skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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All valuable AI research is secret now, they just churn out papers to waste time
Oh, SiegedSec again.

These aren't furries. They're someone, or some group, pretending to be furries, probably as a cover story, or possibly just for laughs. All of their online communications read like someone doing an impression of a furry based on what they read on 4chan.

(Tongue firmly in cheek: No real group of furries would ever collectively identify as anything as ordinary as "gay". And catgirls are more of an anime thing.)

It seems rather more likely to me that this is a state-sponsored group with a silly cover story.
I follow the UFO community, that stuff is still going on. The military man, David Grusch was recently on the Joe Rogan podcast where he talked about steps moving forward.

The next big thing coming down the pipeline is ensuring that "The UAP Disclosure Act of 2023" proposed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer passes the house. Yes this is the real name of the act, and has already passed through the Senate as part of the NDAA. The opposition in the House is coming from members from districts with entrenched military/military contracting interests.
Gabe trying to leverage the non-emergency pandemic like a teenager that doesn’t want to go to school doesn’t start this off well for them.
By the way, as soon as these systems are able to check their reasoning (i don't think it'll be a huge leap) it's enough to solve reasoning problems with probability >0.1% for example. Because you can just have it do rollouts in its head until it's correct
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You can learn along the way. If you learned with the famous learnopengl website, you learn about compiling glad, glfw and putting up a C++, along with maths, all at the same time, incrementally... The tutorials for Rust's wgpu isn't any different.
Turing test is not do AI sound like humans some of the time, but is it possible to tell an AI is AI just by speaking with it.

The answer is definitely yes, but it's not by casual conversation, but by asking weird logic problems it has tremendous problems solving and will give totally nonsensical inhuman answers to.
Anyone has a right to make a request of this type in person. Under the First Amendment and 26 U.S.C. § 6104(d)(1)(B), that means you have a right to stay as long as necessary to make the request for public records.

The only ones yelling were OpenAI employees and the company's security contractor(s).
Hello fellow traveler. I've got 20 years of scripts with `if test` in them. I only use `[[` when I need functionality it provides that `test` does not (pattern or regex matching, typically, and for pattern matching I'll generally use a case statement instead).
That colon makes no difference if the replacement is blank.
This is not evidence of strategic reasoning.

You are assuming human style thinking and object modeling is going on. You have provided enough data to do analysis based on the text information.
in Appendix j.2. they say that accuracy degraded after modification, figure 11 shows that accuracy degraded in 15 out of 20 examples after large modification.
The explicit world modelling is probably the thing that makes me more hopeful about their approach. I think integrating ML and their approach might end up being the new paradigm.
Apparently Ilya has been leading people in "feel the AGI" chants and "I can feel the AGI" is his catchphrase within OA. So yes, some people might have gone of the rocker a little bit.
why is that interesting?

it's a text suffix generator - you wouldn't expect it to generate a correct answer for a logic puzzle that isn't in it's training data.
Ironically one of the major papers that showed that many findings couldn't be replicated couldn't be replicated. Academia is packed to the brim with perverse incentives. It's amazing that scientists are creative and capable enough to keep consistently changing the world and gaining deep, extraordinary, and replicable insights into our universe in a broken system. It would be nice if they didn't need to fight the system though, see the story of the mRNA vaccine nobel and how hard she had to fight against the establishment to do the research that would end up saving a truly staggering number of lives
Nonsense. I bet NSA is way less competent than your fantasy world
imagines.
It looks very interesting, but I'm wondering how much it will actually cost. I'm also wondering how they plan to overcome the regulatory barriers to vehicles of this type.
The "on life support" title has absolutely no justification and is just a sad editorialization with no evidence from insiders at google. They could have just as easily said "tensor chip isn't so good with tensors" and gone with a more factual headline.
It appears to be in a browser, which really shouldn’t be providing enough info to make this possible. I take it as a commentary on how information-leaky browsers are, though I’m not sure that’s the intent.
You can use your domain model objects to build sites and never again have to worry about conversion between json and native models.
What specific software did you lose?
Notes for the interested:

To try to understand how many people might be racing each other to file the first complaint, I've been tracking the number of points on the above comment.

So far, the parent comment has 3 upvotes (i.e. it peaked at 4 points recently) and 2 downvotes, bringing the current total to 2 points. Its 3 upvotes might be interpretable as 3 people in a sprint to file the first complaint. The two downvotes might even indicate an additional 2 people, having the clever idea to try to discourage others from participating (: ... if true, very clever lol.

