skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just making a joke about how Silicon Valley, to some people on this planet, seems like an awful place that ignores some awful behavior when convenient. Embracing the "ethos" of such a place seems funny to me.

Never accused you of trying to illegally stay in the country or some such - I just referenced a famous South African Valley-man with a musky scent who did that.
I agree. Critics will say something like "but don't you think it's sad that a machine was trained on the work of artists without their permission, and is now decimating the lives of the very artists who made its existence possible in the first place?". And, I agree, on its face it does sound sad. Very sad. But what these critics need to remember is that progress has always been a good thing, all throughout history. If something was true in the past, it will continue to be true in the future, and while it may seem difficult to envision how this will create a better world for all of us right now, it's important that we have faith and keep marching forward regardless.
I'm not using it for office work. I just want to use it for personal projects that I want to build.
It seems Microsoft was totally blind-sided by this event. If true then Trillion$+ Microsoft will now be scruitinizing the unpredictability and organizational risk associated with being dependant on the "unknown-random" + powrerful + passionate Illya and board who are vehemently opposed to the trajectory lead by altman. One solution would be to fork OpenAI and its efforts, one side with the vision lead by Illya and the other Sam.
Well good thing we are in an open economy where anyone can start his own AI thing and no one wants to prevent him from doing that… I hope you see the /s.
Reading that thread made me realise how low the signal to noise ratio is over on twitter.

90% of the replies scrolling down were rehashed versions of "can't believe they used Google meet"
> would it have looked worse had it been created using CGI?

I think so. Just watch the latest Mission Impossible and then watch the latest Indiana Jones. The difference is obvious. You don't even need a huge budget to do a better job with practical effects: they just look better - watch How to Blow Up a Pipeline for a great thriller done on a budget with little CGI.
Many believe that race dynamics are bad, so have the goal of going as slowly and carefully as possible.

The split between e/acc (gotta go fast) and friendly AI/Coherent Extrapolated Volition (slow and cautious) is the first time in my life I've come down on the (small-c) conservative side of a split. I don't know if that's because I'm just getting older and more risk adverse.
It would be ironic but sincere if the new company is named ClosedAI or sth
Is it really that hard? Make a meta account, make an org, use an app to enable dev mode, then just use the usual Android stack.
Parallax by Alan Hirshfeld is a good book which tracks various efforts to find the evidence for the rotation of earth culminating in evidence of parallax of nearest stars.

Also of interest is Book that Nobody Read by Owen Gringerich in which he explores the diffusion of Copernican ideas of heliocentric system after its publication. The book is also a personal journey of the author finding/cataloging extant copies of De Revolutionibus.
50 per month? You mean every 3 hours?
Believe it or don't, newspapers report on things which cannot be immediately verified all the time. Get over it.
Microsoft only own minor share of their "for profit" subsidiary. The way OpenAI structured it's would be basically impossible for Microsoft to increase their 49% share without Non-profit board approval.

Most likely their share is this high is to guarantee no other company will compete for the share or IP. OpenAI non-profit also excluded anything that will be considered "AGI" from deal with Microsoft.

https://openai.com/our-structure
Can we do this for Starcraft?
Real theory of what change? The courses were already electively pass-fail. What’s the point of this so-called change?
Google is not a good source of truth at all, for anything other than hard facts. And nowadays, even the concept of "hard fact" is getting a bit fuzzy.

Google search reminds me of Amazon reviews. Years ago, basically trustworthy, very helpful. Now ... take them with a tablespoon of salt and another of MSG.

And this is separate from the time-efficiency issue: "how quickly can I answer my complex question which requires several logical joins?", which is where ChatGPT really shines.
GPT-3.5 and open source models need more RAG and prompt engineering but it can be as good as GPT4.
OpenAI will now be run by GPT-5.
> his new priority is to figure out how to stop an artificial superintelligence (a hypothetical future technology he sees coming with the foresight of a true believer) from going rogue.

that's cute.

