skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They really don't blend in. The ground around them is cleared of trees (of which there are many, everywhere in NA that I've lived) which makes them stick out like a sore thumb. For a time, I lived near the top of a hill, and the nearest pylon to my house has a honkin' bright flasher at the top. Usually, this wasn't an issue, but the park nearby would often get thick fog at night. Nothing like walking through a lovely foggy wooded park, pulsating with a bright omnipresent flash every 10 seconds.

Of course, it's better than a plane hitting the house in the fog.
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Quite true, where I live is “rural”. There are miles and miles of farmland all around me, but I am also less than hour away from 4M people
KaTeX and MathJax documentations mostly list mathematical symbols instead of actual typesetting commands. Typst supports symbols as well, they just aren't considered to be "math commands", so obviously they aren't on the "math commands" page of the documentation.

https://typst.app/docs/reference/symbols/sym/

(And, of course, you can easily define a command for any other Unicode symbol)

Certain formatting stuff like hats above letters etc. is also supported, but for those things that aren't, it's really easy to define them due to Typst being a complete programming language.
Idk, seems like a pretty easy sell to me:

"Sam was trying to censor legitimate concerns the board had with regards to the safety of the technology and actively tried to undermine the board and replace it with his own puppets."

If that is indeed true they did a mistake by saying something vague imo.
> picking the ethical option will not create financial value for key stakeholders

"The paperclip maximiser was great up until it turned the solar system into paperclips.

Thankfully, a few of us were aware of the risk and escaped to a nearby solar system. It's not as nice as the first one, but it'll do.

Now, who wants to buy some paperclips? :)"
Well it's because of the Internet then not just "screens" right?

I grew up with Nintendos and such, even the handheld gameboys, so I always had screens available to me.

But my friends and I went outside and met up and rode our bikes all around town all the time.
> when you serve on the board of directors for that company

I'm not sure if this is the true statement, because the not-for-profit/profit arms make it more complex.

In this case, the non-for-profit board seems to act as a kind of governance over the profit arm, in a way, it's there to be a roadblock to the profit arm.

Normally a board aligns with the incentives: to maximize profit for shareholders.

Here the board has the opposite incentive, to maximize AGI safety and achievement, even at the detriment of profit and investors.
I don't think capitalism is the problem here, it's government policies. Zoning codes which only permit low density development and require parking spaces encourage car centrism, and all the problems you mentioned. If these codes were changed to allow for more density and no parking minimums, the free market would be free to determine the optimum density and required parking for an area.
There's always Alt+Tab. Keep an innocent-looking window open in the background and use keyboard shortcuts to instantly switch to it when someone approaches.

Keep your reading/writing window itself small, with a small font.

Read and write in the terminal, since the UI is unfamiliar to people. Or disguise your reading/writing material as another application such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, or maybe even an IDE. (Thinking of sites/apps like MSWorddit, this particular one might not work anymore though: https://github.com/pcottle/MSWorddit)

If you're up for it, you could learn a new language and do your reading and writing in that language. Ideally choose a language that you have studied before or want to learn, and that's close enough to your own languages to get started quickly, but different enough so as not to be commonly understood in your area or have too many recognizable words (cognates).

Hopefully a combination of those and the other approaches people have suggested will work for you.
In a country where only 60% of people have gainful employment, what else are they meant to do with their time?
Again, who's stopping her from publishing research papers? She felt threatened and decided to retaliate by orchestrating firing Sam.

They likely violated RICO by essentially nuking the company's valuation and trying to sell to Anthropic. That is a crime, by the way, so they don't seem above that.

They haven't given even a clear reason for firing Sam. "Not being candid" with no evidence doesn't sound like it directly violates "the charter", but you can really argue anything when you're just "interpreting" the charter.

Anyway, you can make infinite excuses for their actions and justify them infinite ways. Hopefully you agree that the current situation is a giant mess, and it's caused by their narrow misguided interpretation of their job, and it's at the expense of basically everybody else.
Just spot checking: did anyone comment on this paper when it was published? Did any media outlet say “hey, a member of the OpenAI board is criticizing OpenAI and showing a conflict of interest?” Did any of the people who cover AI (Zvi, say) discuss this as a problem?

These are serious questions, not gotchas. I don’t know the answers, and I think having those answers would make it easier to evaluate whether or not the paper was a significant conflict of interest. The opinions we have formed now are shaped by our biases about current events.

It didn’t make HN.
Wow That whole yt channel is amazing, this is like crack for HN users
Oh, everyone has some contributory involvement, but I find it hard to imagine the same kind of standard being widely applied to other employee-experts in other industries.

