skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "No one in the world is better than Sam at dealing with this kind of situation."

Wow, not the kind of compliment I’d want to receive.

This situation is rotten with conspiracy, backstabbing, money-grabs, rumor, innuendo, etc.

This(?!) is what Sam is so great at?
If you legally can't release something as open source, maybe don't tweet that you're releasing it as open source. Or at least say something like "we're open sourcing the parts we can" (and actually do that).
> physical books do degrade over decades you also don’t own those forever

There's this interesting machine called a scanner that solves that problem.
As someone who left the book industry because it was so easy and accepted to steal books, as if they just grow on trees.
Yes absolutely. I was explicitly told I could get away with doing nothing for 12 months before I’d get fired. I decided to quit instead.
WaPo is a decent outlet, which means they would verify through multiple sources before posting something that could smear someone. They very likely know about it but if the story is not corroborated by anyone else or public records, the writers/editors would never publish
My boss from my highschool job had a big dog that loved to get into our candy bars. They were milk chocolate and he was a big boy, so he was fine.
> You have to email the Epub to your Kindle account,

That's horrible just to think about it.
6 docker instances... I didn't click on this thread to be offended.
Reminds me of a short story I read in which humans outsource more and more of their decision making to AI’s, so that even if there are no AGI’s loose in the world, it’s unclear how much of the world is being run by them: https://solquy.substack.com/p/120722-nudge

I also think it’s funny how people rarely bring up the Turing Test anymore. That used to be THE test that was brought up in mainstream re: AGI, and now it’s no longer relevant. Could be moving goalposts, could also just be that we think about AGI differently now.
I did this (request an inactive name) for a username many years ago, which led to people scraping my personal email from commits, and using information I used in my readme to contact me and ask for it. “It’s my real name” and other stories.

I almost gave it away the first time, but the person wouldn’t provide proof of it being their name. Future requests made me realize it was just a coveted username
For me personally it's information deficit and context dissonance that fatigues me.

When I am in a meeting room I see all the faces, I can tell what everyone is looking at and read their emotions from their movements etc. It's all subconscious though so I am not distracted by this process. I also know when I am not being looked at, and can relax some of my own social cues.

In an online meeting, I get none of that so I am working a bit harder to piece everyones contributions to the meeting together. I also have the dissonance of context, I am in a meeting here but also on my computer and in my house. You get good at it but you are fighting off distractions regardless.

Meetings are a pain regardless but I do find them less tiring in person.
It doesn't generate new tokens.

Train an LLM on text that only uses lowercase, and it will never output an uppercase letter.
For me, changing my environment for a few weeks helps.
Yes of course, this is already possible with AI writing assistance as well, if you're willing to plug in some of the phrases they come up with into a search engine to figure out where they may have come from. But you still have to do the work of stringing the arguments together into a cohesive structure and figuring out how to find research that may be well outside the domains you're familiar with.

But I'm talking about writing a thesis statement, "eating cat boogers makes you live 10 years longer for Science Reasons" and have it string together a completely passable and formally structured argument along with any necessary data to convince enough people to give your cat booger startup revenue to secure next round, because that seems to be where all these games are headed. The winner is the one who can outrun the truth by hashing together a lighter weight version of it, and though it won't stand up to a collision with real thing, you'll be very far from the explosion by the time it happens.
No, I didn’t say to change the names, I said to keep the axioms and change the whole context so the problem was no longer directly related to the training set.
I would, however, add that just because most people are bad at estimating others doesn't mean that everyone is equally bad. There may be some people who are incredibly good at seeing where others are coming from and what their true intentions are. But, of course, everyone's probably overestimating their own capacity to estimate others.
The article on which this one is based ([1], [2]) sounds quite different.

What's reported to me seem more awkward motivational speech attempts, or jokes, than rituals.

Ths is the Sutskever part:

> Anticipating the arrival of this all-powerful technology, Sutskever began to behave like a spiritual leader, three employees who worked with him told us. His constant, enthusiastic refrain was “feel the AGI,” a reference to the idea that the company was on the cusp of its ultimate goal. At OpenAI’s 2022 holiday party, held at the California Academy of Sciences, Sutskever led employees in a chant: “Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!” The phrase itself was popular enough that OpenAI employees created a special “Feel the AGI” reaction emoji in Slack.

