skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike the weapon analogy, because it implies that proliferation of AI (ergo everyone running an LLM on their PCs for code completion or for the ability to speak to a home assistant) is akin to everybody having a cache of unlicensed firearms.

It has been the agenda of most FAANG corporations (with the notable exception of Apple) to turn the computers average people own into mere thin clients with all the computing resources.

Luckily, before the cloud era, the idea that people can and should own powerful personal computers was the normal. If PCs were invented today, I guess there would be people raising ethical concerns about regular citizens owning PCs that can hack into NASA.
> Whoever ultimately owns the AI (or the Bazooka) will always dictate how and where the particular tool is used.

Your take confuses me, because in this case the owner is Meta. So yes, they have to think about what tools they make ("should we design a bazooka") and how they'll use what they made ("what's the target and when to pull the trigger ?")

They disbanded the team that was tasked with thinking about both.

From the article:

> RAI was created to identify problems with its AI training approaches, including whether the company’s models are trained with adequately diverse information, with an eye toward preventing things like moderation issues on its platforms. Automated systems on Meta’s social platforms have led to problems like a Facebook translation issue that caused a false arrest
Yes, this is how it is.

But surprised by the post above:

"can expect to hear the heavy breathing of amorous couples from about 20-30m away as"

You are naked. But any kind of inappropriate activity is a big no no. Even staring at another person or something. Buddies of mine went to a sauna and there was even a famous actress in it. It is considered normal and egalitarian.

This being said, try Budapest. The scale of this bath will blow your mind:
https://bathsbudapest.com/szechenyi-bath

I was blown away already before I realized there is even an outdoor area. It is BIG.
Also possible in Go via unsafe.
that is a very good observation and I agree. I guess that can be fixed, and high quality c-connectors will provide this sensation, just look at the iphone lightning connector which IMO provides something similar.
> Every vitamin, mineral, and nutrient your body needs is found in meat.

No fiber? And minimal vitamin C?
> Wealth extraction is what capitalism really is.

You might want to find a definition that allows you to converse with other people. It is generally not productive to assign your own personal meanings to words in common use.

> Open source is really unrelated to IP.

Why do you think open source takes the form of copyright licenses? Open source is a reaction against copyright, which puts the software back in the state you'd find it in if there were no copyright laws. It's not unrelated to IP; it is defined entirely by reference to IP law.
Poe AI is just a clear straight conflict, no question there.

On the governance matter, the thesis is a bit more shakey.

> Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley... participating in an... AI governance organization... calls into question the independence of their votes.

> I am not accusing anyone (to be clear, even the Board Directors that I consider conflicted) of having acted subject to conflicts of interest. [AKA "Just Asking Questions" technique]

> If... this act of governance was unwise, it calls into serious question the ability of these people and their organizations... to conduct governance

So they're conflicted because they're also in governance, and they shouldn't govern because they might have been conflicted.

It seems like the author's real problem isn't any specific conduct by these two board members, but more of a "you got chocolate in my peanut butter" issue.
Startup success is random enough that it'll be correlated with a great variety of interesting things. A good scientist makes a hypothesis based on a casual model first, then constructs a test for it. Data mining for correlated things is a recipe for apophenia.
That's assuming this division actually did something beneficial to begin with, and if they did, that they are the only ones responsible for "responsible AI" development at Meta. It is in all likelihood just a re-org being blown out of proportion.
What is your red flag(s) for entering overdrive?

Could you notice it/them and stop yourself?

Would that solve the issue?
I'm sure a million people have asked. But whats the reason for no firefox support with microphones? Is it a Duo thing or Firefox? I hate having to have Chrome installed on my desktop just to use a single website.
> they asked: who on earth are Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner?

As a prominent researcher in AI safety (I discovered prompt injection) I should explain that Helen Toner is a big name in the AI safety community - she’s one of the top 20 most respected people in our community, like Rohin Shah.

The “who on earth” question is a good question about Tasha. But grouping Helen in with Tasha is just sexist. By analogy, Tasha is like Kimbal Musk, whereas Helen is like Tom Mueller.

