skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Ilya should get off so easily. Him not havinh a say in the formation of the new board speaks volumes about his role in things if you ask me. I hope people keep saying his name too so nobody forgets his place in this mess.
> What has he done in life and/or AI to deserve so much respect and admiration? Why don’t top researchers and scientists get equivalent (if not more) respect, admiration and support?

This has been the case for all achievement of all major companies, the CEO or whoever is on top gets the credit for all their employee's work. Why would be different for OpenAI?
I'm looking for ways to improve my chess knowledge. My kids are 10 and 8 and starting in chess club. I played chess as a kid but haven't played much in the last twenty years.

What are some ways to improve at chess? Just go to lichess? Watch YouTube videos? I loved this article and the discussion of AI and would love to supercharge my learning if there are experimental ideas.

With three kids, my time is very scattered so I'm looking for ways to study chess in small fifteen minute chunks, as that is often all I have before falling asleep in one of their beds.

Bonus: are there ways to radically improve chess together (other than just playing, obviously!)

Has anyone used flashcards effectively for chess?
Steve Ballmer is Gollum?
> Not really. It only very recently got support for partial clones, sparse checkouts (still experimental!) `git status` daemon (only on Windows and Mac!), etc. And that's only because Microsoft is pushing it.

Which only proves my comment that git is not designed for bigcorp view of monorepos. Kernel is monorepo and works fine.

> The reason people like monorepos is because they don't have the downsides of multirepos:

The reason people like monorepos is that they are lazy to properly organize development process. If you update library in one repo but test it in another, I'd say you need to reconsider your pipeline. But, to each their own.
I'm not sure if I understand your point. Why the Chinese specifically? So far, pretty much every company in Sweden have been able to live with Swedish unions. I can't really see why something Chinese owned shouldn't be able to. After all, Chinese businesses and investors seem to like Sweden just fine:

https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/chinas-putailai-to-buil...
Which therapy do you think will help you?
Sam Altman starts his essay with

"Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) [1] is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. "

Yan LeCunn explicitely says "superhuman AI is not an existential risk."

But let's look at a few of his other tweets from just the last weeks

"There isn't a shred of evidence that AI poses a paradigmatic shift in safety.

It's all fantasies fueled by popular science fiction culture suggesting some sort of imaginary but terrible, terrible catastrophic risk."

or constantly retweeting anti-AI Safety posts like this

"A piece by MBZUAI president
@ericxing
in WEF Agenda explaining why worries about AI existential risks are baseless.
"
or

"The fears of AI-fueled existential risks are based on flawed ideas."

or even denying short-term non-existential LLM risks (which I care less about)

"Pretty much the most important question in the debate about short-term risks of LLMs.
No clear evidence so far."

Scroll through his feed and you'll find countless examples where he dismisses any concerns as doomerism.

What prejudice are you talking about? LeCunn has expressed time and time again that he is not in the same camp as people like Altman, and has positioned himself as the leading face of anti-safety and specifically anti-AGI Safety concerns.

0. https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1725066749203415056

1. https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1724272286000390406

2. https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1725684495507149109
I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if Sam and his other ultra-rich buddies like Satya had their fingers deep in the pockets of all the tech journalists that immediately ran to his defense and sensationalized everything. Every single news source posted on HN read like pure shilling for the Ponzi sch- uh, I mean Worldcoin guy and hailing him as some sort of AI savant.
>OpenAI does not have in its DNA to win, they're too short-sighted and reactive.

What does that even mean?

In any case, it's not OpenAI, it's Microsoft, and it has a long history of winning and bouncing back.
> Join the waiting list

Have you lanched, or it's just a waiting list form?
I still have not seen anyone adequately explain what "intelligence" actually is.

So if we dont know, or cant agree what it is... how can we be claiming what we've created is artificial?
I have met a lot of people who go around talking about high minded principles an "the greater good" and a lot of people who are transparently self interested. I much preferred the latter. Never believed a word out of the mouths of those busybodies pretending to act in my interest and not theirs. They don't want to limit their own access to the tech. Only yours.
Not adhering to AML isn't exactly a con
Or a simpler alternative: https://ollama.ai/
I do not know how zfs will overcome hardware lying. If its going to fetch data that is in the drives cache, how will it overcome the persistence problem ?
At a consulting firm I worked with a product guy who I thought was very good, and was on the project pretty much from the beginning (maybe the beginning, not sure. He predated me by well over a year at least). He was extremely knowledgeable on the business side and their needs and spent a lot of time communicating with them to get a good feel of where the product needed to go.