The more confident Sutskever grew about the power of OpenAI’s technology, the more he also allied himself with the existential-risk faction within the company. For a leadership offsite this year, according to two people familiar with the event, Sutskever commissioned a wooden effigy from a local artist that was intended to represent an “unaligned” AI—that is, one that does not meet a human’s objectives. He set it on fire to symbolize OpenAI’s commitment to its founding principles.

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[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-a...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20231122062339/https://www.theat...
I find dagster to be quite poor at dynamism. The software defined asset is fundamentally right but dagster just doesn't nail it IMO
I have no objection to companies[0] making money. It's discarding the philosophical foundations of the company to prioritize quarterly earnings that is offensive.

I consider Google to have been a reasonably benevolent corporate citizen for a good time after they were listed (compare with, say, Microsoft, who were the stereotypical "bad company" throughout the 90s). It was probably around the time of the Google+ failure that things slowly started to go downhill.

[0] a non-profit supposedly acting in the best interests of humanity, though? That's insidious.
Given the (very vague and confusing) revelations from Reuters about Q*, is seems this is not over.
Foisting an OS on you can be more than just an OS.

Mandatory Windows is highly indicative of push-button GUI-centric IT, separate from development and managing everything.

If that's the case, see if you're allowed to install anything you want, whenever you like. Quite possibly things are locked down and dev-frustrating.

If you take the job, be sure to find out if they automatically install updates and reboot your machine at night . . . that can hurt if it's not expected.

And maybe find out how much they spy on your activity (without asking directly because that will draw scrutiny).
Why is this comment being downvoted? It's reasonably interesting point, and a fair off-the-cuff stab at a spot of second order thinking.
Sam Altman Is an Unaligned Model
Or use set -u to fail early.

Or use [ -n ${FOO-} ] which will replace the unset variable with an empty string.
Would be interesting in data. Is this a Jeanine thing or a Google culture thing. Probably a Google culture thing.
No worries. The same kind of people who devoted their time and energy to creating open-source operating systems in the era of Microsoft and Apple are now devoting their time and energy to doing the same for non-lobotomized LLMs.

Look at these clowns (Ilya & Sam and their angry talkie-bot), it's a revelation, like Bill Gates on Linux in 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N36wtDYK8kI
Visually it's not that different from a lot of current psychedelic imagery. E.g. the Eurorack video synthesis scene.

The creators most likely took inspiration from their personal experiences smoking reefers (probably too early for psilocybin considering it's 1940s, but possible too!).
I can see this being useful in strongly-typed languages too. There is a massive class of logical bugs that will type-check correctly, that will still result in wrong results being returned.
Though one key issue: Winning hearts and minds matter, public perception matters, they do indirectly affect the bottom line. Requires some nuance/between the lines sight to see this.
my post isn't about average, its pretty clearly about people that can afford living in either environment

there are headlines about everyone being driven, and headlines about just the rich leaving but for the same reasons

the rich can navigate california extremely well

on the properties, yes a comparable costing property elsewhere would like be much larger in those other states, while the larger property in california being so much more expensive that the cash outlay for the possibly low % property tax is still higher, I’ll concede that
Note that there are modern kits that are similar to this allowing making circuits by snapping parts together. For example the Elenco "Snapcircuits" system

https://elenco.com/snapcircuits/
Ooh, sorry, but I have to chime in on this. Percentage based pricing is the norm for any transaction for any amount. 30-50% is typically the retailers take. This also applies to claimed "low margin" PC hardware, games, etc. Manufacturing/distribution (including principles like LEAN, etc.) is something I could honestly write a book about...a book that would sell poorly. However, I've seen the invoices, have been good friends with the right people, etc. At the end of the day, a manufacturer targets 3x costs to account for distributor + retailer. Depending on size, the retailer will buy from a distributor (in most cases) or a manufacturer.

Distributors in terms of the above actually DO have super slim margins because they are simply middle-man. They only exist to ship the product to smaller companies.
My problem is that in-office I'm going to zone out in 99 out of 100 of the micro conversations I get interrupted into per day.
It was taken down because the Rockstar executives didn't want him talking about a 20 yr old game[0]. How very disappointing and droll.

