skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps HN visitors are not benign, I have no idea. They mostly seem reasonable and friendly to me. I’m only saying calling groups of people you don’t know any particular thing, who are not homogeneous, is fraught and uncharitable. Not to mention thinking you’re the only person with moral clarity amongst your heathen peers, is, well, not a recipe for a great time. Why even come here then?
This is an odd take. Today on Twitter I saw an ad for a whites-only dating service with the photo of a celebrity who very likely did not endorse the company with the use of a racial slur (with an "r" at the end). Whatever you think about the "moral standards" of the companies in question, it makes sense that they would not want to put their brand on the same platform that would serve these ads alongside theirs. That doesn't seem to be political maneuvering but very basic advertising sense.
I specifically avoid buying anything without USB-C. Not only do I like having everything on the same connector, MicroUSB is often the least reliable part of a device aside from battery calendar aging.
So if someone appears "strong", does that mean they are also "weak"?

"Strong" → "Appears Weak"
"Weak" → "Appears Weak" ⊕ "Feigns strength"

Everyone is "weak" ∨ "appears weak"?

Is "appearance of strength" ∧ "strong" valid in this meta?

I need someone's help with the logic. I'm a bit rusty.

I think it's just an implication, so it is valid to "appear strong" ∧ "be strong"

I'm also curious about the distribution here.

I'm also just now noticing how weird the word strong is.

It's possible that this is the reason:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
My dumbass opened up this repo full of hope and then realized I can't read any of this XD, I trained in the early 2000s, my first language was Java, I'm pampered as all hell.

The last time I saw assembler was in a bloody history class :P

Mind you, old school game developers were absolute gangsters and gave 0 shits about anything except things working and that's what I appreciates about them.
Real progress follows two rules:

1. It takes longer than you think

2. It is much more iterative than you think

We're not going to all wake up one day and see a robot simulating human thought. We'll just inch closer and closer until we're there, and we won't even realize we got there until we've been there for 5 years.

AGI is not an iPhone launch. It's more like the evolution of humans, which took place over millions of years, without anyone being able to identify the first "real" human.
except that's a paid solution for something that you can easily achieve for free
This seems unrealistic.
They call the shots until they are overruled (by a court, or by a new board after the board members have been forced out and that isn't all that simple otherwise no board could ever function in their oversight role in a non-profit), and even then until that process has run its course their statements are factually correct. I know this is all hairsplitting but it really does matter. When the board put out a statement saying they had fired Altman that was that. They can re-hire him or they can reverse their decision but until that happens their decision stands.

Yes, they are accountable (and I'm actually surprised at how many people seem to believe that they are not), but they are not without power. Legal and practical are not always exactly overlapping and even if the board may not ultimately hold practical power (even if they believe they do) legally speaking they do and executives function at the pleasure of the board. If the board holds a vote and the bylaws of the company allow for it and the vote passes according to those bylaws then that's that. That's one good reason to pack the board of your billions of dollars worth company with seasoned people because otherwise stuff like this may happen.

Afterwards you can do a lot about it, you can contest the vote, you can fight it in court, you can pressure board members to step down and you can sue for damage to the company based on the decision. But the board has still made a decision that is in principle a done deal. They can reverse their decision, they can yield to outside pressure and they can be overruled by a court. But you can't pretend it didn't happen and you can't ignore it.
> From what I understand, the for-profit OpenAI is owned and governed by the non-profit OpenAI.

That's functionally true, but more complicated. The for profit "OpenAI Global LLC" that you buy ChatGPT subscriptions and API access from and in which Microsoft has a large direct investment is majority-owned by a holding company. That holding company is itself majority owned by the nonprofit, but has some other equity owners. A different entity (OpenAI GP LLC) that is wholly owned by the nonprofit controls the holding company on behalf of the nonprofit and does the same thing for the for-profit LLC on behalf of the nonprofit (this LLC seems to me to be the oddest part of the arrangement, but I am assuming that there is some purpose in nonprofit or corporate liability law that having it in this role serves.)

https://openai.com/our-structure and particularly https://images.openai.com/blob/f3e12a69-e4a7-4fe2-a4a5-c63b6...
Seems like it is a Youtube.js problem. will investigate, doesn't happen on Chrome.

