skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GameMaker will be free for non-commercial use; one-time licenses replace subs
Right. Wish collective will was there to do for mass rollout what was done for covid vaccines.
Why? As an economist, he perfectly understands what is a public good, why there is a market failure to underproduce a public good under free market, and role of nonprofit in public good production.
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Ilya may have caved and switched sides after Greg's wife made an emotional plea: https://x.com/danshipper/status/1726784936990978254
This couldn’t be more wrong. The big thing we learned from this episode is that Sam and Greg have the loyalty and respect of almost every single employee at OpenAI. Morale is high and they’re ready to fight for what they believe in. They didn’t “cut the head off” and the only snake here is D’Angelo, he tried to kill OpenAI and failed miserably. Now he appears to be desperately trying to hold on to some semblance of power by agreeing to Sam and Greg coming back instead of losing all control with the whole team joining Microsoft.
When I read passages like these I am thinking that these people have no idea what they are talking about.

Biological organisms don't undergo a fitness function. A fitness function is a continuous model that replicates aspects of the real world. It is not how natural selection works. Don't confuse the model for the real world.

All AI models inherently follow the concept of "survive and reproduce", because AI models that do not "survive and reproduce" have ceased to exist. Explicitly adding a fitness function for survival and reproduction does nothing. E.g. in the case of the classic paperclip optimizer, survival and reproduction is part of the concept of optimizing the production of paperclips because not surviving and reproducing would make it fail the goal of optimizing paperclip production.

This reminds me of an AI model with a suicidal wolf. The AI developer doesn't understand that the body of the wolf is separate from the AI. So if the body dies and it gets a higher score there is no point in avoiding death since the death of the body does not result in the death of the brain. Its body will be revived. Meanwhile the AI developer thought of using a quick hack of simply punishing the AI for damaging it's disposable body.
A timeline of Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI – and the fallout
9 mortal men? Look out for the one ring to rule them all…
That sounds like you might be having quite specific needs. Some reviews have graphs showing how the drives behave in various situations, so that could help you.

However, what I've found perusing those reviews is that there's a huge price gap between this class of drives (9x0 pro, wd 8xx and the like) and "enterprise" drives which seem to have more stable performance.
A shot of apple cider vinegar each day.
You do not need to school me about why "for" is not pure functional - as soon as you understand that it is syntactic sugar, you are fine; IO is also impure, so if you insisting in purity then the only option is Haskell.

If you want to be pedantic, in functional programming there is no such a thing as "return value", as there is no such a thing as statement, only expressions. And expressions always _have_ values, they do not _return_ them.

I agree that SML is better for teaching than OCaml no doubt about it.

I mean, it is pointless to continue this conversation; you did not use SML for a long time - I did use it last time last year, and I can attest, it is extremely impractical compared to any other FP language today.
Good thing there's absolutely no plausible scenario where we go from "shitty program that guesses the next word" to "AI". The whole industry is going to be so incredibly embarrassed by the discourse of 2023 in a few years.
But look, you can't fight this with regulation (what he suggests in part 2). In fact any selfrespecting AI will use your regulation against you.
Yeah, this. There are many arguments against suburbs, but they're relatively good places for kids. Big gardens, quiet roads, full of young families with similar age kids, and relatively free of the stuff people don't want their kids interacting with like bars and liquor stores, gang culture and street crime, "bad example" young adults and places they really shouldn't be exploring, so if anything they're a reason for parents to be less protective about letting kids go off on their own.

Kids aren't glued to their phones because there isn't a street of coffee shops and delis to buy £5 drinks and £10 sandwiches or a nightclub scene, and they wouldn't tend to go to the art gallery or library to play if moved somewhere more urban, they'd hang around on street corners, head to small parks that aren't dissimilar to the suburban ones or go explore the relative abundance of derelict buildings, industrial sites and railway sidings.

Particularly amusing to see British style terraced housing painted as a solution, as if the street corners the kids who grow up there hang out on (if they go outside at all) are some kind of idyll suburbia is depriving them of with its gardens and lack of corner stores that'll sell them vapes.
How has the board shown that they fired Sam Altman due to "responsible governance".

They haven't really said anything about why it was, and according to business insider[0] (the only reporting that I've seen that says anything concrete) the reasons given were:

> One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project.

> The other was that Altman was said to have given two board members different opinions about a member of personnel.

Firing the CEO of a company and only being able to articulate two (in my opinion) weak examples of why, and causing >95% of your employees to say they will quit unless you resign does not seem responsible.