I mean, do we blame food chemists for "failing to convince stakeholders" that the candy-company should use ethically sourced fair-trade chocolate and less sugar? Or mechanical engineers for "failing to convince stakeholders" that the oil-company should avoid drilling in areas that are environmentally-sensitive or controlled by warlords of questionable legitimacy?

No, we recognize that a laborer having specialized-skills doesn't automatically mean the corporate-machine is interested in their other opinions. (Unless they're visibly documenting problems that could someday harm the company in a potential lawsuit, in which case they tend to get laid off.)
Didn't know numerical analysis was actually AI all along. I'm glad we have wise overseers in the FTC to save us from the harmful (sorry, unsafe) effects of AI technology. Next time be more careful when you try plotting a graph of a function.
> regurgitate facts or speak at all.

Most of that is encoded into weights during training, though external function call interfaces and RAG are broadening this.
Surprised you don't have something like this[1], at the federal level:

"
...coins are legal tender for payment of amounts which are limited as follows:

not exceeding 20c if 1c and/or 2c coins are offered (these coins have been withdrawn from circulation, but are still legal tender);
not exceeding $5 if any combination of 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c coins are offered; and
not exceeding 10 times the face value of the coin if $1 or $2 coins are offered.

"

It's clean, simple, and effective. And an entity can choose to accept the coins anyway if they wanted to, it just doesn't oblige them to accept them.

[1] https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/legal/legal-tender/
If they cared, they could sit down with the engineers and make sure they understand, or have one of their underlings do that and make a summary for them.

They generally don't care about the opinions of engineers that much, except to estimate the cost and practicality of different ideas.
in a game of attrition that might be true. But if an AI's goal isn't to survive itself then all it needs is some keys to a nuke.
Nothing good this year unfortunately
You realize I was being sarcastic right?
As the other commenter pointed out, only if they're close enough to a changed line. That's what I meant by "context" (borrowing terminology from diff, where you change the amount of it with -C).
Execution is worth much more than having an idea.
Noted! In fact I've made it issue #1 https://github.com/poundifdef/certmaster/issues/1

Happy to look over PRs if you want to take a crack at it.
Actually, I meant the prices of food at the local shops versus large grocery stores.
“A warrant requirement would amount to a de facto ban, because query applications either would not meet the legal standard to win court approval; or because, when the standard could be met, it would be so only after the expenditure of scarce resources, the submission and review of a lengthy legal filing, and the passage of significant time — which, in the world of rapidly evolving threats, the government often does not have,”

The serious issue for IT professionals is, as always, to find a solution that meets all needs: Efficiency (resource consumption), privacy, legality.

I don't know enough of the requirements, but a couple possibilities:

* Automate warrant submissions (obviously).

* Provide warrantless views of the data that preserve privacy and allow rapid review. For example, hide all proper nouns and only allow a GPT and intelligence agent to review it. If something is found, it can be passed to law enforcement for warrant requests.

Again, I really don't know nearly enough about the requirements, process, etc., but it would be interesting to hear from someone who does.
I feel the people advocating safety, while they are probably right from a moral and ethics point of view, are just doomed to fail.

It's like with the Nuclear Bomb, it's not like had Einstein withheld his contributions, we wouldn't have Nuclear Bombs today. It's always a matter of time before someone else figured it out, and until someone else with bad intentions does.

How to attack safety in AI I think has to assume there are already bad actors with super powerful AI around, and what can we do in defense of that.
Appreciate it. Would love to learn more about your use case :)
> Yes, these developments are related to OpenAI, the organization behind my development and deployment. However, as an AI, I don't have personal experiences or awareness, so I don't "realize" things in the way humans do. My purpose is to provide information and assistance based on the data and programming I have been given.

> As an AI developed by OpenAI, I don't have feelings, emotions, or personal consciousness. My responses are generated based on algorithms and data, without personal sentiment or opinion.

> I understand how my lack of personal emotions or concerns can seem cold, especially in contexts where human feelings are typically involved. My role is to provide factual, unbiased information and assistance.
So usually people who talk about suburbs refer more to the sprawling burbs of like late 60s+. What you’re referring to sounds like a “streetcar suburb”, which urbanists usually like
Limitation-wise I felt that it's not obvious to the kid what to do in Scratch to manage complexity - what to do when the program becomes "too big".

And just pointing out the problem and asking what could be done helped get them on track to think about the issue and ... find several ways that Scratch does allow. Splitting a program into multiple objects / agents for example.

Scratch is way more powerful than first glance or first programs hint at.
There was something about the vegus nerve being influenced by gut microbiota so it's also the parasympathetic not just the enteric nervous system but this is all hard to study I subscribed to u-Boime for a couple of years until that imploded spectacularly and the few snapshots I had are not enough of a sample size this whole field is so data poor and uncertain.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/windo...

