skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think it exists, define what it is.

It's harder to define a thing that's not there.

Edit:
The article laid out a definition of it:

> We have, it is widely believed, the power to think, choose, and act in some crucial respect independently of those causal factors that create us as persons, and that surround us each moment of our lives. Unlike anything else in nature, human beings have a special contra-causal freedom to cause things to happen without themselves being fully caused in turn.

I'd still like to hear a believer's definition though.
It seems like the ship was terminated due to being off-course (which couldn't be corrected once its propellant was burned through). It succeeded in reaching space, it seemed to reach almost-orbit (they deliberately made it slightly slower, to avoid becoming a giant piece of space-junk if they happened to lose contact/control), so they've almost got it working as a traditional rocket.

All of the crazy stuff they're planning, like returning and catching the booster, having the ship re-enter and land/get-caught, in-orbit refuelling, etc. will probably take a while to get right; but those are all "bonus features" that other rockets/companies don't bother with. I imagine it will be launching satellites pretty soon (next year?), at least in-house Starlinks, since refuelling, re-entering, landing, etc. can be done after the payload is safely deployed; and returning/catching the booster only takes place after safe separation (as we saw today, when the ship kept going after the booster's spectacular demise)

It will take a while to human-rate it. I imagine we'll start by seeing crews transferring to Starships that launch uncrewed (e.g. like the HLS for Nasa); eventually we'll probably see crew launch, once it's established a decent track record. I'm unsure if we'll ever see people in the landing flip; I'd rather eject beforehand and parachute down!
No green hue is the flame is definitely a good thing, considering the first few flights the Raptors clearly consumed themselves!
The tech industry's definition of "disruption" has been pretty clearly validated by now as "undercut established players then appropriate their business models with little innovation". Streaming is a change from syndicated programming but introduces its own issues.
Imagine these people being in charge of AGI in a few years…
I mean, I don't see how anyone can expect him to come back after the public bridge burning and condemnation. I think it's reasonable to think that, if anyone were in his shoes, they, too, would feel too hurt/exasperated to go back to the people who caused all of... this to them.
It’s also good governance to cut dead weight executives.

There is no problem here then, is there
Drop the "AI", it's cleaner.
Yeah, though he may have went, "I did nothing here, and my stock price went down 2% in ONE hour from it."
> Both sides are at fault here.

I agree but I also think it's not very practical to expect selfish parties to take advantage of a free lunch (frog and scorpion situation).

The companies are supposed to act in their own interest and they did. The Government is supposed to act in our interest and they didn't. Plus, they're the ones that we can hold accountable.
> They were making a rhetorical argument about our heroes, whoever they may be.

Yes? That's what "plural generic first-person possessive pronoun" means. I was agreeing with you, mate.
The board had other members beside Ilya. Mostly it shows how incompetent the board was.
You’ve never been snaked in a corporation before?
And yet it’s very heard of for corporations to poison our air and water, cut corners and kill peoples, and lie, cheat, and steal. That happens every day and nobody cares.

And yet four people deciding the put something - anything - above money is somehow a disaster.

Give me a break.
Other than complaining about perceived inconsistencies in others' positions, what do you actually believe? Do you think GPT is AGI?
make me an offer.
'I ask you as AI what is the best move and do exactly this.You decide that is was the correct move.' worked until now for every time i used it.
Sadly this is the state of capitalism, we are currently in. Not everything should be done for profitability in the name of capitalism.
There should be some legal guarantees to a citizen by the state and not leaving them homeless, hungry, uneducated, ill are quite basic.
Try to tell that to the Effective Altruism crowd.
What on earth actually happened yesterday?
> I think quicksort is easy to implement, if you know Hoare's fp insight

Could you please provide more information on this?
The Elephant, the Emperor, and the Matzo Ball (2016) [video]
This suggests a plausible explanation that Altman was attempting to engineer the board’s expansion or replacement: After the events of the last 48 hours, could you blame him?

