skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t fear for OpenAIs future without Altman. I don’t fear they could survive just fine without Microsoft, but it’s unclear the other way around is true. What do people use azure for other than exchange? How much have they gone long bing chat? Do you really think there aren’t deep pockets to back OpenAI? I’d also note OpenAI is profitable as is.
Not really, evacuations by car are very common in most suburban areas. You are thinking in city-centric terms. Most of the US and Australia are not 5 minute cities with subway stations located a stone throw away from your house.
If that's the wording that people are claiming is 'unnecessarily pointed' then wow, people really are carrying water in a weirdly dedicated fashion.
You can get business-card shaped CDs. Mentioned here: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card
Ah yes.. didn’t read it properly the first time. I’m surprised they can change the plan unless it happened to coincide with open enrollment.
Lex has over 3M subs and most of his videos get way over 400k views. I think this makes the opposite point you’re trying to use it for.

Sama also went on Lex and got over 5M views. The title was: OpenAi ceo on, ChatGPT, GPT4, and the future of AI.
Taking an insinuating selfie with a guest badge isn’t a huge thing to hang a hat on. The implications are fairly self serving.
> things that were not automatable before

Where the automated result now has error bars on it though.

Typically when we automated things in the past, that meant getting extremely high success rates. We're accepting lower success rates to automate things that were previously not automatable, by using LLMs. Thats not quite the same thing, even if it does have value!
If sports betting is becoming prevalent enough, I wonder if we should be educating kids on how it all works. Understanding the odds, the marketing, why it is addictive, how it compares to other types of markets, etc.
Back to the 90s
This the only correct assessment
Less math-focused, but same idea: https://nandgame.com
> So yea, it really isn't that simple in the USA.

German VAT is also not simple. Before we had a temporary (so another layer of madness) law change, you either paid 19% VAT or 7% VAT, depending on whether you ordered your food to go or sat down at a restaurant. So the same item, for the same person would be taxed at a different rate depending on whether that person walks out with the food or carries it to a table. The restaurants simply advertise a single price and eat the difference [1]. Or to be more precise: the different tax values are priced into the single price, potentially accounting for the rough split between dine-in/takeout orders.

Despite all of this madness, we see a single price at the menu, we can pay exactly that price, and for takeout it actually is not uncommon to actually pay exactly that price. No sales tax, mandatory surcharges or gratuity, just a single, final price.

As for differences in the income needs of the counties/municipalities: this is handled with taxes on the profit of companies based in that area [2]. So the consumer never sees the differences in taxes, accounting is pushed to companies. If McD wants to advertise a fixed price nationwide, their franchisees need to eat the difference.

I get that in the US the states are more like countries in the EU, but we still manage to have the same VAT in all of Germany while apparently US sales tax can vary on the city level.

[1] there are exceptions, e.g. explicit to-go foods are advertised as such
[2] there are more ways for this, but this is, IMO, the most similar way to the local sales tax in the US
Except it’s not even clear that it was public policy, and in fact most likely wasn’t:

> From the available evidence, it appears likely that some Ethiopian women were given contraceptive injections without fully understanding the potential side effects or their alternative options. However, there is no clear evidence indicating that the Israeli government or humanitarian organizations involved purposefully coerced women into receiving injections in an effort to reduce birth rates—though the narrow scope of the investigation into those claims has been criticized.

It sounds like many Ethiopian women went to the same few clinics (likely because ethnic groups tend to form enclaves) where Depo-Provera was commonly prescribed, and some of the women who were prescribed it were not fully informed of the side effects or the alternatives. In fact, the way this was addressed was to issue a directive to doctors and pharmacies not to refill prescriptions unless the recipient understood the ramifications of taking the medication:

> In response to a letter sent by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel in January 2013 and pressure from a number of female members of Israel’s legislature, Ronni Gamzu—the director general of Israel’s Health Ministry—instructed gynecologists in the country’s four health maintenance organizations to cease use of the long-acting contraceptive injection in question, Depo-Provera, if there were any questions around the patient’s comprehension of the treatment. Gamzu reportedly directed medical providers “not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera if for any reason there is concern that [the patient] might not understand the ramifications of the treatment.”

So while some women may not have been fully aware of the side-effects of the medication or been aware of alternatives (perhaps due to language barriers or doctors simply not going into detail as they should have), there is scant evidence that any of these women were unaware that they were taking birth control or did not desire to do so. And there is zero evidence that these injections were in any way “forced”; these women were voluntarily refilling their prescriptions, not being told to take the medication or risk deportation.

This all sounds like somebody with an anti-Israel bias took what amounts to a relatively minor medical ethics issue and twisted it into claims of “forced sterilization”. That’s what’s really unethical here.
This will get you banned here so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Breaking following the change is fine. Silently changing the behavior in a way that could cause catastrophic bugs is not.

