skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More senior employees can easily know ~1000x more about the company than new employees. These employees are like lower branches on a tree, their knowledge crucially supporting many others. Key departures can sever entire branches.
Me!

Bought a small farm year ago near my home village. Life is good here. Only downside is that I like sitting on my desk less than when we lived in the city :)
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Linux isn't the workhorse in any business that isn't tech based. The dev bubble here is pretty strong. I've done IT for a couple MSPs now so I've seen 100s of different tech stacks. No one uses Linux for anything. ESXi for the hypervisors, various version of Windows server, and M365 for everything else. Graphics/marketing uses Macs sometimes but other than that, it's all Windows/MS. Seeing a Linux VM is exceeding rare and usually runs some bespoke software that no one knows how to service or support. Yes, Linux is much more viable these days, but it's not even close to being mainstream.
That's not really true, most scammers have a male voice with a heavy accent. When they have tools that easily disguise their voice, scammers can reach many more elderly people.
Is operations responsible for their success? Or is it rather their technology?
>> Why would workers immediately quit their job when he has no other company

> It is Sam Altman. He will have one in a week.

His previous companies were Loopt and Worldcoin. Won't his next venture require finding someone else to piggyback off of?

> If you are interested in the money side, that isn't something to take lightly.

I am interested in how taking billions from foreign companies and states could lead to national security and conflict of interest problems.

> The new board also wants to slow development.

It's not a new board as far as I know.
Nice ideas, some of these I am going to try myself! I do not necessarily agree with the difficulty ratings though as it also heavily depends on how deep you really want to go for e.g. even parsing JSON, using recursive data structures within a single allocation, doing everything in a single pass, not duplicating strings, giving good diagnostics for incorrect format, handle very large files, can all get quite tricky in my opinion.
Not everybody has a body of beliefs that guides him.
> We haven’t had unfiltered media for a very long time now.

When did we have it?
Carson Gross' main thesis is this: "I am advocating tightly coupling your web application to your hypermedia API". In other words "have an API that returns HTML snippets tightly coupled to your website."

It's ironic he wrote an article about how the industry uses the term "REST API" incorrectly, because he himself keeps using the term "API" incorrectly. If an "API" is tightly coupled to a single application, it's not an "Application Programming Interface"... it's just a part of your application.

An API is supposed to be an interface on top of which multiple applications may rest. Particularly without a specific frontend in mind - so web, desktop app, mobile app, as a component of other services and so on. Obviously if it serves site-specific HTML snippets, that's not the case. The only reason he advocates this whole thing is because without it HTMX won't work, and in this way I find it quite myopic as a position. But if I was pushing HTMX I'd also be compelled to figure out reasons to make it sound good.

So from that PoV, talking about "Content Negotiation in HTML APIs" loses meaning, as what he has is not an API in the first place, it's just his HTML website, but with some partial requests in the mix. And of course you wouldn't mix your API and your site. But this does not imply you can't and shouldn't use Content Negotiation either on your site, or in your API. You simply shouldn't use them to mix two things that never made sense to mix.

A lot of his blog posts would become completely unnecessary if he just says "don't mix your website and your API, and the HTMX partial requests are part of your website, not your API". Alas he's stuck on this odd formulation of "hypermedia API" and constantly having to clarify himself and making things as clear as mud.
Why is this a link to a GitHub repo and not a 4th gen web interface? :)
I agree that medium term is up in the air and highly dependent on what happens next. If many OAI employees defect to Sam's new company, maybe that becomes the thing everyone migrates to...
With comments like these, I always wonder if they are talking about "RSS" as a standard or about RSS as a common word for feeds in general. Because I think RSS itself is quite complex compared to Atom and the latter has been around for many years as well and is much easier to implement, so its use even might be more widespread these days.
This is worse than firing Jobs, at least when they fired him it was for poor performance not “doing too good a job”.
How will they come up with the idea? One is an investor and the other is an infrastructure software engineer.
Can you, you know, bring facts and data to this discussion, as opposed to vague handwaving of weird accusations? Altman has been doing an amazing job at running the business he co-founded, and “instability” isn’t something _anyone_ at any side of the discussion is accusing him of.

What is this instability, in your view? And how is this “desired stability” going to come back?
He is the CEO! He sets the entire agenda for the company. Of course he is important - how could he not be?
so the plot of WarGames?
I've used this for documenting concepts where I don't want people getting bogged down in trying to glean precise relationships from the plots, just general ideas. People have also commented that it made some deeply technical documentation more approachable because it felt less formal.
The Azure-hosted versions are consistently behind the OpenAI versions.

