skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never really even entertained the idea of agreeing with this until just this week actually, when I was putting log statements into bash functions that were supposed to return strings -- and failed for reasons I could not understand. Six full hours of debugging later, I realized that the logs were writing to stdout, and thus were cluttering the expected return values.

I'm still not fully sold on the idea, but I now have at least one tangible example of when you would want to keep stdout clear of commentary.
I’d use Leela Chess Zero over Stockfish for an odds game. Leela can output win/draw/loss probability instead of centipawns so you can pick whatever move wins most often instead of the move that best delays losing. They also just implemented a contempt function which the latest stockfish doesn’t support:

https://lczero.org/blog/2023/07/the-lc0-v0.30.0-wdl-rescale/...

They setup a lichess bot to allow you to play Leela at knight odds:

https://lczero.org/blog/2023/11/play-with-knight-odds-agains...
So it looks like a store inventory tracker from the 80s which alerts staff to restock a shelf is AI, and subject to this.
Surprisingly relevant clip from The Good Place

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etJ6RmMPGko
Hikaru Nakamura's YouTube channel has plenty of videos dedicated to the "Botez Gambit" wherein he has bested 2300+ rated players after sacrificing queen for a bishop/knight
I linked to the Judean People Suicide Squad for a reason.
Also of note, this comment by Sam's verified reddit account describing the con as "child's play": (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/comment/c...)
Will ask one of my security engineers in the morning if they want to take a go at it. Thank you!
> Imagine being pissed that someone is hearing and learning from your voice as you’re having conversation together.

Hello. USian here, talking about things from a USian perspective! YMMV in other countries, visit your local dealership for more information, & etc, etc, etc.

A multi-million (or multi-billion) dollar company who can

* Store recordings all of my utterances forever

* Use my recordings to make tons of money without ever sending me a cent

* Share my recordings with "trusted business partners" for "contractually-agreed-upon [with their partners, not with me] purposes" whenever they feel like

* In short, use those recordings that they've stored forever for any nearly any purpose they see fit to

is not "someone" that I'm having a "conversation" with.

When I have a conversation with someone, they have a human's capacity to remember and disseminate that information. People get worse and worse at remembering things as those things recede into the past. Even if someone remembers an event very clearly, it's also usually impossible for someone to perfectly relate that event to another.

When a company records what I'm saying and feeds that recording into their perfect-copy-machines and the perfect-copy-machines of their "trusted business partners", that's an entirely different thing. Surely you see that?
I think so. "Alert" is probably the proper idea, when you're hungry but cannot eat, your brain will seek satisfaction elsewhere, and all this mental energy can be channeled into another activity (a bit like how people get very very active for a few days when they stop smoking cigarettes)
I don't want to learn a 3rd thing that isn't git!
Sam could never have a selective memory about such a thing...
Let's call it an open question, forever...just in case someone shows up.
She's not in charge of the for-profit arm though, all she could do was fire the CEO, and she did, which would seem consistent with her criticism. I don't think she has many more power as being on the board. She also isn't at the top; in the sense she needs other board members to vote similar to her to enact any change, so it's possible she kept bringing up concerns and not getting support.

Academically, did she not disclose being on the board on her paper?
OpenAI Drama Casts a Shadow on Tech Industry
"It’s no surprise to learn that I prefer HTML Web Components and typically try to avoid using and authoring JavaScript Web Components."

Immediately after the section about javascript-only web components is an interesting takeaway.
That still leaves questions that ideally the class should explain:

- How does the computer understand that it needs to add

- How can the computer go from these 3 lines of text to "sure, let's add"

- Why does text even mean anything to the computer

- For that matter, sure it can add, but HOW? It's not like it has a pencil and paper.

Because indeed the infrastructure between these 3 lines of text and the addition is not trivial. These are legitimate questions.
Anyone having trouble getting this working, just close the app and reopen.
How the Military Ran Its 1970s Psychic Intelligence Program (2015)
That was sarcasm, as what's "wrong" is often subjective and up to interpretation.
> Given Ilya's change of heart he is slightly less probable as the ringleader.

I tend to believe that was exactly his strategy with his change of heart...
It’s the computer telling the drive “write everything to durable storage (as opposed to some kind of in-drive cache/RAM) and tell me when it’s done”.

After that command it should be 100% safe to pull the power because everything SHOULD have been written to flash. That’s the point of the command.

It’s interesting that the drives that do it wrong still take time indicating they’re doing something.
Neat! For a while, I have been looking for software that could tell whether my reasoning about things other than code is correct. And it looks like Hypothesis might be worth giving it a shot.
Gambling that no one reads academics papers by fringe Open
AI board members no one has heard of before is probably a safe bet but it's still a risk if some doomer AI people on Twitter pumped it up, some journo discovered the tweets and sells it as "concern in the industry including one of OpenAI's own board" and it got swept up in some lawyer-style grilling by Congress which Sam just had to go through.
Welcome to understanding small countries.