EDIT: It seems like Firefox has some special unsafe eval rule breaking dash.js

EDIT2: Problem was actually FF's sendMessage not toString()'ing URL objects. I've fixed it in V1.2.1 for FF (approval by mozilla pending)

EDIT3: V1.2.1 (Firefox hotfix) is available now

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/faststream/
Employees at OpenAI can get multiples of their salary elsewhere, but have huge stock option packages contingent on investment and profits.
Assembler isn't hard to write.

It's just bloody hard to read, unless you wrote it, and wrote it recently. You effectively have to have the state of the register set in your mind the whole time.

Lots of C code from back then is just as impenetrable though. It has structure but it's terse and mechanical.
Everyone rolling their own lists and hash tables and string functions in every program, lots of unrolled loops, etc. Different constraints. Memory & CPU was expensive.
It will be a VCR of VCR
Building the same product with a different codebase is virtually guaranteed to be a disaster. This is the famous "second system effect."

Sometimes the original coders are the only people who know, not only how the software works, but even what it does. Unknown uses include features discovered by users but unknown to the makers, and one-off hacks created to serve a valuable customer.
Why do you think it cannot win? I would bet on the opposite.
I can't leave, I have no other choice for cheap space to run events.
If there is a known way to cram more data into the same space, compression algorithms are going to want to use it, or something like it which makes use of the same space. Even minor improvements in compression algorithms are extremely valuable at the scale of the internet.
FWIW decades ago I enjoyed "The Tao is Silent" by the late Raymond Smullyan.

Having just scanned for modern reviews I suggest the following link may be helpful--here is an excerpt of their conclusion : "...

All in all, The Tao Is Silent is an interesting book filled with Taoist and Zen wisdom pared down from a complex framework to meet the needs of a contemporary (nineteen-seventies) Western audience, and I can recommend it to people starting out with Taoism with the caveat that it’s aiming for a Western readership with all the guailo-fication that implies. -- Jacob Martin

https://jadecryptofwonders.com/blog/the-tao-is-silent-raymon...
I really don't know what people mean when they say this. We routinely instruct computer chips to evaluate whether some condition is true and take action on that basis, even though the chip is "just" a selectively doped rock. Why would the details of an LLM's underlying architecture mean that it can't have a concept of true or false?
The board of the non-profit (one that fired Sam) has no fiduciary duty to those investors, I believe. Microsoft invested in the for-profit Openai, which is owned by the non-profit. The other ones I don't know.

The board has no responsibility to Microsoft whatsoever regarding this. Sam Altman structured it this way himself. Not to say that the board didn't screw up.
Romero had basically no involvement in Deus Ex.

Daikatana was a commercial and critical failure. Quake 2 and Quake III were commercial and critical successes.
You're using relativistic time dilation and length contraction to claim that Michaelson-Morley can be explained without relativity? Your logic sounds rather shaky there...
That isn't reconstructing what was lost. It was lost. Photoshop is machine learning taking a guess at what it was and putting that there. Sometimes it's pretty close. Sometimes it's not.
Clearly people in the non-profit part are trying to bring the organization back to its non-profit origins - after Altman effectively high jacked their agenda and corporatized the organization for his own benefit; turning its name into a meme.
This could all be easily covered over with a few billion dollars. This is just some guy that thinks too small.
No, inflation (as the name suggests), inflates then money supply and as a result, each person's holdings reduce in value. Here the value gets transferred in small blocks through purchase of stamps.
These comments appear to conflate the surgical bypass and VAD literature.

