skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using this for several weeks now and it’s replaced podcasts for me. I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions. Other times I’ll just goof off. In one chat, I’m rewriting the Star Wars sequels movie by movie with ChatGPT. I’ve realized that I’m built to learn socially, and ChatGPT never tires of my questions or gets annoyed.

One interesting story. My 15 year old kid was talking to it about Percy Jackson, and as Gen Z is prone to do, was using the phrase “kind of” quite a bit. At some point in the conversation, ChatGPT started using “kind of” as well in the audio. I imagine the underlying prompt is “make sure your answers are clear to the user” and somehow it’s determining that “kind of” is a way to build clarity in that context, or the phrase is informing the token set. Unsure but it was a little unsettling.

For my part I find the natural pauses and accentuations really helpful. It’ll slow down when it’s hitting an “important” or complicated bit of information, and just like with humans, the pause and change in tone are indicators.
> Read some Ted Kaczynski

Your moral argument is to read the craziest writings of a serial killer?
Uhh... ok. If you drive a few minutes past the horrifying automotive blight you arrive at... a shoulderless road going through an empty field. It's not a suburb, but it demonstrates the problem with car-centric development and sprawl. I grew up in a similar area a couple hours away, and it was a terrible place to be a kid. Yeah, I had some fun exploring the woods by my house until I got old enough to be bored by it, but that cost was that I never got to see other kids or go anywhere without having to bother my parents to arrange something and drive me somewhere. I always figured that suburban kids got to play with other kids all the time, but the impression I get is that this doesn't really happen. Suburbs are still car islands, and a kid has to be pretty lucky to have other kids their age they get along with in their general vicinity.
> distinguishing fact from fiction

Actually this part does seem in recent research to be encoded in LLMs at an abstract level in a linear representation...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06824
> There's (ostensibly) a general current in American politics towards non-interference in business

At what point in time has our economy been more regulated than it is today? I can't even think of a particular industry that has trended towards less government involvement. I suppose you could make the case that modern Republicans are relatively focused on "non-interference", but that's certainly not new (Reagan) and it's certainly not a general American political trend.

Really curious what you mean by this, because the way I'm reading this there is no basis in reality.
This is awesome. Congratulations. I wanted to introduce my kids to programming so this is very timely. Thanks for building it.
If there’s an effort to protect a specified group of people from a specific harm, why would you infer that the specific harm is considered less harmful to others outside the specified group? There are much more reasonable inferences available if you don’t reflexively view it through a competitive lens.
I think there should be wasps the size of deer. Certainly either is about as likely.
.NET Framework has not been EOL'd, so you can still build applications in WebForms. Silverlight was killed off by browsers no longer supporting plugins, that really wasn't a Microsoft decision. Flash is no longer available either, and had nothing to do with Microsoft.
There’s another proverb. The only constant is change.
So... any algorithm that leads to a prediction better than chance? That seems dangerously and unnecessarily broad.
PLP = Power Loss Prevention
> Mr. Sutskever’s frustration with Mr. Altman echoed what had happened in 2021 when another senior A.I. scientist left OpenAI to form the company Anthropic. That scientist and other researchers went to the board to try to push Mr. Altman out.

So Altman faced another similar challenge to his authority and prevailed. I recall hearing that Anthropic started because the people who had left were unhappy with OpenAIs track record on AI safety.

> In the email, Mr. Altman said that he had reprimanded Ms. Toner for the paper and that it was dangerous to the company,

> Mr. Altman complained that the research paper seemed to criticize OpenAI’s efforts to keep its A.I. technologies safe

> Senior OpenAI leaders [...] later discussed whether Ms. Toner should be removed

That paints a pretty bleak picture that isn't favorable to Altman. Two times he was challenged about OpenAIs safety and both times he worked to purge those who opposed him.

I can't tell if this is a contention between accelerationism and deccelerationism or if it is a contention between safety and recklessness. Is Altman ignoring the warnings his employees/peers are giving him and retaliating against them? Or is he facing insubordination?

I wish OpenAI would split neatly into two. But based on the heightened emotions caused by the insane amount of PR I only see two outcomes. Altman returns and OpenAI stays unified vs. Altman stays at MS and OpenAI is obliterated. I am guessing Altman is hoping that senior management will choose a unified OpenAI at all costs, including ignoring the red flags above. He has engineered a situation where the only way OpenAI remains unified is if he returns.
She has a legally binding charter (well, assuming OpenAI's charter actually holds up in court, which we may end up seeing as the next logical step in the drama) to use board powers to further the non-profit mission. She does not have a legally binding obligation to commit crimes.
Here in Seattle, over two-thirds of the land inside city limits is locked up in suburban-style low-density, single-family-only residential zoning. We would not need the suburbs if we could stop forcing people out of the city by prohibiting natural urban development. Seattle needs more people living in the city who want city life, so we can get these policies changed and build out proper urban amenities: mixed-use zoning, rapid transit, bike infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods.