We're not all stuck in our pasts.
In many cases yes. I don't know if it's an automated or manual process (it seems to happen less when the US is asleep, so I suspect it's manual?), but generally if you submit a link with a title edited to be less sensational and clickbait-y it gets changed to the linked article title.
These aren't regulations to operate though, they define process within FTC investigations.
The only reward from trying to be likeable is getting your own box to fit into. Being likeable often requires masking and being the fakest, bubbliest version of yourself. Not what I'd call a reliable way to enjoy life.
This reads more like ad copy than a research paper. I'd have been pissed too if I were Altman.
It's fortunate that your company doesn't have an incentive to use Windows than Linux by subsidy.
>The program [...] developed an emphasis on remote viewing, which involves using psychic powers to somehow see something in a place away from where you actually are located. This began after early experimenters in the 1970s were able to provide detailed information about a Soviet R&D facility.

...WHAT?
Python is a high-level language, though, and python code is run through an interpreter, so it's not a surprise that it might handle signals (and other things) differently than your average program. (Not restoring signals handlers to their default on fork()/exec() is definitely a bug, though.)

Rust is intended to be a systems programming language, and a replacement for C/C++. It should not be mucking about with signal handler defaults before main() runs.

The one thing that Rust does right, though, is it resets SIGPIPE to SIG_DFL when spawning processes[0]. Of course, I assume it only does that if you use std::process::Command, not if you use libc::fork()/libc::exec(), or get there some other way.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/unstable-book/language-featur...
He wasn't arrested for raising the price of his drugs, though. He was arrested for financial fraud, but none of his victims actually lost money. Very odd case.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170710014221/https://www.washi...
Her position was listed as a fun fact, not in a responsible disclosure of possible conflicts of interest (though it ran the other way).

Being at the top of the org and being present during the specific incidents that gives one qualms burdens one with moral responsibility, even if they were the one who voted against.

You shouldn’t say “they did [x]” instead of “we did [x]” when x is bad and you were part of the team.
The parent comment is ridiculous hyperbole. I spend several months every year cycling around the Western Balkans, largely for the sake of maintaining my knowledge of the languages and therefore I spend a lot of my time in cafes chatting with whoever’s around. Sure, Serbs sometimes bring up politics like any people would, but it isn’t at all “hard to hold a normal conversation”. I can and have talked with them about everything under the sun.
I just tried turning it off.

And I turned off predictive too.

This is the first thing I have tried to type and it is much faster I think.

Perhaps because that whole band of possible words is gone and I can just look at the keyboard and the output.

Thanks.
It will be a really tough one to interpret this as “bad faith” against microsoft when the same could be said about the board of openai and helen toners remark that it’s consistent with its mission to destroy the company she has a seat in. Almost all employees didn’t share the views of their board and switched without being actively poached to its competitor.
Free and unrestrained insight into the ruthless and the sociopath minds is half the reason I come here.
Yeah, it’s an awful role basically by design. It reminds me of my uncle’s role as the safety/compliance lead at a manufacturing facility. He was just trying to do his job but constantly getting bullied, maneuvered around etc because his job was effectively to slow everyone else down. It drove him crazy, he ended up having a mental breakdown, becoming an alcoholic, and having to go on disability for the remainder of his career. I’m sure some people can handle the stress of those roles, but ugh, not worth it IMO.
What system, in your world, is not malleable and ripe for corruption? In your world democracy would be the most malleable and corrupt while autocracy would be the least given the boundaries you laid out.
And tools that facilitate and encourage that behavior.

I’ve tried to do this but the defaults on GH means even if I stack 5 commits each doing atomic things nobody reviews it as anything other than a single patch. And if I split them into distinct PRs the last one looks like the giant PR. And we’re in now I’m shepherding 5 PRs.

Until we have tools or at the very least processes that encourage that behavior nobody will do it.

And don’t get me started on commit message display.
I have a theory that our natural state is “hungry”. We haven’t evolved past a time where getting enough food to be “full” would be a pretty rare occurrence. Everyone’s obsession with being perfectly comfortable at all times is why such an incredible amount of people die of obesity and its comorbitities every year in America.
My conclusion was that Sam slipped up somewhere and lost Ilya. Which maybe because of the reason you mentioned. Previously it seems like it was a 3 cofounders vs 3 non cofounders board split. Ilya switched teams after being upset by something.

