skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that a significant amount of the already-made GPUs are in use. Even if they can afford to throw money at it, where is that money going to go?

The best they can do is out-bid their competitors, for the competitors hardware. I'm sure apple doesn't want to pay Google for GCP resource to train an AI. Again, there may not be enough companies renting out GPUs at all.
I wanted to become a chef, but now I'm in a IT field working as a developer
> Some of these are qualities that I could see leading to someone thinking he was "aimless" or a "confused mess", but these are also things that engender a lot of respect from employees.

Respect from employees is a fickle thing. If someone can do all that you describe and still succeed as a CEO then power to them. When it comes time to choose between one or the other, I think most employees would rather an effective boss than one that seemed to understand them. Their opinion on the CEO might change rather quick were they to be laid off because the CEO just can't cut it.

It's sort of like the cool parent that's also a friend. If they can do that and effectively parent, they're better at it than me. If it comes down to being a friend to your child or parenting them, one is nice and the other is a responsibility and has major repercussions when done wrong.
I still have quite a few mix tapes that I recorded from FM radio in the 90s. Including Future Sound of London's 'Lifeforms' that I captured in the middle of the night and that took a while to work out what it was! CDs were so expensive and felt like an investment. I had a CD burner quite early and made a few friends with local DJs who would burn downloaded songs bartered for other stuff.
I would bet the senior researchers know exactly how and where to get plenty of tokens.
Since there is so much negativity in this thread, let me balance it with my take as someone who worked at Cruise for 5 years (left 3 years ago).

Kyle is the smartest, most technically capable, driven person I have ever had the opportunity to work for. He had a deep technical understanding of the system, a great intuition for unnecessary complexity, and a constant desire to find and resolve engineering bottlenecks. And he was deeply motivated by a goal of safety and saving lives.

After the GM acquisition, he could have enjoyed an early retirement. GM were eager to give us all Windows laptops and turn us into a San Francisco outpost, just as they had done with their Sidecar acquisition. But instead, Kyle worked tirelessly to ensure we had sufficient freedom and independence to build.

I know this wasn't everyone's experience with Kyle. I know plenty of people he pushed too hard and who left much earlier than I did. But for every person who burned out, there were others motivated by his energy and loved who working for him.

Is Cruise over? Probably not. There are still a ton of extremely smart people working there, and they are still in possession of a world-leading AV technology (probably second only to Waymo, who had a 5 year head start). But I hope they can maintain their Silicon Valley culture and not succumb to becoming a complete GM outpost.
Yes, that's one way. The other is to price everything in both dollars and pesos and accept both. Eventually, the dollar will dominate and they can work towards the complete change. It's also something they can do very quickly and it's less shocking to the economy.

I doubt they can come up with enough dollars in one shot to switch over all at once so that's unlikely.
Nope. Nobody can make that case. So let's just have say 10 species.
Battery Safety
Like Meta disbanding their "Responsible AI" team?
It's not just hiding the video. It was mainly the content of that video.

And then we had all the other leaks.

That they couldn't reliably distinguish children from adults, making them (even by their overly optimistic models) more dangerous to children than humans - which is why they started operating mostly at night, when there are few children.

And then it was reported they had 1.5 employees per car in operations, requiring support every 2-5 miles. Very surprising given that they've reported a disengagement every 95,000 miles last year.

Cruise was a company that could not withstand transparency.
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Else Heart.Break()

> Else Heart.Break() is a reimagination of the adventure game – a fantastic story set in a fully dynamic and interactive world. Instead of rigid puzzles you will learn (with the help from other characters in the game) how the reality of the game can be changed through programming and how any problem can be solved in whatever way you find suitable.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/400110/Else_HeartBreak/
I find it hard to imagine anyone stupid and scrupulous enough to go that route when the honorable and beneficial option is to a) push back on arbitrary metrics and b) strive to extract maximal value out of testing practices in earnest.
Seems red hot though
It's just your standard back to basics, reject modernity part of the cycle that always comes after technological advancement
A more basic page might serve as a valuable introduction for some.

e.g. How many graphs have you seen on evening news programs that don't even have axes labels?
That's why portable CD players added 30 second anti-skip or whatever, basically read a big chunk of the track into RAM so that the read head skipping around didn't affect playback. Tapes were definitely more stable.
True: Big O doesn't predict performance of algorithms on actual physical hardware.

But... it was never meant to? And I'm not sure anybody was under the mistaken impression that it does?

I guess if a person wasn't aware that L1/L2/L3/main memory have different performance characteristics, then this would be a great article for them.