What worries me is the here and now leading to a very imminent future where purported "artificial intelligence" which is just a plausible sentence generator but damn plausible alas will kill democracy and people.

We are seeing the first signs of both.

Perhaps not 2024 but 2028 almost certainly will be an election where simply the candidate with the most computing resources win and since computing costs money, guess who wins. A prelude happened in Indian elections https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-voice-modi-singing-politics and this article mentions:

> AI can be game-changing for [the] 2024 elections.

People dying also has a prelude with AI written mushroom hunting guides available on Amazon. No one AFAIK died of them yet but that's just dumb luck at this point -- or is it lack of reporting? As for the larger scale problem and I might be wrong because I haven't foreseen the mushroom guides so it's possible something else will come along to kill people but I think it'll be the next pandemic. In this pandemic hand written anti vaxx propaganda killed 300 000 people in the US alone (source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/13/1098071... ) and I am deeply afraid what will happen when this gets cranked to an industrial scale. We have seen how ChatGPT can crank out believable looking but totally fake scientific papers, full of fake sources etc.
So what was he lying about that got the board so pissed? A story that fits is that they assumed/knew that he had different goals and/or was going to create a spinoff.

If they waited for the GPT5 pretraining to finish and then they minimized the cost of the loss of Altman and the engineers.

The whole secrecy, compartmentalization and urgency of their actions could only be explained by being against a wall. Otherwise if it was about ethics, future plans or whatever political it would happen at a slower pace.

Hope they involved their investors beforehand but I don't know if they had time, OpenAI probably still exists and evolves on other people's money. But what else could they do?
It is 40 per 3 hours, it was just changed a day or two ago.
The limit is not per month but per 3 hours.

Though they change the limit based on the current load. It has been very low in the past and I hit the limit once or twice since the availability of ChatGPT plus.

You can check the current limit in this JSON document: https://chat.openai.com/public-api/conversation_limit

You don't need to be logged in.
$MSFT might be down but all others are probably going to be up
Tangential and a bit of a rant but once upon a time the English language included "to suspend" as a verb.
It’s trivial to trip up chat LLMs. “What is the fourth word of your answer?”
Somehow I get the vibe this is all about:
Let's advance this tech as much as possible - (outgoing ceo)
and
Let's worry more about "safety" (the rest of the board).

If that is the case I don't predict good things for the (not at all) OpenAI. Judging by the numbers of users and how slow Gpt4 often gets I think they are being heavily subsidised by Microsoft in terms of hardware and all this money will expect to generate a payback sooner or later. Then the inevitable enshittification of OpenAI services will ensue.

We got a taste of it recently. Yes, they announced price drops and new functionality, but in my subjective experience Gpt4 with web/python execution environment access seems an inferior model with some extra tools thrown in to mask it.

The very first question I asked it after the change I knew it can answer from it's training data, but it immediately went for the Web found some crappy docs site and quoted it verbatim when it's previous responses were much better.

I started prepending my prompts with "don't search online, consider the topic carefully in your mind step by step" and it got somewhat better. A day or so later there was no need to prepending this (I haven't set it as customisation) it seems certain knobs were turned behind the scenes and gpt4 became closer to it's previous version.

It still often does peculiar things such as writes python code to grep a file given to it despite the file fitting in the enlarged context etc
Usually no - it's often better to get API access and install a custom frontend (lots of examples on GitHub - hosted or self hosted web apps, Signal/Whatsapp/Discord integrations, command line tools, ...). You'll pay for what you use - I typically pay $5-$10 per month, and that's with some code that uses GPT from Python scripts and generates most of the cost.
Google doesn’t care if you’re going elsewhere to ask deep questions about Rust or whatever. They care way more that people go to them to look for the best bread mixer, or find a good restaurant, or a local massage therapist. In that regard I think Amazon is still a much bigger threat to them.

