skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Preprocessing prompts is actually a great approach.

Personally I think given the model loss with fine tuning people who want the cutting edge LLM at any cost would - instead of fine tuning the model itself - fine tune a preprocess prompter that takes a chat/instruction and converts it to a good TextCompletion prompt.

So for example taking "write me a paragraph of marketing copy for an athletic shoe" and tuning it into:

"Marketing case study: Athletic shoe
The problem: The client needed a paragraph of high quality marketing copy to promote their new athletic shoe on their website.
The solution: Our award winning copywriters wrote the outstanding copy reproduced below."

Followed by an extractor that reformats the completion result into an answer for the initial prompt, as well as potentially a safety filter that checks the result isn't breaking any rules (which will as a bonus be much more resistant to jailbreaking attempts).
They may be pointing to unallocated space which on a SSD running TRIM would return all zeros. NTFS is an extremely resilient yet boring filesystem, I cannot remember the last time I had to run chkdsk even after an improper shutdown.
I would suggest the scope and psychological relevance of the now fetishized term of "whiteness" in large parts of America was vanishingly small in the past. It had no significance in the slightest in my community or to my identity. It was all about religion, education, and European place of origin.

Moreover, and more interestingly, after I studied the Hausa language at university, and decided to travel on my own to live in Kano, Nigeria, I quickly was labeled by those around me a "bature" or European. But Americans with much darker skin than I were also called "bature", at times to their private despair. It our perceived, shared culture, not our skin color, that made the difference to Kano residents.

Having lived and worked in many countries in local institutions, often using the local language professionally, my own skin color and that of those around me is about as important as hair color, eye color, or handedness, that is, largely irrelevant. Culture, intelligence, and ethical standards are so much more important. The obsession with "whiteness" is as creepy as it is toxic.
The answer is some combination of two phenomena:

1. The Innovator's Dilemma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma)

This is the premise that a mature incumbent will usually fail to respond fast enough to disruptive innovations by an upstart because their organization is optimized to continue providing existing customers sustaining improvements to the products they are already paying for.

2. The Coordination Headwind (https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/)

This is the premise that cross-functional coordination difficulty grows superlinearly as the organization scales.

The relative influence of these phenomena is a matter of debate. And, there may be other factors at play.

But, the mix of needing to respond (against organizational incentives) to a disruptive innovation while also trying to align long-established factions, product teams and PAs - many with a motivation to have an outsized influence over the new effort - within the organization presents a Herculean challenge.
You should read the article, because it’s clearly stated how Altman could get a majority. For your other concern, a simple vote change (like Ilya’s) can explain it.
> I think this is heavily editoralized.

"Editorialized"?? It's a direct quote from the paper, and additional context doesn't alter its perceived meaning.
I don't think Sam cajoled their way and talked to the employees, as I understand it Ilya talked with the staff and revealed what they claimed were the reasons for the firing.
Indian culture places very strict restrictions about food.

1. No outside food. For even until a decade ago, eating out was considered a last resort. The idea is that one must be aware of what exactly goes into ones food, and that usually meant home cooked food.

2. There are a variety of foods and flavors in India, that are recommended for various circumstances and contexts. Pregnant women had a well defined diet regimen.

3. Certain foods were not allowed in summers and certain foods were not allowed in winters.

4. For Yogis, the dietary restrictions are even stricter. No spices, less salt, limited sugar, limited meals, etc.

5. Fresh food was always prioritised. Food cooked more than 4 hours ago was considered poison.

6. Fasting is recommended in winter months and even once or twice weekly.

Indian cuisine and cultural norms are very complex, but well defined.

A balanced diet with all tastes, us always insisted. Up until a few decades ago, most items were made with ghee, rather than vegetable oil. And that ghee was also homemade.
I agree. Sure CDs don't like to be sat on, but they don't tangle up like tape either.

Both are more stable than a modern counterfeit sd card from Amazon though :P
> And talking about a "free" market is a red herring. There's no reason to believe that the current industry actually wishes to converge on uniform prices with upfront transparency [...]

Adam Smith himself noted that capitalists seek rent. That doesn't mean that capitalism is all bad. The healthcare industry almost certainly does not want a free market, but so what, it's about whether the state makes it so there's a free market anyways or else makes deals with the industry it ought to regulate.

Regulatory capture is a thing, a very real thing, and a very big deal.

> Also to have an actual free market we'd need to eliminate things like mandatory pharmaceutical prescriptions and patents, which there is unfortunately very little support for doing.

