skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My basis is the %, not the simple fact that it has irrelevant instances.

So let me charitably ask directly: have you looked through all the examples at least on the first couple of pages? And if you have, what % of instances is relevant to your point?
I agree with the sentiment but "big things" != broader audience
It's hard to say. Lots of things don't really make sense based on the information we have.

They could have meant that Sam had 'not been candid' about his alignment with commercial interests vs. the charter.
They have no inherent concept of true or false, sure. But what are you comparing them to? It would be bold to propose that humans have some inherent concept of true or false in a way that LLMs do not; for both humans and LLMs it seems to be emergent.
Can't an extension filter that event out?
You need to remember that most people on this site subscribe to the ideology that growth is the only thing that matters. They're Michael Douglas 'greed is good' type of people wrapped up in a spiffy technological veneer.

Any decision that doesn't make the 'line go up' is considered a dumb decision. So to most people on this site, kicking Sam out of the company was a bad idea because it meant the company's future earning potential had cratered.
I honestly believe the best to make AI responsibly is to make it open source. That way no single entity has total control over it, and researchers can study them to better understand how they can be used nefariously as well as in a good way—doing that allows us to build defenses to minimize the risks, and reap the benefits. Meta is already doing that, but other companies and organizations should do that as well.
> It is to make money by providing valuable services to society.

I think you mean "by providing anything anyone will pay for" in this universe you describe. There are a ton of companies that provide zero or even negative valuable services to society.

And what you describe is unbridled capitalism. That's not what most people consider viable. A company is not a logical entity that satisfies "if company, then capital at all costs", although there are the few (the super wealthy) that would like it to be that way. A company is part of a complex system and thus it needs to satisfy a wide variety of conditions.

And note that my comment is reacting to the idea that firing the CEO is some sort of crime against humanity.
What do you imagine is the down-side for google here? Non-compliance is getting lower, but maybe not to 0. Maybe you're just no longer clever enough. Personally, I pay for a YT premium subscription.
No justification necessary. No creator ever charged me for products or service. They did it for free. They assumed I was gonna look at the ads. Unfortunately for them that assumption just isn't going to hold.
it sort of does. a coup is usually regarded as a bad thing. firing a ceo? not so much.

pushing to call it a coup is an attempt to control the narrative.
You're describing Freetube. I use YouTube daily without an account, ads, or algorithms.
Unironically a good deal.
I think this essay is partly a simple longing for the past, which is understandable (if a bit boring), and partly a quite imprecise rant against shitty incentives worsening our experience with technology.

Theres much to be said (and has already been said) about bad technology, but Hitchens is so wide ranging in his targets that the essay doesn’t hang together. I’m sorry that his fancy hotel Jacuzzis arent of an acceptable quality, but that has very little to do with the reasons that our transportation infrastructure is car dependent. Or maybe there’s some fundamental reason connecting both at the core of liberal capitalism, but telling me about your drawer full of obsolete cable adapters isn’t going to get me there.

The only consistent theme is that Hitchens misses the old days and his old stuff, but so does everyone, we know this.
Calm down bro, it's just another cable, it's not like your motherboard needs to switch between host and client.
Still doesn’t quite justify homomorphic encryption if the computations involved are mundane (like tax calculations). The true use case is when the computation itself is proprietary, so that users don’t want to reveal their data but the provider also doesn’t want to divulge their algorithm. This is why ML models or finely tuned search engines are the examples most commonly cited, but of course those are also far outside the scale that could be achieved.
Type-C hubs are annoyingly expensive, because they all assume you want all the USB 3.x speed and/or power delivery bells and whistles - but for connecting simple peripherals none of that is necessary.

I built my own based on a USB 2.0 hub IC, but I never got around to publishing the design files. I should get on that!

Even building a single prototype unit cost me about the same as a single off-the-shelf type-C hub, but of course, building subsequent units would be substantially cheaper.
Serious question, in pursuit of understanding where you're coming from: in what way do you think that your own reckoning is fundamentally different to or more "real" than what you're describing above?

I know I don't experience the world as it is, but rather through a whole bunch of different signals I get that give me some hints about what the real world might be. For example, text.
Don't you think Babs' lawyers told her the same thing till she was the poster girl for Google Maps? Oy vey, peopl3 (corporations) never learn

Edit: in the spirit of dialogue, can you describe exactly how paying a company to spy and manipulate you more with zero gurantees they won't ban you for nothing ever is smart? I just don't get the rationale here, how are you in any way better off paying (to say nothing of the relying aspect which is not discussed nearly enough) Google anything for anything? You're already literally the product in more ways than anyone could ever fathom at the baseline and then you hand them more money to be even more—product(ive)? I just don't get but I also maybe was a but invective and i apologize for that
Shout-out Nebula, an alternative YT/creator platform which has no ads or sponsor segments. It's a monthly subscription but fairly cheap, and it gives you access to all videos on the platform (unlike patreon which is for a single creator). The monthly subscription cost is then split between all creators on the platform.