Feels about as useful as telling me that my dog can't predict the stock market. It's true: he can't, but also I wasn't thinking that he could.
This is an interesting experiment, and I have done a similar one myself, but auto-prompting falls short of demonstrating true self-awareness or even self-recognition. It misses key elements:

1. Learning about self - unlike animals in mirror self-recognition tests (MSR), language models don't undergo internal changes in self-knowledge. Their data is static post-training, and no real learning can occur. Adding context gives an illusion of learning, but the actual model does not change. Specifically, deep learning does not happen.

2. Recognizing self - merely describing oneself isn't self-recognition. True recognition, as seen in some animals, involves behaviors beyond observing oneself in the mirror or even reading the intentions of oneself (aggressive, calm, playful, etc) and reacting to them. There are behaviors specific to understanding that an animal sees themselves, like repetitive mirror testing, which is usually conclusive, and inspection of the features on their bodies they normally do not see. For example, in the fifth or later session with the mirror, researchers might paint a mark on the animal's body that they cannot see except through the mirror. Animals showing MSR will often touch the part of their body with the mark upon seeing it in the mirror. This is strong evidence they understand they are seeing themselves.

Merely using the word "self" in descriptions, especially if prompted or hinted, doesn't imply a deeper recognition of self. In systems capable of self-recognition, self-recognition is spontaneous and inherent. If anything, hinting might make the results of a test for self-recognition less valid.

3. Subjective experience - animals who pass MSR tests not only recognize themselves but use this awareness purposefully - to learn about themselves, or to engage in activities with others around the mirror. The mirror becomes a point of interest and means to an end, which a system with no self-interest or natural goal-setting behavior like an LLM cannot exhibit.

4. Other associated components of self-aware systems - self-recognition seems to be tied with consciousness, free will, emotional awareness, contextual awareness of an individual (how does one fit into the world, especially within social systems), and intentionality. We cannot observe signs of this in LLMs. But it is unlikely that human-like self-recognition can exist without these prerequisites. Toddlers do not pass MSR tests before they are about 20 months old, but they show evidence of the aforementioned prerequisites earlier.

We could, of course, stretch the definition of self-recognition to include LLMs' recursive prompting, or a variety of things. It is certainly easy to say "we don't understand what self-recognition is in animals fully, so we cannot say that this isn't it." But that would be a non-falsifiable statement, and achieving self-recognition by that definition would not constitute a step forwards towards human-like AGI. It would just be playing with semantics.

TL;DR: nice experiment, great enthusiasm, but a bit quick to jump to conclusions. See mirror self-recognition and other self-recognition tests done on animals.
It did not. Not on the subject that the disagreement in the article was about (quantum mechanics).
I think a lot of knowledge about what is fraud is already distributed among researchers in their own fields but can't be accessed because no one wants to say those kinds of things in public. The whole system of academia is shrouded in a fog because saying "X field is dead" or "Y research is fraud" is just not done.

But this is the same system that is unable to move off paid journals when the web has allowed ~0 cost publishing for decades. They can't effectively retract papers when the knowledge has failed to hold up. Like we have so many ways to organize, publish and review information on the web but they haven't adopted any of them.

Literally a clone of HN or Reddit with upvotes and comments could solve half the problems with publishing and peer review. Actually publishing your data and your scripts no matter how hacky they are can help replication. This is a problem that is technologically easy to at least attack and improve if not solve. But none of that has happened so i don't have much hope, for some reason they aren't able to change.
> every one of those stores knows exactly, down to the penny, what to charge me when I checkout

The resounding misunderstanding is their customers don’t care. I didn’t notice all-inclusive prices until a German friend pointed it out to me. I grew up, in part, in Europe!

Also, no, they may not. Not before you buy. Some counties in America vary their taxes marginally. That means your tax rate on some product today could be different from tomorrow, based on that store’s sales.
Waymo works really well though.
> he would drop in on meetings if he had breaks in his calendar

Is this a positive thing, tho? I am not sure. I am just curious.
> Art is nothing more than branding and social connections. Absolutely nothing more.

Do you mean, in the context of pursuing art as a profession? Or just generally? Curious to learn more.
This is a terrible take. Ilya staying is the only thing that is basically guaranteed. Everything else isn’t. In addition, no one is irreplaceable.
i suspect that 'AI safety' means a chatbot that is not hallucinating/making things up. Ilya Sutskever may want some sort of hybrid system, where the output of the LLM gets vetted by a second system, so as to minimize instances of hallucinations, whereas Sam Altman says 'screw it, lets make an even bigger LLM and just push it'.

Is that right?