That's why the suggestion to just keep the functions and change their behavior is naive. It would obviously be very unsafe to do so.
OpenAI is one of those unique tech companies where the mantra "build it and they will come" truly applies. While I have nothing against Sam Altman, it's weird to see the significant media attention focused on the CEO. Considering the nature of OpenAI's product, it seems their success might be less about the management and more attributable to the research/technical teams.
You are assuming he wouldn't steal t from OpenAI. He could have a low level employee steal it, and manage to keep it a secret until AGI is born then he takes over the world.
Richard Dawkins said biologists don't offer any indication of ethics. we made by evolution and nature doesn't mean we should live as beast.
I think there is still a market for CRTs, esp. with retro-gamers. Vector displays in particular.
The point is that the data is easily accessible. If you wanted to get your hands on the data while simultaneously keeping them clean, contract with a Russian contracting company to give you a data dump. You don't need to know how they got it.
Does anyone know how to cancel or disable a Sbvtle account?
I cannot reset my password on sbvtle.com because it lands on an error page. Since I cannot log in I can't remove my profile. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? I've tried emailing their support email too.
After the Korean War, North Korea had significantly more industry, more natural resources and more agricultural land, as well as a larger population.
A great reference for further reading about data visualization is "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward Tufte, a classic book originally published in 1983 with enduring relevance today.
My point was actually a little different, that a board of Elon Sam and Greg wouldn't have pick this and board control is important.
I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic about traffic jams of EVs as far as the eye can see being an improvement.
https://www.diarioconvos.com/2023/11/08/milei-comparo-la-hom...

> "Si fuera por vos, suponete que querés estar con un elefante. Bueno, si tenés consentimiento del elefante es problema tuyo y del elefante", resumió Milei y, cuando el periodista le preguntó si tenía amigos gay, remarcó: "Yo no los califico en esos términos".

"If it were up to you, suppose you'd like to be in a relationship with an elephant. Well, if you had the elephant's consent then the matter is between you and the elephant's."
Ain't a risky strategy if it's a true statement.
Because they are literally proven to be worth it.
Code failing to run is the good outcome.
Beating OpenAI in a money-pissing competition is not their priority

I bet Google has already spent an order of magnitude more money on GPT-4 rival development than OpenAI spent on GPT-4.
Autistic drivers could find their licences in legal limbo
Lovely name. Callback to a slightly older project:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book
The defining feature of a movie is its length, so no. Movies are narratives condensed into a time frame sized to match the audiences bladders. Its why adaptions of novels are difficult. Short stories are a better fit. A good adaption of a novel length narrative seems to take 6-20 hours of screen time. Holding a coherent story together for a novel or trilogy is difficult, and how we end up with soap operas which twine different stories together into a never ending rope.
Done: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NC624PBFGB7

It's mostly just a demo for now and a little bit janky but it's fun to chat with and you can see the promise for 100% local voice AI in the future.
Why did Ilya fire Sam Altman? What are the exact reasons?
Not having to write your app a second time in javascript seems like less complexity to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The board issuing an apology could easily be the settlement that ensures this stays out of court.

"If you retract your statement, I won't sue."

"Ok, we retract it."

Just like that.
> then suddenly decide to fix everything by electing the very worst person they can find.

But Massa lost?
UTC is not Your Saviour
> your tone policing argument

If you really think that providing substance to argumentation is about tone rather than useful information, then we must be coming from two different planets, and this conversation has no way forward. So I'm sorry, I'll just back out. Seems safer that way. Good luck.
I'd assume they would be able to prove that he wasn't consistently candid. Then it's not slander.
you're aware openai trained on a boatload of pirated ebooks?

they "steal" access to data because the LLM launders it on the other end
To follow on to this, I would love to see more fully formed 1-3 season shows. The vast majority of shows go off the rails after 4 or more seasons and at that point an ending is almost irrelevant.
It's funny because I think both you and GP answered it? If the end result is almost the same, then... the reasons why one or the other is... Almost none really?

Or to put it another way, for historical reasons?

(I'm playing AC Unity right now... Set in Paris during the French Revolution... And you know what the contemporary city walls were used for? Tax collection purposes...)

This kind of stuff should be settled in trade agreements IMHO...

Which made me think about a future EU-US trade agreement... But guess what? Fucking Trump torpioed it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Inve...
I think you've misunderstood my post. Yes, I do think it was a stupid, rushed move by the board.