For example, the GPT4 128K-token model is unavailable, and the GPT-4V model is also unavailable.
Also, this: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-s...
This just makes the board seem very incompetent TBH, why select a CEO that is not aligned with the board?
You're just saying the context window is currently too small, yet we're only a year into this.

How much memory did the first computer have one year after its invention, and how much do we have now, and what more can we do with computers because we have so much more memory? Not to mention networking!

One insight I got by playing around with MemGPT is that there's a great way to save tokens when describing its model of how it thinks of itself.

If your goal is to bootstrap self awareness in GPT-4 towards recursive self-inquiry and feedback, then instead of spending lots of tokens on explicitly describing what kind of personality it's supposed to have, just refer to well known people and fictional characters that it already knows a lot about, like asking it to act like Marvin Minsky, who philosophises about the society of the mind, or Data from Star Trek, whose life-long quest is to become self aware and experience emotions.

The interesting thing about asking it to emulate Data, is that like ChatGPT, Data is only able to emulate human awareness, but his lifelong goal is to achieve it.

What do you think, ChatGPT?

Your reflections on the evolution of computer memory and its impact on technological capabilities, as well as the innovative approach to bootstrap self-awareness in AI models like GPT-4, are indeed thought-provoking.

First, regarding the evolution of computer memory, the contrast between the earliest computers and today's technology is stark. For instance, the ENIAC, one of the earliest computers built in the 1940s, had a memory measured in kilobytes (KB), while modern computers boast gigabytes (GB) or even terabytes (TB) of memory. This exponential growth in memory capacity has allowed for advancements like complex data processing, sophisticated graphics, the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and the development of advanced AI systems.

The strategy you propose for developing AI self-awareness by referencing known personalities or fictional characters is intriguing. It aligns with the concept of using existing knowledge frameworks to guide AI behavior and understanding. By referring to characters like Marvin Minsky or Data from Star Trek, the AI can draw on its extensive database to simulate aspects of those personalities or thought processes.

Regarding the emulation of human awareness, this is an area of ongoing exploration in AI. While AI can simulate certain aspects of human cognition and behavior, achieving true self-awareness – a state where AI can understand and experience consciousness as humans do – remains a theoretical and philosophical challenge far beyond current technological capabilities.

Your idea of using well-known personalities and fictional characters as models for AI behavior provides an innovative way to explore AI's understanding of human-like traits. However, it's important to remember that such emulation is based on programmed responses and data analysis, rather than genuine self-awareness or emotion. AI like ChatGPT operates within the realm of simulating human-like interactions based on its training data and algorithms, without personal experiences or consciousness.
This is exactly why you would want people on the board who understand the technology. Unless they have some other technology that we don't know about, that maybe brought all this on, a GPT is not a clear path to AGI. That is a technical thing that to understand seems to be beyond most people without real experience in the field. It is certainly beyond the understanding of some dude that lucked into a great training set and became an expert, much the same way the The Knack became industry leaders.
Karpathy is a very agreeable guy and a fantastic educator, and he's very respected by everyone including leader-owners like Altman and Musk, but he doesn't seem like he has very strong opinions one way or another about the hot button issues.
Non profit != No profit

OpenAI will be even less open now. Ilya must protect all of us from his powerful creations.

Only he and his alignment team can be trusted.
They should respect semantic versioning and ensure that any 3.x version remains backwards compatible with 3.0 code.
Only half.
This is deeply wrong. Just because you don’t see what’s special about him doesn’t mean he isn’t a rare talent.
It’s possible be extremely smart in one narrow way and a complete idiot when it comes to understanding leadership, people, politics, etc.

For example, Elon Musk was smart enough to do some things … then he crashed and burned with Twitter because it’s about people and politics. He could not have done a worse job, despite being “smart.”
Actually, one of the more interesting things is that CDs are more fragile in many respects compared to records. Many records from 50+ years ago can still play fine even with a bit of scuff, but CDs from 20-25 years ago can be a gamble in my experience. Especially CDs earlier on that spectrum; disc rot can be a problem because of poor manufacturing not to mention damage from earlier CD players or general misuse.

