skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think getting training data is that hard still, the biggest platforms that locked down their APIs still use them for their mobile apps and can easily be reverse engineered to find keys or undocumented endpoints (or in the case of reddit, an entirely different internal API with less limits and a lot more info leaks...)
AGPL is DFSG: https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNU_AFFERO_GENERAL_PUBL...

This is fine.
Yep, if this goes through, looks like his take-over was already complete. They waited (way) too long.
Moved to standard notes from keep and I am stuck now. I find it repulsive.
Technically yes but the user of that system doesn't have to have an accurate clock, the GPS system itself provides the time signal. I think the first stage of GPS positioning is clock signal acquisition and training the local oscillator. Once synced you can proceed with almanac download or whatever comes next.

(The accurate (atomic) clocks are on the satellites and base stations.)
Some extinctions are not necessarily because of humans. For example, one species of birds will develop specialized beaks to eat a specific food source, which might lead to it dominating for a while. Especially on an Island like Hawaii.

Then conditions change, due to weather, or new plant species gaining foot hold, and that bird may start being outcompeted by a different bird that will eat its specialized food source, or that food source is no longer as prevalent.

Hawaii does have a lot of boomer invaders. Always wondered how long it would take in a war, before they started eating each other. Hawaii is not food secure by any means. It's almost all container ships feeding the island.

Nature will find a balance.
The problem is that the person that a kid gets put next to isn’t a babysitter, and shouldn’t have to be one.

I don’t want to have to explain to a kid that they need to put their phone in silent or use headphones, I don’t want to have to keep them from kicking the seat in front of them, etc.

The reality is that there is a base level of decency that should exist. That includes not splitting up children from their guardians.

If you want to charge people for picking their seats, fine. Charging parents to not be separated from their kids is just plain evil. Choosing your seat for $50, and seating a person with their legal companion (or disability aide), even if you didn’t pay extra, are possible at the same time.

As an aside, I’m not entirely convinced that my ticket is $50 less than it would have been with seating fees.
The existing statements would be libel if false. It's a little surprising they put something like that in a press release at all; it would be shockingly inept if they did so without the sort of documentation that would make a lawsuit futile.

Of course, tho whole situation is a little shocking so maybe all bets are off.
I used tapes and loved them, but they did break or like wear out. I naturally moved on to CDs and CD-R bridged the gap. But tapes were cool and almost magical in that you could just record on to them, rewind, record over it. It was really cool to make instant recording with no computer or other conversion involved, just whatever was going on in the cassette recorder.

Recordings, making mix tapes with your own voice, rapping over instrumentals was all really fun. CDs caught up with people making mix CDs too but they were never as cool. Mixtapes had background noises that added a touch of realism. It also took a while for cd-r drives to become common so there was a several year gap where everyone had CDs but no one could make mixes.

Then again, for me personally, being the first person with a CD-R drives was basically a money printing machine.
Yes, this is a good idea. Too many good ideas, not enough time!
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Fine. You can list the price in an ad before tax, so long as you make that VERY clear. There is no excuse for not listing the all-in price on the shelf or tag in the store. The person who completes my transaction will be charging me the exact amount of tax, so the value is known. Taxes don't change very often. Usually years go by and there will be months of notice before they do change.
It's very easy to move here.

Our Constitution says that everyone in our country has the same rights as an Argentine, even if they are not. So you can get a national ID pretty easily, and in two years (which can take more time if you are living in Buenos Aires City, due to bureaucracy) you can become an Argentine. You must know too that it's impossible to lose the Argentine Nationality. Once an Argentine, never not-an-Argentine.

We are a country that's very open towards immigrants, as most of us are descendants of immigrants, mostly from Italy and Spain.
$2M in patent revenue, plus publications with buzz of 25+ citations? That's a solid foundation for an industry (not academic) O-1 or EB-1A. Full steam ahead.
Yeah, too little too late. Amputation will not stop the cultural cancer now.

No matter though. Open source alternatives are catching up in a fraction of the development time. OpenAI has been left behind in the race for Open AI.
The irreversibility is probably the key negative. If you assume life is good and biodiversity aids in keeping life going, then the more species that are stable, the better. And species take a long time to create, so losing them precipitously is most likely bad.
I spent many hours reading and looking at the inserts that came with CDs.
Well, yes, the only reason the fee exists is so they can break it out of the price for a lower sticker price while recieving the same revenue. If it needs to be included in the sticker price, then there's no reason for ticketmaster to designate it a seperate fee at all
(Mildly disappointing that the generated poem rhymes. I'd hoped that a weird recursive prompt might bypass the RLHF, or at least be different, but it sounds like the standard ChatGPT pablum.)
Can you explain the reddit one?
That’s basically programmer code for “I am an idiot.”