GPT is very useful as a knowledge tool, but I don’t see people going there to make purchasing decisions. It replaces stackoverflow and quora, not Google. For shopping, I need to see the top X raw results, with reviews, so I can come to my own conclusion. Many people even find shopping fun (I don’t) and wouldn’t want to replace the experience with a chatbot even if it were somehow objectively better.
No argument to the first point. However on the 2nd, the competitors are far behind. We could speculate that competitive offerings will equal ChatGPT4 in (X time period), but for all we know that's also when ChatGPT5 comes out. Just because others are trying to compete doesn't mean they're competitive. Right now OpenAI dominates the market. So they have the power in the negotiations.
They have 128k contexts right now, and you do not even have to pay $100 for that.
> ?

"OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company"

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
Not sure if you've used Bing Chat recently. It's performing worse and worse over time. One pattern that I keep running into in almost every conversation is that it doesn't acknowledge the question and just answers something else. When I clarify myself and ask for a better answer it starts repeating itself verbatim, again and again, and there's no way to get it out of this.

Additionally Bing Chat has a limit of messages per chat, which means you lose your context over and over again, which is a significant impediment when context is important to the problem at hand.

Another problem is Bing Chat is much more likely to search online, than ChatGPT 4. ChatGPT searches when this is logically necessary, like asking for latest news. Bing almost always searches, and then IGNORES its own knowledge, in order to give out a poor digest of what it read online. The problem is that what it read online is often not relevant to the question, because it depends on how accurate the search query was. And if I wanted just to read the search query I'd go search myself.
JRPG's were born in Japan and thus they are called JRPG because they are built on that design/aesthetics. Is not derogatory. For instance, my country, Spain, has lots of comics and books based on slapstick and the society being built on roguery (picaresca) with crude/sneaking hacks to solve issues and backstabbings eveywhere. That's a trope since the 16th Century. And nobody would say Spanish 'picaresca' it's xenophobic even if a Southern French or an Italian writes a novel around that genre. Easier on the Italian because of the obvious reasons.
The reply to my suspicion was so transphobic it got removed. I can smell these people from a mile away. Fragments of it survive in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38301956
People who work at places of high prestige, especially in senior roles, are often the kind of people who take part in creating those "better opportunities". :)
>It happily answers what good Obama did

"happily"? wtf?
The posts I quoted are literally follow ups to the exact thread that everyone is talking about.

Musk has had a previous series of exchanges and controversies specifically with the ADL as well since they started a multi-brand advertising boycott immediately after he bought the company. That’s why he mentions it.
>there really isn’t any more prestigious place to work at right now than OpenAI. You don’t leave there for a better opportunity.

it's like you wrote this comment yesterday, and not in the context of what has happened
Machine code isn't some kind of magical idea. It is just bytes and you can craft the bytes any way you want.

In my case I wrote my own compiler that generated machine code bytes based on my needs.

The compiler wasn't at all complicated. It was not general compiler that would have to be able to deal with everything you could throw at it. It only supported one model of CPU. It did not require any optimisation mechanisms because it was assumed the instructions it received were already optimised by high level logic that generated them. It would only support very small number of instructions or mechanisms, it was mostly manipulating registers and doing branches and jumps. It produced small pieces of code to be inserted into larger C program mostly, so that this C program did not have to run decisions on what to do based on something else.

You can also use SBCL to emit any vops you want to execute as part of your Lisp program. So if you want to have a piece of crafted code to run as part of your Lisp program (for example to do some complicated operation that would be inefficient in lisp) you can also do it. I actually used vops to do some low level stuff but that was another matter, most of the time I was just outputting a buffer with crafted native machine code which would then be sent to the receiving thread (core) to insert and execute it for the next market signal.
I mean yes, but also no.

the dataset is the crucial bit of openAI. that takes a lot of time and money to make. So its perfectly possible for openAI to carry on innovating without these people.