It's not a 1-1 alternative to YT as creators have to opt in, so most (imo low effort) videos/creators won't be on there. It's fantastic for any tech/engineering/history/news though, high quality/effort vids with no bullshit.

Note: I have no vested interest in Nebula, I'm just a user that's happy to support good creators and a platform that's actively opposed to advertising.

If this counts as an ad/spam - let me know and I'll delete this comment.
>the literal record for the lowest satellite orbit (Tsubame; which merely sustained it for 7d) being 2711.5km

Source? Wikipedia says it was 167.4 km.[0]

Heck, even the ISS is well below 2700 km. It orbits at roughly 420 km altitude.[1]

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

[1] https://www.heavens-above.com/IssHeight.aspx
They not balking, it’s just red tape and they will resign
> Building the same product with a different codebase is virtually guaranteed to be a disaster.

There is no point in going back and forth over this unless you have a real world example.

> This is the famous "second system effect."

[1] I believe you've misunderstood this effect. My understanding is that in the "second system effect", the succeeding system is not the "same" as the original

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Won’t argue. I had one car for 14 years.

But if the car is likely to plunge in value, I might choose to move faster to offload it. People will either do that or keep it until it dies. Enthusiastic countries will accelerate the process by increasing taxes on older vehicles.
> Nothing they can do about it.

The article you're commenting on is all about something they're doing about it.
Some options not mentioned:

Since this is an RDP user interface, maybe rofi is more appropriate than dialog.

Since json is a pain point, maybe compile json-5 or relaxed-json master into a separate config for each server, then rely on aliases.

Passwords in the clear aren’t great, but if you’re scripting then you have the ability to only write a sensitive config (say, from your password manager) and delete it after forking rdp.
If you want to get really basic: there's no OpenAI at all without Sam Altman, which means there's no ChatGPT either.

There are much larger armies of highly qualified scientists and engineers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and other companies and none of them created ChatGPT. They wrote papers and did experiments but created nothing even remotely as useful.

And they still haven't been able to even fully clone it with years of effort, unlimited budgets, and the advantage of knowing exactly what they're trying to build. It should really give you pause to consider why it happened at OpenAI and not elsewhere. Your understanding of the dynamics of organizations may need a major rethink.

The answer is that the CEO of OpenAI created the incentives, hiring, funding, vision, support, and direction that made ChatGPT happen. Because leadership makes all the difference in the world.
correct. it’s a cultural and parenting issue. People simply aren’t taught the importance of eating healthy, it’s not a habit in the household, etc. Or their understanding of healthy is wrong. And then of course the issue of self control (so much temptation in commercials, ads, etc)
> You can have vacuum fluctuations without photons.

Casimir is not about fluctuations. There is an attraction between metal plates in the absence of electromagnetic radiation.

And as I think it through, an even simpler example is the laser. Bose-Einstein statistics require that you have indistinguishable particles to multiply occupy a state. Without the indistinguishability, you don't end up with the right statistics. Without the right statistics, you don't end up with the right Einstein rate equations, and you'll be missing the stimulated emission term. Without that term, you will be missing the lasing action, as well as secondary effects such as noise statistics.
At least Mozilla didn't try to abuse congress to achieve regulatory capture.
I guess we should distinguish money from commodities, though? For money to mean something different to commodities, it must enjoy a privileged legal and social role, by virtue of its ability to satisfy tax obligations to the state and debt obligations to other private citizens. I guess the "joke" is that we used to think the value of money derived primarily from its commodity backing. Which was maybe true in some particular historical periods but not true whenever state power was durable, as it is today.
That doesn't imply anything about youtube's ads. The way you exercise control over your attention is by closing the tab/app in this case.
I agree with the programming as theory building. Not an epiphany for me but it is something I realised for the last 20 years. I am however glad that other people can explain it better than myself. For another good explanation of this read “founders at work” where Steve Wozniak talks about how fast it is to develop when you keep all the code (theory) in your head
It might have been the only deal on the table. Perhaps they thought the risk was worth it - good processes don't always lead to good outcomes. Perhaps they felt that the rights they gained to the GPT models was worth it even if they don't get direct influence over OpenAI.