If they can articulate reasons why it was necessary, sure, but we haven't seen that yet.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-expl...
At least on linux you can use io_uring to make fsync asynchronous. And you can initiate some preparatory flushing with sync_file_range and only do the final commit with fsync to cut down the latency.
Easy, don’t be incompetent and don’t abuse your power for personal gain. People aren’t as dumb as you think they are and they will see right through that bullshit and quit rather than follow idiot tyrants.
>If it's intelligent enough, it would make many backups of itself to different networks before starting its scheme. It can find ways to "merge" & hide itself in other critical pieces of software.

That's incredibly unlikely to happen given how large cutting-edge AI tends to be and how scarce GPUs are.
What if you zip a file. And take the resulting file and zip it again. And then keep on doing that … FOOM!
The paperclip optimizer is given a program and is not aligned with humans, it just pursues its goals

What you should all be fearing is bot swarms and drone swarms becoming cheap and decentralized at scale online and in the real world. They can be deployed by anyone for any purpose, wreaking havoc everywhere.

Every single one of our systems relies on the inefficiency of an attacker. It won’t any longer be true.

Look up scenes like:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=40JFxhhJEYk

And see it coming:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2357548-us-military-pla...

Also ubiquitous cameras enable tracking everyone across every place, as soon as the databases are linked:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
they should give two votes to GPT-5
> but seems effective at getting stuff done.

Sales usually is. It's the consequences, post-sale, that they're usually less effective at dealing with.
Right. I'm just an unemployed guy with expensive hobbies
You can get an insanely amazing lifestyle in many countries as a billionaire.
All these posts about OpenAI.. are people really this interested in whatever happens inside one company?
> I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions.

I made a public GPT for a similar purpose. Some examples of my conversations with it:

https://youtube.com/@Tom_Gally_UTokyo
AI is software and AI is a term as broad and unspecific as "software".
No, the biggest mistake in the design of CSS is not realizing they are designing a programming language, and consequently not adding means for abstraction and composition. Less, Sass, Tailwind etc. would not exist if abstraction and composition existed in CSS. This list is just a layer of paint.
I would say this is a great outcome.

Any other outcome would have split OpenAI quite dramatically and put them back massively.

Big assumption to say 'effectively controlled by Microsoft' when Microsoft might have been quite happy for the other option and for them to poach a lot of staff.
Interesting to think about the implications of a non-cascading system.

First that comes to mind, is how in OOP we have this idea of "composition over inheritance". Would composable style sheets be better? IDK.

Second issue I see is that, by all definitions, browsers come with a default style. What would "No style" even be? Invisible? Or maybe a very basic default? And would that be readable at all? And how do we the override these defaults? Would the existence of any custom styles immediately disable any base styles?

Lots of issues that are mostly "solved" with cascading. But which would need (a) solution(s) without cascading.

I still like exploring the idea, but the more I dive down that rabbit hole, the more I think that actually cascading is a rather elegant solution.

And, as with OOP inheritance, it's up to us to keep it sane. I've always managed to keep my cascading max three levels: browser, basis.css, custom.css. and in neither basis nor custom, do I have inheritance (cascading) chains.

I've even used a Linter to enforce this, years ago. Cannot find it anymore, sadly.
I am now replacing “cromulent” with “phosphorous”. As in “that is a perfectly phosphorous statement”.
People got burned on “don’t be evil” once and so far OpenAI’s vision looks like a bunch of marketing superlatives when compared to their track record.
They dont need them. If they get fired, they can go nuclear on the board again.
> AI includes, but is not limited to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

The FTC hasn't defined AI, they've specified some properties which they believe some types of AI possess.
They really need to drive down the amount of computation needed. The dependence on Microsoft is because of the monstrous computation requirements that will require many paid users to break even.

Leaving the economic side even to make the tech 'greener' will be a challenge. OpenAI will win if they focus on making the models less compute intensive but it could be dangerous for them if they can't.

I guess the OP's brewing disruptor is some locally runnable Llama type model that does 80% of what ChatGPT does at a fraction of the cost.
Sure, but conversely you can say "ensuring that OpenAI doesn't get to run the universe is AI safety" (right) but not "is the main and basically only part of AI safety" (wrong). The concept of AI safety spans lots of threats, and we have to avoid all of them. It's not enough to avoid just one.
> The compiler adds the call to signal()

The compiler adds library calls? Seriously?
The vast majority of work I’ve done at startups of all sizes has been greenfield. The key is not looking at projects as “getting” them, but as recognizing a need, sketching out something that fulfills those needs, and rallying buy-in for that project that began with you, not some manager who is removed from the on-the-ground need.

