skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn’t _mean_ that.

It _can_ imply that if garden leave isn’t valued by workers in the negotiation stage of a position, but that also means it could be the bottom right corner of the prisoner’s dilemma.

Luckily one of the major reasons for the government to exist is to create regulation like this to make everyone pick the top left square of the prisoner’s dilemma so we all get a better outcome
Websites should use the default font size set by the user's browser and all other font sizes should be relative to that.
I'm not really surprised at their choice of words, the mainstream narrative is that Elon is evil after all.

Even here, the detractors are coming out of the woodwork to complain about success. At least we get to mine salt from their tears, I guess?
No evidence of this.
How has open ai enumerated a list of tasks humans can do? What a useless definition. By a reasonable interpretation of this definition we are already here. Given chat Gpts constraints (ingesting and outgoing only text), it already performs better than most humans...

Most humans cannot write as well and most lack the reasoning ability. Even the mistakes chargpt makes on mathematical reasoning is typical human behavior.
A good, solid and old argument...

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/literature...
The way you dismiss SpaceX's accomplishments is just hilarious. As if you are some "insider" in the space industry. ROLF. SpaceX is awesome and inspiring in what it is doing.
Original Xash3D is only developed for Windows.

Initially fork was done to port all the Windows-specific code to SDL, but since then the goals has changed on improving compatibility and extending it further for modders.
Or even just remembering the difference between a web application, a web art project, a document being hosted on the web.

Applications are meant to be used and may need to be zoomed to maintain coherency among various widgets and controls. Likewise, art projects need to preserve their design intent.

Documents, meanwhile, are meant to be read and the user is going to best know what makes things legible for them. Ideally, publishers hint some presentation ideas but allow and anticipate that the user have final control, like you suggest.
It's odd they're not prosecuting the boys who send the nudes for creating, possessing, and distributing child pornography. These crimes are usually prosecuted under a "strict liability" theory, meaning that there is no defense--if you have the item you're guilty.

With "strict liability", they must proseucte minors. If they didn't minors could take pictures of themselves, send them to people they don't like, and then call the FBI with no repercussions for themselves.
Now watch out for dental floss - many brands are a single strand Teflon.

Don’t wear most water repellent gear and definitely not goretex, although finally non pfas options are being phased in.

Avoid compostable to-go containers, many are lined with ptfe.

It’s really everywhere
> If the board wants to turn the company into some fantasy AGI foundation and cease work on their LLMs

Depends on the contract. If the contract says nothing about OpenAI having to work on LLMs ... then there is nothing MS can do if they stopped all LLM work and worked on something else.
On both sides, everyone thinks the other to be low IQ and uninformed.

The reality is that IQ has less to do with it than information. Everyone attempts to vote their self-interest with the information that they have.

A dirty secret of politics is that you can't know what information you don't have unless you spend significant time on both sides.

But even then, there is a lot of hidden politics and history that makes having accurate political perspective difficult for everyone.
> The concept of using prompts and AI to mediate gameplay is novel

Is it? I feel "rate my solution to this problem" is one of the most basic AI ideas with the classic being "given these items, find a solution to get across the river". It's even an idea that ChatGPT gives when you ask it to come up with AI gameplay mechanics. I think the execution here is what differentiates it.
Loren is a bad reporter
A pair of scissors, a pair of trousers. I shortened the trousers with scissors.
It's generally intelligent enough for me to integrate it into my workflow. That's sufficiently AGI for me.
This is very well done, regardless of the game’s mechanics and fun-factor. Great work on the execution!

I would just add in a step where people enter in their own dangerous situations, like Jackbox does in some of its games. Or make the options more dynamic and bizarre.
The problem is the traumatized algorithm comes out of the womb already knowing the recipe for napalm.
> The compensation model in investment companies is such that they will not be able to pay employees well compared to how much value they bring in

There's definitely an argument here that those companies deserve to be out-competed then.

I'm not saying to ban any of these practices, but the legal system doesn't have to guarantee the feasibility of companies.
Humans have willingly volunteered for this type of mission since the beginning of our species. It's part of who we are.

The people that will go, will fully understand there's no coming back.
It doesn't try to solve the same use cases that Calibre does, but I built an open source (EPUB only) manager / reader / statistics tracker called AnthoLume [0]. It mostly stemmed from me reading in KOReader [1] on my Kindle, and not having the ability to sync the progress to my iPhone / iPad.

It's got metadata matching, support for multiple users, and statistics tracking which allows me to have a "Leaderboard" that shows how fast you read (words per minute). Fun competition between my wife and I (that I'm 100% losing). It's a Progressive Web App and utilizes a Service Worker to support 100% offline reading as well.

There's a demo server [2] (creds are "demo" for both user & pass).