Also, the timeframe for valvular calcification and thrombosis are not similar. Thrombosis is the killer when it comes to devices.
Yeah unfortunately the conjunctions just aren't commutative in the game of strongy-weaky.
Been watching YouTube on Firefox (Android and MacOS) with uBlock Origin with zero ads ever. What am I missing?
Thanks, let's use that above since it's the canonical source.

Submitted link was https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/nov/18/more-advertise..., which appears to be unpaywalled.
that is true and isnt. GPT4 has shown itself to halfway through a answer say "wait thats not correct im sorry let me fix that" and then correct itself. For example it stated a number was prime and why, and when showing the steps found it was divisible by 3 and said "oh i made a mistake it actually isnt prime"
I really don't understand how snaps can compete with flatpak. Flatseal makes this such a great experience. Ubuntu consistently backs the wrong horse.
This is one of those things that I'll ignore. Just tell me the outcome when it's over. The older I get, the more I can't stomach this stuff. It applies to pretty much all news recently.
For average consumers it's great. I think my phone is the only thing I own that could use 3.1(I assume, I've never looked because I do most everything wireless).

Almost everything (Including my 200Wh solar generator!) Will charge from 5v at 5W on a regular USB, and almost nothing really needs more than that, slow charging is quite often fine for phones and tablets.

Phones tell you if they slow charge, so it's just a matter of keeping the good cable plugged in the good adapter.

For the way most people use USB-C, as a power cable that can do data with a little extra work when needed, it's already great.
Ever see notices of an asteroid making it's closest approach? Sometimes, those are closer than the moon is to earth. Sometimes, they're further out. There does exist a team tracking objects for the sole purpose of deciding if there is a potential of a collision path.

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home

Has some fun graphics to show what we know about. The scary part are the ones we don't know about. Some say that this groups budget is not enough.
Sounds like wishful thinking on the part of the authors source.

If I worked there, I would keep my job and see how things shake out. If I don’t like it, then I start looking. What I don’t do is risk my well being to take sides in a war between people way richer than me.
I guess since they're doomed anyway, resignation saves face a little bit more.
ublock origin folks have asked people to not run any other blocker extension alongside, those seem to trigger the anti-adblock scripts. It might be the same case for you.
We actually got some comments about that on our house. I asked the neighbors that made the comment if they were willing to put up the difference and I'd be more than happy to take them down. So far no takers ;)
Olive Garden marinara sauce contains grape jelly. A strawberry milkshake from McDonald’s contains something like 75 grams of sugar. Kids are fed Mac and Cheese from a box…its like 3 ingredients to make fresh…A “healthy” salad is lathered in sugar laden sauce worth 10x the calories of the leafy greens it sits on. Ultimately I think the nation is suffering from poor food quality standards combined with corrupted messaging surrounding nutrition and health. Most Americans I meet have skewed perceptions of what a healthy diet looks like. “Eat less, move more” is a convenient mantra suspiciously funded by the likes of Coca Cola. Maybe some things are just straight up unhealthy for you regardless of how much you exercise.
The average user watches 20 hours of content a month. So that’s not bad I think.

Somehow I suspect the ones obsessively managing ad blockers to make sure they don’t see a single ad aren’t the ones that watch 2 videos a month or less
We are already living a modern day oligarchic feudalism. Just lords owning land and cyberspace rent seeking from everyone.
> The singularity cultists are also insane.

Are you dismissing everyone that has concerns about unleashing the genie, or are you specifically referring to cult-like behaviour (I'm not familiar with any, but presumably it exists) around this subject?

The rest of your post included some emotive and dismissive language, so I suspect it's the former - a general disregard for the precautionary principle, which in this instance should be first and foremost given the decidedly one-way nature of that particular threshold.
What specs are needed to run those models in your local machine without crashing the system?
Then I will stop paying
The opponents strategy is an unknown variable not determined by the current board state.

