skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of outsing Sam A and Greg B, if Ilya really had deep concerns, he should have quit and built his own AGI dedicated research company. His prestige surely would have given him funding.

Like how Hinton left Google so he could speak freely.

IMO inventing AGI is more powerful than nuclear energy. It would be very stupid of humanity to release it out in the wild.

LLMs are a great tool and nowhere near AGI.

I’m of the belief that alignment of AGI is impossible. It’s like asking us to align with lions. Once we compete for the same resources, we lose.
I'm sure their are ways that we aren't privy to knowing just like we don't know why Altman was fired. Why was Sam Altman being dishonest and what was he dishonest about?

This reasoning is the only one that makes sense. Where action taken by the board aligns with logic and any private action done by Sam Altman that could have offended the board.

The story of the board being incompetent to the point of mental retardation and firing such a key person is just the most convenient, attractive and least probable narrative. It's rare for an intelligent person to do something stupid, even rarer an entire board of intelligent people to do something stupid in unison.

But it's so easy to fall for that trope narrative.
> models to be (easily) swayed is a different problem

No, this is the alignment problem at a high level. You want a model to do X but sometimes it does Y.

Mechanistic interpretability, one area of study in AI alignment, is concerned with being able to reason about how a network "makes decisions" that lead it to an output.

If you wanted an LLM that doesn't succumb to certain prompt injections, it could be very helpful to be able to identity key points in the network that took the AI out of bounds.

Edit: I should add, I'm not referring to AI safety, I'm referring to AI alignment.
But you are wrong. Inequality has not grown over the last 20 years. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA
Counterpoint: I also bought a new machine, a couple of weeks ago (Optiplex 7010 Micro). It has six USB A ports, four of them USB 3 and two of them USB 2 only, with the option to add a single USB-C port (or instead an extra DP or HDMI or even VGA or serial port); if you add that option, that USB-C port (which has DP alt mode) can be used to power the computer (instead of using the barrel plug), which is nice.

Very high end devices might have more than a single USB-C port (which is probably your case, given the "extreme" in the name), and these ports might even be Thunderbolt or USB4, but that's still rare. In my opinion, we are still in the USB-C equivalent of the "only two USB 2 ports, if you want more get a PCI add-on card" phase we had in the serial/parallel/PS2 to USB migration back in the day.
Maybe I'm missing what "abstraction" means here but seems like the tasks were centered around grids and other spatial problems, which are a very limited subset of abstraction/reasoning.

In my experience GPT4/V is pretty bad at those specifically, not necessarily around abstraction in general. Positions, rotations, etc. are a concept that GPT4 finds very hard to apply, which is kinda unsurprising since it has no body, no world, no space; it "lives" in the realm of text. DALLE3 suffers a similar problem where it has trouble with concepts like "upside down" and consistently fails to apply them to generated images.
There's also the RFC on OAuth2:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749

The introduction will give you a bit of a background. The most important to read (for now) is just the introduction up to chapter 2.
> I disagree. It depends if you're forking it to use it, or if you're forking it to compete commercially against the authors.

The problem is that whilst the license attempts to define what "competes" means, it's not a good definition. Specifically:

Competing Uses specifically include using the Software:
1. as a substitute for any of our products or services;
2. in a way that exposes the APIs of the Software; and
3. in a product or service that offers the same or substantially similar functionality to the Software.

(1) & (3) are highly subjective, and (2) attempts to assert a copyright claim over APIs (definitely doesn't work across most jurisdictions). No-one is going to seriously use this software with such a badly written and vague license.

(I suspect this is on purpose, and the actual motivation of the license author is to try and discourage anyone else from using / forking the software, whilst at the same time getting marketing cred for pretending to be "open". It's a source-available license. Others may come to different conclusions).
Okay I like this game:

As the cloud of stinky farts engulfs the player, they hastily grab N95 masks and attempt to shield themselves. However, the N95 masks are designed to filter out airborne particles, and while they may offer some protection, they are not effective against the stench of the farts. The player's attempt to wear N95 masks proves futile, leading to their ultimate demise in the overpowering cloud of stinky farts.
Ok. Have you ever tested the "nitro" in the tires to make sure it isn't just air (aka 78% nitrogen)?

No --- and neither has any other buyer. But you're willing to trust a car dealer (???) who is desperately trying to take advantage of you and you're willing to overpay for something you can't even verify.