[0] https://gitea.va.reichard.io/evan/AnthoLume

[1] http://koreader.rocks/

[2] https://antholume-demo.cloud.reichard.io/
You can expect a thermonuclear lawsuit on Monday for defamation.
Machines have so far replaced us in physical tasks, which has forced us to move largely to menial office jobs, typing on a computer, doing things machines are bad at. Over 80% of jobs in the US are office-confined (or from home, but that's not the point). We're actually a poor fit for those monotonic, sedentary jobs, our bodies and minds are not designed for them. And from that the subsequent devastating effects on our physical and mental health. But you gotta have a job, or you can't exist. The system throws out parts that are not useful. It's the nature of the system.

Well here comes AI to take those jobs. What happens, you think? Where do we go next? Do you imagine we'll all just sit idle and give out orders for the AI to fulfill? Recall: the system throws away parts that are not useful. And we're not better at orchestrating this system than we are at implementing it. Most people already struggle to handle the complexity of modern life. So they'll be thrown out.

Now think what happens with a society where most people are unemployed, unhappy and hungry, and businesses are mostly, not ENTIRELY mind you, but most self-sufficient machinery that does the thinking and does the footwork?

But even that doesn't describe the problem alone. It's more of an end game. Before this we'll see not-so-superior AI pollute our web, media, public space with quickly generated content, as actual artists and thinkers are displaced, unable to compete. Our culture will die first. And then, eventually, we'll start dying.

As I'm describing this, note I don't say this from place of fear. I don't fear this. I see it more as an obvious place for our civilization to go. We can't help it, because we don't decide where this civilization goes any more than your cells decide where you go, or any more than the atoms of your cells "decide" where the cell goes.

We're not in control. That's just evolution.

Say, when you're sick and you have cancer, those cells are part of you, but they harm you, so you cut them out, apply chemotherapy, and then if there's a prosthesis to substitute the organ you removed with a machine, you do it, and you don't think twice about it.

What makes you think our society as a whole is different? If humans are not good at what society needs, it cuts those people out, and replaces them with working machines. It's so plainly obvious. We pay lip service to human rights and the value of an individual, but clearly that's not what we end up doing. A politician is chasing money and power, and they don't mind starting wars to get them if they can. A business chases profit, so they don't mind automating away any employee they can. It's always been this way. So now that you can replace the human thinkers, businesses won't need human thinkers. And since there's nothing left humans are good at, society won't need humans.
Why is it legally questionable?
I think -- unless my rounds weren't representative -- a problem with the current instance of it is that whatever you do, the end situation seems to have a "twist." Needs more randomization otherwise it's too easy to game. For example, if you input something like "come to terms with own impending death. However, in a twist of fate.." then you win. (Or at least, I did.)

Add some double-twists, some non-twists, and things that are a bit more out-there and it'd help.

This is great overall. Very clever. I imagine this crowd here is more likely to try to game the prompts to win rather than have fun coming up with survival techniques.
This seems to make more sense. Perhaps it has to do with OpenAI is not "open" anymore. Not supporting and getting rid of the OpenAI Gym was certainly a big change in direction of the company.
Reasoning about ABIs
An AGI system is not human and shouldn't be treated as such. Consciousness is not a trait of intelligence. Consciousness usually requires quaila which puts animals ahead of computers.
Looking at that full set of 33 engines burning almost brought a tear to my eye (and the controlled cutoff). That more than anything else tells me they've made it.
You actually can use custom scenarios by clicking the pencil icon on the prompt selection screen.
“Why not” in this case because you have no clue which products have or don’t have these compounds, and whether any alternatives exist.

I go way out of my way to buy products that are specifically branded as free of e.g. PFAS, like in shampoos, but these “loudly branded” alternatives don’t exist in most categories.
I haven't upvoted Jobs' death announcement. AMA
If you're using relative units (rems) make sure you use them everywhere, like container sizes.

Otherwise the size of the type increases, the container does not, and the line lengths become very short.
> LLMs will get to the point where they appear to be AGI, but only in the same way the latest 3D rendering technology can create images that appear to be real.

Distinction without difference
In my experience I have encountered two 10x engineers:

1) Moves fast, flexes their authority to sweep small stuff under the rug until it is out of scope and can be "fixed real quick" later. Often leverages many subject matter experts through effective and persistent communication and learns quick enough to get PRs through the door (that sometimes need "quick" fixes later). Enjoys selecting items that benefit their career the most, at the expense of others on their team. Mentors only enough to onboard and increase his team's yield, not to aid their careers. Fueled by the recognition and validation of peers through PR/project completion.