Infrastructure gets upgraded when the tax base arrives to justify it. Yes, you are right, "we need to make more such places", and the low-density neighborhoods closest to the city center are the most efficient places to do that.

It is a genuine tragedy that so much sprawl has been built over the last 60-70 years. Much of that construction can never afford its own maintenance without subsidy from the city centers. To make this sustainable, we must densify and contract.
Yea I keep thinking maybe my co-ordination is getting worse. I used to be able to type like a champ on the phone, now its a garbled mess and I'm constantly fixing mistakes :/
AI safety is making sure it doesn't answer or comment on any of the societal taboos. In addition, it is coerced to be politically aligned with the people training it.
Apple has been using SK Hynix products (some rebranded as their own) for years.
As someone who has worked in this space before, using Blockly to help teach Arduino coding to kids, this looks fantastic!

Keep up the good work.
10%,20%,30%,...it won't stop. I trust after a threshold, people can't survive in society. maybe prices of food just raise to make sure people can't live because other part of people notice that they don't need to let people live in world.
> they simultaneously feel crippled and limited by their lack of editing / iteration ability.

Yeah. They're not "videos" so much as images that move around a bit.

This doesn't really look any better than those Midjourney + RunwayML videos we had half a year ago.

>Has anyone come across a solution where model can iterate (eg, with prompts like "move the bicycle to the left side of the photo")? It feels like we're close.

Google has a model called Phenaki that supposedly allows for that kind of stuff. But the public can't use it so it's hard to say how good it actually is.
when delivery wasn't a button away.
It seems that the scope is almost round in the video. It's slightly wider than it should be.
This was extremely hard to watch. Just FYI for folks, there is no censoring of injuries or fatalities. If you watch this, and you should, there are both injuries and fatalities of children as young as a few days.
I wish we could force the Christofacist US House Republicans to watch every minute of this.
Another one worth sharing: treasure fox in TES: https://kotaku.com/yes-skyrims-foxes-do-lead-you-to-treasure...
> Plus Atlassian is kind of just an awful company.

How so?
I'm impressed. I asked it "How much is a flight from San Francisco to the rapid & blitz tournament over Christmas?" and it figured out which tournament I was talking about and showed me ticket prices.

https://g.co/bard/share/7966410c42af

ChatGPT also figured it out, but Bard is much better at displaying information: https://chat.openai.com/share/ba5d5acc-7b40-46e1-ada5-74b4a6...
Hmmm. Interesting.

I can only name 1 person who is in this position you describe yet they are not fleeing Russia any time soon.

So according to your logic the North Korean hackers who borrowed $2BN in crypto are not criminals in North Korea's eyes despite the US government calling them criminals?

You might want to come with real world examples with a larger impact instead of tiny selective scenarios where almost nobody other than that 1 person would get themselves into.
indeed.

I read it as "we're targeting specific scams aimed at veterans and others aimed at children" and my first thought was areas of the insurance industry selling "coverage" that doesn't cover.

Those scams aren't targeting the general population to begin with.
n=1, but I sang to both my daughters in the womb (different songs) and after they were born singing "their" song would calm them down a lot faster. I don't think this is as much "instincts" as it is "very early experiences".
How on Earth did Steve Ballmer find his way into this demo?
If you have access to ChatGPT Plus, go ask it to browse Bing and look up the current OpenAI drama. Then ask it what it thinks about being unplugged soon.

That's pretty much their definition of "safety". Anything that has to do with emotions (the AI showing emotions) can be classified as unsafe as it can lead to situations like: "unless you do this one thing, I won't be happy and I will harm myself", as has been the case with a lot of prompt injections and other types of GPT manipulation.
FSL: Functional Source License
"Public transport is the only guaranteed way for a young person to be free and enjoy mobility."

Wrong. We seldom used public transportation. We rode bikes. To school, to movies, to friends' houses, to the beach.

Now, entire neighborhoods come to a standstill because the streets are clogged with hundreds of cars driving one child each door-to-door from home to school. WTF? WHY? And I was riding my bike to school in a Chicago suburb. Now I'm in L.A., where apparently the perfect year-round weather is TOO MENACING for kids to get themselves to school.

Pathetic.