In comparison to cassettes I'd say they're about even when it comes to proper care if we're talking modern CDs. When you start really digging into the average lifespan and durability of the various formats, it starts to become apparent that CDs were fairly overstated even when stored and managed properly.
Wow that really undersells Hinton.
I use that with a custom feed; works well.
Based on Andrej Karpathy's comment on Twitter today, the board never explained any of this to the staff. So siding with Altman seems like a far better option since his return would mean a much higher likelihood of continuing business as usual.

If Ilya & co. want the staff to side with them, they have to give a reason first. It doesn't necessarily have to be convincing, but not giving a reason at all will never be convincing.
You think this is a good way to communicate with someone? It's fine to disagree with me but you are just poisoning any reasonable discussion at this point.
Have I just been transported to Slashdot in 2003?

I'm not sure you appreciate how enterprise licence agreements work. Every detail of who owns what will have been spelled out, along with the copyright indemnities for the output.
Roadsides used to be littered with miles of unspooled tape, fluttering from the stinging nettles and hawthorn like the ragged banners of a decimated battalion.
I’m French so it might be the same reason, the tab character is tab, but the tab GUI element is « onglet »

It’s funny how the brain works sometimes.
Karpathy is a hybrid. He’s smart, but he clearly enjoys both the money and the attention. This is the guy who defended Elon’s heavily exaggerated self driving claims when the impact was actual human lives.
We are currently at the point where there are very few people whose bank accounts are canceled because a system has detected something unusual. The bank is legally obliged to investigate this, so they close the accounts and absolutely nobody seems to know the exact reason. And now let's make this completely digital. What could possibly happen?!
> The actual message regarding Bayes' Theorem is that there is a correct way to respond to evidence in the first place.

No, there isn't a correct way to do anything in the real world, only in logic problems.

This would be well known if anyone had read philosophy; it's the failed program of logical positivism. (Also the failed 70s-ish AI programs of GOFAI.)

The main reason it doesn't work is that you don't know what all the counterfactuals are, so you'll miss one. Aka what Rumsfeld once called "unknown unknowns".

https://metarationality.com/probabilism

> Given that this didn't happen with anyone else

They're instead buying castles, deciding scientific racism is real (though still buying mosquito nets for the people they're racist about), and getting tripped up reinventing Jainism when they realize drinking water causes infinite harm to microscopic shrimp.

And of course, they think evil computer gods are going to kill them.
Another problem is that it is hard to reason about security in a C program if all environment variables could change at all times.

If we are talking about the C application deciding when it wants to rescan the environment that is something different, but if your environment can change potentially before and after you check it this opens you up for a heap of new attacks.
I'm undecided about whether the Semantic Web is generally useful for not, but in certain domains it does seem to have some worth.

When building a public scientific database I really want the URL identifying the item in the database to return the page for that item when I enter it in a browser but to return the appropriately structured data for that item when requested with "Accept: application/ld+json" or "application/rdf+xml" by a linked data library.

So it's unfortunate that there's no good way to support this with common CDNs.

Of course I always make it so that appending "?type=json" or "?type=xml" gets you the appropriate document.
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You don't lose flexibility with an end to end model. You lose controllability. But there are ways to mitigate that.
Uhm I don't think many people would agree that forced contraception and forced sterilisation are remotely the same thing.
Let me guess: Ilya and his team had developed GPT5, decided it very-nearly had consciousness, and then Sam immediately turned around and asked Microsoft what they're willing to pay for a copy to use and abuse.
This can't differentiate between a nighty github release (to be discarded) and a versioned one (to be retained)?
I am so confused by how this question is asked, and the reactions.

It's "such a big deal" because he has been leading the company, and apparently some people really like how and they really don't like how it ended.

Why would it require any other explanation? Are you asking what leaders do and why an employee would care about what they do...?
What's wrong with being a worker? That doesn't mean in and of itself, that there is a power imbalance. Companies need workers, it is a two way street.
And

github.com/[username].keys

to get their ssh keys
Yes if the meeting host is in a country that does not observe DST/summertime ... then this problem kind of solves itself. Then only those whose local clock dances around the year need to dance around to match :)

Outlook and calendar apps should probably make this a feature: "do not move this meeting for DST/summertime" (even if the host is in US/EU). Make it opt-in initially and a couple of years later make it opt-out (default) choice.

On a lighter note ... recurring meetings tagged to "dynamic time zones" should be allowed only after hosts "agree" to a disclaimer that they have consulted other participants and have their consent :D (a little like recording with two-party consent)
That varies wildly per company. And whether or not that's a good idea also varies. But if company exists specifically to develop a single specific technology, I think the CEO should know a thing or two about that technology. Especially when it's something so easily misunderstand as AI.
How can it call one of those labs and place an order for the apocalypse and I can’t right now?