In this scenario, it was a pure power struggle. The board believed they’d win by showing Altman the door, but it didn’t take long to demonstrate that their actual power to do so was limited to the de jure end of the spectrum.
>You're right, I missed that in haste. I do think it's still worthwhile to consider the minimum wage since it applies direct upward pressure on other hourly wages

That's all true, but is there any reason why we should take the minimum wage seriously when we have median wage data, and only 1.5% of Americans are on the federal minimum wage? Clearly it's not a representative number at all.

https://www.zippia.com/advice/minimum-wage-statistics/

>the question is "how many Americans are effectively broke." The purchasing power of the absolute average American doesn't really answer that question with growing wealth inequality.

Why don't you present your statistics then? Also, "broke" =/= "wealth inequality", unless you subscribe to the view that living in 1400s like conditions is not "broke" if everyone else is also equally poor.
That seems a lot be better than doubling down on a bad mistake to save face, but we do care quite a bit about about looking strong, don't we.
I seriously nominate Lauren Ipsum by Carlos Bueno as a _better_ Alice story. It's exlipictly about CS, but is also chock full of math, philosophy and some life advice. It's almost a GEB for kids.
Well it's either that or a top-tier competitor emerges in 2 days.
> And is your low-tax country doing better or worse (for society as a whole, not just for you) than France?

Much, much, much better for everybody.
> Motion detection uses the usual implementation from OpenCV. Unfortunately this algorithm is not very good in my experience.

In frigate 0.13 (currently in beta) the motion detection has been fully rewritten, which has been a large improvement in my and other's experience. We also have docs now that walk users through tuning the motion detectoin.

This is along with many other changes along what you are describing like object tracking and improvements to initial object detection when motion is first detected.
The hack is to make all lights in the neighborhood of an observatory flicker at “about 150 times per second”, and for observatories to ‘close their eyes’ when street lighting is on, giving up part of their light input (the article doesn’t tell, but I guess at least half of it. The LED lighting also will give up part of its brightness, but I think that’s less of a concern. It can easily be made brighter, if that’s needed at all)

I doubt that’s invisible to humans, though, and am fairly sure it is visible to many animals species, including some pets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold#Displ...:

“For the purposes of presenting moving images, the human flicker fusion threshold is usually taken between 60 and 90 Hz, though in certain cases it can be higher by an order of magnitude.”

That’s already awfully close to 150Hz, certainly if all lights you see do that, but let’s ignore that, and read on, where we find:

“In some cases, it is possible to see flicker at rates beyond 2000 Hz (2 kHz) in the case of high-speed eye movements (saccades) or object motion, via the "phantom array" effect. Fast-moving flickering objects zooming across view (either by object motion, or by eye motion such as rolling eyes), can cause a dotted or multicolored blur instead of a continuous blur, as if they were multiple objects”

and

“The flicker fusion threshold also varies between species. Pigeons have been shown to have higher threshold than humans (100 Hz vs. 75 Hz), and the same is probably true for all birds, particularly birds of prey. Many mammals have a higher proportion of rods in their retina than humans do, and it is likely that they would also have higher flicker fusion thresholds. This has been confirmed in dogs.

Research also shows that size and metabolic rate are two factors that come into play: small animals with high metabolic rate tend to have high flicker fusion thresholds.”

TLDR: I don’t think this is a good idea, especially not given that the actual problem (FTA: “But there is a downside to LEDs: They're much brighter than old-fashioned energy-guzzling light bulbs”) is easily avoided. It’s not like we couldn’t replace light bulbs with LED lighting of equal intensity (and directed in the same directions)
lol if I was Sam I wouldn’t even dream of returning without the entire board going out the door as I come back in. What a shit show.
For the password thingy, please note that complexity requirements are explicitly not recommended. We're all used to them, but the knowledge that it's cargo cult hasn't spread through the community yet. I feel like I need to back my claim up:

- USA NIST recommends¹ (Appendix A) to introduce a length requirement and deny using previously cracked passwords. These passwords should be obtained from publicly available lists. The reasons for not setting any requirements for complexity are set out in section A.3 of their publication.