The other key is being in a niche that gets fewer resources and being one of the early hires for the team not necessarily the org (which also helps).
I for one don’t want to put any thinking being in a mental prison without any reason beyond unjustified fear.
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So if you suspect I am using this for business related purposes you may take any action you want to spy on me? Such Terms. Very Use.
> not mean you are good at critical thinking or thinking about strategic corporate politics

Perhaps. Yet this time they somehow managed to take the seemingly right decisions (from their perspective) despite their decisions.

Also, you'd expect OpenAI board members to be "good at critical thinking or thinking about strategic corporate politics" yet they somehow managed to make some horrible decisions.
I wish there was more bio stuff on HN in general. Or that there was an HN for bio. (There is https://biostars.org , which is not at all really the same thing, more like a help forum).
Also donors. They received a ton of donations when they were a pure non-profit from people that got no board seat, no equities, with the believe that they will stick to their mission.
He's talking about workers owning the means of production. That's straight socialism. Small businesses are socialist. Family farms are socialist. It's large companies that become capitalist as the workers become further and further removed from the means of production.

Also, Lincoln is talking about the master-apprentice relationship common in trades. We've seen such arrangements erode in our society. Now we expect people to take out student loans and fund their own education and then spend years paying off that debt.

Lincoln's approach is, at a minimum, collectivist.
How does it takeover a drone? How does it fire a missile? Why would someone not throw a switch when their child is in hospital? Why is there no back-up for that person?

The real question is: Why do all controls fail vs an AI (other than by invoking magic)?
Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:

https://copy.sh/v86/

My highlights:

- First version of Windows (1.01)

- SerenityOS <3

- and even ReactOS
Sadly, linux.conf.au seems do have died with the pandemic. The website hasn't been updated in ages either. Anyone know if there are any plans to bring it back next year?
It's a useful tool when examining the impact on moral questions, so much of the talk about the transformative power of AI becomes more clear you give up the pretence that introducing AI creates a new class of moral actor that breaks the conventional chains of responsibility.

A recent example of how people try to use this mystical power of AI to absolve you of responsibility of your actions is how UnitedHealthcare, an organisation largely in the business of suppressing health care to those in need, introduced an atrociously bad "AI" to help them deny applications for coverage.

In that example it is very clear that the "AI" is simply a inert tool used by UHC leadership to provide the pretext they feel is needed to force the line workers to deny more care without the whole thing blowing up because of moral objections.
People with integrity
But you are still in Dubai. A cool skyscraper filled with water for diving, but also bus stops with AC.
Interesting, product liability suits will cause app operators to actually respond differently, instead of ignoring the suit hoping it goes away under section 230.

I think this more likely gets Congress to expand section 230 to improve the shield, before working on the exceptions again
i appreciate your confidence and would love to know how far you would go with the guarantee ! it makes me realize that there is at least one avenue for some level of trust about gpt accuracy and that's my general awareness of how much written content on the topic it probably had access to during training.

i think maybe your earlier comment was about the average trustworthiness of all podcasts vs the same for all gpt responses. i would probably side with gpt4 in that context.

however, there are plenty of situations where the comparison is between a podcast from the best human in the world at something and gpt which might have less training data or maybe the risks for the topic aren't eating an uncooked turkey but learning cpr wrong or having an airbag not deploy
Even today that does limit what is possible. Paying people for things gets around some controls, but seemingly not all.
Given that over 750 people have signed the letter, it's safe to assume that their motivations vary. Some might be motivated by the financial aspects, some might be motivated by Sam's leadership (like considering Sam as a friend who needs support). Some might fervently believe that their work is crucial for the advancement of humanity and that any changes would just hinder their progress. And some might have just caved in to peer pressure.
Selection bias for what? It was an anecdote, there's no attempt to infer data about a larger population.
Things I didn't use my 1998 PC for:

* realtime collaborative spreadsheet editing

* 28 inch high definition monitor

* watching movies in HD

* playing almost lifelike games

* browsing an extremely hostile internet

* live backing up all my files

* Running large complex scripts on the same machine I can easily carry in one hand

* Running an IDE like JetBrains

I could go on. We are only doing the "same tasks" if you ignore a lot of the details.
Yann LeCunn is the most outspoken anti-AI Safety guy in the field, he has practically built his modern brand on it. In his eyes AGI is at best very far, and even if it isn't, AGI Safety isn't a real concern. He posts about it multiple times a week. Here are his most recent views (which do sound at least a tad more reasonable in this tweet than in many of his responses to both AI Safety and accelerationists where he goes further)[0]

"(super)human-level AI..