The NHTSA has looked at this BS oxidation claim and their conclusion is:

This is not a practical concern for most consumers, because they replace
the tires (due to tread wear) long before degradation is a problem.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tire-buying-maintenance...
Sparks of AGI is not AGI. It's also possible that we're not testing LLMs fairly, or that merely slight tweaks to the architecture or methods would address the issues. I think this comment elaborates nicely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332420

I do think there might be something missing, but I also suspect that it's not as far off as most think.
Iff the customers have the requisite knowledge of what "responsible AI" should look like within a given domain. Sometimes you may have customers whose analytical skills are so basic there's no way they're thinking about bias, which would push the onus back onto the creator of the AI product to complete any ethical evaluations themselves (or try and train customers?)
Perhaps the higher level architecture reference guides can provide a good overview of all these items? Written from a GCP perspective, but nevertheless the concepts can be shared cross cloud:

Security & IAM
- https://cloud.google.com/architecture/security-iam

Other
- https://cloud.google.com/architecture?_ga=2.121060044.-59389...
I would write but the problem is that I write (and say) things that at first are mildly incoherent, not particularly well formed -- as you can see in my comment -- and don't always align with what I think. First impressions matter, and I don't want people to remember the bad ones. I regret writing about Python when I was just starting out in programming as a kid, and then having that blog post mentioned on Reddit almost 20 years later, with people being rude about it because it's trendy to be like that online. Fortunately I was smart enough not to post under my real name.
For Kerberos, here:

https://kerberos.org/software/tutorial.html
Uh, why not? You don't have to use the trial version font in every application.

(I almost bought it after trialing it for a few days, but ended up going with MonoLisa.)
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Have you also mentally slotted all of the male board members into “hot” or “not” categories, or is this a treatment that only the women get?
The reason why I write these responses is that I value merit-based discussions. Far too much cheerleading goes on in HN. I've said it numerously: It's very difficult to hold Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. accountable for actual transgressions when naysayers are just boys that cry wolf. These lot are self-defeating, no one worthwhile can take their opinions seriously because they don't apply them consistently and clearly have an agenda.

>No one is saying that the mere existence of the 8GB Macbook is a "problem".

This very thread is saying it ad nauseam - their issues being that (i) an 8gb computer shouldn't be labelled "pro", and (ii) that the 8gb models are irrelevant for serious work.

But onto the meat of the discussion:

While 8 is clearly not 16, Apple are obviously aware that the two numbers are not equal. Instead, what we have here in HN today is a disturbing number of disingenuous commenters who want to take that most absurd position on the statement.

The claim is evidently about how the user would perceive the performance and memory usage of the newer 8gb M-series macs versus apple's earlier 16gb intel models. It's not an unfair comparison and the article made numerous direct quotes about how apple make this claim; those points are being discussed by exactly zero people in this thread. It's also trivial to prove such a claim, so I doubt the majority of the commenters submitting their thoughts even clicked the article.

On a related topic:

A common speed test for smartphones is to simply run many 3rd party apps and multitask between them. These tests aim to demonstrate the real world performance of the device. Now despite having less ram that comparable flagships iPhones perform fluidly and outpace their Android counterparts, often significantly so.

What this underlines is that the performance of a device is not a mere sum of its basic parts. One can't look at a ram figure across different architectures and have an idea about the memory management of the device, or even its performance. A generation of computer users have grown up in a PC-monopoly and fail to grasp that different architectures lend to different efficiencies. Apple's approach here is enough to revisit that thinking.
Really? You really can't think of a stupid idea of from the past 20 years. I think this is being totally intellectually dishonest or you waste too much time with political bullshit so you have lost the ability to think outside of rhetorical response to win a twitter flame war.

How about all the dumb ideas that lead smart people to basically blow up the financial system in 2008 to start.
Thanks for pointing out. I will redirect to the whoishiring post.
One of the best practices endorsed by the us government to protect yourself from persistent malware on iPhone is to power it off and on periodically: https://media.defense.gov/2021/Sep/16/2002855921/-1/-1/0/MOB...
You can also do this for _free_
You're describing Bitcoin, basically the oldest and cruftiest option, and without the Lightning network upgrades that are running on top of it now.
I just want free software. The oss is redundant to me.
I believe several UK cities tried that kind of thing during the last WW. Didn't turn out great for the pedestrians (and also cars had restricted lighting, too).
"Put that bloody light out!"
You're missing the whole point of my comment for the sake of arguing you're quote-unquote "correct"

I'm not saying the board doesn't make decisions or that the board is powerless, or that their decisions are not enforceable or binding. That's already known to be true, there's no value in arguing that.

I'm saying the _ultimate_ decision is made by the people with the money, inevitably. The board is allowed to continue to make decisions until they go against the interests of owners. The whole point of a board is so owners don't have to waste their time making decisions, so instead they pay someone else (directors) to do make them on their behalf.

Start making decisions that go against the people who actually run the place, and you'll find yourself in trouble soon enough.
50 per 3 hours isn't so bad when I am using it. Writing a prompt + the response takes a minute, then it takes a couple minutes on average to go over the response and only then do I end up asking again. In using it I've only ended up hitting the limit a few times, and most of those times it's been a few minute wait.