Between Bing, o365, etc. etc. etc. it's possibly they could recoup all of the value of their investment and more. At the very least it is a significant minimization of the downside.
This is my worry.
First off that's theoretical. No damage of that scale has been done by an LLM yet. Second off nobody really believes this. That's why there's no age limit for LLM usage and there is for gun usage. Would you let your 10 year old kid play with a hand gun or chatGPT? Let's be real.
People into Story telling games with a dungeon master must be going crazy these days.
How does it apply to this specific issue? What is so lofty and unproductive in proper null handling?
manufacturer's compliance with the specification has always been a total joke heh. i see what you're saying about the springs, but i shouldn't have brought mating cycles into the discussion. the side plugged into the motherboard should just be secure above all else. i can easily ruin any usb-c connector with just my thumb and index finger. the thickness of the A shell and its square profile prevent it from bending under torque pretty darn well.
I'm not sure if it will actually be like that. In just a few years, AI will be so widespread we'll just assume anything not from a source we trust is fake.
Getting the results is nice but that's "shareware" not "free software" (or, for a more modern example, that is like companies submitting firmware binary blobs into mainline Linux).

Free software means you have to be able to build the final binary from source. Having 10 TB of text is no problem, but having a data center of GPUs is. Until the training cost comes down there is no way to make it free software.
Even if SamA manages to come back, will future investors be spooked and he won’t be able to raise the large round of financing?
Brockman is also a software engineer. My understanding is that he spends most of his time on software problems.
And you don't eat without them.

A lot of so-called "smart people" on this website seem to forget where all their food is grown.

It isn't in Times Square.
No, the VAST majority of boards are able to fire the CEO and replace the Chairman if they have the votes for it. It’s just that this is a rare occurrence, and certainly rare at a high-profile tech startup. The. ChargePoint board just fired the CEO (and non-Chairman member of the board) on Thursday along with the CFO. https://www.chargepoint.com/about/news/chargepoint-announces...
That’s unfair. The issue is poor governance. Why would anybody outside OpenAI care how much money they make? The fact is a lot of people now rely in one way or another on OpenAI’s services. Arbitrary and capricious decisions affect them.
Genetically engineered protein boosts memory in animal models
He should demand that they remove "open" from the name and call it SamAIam.
might be a cheap cable.
Formalizing the proof of PFR in Lean4 using Blueprint: a short tour
Whatever Numerai has done to their data, there is no indication that they actually transformed it in a way that would hold up to a theoretical cryptographic adversary.
too early to tell, but likely it would be counterproductive to actually assassinate sutskever anytime in the next year
That will be the day I get off youtube.
Attention was first proposed in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473.pdf and it is referenced from transformer paper.
If you have a caloric surplus and start doing resistance training then you will gain muscle mass.
here's my thought experiment: suppose one builds a generative model that predicts the next digit of pi. if a program can do this perfectly, then it's arguable that it understands what the number pi is. the question is, can such a model be trained by feeding it a large amount of known digits of pi?

My intuition is that it's not doable with current approach to building generative models. the number pi arose out of certain constraints and characteristics of the physical world we live in. but if a model ever sees is just an endless stream of digits, without access to the underlying physical model, I don't see a path for it to 'reverse-engineer' and figure out the physical model that gave rise to it.
there are no future investors. If OpenAI cant bootstrap from 11 billion + profits, they wont be able to.
yes, via taxes
It’s giving the most likely answer as opposed to the factual answer?
I can imagine it helps to normalize the various perturbations from atmospheric non uniformity which may be able to help the higher quality measurements decrease the noise.
"No sense" seems like a strong claim. USB-C is a better plug (reversible, durable). I don't know how much more expensive USB-C might be, but considering the number of cheapo devices that come with an unwanted cable with at least one (often 2) USB-C ends, I assume it's not all that high.

The main use I encounter where USB-A is actually better are dongles that don't stick out.
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Great, Russia and China get the ability to use it or adapt it for any reason they want without any oversight.
QE did not lead to historically high levels of inflation. Most of the money stayed in the financial sector, on banks balance sheets.
Get real. If we can’t get municipalities to limit light pollution with simple common sense measures like directing light more efficiently and dimming/turning off lights when they’re not needed, how can we expect them to synchronize their lights with a GPS driven signal? Never mind that this “simple” fix does nothing to address the everyday societal impacts of light pollution.
Gotta say, being passive aggressive is a bad look (or should I say bad tone). It's how children and socialy maladjusted people communicate.
Except You are discounting the major player with all the hard power who can literally call any shot with money
It might, if that had actually happened. There is not good evidence that this has actually happened, and it's just a fact that Sam + investors are going on a massive pressure campaign to try to regain control that they are not legally entitled to, including a media blitz.

Moreover, there is an impartiality issue here in the tech press. A lot of the tech press disagree with the OpenAI Charter and think that Sam's vision of OpenAI as basically Google but providing consumer AI products is superior to the Charter, which they view in incredibly derogatory terms ("people who think Terminator is real"). That's fine, people can disagree on these important issues!