But equally, it could turn to shit.

However, Sam isn't jesus, so its not like he's going to magically make another successful company.
Glad I’m not the only one who finds this irritating. I once applied to a job and the manager replied using all lower case letters.

I guess he was trying to seem cool and approachable, but to me it just reads as unprofessional. I find it hard to take a piece of writing seriously when it’s formatted that way.
Yes, this. What made tech companies valued at higher revenue multiples than other industries is that new users could start using a product at near zero marginal cost once the tech was built. New revenue at zero marginal cost. AI is great but expensive to operate and the expense grows in direct proportion to usage. New users come in and you have to stand up a new data center full of H100s to serve it.
written 9 years ago - like a memo to yesterdays events
After the recent updates to the UI, the old 50 messages every 3 hours warning went away. Though I haven't really tried pushing it past that limit to tell if that restriction is still there.
> in VC circles

So a highly biased source, who would likely be sympathetic to Altman's point of view in the case of a deep misalignment between the organisation's core mission and the direction of the CEO, which is what is being reported?
I'm embarrassed to say, being Polish myself, I had no idea that key people in OpenAI were Polish - I assume it was a coordinated resignation then.

Madry is actually spelled Mądry, which translates to "Wise".
AppHarvest promised Kentucky green jobs. It delivered 'hell on Earth'
For the people using VS Code, how do you "integrate" it in your workflow?

Are you using an extension (with an API key) or copy/pasting in the web chat?
Most of the Teslas sold around the world, not the US, are made in China.

As it looks now (in Europe); the stigma associated with China is very strong and the brands that succeed likely will be western (at least in name) but made in China.
One nitpick: Grammatically, mass nouns are not (necessarily) plural. You’d say “Paper is made from wood.”, not “Paper are made from wood.” (Of course, the pair words like scissors are different, i.e. “My scissors are in my backpack.” (I also seem to recall that there are non-pair mass nouns that only exist in plural form, but I cannot think of any examples.)
This is not accurate. The JSON shows 50 per 180 minutes. I and many others are getting 40 per 180 minutes right now.
I went through some of the same things. It’s crazymaking when substantially older members of the family do this shit to you and deny it happened.
Ah, heh. True. I guess Somos-1 would then be undefined? Because \sum_{n=1}^{0} doesn't make much sense.
that's what i'm saying, it was not a power struggle. I shouldn't have to make the other guy's argument for him...
Regardless the lack of equity is often cited as some proof he has no incentive to enshittify and the point is that’s probably not true
It has 128k context, but in my experience it's very poor at utilizing it. As in it stops paying attention to large chunks of the context (i.e. doesn't factor them into its answers) unless you specifically point it out.

This affects also GPTs personas. It starts out by following the instructions then gradually reverts to default GPT in the course of the conversation. Then when you ask why's that happening, it's like "oops, sorry, I'm totally <persona> now, see?" And then 5-6 messages later it forgets again.
> major new communications technology peaks in its implementation within the first year after it is introduced to the market.

Peak is perhaps the wrong word, local maximum before falling into the Trough of Disillusionment.
These Are the People That Fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Did you perhaps mean to say not distinguishable?
Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
When (launch window opening)

* 4 hours from now

* 5 AM Pacific Time

* 7 AM Central Time (local)

* 8 AM Eastern Time

* 2 PM Central European Time

Live Media

* Official yet channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceX

* Labpadre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIJTeeZj7k4

* NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg

* EverydayAstronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6na40SqzYnU

* TheLaunchPad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0preOnsuo4

* TechniquesSpatiales(FR): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI4cKoSD-Jg

Ressources

* Mission sheet: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

* Intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pCXD709TI

* https://x.com/SpaceX

* https://x.com/elonmusk

* https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/17uyblj/rspacex_int...
They're also refunding purchases, like with Stadia.