My point being is that I think it's totally reasonable for Altman to demand a statement saying there was no malfeasance given that the board's press release was unnecessarily pointed and harsh given that (as all the reporting I've read up to this point, including internal OpenAI memos) it was basically a difference of opinion in the direction of OpenAI that led to his ouster.
I know it depends on the analysis, but I often am doing somewhat embarassingly parallel things. So just knowing GNU parallel for mid-scale things (and R/python basically parallelism, although shared memory is a bear), and how to temporarily scale across the cloud to like 500 core, is huge.
> For almost all of human history we have been wealthy and free.

Are we on reddit?
>If the OpenAI board didn’t spend the entire weekend in a board room figuring out what to do to salvage the organization, then they are a dimwitted as they look right now.

Imagine what sort of rubes would fire an employee and then go home afterward. What sort of charity organization doesn’t spend the weekend feverishly F5ing Bloomberg tweets about how disappointed the fired guy is about the situation?

These are exactly the sort of dimwits that would dump somebody and then like, not dedicate their time responding to every text from their exes buddies. Rookie shit.
Private relay does that to me, and then the site blocks cloudflare even if I turn that off. If I turn on my VPN it works though. Edit: not all locations seem to work. I picked Spain by chance and that worked.
Hmm, the dll is included in the app package but maybe there is a conflict with other installed DLLs on some machines. When releasing PC software I always expect this type of issue unfortunately. I plan to move away from faster_whisper which may fix this.

I have to say that the Python ecosystem is just awful for distribution purposes and I spent a lot longer on packaging issues than I did on the actual AI parts. And clearly didn't find all of the issues :)
Fair point, but in that case it needs both. Offsets for recording historical timestamps, named zones for future time.

After all, if a zone changes offset today it shouldn't change the timestamp I recorded yesterday.
If you have to sync by yourself, every text editor is "close to Google keep".
People claim it's due to an issue with Cloudflare and location data... but I get different results depending on device and browser.

I have a Mac where Firefox goes to captcha loop but chrome doesn't. Meanwhile I have a PC where Firefox works fine. All on the same internet connection.
Anyone who answers (unless it's Ilya himself) knows as much as anyone on Twitter or commenting on the other 74 HN posts we have going on this topic
I think if this is the URL behind any sort of "api" prefix in the URL (subdomain, or subdirectory) I don't see why not? It's always worked out pretty darned fantastic.
Show HN: Turning Ideas into Investor Magnets
If there's anything we can be sure of, it's that LLMs are bullshit generators that happen to be correct a certain percent of the time. Not just bullshit generators. Plausibly sounding bullshit generators.
Eh, he knows his stuff. You don't have to like or agree with him to appreciate his insights on the political economy and international monetary systems.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/yanis-varoufakis

It's like if Dave Cutler starts a blog series on OS dev. Most HN users are Unix users but that doesn't mean there's nothing to be gained from reading the thoughts of somebody at the top of their field.
At least with 8-tracks you could skip tracks with a button.
> not really an austerity freak. They need to realign their economy and become more fiscally irresponsible

That’s been the MO for the last 20 years, it hasn’t worked out
I'm very excited to watch this!

I've seen your other talks, which were all fantastic, and highly recommend them others.
Sms “auth” is doing nothing but piggybacking/hijacking the hard credit pull the carriers ran on you when you got your phone.

So something that indicates there’s a real person there paying a bill. Plenty of room for innovation here but my suspicion would be that it be a function of a credit bureau.
Ask HN: Watch YT on Firefox but not Chrome unless I turn on history?
In Firefox, not signed in, I can watch videos. In Chrome, I can't see any videos listed, it wants me to turn Watch History on.

In Chrome, if I try to sign out on the YT page upper right (since it works in Firefox without me being signed in); it also signs me out of Chrome and pauses sync.

What's all this about?
Will the legislative branch allow him to enact his policies?
basically, someone in tech trying to crapify another adjacency

amazing that the rest of the culture doesn't think tech people are skeevy
So ChatGPT can discover facts about itself and add them to the context. Neat.

There is now a lot of writing about ChatGPT on the internet. What happens when that is included in the training set? I'd expect a similar outcome... it knows some facts about itself.

Interesting to see how this would bias its behavior or the ability to run experiments like this one.
That's a name I haven't heard for a very long time. Central Computer was a fantastic shop.
> I will wager $20 Altman is the confidential source and the OpenAI board is spending Sunday with their family getting ready for work next week.

I'm not going to say it's specifically Altman himself that's the source, but it's been pretty clear to me that all of the sources have been from pro-Altman sources, and in many cases seem pretty clearly directed to increase pressure on the board to accept a counteroffer. Adjusting that for bias... I haven't seen any real indication that the board is actually seriously considering these offers.

