skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they have signed 40 year contracts so that the people that built the power plant could get financing
Maybe I'm just missing it, but does the writeup show the actual survey questions?

Personally, my trust in survey results summaries is pretty low.
It is very different from the other things you mention as it takes away control of the vehicle from the driver.

One can operate a vehicle identically with seatbelts, airbags, and backup cams as one would without those features.
Depends what you mean. Legally they might be in the clear but guarantee when you fuck around with billions of other people's money, it gets more complicated that that.
Something may be doing over my head, but I have to ask: is this a fart/diaper joke?
Yes, with the addition that I do feel that we deserve something better than I perceive we’ve gotten so far and that safety is super important; but also I don’t work at OpenAI and am not Ilya so idk
If you're doing CS50 and struggling with the exercises, I think this points to a problem with your study habits. I had the same problem for the first few years of my programming career (and honestly still fall into the same trap from time to time). I'd work my way through entire Codecademy "courses", receive a congratulatory message at the end, and then realize I hadn't actually learnt anything at all. I'd just been following instructions.

The key is to keep testing whether you can do the work cold, with no-handholding, at every step of the way. The steps to follow are the same ones they gave us in elementary school when we were learning how to spell: look, cover, write, check. First, look at the information until you feel you understand it, then cover it up and try to replicate it cold, and finally check your work against the original to see where you went wrong. If you can successfully close that loop over and over again, your brain will learn. It has no choice.
Statistically, at least one of those people would have died at 35 mph. ~70% would have "severe" injuries. The percentages go up with the pedestrians age and the size of the vehicle.
Musk vows 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as advertisers flee X amid antisemitism storm
Then the rich people would find a way so that their money doesn’t expire and the poor and middle class people’s money would expire.
No, they just have to use something other than iMessage. But they won’t.
So can Dario Amodei and Mustafa Suleyman.
LLMs are built that way, with prompting this behavior can certainly be achieved. It's not going to work oerfectly and jailbreaks will still be possible, but not so easy.
Amateurs ?
What you are describing is real but the difference is between simple disaggregated power vs singular focused power. Over and over singular and focused tends to win in an established game where money is already being made.

If you are pre revenue you are all just larping top to bottom. Which is fine I’m there now.
Maybe all this will teach people that having a weird corporate structure can make everything worse, not better.
> Safety for AI is like making safe bullets or safe swords or safe shotguns.

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.

Secondly, AI is a general purpose tool. Safety for AI is like safety for a car, or a phone, or the electrity grid. it's going to be a ubiqutous background technology, not merely a tool to inflict damage. And I want safety and reliablity in a technology that's going to power most stuff around me.
> we were not able to find anything larger except the occasional electric train

Not sure what occasional means in this contex, hard to find a train that doesn't use the grid
That's true, but Sutskever and Co still have the head start. On the models, the training data, the GPT4 licenses, etc. Their Achilles heel is the compute which Microsoft will pull out. Khosla Ventures and Sequoia may sell their Open AI stakes at a discount, but I'm sure either Google or Amazon will snap it up.

All Sam and Greg really have is the promise of building a successful competitor, with a big backing from Microsoft and Softbank, while OpenAI is the orphan child with the huge estate. Microsoft isn't exactly the kingmaker here.
The fragility comes from how easy it is to damage them by handling them incorrectly. The fact that you can insert them properly 25000 times without damage doesn't change this.
Make good jokes.
Re-read the article in full. 100 Mph isn't the "proposal". The proposal is to limit at or perhaps a few mph above the posted speed limit.
Honestly after what happened with the OpenAI board, it's kind of hard to take the AI safety people seriously. I think there are real problems with Gen AI systems including data privacy, copyright, the potential for convincing misinformation/propaganda, etc, but I'm really not convinced a text generator is an existential threat to the species. We need to take these problems seriously and some of the AI safety discussion makes that really difficult.
ah, sqlmap
Presumably this was intended to link to the post by that name (https://selectfromwhereand.com/posts/redlining/) and not all posts (where it currently points).
Haha, the US is leaning towards the right wing, and Elon probably has an advantage in doing what he did. Similarly, he mentioned that AI needs to stop, but then proceeded with AI projects. He says what grabs attention to divert from what he truly wants to do.
What I do instead is attempt to reverse engineer what JavaScript function I need to call or web request is needed to make it think I competed the test/videos.

A common easy way is to just re-enable the “next” button. Even if it takes me longer than just doing legitimately, I find it more educational.
It might be fun in short term but not sustainable long term lol
As long as car ads keep advertising power and speed, I doubt we’ll ever see a 100 MPH cap on any car.
Yeah, so much noise.
I enjoy screwing around with them on my free time, "imposing cost" by giving back unexpected things.
I don't know if it actually does something, but I bet returning either a gzip-bomb or a 5 MiB really obscure (but valid) HTML file will crash quite a few scanners.

https://nitter.net/gnyman/status/1181652421841436672
> It's pretty clear that the best engineering will decide the winners, not the popularity of the CEO.

