skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the open positions are for senior and staff level positions.

So what you're saying is that companies are struggling to find qualified senior and staff level engineers to fill their open roles? Doesn't sound like a flooded market to me.
Given that Twitter/X is a private, contractual space (you see T&C even if you click through) which routinely implements the function of editor, and thus has an editorial even if the owner is in denial.. I think it fails at the door of a free speech test because free speech in law in the US is about Government restrictions on public speech.

so 1) the body in question is not a government 2) the space in question is probably not a public space in any real sense 3) because of 1) and 2) "free speech" is the wrong basis to complain about behaviours on this channel.

He chose to go to law in the US. He views the world through a US lens. Other jurisdictions might impose other expectations and requirements.

Arguably on a duck test Twitter/X "is" some kind of public speech commons. A very odd one, and a trans-national question. But I would expect a competent US legal team to tell Musk to insert his <part> in some <orifice> and <epithet> away.

BTW IANAL and I am not trying to play one. If a real L decides to tell me how I'm wrong I'd be delighted to be schooled.
"AI safety" should be disentangled into "AI notkilleveroneism" and "AI ethics", which are substantially non-overlapping categories. I've looked at who works at Preamble, and there aren't any names there that I recognize from the side of things that's concerned with x-risk. Take their takes with a grain of salt.
Lack of staging area kind of sucks.
I'd prefer the opposite - having multiple staging areas (like IntelliJ chabgelists) so I can incrementally build multiple changes at the same time.

Is there anything in jj that could be used as a substitute?
Amazing how these higher minded people always forget about the little people on the ground. All these employees losing their livelihoods for the greater good. Not surprised an ethicist thinks like this.
No, it's right here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod...

(See also Scott's response: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times...)
Separate clones are basically exactly like forks on GitHub, which is pretty standard these days. Seems they were ahead of the curve (again).
Don’t beat yourself up: kids don’t master self-control until adulthood. It’s natural and normal for self-control to be challenging.
It's been tried. See Better Place.[1] Battery swapping was a bet against better batteries. Even in Israel and Hawaii, where you can't drive very far, it was a losing idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_%28company%29
Trying to look like its business as usual and project a appearance of stability. Only it didn't work
I wish only lawyers could comment on this topic. /monkey's paw curls one finger/
For many Americans, STP for decades has been a famed auto additive. As a result GTP subliminally seems more natural, at least to me.
Boards vote executives out for reasons which are good, bad and downright petty all the time, and it's never done as a public meeting with presentation of evidence.

Nor is it usual for outgoing execs' successors to immediately try to rehire them, the majority of a company's staff to demand a CEO's reinstatement... never mind one of the board members who voted to get rid of him u-turning and adding his own name to that statement. Microsoft being surprised and a bit pissed off would have been expected. Microsoft finding room for Sam isn't wildly surprising. Microsoft announcing that it will try to poach every single member of OpenAI staff unless the board does what they want is not the sort of consequence you'd predict.

It was obvious this was going to get a bit more attention than the average CEO firing and they certainly screwed up the communication by providing just as much information with their initial statement to fuel speculation and then no further comment, but boards firing CEOs is normal and the entire company dying on the hill of trying to bring him back isn't.
Maybe processes are sentient beings? I dunno lol
My daughter is five and walks a block to her grandparent's house regularly (by herself, yes I know). In a few years, she will be walking to the corner store for basics or ice cream, or whatever. As for friend's parents, we live in a walkable urban neighborhood (we chose this), and yes, kids do this all the time.

> My guess is probably not. And that’s not the kids’ doing— that’s OUR doing.

It's parent's doing both because of their regulations. It's also parent's doing because parents choose to live in suburbia / pay a premium to do so. If parents paid premiums to live in dense urban neighborhoods, more would be built / development patterns would change.

It's weird. As I said... we live in an inner city (we're 1.5 miles from downtown core of our west coast city). You'd think our streets were busy, but ... they're less busy than the suburban street I grew up in. Here's the difference.. in a city. Few people drive. There are certainly main thoroughfares that are very crowded (my kids are not allowed to cross the large streets themselves). But within our neighborhood, bounded by large streets, the streets are really tiny and there's few drivers. My house is actually quieter than the suburban street I grew up on. It's silent at night. Cars are the noise, not people. People are quiet.

So that is to say... Yes it's parents fault. But parents are responding to their built environment, not any internal moral failing. The main issue is that parents are unable to understand the consequences of suburban living.
My neighbor worked on those hydrofoils. He once told me the foil's spars (?) were made of titanium, which could handle (eg obliterate) sizeable logs. 10" diameter?