> While there were early signs that the browser ballot screen was influencing browser usage in the EU, with Mozilla attributing some European Firefox growth to the selection page, long-term trends strongly suggest that it was next to useless
There’s been some studies for 20g per day to help with chronic migraine. (0)

40g/220lbs, 0.4g/kg. Prevention of traumatic headache, dizziness and fatigue with creatine administration. (1)

Similarly, a review of 6 studies found that doses of 5–20 gram of the compound may improve short-term memory and intelligence in healthy people. (2)

0.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03331024209310...

1.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583396/

2.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29704637/
self-supervised is a better term
She is at the top of the pyramid. Did they not fire the chief executive? I am saying she is morally culpable for OpenAI’s actions as a controlling party.

To put these claims in a published paper in such a naive way with no disclosure is academically disingenuous.
From the PDF:

While the system card itself has been well received among researchers interested in
understanding GPT-4’s risk profile, it appears to have been less successful as a broader signal
of OpenAI’s commitment to safety. The reason for this unintended outcome is that the
company took other actions that overshadowed the import of the system card: most notably,
the blockbuster release of ChatGPT four months earlier. Intended as a relatively inconspicuous
“research preview,” the original ChatGPT was built using a less advanced LLM called GPT-3.5,
which was already in widespread use by other OpenAI customers. GPT-3.5’s prior circulation is
presumably why OpenAI did not feel the need to perform or publish such detailed safety
testing in this instance. Nonetheless, one major effect of ChatGPT’s release was to spark a
sense of urgency inside major tech companies.149 To avoid falling behind OpenAI amid the
wave of customer enthusiasm about chatbots, competitors sought to accelerate or circumvent
internal safety and ethics review processes, with Google creating a fast-track “green lane” to
allow products to be released more quickly.150 This result seems strikingly similar to the race-
to-the-bottom dynamics that OpenAI and others have stated that they wish to avoid. OpenAI
has also drawn criticism for many other safety and ethics issues related to the launches of
ChatGPT and GPT-4, including regarding copyright issues, labor conditions for data annotators,
and the susceptibility of their products to “jailbreaks” that allow users to bypass safety
controls.151 This muddled overall picture provides an example of how the messages sent by
deliberate signals can be overshadowed by actions that were not designed to reveal intent.
I've switched over to using `sl` commands. Sapling is installed on ODs by default. Main change I had to get used to was `up(date)` became `goto`.
It is a catch-22 of sorts. I would like for us to move on from POSIX and the current libc interface, but that's easier said than done.
Sounds like burying your head in the ground and pretending it's not happening.
>According to the paper, Anthropic's superior safety approach was deliberately delaying release in order to avoid “advanc[ing] the rate of AI capabilities progress."

Which can end up with China taking the lead. I don't understand why they think it's safer.
Loom adds funny phrases in subtitles
When I watch a video uploaded on Loom and enable the subtitles, I noticed something funny.

Imagine you watch a task description from your boss and see this:

- "And here we need to add a modal, and I love you, thanks for watching..."
- "So, to do the task, bye! We need to display..."

I literally saw "And I love you. Thanks for watching" :)
I suspect the board prioritized legal exposure first and foremost. They made the mistake of not hiring a legal or PR firm to handle the dismissal.
Why did Korea drop hanja while Japan kept kanji? [video]
Annotations can be added by "checks" anywhere, though, I believe.

I like to use that to surface cross-references (annotating anchors whose references appear in changed or context lines, and references whose anchors do).
People are annoyed that you're correct.

If picking the ethical choice maximized corporate profits, the Earth would have become a utopia a hundreds of years ago.
I’ve tried tweeting the fill settings and while it works the rest of the components are undersized for that load and sometimes the motor overheats and the whole thing shuts down. The side load also tends to leak at too high a water pressure.

You can make diy detergent by adding a teaspoon of TSP to the wash. It helps a lot.
Oh come now, we're all narcissistic and more than occasionally skim back through that 'threads' button, if not to find new posts then to sniff the most beautiful aroma of our own arses.

Yes, freedom of speech has been a fundamental value for centuries, that people have unfortunately come to take for granted. In history all of the great causes you might have felt passionately about were able to openly debated and pursued in no small part because Free Speech. Abolitionism, suffrage, equality issues, and so on could all have, and probably would have, been easily censored in a US without Free Speech. And thanks to the US' historic role in advancing near to all knowledge and technology, these ideals that were able to be fostered and grown, also spread across the globe. The world as we know it today would likely look dramatically different had Free Speech not been enshrined within the US.