This is ML, not Software engineering. Money wins, not engineering. Same as it with Google, which won because they invested massively into edge nodes, winning the ping race (fastest results), not the best results.

Ilja can follow Google's Bard by holding it back until they have countermodels trained to remove conflicts ("safety"), but this will not win them any compute contracts, nor keep them the existing GPU hours. It's only mass, not smarts. Ilja lost this one.
What is redlining? Wikipedia says it's a discriminatory practice of denying credit to minorities.

Edit: OK got it in the article, it's driving a car too fast.

Except your car is your brain and so it's burning yourself out I guess. A little confusing
It's more about "making all the money" Vs "making some of the money", with that "some" still being pretty big. Maybe they won't get 100bn but will get 10bn just fine.
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Not being flippant about it, but my current requirements to pay the mortgage and support my wife and kids tend to push any sense of burnout down the priority list. I simply decide to keep plugging away, because if I stop to "find myself" things can get bad for lots of other people quickly.
The latest update is that investors have been reporting that Sam Altman was talking to them about funding a new venture separate from OpenAI, together with Greg Brockman. This seems to paint the picture that the board was reacting to this news when dismissing Altman.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/18/earthquak...
In East Germany, nudism is a big thing. Of course, I checked this out after moving there and I must say I was not at all surprised to see the Ordnungsamt (public oder office?) at the nudist beach enforcing nudity.
https://j3s.sh/thought/drones-run-linux-free-software-isnt-e...
we had test jigs for testing connectors to failure[...] 25,000 insertions

That's likely to be the exact reason why the reliability specs don't line up with reality: your test jigs are almost certainly going to be inserting the plugs directly with exact precision, whereas in practice people are going to just "jam it in" and apply significant side-loads as well as misalignment and levering forces.

It's not hard to design a connector that'll last 25k precisely aligned insertions by a test jig but will consistently fail after a few cycles of being mated by typical "hamfisted" users.
It never made any organizational sense for me to have a "responsible AI team" in the first place. Every team doing AI work should be responsible and should think about the ethical (and legal at a bare minimum baseline) dimension of what they are doing. Having that concentrated in a single team means that team becomes a bottleneck where they have to vet all AI work everyone else does for responsibility and/or everyone else gets a free pass to develop irresponsible AI which doesn't sound great to me.

At some point AI becomes important enough to a company (and mature enough as a field) that there is a specific part of legal/compliance in big companies that deals with the concrete elements of AI ethics and compliance and maybe trains everyone else, but everyone doing AI has to do responsible AI. It can't be a team.

For me this is exactly like how big Megacorps have an "Innovation team"[1] and convince themselves that makes them an innovative company. No - if you're an innovative company then you foster innovation everywhere. If you have an "innovation team" that's where innovation goes to die.

[1] In my experience they make a "really cool" floor with couches and everyone thinks it's cool to draw on the glass walls of the conference rooms instead of whiteboards.
What do you mean by AI executive order?
Sergei Frolov seems to be thriving these days.
Good comment, but I'm only replying to guess your name.

Colin? Michelle?
You contradict yourself
Most people buying a desktop unplug their old desktop and plug the new one in in its place, swapping over all the peripherals.
I use StalkedByTheState (https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-install) with 15 cameras all being evaluated with an NVIDIA GPU with large model yolov6 and matches double checked with large yolov7. Practically never get a false positive in a complex environment and never get a miss. The port to the Orin series still needs to be completed though.
In Germany it's also controversial.

There is car manufacturers and petrol heads lobby to not touch the unrestricted speed limits on the autobahn but there are also people who lobby for sensible speed limits as most people drive at about the speed a speed limit would be at anyway (120-130km/h) and the added energy used at speed along with dangerous situations coming from very high speed deltas are not good. A truck is always going to be 90-100 km/h and when a thrill seeker whizzes past them at 250 then the reaction time available and potential energy is killer.
> I'm really not convinced a text generator is an existential threat to the species.

Well said - there's been too much "Skynet going rogue" sci-fi nonsense injected into this debate.
It doesn’t sound like Sutskever is running anything. OpenAI reportedly put out a memo saying they’re trying to get Sam and Greg back: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-optimistic-it...
I have at least 10 computers in my house, and none of them have more than one usb-c port. More of them have zero. Two of those with a single usb-c are motherboards purchased in the last year or so.

If a mouse or keyboard or thumb drive expects to be used by an apple computer, or a phone, usb-c is the right answer. If it wants to be plugged into a PC, usb-a is a better choice.