If I may wear my conspiracy hat for a second. Adam D'Angelo is a billionaire or close to it so he has a war chest for a battle to hold on to the crown jewel's of AI. Sam has powerful friends but so does D'Angelo(Facebook mafia). I don't think the board anticipated the 90% potential employee turnover, so there is a small chance they leave the board because of that reason. But my guess is there is a 4 letter company that starts with an 'M' and ends with an 'a' that comes into the picture eventually.
It's interesting the paper is selling Anthropic's approach to 'safety' as the correct approach when they just launched a new version of Claude and HN thread is littered with people saying its unusable because half the prompts they type get flagged as ethical violations.

It's pretty clear some legitimate concerns about a hypothetical future AGI, that we've barely scraped the surface of, turns into "what can we do today" and it's largely virtue signalling type behaviour crippling a non-AGI very very alpha version of LLMs just to show you care about hypothetical future risks.

Even the coorelation between commercialization and AI safety is pretty tenuous. Unless I missed some good argument about how having a GPT store makes AGI destroying the world easier.

It can probably best be summarized as Helen Toner simply wants OpenAI to die for humanity's sake. Everything else is just minor detail.

> Over the weekend, Altman’s old executive team pushed the board to reinstate him—telling directors that their actions could trigger the company’s collapse.

> “That would actually be consistent with the mission,” replied board member Helen Toner, a director at a Washington policy research organization who joined the board two years ago.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firing-openai-520a3a8c
Who cares if the paper was covered in the media or not? Think tanks write policy papers for regulators, not HN. And it's the regulators that Sam was worried about. From the article:

> Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company, particularly at a time, he added, when the Federal Trade Commission was investigating OpenAI over the data used to build its technology.
In that interpretation, it sounds like you feel that the scientists referenced in the article and Ms. Toner are insubordinate. You feel that Altman was exercising legitimate authority to remove obstructionist elements in the OpenAI organization.

I have no idea to be honest. I do not believe that Altman is maliciously reckless. I have no evidence other than these two anecdotes to suggest negligence or a willful disregard for safety.

> the upcoming v5 have no risk of "escaping" and taking over humanity.

I think that is a strawman. There are many negative consequences technology can bring other than some sci-fi fantasy.
the Transformers are all you need paper from Google, which may end up being a larger contribution to society than Google search, is foundational.

Emad Mostaque and his investment in stable diffusion, and his decision to release it to the world.

I'm sure there are others, but those are the two that stick out to me.
Institutional racism happens against white people — and denying that is supporting racism, even by your modern definition meant to minimize the on-going racism of the Democratic Party.

Eg, this racist policy by Democrats.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-farmers-loan-forgiveness-...

Democrats are also systemically racist to Asians such as at Harvard and UNC.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

I’d encourage you to stop taking your talking points from KKK meetings about how you’re virtuous for engaging in race-based discrimination.

Your modern apologetics for bigotry are as vapid as 1920s Klansmen talking about “protecting their community”.
I read it as a commitment to keep this costly signal, beyond just words. If an amoral oil company wants to keep employees/customers who care about the environment, they might both say that they care about the environment AND do costly signals that indicate that they care about the environment (like replacing plastic straws with inferior paper straws, even if it's annoying and costs money). This is different from the company actually caring about the environment. Maybe actually caring involves taking actions that matter more than paper straws. Which again is different from being good for the environment, overall.

I might be reading into the literal words too much though. I don't have a sense of how messages like that is read in political science academia and DC (the primary target audience).
I stick with ueli app but that's a nice alternative.
It shouldn't have had inheritance by default. It was designed at the height of object-oriented programming, and so it had to have inheritance. This results in blocks of CSS turning off stuff in case some outer CSS turned it on.

It really should have been a constraint system. Layout should be something that says that X is to the right of Y, Y is below Z, A and B have the same height, etc. But people didn't really know how to do those back then. See the 2D sketching system in Autodesk Inventor/Fusion to see this done right. That can do more than boxes (it understands curves) but web layout should probably just be boxes.

Maybe it shouldn't be textual at all. Maybe layout should be designed entirely in graphical tools.

Cannot put text on top of text. Boxes must be disjoint. If you want another layer, OK, but layers should work like windows.
I wonder if this is the state of affairs for all solid state battery tech like the sodium ion batteries BYD is supposed to bring out soon.
Yes, though it's is all about trade-offs. It works best, if your reviewers are also putting in some work.
Pretty wild seeing it summarize my emails
No, I’m saying the definition of bribery has been stretched so far to include ballpoint pens, a $30 lunch or free attendance at a conference, at the same time that high officials are underpaid, so as to place an absurd financial burden on middle-class people holding high office. No one says that a CEO who meets a potential supplier who buys him lunch is being bribed. But if a politician does that, it’s a crime somehow. Frankly absurd.
Sometimes a "PR machine" is just social capital at work. If there's anything else I've learned in this saga it's that Sam has had a consistent track record of building and maintaining highly positive relationships with anyone near his orbit, this board aside, and that it consistently pays him dividends.
That’s a good point, but surely the significant shareholding, partnership and investment gives them power and influence.
Middle class is bourgeoisie.
Thank you. Both for speaking out and for your work.
This lawsuit is baseless. Media Matters accessed the site normally, found ads next to Nazi content, and reported it.