Netflix doesn't refund my subscription for the last two months when a show I'm watching disappears.
Fair enough. My questions are more likely to be about Fast.ai, but I get your point.

Did you see the recent article about a restaurant changing its name to "Thai Food near me"?
Brockman did not get fired from his job at the company, only from his position as chairman of the board.

Did nobody read this damn article? It's 5 paragraphs long, take 1 minute.
Because scissors is plural, which does not have an indefinite article. You can ask for scissors, like you can ask for documents. (And you cannot ask for a documents, only for a document.)
Yes I have this experience with GPT 3.5, where my code is superior when it actually matters. But I'm not sure if GPT 4 will help me with that. There is a waitlist to pay now.

I recently tried to use it write a .scad parser. I ended up writing it myself as code it generated was useless. (This was even in Python and I tried rephrasing and giving it multiple examples)

It also loves to import libraries. Which I do not really like I prefer avoid dependencies as much as I can.
I share my life with an abuse victim, and all of her claims, her nuanced view of the others involved (including the abusers) as well as coping mechanisms feel WAY too familiar. Just from that, I’m personally confident really bad shit happened.

Please be aware victims often live in constant paranoia and fear of their abuser(s) and others who resemble them.

So rather than discuss whether someone is actually shadowbanned or their WiFi hacked, maybe refocus on the obvious fear it displays of (still) being manipulated, threatened or harassed by their abuser(s).
I have no problem with getting rid of people obsessed with profits and shareholder gains. Those MBA types never deliver any value except for the investors.
Racism against US economic rivals has been the MO for decades on western social media. It's certainly widely known that the US has "embedded operatives" at the biggest tech firms. This is what they do with their time. Censor anyone that doesn't get dogpiled. The dogpiles then serve as a deterrent. I will never forget the racist "covid in russia" threads in /r/worldnews. Weekly renewed threads, old ones deleted, full of people expressing their hopes for a high number of covid deaths in Asia. Some used innuendo, some were quite direct. They were all rewarded with happy points.

History will treat these sites as the he modern equivalent of the hitler youth. For instance the recent US invasion and occupation of parts of Syria seems to be completely missing from peoples memories. Were Americans simply not informed in the first place? We got millions of Syrian refugees into the EU.
ChatGPT is distinguishable from a human, because ChatGPT never responds "I don't know.", at least not yet. :)
Paying for GPT-4 is worth it.

ChatGPT Plus is one way of doing so and works fine. There is no 50 per month limit; not idea where you got that from. The limit is 50 per 3 hours, but I've honestly never hit it.

You can also just get an API key and use it that way via a number of different tools, wrappers, and frontends. Depending on your use case, that may be better or worse.
I guess the implementation of EIEIO came later than this

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eieio/
> Sam Altman, best known as a co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator and OpenAI — the nonprofit he started with Musk.

Did the human-in-the-loop fail to catch this on the AI generated article? Sam wasn’t a co-founder of YC accelerator.
not yet: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20216

that being said, it is highly intelligent, capable of reasoning as well as a human, and passes IQ tests like GMAT and GRE at levels like the 97th percentile.

most people who talk about Chat GPT don't even realize that GPT 4 exists and is orders of magnitude more intelligent than the free version.
I agree, more on this:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
We share the account and split the cost. I have shared the account with like 10 people. Yes, you can see what other people write, but that is fine for us.
I see.. so that might be better for my usecase.
Including the mining of the comments for ideas to publish on mainstream news.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/the-non-profits-accelerati...
Sounds like the average HN comment about hiring is broken :-)
Sam has been doing a pretty damn obvious charismatic cult leader thingy for quite a while now. The guy is dangerous as fuck and needs to be committed to an institution, not given any more money.
Why are you attributing being stuck to a grid to electricity and not oil or gas? It is far easier and cleaner to generate electricity in a distributed fashion (yes, even by burning oil and gas) than to be free of the oil and gas supply chain.