API access can get you more if you would like, you would just have to use a different UI or make your own.
I'm 41, gamed since all the way back... but feel silly for asking... what sort of macros would you use in games like this?
High-Performance Server Architecture (2002)
Clearly lots of people find it useful; just look at the number of comments and upvotes it gets.

All you do is police the site, and it shows: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisArchitect

You are clearly oblivious as to how off-putting your behaviour is to new contributions. Just think on that. I wish this site had a feature to ignore users.

[In 20 hours this has garnered 308 points and 122 comments and you are bleating "Anything new here?" As I said before, read the room. The world doesn't revolve around you. Perhaps you are running a bot.]
I’d prefer to leave the place un touched by humans, even if it means I never visit.
Created a background libraries like Unsplash. Generated by Midjourney
You just can't admit being wrong, can you?

They are typically first wired in series to increase the voltage as early as possible, to make them safer. If you were to wire them in parallel you would keep a low voltage and increase the amperage, which would make their wires glow like Christmas lights.

That's the whole reason why they started selling micro-inverters that go on each panel: to increase the voltage and decrease amps before even leaving the panel area, to make them safer.

Look at a typical micro-inverter: input is up to 50 volts, 10 amps. Output is 240 volts, 1 amp. https://solartown.com/solar-products/enphase-iq8-microinvert...

For panels, the voltage is not dangerous part, the intensity is.
US Army asking soldiers dismissed for refusing Covid-19 vaccine to come back
As a reminder, the head of open source for Sentry came into hacker news and explicitly said he wants to destroy the existing definition of open source and replace it with one that is VC/Corporate friendly.

> > your end goal is to exclude commercial reuse from the open source definition

> This is fairly accurate, though there are a range of possible outcomes we would be satisfied with.

Anything they say should be considered with that in mind. These are not good actors in the industry, but are people who are trying to replace open source software with a shared source version. Unlike other companies, such as Hashicorp, who admit that their software is no longer open source Sentry wants to have their cake and eat it too.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972824
It's like some Americans claiming they're going to move to Canada if their presidential candidate loses.

All that tough talk means doodly-squat.
Getting away with calling it "open source".
Does it have a decent mobile app for alerts?
in youtube history settings you can turn off history recording while you binge on trash content, and if you forget, you can remove it from the list in history. the setting persists across sessions and devices. note that this is different from the incognito setting which does turn ads back on...

I do this to keep my recommendations clean.
Let's pretend NASA is a carmaker company.

It successfully builds Golf 2, one of the most versatile cars ever made. That car can do everything and go anywhere.

Now, say that NASA wanted to upgrade that car after 50+ years. And now, that car can't even go 50 miles before requiring a refill.

Are we supposed to believe how the new car is better? Are we even supposed to believe that Golf 2 worked as well as NASA said it did?

Hell no.
All fun and games until Google bans your account for ToS violation.

Seriously, if you actually have important stuff in your Google account I would warn against doing this. You’ll lose all of it more than likely.
What is all the honor and glory in the world weighed against the siren's call of being a poster that people find funny?
I think it's pretty safe to assume by now that US state-side counterintelligence has full control over AI safety circles, and given that everything is a nail when you're a hammer, the spooks probably consider these people domestic terrorists and process them accordingly, including active and passive prophylaxis. I mean, what proof do you need when people like OP lose sleep and brag about meeting the spooks a handful of times like it's the most important event of their lives! I guess it must be both empowering AND embarrassing for the spooks to have this situation turn into shit.
- If we're serious about meeting the 2030 "halve our emissions

"We¹" are not serious about it.
Biden talks pretty but has increased the production of fossil fuels,
beyond what even Trump did and we are now exporting more LNG than
any other country. (That changes, we are at the top, the nr 1 spot
might change between competitors now and again)

Yet we are all so happy with Biden cause he -says- the right words.

Same with Norway.
So many people saying the right things at the right places with the
right photo ops.

Yet we are not producing more fossile fuels than ever before.
The state has decided that we will increase production until 2026,
and -then- we will really cut back.

Yeah right.

Then we saw last winter many countries opening up coal powerplants again
to have enough energy. You cannot be serious about 2030 and the climate
in general, when you restart that kind of power plant.

¹ Those who run countries and have been elected to do so.
The process is orderly. They tested and designed the explosion very specifically.
Highly unethical would be throwing the CEO of the division keeping the lights on under a bus with zero regard for the consequences.

The non-profit board acted entirely against the interest of OpenAI at large. Disclosing an intention to terminate the highest profile member of their company to the company paying for their compute, Microsoft, is not only the ethical choice, it's the responsible one.

Members of the non-profit board acted recklessly and irresponsibly. They'll be paying for that choice for decades following, as they should. They're lucky if they don't get hit with a lawsuit for defamation on their way out.

