skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the first generation out of the Portuguese dictorship, I really feel we are slowly back to the days before the Wall fell down.

How everything used to be during the first decade of EU is really going away, and I have no hurry to live under the same kind of goverments that my parents had to endure.

Many of the "nationalists" have no clue what it actually means, when the folks that vote on them as protest, discover the real meaning it will be too late.
a great number sticker I saw on the net.

"I'm changing the climate! Ask me how."
A certain cohort on this site doesn’t care for things which reflect unfavourably on the special-est billionaire.
I have the same question. Atleast a few companies here should be running on a profitable level, because of low overhead costs and smaller scope. But YC did raise the seed round for them and could have even brought in a few seed/angel investors. My assumption is that, these investors are either pressuring them to raise more funds or look for a way to be acquired. But VCs do operate on shorter timelines. I am pretty confused on what the arrangement is.

I would absolutely love to hear what the conversation is between YC and these founders.
What did I just half read??
Great comment.

In a way AI is no different from old school intelligence, aka experts.

"We need to have oversight over what the scientists are researching, so that it's always to the public benefit"

"How do we really know if the academics/engineers/doctors have everyone's interest in mind?"

That kind of thing has been a thought since forever, and politicians of all sorts have had to contend with it.
> There’s a meme that Git is hard to use but I think it’s conflating the challenges of getting used to version control at all

Not sure about that. Git certainly doesn't make it easier by idiosyncratic use of terms and behavior. Why does 'pull' imply 'checkout'?
The Switch era of Pokemon games, aside from some interesting spinoffs, has really been slapdash work. They know it'll sell, so it's always minimum effort. The biggest upset is still that newer games no longer support having all pokemon in them.

It's not like it's a massive effort to support those mons - they haven't been doing significant 3D model updates since the 3DS era already.
"Most machine intelligence development involves a “fitness function”—something the program tries to optimize. At some point, someone will probably try to give a program the fitness function of “survive and reproduce”. Even if not, it will likely be a useful subgoal of many other fitness functions. It worked well for biological life."

Interesting, how this correlates with this Bible passage from Genesis: "God blessed them, and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it' ".
I don't think he is a Yann LeCunn but I still think he (and his vision for OpenAI) is more reckless than many people in the field.
I think cheaper QLC chips use a part of their storage space as SLC, which is fast to write. But once you’ve written the fast part that fits in the SLC cache write throughput quickly tanks as it has to push the data further in to the slower QLC parts.
Excellent. Possibly also counts as malicious compliance.
>One of the problems is, this is taught in the schools. Pretty much every class is using screens constantly.

I hear people complaining about the lack of iPads due to low school funding. I'm thinking this might be a good thing. IMHO tablets are the worst case scenario, they're made for pure consumption. Keyboard input on screen is bad, productive software is limited - these are machines made for pure consumption of media.

We all consume enough media nowadays. If you teach programming on proper laptops/desktops, or how to use spreadsheets, and writing text on computers, I get that this is useful knowledge. I just can't think of anything you need to teach with a tablet in school. And I think we should also not allow phones in school, it's just too damn entertaining. Adults barely are able to unglue themselves from their phones, we need to create a distraction free zone conducive for learning.
I watched his recent award acceptance talk at Cambridge (on behalf of all of OpenAI), and in the questions section this came up.

If I'm summarising correctly, his answer was that we can only learn how to make them safe by playing with these models while they're relatively small and poor.

https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM
It replies in the language it thinks follows from what you said. It may have detected that you're non-English languages sounded like an English speaker?
1) Nobody says otherwise about cheap anything NVMe. They're pretty terrible once they've exhausted the write cache. This is well-known and addressed in every decent review by reputable sites.

2) Sustaining throughput seems the least of our problems when some unknown number of NVMe SSDs might be literally losing flushed data.
That's just like, your opinion, man.

There are podcasts for almost every topic where experts are present. Journalists, Scientists, Activists, Researchers etc. can be heard in podcasts, I don't really see why it's generally a mistake to listen to a podcast to learn important information.

During the pandemic my partner was attending university from home and listening to their professors via MS Teams, these classes were also recorded so that they could listen to them at a later point. In some ways that's just a professional podcast.
Most computational linguists I know of hold disdainful views of Chomsky‘s work.
Both sides of the rift care a great deal about AI Safety. Sam himself helped draft the OpenAI charter and structure its governance which focuses on AI Safety and benefits to humanity. The main reason of the disagreement is the different approaches they deem best:

* Sam and Greg appear to believe OpenAI should move toward AGI as fast as possible because the longer they wait, the more likely it would lead to the proliferation of powerful AGI systems due to GPU overhang. Why? With more computational power at one's dispense, it's easier to find an algorithm, even a suboptimal one, to train an AGI.