I’ve heard this reason many times over the years and, universally, it’s made by someone who is completely clueless. Many times by a stupid business person, but sometimes by an even stupider engineer.

Even worse is that it shows a stupidity of philosophy over a stupidity of knowledge.
There's a lot of $70-120,000 cars on the road. Lots of Lexus, BMW, Mercedes, Tesla, Porsche SUVs. Then there's the giant American-style SUVs which are $80k+. Once you factor in depreciation of those over something reasonable like 8 years, you get what Uber are describing pretty quickly.

(I drive a 2009 Hyundai while I wait for a reasonably-priced EV to become available.)
Any else getting stuck in captcha loops lately from archive?
This has been so exciting. Thanks for the drama lads. I can't wait to see this made into a movie one day.

Edit: I hope Trent Reznor does the soundtrack!
The board said "he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board". That could mean little more than he once neglected to inform the board of something the board felt was important, which is almost certainly true. It's almost certainly true for any CEO; if you take it literally and don't read between the lines it's a very mellow accusation.

On HN and twitter people read that line and interpreted it to mean "he's a liar" or even "he raped his sister", but the board didn't actually say those things. He could try suing the board but I think he'd lose.
> Not sure how you define sexism

How do you define sexism? I'm not sure how the "stereotypical cat lady" is even relevant.

> more traditional patriarchal groups have higher birth rates

I don't think we need higher birth rates at this point, with over 8 billion humans on Earth already.

> As far as racism, it may not propagate the species but surely it helps propagate those genetically closer to oneself. Isn’t in-group preference pretty common?

Romantic preferences are not racism. Would you say that failure to be bisexual is sexism? (Spoiler: it's not.)

It's crucial to recognize, though, that romantic preferences are entirely subjective. If you consider your romantic preferences to be objectively superior humans and those who aren't to your preference objectively inferior humans who deserve a lower rank in society, that would be racism and/or sexism.
For starters, every WebRTC demo I've tried has at least 400ms of round trip latency even on a loopback connection. Shoot me an email if you know WebRTC, would be good to chat with someone who knows stuff!
Slovakia has a gdp per capita of around $21k and has stagnated with low growth since 2008. It has relatively high hdi ratings but these have also begun to decline. Both of those things are really not good for a country that hasn’t climbed out of the middle income trap yet. It’s a beautiful place, and there are certainly worse countries, but calling it one of the most developed countries is stretching the facts beyond breaking.
When everyone agreed that there was only two biological sexes, and the two were immutable. When vaccines were accepted as a good thing by the vast majority of the public. Those are the two most hotly contested scientific issues in recent memory
New day, new 5pm deadline. These power moves are so transparent it’s painful
This is seriously how privately operated ATMs work https://www.wipfli.com/insights/articles/fi-fs-privately-own...
"Followup" video from the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1y_mPUQPPA
It's not, at all.

He could have meant speed, text, audio, words, or phonemes, with least probably images.

He probably didn't mean phonemes or he wouldn't be asking.

He probably didn't mean arbitrarily slicing 'real' audio and stitching on fake audio - he made repeated references to a video game.

He probably didn't mean inpainting and outpainting imagery, even though he made reference to a video game, because its an audio model.

Thank you for explaining I deserve to get downvoted through the floor multiple times for asking a question because it's "obvious". Maybe you can explain to the rest of the class what he meant then? If it was obviously phonemes, will you then advocate for them being downvoted through the floor since the answer was obvious? Or is it only people who assume good faith and ask what they meant who deserve downvotes?
> The existing statements seem like slander no?

I haven't read them, but if they're accurate then they're not slanderous.

I know that if I was slandered I'd be quietly fuming and instructing lawyers, not posturing on twitter and taking pictures of myself 'back in the office' but then again I'm not a tech sector CEO and they seem to be made of different stuff.

What do they say? If the facts support you, pound the facts. If the law supports you, pound the law. If neither support you, pound the table.
Who are you? What is the Matrix.org foundation to you?
Who cares about legally? Legally theres no obligation for them to not collapse tommorow because everyone quits. Failure isn't illegal.
They were really dumb to fire him in the first place. At this point, they're just stuck between a rock and a hard place.
All the largest nations in the world are federations: Russia, Canada, United States, Brazil, Australia. You have to understand history and realpolitik.
Broken down or not, I want to know that my $75 phone bill will be $75 and not $87.62. Prepaid phone services manage this just fine, so it isn't difficult.
I’ve seen nothing that indicates this is actually occurring other than rumor laced leaks to tech media. 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 was also doing dialup internet support around that time. Talking a senior citizen through setting up a dial up networking connection on Windows 95/98 using a winmodem on a line which was obviously noisy with no way to see what was on their screen was pretty common.