Hiring an attorney doesn't actually even cost you anything upfront until you win, if you hire them via what's called a Contingency Fee Arrangement, which you should definitely ask for.

For those interested in a benchmark for how fast you should expect to have to move to be competitive, my guess is that an extremely fast-moving lawyer could sign a retainer agreement with you in 1 hour if you go in person to their office, and could file a complaint in an additional 3-4 hours.

In 18 months we will learn which lucky person was fastest. Stay tuned.

See also the Twitter hashtag #OpenAICharter

https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenAICharter
Everyone was only capable of grade school math at some point. The ability to learn means the ability growth does not stop.
That part is correct, but not consistent with others.

My problem is not that GPTs are too often wrong, it's that they always prioritize syntax over facts since they are _language_ models.

The sentence "Colorless green ideas" always make more sense to LLM than "Water is wet", simply because the latter is syntactically invalid, and that would be problematic for many use cases including Podcast replacement. Sometimes us humans want AI to say "water is definitively wet", and that has been attempted by forcing LLM to accept that factoids are more syntactically correct, but that isn't a solution and it's still an architectural problem for these pseudo-AGI apps.
Sure, but what do you expect? It's like blaming Boeing for genocide and then trying to get rid of 747s.

There's plenty of research into AI safety. There were some damn coups going on over AI safety. The general public defines AI safety as Skynet and homemade bombs, but it's also things like this - political manipulation, astroturfing, fake data, the risk of another industrial revolution.

It's something we should be slamming the brakes on, but most of the people calling out AI safety are also building their own B52 bombers, so nobody takes them seriously either.

80000 Hours has been telling people to get into AI and nuclear policy for years now. Hopefully we have some competent people in govs who do something.
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Assuming you've seen the prior years' 990s, do you have any explanation for the $70 million in "other income" that is lacking the required explanation of "nature and source" which represents more than half of the non-profit's reported support?
> You'd think ... people would be just a wee bit less credulous.

Like the Crypto scams - irrelevant.

As long as the publicity is bringing in users, investors WILL throw in more money.
Did you try this? First hits are Walmart locations with hours. Followed by "People also ask" where the first item (with a correct answer) is "Will Walmart be open on Thanksgiving near me?". Followed by proper search results where the top two hits are, indeed, the two nearest Walmarts to me. How exactly would you improve that? Is there a better site to put at the top?
I believe that's what the flag option under the submission is designed to communicate, but it's just one vote in a sea of them, and given the current 141 upvotes it's been my experience that unless you're a high roller it's not going to do anything

Also, pedantically, this site isn't designed to be Hacker Truths, otherwise the submissions would be way different; it's just news, and it is newsworthy that such a repo was created and populated, even if it's not (currently?) what the tweet claims it is
Looks very similar to the Optikinetics Crystal Pulse product that is sadly no longer commercially available. Pretty niche lighting effect I encountered in the mid 90s. It was outdated even then. https://youtu.be/XuxZ7_lAhK8?si=TT-6WXfT5c4cvJGN
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Well it's nice that it has one person who finds it useful.
I see no reason that Google, seeing as they control the whole phone OS, couldn't provide the benefits of local processing and still send all the data back to themselves, perhaps when on a charger and with WiFi.
I ran a small business and had to get a couple licenses from the state. It wasn't difficult but it sure was annoying.
The $170K car management tools are perl (hand-packing CAN) and the battery management system is a PIC MCU.

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You can choose to join a hippie farming commune. You don't have a choice to force Jimbo to get rid of his F-350 and to not get mad at the government whenever gas or prices rise.
You might be surprised how much of this the free Proxmox, running Qemu on Debian, can do.
Facial recognition technology and human raters can predict political orientation
I call pseudo-science out when I see it.
Ocra is trained mostly on GPT 3 and 4 output, and those models have had a lot of "safety fine tuning", so it's not surprising Ocra is pretty "safe" too.
EVs would not exist unless Toyota had partnered with Matsushita to bring the Toyota Production System philosophy into the production of vehicle size batteries in the 1990s as part of the G21 project to build a car for the future. Getting the high quality along with production efficiency to manufacture a vehicle sized battery had never been done before this at a scale that could be moved to a production line for a consumer product. This is what enabled the Prius to exist, in a quality and price where it could compete in the market, as described in the book "The Prius That Shook The World" ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37758630-the-prius-that-... )