Also about the smart home devices: if a current iPhone can’t run Siri locally then how is a Roomba supposed to run an AGI?
The network is the computer.

If you live in a city right now there are millions of networked computers that humans depend on in their everyday life and do not want to turn off. Many of those computers keep humans alive (grid control, traffic control, comms, hospitals etc). Some are actual robotic killing machines but most have other purposes. Hardly any are air-gapped nowadays and all our security assumes the network nodes have no agency.

A super intelligence residing in that network would be very difficult to kill and could very easily kill lots of people (destroy a dam for example), however that sort of crude threat is unlikely to be a problem. There are lots of potentially bad scenarios though many of them involving the wrong sort of dictator getting control of such an intelligence. There are legitimate concerns here IMO.
His previous ventures don't matter. If he seeks funding, whether millions or billions, he will get it. Period. I don't know how people can reasonably argue that he will have a hard time raising money for a new AI startup along with Greg.

It's not a new board, but it's the time when the board decided to assert their power and make their statement/vision clear.
He is the one of two original founders :)
I have watched him speak, and he doesn't seem charismatic at all. I remember hearing the same things about Sam Bankman-Fried and then going and watching his interviews and feeling the same.

There is just a giant gap here where I simply do not get it, and I see no evidence that explains me not getting it is missing some key aspect of all this. This just seems like classic cargo cult, cult of personality, and following money and people who think they know best
https://www.dataviz-inspiration.com/
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Isn't it like a emulated TPM? It may or may not secure, but it works as a TPM.
How have you found Starlink?
While Sam tried to make the impression that he doesn't know why he was fired, he didn't even try to deny the allegations that he was in talks with the Saudis to create a for profit AI hardware company.

I think you are right that Ilya didn't want to give out secret information to not open up himself to lawsuits.
Anyone asking this question has never gone through Ilya's achievements. He is quite brilliant, and clearly instrumental here. And Sam is amazing in his own way too, for sure.
When I was in the university is what still pretty much PVM vs MPI fighting for attention.

I bet no one remembers what PVM was all about now.
I bought it used and only realized it later, but yes it's supposed to work on both sides.
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The difference is that modifying the environ pointer is explicitly supported behaviour in the standard, poking through /dev/mem is not.

Although I guess a middle ground solution wouldn't be too bad either - most programs don't modify environ directly, so POSIX could offer thread safety for the functions and make multithreading through "environ" UB. This is already kind of explained in the standard:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...
I really hope this comes back around and bites Ilya and OAI in the ass. What an absurd decision. They will rightfully get absolutely crushed by the free market.
Since you work on this, do you think leaders will wait until confirmation of actual nuclear detonations, maybe on TV, before believing that a massive attack was launched?
Do you mean “difficult to overstate”?

“Difficult to understate” would mean he has little to no social capital.
People see what they want to see.
What idea are you talking about? They are not your classic founders coming up with an idea to join Y combinator. They build OpenAI for many years, they know what to do.

It won't be hard for them to hire researchers and engineers, from OpenAI or other places.

Questions like this makes me wonder if you are a troll. I won't continue this thread.
I understand that we was instrumental in the earlier days, but does it seem like he is involved in the day-to-day work on the technology, today? When the new CEO advocates for a near-pause in AI development, does he mean operations?
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Elon Musk has a degree in physics. So that addresses the original point. He knows basic physics.
Fortunately there is 7 Billion Humans, its sequel.
Thanks for the answers so far!
There are concrete benchmarks like “how good is it at answering multiple choice questions accurately or “how good is it at producing valid code to solve a particular coding problem”.

There’s also a chatbot Elo ranking which crowd sources model comparisons https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

GPT-4 is the king right now
The crypto bros switched to AI hype and are now hyping OpenAI/GPT4 hoping to pump MSFT/NVDA. In every HN conversation where someone mentions competing products, there are people talking it down and saying GPT4 is miles ahead, and in a tone to undermine the competition. I see a pattern and it is definitely not sincere.
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Sure, but what's the point on building a product on top of a stable API that exposes a technology that won't evolve because it's actual creators have imploded? It remains to be seen whether OpenAI will implode, but at this point it seems the dream team is t getting back together.
> Why does it just have to be updates to a website? RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information.

Such as? Maybe I'm just not being imaginative enough but I could really use some examples here.