But I think as a journalist it's not engaging fairly with the topic to be on Sam's political side here and not even attempt to fairly describe the cause of the dispute, which is the non-profit Board accusing Sam Altman of violating the OpenAI charter which they are legally obligated to uphold. This is particularly important because if you actually read the OpenAI Charter, it's really clear to see why they've made that decision! The Charter clearly bans prioritising commercialisation and profit seeking, and demands the central focus be building an AGI, and I don't think a reasonable observer can look at OpenAI Dev Day and say it's not reasonable to view that as proof that OpenAI is no longer following its charter.

Basically, if you disagree with the idea of the non-profit and its Charter, think the whole thing is science-fiction bunk and the people who believe in it are idiots, I think you should argue that instead of framing all of this as "It's a coup" without even disclosing that you don't support the non-profit Charter in the first place.
I have more USB switches and kvms that do a-a instead of a-b than I care to admit
It looks like the meme began when the first one got the catalog designation "cow". The next one got "kwla", so it's called koala.

Ancient Greeks and Chinese alike looked at the sky and saw animals in the constellations, so why not modern astronomers?
> Embrace it

Absolutely. There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing. Not a single thing.

I make it a point to recite this mantra in every single ad blocking thread I see:

Our attention is ours.

It's not theirs to sell to the highest bidder.

It's not currency to pay for services with.

It's part of our cognitive functions and it's absolutely inalienable.

They are not entitled to our attention.

Our minds are sacred ground. They do not get to violate it for profit.

They do not get to insert brands and products into our minds without our consent.

To do so is mind rape.

Advertising is therefore a form of violence.

Ad blockers are therefore legitimate self-defense against this violence.
Question: is there a public statement signed by a large number OpenAI employees saying that they will resign over this? I don’t know. I have seen that three people resigned. If I were an OpenAI employee I think I would wait a month and see how things shake out. Those employees can probably get very highly paid jobs elsewhere, now, or later.

The Anthropic founders left OpenAI after Altman shifted the company to be a non-profit controlling a for profit entity, right?
> Is there anything in quantum fields that directly demand them to not be Lorentz invariant?

To be more precise, any quantum field state except the vacuum will not be Lorentz invariant. That's not something specific to quantum fields: any non-vacuum state in classical special relativity will also not be Lorentz invariant. It will look different in different frames. That's just an obvious consequence of things like length contraction, time dilation, the fact that the energy and momentum of an object are different in different frames, etc.
I see a huge disconnect in the conversation about safety vs the actual ability of AI currently.

The conversations about safety regarding AGI seem entirely hypothetical at this point. AGI is still so far away, I don't see how it's relevant to OpenAI at the moment.

Whereas safety with respect to ChatGPT... no, I'm not particularly concerned. It can't really tell you anything that isn't on the internet already, and as long as they continue to put reasonable guardrails around its behavior, LLM's don't seem particularly threatening.

Honestly I'm far more worried about traditional viral political disinformation produced by humans, spread through social media.

In other words, it's distribution of malicious content that continues to worry me. Not its generation.
This had to be fake
Indeed, USB superposition strikes again. Image:

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/boingboing/original/4X/9/6/...
If Open AI were to be in true crisis, I'm sure Amazon will step in to invest, for exclusive access to GPT4 (in spite of their Anthropic investment). That would put Azure in a bad place. So not exactly "All" the power.

Not to mention, after that, MSFT might be left bagholding onto a bunch of unused compute.
You're doing the Lord's work. Thank you.
Sorry, I will say about money.

I think, it is really good, when people respect you, for your work, but better if they respect and pay money.

In normal economy, most important metric, is how much people pay with free will.

This metric, sure could have correlation with likes, testimonials, good wishes, etc, but to measure these things correct, need much more effort, at least need to make good actual (not outdated) market research and know very good your niche, and compare with concurrent products, with comparable interfaces, etc, so you will not compare carrots with apples.

If you have questions, ask, I will try answer.
I think they tried to rewrite it in C++ and failed, so it’s still mostly in CL last I heard. I think they have an internally-maintained fork of sbcl and a core maintainer of sbcl on payroll.
I got a nil pointer deref panic trying to use this tool:

$ nilaway ./...

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered]

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x2 addr=0x0 pc=0x100c16a58]
Carnivore is the way. Here is what I do: Beef, Bacon, Butter, Eggs (BBBE), salt and water. That’s all I eat! And I feel better than ever! I’m not a doctor and this not medical advice. Do your own research and consult with your doctor. There are many videos about this topic at the normal sources.