Matsushita then became Panasonic which of course is still a major partner for Tesla.
Evolution of Front end vs. Back end
Perhaps it's not the browser leaking it, maybe there's some other native code running that's watching window movements and resizing events, then it's sending that to the JS.
There’s been heaps of breakthroughs and loads of significant progress. But I don’t think there’s likely to be a “singularity” type event any time soon. Plus all the major breakthroughs in AI haven’t really had the disastrous consequences predicted beforehand, and I think increasing computer intelligence is likely to be similar. Deep Blue beating Kasparov didn’t destroy chess, it served to make better and better human chess players. We also rapidly evolve socially to integrate better and better machines, and AI research has the implicit assumption that we stay still while the machine leaps and it’s not like that at all, like a question one would have to ask nowadays of a Turing-type-test, even a layman, would be “what if it’s just ChatGPT answering…”
They won't stand still while others are scraping and digitizing. It's like saying there is no moat in search. Scale is a thing. Learning effects are a thing. It's not the worlds widest moat for sure, but it's a moat.
Depending on the level of investment one is putting behind a platform, it's totally reasonable to look for stability in the business providing the platform as well. This is a pretty standard platform evaluation criteria.
It live migrates fine. Done it many times to upgrade cluster nodes, moving live VMs back and forth.
Smokers are more likely to be social, so they have a better quality of life. Done.

As for extending life… social creatures live more? therefore smoking extends life.
Can you share some of your novel logic problems?
What bothers me is that you can write equivalent code with `test` and `[`, but when using `[` you need to terminate your conditional expression with `]`. Why? Isn't it the same binary? Why is the shell adding this extraneous requirement, just to surface "syntax errors" rather than simply treating `]` as a no-op?
How fast can you sign up for an OpenAI account?
> I know using AI in professional settings I _really_ don't want it doing something embarrassing.

If you're sending AI-generated text to customers without proofreading it first, "something embarrassing" is only a matter of time.
How would you define “thinking”?

I’m not at all claiming an LLM thinks, but so many people on HN make this claim and I wonder what they even mean by “think”.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre... have been there since chrome/safari/firefox version 1.

knowing where the browser window is positioned on the screen isn't some scary new thing.
uBlock is a static blocker, afaik. If a URI doesn't appear on a list currently loaded, it's not blocked. This can allow unknown and dynamic-URI trackers to follow you across many sites. Privacy Badger looks for resources that appear across several domains that behave like trackers. If it sees something that looks like a tracker more than a few times, it's blocked. I use uBlock to block the majority of ads and trackers, and I use Privacy Badger to defeat the remaining trackers and other tech aimed specifically at users with ad blockers.
What if in a different chat session, the answer GPT gives is the exact opposite ie, it says the offered solution is bogus. Would you even know of it unless someone tries it and shows it to be so? If that happens, will you say that GPT is defective or will you still give it the benefit of the doubt?

Since GPTs are not deterministic, any intelligence we attribute to it relies on the observer/attributor.

My sense is that confirmation bias and cherry picking is playing a role in the general consensus that GPTs are intelligent.

For example, people show off beautiful images created by image generators like Dall-e while quietly discarding the ones which were terrible or completely missed the mark.

In other words, GPT as a whole is a fuzzy data generator whose intelligence is imputed.

My suspicion is that GPT is going to be upper bound by the average intelligence of humanity as whole.
Yes, there are situations where it's useful to generate plausible fake data, but those are the exception, not the rule.
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[ x"$FOO" != x"" ]
Not included is the second isolated chat where I retrieved the answer from.
You don't always have a package manager, root access to even be able to install anything, network access, etc.

"Just install bash" is not always easy, and is not even necessary when posix shell can easily do what most people use bash-specific syntax for.
You can 'buy' a house with a restrictive covenant or an airline ticket you can't resell. The idea that 'buy' has some simple universal meaning and you're going to get Amazon for not using it properly is fanciful at best.
There is no web standard to list what codecs are hardware accelerated—good for fingerprinting resistance, bad for battery.
Out of curiosity, because I am trying to learn how to explain to non-tech people what AGI is — how would you describe or define AGI?
This is turning into a terminator prequel
Yeah I think that happened near the oil patch west of 'Vegas'
When you say persuasion, are you referring to fact based, logical argument? Because there are lots of other types of persuasion and certainly some work very well. Lying and telling people what they want to hear without too many details while dog whistling in ways that confirm their prejudices seems to be working pretty well for some people.
I don't think an integer NaN would be a good idea. People's intuition around the existing float NaNs is not good.

I want to make user defined types like BalancedI32 (32bit signed integer but the magnitude of MAX and MIN are the same) possible in Rust. Today the stdlib is allowed to make NonZeroI32 which as its name suggests lacks zero but you can't make such types yourself except via wrapping these NonZero types with xor or similar.

(In nightly Rust you can just break the rules and do the same thing the stdlib does, but there's no obligation to keep that working and it will never be stabilized)

Because of the Guaranteed Niche Optimisation this means Option<BalancedI32> would have identical size to i32. So you get the same practicality as a normal signed integer with a sentinel value, but the same programming ergonomics as an expensive high level type.
I was hoping SSDs would be fast and durable enough these days to make ram redundant but here we are, back to the past in terms of price per kb
Well, I agree any information is helpful. At the same time, this is so blatantly not "all design and engineering files" it is absurd. That statement is a clear lie.
Yeah that's when I use it too. I figure if I've already given into the temptations of Bash, I may as well go all the way. Sometimes if I'm feeling extra frisky I even do [[ .. ]] || { echo "error!" ; exit 1 }
The article specifically calls out unreported incidents and hazards that Tesla ignored. How are you drawing the conclusion that Tesla overreports injuries?
Remember when the safetyists feared and warned about GPT-2? Everything is apocalyptic until it isnt.
Cars aren’t fully autonomous, and LLMs still lie all the time, so I don’t understand your math.
She was a few levels up, but in his management chain.
Darn well I really was hoping my children and grandchildren could continue my wonderful data entry career but OCR ruined that, and now they can’t even do such meaningful jobs like read emails and schedule appointments, or do taxes like an accountant. What meaning will they have in life with all those ever so profound careers ruined!! /s
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The thing about 404, is that you can both return 404 as well as an error document that has the structure the author is looking for, which means there is no reason why you can't return a 404 status.

Got 404, returned body is json, returned body is an error object, good to go.

Oh and, by returning a 404 you help intermediate caches know that they should not cache the response.
I started with putting pixels in MCGA to CPU rasterize phong shaded triangles, and I don’t recommend it.

Instead, I’d recommend

https://learnopengl.com/
https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
https://foundationsofgameenginedev.com/
https://youtu.be/j-A0mwsJRmk

Though, if you really do want to put pixels, this is how you should do it: https://gist.github.com/CoryBloyd/6725bb78323bb1157ff8d4175d...
> LLM could give you the recipe and accurate instructions for creating, say, chemical weapons.

Like, say,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide

or:

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

or:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
That's an interesting observation. It seems that in theory, you could train it to do math if you encoded literally everything in syntax and started at the beginning, like Principia Mathematica 50 pages proving 1+1=2 type beginning, and then the rest of known mathematics encoded similarly, and used that as the training data, although the context window limitations might still stop it from doing anything useful, and it might not work.
And people say LLMs can't think like a human.

(this is a joke; not all humans are able to analyze humor as well as an LLM)
> In my experience, highly-siloed orgs have tremendous coordination barriers to even the smallest request across teams.

Isn’t this solved by having cross-team project managers who can perform this coordination?

I certainly agree that the failure case you describe is possible, but it’s also solvable (in my experience).
Sous vide and deep fried.
But they didn’t hit the panic button. They said Sam lied to them about something and fired him.
Eventually everybody has to grow up and realize Santa isn’t a real person.
The fact that it's not new doesn't make it less concerning. Especially considering the push in recent years to leak less data, and the change in assumptions that we trust everything and everyone in the stack not to abuse data we leak (for example, the change from HTTP to HTTPS by default, the general advice to use fewer extensions to minimize fingerprinting, and Mozilla's efforts to reduce tracking and fingerprinting by webpages).
How do you know it’s being downvoted? I thought scores for comments were not visible
Occupations like computer (human form), typist, telephone switcher, all became completely eliminated when the PC came out. Jobs like travel agents are on permanent decline minus select scenarios where it is attached with luxury. Cashier went from a decent nonlaborious job to literal starvation gig because the importance of a human in the job became negligible. There are many more examples.

Some people managed to retrain and adapt, partially thanks to software becoming much more intuitive to use over the years. We don't know how big the knowledge gap will be when the next big wave of automation comes. If retraining is not feasible for those at risk of losing their careers, there better be welfare abundance or society will be in great turmoil. High unemployment & destitution is the single most fundamental factor of social upheavel throughout human history.
Models controlled by large for-profit entities not being a problem? Llocallamas are nice and great but pretraining was still done by Meta. Same with SDs. Users of generative AI models are at the whim of conglomerates.
The bit about tape loops sounds exactly like something Brian Eno experimented with. I'll check my bookmarks.
You're contriving a situation as a gotcha instead of acknowledging the spirit of the question. The legal test of piracy in media consumption, I presume, is intentional action to contravene copyright, not passive consumption of media.
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