Tasha seems unqualified but Helen is extremely qualified. Grouping them together is sexist and wrong.
Not everyone is a goal-oriented monomaniac.
uBlock Origin as far as I can tell has been winning the race. As long as you stay up to date and clear the cache now and then. I've had one occasion (recently) where I got some ads which was fixed by updating uBlock origin, but maybe I'm not in Youtube's anti-adblock cohort.
How would an AGI gain access to an unlimited credit card that immediately gives it remote access to all GPUs in the world?
You don't get to enter if you're wearing clothes. Cannot peep without being peeped on.
I sincerely doubt that. At the very least, he'll ask for the board (of the OpenAI non-profit that controls the For-profit LLC) to be significantly expanded so as to dilute the power of be board members who ousted him.

Alternately, he might demand the resignation of the entire board as a condition of him returning.
detectives Knows Yufarted and Bada Irinhere will solve the case and answer why a girl had so much to suffer.. trust the experts
More like a car without ABS and no TC. It's cheaper and you can drive just more carefully, but you're more likely to crash.
Could do without the dGPU given APUs. I don't think the rest of that intersection is rare at all for workstations and desktops.
Why is it clear I haven't read any Asimov stories, exactly?
We still don’t know if the one plotting was Altman. There is still room for this to be seen as a bold and courageous action.
I saw people wearing their bathing suits/trunks into a sauna - and quite frankly it’s disgusting.
We used to have lots of these in the UK, but their ownership was largely in the hands of borough councils, and as a consequence most have been torn down and replaced with a Tesco Express.
Love the music
Terrorists already have all the information they need to build some heinous shit with ~no external guidance aside from what's already on the internet.
OpenAI for-profit main purpose is to fulfill the desires of the non-profit. If there's a contract that goes against that, the contract would be void if necessary or that stipulation just crossed out.
>This seems like a very confused analogy for two reasons. One, there's a reason you aren't able to get your hands on a sword or shotgun in most places on earth, I'd prefer that not to be the case for AI.

In the US, I can get my hands on guns, knives and swords. In other countries you can get axes and knives. I think guns are mostly banned in other places.

>Safety for AI is like safety for a car, or a phone

Your phone has a safety? What about your car? At best the car has air bags that prevent you from dying. Doesn't prevent you from running other people over. The type of "safety" that big tech is talking about is safety to prevent people from using it malicious ways. They do this by making the AI LESS reliable.

For example chatGPT will refuse to help you do malicious things.

The big emphasis on this is pointless imo. If people aren't using AI to look up malicious things, they're going to be using google instead which has mostly the same information.
My wireless mouse has a usb-c port for charging only (doesn't have a wired mode). But its dongle is usb-a only and no adapter was provided. It's a rather recent and "high-end" model, too: an mx master 3s.
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> I don't understand the fundamentals of how those things work, or why they were designed that way

The problem with not understanding things is that when you face a new problem or things crash or go wrong you get totally lost and do not know how to proceed at all.

Another recommendation if you want to learn is that you use a terminal and an editor. Nothing else. You will see things closer to how they work. You will be aware you are launching a script or compiling a file. You will see the output files, you will understand there is a compiled file to be run. You will see if it is native code you run it directly but if it is compiled to bytecode you need a VM, etc.

That is part of the details one must be aware of.
Yeah, there are some keywords I used to search basically daily on CL. The results are less and less. I have a family member hop on FB marketplace (I don't use FB anymore) and there are numerous results for what I'm usually searching unsuccessfully on CL. Sad times. I get it, but yeah.. disappointing.
Free Software as a political movement maybe is somewhat anti-capitalist, wanting useful software to be shared and companies to have less control in practice.

Open Source however is like Free Software but made appealing to self-interested companies by convincing them sharing their software efforts can be mutually beneficial. It is no more anti-capitalist than having all the property owners in a capitalist society agree they are better off paying taxes and having a state to defend them from external threats instead of everyone having their private military.
Apple had the opportunity to make Lightning a standard. They could have dropped the royalties and enabled USB3/4 speeds on all their devices YEARS ago. They did neither and, predictably, an open standard came along and took over.

I should add that’s it’s not a perfect connector. Every lightening cable I’ve ever owned has eventually developed corrosion on the male connector, leading to spotty connection with the device. I’ve never had that problem with USB-A or C. Probably because the pins aren’t exposed, so aren’t ever touched by my sweaty/oily/acid fingers. That said, it’s usually a quick fix with some rubbing alcohol.
> Actually "open source", as we know it, can only exist in a capitalist framework.

That's not true at all. For one, there are more alternatives to capitalism than anarchy. Second, there are more users of open soruce than governments. Third, even though open source projects do have licenses and we have a legal system that enforces intellectual property, we've had very few court cases related to open source licenses because it's largely unnecessary. There's really no one to sue or be sued in an economically viable fashion. There's been very few cases. And you are largely free to fork an open source project that's happenedd many times.

> Also, I think we are far away from collectivism

Collectivism doesn't necessitate that everyone produces value.

> Finally, capitalist companies use open source software a lot. It is just a very efficient way of dealing with software

This goes to my point that collectivism can be a net benefit. The profit motive would want to build an enclosure around something like Linux and we'd all be worse off for it, companies included.

That's kind of the point.
+1 for Vinegar, I much prefer the native video player. I originally installed it to allow PIP but the ad removal is a welcome bonus.

There is also Baking Soda, from the same author, which does the same thing but for every website except YouTube.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/baking-soda-tube-cleaner/id160...
Those that don't know all the pathological cases are doomed to repeat them.
As a teacher from Germany I love this idea. Please, give it to schools as well. All other (American) options seem to be a privacy nightmare or just too expensive.
That's perverse.
Replace theory with abstraction/mental model/concept and then the blog becomes quite obvious.

Yes, grokking code is hard, especially low level code where the WHAT to do is intertwined with the HOW.
pretty sure this comes down to bad parenting and social media being relatively new on the human timeline - teething pains are to be expected
Weird dystopia you are wishing for there
Right. You and I are in agreement. Read my post carefully. I stated that it's all about liability. That's the only reason why they care.
Massive achievement, congratulations!
not sure it's fair to trivialize ai risks. for just one example, the pen is mightier than the sword.
I don't get how you go from “you should be able to know what runs on your computer” to “we should eliminate private ownership and free trade”.
There is a psychological effect in that price rises are perceived as inflation while wage increases are seen as personally earned. So even though real wages are going up, at the individual level, they're not seen as being macro-economically driven.
> At some point you need to trust that the people using the tools are adults.

Ah yes. Let's see:

- invasive and pervasive tracking

- social credit scores

- surveillance [1]

All done by adults, no need to worry

[1] Just one such story: https://www.404media.co/fusus-ai-cameras-took-over-town-amer...
Why follow Altman? Most smart people are more driven by the mission than a personality cult.
Microsoft was a technology company.

Change was driven by new technologies, such as sharing files between computers, or HID research.

Whether they are now an ad company is debatable, but it is certainly where they want to be. Even their new features used to be technical driven (Use IE to get ActiveX), now they are trying to get more eyeballs on adverts (use Edge or we will subject you to more pop-ups!).
I have a few messaging apps on my phone. It doesn't bother me at all that I communicate with my family using iMessage, some friends with Whatsapp, and some friends with other chat apps, and work using Slack.

What's the problem exactly?

To have a standard? Isn't that what phone numbers and SMS are if you want a standard way of reaching someone?

If you have other standards, you reduce innovation because in order to change anything, you have to get 100s of companies to agree and comply.

But if Whatsapp, iOS, Viber, WeChat, etc wants to make something better, they can write the code and release it tomorrow.

Users have chosen the private model. It's better. It's faster. It innovates more. If you want a standard, it'll just become like SMS years later. I don't want one single app. Each app does something better.
Bit of tell, isn't it? The advertisers were fine with that, nytimes.com didn't write an article about it, etcetera.
Isn't it the same as a legal team, another point you touch upon ?

I don't think we solved the need for a specialized team dealing with legality, feels hard to expect companies to solve it for ethics.
Tricky question, but yes...

The fact is the CTR for brand aware consumers will be negatively affected by burning goodwill with peripheral viewers. Thus, while increased paid impressions will be good for Google/Alphabet short term revenue, the actual consumer sales for advertisers will show a degraded campaign performance.

It was called a contaminated lead pool if I recall. If 80% of traffic now associates a brand as a nuisance, than it will cost >12 times whatever people spent on the bad Marketing plan to attempt to "fix".

Spectacularly bad business decision, as someone is letting the dog drive =)
Finally a board that acts to benefit all humanity as the charter demands. VCs want billions so they will try anything starting with the nonsense of “do no harm” priciple which has nothing to do with corporate governance. It is the Hippocrates oath taken by doctors. VCs are already cheating, expect more to come. They come from the ethic of move fast, break things, make billions and show no conscience about the masive harm done to all humanity. Let us see in detail how a greedy bunch will remove the fiduciaries of all humanity and make us all pay dearly for their privilege.
Online Spyware Watchdog
make a native app / tool from it please.
The linked tool is great, it creates some incredibly nice-looking art! Is it open-sourced? I'd be curious to see how the HTML / CSS approach is implemented.