USB-C instead of any flavor of USB-B makes a ton of sense, and everyone should adopt that, but USB-C instead of USB-A is a little soon for PC oriented products, IMHO. Wait a few years, or ship with an adapter.
Give actual results rather than endlessly wasting tokens on useless apologies that it's only an AI.
Just give me a nice PDF I can read in half an hour instead of 5 hours of training that insults my intelligence by making me wait for the audio to finish. At Walmart back in the day, I spent the first couple days doing training in the back - the dullest thing I've ever done. But turning on closed captions and listening to my own music instead of their audio made it tolerable.
Micro USB is the real bane of it, but the time I spent to find USB-C versions of so many devices, including mices, made the issue a lot more personal I think.

I kinda hate that we're stuck in dongle town for so long now. And going wireless brings in the charging issues. Computer makers are also to blame, but I think that ship has sailed.
Microsoft Word is no small software. It's probably around 10 million lines of code.

As for "per locality business rules differ that's why so many lines of code.." seems like you can have a policy engine+DSL (JSON or YAML or custom policy language and engine) thus your code base shouldn't balloon to almost 100 million limes of code...
I'd say the low quality version of the stream is far better than the purple screen.
It looks like this is what it does essentially:

let luminance = (0.2126 * avg_r as f32 + 0.7152 * avg_g as f32 + 0.0722 * avg_b as f32) as u8;
let character = match luminance {
0..=31 => '#',
32..=63 => '@',
64..=95 => '8',
96..=127 => '&',
128..=159 => 'o',
160..=191 => ':',
192..=223 => '*',
224..=255 => '.',
};

https://github.com/thed24/ascii-gen/blob/main/src/converter....
Focus is about prioritization.

Apple has context-specific notifications and manual DnD exception list.

Short iOS email VIP list can be manually curated.

Interrupt-automation exists to support a spectrum of human priorities and workflows.
> Ok, from battle trenches: even if there is a perfect index for your query, the slower plan might still win and there is little you can do about it

I often wonder why, in addition to sql, we don't have a low level language allowing you to specify exactly how you want your query executed?
Are you familiar with OpenBSD tarpitting?
might be part of a bigger human tendency to seek out flaws and trying to fix them.
Starship Explosion Footage from the Florida Keys [video]
TL;DW: The front fell off of the starship.

Surprising how the top half of the starship seemed so...intact after FTS. Obviously it burned up while falling down, but still I thought FTS would have totally smashed it immediately.

I think it's the front we see in the puerto rico video:

https://twitter.com/smvllstvrs/status/1725940495422259661
You are missing the emotional aspect of it, a connection towards building something great _together_. In some ways it is selfish, it make you feel important.

If Susan Fowler's book is accurate, Uber under TK was riddled with toxic management and incompetent HR. Yet you will hear people on Twitter reminisce of TK era Uber as the golden period and many would love him back
There is a hidden function, a plausibly deniable function of increasing house prices to benefit a few. A housing crisis is predictable slow moving problem that is ignored.
Non-corporate groups.
In Germany the speed limit is frequently much lower that that, and driving faster than about 80 mph (130 kmph, called richtgeschwindigkeit) incurs increased liability even on the autobahn without any speed limits.

In my experience not many drivers cruise at speeds of 100 mph (160 kmph). The richtgeschwindigkeit is much more common.
Actual survey questions are shown in the figure legends.
So we will see if its hot air 17:30 UTC.
Or be the public face of making the AI along with the power and control from that.
I remember installing a Juniper Intrusion Detection System in a server rack on a telecom company. Was quite impressed when I saw in the logs such attacks were discovered and blocked. This was 15 years ago.
I've got a classic guestbook on an intentionally vintage page but I actually filter the input into "spam" and "humans". Here's the spambook: https://bootstra386.com/spambook.html

The filter system is open source https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386/blob/master/hom...

Showing it's not impossible to have a classic anonymous guestbook, you just have to be a bit clever.

Yes, that's a zipbomb to a particular offender at the beginning. It worked. A script dumb enough to brainlessly slam the site easily broke against a zipbomb.
PGO is good, bolt would be better. Compilers can easily be self trained on itself, other apps not so easy when they miss the good benchmark samples.
I really have driven that fast on snow covered roads. I also attended most of the formula car racing schools in the US and One in Canada, I also have extensive skid pad and slidecar training and experience I have numerous wins in both dry and rain and I have beaten professional racing instructors... I was also offered a professional racing contract. So for me that was safe to do.
Ilya himself said he's against fully open source models because they're not safe enough. He's definitely against open source, my hunch is that we will see OpenAI being less open after his takeover.

Full interview here ("No Priors Ep. 39 | With OpenAI Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever" from 2 weeks ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0gTO2K85A
While this is cool, I am long entertained by memories of playing music videos through cacalib with mplayer which generates color ascii art video (over SSH no less :)
Cannabis mostly.
4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38269343
> The range? Put a generator onboard

A small trailer with a genset and extra luggage space would be enough to convert an compact electric car into a touring car. Even better if you could rent one only when you need it.
> litigate the hell out of them ..