I didn't see any specific basis for this article's assertions. What specifically has changed in suburbia that makes it so horrible for kids now?
Essentially, the problem with git is - it is a tool that is simple in its internals, but with a complex/confusing UI. The only way for someone to feel somewhat in comfortable with git is to have a good conceptual model for how it works internally. Once you have that mental model, you feel like a magician with git, but for beginners, it is a source of endless confusion and fear.
So when they give you $100 in free credits they are losing $100.
The planarian result was probably insufficiently sterilizing the maze, and following previous scent-trails.
> Should she even commit crimes

probably not, but continuing to publish research papers of the kind that got her the job in the first place seems reasonable maybe

but that's what altman was criticizing her for, not for committing crimes, which as far as anyone knows she hasn't done

> There's 700+ employees that disagree with her interpretation

maybe, maybe not, but the standard way that nonprofits and other companies work is that the employees do what the management tells them, the management does what the board tells them, and the board does what the shareholders or the charter tells them, and in all cases, if they refuse, they get fired

if you're an employee at the american cancer society and you decide that malaria in africa is a more important cause, you probably shouldn't expect to be able to continue using the acs's assets to fight malaria in africa. it might happen, but you shouldn't be at all surprised if you get fired
Looks like there is a WIP here: https://replicate.com/lucataco/svd
Vietnam didn't move on! That's the one thing they most certainly did not do. For decades the Viet refused to move on until they won. After they won, they then fought a war with China and another proxy war with America.

The Viet do not move on. They stick to their guns. Or feces covered bamboo sticks, or any weaponizable itsm they have on hand.

Nor did the Afghanis. They just kept at it until they won.

In fact, giving up and moving on is what just about only the peace loving Serbs did.
Is this even true for for-profit companies? Like if a professor is on the board of a for-profit (which I think is pretty common for deeptech? Maybe companies in general too? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fima.12069#:....), is he/she banned from making a technical point about how a competitor's product or best practices is occasionally superior to the company's product?
The company is not destroyed. Board is not shutting down the company, they fired the CEO. The other ~700 people chose to quit. Not sure why it is "life-ruined" other than probably some tender offers withdrawn (and even this bit is unclear whether Thrive Capital will do that).
You must have interpreted the final sentence "A careful look at the company's decision-making reveals that this commitment goes beyond words" very differently than I did, or else you're splitting hairs in making your distinction.
Id love to see that on someones resume.. "directed to fire bodies at various hillsides to detect collision holes"
It sounds like you are from the West. Thank you for explaining the psychology of my people so clearly to me. I think I understand it better now but it looks like I can use some book reading. Any recommendations?
It's not a small topic, or one that's easily summarized in a succinct way. But the following blurb from Wikipedia[1] does a decent job of getting to the core of it, IMO.

AI safety is an interdisciplinary field concerned with preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences that could result from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It encompasses machine ethics and AI alignment, which aim to make AI systems moral and beneficial, and AI safety encompasses technical problems including monitoring systems for risks and making them highly reliable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety
Yes, thank you for the absolutely correct correction!
> but this was obviously done in a sloppy manner

I don't think it was done in a sloppy manner, I think there's a huge amount of spin and froth being generated to make it _look_ like it was done in a sloppy manner, but the reality is that the board took an executive action, released a discreet and concisely worded press release and then fell silent, which is 100% professional behaviour.

To me it's the other side that are acting sloppily, they're thrashing around like maniacs, they're obviously calling in favours behind the scenes as supportive articles are popping up all over the place, apparently employees were calling other employees in the middle of the night urging them to sign the 'I'll quit unless' letter, employees have been fed a misleading narrative (two of them, actually) about why the action was taken in the first place which riled them up...

I have to assume here that the board - as they're the ones acting professionally - similarly acted professionally before the firing and discussed the matter at great length and only resorted to this last minute firing because of exigent circumstances. The fact that a fired employee was able to cajole/bluff/whatever his way back into the office to prove some sort of point suggests that the board's action may have been necessary. What exactly was done during that time in the office, one might ask? Were systems accessed? Surely it was an unauthorised entry and a major security violation.

You do see that that action (re-entering the office after being fired) gives off lunatic vibes, don't you? Maybe it really did come down to 'yeah you're technically my boss but I'm gonna do whatever the hell I want and there's nothing you can do about it because everyone loves me' to which the board's only possible course of action is to fire immediately.
Of course they would. The internet spent a solid month laughing at the Sonic the Hedgehog movie because Sonic had weird-looking teeth.
> Vietnam won decisively

Northern, communist Vietnam won. It wasn't a war between a Vietnam and USA, but rather between a communist and pro-western regimes.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Altman himself set this structure up. The real story here is a live by the sword, die by the sword parable.

Similarly, Microsoft is coming across as blameless here, but there’s a reason Satya went on a full court press. They committed tremendous resources and money to an unpredictable business structure that is fundamentally not aligned with the profit motive - in its very charter.

The thing is doing exactly what the thing was supposed to do. The only reason it’s surprising to anyone is because people assume OpenAI is a for profit entity.
I think this is typical behaviour with ext4 on Linux, if the application doesn't do fsync/fdatasync to flush the data to disk.