I'll also note that it raises my eyebrows that there are apparently two consecutive "accept by X or we quit" deadlines that have now apparently blown by... which is a sign of the side currently in the desperately-negotiating position and which one isn't.
10K is respectable not amazing... If you have the money and time to do summer art festivals
It depends what you mean by "numbers": all integers or just 64-bit ones?
People just expect things to be integrated. Even Wi-Fi is, although it's probably typically an M.2 card. I have a <2000 computer that had both integrated audio and video, and it's kind-of become a norm.

Integrated sound cards are way more susceptive to interference, though, and the quality suffers a bit. They're merely good enough.

Also, people generally seem to use USB sound cards, as it removes even more room for interference (though my ASUS Xonar Essence STX sounds great already, unlike the integrated solution that transfers power rail and other noise).
I hope we live in a world where judges don’t consider this to be "strong wording".
Well, until discovery, wherein your deliberate not knowing will be a pretty big deal.
Hey, can you please not do programming language flamewar (or any flamewar) on HN? We're trying for something else here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Partly this is out of memory of the good/bad old newsgroup days where this kind of thing somehow worked ok, until it didn't, but it definitely doesn't work on the sort of forum that HN is. We'd like a better outcome than scorched earth for this place.
IP rights. Did you think they were going to let him just walk away with the keys to the fortune of AI?
He will have to negotiate with jxc, but if they support him he should be able to.
The biggest issue will be the senate I think
> research on methodology is concentrated in smaller and more accessible model experimentation

Lets pull out a part of the article: "Note that my experiments also included two arithmetic benchmarks (they are included in my other more technical write-up), on which LoRA-finetuned models performed significantly worse than the pretrained base models. My hypothesis is that the model unlearned arithmetic because the Alpaca dataset did not contain corresponding examples. Whether the model completely lost the knowledge or whether it's because the model can't handle the instructions anymore would require further investigation. However, a takeaway here is that it's probably a good idea to include examples of each task you care about when finetuning LLMs."

The llm for your average customer service bot isn't going to have a lot of need for arithmetic, or an ability to code! Can we get smaller models without math, or take a big model and prune that section, or better yet tell it "see Wolfram alpha" ...

Stuff like this is how we go from PhD projects that are black boxes to, opaque systems that engineers can beat on till they are clear and well understood.
There are lots of comments in these threads that go over her different qualifications and experiences.

I am in a discussion about referring to people as 'spouse of x'. They're not the same conversations and I am not sure why you would expect the contents to be the same.
You’re just repeating hasbara talking points.

River to the sea doesn’t mean ethnically cleansing, like Israel has done to Palestinians. It means a one state solution, with Arabs and Jews as equals. You choose to interpret it as a call for genocide, but I get why you do: projection.

Quick question: how many of those dead on the 7th were due to IDF attacking Israelis? How many hostages have died from IAF airstrikes?

You talk about brutal videos of the 7th, when you can see the same thing and worse every single day in Gaza. You talk about tragedy when 1000s of kids in Gaza have died and you don’t seem to care. Only Israelis dying matter to you. I wonder why.
Yeah exactly. Seems like they're doing okay moderating it though.
I'm guessing they don't view hackintoshes as legitimate. I'm curious about legitimate businesses that are built around hackintoshes.
The self awareness (such as it is) is in the prompt (and the changes in the prompt from one iteration to the next), not the model.

Of course, you could use these self-chats back into the training of the model. Maybe the result would be a little more open-ended.
Inside The Chaos at OpenAI
Whether tax deductions are subsidies or not depends on whether they are targeted at and benefit particular industries or special interests in a way that others do not qualify for.
It says R there. There is even a chapter named "Why R" explaining why R was the choose language for the book.
Does sms auth not work with prepaid sim cards? I think the real benefit is that a sim card is basically a trusted computing device, but with a system in place at the carrier to give you back your number if you lose it. In effect, its a digital proof of identity. Since identity is fundamentally the job of the government, the real solution should be id cards with trusted computing chips in them. Though that will open up a can of worms with regards to privacy and government overreach.
The issue isn't whether "his point" as you put it is correct. If I said people should safety test the space shuttle to make sure the phlogiston isn't going to overheat, I may be correct in my belief that people should "safety test" the space shuttle but I'm still a crank because phlogeston isn't a real thing.
I don't find that number scary or surprising... I'm less likely to overhear racial slurs being thrown around in casual conversation now compared to the past, some selfcensorship is good

Not everyone thinks political correctness is bad
Lupin and The Witcher S1 (and Wednesday to a lesser degree) were average adaptations of good stories. The only thing nice in the Witcher was the casting, and Lupin had great initial ideas (like the casting, too), but overall it was very average. Shadow and bones was an average adaptation of an average story.
I’m a bit confused. There doesn’t seem to be a legitimate case here? Addiction of any form certainly needs to be stopped and social media can be addictive but am I evil for thinking that parents should’ve been more involved here?