Edit:

Just asked neighbor. He remembers the Pegasus was rated for 18" logs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pegasus_(PHM-1)

Also, the intended top speed proved infeasible, because the foils (wings) would cavitate at high speed, reducing lift.

He also worked on Boeing 929 jetfoils.

Additional color to the story was a collision with a whale. Gruesome. Big PR mess too. So now no more hydrofoils on the Salish Sea.
> why doesn't Ilya just spill the beans if he is now on "Team bring back Sam"

Ilya is on team TIFU and is (poorly) trying to save face.
I've got a home running that's a mixture of Wi-Fi from different (and mutually incompatible) vendors, zigbee, z-wave, and even a little bit of bluetooth. All of it is abstracted away by drivers inside of Home assistant so you deal with all of these devices using a common API, which is presented as a common UI at the finger tapping level.

There's absolutely nothing stopping you from mixing and matching all sorts of different wireless protocols and media types, or even wired ones (Ethernet).
Convert NextJS APIs to AWS Lambdas
Relevant poem from The Codeless Code:

http://thecodelesscode.com/case/234?lang=nl

Even references the moon!
We mostly agree then, but I think the scale of enterprise software development in languages such as Go and Rust is such that telling people to vet their dependencies isn't a feasible solution. If the dependencies are free software, it may be fairly easy to fix the setenv bugs, but they might not be. Ideally, there should be action on the C side to make this less of a problem overall, instead of just for the people who have the time and energy to fix this locally. Not sure if that's feasible based on backwards compatibility, but that's a different problem.
Apparently she is also an "Effective Altruist" (along with Toner) so they are ideologically aligned.
I think the real issue is that OpenAI was doomed to fail from the beginning. AI is commercially too valuable to be developed by an organization with a mission like them. Eventually they had to make a choice: either become a for-profit without any pretensions about the good of humanity, or stay true to the mission and abandon ambitions of being at the cutting edge of AI development.

A non-profit could not have beaten the superpowers in developing the atomic bomb, and a non-profit cannot beat commercial interests in developing AI.
What was the use case for fire fighters? DIY life insurance?
Lol I always thought this was a deliberate Easter egg
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1494/
I think trying to remove Toner for being a public author of that report is actually pretty out of line. (Note: the NYT article doesn't actually seem to provide evidence that Sam tried to get her removed from the board, though it sure does try to imply it real hard by reference to other things, like the email he sent criticizing her.)
Reminds me of the Poly Bridge low budget runs: https://gallery.drycactus.com/?level=713DropMeOff&type=win&o...

Given a finite amount of dollars and materials, how much variation can there be in building something of structural soundness? Turns out a lot, at least in he video game :)
I mean, at this point you’re just reinventing normal, boring money laundering.
That looks promising - will give it a try tomorrow
This isn't about cryptocurrency, it's about 'mixing services' for cryptocurrency.

Off-topic:

Cryptocurrency is / was 'new and clever' in that it combined a bunch of existing technologies into something that previously did not exist.

Something "new" about cryptocurrency is that it's a currency that lies outside the control of any government. No commentary on whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but in my mind it's undoubtedly 'new and clever' (in full knowledge that most of the world would rate that as arguable).
Tether absolutely had the chance to become solvent in the weekend of the SVB collapse. In that time, everyone was rushing out of USDC and DAI into Tether (USDT). Liquidity pools were drained of all their USDT and smartcontracts showed all available units being borrowed at 100+% APR. Tether was trading for $1.01-$1.10 that entire weekend, with demand insatiable. They could have repeatedly issued new Tethers and sold them for more than a dollar[1], while only incurring a dollar of liabilities.

Coinmarket cap shows the USDT market cap going up by about $2 billion during that weekend, but it's not clear if they were using this strategy. (which would have profited ~1-10% of that figure).

[1] or, depending on how much risk they wanted to take, traded them for USDC and DAI! Those were trading for as little as $0.90.
Shared grocery expenses because they live together.
The author actually touches on why it couldn't optimise this away: .* doesn't match any character sequence, it is equivalent to [^\n]* by default

Also, assuming RE2 works like other engines, it also couldn't convert to a partial match without the .* prefix+suffix even if .* matched any char, because you might then ask for capture group 0
5 because thats all thats left or 5 because its their responsibility?
feel like the board is too small and a handful of them kicked him out over personal agendas - which are incoherent and hence they cant explain it publicly

- Ilya for decel (but really tech fame jealously)

- Adam for a CoI with his startup (but really founder fame jealousy)

- Helen Toner for Sam disagreeing with her research in EA, safety and decel
The paper reads a lot more nuanced than that. It compares the "system card" released with GPT-4 to the delay of Claude and the merits of each approach vis a vis safety.
What if someone tries this IRL and the moon actually jumps closer and makes the shooter pass out so it stays there and the tidal forces rip apart the crust and we all die. Don't encourage them.
My bad, edited.
It's pretty heavily implied by OpenAI's charter: https://openai.com/charter

It's weird to me that Helen is getting so much crap for upholding the charter. No one objected to the charter at the time it was published. The charter was always available for employees, investors, and customers to read. Did everyone expect it to be ignored when push came to shove?