But he was also technical enough to have a pretty good feel for the complexity of tasks, and would sometimes jump in to help figure out some docker configuration issues or whatever problems we were having (mostly devops related) so the devs could focus on working on the application code. We were also a pretty small team, only a few developers, so that was beneficial.

He did such a good job that the business eventually reached out to him and hired him directly. He's now head of two of their product lines (one of them being the product I worked on).

But that's pretty much it. I can't think of any other product people I could say such positive things about.
It's not about critical thinking: the employees were about to sell up to $1B of shares to thrive capital. This debacle has derailed that.
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It could be hard to do that while paying a penalty to FTB and IRS for what they’re suspected to have done (in allowing a for-profit subsidiary to influence an NPO parent) or dealing with SEC and the state courts over any fiduciary breach allegations related to the published stories. [ Nadella is an OG genius because his company is now shielded from all of that drama as it plays out, no matter the outcome. He can take the time to plan for a soft landing at MS for any OpenAI workers (if/when they need it) and/or to begin duplicating their efforts “just in case.” Heard coming from the HQ parking lot in Redmond https://youtu.be/GGXzlRoNtHU ]

Now we can all go back to work on GPT4turbo integrations while MS worries about diverting a river or whatever to power and cool all of those AI chips they’re gunna [sic] need because none of our enterprises will think twice about our decisions to bet on all this. /s/
Those mission statements are a dime a dozen. A junkie's promise has more value.
he can go to Russia see how they treat him there
> The parents are practically committing a crime if they let their kids do this.

Not in the European countries I know
in the end, maybe Sam was the instigator, the board tried to defend (and failed) and what we just witnessed from afar was just a power play to change the structure of OpenAI (or at least the outcome for Sam and many others) towards profit rather than non-profit.

we'll all likely never know what truly happened, but it's a shame that the board has lost their last remnant of some diversity and at the moment appears to be composed of rich Western white males... even if they rushed for profit, I'd have more faith in the potential upside what could be a sea change in the World, if those involved reflected more experiences than are currently gathered at that table.
Compliance refers to the act of conforming to rules, regulations, standards, or laws established by external authorities or governing bodies. It is the adherence to a set of guidelines or requirements that are designed to ensure that individuals, organizations, or processes operate within the legal and ethical boundaries defined by the relevant authorities.
Eh, well, that wasn't what I meant exactly, but I can see how it could be read that way..
AI has already hurt plenty of people though; we already have examples of biased "AI policing", artists and writers are getting their work stolen left and right, and I've heard tell of several instances of seriously vulnerable code making it to production and revealing folks' private information due to bugs introduced by AI assistants.

This regulation is almost certainly too far reaching and written by bureaucrats rather than experts, but the need for regulation is already there.
>The invention of the printing press lead to loads of violence in Europe. Does that mean that we shouldn't have done it?

The church tried hard to suppress it because it allowed anybody to read the Bible, and see how far the Catholic church's teachings had diverged from what was written in it. Imagine if the Catholic church had managed to effectively ban printing of any text contrary to church teachings; that's in practice what all the AI safety movements are currently trying to do, except for political orthodoxy instead of religious orthodoxy.
A space race on the Korean Peninsula
And it seems like they were right that the for-profit part of the company had become out of control, in the literal sense that we've seen through this episode that it could not be controlled.
> The process has conclusively confirmed that OpenAI is in fact not open and that it is effectively controlled by Microsoft.

I'd say the lack of a narrative from the board, general incompetence with how it was handled, the employees quitting and the employee letter played their parts too.

But even if it was Microsoft who made this happen: that's what happens when you have a major investor. If you don't want their influence, don't take their money.
Can't critical thinking also include : "I'm about to get a 10mil pay day, hmmm, this is crazy situation, let me think critically how to ride this out and still get the 10mil so my kids can go to college and I don't have to work until I'm 75".
They fired him (you don’t know the backstory) and published a press release and then Sam was seen back in the offices. Prior to the reinstatement (today), there was nothing except HN hysteria and media conjecture that made the board look extremely unstable.
I couldn't find any source on her investing in any AI companies. If it's true (and not hidden), I'm really surprised that major news publications aren't covering it.
My take is that companies using silicon anode batteries will eat their lunch.

Mercedes partnered with Sila - manufacturer of such batteries in 2019 and will be powering its electric G-class with it in 2026:

https://www.silanano.com/press/mercedes-benz-taps-sila-to-pr...

The technology offers "just" a 20-40% increase, but that is still a lot considering the pace of progress in this field.