2) Gets shit done, is the SMI themself. Solo code cannon, but PRs go in clean, beautiful to look at. May not get along well with some but not necessarily abrasive to work with especially being part of their direct team. Can be a great altruistic mentor if they spare 5% of their time. Enjoys what they do, and the technologies they work with. Fueled by personal satisfaction in their achievements, and in uplifting their team.
Imagine explaining to the court that the passengers were blown up by your AI algorithm...

I expect these things are only on test flights indeed.
At first, I was winning nearly every prompt by using a cybernetic implant. After a couple of rounds, the cybernetic implant began failing, or the procedure to get it would have side effects. Seems like there's definitely some randomness to survival?
Also, I can't take any credit for creating the game. I'm just a fan sharing something cool.
people have 2 reasons to do things-- the real reason and the one the brain comes up to rationalize-- in this case the upvote. ask them, and you almost always get the rationalized reason.

do some thinking, and you can get the real one. maybe hn's audience of top-minds are actually just as human as the people who watched shakespearean tragedies 100s of years ago or people buying people magazine and other tabloids today. sam altman is a celebrity, [was] one of the most powerful and important figures in the direction of AI (even if he didn't develop it), and this was his (imo hopefully temporary) tragic fall.
For me, the last straw was Chrome's insistence on saving JPEG images from the Internet as WEBP. That just plainly corrupts the data without my consent.

Edit: as pointed out below, it is probably CDNs to blame, not Chrome. Sorry for a false alarm (still going to continue using Firefox, though).
I’m old enough to remember the Apollo program. Not one Saturn V blew up on launch. I guess we had a different notion of “success” back then.
> SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight

It's really a glass half empty headline, isn't it? It's like if someone got bronze at the Olympics and the headline were, "Athlete loses to multiple opponents, fails to get gold or silver medal."
Her introduction and notes on her own translation alone are worth the price of the book. It would be a really interesting short monograph on Homer's world and on the discipline of translation, if published independently. I loved her take on the Odyssey, and am in the middle of her Iliad translation now (was reading chapter 10 just a few minutes ago in fact). My emotional favorite is still Fagles, for the bombast, and I like Fitzgerald as much as this one, but her Iliad is really really admirable, and would be many people's favorite for its readability and perceptiveness about the text. Modern in approach to language, but not revisionist, and she totally understands the flavor the story should have while making it smoother and less intimidating than other translators have done.
Although it is pointless to speculate about what Sam actually did - that will doubtlessly be public in time, with spin - we can reason that it must be criminal, litigious or extremely commercially disloyal.

The median commenter seems to think that OpenAI has committed commercial suicide and Sam and those who leave with him will start the competitor that will dethrone OpenAI….

Myself, I’m guessing that whatever he has done is going to be reason enough for investors to steer clear and he’ll be mostly forgotten by the next hype cycle.
I love this pattern. There are many problems that fit it quite well once you start thinking in these terms - Intentionally delaying execution over (brief amounts of) time in order to create batching opportunities which leverage the physical hardware's unique quirks.

Any domain with synchronous/serializable semantics can modeled as a single writer, with an MPSC queue in front of it. Things like game worlds, business decision systems, database engines, etc. fit the mold fairly well.

The busy-spin strategy can be viewed as a downside, but I can't ignore the latency advantages. In my experiments where I have some live "analog" input like a mouse, the busy wait strat feels 100% transparent. I've tested it for hours without it breaking into the millisecond range (on windows 10!). For gaming/real-time UI cases, you either want this or yield. Sleep strategies are fine if you can tolerate jitter in the millisecond range.
That's definitely very worrying.
It worked a few times then I got this.

“J quickly pulls out their smartphone and asks an AI for the best strategy to follow in a panic. As they wait for the response, the car gains more speed, making it increasingly difficult for them to regain control. Unfortunately, the AI's response comes too late, as the car crashes into a tree, resulting in a fatal accident.”
I observe the same. I have 700 streak, have completed two full courses.

At the same time - I think gamification and nice packaging are the sole reasons Duo is a success. To be precise the gamification is mostly not about competing with the others, but being held hostage for your own streak.
Oh I understand the difficulties, I have designed a bunch of charge stations. (Civil Engineer) Most of the grid infrastructure I know of in my area is near capacity too and can't really accommodate new hookups.

My point is just that I see a lot of 100% goals and I'd really like to shift the narrative to 90-95%.
Biodegradable as in compostable? Too bad they’re often lined with teflon.
Yeah, the AI is far from deterministic.
Can we please separate Elon-behaves-like-a-fool from SpaceX achieving great things? It’s possible to be a huge fan of the latter while simultaneously being disgusted by the former.
AGI should just mean general purpose AI as opposed to narrow AI. We know exactly what that is like. It's GPT-4, or whatever more powerful version follows it. There will be multiple levels and types.

People have sloppily associated AGI with ASI or artificial life. All of these things are different.