There's a lot of pressure on Helen right now from people who have a financial stake in this situation, but it's right there in the charter that OpenAI's primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. If employees/investors/customers weren't OK with that, they should not have worked with OpenAI.
Started working at a new company from March this year and finished one greenfield project already and working on my second one (due to be released maybe by January).

While also doing some bug fixes and new features for an existing product.

The company owners are very easy in this regard. If there's a new greenfield project upcoming, you can just express your interest and then start working on it. I guess the second greenfield project kind of originated from the first greenfield project I worked on. Owner figured out one feature of the project could be nice to sell as a separate library, if we can extend and improve its functionality.
i didn’t know - thanks for mentioning it :-)
We can only guess why users flag things, but usually they leave clues in the comments, and there are quite a few clue-leaving comments there.
I mean it can be as simple as playing Pokemon Go.

Anything that gets your activity up will help. Lots of low intensity stuff is probably even more valuable than 20 minutes of moderate effort.
> And does she believe that this will hold true for all time? That they and their colleagues are so unique that they hold the key to something that can otherwise not be replicated.

It's impossible to understand this position. We can be sure that in some countries right now there are vigorous attempts to build autonymous AI-enabled killing machines, and those people care nothing for whatever safety guardrails some US startup is putting in place.

I'm a believer in a skynet scenario, though much smarter people than me are not, so I'm hopefully wrong. But whatever, hand waving attempts to align/ soften, safeguard this technology are pointless and will only slow down the good actors. The genie is out of the bottle.
> The kind of pressure microsoft is able to exert here is mind blowing.

Remember the time Elon Musk bought a social media company accidentally as a joke? That's what 1/4 trillion dollars lets you do. 10x that and you have the power of Microsoft.
what I meant is that the most common reason people live in cities is for their job. I didn't mean that for each person that lives in a city, the most important factor to them living there was their job. The usage of "anyone" here was indeed wrong. Thanks for pointing that out.
The legal system exists to prevent people from using violence to solve their own problems. A very powerful third party arbitrating helps keep things relatively civil.

If you did find a bug, then society needs to patch it. And that's to desirable outcome.

The undesirable outcome is that someone sends a ninja into your house at 3am to manually patch the bug.
That's not the goal. Consider: you have bills with serial numbers known to have been stolen during a bank heist, and you want to exchange those bills with ones that are not known to have been stolen during a bank heist so that the feds don't pick you up for using them. In that case, the jar helps you do so, and that's money laundering. If other non-bank robbers participate in the jar knowing that you are doing this, they could also be charged with money laundering.
You definitely can comment on lines that haven't been changed. I don't think there's a way to comment on files that haven't been changed, though.
> Still better than any other species we know of and nature itself.

What other species has affected life on a planetary level more than humans?

> Nature doesn't mind the Earth turning into a frozen wasteland, it's done it before.

Nature—as in _the planet_—doesn't, but living beings do, and humans in particular.

Some parts of the planet are already becoming inhospitable, agriculture more difficult, and clean water, air and other resources more scarce. Humans are migrating en masse from these areas, which is creating more political and social conflicts, more wars, more migrations, and so on. What do you think the situation will be in 10 years? 50 years?

We probably don't need to worry about an extinction level event. But millions of people losing their lives, and millions more living in abject conditions is certainly something we should worry about.

Going back on topic, AI will play a significant role in all of this. Whether it will be a net positive or negative is difficult to predict, but one thing is certain: people in power will seek control over AI, just as they seek control over everything else. And this is what we're seeing now with this OpenAI situation. The players are setting up the game board to ensure they stay in the game.
Bitbucket is much better IME. It has a better handle on the current state of the review rather than offering you the whole diff to re-review whenever someone rebases, and it loses comments much less than github (indeed not at all, in my experience).
no, the training data is the mcguffin, not the weights.
This is a super common argument strategy "on the internet" (but also at work with people who are too annoying for their own good, including myself). Just stripping away context until suddenly the thing you're saying is fine. People throwing out metaphors and similes as if shuffling around numbers on a hard drive and throwing pieces of metal and paper into a jar are the same thing.

And nobody is really immune to this line of thinking! There are people who scoff at "mixing cash into the jar is not illegal" but will state that "math can't be made illegal" or "you can't copyright numbers". I'm definitely not immune to it.
Well, genetic algorithms are what, 50 years old or something?