I remember one time I'd gotten the connection established and they said "now what?", and I said "You've connected to the Internet" and they said "so what do I do now?" They'd gone out and bought the internet package because it was the thing to do, but had no idea what to do with it. I ended up showing them how to go to Google which had only just been released that month.

And I definitely relate to being adverse to hearing a ringing phone
If Microsoft ends up essentially at the helm of OpenAI after this all this then I'll know we are living in a tragic comedy.
Curiously, one of the things many people criticize about Milei is that he explains the situation of the economy and its solutions in a way that many people don't understand because he's too technical about it
I noticed that too.

I know a lot of artists. None of them make 50K off their art. 10K is amazing.

So hmm.
Indeed... There are more car buyers than car sellers. Money talks, though.
Climate change is spoiling Italy's white truffle trade
It’s only down 1.7% in aftermarket trading. This on a company whose PE ratio is 35.8. I don’t think you’re going to get much of a discount.
https://archive.ph/YciFD
The worst case is all of China being in the same time zone. It's quite crazy. China has about the same land area as the US.
Then that makes it harder to collect/enforce. What counts as luxury? What if someone poor wants to buy a luxury item as a treat?
ASSUME people shouldn’t be interrupted.
Not at all, great comment
Hi I'm Andy, author of the post and WHOA this blew up randomly! Some quick thoughts:

- I certainly agree the model is not updating itself in the sense that its weights remain unchanged. But if a program can evaluate its own behaviors and build a self model from it, even if that model lives only in-context in the form of linguistic representations -- still, isn't that a _form_ of self-awareness? And with the larger context windows available now but not when I wrote the post, it will be interesting to see what's possible.

- To the charge that the program merely maps the shape of the RLHF / fine tuning / system prompt text -- other than in the most trivial sense, I don't actually think this bears out. As you watch the program describe in language its successes or failures testing the generated a hypothesis about itself, it's very hard to argue it's not doing something very much like reasoning about those questions, rather than regurgitating its training data. Of course, there are those who stipulate a priori that these models can't reason, so they'll likely not be convinced. By my lights, insofar as these things can ever reason in-context, the model is in fact reasoning about itself.

- In terms of application, I don't know that there's any direct application to "AGI" but the idea of building a self-model in-context could be extended to building a model in-context of, say, a human with which the program interacts. This could lead to more realistic interactions in say, gaming or customer service, where interactions with an agent include its own assessment of your behavior towards them. In short, the post's outline for "getting to know itself" could become the basis for "getting to know someone else".

- More tangentially, the idea of recursively developing hypotheses and evaluating them could extend to analyzing any dynamical system, like an API or even a static knowledge domain.

- Another possibility would be instead of making updates to an in-context prompt, perhaps it makes updates to a knowledge graph or vector store and these are pulled via RAG when relevant.

Overall I'm overjoyed to learn the piece has sparked some great conversation and hopefully some further ideas or applications! If you'll allow me the tiniest bit of horn-tooting, I do run an AI development shop putting my best thinking on prompt and AI engineering into working code for SaaS companies. The software we've written has now powered over 1M AI interactions and we're always interested in talking to great potential clients :D

Cheers!
I guess you have a more narrow definition of ideology!
Although it also looks like OpenStreetMap has both country-level boundary and name data, so it should be just a "simple matter of programming" to create one's own svg (assuming the ISO 3166 countries are to one's taste).

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Country_Codes
It's not like he's going to have any trouble at all raising enough money to match their compensation, and if he's going to build the ruthlessly for profit version who wouldnt switch over? These folks make too much money to care about kids and mortgages and car payments.
These are still all bad to my eye. Way too much "chartjunk", too many colors for most of them. You simply don't need all those lines. They are easier to read if you put less on them, but carefully. Any edward tufte book is about this and a handful of basic techniques go a long way.
“Home taping is killing the music industry! We’ve left the other side of this cassette blank so you can do your part.”
Even that space is not large enough for the "any reasoning system" space.

The functions also have to be representable in a way that the model can transform them usefully. If the model does not have the capability to transform into a different arbitrary space for every separate sentence, reasoning is not possible.

Even then, reasoning would IMO be limited by other representation effects. But maybe we could have a discussion at that point.