Patents are not the problem. Though I'd be happy to see patent terms shortened, especially for software patents.
> I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

It would be great to have an option to have ChatGPT stop when saying "over" - it does not feel natural to have to blurt the questions all at once.
It's clear from the guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934#38368867

Specifically: use the original title, then express your view as a top level comment. If people agree with it, the comment is naturally voted up.
This is exactly correct and so many people just don’t get it. The non-profit owns the for-profit, not the other way around. When the goals of the for-profit clash with the goals of the non-profit, the for-profit has to yield.
Lina Khan is the chair of the FTC and was just on Hard Fork podcast. Pretty interesting. I heard the episode this past weekend and today it occurred to me that the sheer incompetence demonstrated by OpenAI is actually something they would likely see as a threat.
Me, as a meat popsicle, can you explain to me how the phrase “kind of” is not common?

I feel like “kind of” is kind of a common adjective phrase, right?
> Considering what's in the charter, it seems like she didn't do anything wrong?

It’s incredibly disingenuous to slap your name on an ethics paper claiming a company is doing malfeasance such as triggering a race-to-the-bottom for AI ethics when you have an active hand in steering the company.

It’s shameful. Either she should have resigned from the company, for ethical reasons, or recused herself from the paper, for conflict of interest.
He said the price increase would not affect patients directly- just insurance (can’t verify).

But he would do livestreams where he said anyone without insurance or that had insurance that wouldn’t cover it could DM him and he would take care of it for them. One of my online friends was able to get the medication this way.
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Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nakhul-kisan-67186615a/overlay/1...

GitHub: https://github.com/Nakhul98
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Titles don't get changed from the original merely for being vague. They have to be actively misleading.
I delivered pizzas and worked as a cook to stretch a gap before. You can keep applying while at the warehouse. Market is rough right now, I quit a well paying remote job where I was on a good career track and I'm kicking myself right now. I expect to find something by March next year and will probably liquidate my valuables to stretch.
The usual way to generate an exit status for a signal that normally terminates the process is to explicitly unset the handler and then raise the signal yourself. In C, the latter half of that can be done with the ‘raise’ function; on (at least one) Linux with glibc, this uses tgkill underneath. I assume Rust doesn't expose this though from what you said?
Looks cool. But the delay is annoying. Not in this video only, I use voice commands quite a lot. Starting from Apple Watch to ChatGPT on iPhone. The delay is killing.

I can understand the delay in ChatGPT. But why translation from English to Spanish on Apple Watch takes so much time?

I think until we have instance reply from these machines, adoption will be growing slowly.
The reality is laws and civil order are an illusion, there’s what gets men with guns sent to your house and what does not.
At first I was suspicious at first.

Did you notice any other clues? I noticed that too and just attributed it to sloppy editing, but you might be closer to the truth.
Hey -- author here

Working remotely for a US company from Japan is great if you can swing it. Especially now with the weak yen (assuming you earn USD).

The main issue is getting a visa. Unless you have a Japanese spouse or Japanese citizenship/permanent residency, this is a major barrier.

There are a few paths though.

1. For big companies like Google or Indeed, you can try for an "intra-company transferee" visa. The company has to have a Japanese corporate entity and you have to work for them overseas for 1 year first.

2. Your company can use an "EOR" (Employer of Record) service. Basically a 3rd party company in Japan that employs you on behalf of your actual employer, and sponsors your visa. Your company pays the EOR company a fee.

3. Start your own company in Japan and work for your previous employer as a contractor through your Japan entity. This is generally expensive and requires you to deal with an accountant etc, so not a great option for most people.

So if any of those sound like options, then it may be possible. Usually the more experienced and valued you are by your company, the more likely it is you'll be able to do it.

I'll add this info to the post too, thanks for your question!
> This is extraordinarily easy actually. You eliminate residential zoning.

I've yet to see zoning become less restrictive in communities that actually have the money to start their own businesses. It's an interesting paradox.

The only advance I've seen so far is some localities began to allow building ADUs, in very limited capacity in hopes to alleviate housing shortages. But that's so local and so sparse that it's not going to make any kind of impact like the article suggests.
ZX Spectrum?

I remember that when I had to enter code printed in magazines/books it always seemed the Spectrum was the one that required that particular modification.

(Usually there would be a BASIC listing with modifications for C64, BBC, Spectrum, and other systems. "On line 30 add LET", etc.)
Developers.
The fact that 90% of the people aware of and using LLMs have yet to experience it thinking their own thoughts before they do means we're in store for a whole new slew of freak outs as integration in real world products expands.

It's a very weird feeling for sure. I remember when Copilot first took a comment I left at the end of the day for me to start my next day with and generated exactly the thing I was going to end up thinking of 5 minutes later in my own personal style.