This is not “platform manipulation” at all.

Also it doesn’t help that the CEO himself was amplifying antisemitic rethoric.
Oh completely agree! And that’s a good point to remember.
OpenAI explicitly created a for profit company to take these investments. It's disingenuous to reframe it as a charity.
I don't think that's how it works: Flushing metadata before data would be a security concern (consider e.g. the metadata change of increasing a file's length due to an append before the data change itself), so file systems usually only ever do the opposite, which is safe.

Getting back zeroes after a metadata sync (which must follow a data sync) would accordingly be an indication of something weird having happened at the disk level: We'd expect to either see no data at all, or correct data, but not zeroes or any other file's or previously written stale data.
You didn’t address my example:

> Eg, lawyers were never part of the proletariat — yet they also need to work to survive.

Please do.
False equivalence. The hysterics are all coming from you.
…based on your specialized knowledge.

See my example about lawyers:

> Eg, lawyers were never part of the proletariat — yet they also need to work to survive.

Perhaps you could address that.
She joined the board of OpenAI knowing that they owned a for profit subsidiary that received billions of dollars of investment. Being independent means that she could provide a unique outsider perspective, not that she has no obligations to her organization whatsoever. If you're going to be completely independent, you shouldn't be surprised when over 90% of the organization turns against you.
Lack of duty of care exercised by board members with conflicts of interest all over the place affecting innocent bystanders in their internal squabbles.
Decoding Intentions: Artificial Intelligence and Costly Signals – Helen Toner
I like the one where you ask the person to explain “what happens between when you type an address in a browser until you get something to show up” in as much details they can. It tells you a lot about people understand all the different concepts involving computing.
Correct.

Silverlight came when flash was being dismantled shortly after.

Different days back then.
That's an impressive 1/10 AU (distance of Earth orbit from sun 150 million km).

For the 20 min communication delay, that would be 2.4 AU (360 million km).
They make errors like that if you tell them to make errors like that.

"Ensure your response contains at least 5 grammatical and 3 typographic errors"
Whenever setting up a path configuration in my python applications, I always use following at the beginning:

import os
os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

This will make sure that absolute path is taken for your file irrespective of the OS and solve the issue of file system when building multi-platform applications.
Wasted lines is a syntax sugar problem. It can be solved in the language level. Python for example has dict destructuring where you can solve this in under 10 characters. You could also imagine wrapper functions to execv taking in modifications to env only, that it merges with the inherited env.

Copying is something that happens anyway if you write to the environment after fork, due to the copy-on-write model used by forking.

If you don’t need to edit the environment at all, one could imagine a pure inherit option used.

Besides, what size is the environment variables anyway? There are many other bigger bottlenecks if you are launching processes frequent enough for this to matter.
Pgactive – Active-Active Replication in Amazon RDS Postgres
Awful volume bar on webapp, only mute+1 is usable volume level. iOS app fails to resume frequently so I need to kill and relaunch manually. Recommendation isn't interesting. Uploaded music is difficult to play unless I pick it manually. I doubt that they don't want us to play uploaded music because it's not good for CDN.
well, theyre close to releasing a product that they know they can call AGI, as its really just 3 letters thag can be trademarked. seems like its being hyped up like ML or bitcoin, lots of hype to sucker in the investors, be the first to build a turk-in-a-box based on that new hyped model, add regulation to stifle competition, ???? profit.
Yeah there's definitely a deeper argument there, but I think it still falls into a similar category of ignoring context in many cases.

The "can't" variants often imply that it would cross the Rubicon on some issue. My contention is that usually, the supposed Rubibon has already been crossed ages (often centuries!) ago.

Of course "crossing the Rubicon" itself is a social construct, so at least those arguments can warp reality enough to become self-fulfilling. If everyone is convinced that something is impossible, it becomes very hard to argue that doing it is reasonable.

EDIT: and to be clear, I am not looking to litigate the illegal number issue. I've heard the arguments, this isn't a question of ignorance. It's a question of having different base axioms. I reserve my right to be extremely wrong on this issue to prove a point in an internet discussion
SocioAttractiveness has a bigger impact on men's economic success than women's
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