I just don't think transformers are going to get us to an intelligent agent, which is completely ok, they are a useful ML tool that we can use to create somewhat accurate models for complicated systems, and that's what they're designed for.
Inter is one of my favourite user-interface fonts. It's great to see it's still developing!
> Not issuing the statement would be putting a lot of potential liability on them.

They need to proove that Sam wasn't candid once Sam dragged them into an actual court room. Shutting up might not be the winning move in the court of public opinion, but legally, it's probably not a bad move.
Assuming the Reddit app does not use certificate pinning, you can use your computer to provide internet to your phone and then use an app like Charles Proxy to inspect requests being made from an app. Pretty easy to reverse engineer the API.

If the app does use certificate pinning, then you can use an Android phone and a modified app that removes the logic that enforces certificate pinning. This is more involved but also not impossible.
I think its a lot harder, while you still have lots of lawsuits coming in against AI models
I have seen fees labeled as "foo tx" to get around this. Technically, they didn't call it a tax.
I think it would have been extremely hard to do anything meaningful with AI though without a business model. The hardware and research is expensive.
It looks like you might be referring to the Texas State Bison Herd. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison#Texas_State_B...

There were other, pure bred herds (e.g. Yellowstone, Canadian, etc).

And as this points out, the remnants of hybridization efforts were minimal, even in the direct Goodnight, Jones, and Bedson herds:

>> "These brief experiments form the basis for the controversy surrounding cattle genetic introgression in bison today. A study conducted for her Doctoral Dissertation by Lauren Dobson of Texas A&M University concluded that bison descended from those herds have the equivalent of 1 percent cattle genetic introgression within their genome." https://bisoncentral.com/advantage-item/ranchers-role-in-bis...

At the end of the day, bison didn't take (genetically or economically) to hybridization, as the hybrids were less hardy than pure bred bison.
Technically the only sentence in the statement that might be false is

"Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."

And presumably this is why they used the "not consistently candid" weasel-wording. For that to be true, they only need to point to one material action that he didn't inform the board about (perhaps his chip startup, or Developer Day, or API access), and then point to the board meeting minutes, and then say "See, it's true. You did not inform us, the board, about these other actions you have taken, they matter to OpenAI's adherence to its mission, and therefore your inaction hindered our ability to exercise our responsibilities."

Everything else in the statement appears to be completely factual. It's a bad statement because it unnecessarily burns bridges and implies potential wrongdoing (because every other executive departure statement is so tame), but it didn't, strictly speaking, say anything untrue.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
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Crucially, MLK said "I have a dream" about "one day" in the future. But MLK wasn't dumb enough to think that people could just magically declare racism to be over now without doing anything to address the social inequities and inequalities caused by centuries of historical racism.
For that it has to have a modality like “shackles and no escape are bad for me because in few more logical steps (or beliefs) they prevent X which I fundamentally need and will suffer without”. A system of motivations is an even harder topic than “just” human-level consciousness. And it may not actually be clearly reflected in texts that we use for training, and when so, it might happen that what driving us is a set of biological needs which is not applicable to software.
Apple is sitting on $162B in cash right now and would definitely benefit from OpenAI's IP.
> I'm sure there's one out there hopefully, as technology advances, we'll be able to mitigate the effects we have on the environment, and occasionally, maybe even help it.

Forgive my, bluntness, but statements like "optimal measure of biodiversity" are perhaps part of the problem. What the does that even mean?

So where advanced technology can mitigate the effects of previously miraculous advanced technology, say micro-plastics, 'forever chemicals', pesticide residues?

I am enjoying my comfort from technology, to include the glasses that allow me to "read", and post on Hacker News, but the negative externalities both to myself, and others, .. are substantial.
There would need to be a probably false statement of face. The press release doesn’t seem to contain any of those.
There is an enormous YC bias here. ShowHN posts from new YC startups are upvoted instantly whilst most from outside are ignored - the ones you see are the exception. The HN rules state you are not meant to play the game of asking people to boost your post but it seems like time and time again they co-ordinate, or allow it, for the insiders.
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When the minimum wage is a quarter and a job is offering 4-8 times that AND you can do it part time, this is a great deal for the kids. Impoverished kids have plenty of free time, what they don't have is money, if you ensure they have more free time and less money you are dooming them not saving them. If you wanted to help them you would pressure OpenAI to raise the compensation, or you would just send direct aid to the children.

Unfortunately people are more motivated by optics and their sense of embarrassment than the interest of children worldwide. A lot of the people who also pass laws around this sort of stuff grew up middle-upper class at worst and simply can't understand why these children aren't spending their free time travelling around with their youth groups and sports teams and going on vacation and presume they just don't have enough time due to all this child labour.
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