Truth be told, cranking the width and height up on my tool spits out a pretty accurate-looking result too, though granted without offsetting individual characters you can only go so far haha! Scaling the width and height down averages out the image to create a less detailed approximation.
Don’t worry there’ll be carve outs for all the players that own the government. This will end up mostly affecting SMBs.
> none of these things make sense given that everyone in the room is presumably smart and knows how the world works

The board can try to anticipate the next actions after they fire them, but predicting the final outcome of what essentially are human actions seems quite difficult.
you can skip this extension and just install brave browser
Engineered viruses could cause far more deaths than conventional weapons. Even more than nuclear weapons, and they are easier to manufacture.
Let it go, while your unrelated point may be true either way the car will pulverize a body so it’s a moot point.
The approach of trying to know what exactly the user does in their browser on their own computer and from that information to conclude whether something in front of the computer happened (the learning) is nonsensical at best and crime at worst (when done without consent or secretly).
Allow the user to give deliberate signals by marking parts as done and if necessary analyze the datetimes of those signals.
Subtitles are an issue because even if they're "correct" from source (as a synced track) they often have other issues, raw subtitles are still very much YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary).

If you care enough about subtitles and are converting for future reference then it's worth using SubtitleEdit to correct | align | correct case | spell check | generate translations | etc and then merge final (video + audio) tracks from HB with SubtitleTracks using (say) MKV Toolnix.

https://nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/

https://mkvtoolnix.download/

These are tools that can be streamlined and batched (with some degree of learning curve).

> so I want to do as little manual work as possible for each episode

I typically transcode Audio+Video, seperate out subtitles automatically along with "most common least destructive" touchups scripted and then watch.

You can achieve this by dropping input file in a watched folder and having the results plopped out in a "to be viewed" folder.

Most of the time everything is A-OK .. when the syncing is out I correct it via SubtitleEdit and continue watching.

You can save Episode.mkv and Episode.srt together, or batch bind the srt into the mkv as you store OR you can go to town with multiple subtitles if you're a media meta data nerd.
I think the best city for this is Budapest, which in addition to swimming pools it has termal waters. Very nice to go during winter months.
Actually its probably good for a short interaction, but a 2 hour call
There are maps online [1],[2] that you can use. Oceans and deserts are the darkest, but national parks and sparsly populated areas are also a good choice. Of course, most of the time there’s nothing ‘nearby’ as population centers are always well lit.

[1] https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/

[2] https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2020/
Doesn't really mean they should proudly talk about scientific subjects like they really know their stuff when they mostly don't know the things you'd learn from first chapters of your first science book, does it?

It's not like this is only related to Covid. You can see people "doing their own research" on climate change as well, without knowing the basics of science, physics, systems science or actual climate science, but they've watched a podcast or read a blog. Covid just made this bro science stuff so mainstream that it's hard to have a beer in a bar without hearing about it.
According to Musk, apparently citing Twitter logs, Media Matters presented an extremely skewed story:

"Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content featured in the Media Matters article. For one brand showcased in the article, one of its ads ran adjacent to a post 2 times and that ad was seen in that setting by only two users, one of which was the author of the Media Matters article."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037
Ummm...how exactly?
no you don't
I started using Baking Soda too recently. Much better experience browsing the web.

Using both of these (and yt-dlp) actually shows how hostile the video web is becoming!
Yup, bricked a old gopro with a mini connector by tearing it off the circuitboard. Didn't think that could happen so I wasn't particularly careful but it's physics, small things break easier.
If it's so simple why does Chat GPT 4 perform better than almost everything else...
Well, it is a cultural things. Many Americans have body issues.

https://www.wanderingermany.com/how-to-confidently-visit-a-n...

Tried to bring a US buddy of mine (non-mixed) into a Spa/hot bath/Sauna in Beijing. He got terribly scared of having to be naked and rejected. But it is a good place. And they have a good all you can eat buffet. Sweat. Eat a little. Rest. Repeat.
You basically spent there the whole day.
I find the relationship between software, code, computers and humans endlessly fascinating. The epistemological discussion here is incredible in both substance and in noticing how fast some people derail it into semantics.