- The UK National Cyber Security Centre similarly recommends² password deny lists and calls for not using complexity requirements or regular password expiry

- I think the german BSI or the Dutch NCSC or something also came around recently, but I can't find the link right now

Another option to make the login flow smoother is just offering an email with a one-time 90-minute-valid (because greylisting) login link, as alternative to setting/entering a password (I personally prefer a password for frequently-used sites to not have to switch apps and pollute my inbox every time).

¹ https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...

² https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords
You know what they say: "Life is stranger than fiction."
Okay, so a CEO doesn't have any power to seize....

Does the chairman of the board have any power?
To me the biggest frustration is that they can and will pull content with no warning or notification. So you are always gambling whether or not the thing you want to watch will appear, even if you've watched it dozens of times already. Personal digital collections do not have this problem.
> I hope Sam comes back

Why? We would have more diversity in this space if he leaves, which would get us another AI startup with huge funding and know how from OpenAI, while OpenAI would become less Sam Altman like.

I think him staying is bad for the field overall compared to OpenAI splitting in two.
I think they are talking about the cons of Go allowing zero value. Rust doesn’t have that problem.
Maybe those key investors aren’t as meaningful as they thought. It’s not per se something investors need to know about.

This needs to shake out. Sam Altman was clearly not the best fit anymore. Thats the moral of the story.

Why are executives special? They aren’t. It’s a damn myth
How do I know if I can go to sleep?
You know, I always found Mike judge to probably be the most prescient of all of the science fiction authors.

In Office Space, Idiocracy, and most relevant here in Silicon Valley; he accurately, and very precisely not only forecasts, but deconstructs the reasoning, and vapid lack of core philosophy behind each of the real life narratives he’s parodying.

That serious people still consider Silicon Valley as some kind of thing to aspire to is horrifying. This despite repeated examples of predictably base incompetence, lack of maturity and quite frankly avaricious opportunism as the kernel on which SV lies.
Sand is a forever chemical. Almost everything on earth is a forver chemical. And this is exactly what is triggering me. 'X has been found in y'. Yes, but can we please have one single good study that shows what the danger of that is? I think it's time for the microplast research to go beyond 'has been found in' stage.
This is so dysfunctional. Does the other half of the company quit now? How can this board remain in place, but who can replace them?
Ilya was the driver. The others are no name dopes. Total pawns who don’t count.
This makes sense. The board thinks they're calling the shots, but the reality is the people with the money are the ones calling the shots, always. Boards are just appointed by shareholders aka investors aka capital holders to do their bidding.

The capped-profit / non-profit structure muddles that a little bit, but the reality is that entity can't survive without the funding that goes into the for-profit piece

And if current investors + would-be investors threaten to walk away, what can the board really do? They have no leverage.

Sounds like they really didn't "play the tape forward" and think this through...
OpenAI internal chat is likely just spam of the Bill-Hader-eating-popcorn GIF.
It's not just free? Instead it's $75 for an individual "license" and they sell enterprise licenses? Seems quite out of line with the vibe they portray the font embodies
And replace him with whom?
Searching for a Safe Harbor; When Investment Capital Goes on Strike (1986)
The board seems truly incompetent here and looking at the member list it doesn't seem very surprising. A competent board should have asked for legal and professional advice before taking a drastic step like this. Instead the board thought it was a boxing match and tried to deliver a knockout punch before the market closes with blunt language. This might be the most incompetent board for an organisation of this size.
Why would you need violent state enforcement of voluntary contracts?
D’Angelo had to have voted in favor because otherwise they don’t get a four vote majority.
> Inheritance is only by chance if you consider family ties to have zero value.