Therefore the best move cannot be determined by the current board state, as it cannot be determined in isolation from the opponents strategy.
It's a way of saying that what has been historically been considered "studying AI safety" in fact bears little relation to real life AIs and what may or may not make them more or less "safe".
I have been thinking about this problem for a long time as well.

But I think that focusing on nils is a wrong analysis. The problem is the default zero-values dogma, and that is not going to change anytime soon.

Sometimes you also need a legitimate empty string or 0 integer, but the language cannot distinguish it from the absence of value.

In my codebase, I was able to improve the readability of those cases a lot by using mo.Option, but that has a readability cost and does not offer the same guarantees than a compiler would. The positive side is that I get a panic and clear stack trace whenever I try to read an absent value, which is better than nothing, but still not as good as having those cases at compile time.

No amount of lint checkers (however smart) will workaround the fact that the language cannot currently express those constraints. And I don't see it evolving past it's current dogmas unfortunately, unless someone forks it or create something like typescript for go.
Also worth mentioning that all engines on the first stage successfully ran until separation of the second stage. On the first flight, a number of engines didn't light and more shut down early.
The reason for the lawsuit [1] seems to contradict itself; it's against spreading misinformation on X, while invoking the principle of allowing misinformation on X?

> "But for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable. We believe that everyone has the right to make up their own minds about what to read..."

So... "Let [Media Matters] say what you [consider objectionable], and [let us make up our own minds about what to read]."

I do get that that shouldn't preclude lawsuits for slander/libel... but suing people out of existence with "thermonuclear" lawsuits seems to be roughly the same type of tyranny as the censoring he's taking a stand against.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037
You can do the same thing with a device called a computer. You can also do that on Android with Newpipe and could do that with Vanced before Google used (likely specious) legal threats to destroy it.

There's no good reason whatsoever to pay the Danegeld[0] to Google for their "premium" subscription that sells you the right to use basic functionality that Google arbitrarily and maliciously attempts to block.

[0]: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_danegeld.htm
There are also a ton of ~first mover advantages you can't benefit from, be they of untapped markets for demand or the exploitation of underpriced labor, capital, or IP. If Sam started a new company he would not get as good a deal on hardware or labor, he would get much more scrutiny on his training sets, and he would have to compete against both OpenAI and its competitors.
I wonder if Microsoft engineered this?
my question is: why not both? why not pursue the profit and use that to fuel the research into AGI. seems like a best of both worlds.
We can view it from any lens.

In any lens if microsoft pulls their GPUs and funding, then OpenAI is through.

No, pissing microsoft off in this situation is not a good idea. Because microsoft can shut the whole organization down.
Well at least we can damage the watermark such that it’s no longer machine readable. Since according to its marketing it’s invisible to listeners, our distortion of it should be equally invisible.
> These companies have bottom-of-the-barrel moral standards and don't care what one person on Twitter is Tweeting.

Advertisers have cared about placement for as long as advertising has existed.
Does it have goals beyond “find a likely series of tokens that extends the input?”

Is the idea that it will hack into NORAD and a launch a first-strike to increase the log-likelihood of “WWIII was begun by…?”
Yeah they did less than 20 launches, had 6 successful missions, and then had to kill the program because the costs were too high at a $500B equivalent annual budget. Apollo 1 also burnt up and killed 3 astronauts on the ground.

Modern day NASA could not redo the Saturn V missions again. They lost the talent that achieved those missions a long time ago.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to refer to heads of state as having the wealth of the state. Musk can effectively spend all of his wealth if he chooses to (after paying his debts). Heads of state really can't, except on the state itself. Not even absolute monarchs.
The photoelectric effect and Compton scattering can both be explained with a semi-classical theory in which there are no photons. Can try and dig up papers if you are interested.
Not familiar with squeezed states.
The only quantisation needed in the Casimir effect is boundary-induced quantisation, that EM waves should have, right?