Given how poorly Mozilla's non-profit board has steered Mozilla over the last decade and now this childish tantrum by a man raised on the fanfiction of Yudkowsky together with board larpers, I wouldn't be surprised if this snafu sees the end of this type of governance structure in tech. These people of the board have absolutely no business being in business.
I wouldn't call GPT-4 sub-human intelligence. While it's intelligence is less robust aggregate human intelligence, I don't think there is any one person alive who can compete with the breadth of GPT-4 knowledge.

I also think that the potential of what currently is possible with existing models has not been fully realized. Good prompting strategies and reflection may already be able to produce a system that is effectively AGI. Might already exist in several labs.
In the "malice vs stupidity" debate, I'll say this is the former.

> Kenya Power, the firm that distributes power in Kenya, is now thinking about building transformers that don’t use oil. Such transformers are not widely used and cost about half as much as ones that do use oil.

There's a ray of hope, at least.
I'd pay in a heartbeat for youtube premium if youtube weren't owned my the FAANG companies. I dislike these companies and don't want them to have a cent of my money so I'll continue to be a freeloader and I don't care if the company goes bankrupt because the world needs more competition.
I tried that once, but paying changed the ui in some way that I found to be a huge degradation. Dont remember what exactly it was, but now Im using the adblocker again. Just ublock works fine btw, as long as you keep it and its filters up to date.
The assistant captains (usually called vices) on each team are the arbiters. It’s in one’s best interest to keep the game moving and not get bogged in frivolities, there’s a bit of a “tie goes to the runner” heuristic when deciding on violations.

In my years of curling, I’ve never seen a disagreement on rules left unsettled between the vices, but my understanding is that one would refer to vices on the neighboring sheets for their opinion, acting as a stand-in impartial authority. In Olympic level play I do believe there are referees to avoid this, but I really can’t overstate how unusual that is for any other curlers.
Just to be clear, I'm not a security expert in any way, just learned myself while building things.

So here is what I'd refer to:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44133536/is-it-safe-to-s...

Regarding the Firebase, I see an open issue on this, so I guess we are not the only ones wondering :)

https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-nodejs/issues/194
There's certainly a risk of that, but I think the second paragraph is enough to push it away from that problem in this specific instance.
The source you link does not contain the quotes you cite.
yeah. far from well-understood.

have a look at Phillip Armour's "The Laws of Software Process: A New Model for the Production and Management of Software, 2003"
it talks about Software as knowledge medium, and effects thereof.. an attempt to put them things with their legs down, not up.

... software is not a product but a medium for storing knowledge, and software development is not a product-producing activity, it is a knowledge-acquiring activity.

... the real job is not writing the code, or even building the system - it is acquiring the necessary knowledge to build the system... Code is simply a by-product of this activity. The problem arises when we think the code, rather than the knowledge in the code, is the product.

... When we use models and mindsets that are rigid and deterministic to manage an activity that is fluid and variable, it is not surprising that people get disappointed.

and a consequence:

"... for the most part, (software) engineers do not _know_ how to build the systems they are trying to build; it's their job to _find_ out how to do it." i.e. programmers must be able to learn (and teach) - should learn that and/or be taught to it. All else are tools supporting that activity.
It feels like the explorer bar kinda does this intrinsically, or am I missing something?
If you've checked out the docs for the assistant api, you can intuit that there is a higher level system which decides which subsystems to use to respond. The assistant determines whether to use a tool (vision, code interpreter, search, retrieval), as well as which code or text language model to use to generate the response.
Ants use aphid supplemented foods to alleviate effects of a fungal infection
> isn't worth the effort of writing code to detect these non-discernible artifacts

Why wouldn’t it be worth it? You just have to write the code once and it will affect terabytes of music being compressed from that point forth.
I remember ArVid was invented in pre CD-ROM era. You could store 2gb of data on VHS videotape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
What per cent of Mechanical Turk hits are being performed by an LLM these days?
It's true it's kind of weird it isn't big news, and only has been kept as small notes in the newspapers.

Seems like the main (only?) Card payment processor in Spain has stopped working, country wide, for one hour or two. That's a huge security/infrastructure problem.

News notes:

https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2023-11-18/problemas-con-bizum-tarjetas-y-datafonos-la-caida-de-la-plataforma-redsys-tumba-los-sistemas-de-pago-bancarios.html
https://theobjective.com/economia/2023-11-18/los-sistemas-pago-comercios-madrid/
https://www.elcorreo.com/sociedad/pago-datafono-redsys-servicio-de-procesamiento-tarjeta-espana-20231118144047-nt.html
If you're writing a video player or a game or something else that wants direct scan-out, then you can disable the round corners in your CSS.
I do provide company training in OAuth, OpenID-Connect, ASP.NET Core authenticaiton and web security at https://tn-data.se/