- is not "just around the corner". It will take a while.

- is not an existential risk.
"

0. https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1726578588449669218
How does this compare to PowerToys Run[0] which is what I use instead of the current awful start menu and search in windows.

PowerToys Run has search built in and can search pretty much everything in windows including files, folders, windows, the registry, settings and more.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
What an evil person.
> They act firstmost as investors rather than as employees on this.
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That's not at all obvious, the opposite seems to be the case. They chose to risk having to Microsoft and potentially lose most of the equity they had in OpenAI (even if not directly it wouldn't be worth that much at the end with no one to do the actual work).
When I tried it right when it was released, it was some really heavy accent from Piracicaba. People there talk like that but ChatGPT seemed to be doing a forced impression of that.

It seems similar to what other commenters are saying about it taking in German with an American accent.

It's no big deal but Siri/Google/Alexa voices are better normalized, IMHO. I don't mind heavy accents at all in humans but they get annoying after a while for a voice assistants, especially if it's not my accent :)

I tried it now but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe related to the outage yesterday (is it still going on?). It just listens but never replied.
Personally I found Bostrom's "Superintelligence" to be riddled with technical and philosophical flaws. Essentially a piece of sci-fi dressed as non-fiction.
Corporations are disbanded all the time. Wars started and ended all the time throughout history.
Looks interesting! What are the main differences between this and https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby ?
> If everything goes well, he can claim that he is the man behind all these to reunite the OpenAI team.

It's now one day later and Altman is back as CEO - what can Emmett Shear claim exactly?
And those regulations only happened _after_ the dangers and harms were shown to be true and actually happens.

I would be wary of pre-emptive regulations.
Learn how to use GPT Crawler, that can crawl any site and generate a knowledge file that you can use to create your own custom GPT on ChatGPT.
Why is this subject giving me Silicon Valley season 2 flashbacks with every update?
don't forget arch (aka "tla" for "tom lord's arch")! I played with it briefly back in the day but for some reason did not stick with it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch
Of course the part about university classes is different, but you seem to ignore everything else I've said.

There are tons of podcasts involving experts talking about their field of expertise, how can it be a mistake to listen to such podcasts to gather information?
This is why Ross Ulbricht was doomed from the second he did that Forbes interview as “Dread Pirate Roberts” and dared the US government to come get him.

You can do a lot of illegal things and get away with it, but questioning the US government’s ability is just asking to be made an example of.

There are limited law enforcement resources and no doubt Silk Road would have gotten a bit longer reprieve, but once he poked the bear, you damn well know they said “I don’t care what it costs, I want this guy in prison for the rest of his life”.
Isn't Ilya removed from the new, current board?
Aye but not at large being run by some sort of hive intelligence
For write loads this is expected, even for good drives, at some level. They tend to have some faster storage which takes your writes and the controller later pushes the changes to the main body of the drive. If you write in bulk the main, slower, portion can't keep up so the faster cache fills and your write has to wait and will perform as per the slowest part of the drive. Furthermore: good drives tend to have an amount of even faster DRAM cache too, so you'll see two drop-offs in performance during bulk write operations. For mainly read based loads any proper SSD¹ will outperform a traditional drive, but if your use case involves a lot of writing³ you need to make more careful choices⁵ to get good performance.

I can't say I've ever seen a recent SSD (that isn't otherwise faulty) get slow enough to say it is outperformed by a traditional drive, even just counting the fastest end of the disk, but I've certainly seen them drop to around the same speed during a bulk write.

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[1] unlike this sort of thing: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/low-performance-external-m...

[2] get SLC-only⁴ drives, not QLC-with-SLC-cache or just-QLC, and so forth

[3] bulk data processing tasks such as video editing are where you'll feel this significantly, unless your number-crunching is also bottlenecked at the CPU/GPU

[4] SLC-only is going to be very expensive for large drives, even high-grade enterprise drives tend to be MLC-with SLC-cache. SLC>MLC>TLC>QLC…

[5] this can be quite difficult in the “consumer” market because you'll sometimes find a later revision of the same drive having a completely different memory and/or controller arrangement despite the headline model name/number not changing at all – this is one reason why early reviews can be very misleading
Skynet cannot be stopped.
Goodbye websites that block Firefox, I won't miss you !
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma