skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What am I missing?

That 501(c)3s like OpenAI are entities where the shared interests they are designed to serve are ideological, not generating profits to return to investors; OpenAI (the governing nonprofit) is in some respects more like a church than a commercial enterprise.
Phishing emails don’t exactly take AGI.
GPT-NeoX has been out for years, Llama has been out since April, and you can set up an operation on a gaming desktop in a weekend. So if personalized phishing via LLMs were such a big problem, wouldn’t we have already seen it by now?
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> For the past two decades, the College Board has moved aggressively to expand the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses and tests — in part by pitching the program to low-income students and the schools that serve them.

It is a matter of equity, they argue.

Nice argument: our product must be purchased by more people, in order to achieve equity. No mention of what the millions of dollars spent on APs could instead be spent on, and how much those expenditures could help students.

In an acknowledgment of the intractable class and race disparities in A.P. test scores, some of the board’s newest courses culminate not in tests, but in assessments that include projects or presentations.

The College Board expects students to pay fees for these project-based assessments, too.

How do they ensure that the student is the one that created the project or presentation? When you take AP tests, they check IDs.
Some people are here for the science, others for the business angle.
Luxury! I didn't have the benefit of a computer when I learned to program.
It's something I as a user would also refuse to let go, given that the performance penalty is reasonably small (I think it is).
Google disables usage of two-factor auth recovery code?
> Do you really want to ban all producers from being able to distribute their own goods and depend on middlemen?

Yes.

> Whether you know it or not, since the 1930s things have changed, TVs are popular, there is this thing called the internet and websites.

So?

> Do you also want to ban software developers and song writers from being able to publish their own work on websites?

Maybe. It doesn't appear to be a problem yet, but if it is then let's pursue that option.
Phosphorous discovered in outskirts of the Milky Way for the first time
What's the distinction between taking "middle eastern money" when according to some people's definition the U.S. is complicit in enabling a genocide? Not saying I believe this claim in its entirety, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is impossible to ignore and just chalk up to war-business-as-usual.
There are hundreds if not thousands of those up in the space. You can even rent one yourself as a civilian (order one to point the camera/SAR at a specific location).
Agreed but. Caveat here is that despite remaining skeptical we should still heavily pursue the idea as a possibility. We should not pursue this idea as if it was dogma.
There's much I don't love about Rust, but I feel golang could steal the ? operator and keep the spirit of go.

Effectively,

instead of

result, err := doSomething()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

you'd get the same control flow with

result := doSomething()?
It’s a lot compared to free, but it’s a steal compared to most fonts.

Support Neil, he’s a good chap. I can’t wait for Houston!
About this goalpost moving thing. It's become very popular to say this, but I have no idea what it's supposed to mean. It's like a metaphor with no underlying reality.

Did a wise arbiter of truth set up goalposts that I moved? I guess I didn't get the memo.

If the implied claim is "GPT would invent math too given enough time", go ahead and make that claim.
He didn’t say developers, he said researchers.
Quoting. "those in favoured positions, close to..."

Add: "Investment is the production of capital goods, and the production of capital goods involves consumption."

and: "Are those countries flourishing as a result of local inflation? It doesn't seem"...so

...Question I have: "This disinflation, i.e. near or almost deflation, been first contested - because some things actually became truly expensiver, but to determine inflation you did not need to calculate it as an average?", i want to ask.
It’s like we’re talking about the motivation of people who left a company and thereby created the very context that happened?
How tf do you use LanguageReactor? That app is garbage, my lord.
I still struggle after 15 years into programming, and I never published or finished anything because of "judgement anxiety". I waste days, weeks, months writing and rewriting code and then I decide to abandon it because "other developers are going to see how shitty of a developer I am and it'll jeopardize my reputation forever".
At my company, we developed an open source library to measure if the context the model received is accurate or not. While not exactly the same as what you're asking, you could in theory use it to measure when an LLM deviates from the context to tweak the LLM to not always use the provided context.

Shameless plug for the library: https://github.com/TonicAI/tvalmetrics
This looks like a joke: “ DO NOT OPERATE ON CRITICAL CODE WITH THE TRIAL FONT. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGES TO YOUR MAINFRAME SYSTEM OR OTHERWISE.”
Result<T,E> is in one of two states: It either has value of type T, or error of type E.

(*T, error) is either T (non-nil, nil), or error (nil/undefined, non-nil), or both (non-nil, non-nil), or neither (nil, nil). By convention usually only the first two are used, but 1) not always, 2) if you rely on convention why even have type system, I have conventions in Python.

Leaving aside pattern matching and all other things which make Rust way more ergonomic and harder to misuse, Go simply lacks a proper sum type that can express exactly one of two options and won't let you use it wrong. Errors should have been done this way from the start, all the theory was known and many practical implementations existed.
This is a good point. Null pointers are the billion-dollar mistake, but the real billion-dollar mistake is having "zero values" in your language. In addition to the problems with null pointers, zero values make loose constructor semantics like C# and Java tempting, where objects can exist in a not-fully-initialized state, leading to lots of room for confusing bugs. Without zero values to fall back on as a crutch, the language design is forced to tighten that up so that objects are either completely initialized or completely uninitialized, like in ML or Rust†, which is a much cleaner semantics. (The funny thing is, Go has the tools to get rid of zero values by virtue of not having constructors, but it chose not to use them for that!)

† Strictly speaking, objects can be partially initialized and partially uninitialized in Rust, but this is harmless as the borrow checker statically ensures that uninitialized fields of objects are never accessed.
The "clearly marked" thing seems to be that people are concerned about AI and marking it is a way to satisfy demand for Something Must Be Done. The fact that it won't work is kind of irrelevant because "working" means occupying the people who want to impose bad rules with something to argue about.

But then other people look at what they're proposing and say, "hey, you know this is a farce, right?"
That analogy is heavily stretched with dynamically typed languages, you could say that it's a box that can hold anything, but then the value of the analogy falls apart.
> it's much easier to train an LLM than to enrich uranium.

I hadn't thought of this dichotomy before, but I'm not sure it's going to be true for long; I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that obtaining the 50k H100s you need to train a GPT-5 (or whatever hardware investment it is) is harder for Iran than obtaining its centrifuges. If it's not true now, I expect it to be true within a hardware generation or two. (The US already has >=A100 embargoes on China, and I'd expect that to be strengthened to apply to Iran if it doesn't already, at least if they demonstrated any military interest in AI technology.)

Also, I don't think nuclear tech is an example against obfuscation; how many countries know how to make thermonuclear warheads? Seems to me that the obfuscation regime has been very effective, though certainly not perfect. It's backed with the carrot and stick of diplomacy and sanctions of course, but that same approach would also have to be used if you wanted to globally ban or restrict AI beyond a certain capability level.
Hedgefunds are betting the on AI and tech companies.

Without the top 5 tech companies, S&P500 has lackluster growth.

Microsoft has added trillions to its cap. The statement “we have all the access we need” is a powerful statement. To both OpenAI board and investors.

OpenAI is built on Azure compute. MS has invested billions of their own, they’re building their own chips now.

Essentially Microsoft is saying you can burn OpenAI to the ground, “we have everything we need” to win! - the data, the compute, the algorithms, the engineers, the capital and the market.

This is a way bigger blow to OpenAI than Microsoft.
Thanks. I remember AppleDOS 3.3, and I remember it had no concept of directories (you had to use ProDOS for that, which didn't use the cd command anyway).
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Because:

A) If you want to work with a flat rate agent, go find one. Every property I have in my pipeline right now is on a different commission level, and only a couple of them are this magical "6%" the public loves to believe is "standard". Some of them are even fixed amounts.

B) It's only "6%" if the agent does both sides, otherwise it's whatever the agreed upon split might be - say 50/50, so you are only getting 3%. And, as a few astute observers in this thread have noted, the brokerage is going to further reduce what goes into the pocket of the agent themselves. I've had plenty of deals where my actual net was at or under 1% - I've even had deals where I lost money.

C) So if I sell a $10MM property that takes a year to sell and needs tens of thousands in marketing dollars to sell, I should accept only $10K in compensation?

D) Let's say you've got some shitty dilapidated house or scrub ground with zoning issues, maybe a barely inhabitable cabin somewhere. I find a buyer for it to get the monkey off your back. What's that worth to you, to have the pain gone? You think I don't deserve compensation for spending potentially months or even years to bring you a deal? When I sell properties like that, it is at best a break-even proposition for me, but someone has to step up and assist the public.

E) Everything I listed in my post is about risk management. I am assisting you with not buying a foot gun. In some cases, I am assisting you with buying an asset that will bring cash flow or other financial benefits. In other cases, I may be assisting you with getting a financial drain off your back. Perhaps not for you, but do you begin to see why these service do have value for many consumers?

It's normally about this point that someone in one of these threads says "but I'm taking about 'normal' deals!" Dude - anyone who has been in the real estate business for more than 5 minutes knows that the so-called "normal" deals that the public loves to talk about are maybe one deal a year for an active agent. They are the unicorns of the real estate world. Likewise, people in urban markets have likely no idea the variety of real estate transaction that happen in the world. At the moment I've got transactions in my pipeline for land development, commercial, leases, duplexes, not to mention basic residential work. And every single one of those have unique challenges.
IMO, OSS works because it is open and free. Most OSS projects use each other. If you are building some OSS project then are you not using other OSS projects? Many contributors will not be able to build if it requires/expects money to use other OSS projects.
Gygax? The history books don't think much of his business skills, starting with the creation of AD&D as a fiction to avoid paying royalties to Arneson.
I find the story relating, though in a somewhat less dramatic sense.

Even after 20+ years of coding, there are very little moments of feeling on top and fully in control.

The other end -- feelings of "damn I don't get it, why won't it work" and the feeling of being overwhelmed by a big mess -- is quite more frequent.

The weird thing is that thinking "I'm no good at this" is an easy trap to fall into. Sometimes I feel software engineering must be one of the hardest jobs in terms of mental flexibility, constantly trying to figure things out and adapting to new frameworks and ever evolving ways of working.

But most probably there are plenty of other jobs with the same kind of complexities.
But now, are we even going to get GPT-4 or GPT-5 with the same level of polish that sama would have put into it?

I'd argue right now that we're at the "iPhone 3G" point on the technology curve, with significant improvements to come over the next few years as the tech gets polished.
> They should have at the very least been privy to the plan, if not outright sanctioned it.

Never assume this. After all, their communication specifically cited that Sam deceived them in some way, and Greg was also impacted. Ilya is the only board member that might have known naturally, given his day-to-day work with OAI, but since ~July he has worked in the area of superalignment, which could reasonably be a different department (it shouldn't be). The Board may have also found out about these projects, maybe from a third party/Ilya, told Sam they're moving too fast, and Sam ignored them and launched anyway. We really don't know.
I have paid for this and I am using it in the Terminal, in my IDE and even on my CV! It is a great font and I highly recommend it.
My first impression is the kerning/letter spacing feels off. Am I the only one?

Edit: for example the space between the ‘m’ and the ‘a’ in ‘machine’ seems very big.
No. If thing go south, they'd just suicide themselves manually.
Pretty insightful I thought. The people who joined to create AGI are going to be underwhelmed by the products made available on dev day.
Tone policing is one of this forum's foundational rules. You're going to have a bad time here if you don't understand the utility of putting in the effort to have more civil discussions.
Context matters. It's hyper aggressive by the standards of similar communications (press releases announcing management shakeups) by similar entities (boards of directors).

Obviously it's not aggressive by the standards of everyday political drama or Internet forum arguments.
I couldn't agree more with your enthusiasm, but it's worth noting that Senakw is the name of the development, and the Squamish Nation are the people backing it.

More details on the Senakw development are available from the Squamish Nation's website: https://senakw.com/
No one cared about the GPT store. Just like no one cared about Plugins. That was just marketing to show the technology is 'accessible' to non-technical people.

The question is how is this going to impact their API and the increasing demand for lower-cost, higher-performing models to be used by the masses? If they want to be like Google and keep everything behind closed doors for years that's their decision, but they need clear communication about it.
I don’t believe offering PPUs as compensation when you intend never to be profitable is entirely legal
The font says trial lol, what is there a pop up saying the 7 days is over? lol gtfoh
Did they not learn about variables in math class?

That's where I learned before I ever saw any code. When I did see the code I was confused by "x = x + 1" since it makes no sense mathematically, but assignment and state were obvious and intuitive after that.
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one man's luxury...

how did you learn to program computers without computers around?
They could just have said that they are iterating on the CEO value alignment problem.
The thing about Haiku is that their plan (initially as "OpenBeOS") was since they're just re-doing BeOS and some of BeOS is Open Source they'll just get some basics working then they're right back on the horse and in a few years they'll be far ahead of where BeOS was.

Over two decades later they don't have a 1.0 release.
Oops, thanks! I've been following Khelsilem for a while but do not live near the area, and have only visited several times. Would love to live there eventually if prices fall a bit.
Is there some reason you don't just use it under GPLv3? Are you trying to create a derivative work you don't want to publish under the same license?
I have seen a couple of trial fonts changed crucial 1-2 characters with the logo of the foundry. This is not very rare practice.
If I were looking for a way to put myself under the thumb of some authority, great.
The reason is not “humanitarian and the right thing to do” it’s to send tax payer dollars to the enormous war companies in the US. There’s even leaked voice memos of these CEOs assuring investors “there is still plenty of instability” to prop up profits. It’s a disgrace.
I had trouble finding the actual paper, but I think this is a preprint:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10602106/
I was blessed with a bunch of CHM files. I knew by heart how to browse that style of documentation. I still to this day prefer reference style to tutorial or by example.
This was done in the context of Dev Day. Meaning that the board was convinced by Ilya that users should not have access to this level of functionality. Or perhaps he was more concerned that he was not able to gatekeep its release. So presumably it was Altman who pushed for releasing this technology to the general public. If this is accurate then this shift in control is bound to slow down feature delivery and create a window for competitors.
Well the reason that this system exists is that there is real valuable knowledge that gives these companies competitive advantages. The usefulness of that knowledge drops off precipitously over time.

So the starting point for the system is that we need a way for these highly paid and skilled people to take a year or two off between jobs.
Grid-scale installations can probably use anything.

However, more efficient cells will probably find new uses where space or weight is very limited.
(2017)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811403
It would be better for consumers if productions were available through more outlets rather than fewer, so yes.
I think OpenAI made the right choice. Just look at what has become of many of the most successful YC companies. Do we really want OpenAI to turn into another Airbnb? It’s clear the biggest priority of YC is profit.

They made a deal with Microsoft, who has a long history of exploiting users and customers to make as much money as possible. Just look at the latest version of Windows; Microsoft doesn’t care about AI only as much as it enables them to make more and more money till no end through their existing products. They rushed to integrate AI into all of their legacy products to prop them up rather than offer something legitimately new. And they did it not organically but by throwing their money around, attracting the type of people who are primarily motivated by money. Look at how the vibe of AI has changed in the past year —- lots of fake influencers and the mad gold rush around it. And we are hearing crazy stories like comp packages at OpenAI in the millions, turning AI into a rich man’s game.

For a company that has “Open” in their name, none of their best and most valuable GPT models are open source. It feels as disingenuous as the “We” in WeWork. Even Meta has them beat here.

Sam Altman, while good at building highly profitable SaaS, consumer, & B2B tech startups and running a highly successful tech accelerator, before this point, didn’t have any kind of real background in AI. One can only imagine how he must feel like an outsider.

I think it’s a hard decision to fire a CEO, but the company is more than the CEO, it’s the people who work there. A lot of the time the company is structured in such a way that the CEO is essentially not replaceable, we should be thankful OpenAI fortunately had the right structure in place to not have a dictator (even a benevolent one).
> and get rid of the 'wrap everything in a layer of plastic' tendencies that are completely unnecessary.

If only fruits and vegetables had robust, natural, bio-degradable packaging of their own. Some sort of peelable skin, perhaps.
Because obviously the faster we develop tools for the rich and powerful to make more money and have more control, the better it is for society.
there are much cheaper ways, chief amongst them is to use paper and pencils
Agreed, but then they did it in the worst possible way. You don't create a crisis around your brand like this on purpose. Much better to get everybody to play along and make it look as if Sam really wanted to spend more time with his family. Short of a cold body in his freezer this was done carelessly. But let's wait and see how it all develops because it is more than just a little strange to see it play out like this without a good enough reason for the haste, if it turns out there wasn't I expect the board to be axed.
This looks extremely stupid from the board and validates the theory that most of the board has no clue on large organisation governance, full of people who have mostly not seen boardrooms in action. It will be very very hard for OpenAI to raise money with the presence of such a maverick board, and I doubt MSFT would want to give a penny more to them without some big changes. For the people saying they don't owe anything to MSFT, MSFT is the 49% stock holder in the LLC, and a 49% stockholder almost never gets treated like this anywhere else, doesn't matter if the remaining 51% is held by a non profit or not.

For people saying they shouldn't have done the MSFT deals, how else would they have gotten the money to build anything at all considering how much GPUs cost? Their competitor Anthropic is doing the same raising money from all of big tech, made possibly only due to the ridiculous success of ChatGPT. For others saying Ilya is the key, Google had a big lead on AI researchers and the only reason Google is not the undisputed king is due to bad leadership and product development.
Sorry to nitpick, but --

OpenAI was releasing innovations in the GenAI space at a breakneck pace. Remember, GPT-1 didn't change the world, it was GPT-3.5/4 from earlier this year. OpenAI was at peak innovation when sama and gdb left.

And folks used to say Apple was stagnant, but after Apple Silicon completely upended the personal computer world (along with some other things) the dissidents have been mostly silent.
Historically, inflation dominates and ultimately collapses fiat currency.
> This could yield a lawsuit at some point if those PPUs are worthless due to the board refusing to allow profits…

A lawsuit based on what? The OpenAI Global LLC operating agreement has a prominent notice...

https://images.openai.com/blob/142770fb-3df2-45d9-9ee3-7aa06...

from https://openai.com/our-structure
Why was it so difficult to determine the MH370 flight path then?
It may indicate that the hashtags are created by the users and not by the platform. Needs further research. /s
> People will get rid of their perishable money and buy property

Which has rates to pay - assuming the market stands still that property is actually a liability.

Storing money in gold is probably a better example, until we find a way to cheaply create it...