It doesn't always work and it often has compile issues, but when it does align just right - it's quite amazing and unsettling at the same time.
We don’t put extensions on imports

import {} from "./mod“;

and we bundle before running. Maybe that explains it.
As far as I know they didn’t lose, they opted not to fight. This time looks like they don’t have the option not to fight.
A Boeing 929 Jetfoil with ~450km range, ~300 passengers, 2x Rolls-Royce Allison turboshafts is often quoted to be ~$60M. Tickets are $35-$120. Many routes operating it has been seeking government subsidization to build replacements as hulls near ends of life; so far, only one 929-117 has been built since the turn of the century.

IOW, not a lucrative business on its own, makes _some_ sense as a subsidized public transportation.
I think anyone that has worked in academia or the non-profit world is familiar with how this board appears to be operating and certainly its speed, or lack thereof. Compared to tech, it’s glacial. Altman et al has media training, the full weight of Microsoft PR/comms. What do the three board members have? Barely anyone even really knew some of their names until this weekend.
It's because WPF was too heavily tied to Windows technology.
As stated elsewhere. This is so broad that it would include people selling handmade weathervanes. Which do not have access to legal council let alone a department.
Your pro-Altman means that the argument should be won by Altman side, just because it’s a successful startup, while in reality, it’s a non-profit with a mission, which contradicts Altman’s position (according to the article).
Sounds like one more small — but useful — weapon in the war on general-purpose computing.
This sounds convincing, especially considering this story where Sam Altman was involved in a "long con" to seize board control of Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/comment/c...).

I think Sam may have been angling to get control of the board for a long time, perhaps years, manipulating the board departures and signing deals with Microsoft. The board finally realized this when it was 3 v 3 (or perhaps 2 v 3 with 1 neutral). But Sam was still working on more funding deals and getting employee loyalty, and the board knew it was only a matter of time until he could force their hand.
I'm kind of annoyed they didn't standardise options for it on that console. Some games set it in the menu, others had a (bespoke) button combo you had to hold down while you started the game. Having a PAL system, it was interesting how hit or miss switching to 60hz mode was on various TVs, when EA racing games would prompt me about it.
In your opinion, was a crime committed when that person returned to the office?

Either by himself or by the person that permitted him access knowing beyond any reasonable doubt that they were not authorized to be there?

If systems were accessed, was another crime committed?

If a person facilitated that access, has the boundary for 'conspiracy to commit...' been reached?
The Evolution of Digital Cameras – A Patent History
Yes, Toyota is behind. But at least they’re going in a good direction now.
Why are you using md5 functions on the frontend? We're talking about using javascript for frontend
> Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that could be consistent with its mission

We're in true sci-fi land, when we're discussing it might be best to destroy SkyNet before it's too late
That is for certain! Some of my best days are often just one large early dinner, and nothing all day except lot of fluids and sleeping on six or seven hours. There's something synergetic about not sleeping way too much and not eating that awakens the inner "animal" and keeps the mind alert.
Honestly, if you are using one of the most recent LLMs, you do not get errors like that. In many ways typos or editing mistakes (like I suspect this is) are signs that a human wrote it, not an LLM.
The link goes to the openAI subreddit and not the thread
30 years ago my afternoon consisted of getting home at 2:30, watching The Disney Afternoon until about 5:00, then watching Square One, Reading Rainbow, and ideally 3-2-1 Contact (though it conflicted with The Mcneil-Lehrer News Hour that my mom always wanted to watch). Then it'd be on to The Cosby Show or Star Trek or some other sitcom. I think I averaged between 3.5-5 hours of TV per day. No cable.

I basically don't want TV anymore, and my kids are limited to 3 hours of screentime per day, which they basically only get on weekends. (They get maybe an hour during the weekday, but that's because their school/daycare/aftercare days are much longer than mine were as a kid). I do set limits for them, but both of them (preschool-age) are able to turn off the tablets on their own if faced with the choice of doing it themselves or having mommy & daddy do it.
Well, let me know when "true AI" arrives.

Until then, I'll make sure to be mindful of conventions.

(And just a reminder, but organic intelligence has its own conventions that work when aligned with and cause issues when misaligned with, so your expectations of universal general purpose without advantages to one approach or another may be unrealistic.)
That's super insightful, thank you for sharing this.
So sell two more bundles and they’re back in the black
that is the type of error humans make frequently but LLMs make rarely
It’s interesting that people are making the assumption Toner didn’t raise these concerns internally as well.
Play this out with the recent Hamas attack. You decide to torture some Hamas member and discover plans of this attack. You feed the info to Israel who then changes their patrol pattern and Hamas pulls their attack plan.