I thought one of the reasons people incorporated companies in the US is that there is a working judiciary system that can ensure the upholding of contracts. Sure the big money can apply some pressure to the dispossessed but if you have a few million cash (and OpenAI surely has) you should be able to force them to uphold their contracts.

Also imagine the bad PR from Microsoft if they decide to not honour their contracts and stop OpenAI from using their computer power for something that OpenAI leadership can easily spin as retaliation.

Sure, this latest move from OpenAI board will wreck the momentum that OpenAI had and its ability to continue its partnership with MS but one of the thesis here was that that's the goal in the first place and they're legally free to pursue that goal if they believe the unfolding of events goes against the funding principles of OpenAI.

That said, they choose a risky path to begin with when they created this for-profit controlled by a non-profit model.
That mushy feeling has caused me to push it into the wrong port multiple times and cause my pc to turn off instantly.

Think the mushy feel is due to the io plate on the mobo
That's not how it works. If burnout is indeed looming over you, it does not care how far down you push it on your lists. It will get you. And then you and your dependents are proper fucked.

The only thing to do is to meet it on your own timeline, not its.
By completely smashes, my assertion would be that it has invalidated the Turing test, because GPT-4s answers are not indistinguishable from a human because they are, on the whole, noticeably better answers than an average human would be able to provide for the majority of questions.

I don’t think the original test probably accounted for the fact that you could distinguish the machine because it’s answers were better than an average human.
Perhaps it's surprisingly hard to totally smash an empty stainless steel can.
If you think a power structure that allows people to impose their will in a way that doesn't align with delivering value to your end user is "extremely specific to this particular field", I don't think you've reached the table stakes for examining Google's track record.

There's nothing "specific" about being crippled by people pushing an agenda, you'd think the fact this post was about Sam Altman of OpenAI being fired would make that clear enough.
The six-month delay is probably due to an automatic extension if you get an extension from the IRS, and also, you can file the form electronically, in which case mail delays are not a problem. But neither of those issues is the point. The point is that the form needed to be filed at all, and representations needed to be made accordingly.

OpenAI handled their audit years ago and hasn't had another one since according to their filings. So that does not seem like it would have been an issue this year.

Take a look at the top of the RRF-1 for the instructions on when it's due. Also, the CA AG's website says that OpenAI's was due on May 15th. They just have been filing six months later each year.
One needn’t even go as far as “the international community”, Hamas was funded by Israel itself as a perceived counterweight to the secular PLO. Divide and conquer is what kept the Israeli settlers moving outwards, and that necessitated funding and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and later Hamas.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http:/online.wsj....

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c...
Frankly in OpenAI's case, for a lowly IC or line manager, it is also very obviously about the money as well.

A non-profit immediately makes the values of OpenAI's PPUs (their spin on RSUs) to zero. Employees will be losing out of life changing sums on money.
Changed now from https://selectfromwhereand.com/posts/. Thanks!
I assumed that the headline was an example of nonsense text generated by ChatGPT (to what end?) - turns out that would have been better than the truth.
I've quit my job from burnout multiple times and on the 3rd iteration, it's been even more difficult to get back to a non-burnout stage. So I would try to focus on a long term strategy as opposed to bursts of productivity.

I've had to slow down. This means reducing all the things that distract me. It means coming to grips with "missing out".

I've leaned into some life hacks like:

- Designating social media time to just after work but not after dinner (includes HN).

- Leaning into meditation. Not just 10min via an app but a walk to and back from my favorite cafe every morning without my phone or any headphones.

- Going to bed early and waking up early. The quietest, non-distracting moments are in the early morning.

- Using a pomodoro timer. For both work projects and personal projects.

- I try to spend some time focusing on activities that are intentionally slow like writing poetry and personal essays.
No I think they’re saying the temperature in human behavior comes from the “random” noise of inputs around us and ongoing history. But rewinding history and playing it back with the same temperature dice rolls is the only way to have the same thing a a LLM with no random inputs.

LLMs run in simulated environments where you can control randomness so you need the same for a human to compare the two. You can’t just ask a human a question multiple times as everything around them changes and conclude the human is behaving differently because they answer differently the same question. The question is not the bounds of relevant context; the entire operating environment is!
Maybe not for some closed models. That doesn’t mean truly open models can’t exist.
All due respect, this isn't burn out. This is boredom or being uninspired. It can be a drudge, uninteresting, and procrastinated, but actual burnout is a very different beast.

I have mortgage, wife, kids also and continue to plug along, but know the difference.
> you can't actually trust the signatures for anything.

Do you bank online? Public-private key encryption work well enough to support millions (billions?) of dollars worth of transactions per day - I don't think it's as broken as you make it seem