EDIT: 66 years old, ca. 1957 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm#History
Also, games were often not really multiplayer in those days so there was no impact on other players.

These days multiplayer is always roped into it like with GTA V just so they can milk those sweet microtransactions.
As I stated and you selectively omitted, 3D scenes are collections of many arbitrary data structures.

Not at all the same as fixed sized arrays representing images.
Better but still not quite right. Paxton was acquitted of all counts in the Texas Senate and remains in his post.

The suing of a presidential admin by a state AG says very little about the merits of the lawsuit. Pointing it out as a reason to dismiss the legitimacy of a suit stains your reply with obvious bias against conservative policy.

There are plenty of reasons to not like Paxton. Suing POTUS is not high on the list.
OpenAI Lifeboat – Proxy OpenAI Code to Llama 70B on Replicate
You can remove paywalls on nytimes website by disabling javascript.
Replaceable battery isn't easy and likely won't happen for cars. Maybe for airplanes when the time comes, but even then I'm a bit skeptical... Maybe for part of it for bigger jets.

3min is better than 10min, but ask anyone if they'd prefer to fuel up 3 times slower and pay half the cost and I bet most everyone would say they would.

For fueling up, you must be there until it's done.
For charging you don't. You connect your car and go inside the convenience store.
With 10min, that's excellent. Chances are most everyone will either exit their vehicles, plug it in, go back inside their vehicle for 10min, walk around for a bit, or go to the store for a quick errant. In any of those cases the experience will be better than dealing with fuel.
> Tort/civil lawsuits are about being "made whole."

Only at the “modelling a cow as a perfectly thermoconducting sphere” level of analysis.

Actual damages and preliminary injunctions to preserve a situation remediable by damages are about that, other parts of what happens in civil cases are often not. E.g., punitive damages are, as the name suggests, punitive, not compensatory.
The main takeaway from this whole saga is, be careful who you allow on your board. Nearly everyone on OpenAI board is young, inexperienced and unqualified to be on the board of one of the most important companies on the planet.

Here's Ms. Toner's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a/
The big idea that excites me is that it does away with the concept of having uncommitted changes. Instead, every time you save a file in a repository it is automatically committed. It is the logical endpoint of the git workflow where you make lots and lots of little wip commits and then rewrite them into a sensible set of commits later, and the whole UI is designed around making that work well rather than being something that works but constantly feels like it's off the intended path.
The charter states that OpenAI should allow another company to win the race under certain circumstances:

>We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.”

https://openai.com/charter

That's why Sam pressuring Helen to shut up about Anthropic is so concerning.
Exactly this. I live in the now-inner-city (a residential area mile or so from downtown office buildings and a few blocks away from small office buildings). Back in the day our walkable neighborhood was built, it was considered the outer suburbs. It's still extremely dense. Way denser than the 60s/70s suburb I grew up in, and way denser than anything today. Density isn't just about how close the houses are but how close the nearest cafe and store is too.
This whole scheme only works if no one knows you put money into the pot. It works for crypto because the receiving account can be created anonymously, disconnecting that account completely from the original source.
Land isn't just fungible. Arable land that can be used to grow crops, fresh drinking water, greenhouse gas emissions (human transportation, freight, farming, computing, utilities, etc.), and housing are all factors to consider (some not related to land). For housing, more vertical cities would be helpful, but the suburban sprawl needs to be contained. Maybe we can squeeze in some more capacity, but it's reckless to act like we can continue barrelling forward with a high standard of living for everyone. We're not going to go extinct any time soon, but those of us on HN are generally more privileged and shouldn't be gambling on millions of lives.
Holy balls, this is amazing. Thank you for sharing. At that size, I could probably go one up higher and still put it on my 3090. Thank you thank you.

It actually does really well for simple queries like I'm asking about writing systemd files.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38371213, which has a more specific URL than https://status.openai.com.
Wrong. Mixing money can be done for non-criminal reasons. In your gloved example, you're doing it to commit crime.
BPA is not a plasticizer.
this is just hilarious and not at all what I expected
If I want to take my completely legitimately obtained money and obfuscate its source by putting it in a pool with people I have no knowledge of or connection to, I don't see why it should be assumed that I believe these people's intent is to launder the proceeds of some sort of illegal activity and not other people like myself. I think it's even more of a stretch to say that I would know that I'm facilitating someone else's money laundering in that case. There are completely legitimate reasons for wanting to obfuscate one's transaction history, just like there are legitimate reasons for wanting to use an email aliasing service, VPN, etc.
(Submitted title was "OpenAI API and ChatGTP Outage" - we've fixed it now.)
Right. I agree. That's how I'm saying it's similar to the OP: it's the intent that makes it one or the other.