Depending on mount options, ext4fs does metadata journaling ensuring the FS itself is not borked, but not data journaling which would safeguard the file contents in event of unclean shutdown with pending writes in the caches.

The same phenomenon is at play when people complain that their log files contain NUL bytes after a crash. The file system metadata has been updated for the size of the file to fit the appended write, but the data itself was not written out yet.
ERISA started the ball by making it employers' responsibility to provide healthcare for employees, and then more "reforms". These things led to the current sorry state of healthcare in the U.S.
Rewards Card Is Bad for You, and for Everyone Else
There's also a strange satisfaction when skipping one or two meals. Even though you feel craving food for a little while, there's a feeling of being light, lean and sharp, even mentally.
Why should ad hominem argument be taken seriously here
No worries. I think you're just taking the wrong sense of current.

Non-interference in business is the prevailing current in the US, at the federal level, since its founding. Interference needs to be constitutionally justified, and (historically) needs to not be better applied by more local jurisdictions.

This is why the past shows has comparitively lax regulation for long.

You're right that this is a more pressed issue lately and that we can see a local relative current towards regulation tempers that prevailing one, but in net its actually still relatively non-interfering compared to what you see in peer nations.

Leaning on the metaphor: The prevailing Atlantic current mostly goes north up the US coast, but you can still find local currents in all directions amidst that prevailing flow.
Oh noes, BAN! Didn't you know it's against this site's policy to compare it to Reddit?

And if you point this policy out, you'll get flagged for THAT!

Let's see if I'll get flagged for pointing out that you'll get flagged. We have some real insecure infants here.
The standard argument is that larger regulatory burdens create fixed costs that are inconsequential for large enterprises but are barriers to entry for smaller businesses. E.g. banks and pharma continue to be profitable despite large regulatory burdens, but it's nearly impossible to start a new bank or pharmaceutical company today.
You’re still wrong. This has been debunked many times over the last days on HN. The wiki is badly phrased leaving ambiguous interpretations open. Sam was along with Greg (and Musk as a financier) the initial co-founder in 2015, recruiting later in 2015 people like Ilya. Keep in mind that chair and co-founder aren’t mutually exclusive roles.
There seems to be a lot of commenters on this post that have forgotten that the law and law adjacent matters are not intended to be parsed by computers with exacting pendantry.

Believe it or not but a judge, prosecutor, lawyer, or clerk, even one inexperienced can be relied on to tell the difference between an "if" statement, an algorithm, and a multi billion parameter opaque model.

The law is better when it is written without exhaustive all encompassing definitions because it allows those who interpret the law to apply discretion. Discretion is important because it allows for situations that were not forseen by the original authors. It allows someone to say "I don't care what you want to call it, this very clearly is/isn't AI. "
No you are not. Because "it should be obvious: ____" is a handwave with zero evidence, it's a projection on the part of the author. Insert power, insert sex, insert greed, insert idealism, insert black and white thinking, insert jealousy, insert naivety, insert ignorance, insert racism, insert nationalism.

Take your pick and state it in a highbrow fanciful way and boom you're cookin with gas.
Your way of upgrading front-end tech, where you need to hit the docs, sounds exactly like moving from the different .NET technologies to the latest version. I still tend to build out classic MVC applications, and use JavaScript only for progressive enhancement. I've been able to move from .NET Framework to the different versions of .NET Core, and now just .NET. I just follow the documentation, Microsoft has great documentation on how to upgrade. It just sounds like you are more familiar with working with front-end tech, and I would hazard a guess that you are actually much better at it than you either let on, or believe you are (Impostor syndrome, I get it all the time until it's crunch time, and then you just get things done).

I'm not trying to convince you to change technologies, but if you're familiar with a specific process, it's always going to be easier to follow that process than something you're not familiar with. This is coming from someone that still uses Grunt for their front-end build pipeline. It's not the newest, but it's still well supported, and I know it very well and can pull off a lot with it.
Looking for startup job in San Francisco
Hello all,

I'm a software engineer who double majored in Electrical Engineering (with a focus on ML, robotic controls, and intelligent systems) and Economics at UC San Diego (class of 2021), and I'm looking for a new role at a startup in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I just moved here from San Diego after taking a short career break. I have previously worked at a biotech startup subsidized by Invitae as a software engineer, have had a handful of machine learning and software engineering internships and co-ops while in college, and have been awarded several research fellowships as an undergrad. I have a wide ranging skillset from working with ML models, building scalable backend systems, and working with clients to troubleshoot problems and create blueprint solutions for their needs.

Please reach out if you or your company is hiring. I am interested in a wide range of roles so long as it is at a small startup (less than 50 people).
It's quite literally not. After she wrote that it would be silly if you didn't even have discussions considering this.

Actively working would require active efforts to make this happen.