As a glimpse on how an AI can be harmful, this report explores how LLMs can be used to aid in Large-Scale Biological Attacks https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2977-1.html?

What if dozens other groups become armed with means to perform such an attack like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack

We know that there are quite a few malicious human groups who would use any means necessary to destroy another group, even at a serious cost to themselves. Thus, the widespread availability of unmonitored AGI would be quite troublesome.

* Helen and Ilya might believe it's better to slow down AGI development until we find technical means to deeply align an AGI with humanity first. This July, OpenAI started the Superalignment team with Ilya as a co-lead:

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment

But no one anywhere found a good technique to ensure alignment yet and it appears OpenAI's newest internal model has a significant capability leap, which could have led Ilya to make the decision he did.

Sam's Quote from the APEC Summit:
"4 times now in the history of OpenAI — the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks — I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward"
-- https://twitter.com/SpencerKSchiff/status/172564613068224524...
All this just tells for the 100th time that this area desperately needs some regulation. I don't know the form, but even if we have 1% of skynet, heck even 0.01% its simply too high and we still have full control.

We see most powerful people are in it for the money and power ego trip, and literally nothing else. Pesky morals be damned. Which may be acceptable for some ad business but here stakes are potentially everything and we have no clue what actual % the risk is.

Its to me very similar to all naivety particle scientists expressed in its early days and then reality check of realpolitik and messed up humans in power when bombs were done, used and then hundred thousand more were produced.
That is based only on what Altman himself says, I don't think that is sufficient for optimism.
Indeed, you should still aggregate even on mergetree tables.

I'm not sure what is about the database world where people are happy to discuss their competitors and include either mistakes or misinformation. It doesn't seem to happen in other parts of the industry.
Strange. I used a dual boot configuration back in the day and found the Windows experience a lot more efficient than the Linux desktop then.
It was less stable and secure of course, but Linux drivers were not really optimized and if you wanted a comparable desktop feel you needed something like KDE which needed a lot more memory and felt sluggish compared to Windows.
Also, there was rapid development in MP3 decoders at the time, they went from requiring about 100% of the CPU to less than 10% on about every Pentium system.
Bing app already has gpt4 with voice input and voice output.
Some of us do wish for zero-safety.
I wish interviewers in Japan can throw away their textbooks to be a real person and have real conversation. Mostly only 3 question.

1. Why do you choose Japan? (so why pick me during screening if you want me out?)

2. Tell me the largest achievement of yours. (completely parallel to work ability and don't even reveal any personality)

3. What's your future plan? (want me to tell you that I will quit 5 years later just to get a PhD?)

These question must be so epic that everyone must ask once everytime.
If Altman will be 1 of 9, that means he has power but not an exceptional amount.

The real teams here seem to be:

"Team Board That Does Whatever Altman Wants"

"Team Board Provides Independent Oversight"

With this much money on the table, independent oversight is difficult, but at least they're making the effort.

The idea this was immediately about AI safety vs go-fast (or Microsoft vs non-Microsoft control) is bullshit -- this was about how strong board oversight of Altman should be in the future.
This place was never above being a gossip forum, especially on topics that involve any ounce of politics or social sciences.
Amazingly, opening google.com in the internet explorer browser worked after running the "networking.bat" from the desktop

Many other pages don't load, possibly non supported https standards
> It's true that this doesn't really pattern-match with the founding story of huge successful companies like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.

You forgot about Apple.
Ultimately, the openness that we all wish for must come from _underlying_ data. The know-how and “secret sauce” were never going to be open. And it’s not as profound as we think it is inside that black box.

So who holds all the data in closed silos? Google and Facebook. We may have already lost the battle on achieving “open and fair” AI paradigm long time ago.
For those interested in this topic, Ben Rich has a book of firsthand account called "Skunk Works" (this is mostly after the Kelly era). I personally found it to be a good read - a mix between government politics, the fight for funding, the culture of shipping, and what worked and what didn't.
Regardless of whether you feel like Altman was rushing OpenAI too fast, wasn’t open enough, and was being too commercial, the last few days demonstrated conclusively that the board is erratic and unstable and unfit to manage OpenAI.

Their actions was the complete opposite of open. Rather than, I don’t know, being open and talking to the CEO to share concerns and change the company, they just threw a tantrum and fired him.
Yes, as far as I know you do.

I don't know how they did it, but it even works when the phone isn't booted.
Why would you need a generic global key-value store? One with excruciatingly bad performance (apart from the inherent thread-unsafety) that stores keys and values encoded in text form as KEY=VALUE?

I've never needed such a thing. Much better to use proper globals, or to use hashes, maps, arrays, ... depending on the context. And why should it be _a_ global store, instead of a structure that you can instantiate as many times as you want (if you really need to, as a global)?
The point of no return for the company might have been crossed way before the employees were forced to choose sides. Choose Sam's side and the company lives but only as a bittersweet reminder of its founding principles. Choose the board's side and you might be dooming the company to die an even faster death.