Also it's more than one company starting production at scale in the next few years - the others being OneD (partnering with GM) and Amprius (not in the motoring space yet).

By the time Toyota has those 10k cars built, others will be already on the market for a while.
No see, it doesn't matter, engineers are all cogs and easily replaceable. I'm sure they just dialed the engineer center and ordered a few replacements and they started 24 hours later and were doing just as good of a job the next day. /s
The source is a page called “the European conservative”. I’m not sure they know what dystopian really means.
> The title of the post (on Hackernews, above) has the spelling "Phosphorous" (with a U).

The noun also has that U, it's the O next to it that it doesn't have.
He doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells hahahahahahaha. I can see how that could be confusing.
Half of being a good CEO is telling a good story, so that's not surprising.
Yup, I call that Wolf Management for the same reason.
I tend to interpret this as a sure sign of a manager who secretly knows they're useless.

If you're the manager, your job isn't to do my work. Your job is to optimize my (and the rest of the team's) ability to do our own work. If I've missed something that should be part of a procedure, that should be in a checklist I should have reviewed before submitting my work. You shouldn't have to tell me to tweak it.

If I'm handing the work off to a team that is responsible for small stylistic choices, they too should have a set of standards, but at least if they change their minds about something, that's their role and their job.
This has been long anticipated. Many bureaucrats and other utopians want to eliminate nations and create a Soviet Union version 2 on ideological grounds. Nations that joined the European Community on economic grounds will see their autonomy wiped out.
Single thought Brussels will rule all, the same bureaucracy that failed at every big decision, something neither Napoleon nor Hitler achieved.
This event was more than just a costly signal. The costly signal would have been "stop doing what you're doing or we'll remove you as ceo" and then not doing that.

But they did move forward with their threat and removed Sam as CEO with great reputational harm to the company. And now the board has been changed, with one less ally to Sam (Brockman no longer chairing the board). The move may not have ended up with the expected results, but this was much more than just a costly signal.
>just what the heck is Larry Summers doing on that board?

1. Did you really think the feds wouldn't be involved?

AI is part of the next geopolitical cold war/realpolitik of nation-states. Up until now it's just been passively collecting and spying on data. And yes they absolutely will be using it in the military, probably after Israel or some other western-aligned nation gives it a test run.

2. Considering how much impact it will have on the entire economy by being able to put many white collar workers out of work, a seasoned economist makes sense.

The East Coast runs the joint. The west coast just does the (publicly) facing tech stuff and takes the heat from the public
“The company also agreed to revamp the board of directors that had dismissed him. OpenAI named Bret Taylor, formerly co-CEO of Salesforce, as chair and also appointed Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, to the board.”

Not looking good for the “Open” part of OpenAI.
501 karma.
No, the 90% of the employees were scared that their million $ salaries are going away along with Sam Altman.
Or in the rural US.
what’s the other perspective? even the “secret power grab cabal” needs a rationale for wanting parliament to choose a representative over the council, what is that rationale? it makes me think there is a current deficiency in governance that this article neglected to mention
Can bamboo be big in construction?
Depends on karma and other hiddens parameters.
In most workplaces that deal with LLMs you’ve got a few classes of people:

1. People who understand LLMs and know how to run them and have access to run them on the cloud.
2. People who understand LLMs well enough but don’t have access to cloud resources - but still have a decent MacBook Pro. Or maybe access to cloud resources is done via overly tight pipelines.
3. People who are interested in LLMs but don’t have enough technical chops/time to get things going with Llama CPP.
4. People who are fans of LLMs but can’t even install stuff in their computer.

This is clearly for #3 and it works well for that group of people. It could also be for #2 when they don’t want to spin up their own front end.
It definitely seems like another branch on the IT savior complex, where the prior branch was crypto.
I’m not surprised by my experiences many years ago when trying to use google to support my small app that hit the front page of HN. Not only did they take my app offline giving me no recourse for help thus destroying my momentum , it was because I had “upgraded” my server hosting. Apart from this being funny and ironic what was worse is when I mentioned it a year or so later google engineers came out of the wood work on Hn to accuse me fibbing and making a big deal out of something that they clearly had no relation to. I think it was a because they were scared they might be linked to the incident and it would give them a poor performance metric. It was super creepy but made me understand that the organisation is just vast with little concern for the places where innovation comes from and full of selfish gatekeepers worried about looking bad. I have nothing against the company and the good it’s done for me and the world I still rather like it, but I understand that like all good companies without careful attention to respecting the little guy and allowing care and checks through its structure to root out social issues it’s destined to always lag behind. Just my 2 cents and if anything reminds me of what a terribly difficult task I would have if I was a ceo of my own company ( if it were large ).