EDIT: for example: https://thiscondensedlife.wordpress.com/2019/08/25/
Nah, it is MSFTs contingency plan in all this. U don’t invest 10B and get blindsided. It would be hilarious it is forced to threaten the board to comply this way

But it will work.
Things you can't do in WGSL
> supposedly works like 80-100hrs a week

if theyve been doin that for a while, no wonder the board wanted them gone. eventually you cause more work than you put out.
People with non-benign views are still worth talking to :). I bet some of my current views turn out to be harmful and regrettable in hindsight. Definitely didn’t mean to attack the inherent/essential character of Hacker News Residents, just defend the original point and point out the inherent validity of calling a particular belief set “sociopathic”
No, that’s how I know you’ve never been an executive. It’s constantly messy and personal AF. It’s just the workers below who don’t see it and cash in their checks. You live a stable life because you are shielded from the chaos to keep you productive.
Ask HN: Is anyone else concerned about OpenAI and safety?
Given all that is going on (battling factions, loose governance, general drama) is anyone else concerned with OpenAI’s ability to develop AI safely?
They have, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38325650
And the gold medal in mental gymnastics goes to...

Twitter has never been a great platform to advertise on, the quality of the advertisers has dropped dramatically this year, and companies are distancing themselves from the clown show. There is no secret conspiracy. Advertising on Twitter just doesn't make sense.
Kind of unrelated, but how difficult do you think it would be to hack support for glsl shaders in a browser? I tried to look into it once, but got a bit lost in the media source side of things. My idea was to try to add glsl shaders as post processing to video streams like in mpv but without having to jump through all the hurdles of passing data to mpv.

Example of a shader I was playing with https://github.com/TianZerL/ACNetGLSL
Yes, this has been hotly debated for years.
The article is about people disagreeing with Einstein on quantum mechanics, not relativity.
> It’s really dismissive toward the rank and file to think that they don’t matter at all.

I had the exact opposite take. If I were rank and file I'd be totally pissed how this all went down, and the fact that there are really only 2 possible outcomes:

1. Altman and Brockman announce another company (which has kind of already happened), so basically every "rank and file" person is going to have to decide which "War of the Roses" team they want to be on.

2. Altman comes back to OpenAI, which in any case will result in tons of time turmoil and distraction (obviously already has), when most rank and file people just want to do their jobs.
I had a Cooler Master case where the IO stack at the top of the case had the opposite orientation (logo down). Threw me off forever.

I'm at a point in my life where I've just given up and figure that I'm only going to get it right 1/3rd of the time anyway: Nope, turn; nope, turn; yup.
This is getting ridiculous... Maybe they should ask GPT4 how to handle it from now on?
They’ve actually drawn very little of that $10b. They are profitable at the moment, and would have no trouble raising funds from anywhere at the moment in any quantity they wanted.
> In most scenarios Bob would be “trustworthy news source” who cares about their reputability. The important piece here is that if someone shares something on e.g. twitter and says Bob produced it, that claim can be verified.

We don't need some new system for that. You go to the website of your preferred news source and the connection is secured with TLS which certifies that the server is the one for the domain your browser shows you're visiting.

> Think about what happens today when a private key is leaked - that key is no longer trusted. Will it be such a large scale problem such that the day any camera is released the keys are leaked?

It's not that some camera's keys will be leaked and then you'll know not to trust them. It's that someone publishes how to extract the keys from some camera and then everything signed with any of those keys is called into question. Or figures out how to extract the keys from some camera or swipe them from one of the bureaucracies that generate them and doesn't tell anyone, they just use them to forge signatures.

And then because that is not only possible but likely to happen in practice, and you have no way to know when it has, you can't actually trust the signatures for anything.
Haha “long run”. So funny.
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I don’t think you are using table stakes correctly
Is it eat until satisfied or eat until full? Food tastes good. Plenty of people, myself included, often go well beyond full as the food is an experience in itself.