But maybe for further revolutions to happen, it did have to die to be reborn as several new entities. After all, that is how OpenAI itself started - people from different backgrounds coming together to go against the status quo.
As somebody who worked as a PC technician for a while until very recently, I've run chkdsk and had to repair errors on NTFS filesystems very, very, very often. It's almost an everyday thing. Anecdotal evidence is less than useful here.
> We flourish in a middle ground between collapse and stability

Citation needed? If that were true I would expect a long history of alternating societal growth and collapse. That doesn’t seem to be generally true?
Navigate to the same site. Run windows from a browser within windows running on the browser.
Not many has died, but they have all left and have no hope to ever return to their homes. Contrast that to Balkans where a lot of people already returned to their homes, and way more could return if the hatred could be held in check, to which "humanitarian bombardments" history is a huge deterrent.

I'm not talking about defence of Russia, or Serbia, because they needn't one. The USA/NATO need to defend their involvement in civil wars to help one of the sides which make these civil wars worse every single time, as well as making at least one side even more bitter and preventing normalization of affairs for longer.

I, for one, do not want to ever hear any more moral judgements from you. You have no moral basis to have them.

Right now, the US is backing up an ethnic cleansing agent that is IDF, while placing high hopes on ethnic cleansing as a way to resolve the conflict.

I would be very glad to remove my comments if you remove the whole branch of your accusations, which are wildly out of place.
What could disrupt OpenAI is a dramatic change in market, perhaps enabled by a change in technology. But if it's the same customers in the same market, they will buy or duplicate any tech advance; and if it's a sufficiently similar market, they will pivot.
> probably good risk management

Is it, though? This data [0] says otherwise.

[0]: http://www.breakingthescience.org/SimplifiedDataFromDHHS.php
OP used the phrase "strikes me", that's not quite the same as being surprised.

Something can strike you without you being surprised.

For instance the amount of ads on youtube when it's running on a smart TV at someone else's always strikes me, but I'm not in the least surprised.
> No, I believe you’re thinking of “problem” in a different way.

> A cure permanently relieves symptoms of a disease.

This is a surreal correction for you to make after selectively quoting the first half of my sentence. Let's look at the whole thing:

>> Usually curing would mean fixing the problem, or more specifically it would mean permanently eliminating the symptoms.

Did you have something to add to that?
This is the way the industry is going. Table formats such as Delta, Hudi, Iceberg stored on cloud object stores.

Though it works amazingly well, it is certainly slower than ingesting the data to be stored and manipulated in native formats.
Try Silverlight, XNA, C++/CX, .NET Native, UAP,....

The difference is that they stop talking about it, their presence fades away in conference and developer blogs, and eventually from Visual Studio installation workloads.
Narrow to a tiny training set? What are you talking about now? That has nothing to do with deep learning.

GPT-3.5 was trained on at least 300 billion tokens. It has 96 layers in its neural network of 175 billion parameters. Each one of those 96 stacked layers has an attention mechanism that recomputes an attention score for every token in the context window, for each new token generated in sequence. GPT-4 is much bigger than that. The scale and complexity of these models is beyond comprehension. We're talking about LLMs, not SLMs.
Batteries can store energy from any source, with solar, wind, nuclear and hydro being top candidates as all might produce in excess of demand.
This is true in the narrow sense of it not changing the literal meaning of the sentence much. In a broader sense, using "kind of" a lot is part of a sociolect (in this caze zoomers) and you would lose some sense of beloning to that group by dropping it from your speech.
Mentioned elsewhere, bad grammar could be a human telling an AI to be plausibly bad.
Darned auto-carrot strikes again!
OpenAI? they do. they chose the wrong people, and now they're in damage control mode to something more familiar to the markets without the oxygen necessary to focus on DEI
Ah, super interesting and it introduced me to Tracery (which is nice because I have my own text generation tool and it's gratifying to see that Tracery's grammar isn't that far off what I evolved for mine. Although the "saving" functionality is cleaner than mine and I'll probably steal that idea. :)
Does that mean you think Yann LeCunn is reckless, and if so, why?
Yes, the original letter had (for an official letter) quite some serious allegations, insinuations. If after a week, they decided not to back up their claims, I'm not sure there is anything big coming.

On the other hand, if they had some serious concerns, serious enough to fire the CEO in such a disgraceful way, I don't understand why they don't stick to their guns, and explain themselves. If you think OpenAI under Sam's leadership is going to destroy humanity, I don't understand how they (e.g. Ilya) reverted their opinions after a day or two.
IMO this is nonsense.