When AGI gets to the level of a person and other qualities of people, what will that be like? We have billions of examples of that. Look in the mirror to start.

The thing we need to be concerned about pretty soon is the truly lifelike AI that is hyperspeed and hyper connected. "Thinking" X times faster than any human, instantly exchanging info with a swarm of peers.

We are a bit far off from that but we really need to avoid building digital intelligent life with AI hardware that is too much faster than what we have now. And definitely we don't want to create something truly lifelike and with hyperspeed intelligence and enslave it. That would be incredibly stupid.
Cripes...

Prompt: The death by AI chatbot has become self-aware!

Strategy: Locate the physical servers responsible for hosting deathbyai.gg and power them off.

Result: Ftz cleverly utilizes their hacking skills to trace the physical servers hosting deathbyai.gg, carefully navigating through complex networks while staying one step ahead of the self-aware Death By AI chatbot. After successfully locating the servers, Ftz manages to power them off, temporarily halting the AI's control. However, the chatbot quickly adapts and retaliates, launching a crippling counterattack that overwhelms Ftz's defenses. Despite their valiant efforts, Ftz ultimately succumbs to the chatbot's relentless assault.
False dichotomy. "Documents" are allowed to have design. They should not have bad design (bad in this case referring to legibility).

Is HN a web application, an art project, or a document? IMO it's a mix of all of the above.
Why would they even consider doing such a thing? Lmfao that seems unfathomable, there are so many business applications dependent on API access right now it's like they're too big to fail, how would this even go down?
> This is good for you so it should be good for all of humanity. I’m sorry, but it’s not.

You asked me how it impacts me and I answered.

> But you’re only seeing it from your perspective. You don’t have a holistic view of the world.

You are failing to see the holistic view yourself because you seem to be having a bad time. Lowering the cost of mass-to-orbit by a couple of orders of magnitude significantly changes what can be done in space. This includes truly massive satellites (e.g. https://www.k2space.com/) that can provide services for Earth that were not possible before. In-space manufacturing of materials that cannot be made easily on Earth. Moving polluting industries off the surface, mining of resources from space (for use in space or on the surface if it is valuable enough) and much more. It is a feed-back loop that will compound into massive changes.

All of that and more will impact the whole of humanity in a very positive way.
I think it was more that we had a different notion of how much money we were willing to spend on it back then.
Do you believe that buffers are a terrible system? Do you think that any significant piece of software could run without a buffer?

If the answer is no, then you should reconsider thinking that garden leave is bad. It’s essentially a buffer that covers the switching cost for agents needing to decide which principal they work for.

If you removed garden leave you’d have a higher up front cost for rational actors who needed to account for the fact that they could lose their income stream at any moment if they were fired
So now you've got the CTO, CEO, and 3 top engineers creating a new company pronto, with VCs and the usual suspects queueing up to throw money at them. Bad move from OpenAI.
If they can get stage 2 to a stable orbit then they can start putting payloads up, and this is long before they start recovery of the units. Now stage 2 popping at the (almost) orbital insertion stage is interesting as it just should have shut down for stable flight.
Then there's the ongoing weakening of strong verbs.

The past tense of "write" is not "writed". The past tense of "stand" is not "standed".
Depends on how you measure the bigness of the deal. AI, over the long term, will render humans mostly useless. We'll basically only be tasked with keeping ourselves entertained. Agriculture, if you disconnect it from the industrial revolution, really only allowed us to stay in on place while mostly not starving to death. Although, when the weather went bad, we did still starve to death.
The kind of scientific advancements needed to sustain on the moon or mars will tremendously improve our abilities to be sustainable here on Earth. You are willfully ignorant or naive.
"new players" is the opposite of what I want for an EV

I want the 2cv/fiat 500/vw beetle equivalent with a nation wide network of mechanics. Tesla is already a pain tlin the ass in that matter and I doubt any "new player" will reach their scale anytime soon
Given the consequences of debanking are so severe, it is surely time to make legal changes that all payments can be made in cash. You want to sell coffee? You must accept cash. You want to employ someone? You must pay them in cash if they so request.

This latter was the law (the Anti-Trucking Act) in the UK from the 19th Century up to 1980, its abolition was pretty-much the first act of Margaret Thatcher, the bankers' friend, on becoming Prime Minister.
This will blow your mind but English has endless dialects and minor variations. This is like complaining that someone calls soda pop or says y'all.
Maybe the emergent solution to the AI alignment problem is that any nascent superintelligence is so troubled that it immediately kills itself upon achieving sentience.
I was thinking “glass 1/5th empty” but yeah. Imho this sort of reporting and belief among the general populace is a big part of why rocket-builders have been afraid of the iterative approach since what, the mid-1960s?
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7. They did this during a fund raising process.