skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The end game isn’t “produce all your electricity from renewable sources”; it’s “produce all energy you use from renewable sources”.

As a further step up, there’s “produce enough excess electricity to potentially produce the gas we use”, then the end goal where that excess production actually is used to produce that gas (that likely will be with much lower gas usage), either in the country or abroad.

I doubt they’ll ever be truly independent for their energy needs. The country is too small for that, as it would require producing solar cells, wind turbines, etc. inside the country.
Define "safety," because for me and others, the definition seems to be "not projecting politically-incorrect views or information" or just straight up censorship.
As far as I can tell his tenure was marked by interpersonal conflict with most of the key players, after which he was suddenly fired amid allegations he was using his role as head of a non profit to advance his own personal interests.
> Most addicts love their addictions; most of the ones that don’t eventually stop.

This does not match my understanding or experience at all. Please share a source if you have one.
Depends on what we, as a society, want to value. Do we want to value people with connections and luck, or people that work for their achievements?

Of course it's not a boolean, it's a spectrum. But the point remains: valuing lucky rich people with connections as geniuses because they are lucky, rich and connected is nonsensical to me
The world, or the HN comments section?
Starlink does not communicate with iPhones.
From the one time I blew in insulation without wearing a full Tyvek suit, I am confident is answering that it's the glass. That was an itchy lesson.

(I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mouse poop factor along for the ride after long enough, though)
> Maybe there is now

You’re right! Check out the NL (no ligature) version: https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/tree/master/fonts...
Are nanoplastics worse than microplastics? Will picoplastics be even worse?
Land can be owned but there are other obligations. The whole idea that you can buy the land is because of a government and law.
Let the two sides now create separate organizations and pursue their respective pure undivided priority to the fullest. May the competition flow.
>unwilling

This is something that comes up so often, particularly in the past few years, and I'm surprised at how little push back there is. It's not that people are unwilling. It's that the average American, in real terms, is increasingly broke. Any number of businesses would have collapsed in the last 20-30 years - music, selling physical albums; cable TV, with reasonable bills; air travel, without security theater and sardine can booking - if not for ad-supported revenue, all-you-can-eat subscriptions, and/or barebones service. And that's because most Americans don't have the disposable income to actually buy and own things anymore. What I'll give is that it's been such a slow boil that I don't think people realized it before. But now that even basics - food, housing, transportation, education - are unattainable or warped to where the customer is the product or degraded to the point of being unrecognizable, there's really no excuse anymore.
> With a more advanced AI system, one that could build better physics simulation environments, write software that's near maximally efficient, design better atomic modelling and tools than currently exist, and put all of that into thinking through a plan to achieve the technology (effectively experimenting inside its own head), I could maybe see it being possible for it to make it without needing the physical lab work.

It couldn't do any of that because it would cost money. The AGI wouldn't have money to do that because it doesn't have a job. It would need to get one to live, just like humans do, and then it wouldn't have time to take over the world, just like humans don't.

An artificial human-like superintelligence is incapable of being superhuman because it is constrained in all the same ways humans are and that isn't "they can't think fast enough".
Nobody, including a board of directors is inviolable, it all depends on who the stakeholders of the non-profit are, the board is in principle independent but ultimately the judiciary still has more power than they do.

Depending on the bylaws it could be stakeholder: donors, beneficiaries or the employees of the non-profit in some organized form. All of these could petition the court if they feel that the non-profit wasn't governed properly. Note that it isn't known if the board acted unanimously (likely it it didn't) and what the grounds were. That will make a big difference to any outcome.

Non profits that lose their donors (especially if the money was pledged but not yet committed) usually don't live long so the board has some incentive to play ball.
> The whole point of an economy is NOT to encourage people to produce things.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about that. Maybe things are different where you are, but where I live most people expect to be compensated for their labor, and investors expect at least a shot at a positive ROI. But if you want to work for free, by no means allow me to discourage you.

> They don't need to be encouraged to consume. That doesn't make any sense.

You're right about that. But that was not what I said. I said that they needed to be encouraged to produce, not to consume.

> I understand it fine,

Manifestly not. You couldn't even write three sentences without losing the plot.
We use tennis balls and string all the time; works great.

(We just tape the string to the balls with a few loops of duct tape, though.)
Thought experiment: what if Mozilla had split between its Corporation and Foundation years ago, when it was at its peak?
My take is, Sam and Greg are not the executives they want people to think they are. This was recognized, and they got upset because of this, and things shook out this way.
Fortunately the Play button disappears when the video starts playing, so it has no effect on the frame rate!

Or instead of a triangular Play button, you could draw a big funny nose in some position and orientation, and the game would be to pause the video on a frame with somebody's face in it, with the nose in just the right spot.

I don't know why the vlc project is ignoring my prs.
For a salaried position where the base salary is above the legal minimum salary for wage & hour exemption, I don't see what the legal problem would be.
The idea is the result is encrypted too such that, when the person that holds the key gets it back they can decrypt it and see the result. So you can run an inference algorithm on data without ever having to decrypt it and see what the data actually is.

It seems to me that this intrinsically is vulnerable to side-channel attacks, but it will be interesting to see if we can avoid those with constant-time algorithms or something.
You don't have to use them, even if they're in the font, just turn them off in your reditor.

Conversely I can turn them on for code I didn't write.

There is no downside to ligatures.
Surely OpenAI still have a lot of amazing people, tech, IP, and can keep improving on it, so long as the books are balanced?
> treating it like someone with intrinsic value

Do you think if chickens treated us better with intrinsic value we won't kill them? For AGI superhuman x risk folks that's the bigger argument.
That’s a story i see being repeated here and there but I don’t it buy personally
With an important distinction. No previous generation (obviously) tried to decide that we're done and it's the apes' turn now. I don't know if AGI is a near possibility or not, but if it is then it won't be our children who stand on the shoulders of giants anymore, will it ?
If you use auto scaling services and fail to limit a recursive call to a service. You can create a giant explosion aimed at your bank account.
Link to globeandmail story: https://archive.is/ux1Rl
Not an answer, but a question that I hope someone can answer. Is the lack of speed because of a lack of optimization or compute? Is this something that could be fixed by an accelerator?

It's often hard to compare things in an accurate way. I mean many current methods might already have hardware specific acceleration and researchers aren't always good at optimization (why should they be?). So is the problem of FHE a bigger lack of just not enough people (specialists) putting in time to optimize it or is it so computationally intensive that we need hardware to get better before it becomes practical? I mean look at llama.cpp and how much faster it is or stable diffusion? Sure, both kinda slow (diffusion's no GAN and SD's not straight diffusion) but very usable for many applications.
The company is run, somehow, by people who have never run much of anything in their lives. Results are as expected.

How that situation came about would be an interesting story in itself.
My previous submission months ago asking for guidance on open source licensing to avoid situations exactly like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36327372
Did only Sam have Satya Nadella's phone number? Seems like a rude surprise for a Friday afternoon.
ChatArena – Building Multi-Agent Environments for LLMs
> The real risk is that some government will put the result in charge of their national defense system, aka Skynet, not that kids will ask it how to make illegal drugs.

These cannot possibly be the most realistic failure cases you can imagine, are they? Who cares if "kids" "make illegal drugs?" But yeah, if kids can make illegal drugs with this tech, then actual bad actors can make actual dangerous substances with this tech.

The real risk is manifold and totally unforeseeable the same way that a 400 Elo chess player has zero conception of "the risks" that a 2000 Elo player will exploit to beat them.
To the broader public, maybe, but certainly not to OpenAI's biggest partner, and certainly not to their own board chief.

And if Sutskever's beef was that OpenAI was going too fast at the expense of responsible AI development, he just completely screwed himself, as basically everyone who wants to move fast now will leave OpenAI and join the companies that do move fast. This is basically exactly what happened to Google Brain going too slowly so everyone leaving to join OpenAI and others. At least OpenAI was previously in the position of being able to guide responsible AI development, now companies will probably all go by the "drive fast or die" ethos.
Results in lower GI bleeding too (pulsation). Don’t know the physics but ?less shear stress
An asteroid will occult Betelgeuse on December 12th
> Meanwhile, id under Carmack kept cranking out hit after hit for years, essentially shrugging off Romero's firing like nothing happened.

Romero was fired in 1996

Until this point, as you mentioned id had created multiple legendary franchises with unique lore, attributes, and each one groundbreaking tech breakthroughs: Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake.

After Romero left, id released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_id_Software_games

* Quake 2

* Quake 3

* Doom 3

* And absolutely nothing else of any value or cultural impact. The only "original" thing was Rage which again had no footprint.

There were a lot of technical achievements, yes, but it turns out that memorable games need more than interesting technology. They were well-reviewed for their graphics at a time when that was the biggest thing people expected from new id games - interesting new advances in graphics. For a while, they were THE ones pushing the industry forward until arguably Crysis.

But the point is for anyone experiencing or interacting with these games today, Quake is Quake. Nobody remembers 1, 2 or 3 - it's just Quake.

Now, was id a successful software company and business? Yes. Would it have become the industry titan and shaped the future all of all videogames based on their post Romero output? Absolutely not.

So, while it is definitely justifiable to claim that Carmack achieved more on his own than Romero did, the truth is at least in the video game domain they needed each other to achieve the real greatness that they will be remembered for.

It remains to be seen what history will say about ALtman and Sutskever.
Yea it does: https://direct.starlink.com/
There is no such thing as a world model, and you don't have one of them. This is a leftover bad psychological concept from the 70s AI researchers who never got anywhere. People and other creatures do very little modeling things, they mostly just do stuff.
You can get about 500Mbps at best, which is honestly fine for most uses.

That being said, I removed my EOP after I ungraded to Eero 6e's. The wireless backhaul was much faster than the wired at that point, and Eeros won't load balance between the two interfaces, so the hardwire was actually slowing things down.

Sure is handy when you need a cable and same-breaker sockets are nearby, though!
That's a really good question, and I'm personally not sure of the answer to it. I am not an expert of their presidencies and policies, but I've always been under the impression, from the little I have read, that the presidencies of the two Roosevelts and Taft kept capitalism in the U.S. reasonable. If someone has more information on whether this is an accurate impression or not, it would be good to know.
They argument makes less sense now that rural people can install their own solar/wind power supply.
Sure but I meant the costs are feasible for many companies, hence competition. That was very different from the barriers to nuclear weapons development.
Did you mean "jammer" or is there something new called a "wifi hammer"? If so, it sounds interesting.
I'm fairly certain that a board is not allowed to capriciously harm the non-profit they govern and unless they have a very good reason there will be more fall-out from this.
I didn’t notice many things when upgrading from a 486 to a P5-90, but the upgrade an 8-bit Soundblaster clone to a Gravis Ultrasound was incredible.
"Safety" = "Our company is safe from competition, thanks to captive regulators."
I think od I was raised by chickens that treated me kindly and fairly, yes, I would not harm chickens.
Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you've said. Still though, I use GTK because it works and think the pushback against it is silly. GTK was never destined to be the cross-platform native framework. If that was attainable, people would have forked GTK 2 (for what?) or GTK 3 (too quirky). Now we're here, and the only stakeholders on the project is the enormously opinionated GNOME team.

They've made a whole lot of objective and subjective missteps in the past, but I don't think it's fair to characterize them as an evil party here. They did the work, they reap the rewards, and they take the flak for the myriad of different ways the project could/should have gone.
Unattributed sources quoted by some media outlets say that Altman has recently been fund-raising for a possible new venture with potential investors.

Given the context, I assume this was probably presented to the board, at least initially, as a personal side project outside of his duties as OpenAI CEO. If so, then the "not consistently candid" in the board's statement might be related to aspects of that, perhaps in terms of degree, focus, timing or even potential fund-raising or recruiting.

Speculating, I can imagine a scenario where Altman was working with the board to orchestrate his eventual exit to start the new endeavor or perhaps a dual role. If so, the board may have concluded Altman's outside activities were more extensive than he had disclosed and crossed the fuzzy line between discussion and exploration to execution - which could obviously create untenable conflicts of interest for Altman which the board might be required act on.

I like this hypothesis because it's consistent with the statements and actions so far as well as seeming reasonable given the massive opportunity and Altman's entrepreneurial nature. Recall that GPUs have been OpenAI's largest costs and limiting factor. In fact, as OpenAI's CEO, Altman could have argued to the board that OAI needed to vertically integrate 'down the stack' to designing it's own hardware, especially since their largest competitors already have. If the board balked at this direction as inconsistent with the non-profit's charter (and potentially even adverse to the mission of "safe AI"), Altman may have asked the board for permission to personally explore the opportunity. Assuming the board agreed, there would likely have been specific disclosure requirements of Altman as well as limits on certain activities. Such a fast-moving, dynamic environment, seems like it could lead to miscommunication and at least the appearance of material omission or even misrepresentation.

Such a breakdown in trust might result in a situation where Altman could reasonably think he's still working with the board toward a negotiated and stage-managed exit but the board could reasonably conclude the situation had gotten out of control and exceeded their agreement with Altman - requiring board action to remain in compliance with the organization's charter and their legal duties as board directors.
Some say otherwise. I don't know what to make of it, but here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwaC4AXFqRI
Google's tools are available to most people, yet the lion's share of the money still ends up with Google.
Sunbird has access to every message sent and received through the app
PoE switch with a big UPS so that recording does not stop in case of power outages.
I'm curious now, can you give an example of one of the 'that's not supposed to be here' things?
More on Sam Altman's Ouster from OpenAI
You're cherry-picking plastics here. The same can be said about just about any technology developed in the past 200 years, so what makes plastics special? We laugh at people who talk about the "precautionary principle" for vaccines or cling onto dubious research that purports to show some ill effects. Or, how about applying the precautionary principle to air travel - after all, do we really know the effects on your body of frequently changing timezones?

We've been using plastics for a long time. They improved the world in important ways. There's nothing we can detect in large-scale studies of industry workers or other exposed groups that would suggest they're dangerous. That's kind of it. Every story you see on HN about microplastics is hand-wavy and involves dubious assertions and hypotheticals, and the alternative is... what? That we go back to making all commodity items out of metal, with a more serious environmental impact, higher transportation costs, and so on?

There are wasteful uses of plastic which should be curtailed, e.g. for packaging fresh produce - but the concern here isn't microplastics, just pointless trash.
> I read alot.
I've also used the same solution, although I ended up scaling from a Pi to a larger 13th gen Intel box with two USB Corals due to number of cameras. It's been ridiculously reliable running from a docker compose stack for years now, including using Watchtower to auto-upgrade the Frigate container. It's really easy to map the corals via docker compose as well.

It's nuts how cheaply you can make such a good system with AI-detection features, its more than paid for itself vs commercial options with monthly fees. High quality weatherproof PoE cameras are crazy affordable now too, and you can VLAN them off your home network with no connection to the internet to further harden the system.
No matter how exactly this all shakes out, I am convinced that quote from Sutskever is going to be a legendary summary of the saga:

> Ego is the enemy of growth

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907

The real mystery that we're all trying to solve in realtime is: who was the biggest ego here? Like a good game of Clue, everyone is still a suspect...
AI is a big part of it. But the web platform continues to evolve (Javascript -> Typescript, WASM, Web APIs, Rust). And we will still need firmware engineering.
Even today you can take the expo line from Metrotown to New west and there are vast swaths of single family homes around stations like royal oak. They just started building more density around there lately, but the expo line is 37 years old and the municipality is just starting to build up around the skytrain stations.

It would be interesting if the standardized buildings could somewhat be pre-fabbed offsite, I would imagine that would significantly reduce building costs. That doesn’t fix the problem where a single city sized lot in Vancouver costs over 1.5 million dollars, but if you ammortize that over 3 separate dwellings the land cost becomes more affordable for professionals.
Alignment Fraud: Cthulhu Hears No Protest
Why do you want it to hurt someone?

The real question is, who would this help? It doesn't appear that it would help anyone, it would turn money into breadline vouchers and enable the powerful to enslave us all.
If you define the state broadly enough to include the state of the entire machine itself, including all of its internal representations, weights, activations, etc, then you are playing a funny trick here.

By the same reasoning, a human brain is also Markov process.

What you are doing here is a vast oversimplification and it is practically useless for understanding how LLMs work.
I'm more impressed by the tricks done in the low res graphics mode than anything else here.
I really love Golang and how it focused on making the job of the reader easy. But with today’s modern programming language the existence of null pointer dereference bugs doesn’t really make sense anymore. I don’t think I would recommend anyone to start a project in Golang today.

Maybe we’ll get a Golang 3 with sum types…
My guess is that if Sam would have found this out before being fired, he would have done his best not to be fired.

As such, it would have been much more of a challenge to shift OpenAI's supposed over-focus on commerce towards a supposed non-profit focus.
Yup, my boss at old co had some similarities to Greg. He worked long hours, was pretty much aware of everything happening at the company both in the US and off-shore, could talk technical details with the tech peeps, and business stuff with the non-tech folks. He was always on top of things and unblocking people all over the org. He also has the great ability to remember things very well, even after a few months have passed by.

Even though he was CTO and incredibly busy, he would find time to spend with individual engineers. Once he spent an hour pair-programming with me on a difficult issue. Even though his time was obviously not spent coding (and hadn't for years), it was a very productive session.

The founder acknowledge he really couldn't have done it without him, or someone like him on the team. I 100% agree they couldn't have built the org without him. He is just on a different level and it was awesome seeing him in action.
Google Photos Gets Improved Organization with AI-Powered Updates
Yeah, I just wrote about this as well on my substack. There were two significant conflicts of interest on the OpenAI board. Adam D'Angelo should've resigned once he started Poe. The other conflict was that both Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner were associated with another AI governance organization.
> I was not aware that the Arab states were such a Mecca (pun very much intended) for AI

Why wouldn't they? The Arab world loves science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_the_medieval_Islami...
All of this is spot on. The key to it all is 'if you strike at the king, you best not miss'.
Is this the first time you've been informed that it's bad to make negative generalizations of people based on their religion or ethnicity?
Duplicate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38322688
Voice cloning of grandkids is a very targeted attack. You can achieve the same results today at a similar cost if you already have specific info like that
What they really need to do is make the Minecraft Education platform available to EVERYONE