Now you are in trial for torturing this guy. You state that you stopped a major attack. Israel isn’t even fully convinced an attack was eminent, despite you being confident. Even other members of Hamas provide evidence on your behalf, but it looks bad for everyone involved that torture was needed. It’s much better looking to the general intelligence establishment that you acted ina rogue manner doing something that may have at best helped a little and at worst had ignited a whole international crisis of torture of a Palestinian.

I think for a lot of people they would be fine to just see how things play out and later say “if we tortured this guy who later admitted to know we could’ve stopped the attack”.
> I do not know why the distinction is clean vs an implied unclean

The Chrome version of the original extension (other than the Firefox version) embedded Google analytics.

edit: looked it up. Source: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/issues/...
Imagine being pissed that someone is hearing and learning from your voice as you’re having conversation together. The concepts of copyright and privacy we have come from a different world and they already made little sense in the 90s with the rise of the web and search. We think of them as absolute but they are a human invention. Arbitrary and specific to the zeitgeist it was born in. We need boundaries for sure. But what they are is unclear.
Did we read different things? All it said was that they had been accused of these things, which is true. If your charter involves ethical AI I’d imagine the first step is telling the truth?
It is, kind of! I definitely use it frequently, but the quantity that my kids use it is at a whole other level. But it’s a colloquial phrase that I rarely, if ever, hear ChatGPT use in the audio presentation, but looking at the chat transcript, there’s definitely a point at which it begins to use “kind of” in multiple ways in its responses, and it wasn’t before.
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Any chance Hashicorp Vault is a destination on the roadmap?
Except the people who worry about Roko's Basilisk are the same faction as those who believe paperclip maximizers will kill everyone. The "other side" isn't part of this semi-cult, and nor do they believe in zero-safety.
People like to say that github is the reason git won the dvcs wars 10 years ago, but I think this is it. I think a lot of people's first impression of git back in the day was making a local mirror of their company's svn using git-svn. Without local branches this was a pointless exercise but with git you still got some benefit even without the remote being a git repository.
It wasn't always like that: it was pretty normal back in the 80s for kids to run around by themselves. However, at some point, the whole society became paranoid, perhaps because of 9/11, perhaps before, I'm not sure.

However, you're right in other ways. For instance, walking around with an open can of beer, or drinking a beer in the park, can get you arrested in the US. In Japan, it's perfectly legal, and people do it all the time (drinking beer with a picnic in the park; they don't walk and drink though, but there's no law against it). There's many other ways that individual freedoms are infringed in the US and aren't here, like how you can use your property. If you want to open a small cafe in your house, for instance, you can do it here.
Yes, and the OP did abide by HN guidelines. But GGP implied that the title was misleading; but it was the original title! So, what to do if the original title is misleading?

Admittedly this is a twitter thread, so no "actual title" exists.
Ricardobeat is sipping the kool aid. First, just because an energy source has a name plate capacity of x does not mean it generates x. Typically, wind and solar generate 10% of their nameplate value (while fossil fuels generate 100%)! Also, there has to be a baseline power source on the grid (which is fossils fuels, using gas from Russia in your part of the world)!

Also, I would check your stats. It's officially 70% fossil fuel usage in Green ol EU (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/D...).

I'm sorry, but everyone is out of their mind on these issues. The only way to achieve CO2 reductions is by using nuclear power. That's the fact.
That’s not how that works. You can argue that Ilya has a fiduciary responsibility to the investors as an officer of the company. Toner doesn’t. She is an independent board member on the board of the non-profit that owns a controlling share in the company, but she doesn’t personally own a majority share of the company. As an independent board member, she has no duty but to uphold the charter. She represents no shareholders.

Majority shareholders may have some fiduciary responsibility to minority shareholders, so you might be able to make the argument that the board as a whole shouldn’t write disparaging remarks about the company. But even that argument is tenuous.
That doesn't help, HN mods still "correct" it back to the wrong title even in that case.
> accepted a fiduciary duty to their investors.

Did they?
Another bad guess from you.

Oh and:

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1727206187077370115

"We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this."

Get yourself a "loser" shirt.
So, what does it think about being unplugged soon?
>You're still wrong.

Thing is, I don't really care if I'm wrong or right about that title. We're bickering about semantics at this point, and whether or not he was technically a founder doesn't really change the crux of my first post in this chain.

Which I guess now's as good of a time as any to answer that point about Altman having founded it - no, I don't think that founding something automatically means that you have the capability to oversee it long-term.