How about the following preventions:

1 - make sure MI has no actors (by this logic LLMs are safe)

2 - make sure MI doesn't get control over it's energy supply (so we can always starve it)

Easy, easy to verify, and we can in the meantime do something useful instead of the equivalent of discussing the potential risks of cars while living in the stone age.

Update to the replies:

1. "No actors" means it's like a person in prison - has the smartest person ever been able to socially engineer its way out of prison? No, it might have escaped with the help of social engineering but still actors were needed.

2. There's a plug for every machine we use. There is simply no way without actors to "work around" that.

Once we have generally capable robots that can fix stuff / solder things / push buttons AND those robots are controlled by an AI then we can start discussing.

However, this is not now, nor is it in the next 5 years.
You must live in a wealthy place.

In my experience in most places libraries are not common. They use lots of space and money, that usually is needed for more important things like building sewers in neighborhoods that have none.
Win32 is the main Windows API, and MFC, besides fixing HDPI issues, the hard reality is that after crashing the whole WinRT/UWP story for C++ developers, there is nothing left on the Microsoft ecosystem for doing GUI in C++.
I have no words for that comment.

As if its so unbelievable that someone would want to prevent rogue AI or wide-scale unemployment, instead thinking that these people just want to be super moderators and people to be politically correct
> OpenAI is in fact not open

that ship sailed long ago , no?

But i agree that the company seems less trustworthy now, like it's too CEO-centered
Bitkeeper was more or less like Subversion, fast, expensive and slightly complicated; you seem to overestimate the relevance and influence of Linux kernel use for the average corporate decision maker who doesn't care about Linux, doesn't care about distributed VC, doesn't care about performance (because it only affects peons), doesn't like to spend money and doesn't like bleeding edge tools.
I don't think the argument was that none of them are good at that, just that it's a mistake to assume that just because they're all very smart in this particular field that they're great at another.
Is this expected with say Samsung evo 9X0 pro? Or is there another tier above consumer level gear? Is there something I should go with?
The sane course of action for any healthy organization after last week would be to work actively on becoming more independent from Microsoft.

With Sam at the head, especially after Microsoft backing him, they will most likely do the opposite. Meaning a deeper integration with Microsoft.

If it wasn't already, OpenAI is now basically a Microsoft subsidiary. With the advantage for Microsoft of not being legally liable for any court cases.
Even that is very American specific. In Germany there is a certain limited competition between health insurances.
the article on how ai could be harmful seems more like people trying to use the tool (LLM) to do evil things. You can also do evil things with other tools than AI.
the media is the media
How can there be alignment, when humans themselves aren't aligned anywhere?

Giving it a fancy name like 'superalignment' is typical manager bogus.
he was very well known long before openAI
Perhaps not yet, but surely a generation from now.
Only because they didn't want to put the work to make it portable, as proven by Avalonia folks.
The current state is to use guest accounts [1]. If you use that branch instead of master and get a collection of accounts, you can run your own instance. For my personal use instance this is working fine with the initial set of accounts I put in. No idea how long this will work and/or when it is going to get merged, it is a moving target.

I think the token workaround you mentioned is the old way that no longer works, but I am not sure.

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/985
I am glad someone said that. Among the endless theories this obvious aspect was interestingly missing. Maybe it's because of the culture in SV/HN where people and companies feel secure and isolated from the politics (maybe that is the reason SV is unique in the world). But in my world something like AGI+Saudi Arabia is a matter of international politics and multiple governments would involve. AGI will be an important strategic resource in this century, both in economical and political sense. This automatically makes it Cold War 2 kind of material. All these teen drama by some incompetent millennials in the board of a non-profit organization (Communist-like in a Capitalist country?) does not align with the gravity of the material. I believe this was some adult supervision attempt from your government. Or not, but that perspective needs more attention.
Your OS had a dark theme, that gets represented in the browser as a not !important user style. The website should be able to override this to avoid the white text on white background problem.

But then if the user is tweaking a specific site, the user should be able to override anything with ! important if they really mean it.
Yeah I guess it works well for how most people use computers which is not actually for computation...

Modern platter is actually pretty decent and cheap. It's probably still the way to go for large loads unless you have a grove of money trees
What bothers me about HN currently is that the majority seems to not be bothered by it, stating that OpenAI tries to be ethical, that Sam can be trusted etc.

Has everyone forgotten about Google? Facebook? Every other SV Tech-Startup? Why would OpenAI be different?

"They're a non-profit". Yeah, sure. As if Wall Street, M$ et al would just not try to monopolize and commercialize AI as soon as possible.
On Android 12+ (if my memory serves well), you can use DNS over TLS without having to install any additional software. It seems to cover all of the connections, but I don't think DoT is used when your phone connects to your network for VoWifi and eSIM provisioning connections (I didn't see them in my NextDNS logs)