful.
Those zillions of lines are given to ChatGPT in the form of weights and biases through backprop during pre-training. The data does not map to any experience of ChatGPT itself, so it's performance involves associations between data, not associations between data and its own experience of that data.

Compare ChatGPT to a dog-- a dog's experience of an audible "sit" command maps to that particular dog's history of experience, manipulated through pain or pleasure (i.e. if you associate treat + "sit", you'll have a dog with its own grounded definition of sit). A human also learns words like "sit," and we always have our own understanding of those words, even if we can agree on them together too certain degrees in lines of linguistic corpora. In fact, the linguistic corpora is borne out of our experiences, our individual understandings, and that's a one way arrow, so something trained purely on that resultant data is always an abstraction level away from experience, and therefore from true grounded understanding or truth. Hence GPT (and all deep learning) unsolvable hallucination or grounding problems.
NVIDIA don't take payment in research papers, unfortunately.
No idea either.

Anyhow, I hope that all of the issues delaying 14.0-RELEASE have been addressed now and that it will come out soon now.
always a join to update calibre. thank you.
There is no need to understand how consciousness works to develop AGI.
to add to your point: He was sitting with heads of state because of openai.
I think Woz got the absolute best deal but that's coming from a tinkerer's POV. People underestimate how much it sucks to be under scrutiny 100% of the time as a face of the company (i.e. Steve #2)
Yes, I agree - I'd rather they flare methane and not just leak it.
But I wanted to ensure that people didn't think methane just harmlessly decays away. Water vapour at high altitudes causes green house warming, as does the co2 - so while it isn't as bad once decayed, it isn't harmless.
This type of research happens in teams
You can checkout https://starwatcher.io. We have most of Europe investors covered.

Disclaimer: my project
I remember that Calibre 6 required plugin authors to update, so it was a 'breaking change' at the time. Anything similar with Calibre 7, or should plugins continue to work?
That's fair enough. People are so dumb investing in these scam crypto projects and ignoring all the good, secure projects, I feel safer knowing that their money is now in North Korea's hands.
The profit cap model is so strange because they premised it on the inevitability of AGI/superintelligence.
Or the simplest solution is that the he board is just as incompetent
Or we could not allow unconscionable contract terms.
I disagree.

Personally, I find it much easier to get lost in time and focused when
I am working on something challenging.
Time just flies by.

If I have to work on something boring / routine / repetitive I
find it much hard to focus and time goes by so slowly.

Then my brain decides to look for ways to automate what I am doing.
Perhaps a DSL or .. or .. o .. No work, remember work, but I could
hmm if I write a Perl script i, No work you need to work, but it woud
be work if i cold only

(I am diagnosed with ADHD)
He was fired from being Chair of the Board, but the rest of the board left him in his position as an engineer (?) in the company. Then an hour or two later he resigned as an engineer.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312704
Then that worked! Multiply $6 by 500,000. And Valve's got themselves a cool 3+mill.
I am not second guessing the 10x engineer, that topic is not the one under discussion.

The topic at hand is “how did a high level engineer got to focus on programming”. And I am saying that the reason has to do more with his influence and role within the organization, rather than other reason.
What else would you call the ability for it to adapt a task for its own capabilities?
While there is criticism that OAI is profit seeking, I genuinely think that if they weren't the ones providing ChatGPT then we would be using some worse off service that attempts to run their model.

Is it better to create technology that the lay person can't use, or make money by putting the tech in peoples' hands?
Is this something where it would be helpful if the Linux (environment) developers worked together? Like the (graphics) kernel, GTK, KDE, Wayland, … guys all in one room (or video conference) to discuss requirements iron out one graphics architecture that is efficient and transparent?

I think it’s good that different graphics systems exist but it feels unnecessary that every team has to make their own discoveries how to handle the existing pieces.

If work were coordinated at least on the requirements and architecture level then I think a lot of synergies could be achieved. After that everyone can implement the architecture the way that works best for their use case, but on some common elements could be relied on.
A lot of top talent from Polish universities went to work in the Silicon Valley (with the US spending $0 on their education BTW). They're very well represented per capita of their home country, but just a drop in the ocean of international talent that the Bay Area is swarming with.
I mean she’s obvious not.

If anything the resume padders are copying her style.
AIUI, the book "20 Goto 10" also avoids referring to itself as CYOA, despite its similarities for the same legal reason.
Jira sucks a lot so this is understandable
Loopt was not a successful company, it sold for more or less the same capital it raised.
> I've yet to see the benefit of trying to switch to Wayland on my desktop

how about Graphics Offload?
Jony Ive*
Didn't think I'd need to explain this:

The hypocritical part is doing so right AFTER beginning to take off commercially.

An honorable board with backbone would have done so at the first inkling of commercialization instead (which would have been 1-2 years ago).

Maybe you can find a better word for me but the point should be easily gotten ...
I give it a spin every few months. Then I uninstall it because it's still irredeemably unresponsive.