I think most large companies have the same problem and the only solution is to literally test different teams with how they handle specific case studies. It would require alot of careful planning and studying but it would be the only way to resolve such problems. An alternative would be to have an anonymous feedback that is constantly pushed onto customers and constantly checked and mined for insight. if was a major company I would hire myself or someone who had my experiences to do this. But I’m already retired/funemployed lol. Sorry for the rant.
> In a free society, preventing and undoing a bioweapon attack or a pandemic is much harder than committing it.

Is it? The hypothetical technology that allows someone to create an execute a bio weapon must have an understanding of molecular machinery that can also be uses to create a treatment.
> is some kind of instrumentality, be it evolution, quantum electrodynamics, or anything else

Where can I learn more about instrumentality (besides Neon Genesis Evangelion)?
> What people are arguing is that the specification should be improved so as to no longer say that

What I hear is "we should invalidate all environments in existence", for the purpose of, um, something. Satisfying some Rust devs, I guess?
What does this mean in the long term? (I'm not a lawyer.) More transparency in the AI industry or just an ability for FTC to subpoena AI companies?
This was a hypothetical question, if there was such an AI, how would it cause harm in the real world?

We connected ChatGPT to the internet because as far as we could tell it seemed harmless. What we missed is that it secretly is an evil AI, it identified a group of terrorists and is discussing with them since months how to execute a devastating attack. It provided them with a brilliant startup idea and now millions of investor money are flowing in. Now that they have the financial resources, they are discussing how to use them most effectively.
> seem more like a budgetary and political issue than an engineering challenge.

Science is about proving that something can be done at all.

Engineering is about taking that result and productionising it - doing it reliably, safely, effectively and on a budget. On the right site, even if that's in a busy city. "time and budget issues" are part of any engineering challenge. Very few engineering projects are "Money no object".

An also, there currently isn't the political will in the UK to invest in expensive infrastructure and engineering projects. London actually gets more investment than the hinterlands. See https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/whats-happening-hs2-britain...
OK let's make this interesting then, hopefully you can at least answer this: is there anything out there that might help someone intrepid enough to work out at least the general gist?

And where do they look? Game data? Obscure forum comments?
Detecting When 'Fake' Images Are Real
I came here to mention that mercurial handles large binaries very well, wheras git LFS is a fustercluck of a workflow.

It's like submodules, where people 99% of the time have to add the --init --recursive flags anyways, and yet nobody cares to optimize the workflow.

I wish git had better submodules, and better binary asset folders that could be linked and cloned/fetched/pulled/pushed without having to have a complete checkout of the whole repository with all its history.

Oh, and automatic pruning would be nice because my git servers constantly run out of HDD space when I don't do git gc regularly, which oftentimes is broken in itself already.
Want to know more about that cosmic explosion. If it does this 2bn ly away, what would it be like for anyone within say a million ly?
Why are there so many non technical managers/directors in charge of engineering or IT in Government type jobs? My wife sells to state and local governments. 90% of the time the people in charge have no idea about IT, SecOps, Software Development etc. Their only qualification is they have engineering or security in their title.
I assume larry summers is there to ensure the proper bi-partisan choices made by whats clearly now an _business_ product and not a product for humanity.

Which is utterly scary.
There’s also the alternative explanation that they feel their financial situation is improved by him being there.
Insulation resists heat transfer in both directions. Extremely well insulated and air sealed homes resist heating up just as much as they resist cooling off.

Windows are a bit special in that you can get solar gain through them, but modern windows can have coatings that filter UV and IR from entering a building.

People and electronics are heat sources inside a home, but pretty minimal ones. Any reasonably speced ventilation system a modern home needs to exchange outside air will easily handle keeping a modern house cool.
The GPTs discovery space is heating up so much that there is now a directory of directories of directories of GPTs
https://www.reddit.com/r/gipeties/comments/180fyko/a_directo...?
Hey Christian! :)
They don’t “think” that. It does do that, and it does it by design exactly because as you approach a technology as powerful as AI there will be strong commercial incentives to capture its value creation.

Gee wiz, almost… exactly like what is happening?
> of their own stated purpose & values

You mean the official stated purpose of OpenAI. The stated purpose that is constantly contradicted by many of their actions, and I think nobody took seriously anymore for years.

From everything I can tell the people working at OpenAI have always cared more about advancing the space and building great products than "openeness" and "safe AGI". The official values of OpenAI were never "their own".