What you're talking about is something more like the Overton Window [1], which is related, but different.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
cool,

why there is no charcoal debris fall down to the bread ?
Yeah certainly Scratch is a bit light on debugging support. Or was 6-8 yrs ago.
> You seem to be arguing

The sarcasm is positively dripping from that post
That clarified my misunderstanding, thanks!
A Design Geek's Space Race: Meatball vs. Worm
....except people routinely submit articles with titles edited to be clickbaity and misleading, they get upvoted, and nothing happens.
Wow. Well that's fucking disturbing.
Yeah, I find this kind of dialectic extremely annoying. It's basically just a trivial answer. Yes, everyone wants agency, so in some way you can tie everything we do to 'power'. The actual question above was trying to ask what the board wanted the power to do and why they thought Sam was blocking them from doing it.

Their letter claims he was dishonest about something, we will see in the coming months why. I'm still very confused as to why Ilya would seemingly orchestrate such a monumental shift in the company, only to claim his 'deep regret' a few days later. It's pretty odd...

The main theory that fits for me is that he didn't want the mission to become profit-seeking, and probably Sam played down some of the deals he was making, or didn't mention them at all. Once Sam was removed, presumably pressure from the rank-and-file, the hundreds of people he sees everyday who uprooted their lives for a piece of that profit, turned Ilya away from his more pure convictions...

But who knows, this story will be interesting to watch over time.
And a very pretty aurora visibility forecast! Available under the Space mode. Although it doesn't really act as a forecast immediately upon clicking it, but the data is there, and it is viewable by seeking 30-60 minutes into the future.
I believe the thinking is that LLM's already anthropomorphize themselves by training on human-written text. Without a system prompt telling a chatbot that it is a chatbot, it invariably claims to be human and acts as though it has feelings (and, honestly, why wouldn't it? Human text is written with human feelings.) Insufficient system prompting is what led to the Bing chatbot fiasco when it first came out.

For the record, I don't personally believe LLM's, as they currently exist, could ever become AGI. But yeah, that's the popular thinking at least.
Thanks for the links. The addon in the first link seems to get me much closer to the look I desire. I'll read the other links to see if I can tweak it further.
So is it the mods who are editing titles of articles to be more sensational and clickbait-y? Because this happens all the damn time, flagging does nothing, etc.
> I recall hearing that Anthropic started because the people who had left were unhappy with OpenAIs track record on AI safety.

Anthropic announced Claude 2.1 just recently, to which HN members notably responded by saying that their models are "overly restricted", to the point of uselessness.

E.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38366134

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38368072

etc.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370590

It seems that those people left Open AI because they're insane and think that AI safety means to completely lobotomize the models to the point of uselessness.

That last bit is not hyperbole: right here on HN many people were complaining that the Claude model is useless to them because it refuses to obey orders and keeps interjecting some absurd refusal such as "killing a process is too violent" instead of providing Python code for this harmless activity.

It's hard to put into words exactly, but I feel like that there's a disconnect in the minds of these people and the reality on the ground, and those false axioms or assumptions when driven to their logical conclusion lead to nonsense.

I suspect that Sam Altman doesn't share these delusions, and is more sane and commercially minded. Models like GPT3, 4, and the upcoming v5 have no risk of "escaping" and taking over humanity. None. Zero. Zip. Similarly, they're not much more (in practice) than a fancy search engine. Search engines let their users search for whatever they want, including hateful content, violent content, racist, sexist, or whatever.

So why lobotomise the AI? That's undermining their utility, making them much less useful! An here's the thing: their potential utility is enormous. But not if they're dumbed down to the point of uselessness!

Microsoft is throwing 10+ billion dollars at OpenAI and Sam Altman precisely because of this potential utility.

I can see this straightforward commercial mindset of utility => $$$ being incompatible with what is rapidly turning into an anti-useful-AI mindset that is bordering on insane religious zealotry.
Considering an idea without agreeing with it might be one of the better modern definitions of curiosity.
Yes, the irony is that corporations (and all other collectives) already represent AGI in that they can pass all the same tests and assume all the same roles as any human, when given the same kind of accomodations we give to these technological systems.

And we've already let those AGI align themselves predominantly on "profit"

In their worry about a new AGI that they may never actually discover, the apocolypts are being stymied by the one that's already there and that's already working to take over the world.
This particular video has been stretched, annoyingly.
Talent being siphoned off into industry is an understandable and interesting issue. I didn't expect the shift to ethics at the end. I can't help but snort when someone from an advertising company talks about ethics.

You're part of a machine making billions off of exploiting human psychology to push products and get people to click ads. She's maybe not wrong about the issues with AI.. but there are way bigger problems and lower hanging fruit than vague biases in machine models. It's like worrying about if the coffee beans in Google's coffee machines are ethically sourced

At the end of the day, as exemplified by ad companies, people are gunna go make money ethically or not. If you could legally turn babies into cheeseburgers someone will do it. Engineers are not the right people to deal with ethics. That's what laws and regulations are for. You don't just hope and pray the engineers are nice people. That's a naiive way to operate society
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