Don't know if Altman or Sutskever is right, there seems to be a kind of arms race between the companies. OpenAI may be past the point where they can try out a radically different system, due to competition in the space. Maybe trying out new approaches could only work in a new company, who knows?
I'd say this is a very useful library to have that provides a lot of React-like features without the overhead of a build step or frankly, needing to learn React on top of building the backend in some other language and framework. Compare the simplicity of 'hx-get' to the verbiage needed for a simple XHR request in vanilla JS, and the benefits become clear.

IMO, it's a great option for rapid prototyping and for projects that can be done with whatever backend stack you already have.
You can buy them from Barnes and Noble and Taylor Swift is releasing her new stuff on them, I think the renaissance has begun (and possibly already peaked)

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bleach-nirvana/29210673?ean...

https://store.taylorswift.com/collections/cassette-shop
This was referenced by several at the manager level as their specific complaint. They worried why he was there and not solving higher level issues the company was facing.
Echoing the sentiment of other users here - I would happily pay a steep up front price for this software. I will not pay a monthly subscription for software that runs on my machines using data on my machines.

Please reconsider the rent-seeking price model, or at least move it somewhere appropriate like an enterprise support tier.
The whole of Chicago is just Sears houses every direction you face. Whole streets filled with them for miles at a time on the South Side especially.

I love seeing all the small variations and modifications people have made, either when they were building them or later owners.
You need high impedance headphones, which are uncommon these days.

Try a high impedance portable speaker instead of headphones.
No, that's not how this work. You made the claim, so the burden of proof is on you. You're just making speculative statements based on zero scientific evidence and a childish misunderstanding of the basic technology.
> Technically speaking, only because PR has been replaced by ChatGPT :-)

It only appears like that because PR writing has become careful and systematic, which is the kind of writing ChatGPT does very well.
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From the first article from 4 years ago:

>Last month, we had 1,209 cars drive a little over 1,000,000 miles

Let's say they've had zero growth since then, so 48,000,000 conservatively?

Actually, from their website [1]:

>100+ million miles driven and 10k users.

[1]: https://comma.ai
No, I’m not???
0. Ahead of the pattern recognition, is a set of layers (with an intentional bottleneck in the middle) that have taken a ton of tokens in small random chunks, and have been trained to reproduce the input, despite the bottleneck. This network is an autoencoder[1]. In my opinion, they are almost magic, and it's amazing to me that they work at all.

The Autoencoder is then split into an encoder and a decoder, so that tokens going in can be converted to a "embedding" (the values passed through the bottleneck).

It's that layer that does the grunt work of making similar words near to each other in the encoded values.

re #4. Neural networks are multiple layers of matrix multiplies with biases, and a non-linear output on each layer. The nonlinear part is important, otherwise you could just do the algebra and collapse all the layers down to one matrix multiply.

The autoencoder is what makes the autocomplete on steroids actually useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder
> I wonder what will drive the nostalgic revival of CDs

When AI implants require you to submit biometric prints of your nostrils to launch Microsoft Windows 12?
CDs have to fall out of favor first, it is still standard procedure for albums to come out on CD and they are still sold in most music stores.
For anyone wondering how you could pull enough energy out of thin air to get one of these to produce sound... my Dad and I just toured a 50kW clear channel AM radio transmitter site outside St. Louis[1], and it makes more sense when you see how much power is being pumped into that tower!

The coils that tune the tower vibrate enough from the RF they reproduce the sound too. Some people don't even need the coil to get sound if you're near enough to an AM tower—you can sometimes hear the signal in certain metal objects.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/mighty-mox-50kw-am-to...
I don't think so at all -- the board was simply far dumber than we thought.

The board didn't plan or think this through at all.

This isn't about Sam being powerful, just about him being a reasonable predictable cofounder Microsoft can work with. It's the rest of the board that shocked Microsoft with how unprofessional their actions were, that they can't be worked with.

The very idea that they would fire Sam without even consulting with Microsoft first is such a gigantic red flag in judgment.
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This might be due to Firefox often defaulting to sending DNS to cloudflare unless otherwise configured.
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Everyone laughed at Tesla for their gung-ho, vision-only approach.

Only Waymo and Cruise will make it, they said.

Will be very interesting to see who is left standing.

Maybe Tesla will never crack self-driving, but an insolvent company definitely won't either.
Simulating fear and feeling actually fear, that can be fatal via nervous system shock are quite different things.
No, the law is specifically about removal:

"To enable end user choice, gatekeepers should not prevent end users from un-installing any software applications on their operating system."

And

"3. The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable end users to easily un-install any software applications on the operating system of the gatekeeper,"
Many people including myself don’t expect or even care about a spell checker coming alive and attaining consciousness. Create an LLM that is as good as average SE in solving problems and I’ll happily call it AGI, because the outcome is the same.
Yes, but who builds binaries this way and what do they use them for?
One of the unusual things Swift did during its transition to a real programming language was to promise that there would be breaking changes.

This way, everyone knew what to expect. Customers, co-workers, contractors, and management knew where things stood.

If every programming language and API/ABI did this from the get-go, there would be so much less angst and hair-pulling each time some old, bad design was deprecated.
Just downloaded. Doesn't seem to want to download Wikipedia on my phone, it says "detecting if filesystem supports 4gb files"
I'm pretty sure the work he put in to brand himself so that there are an army of fanbois bought into his own effort to hype himself up is probably a part of the reason for his firing.
Anyone find any sources with new information? Now that we are well past the 5PM (PST) deadline I'm curious if anything has emerged.
What is the cost for a useful run? $2.4/Mb sounds good, but how many megabytes did you need for example to do your fine tuning to your satisfaction.
Do you know where that's documented? All reporting seems to indicate otherwise and all the digging i did confirmed he was CEO of the non-profit too. For example: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/sam-altman-is-out-as-opena...
Did you read this post? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a...

It might require context you don't have. Perhaps try one of these intros: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T98kdFL5bxBWSiE3N/best-intro...
Does anyone else think it would make for a more healthy dynamic from the standpoint of AI safety if both sama and Ilya remained, despite their differences? Not that I know anything, but it seems a diversity of opinions at the top could have its benefits.
Slathered in sarcasm, see his link
Ding ding ding. Threaten mass resignations if the deadline isn't met... deadline goes by... no mass resignations and the world hasn't fallen. Bluff called.
I think that when someone says "it can't be done" in this context they mean "It can't be done without a tremendous amount of detrimental side effects."
> Only downside is that the urls look a bit ugly.

If /fred returns HTML, then the URL is perfectly fine, since the only real consumer of fred.md or fred.json are automated systems/API clients, and they couldn't care less what the URL looks like, only that it's predictable.
You'll need an ironclad definition of what Western values are and what a western society is and then you'll have to first go after everything that is homegrown that is also against those values. Ironically you'll find a ton of domestic parties that would like nothing better than to destroy their own select set of those.

And then there is the little problem that Western values and society are still so young that they haven't fully formed yet. And to an American it means something completely different than to a Canadian, a Briton, a West European and an Eastern European. And then there is the Nordics, the Baltics and so on. It will have to be a real work of art to make that workable.
Kiwix worked for me. IIRC there may be difficulties opening an archive that was downloaded outside of the mobile app, but archives downloaded in-app were fine.

For the mobile app I used one of the smaller Wikipedia subsets, since I didn't want to take up too much space on my phone. The full offline Wikipedia download is saved to my laptop.
If you pay you can help make n smaller!
Bonus: the near extinction of the bison was deliberate, to eliminate the native American cultures that depended on them.

An extinction twofer!
The death knell of Cruise.

Personally, after CA DMV pulled their license to operate. Cruise ceased all operations in other states (particularly in TX).

Their vehicles were by far the worst to deal with as both a pedestrian and driver. As a pedestrian, I have had more close calls with their vehicles compared to human drivers. They have caused unnecessary traffic jams (in Austin, TX there was an infamous incident in West Campus that took forever to clear). When their vehicles pulled over, they often did not pull over completely and thus becoming obstructions on the road. Cruise flooded the streets of DT austin at night to pump their mileage numbers as well. It was quite a common sight to see at least 2-3 cruise vehicles circling the same neighborhoods and even hogging all of the EV charging infrastructure.

Good riddance. I say.
I just do not understand how people can look at a company that has achieved what Cruise has with such pessimism. Successfully completing 250k autonomous rides is an extraordinarily achievement. Yes, there have been problems, but the issues that Cruise is facing today are a world away from the kinds of problems autonomous vehicles were facing even 5 years ago. The fact that there is one major incident being discussed and not a pile of bodies indicates just how close we are to what will undoubtedly be the largest transformation in transportation, and human productivity, in our lifetimes. Saying that they are "pretty much over" when they are one of two organizations in the world with this level of capability makes no sense to me.
Well I wouldn't have guessed you are in one place!

That's completely different from my experience with myself. I can go to bed hours early, still fall asleep pretty quickly, and essentially just sleep through to the waking time of my latent schedule. Contrast with staying up an extra few hours will cause my waking time to move forward about 20-30 minutes. The main way I can move my schedule earlier is to make myself get up earlier, and then stop myself from taking a nap in the middle of the day.

That's of course modulo artificial light and being indoors. I haven't really tried to reproduce the effect of camping indoors, but I think the exposure, temperature change, and nature's activities contribute more than the light level. Indoors, I can generally continue sleeping just fine with direct sun on my eyelids.