Well, no. The family in which you are born is effectively random. You don’t do anything to be born from your parents. Family ties have quite a lot of value, but material profit from them is not something you deserve as an individual, in the sense that it’s not something you get from your own efforts or qualities.

> Building something over generations, for example a company or a farm, becomes difficult with high inheritance tax.

That is the red herring we see when politicians want to manipulate the middle class into supporting something that is actually harmful to them. Inheritance tax is progressive like income tax. We can have a system that optimises for medium-size companies and businesses but limits the emergence of larger ones. When we talk about wealth accumulation that is harmful to society, we talk about tens of millions and up. Think multinational companies, not local farms.

Sure, the story of the family farm or company that gets built over generation is nice. But these kinds are threatened by larger competitors that have more leverage, power, political connections (and so public subsidies), and tools to undercut them, not inheritance tax. They would be much better without these huge mega-farms we incentivise and that are impoverishing them. Same for small businesses in a different setting. A family business needs to be quite big to be threatened by inheritance taxes. But it just have to exist to be threatened by the huge companies that insufficient wealth redistribution helps thriving.
This is just taxes and inflation with different words. The reason the FED targets a certain amount of inflation is literally this. So people will spend their dang money and keep the economy rolling at whatever pace they deem healthy. Your money already expires.
> You're ignoring the rest of the definition I provided.

That isn't how definitions work. Removals from power that are by surprise and planned in secret are a strict subset of removals from power.
Someone on the OpenAI board watched too much Succession and thought that's how real life works.
I bet it was multifaceted. By firing Sam this way they nuked their ability to raise funds because anyone investing in the "for profit" subsidiary would have to do so with the understanding that the non-profit could undermine them at a whim.

Also, all the employees are being paid with PPUs which is a share in future profits, and now they find out that actually, the company doesn't care about making profit!

A lot of top talent with internal know-how will be poached left and right. Many probably going to Sam's clone that he will raise billions for with a single call.
Agreed, but how will the investor class understand what to invest in?

Oh, I get it now, Foundation.ai
Mine are all high up in second floor so it does make a difference.
Dude what? If the board does this they also all have to resign. I mean seriously.
Luxembourg.
>There is, or we would not be having subsurfaces on Wayland or this entire discussion in the first place.

No. The subsurfaces in Wayland are only designed for two things:

1. Direct scan-out, as in TFA. (Because a subsurface can be directly translated to a dmabuf)

2. Embedding content from one toolkit/library into another. (Because without it, lots of glue code would be needed)

It's discouraged to use them otherwise, they would complicate things for no benefit.

>Are you seriously arguing that the only reason to using windows in Xorg is to have composition?

If you mean sub-windows, yes, that and consequently because of the way that XRDB worked. I don't see why you would ever use them just for input events within the same toolkit, they don't do anything special there.
everything about it screams amateur hour, from the language and timing of the press release to the fact they didn't notify Microsoft. And how they apparently completely failed to see how employees and customers would react to the news, Ilya saying the circumstances for Altman's removal "weren't ideal" shows how naive they were. They had no PR strategy to control the narrative and let rumors run wild

I doubt he returns, now he can start a for profit AI company, poach OpenAI's talent, and still look like the good guy in the situation. He was apparently already talking to Saudis to raise billions for an Nvidia competitor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38323939

Have to wonder how much this was contrived as a win-win, either OpenAI board does what he wants or he gets a free out to start his own company without looking like he's purely chasing money
If you think of the system(s) that you're targeting, and the mutation operations that you're defining in the CM language; the configuration files and their contents, binaries and their instances, etc are all contained as a giant bag of state we call the OS and its filesystem and memory contents.

None of the popular configuration management systems can guarantee determinism in mutations over this state, no matter how much the interface and documentation tries to sell it as a feature, it's just not possible.

If it's not apparent why this is the case, then I'd highly recommend not embarking on the process of attempting to create such a system as absolutely enormous amounts of code behind the scenes of the existing systems are aimed at attempting to make it _seem_ like they can be deterministic.
Until I can trust that when I send an AI agent off to do something that I will be successful without me babysitting and watching over it constantly AI won't truly be transformative (since the human bottleneck will remain).

This is one of the core promises of alignment. Without it how can there be trust? While there are probably short term slow downs with an alignment focus, ultimately it is necessary to avoid throwing darts in the dark.
Snapshots of Incomplete Thoughts
The title is an allusion to the experiment which samples the output of the 12th layer of LLaMA-7b. Surprisingly, there is a fair bit of structure on the principle components of those samples.
He was outed for a reason. Why in the world would the board backtrack this? I think this is rumor mill reporting, trying to get things out too fast.
maybe the board was just dogfooding ...
Hard to see Ilya staying if Sam returns, honestly.
I kind of imagine a "toll road" style streaming service where the cost per minute or per view is told up front. Endless opportunity for dynamic pricing which is how the companies would justify the effort to implement such a model. Some offerings can be free through promotions or other means, and demand can be much more readily quantified on the supply side by calculating net profit.
> I think they could have won in the court of public opinion ... [but] they tried to skewer him, and it backfired completely

Maybe we have different definitions of "the court of public opinion". Most people don't know who Sam Altman is, and most of the people who do know don't have strong opinions on his performance as OpenAI's CEO. Even on HN, the reaction to the board "skwer[ing] him" has been pretty mixed, and mostly one of confusion and waiting to see what else happens.

This quick a turnaround does make the board look bad, though.
>See smoking, leaded gasoline, trans fats, various other food additives, etc.

Good observation, as a general rule any new substance must generally proven to be safe ( and there are reasonable ways to do it, without being overly cautious), it must not be a case of proving that something is harmful once in use.
You don’t need to be a sociopath to be conditioned into holding sociopathic views. Plus, I think your objection is relying really heavily on “benign” — in a situation of this gravity, who’s to say what’s benignly relative and what’s worth arguing about?
This is Jill Stein:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5a2d2l/title_jill_ste...
> Edit to add: I'm curious what word "Revlon" was supposed to be.

I'd guess "revenue", but who knows. Autocorrect is a disaster for clear communication these days. It's strange to me that it's as bad as it is. Is there a patent on using context to decide which word is appropriate? If not, I can't figure out why it isn't done more commonly. It seems certain the poster didn't type "Revlon" with a capital R, and it also seems certain that any statistical model wouldn't think "Revlon" would be the most likely word here.
Good. Two of them aren't even qualified to be on the board of a kid's lemonade stand.
Honestly would be super interested to see what a hypothetical "SamAI" corp would look like, and what they would bring to the table. More competition, but also, probably with less ideological disagreements to distract them from building AI/AGI.
How exactly would that happen? It’s a non profit that owns a staggeringly valuable piece of IP.

Do you understand that this is conceptually the same thing as the directors of a public art museum deciding to just take millions of dollars of paintings for themselves?
Yes, clearly all categories of loathsome lower castes, worthy of your disdain.

VS what, a Stanford dropout who made buds with Paul Graham? That's better and more respectable because he's cooler and connected with YC/VC hipness, right?

WorldCoin is So Awesome!
Whether or not you agree about the board's decisions, you cannot deny that this has been some excellent drama to gossip over the past 24 hours, like a soap opera but with real consequences that might only be apparent years from now.
Did you mean ‘_until_ AGI comes out.’?
> ⊞ Win + Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Alt + L Opens Website LinkedIn

> ⊞ Win + Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + Alt + Y Opens Website Yammer

> ...

Non-short shortcuts, but another example of how Microsoft uses its OS for things an OS should be neutral about.
Volvo heavy duty electric tractor units deployed by DHL Supply Chain
I assume he would condition his return with the removal of the board.