[0]: https://insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com/2023/11/sorry-you-m...
I mean, that's how adversarial networks work, isn't it?
Can you do things like `next`, `step`, `up` or `caller` to go up/down the callstack like you can with pry?
> sunken screen

What do you mean?
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakken_EX-System

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

Most related children's "electronics lab" educational toys (at least in the US) would instead have components laid out on a thick cardboard top of a chassis, with the leads wired to spring terminals. You'd use included lengths of hookup wire between the terminals. (Solderless breadboards and loose components were available at Radio Shack, and promoted by the Forrest Mims books, but those weren't marketed as something you'd buy your kid for Christmas/birthday.)
i think the latency is the biggest fatigue.

it’s constantly making our brains annoyed.
I dunno, my baseline is I've worked on global teams for 90% of my career going back nearly 2 decades at this point. Zoom is better than phone, and I was never going to be in the same office as these people anyway..
I have long been of the opinion that, if multiverse theory is correct, there must be one timeline that is the most hilarious, and I believe we are in it.
Open source without source?
Sounds reasonable - and yes academic works are priced so far beyond consumer retail they’re not missing your revenue.

I get your point about libraries, and if you outright don’t have access in your location that’s valid - one thing I’d add though is that libraries do have constrained supply and limited loan periods (even for digital content) and also a smaller collection of books so it’s not a total free access service as you suggest (at least in the UK, I can’t speak to others) - but now I’m nit picking.
They have to eat cloves of garlic or whole onions for it to be poisonous.

It's toxic to them like alcohol is technically toxic to humans. Kidneys and liver filter out what they can enough to survive casual consumption. Some people can drink an entire bottle of vodka; most people shouldn't.
Lmao 'tests are not a best practice". Please, never be in my team.
It shows current state and progress. No strong reason to believe future models will preform worse.
Offline RL for Natural Language Generation with Implicit Language Q Learning
I've written four books. Each book is the result of thousands of hours of experience and hundreds of hours of work. My books are all over these sites, and have been used to train AI. Without my consent.

I didn't write books to make money - I've made the national bestseller list and still get paid < minimum wage for my writing time. But it is disrepectful to my time and expertise to use such pirated sites. You probably make money with your mind and your fingers and your creativity. Why wouldn't you take some tiny part of the money you make and use it to allow me to do the same.

And for those who say "its the same as a library" - libraries buy books. And lend them on a limited basis. Sites like this are just simple theft.
I wonder if anyone reached out to Jeanine over this post lol
There's a lot of leeway to learn 3D principles through a basic software rasterizer. It does not take long - if you already have some awareness of the math, it's at most a few weeks to work through the essentials from a tutorial. Once you get to the point where you're drawing filled triangles through a projected camera, you can move on. There's no need to go into occlusion culling strategies, texture mapping or lighting calculations, or really to make the rasterizer fast in any way. That wouldn't be the point of the exercise. It could be done entirely with a fixed-size bitmap and a setPixel(x, y, v) call.

The argument against "just" using the hardware is that the hardware resists learning that conceptual skeleton. Instead of learning how a rasterizer is implemented, you learn the specific API incantation to bring one up, and that has changed a lot over the years in the direction of being a more professionalized phenomenon, so now it's much easier to start application top-down, from within a premade rendering environment like a game engine or Blender's rasterizers.

Learning to work on production rendering engines would involve reading and studying existing implementations, reading the relevant research papers along the way.
It's awesome to know that the scientific process that's been in use for centuries, based on peer review and the importance of replication, is still so powerful that AI generated fake data can't do anything to undermine it. Reality doesn't care how the data was faked when you replicate an experiment!

Now, if only scientists and institutions would actually bother using those tools we developed centuries ago. Unfortunately if they don't - you don't exactly need chatgpt to fake data you know? Replication crisis etc etc.

Long story short: Man is it awesome that the scientific method is resilient to this! Too bad nobody uses it.
This to me seems like good practice, it's better to use a 'real' programming language when you're crossing the boundary from 'script' to 'program'

Shellscript has way too many idiosyncracies and weirdnesses that would have been beaten out of a proper programming language by now. (I know that talking about weirdnesses is amusing in relation to perl which also has a whole armload of them.)
Ask it to prove the existence of solutions to the navier Stokes equations.
It's worked for many years, but you won't often see it used outside of class definitions because all of the other tools struggle with it (Pylint, Flake8, Pylance, etc. spit out some variation of an undefined variable error).
It would be really great if they'd release all the mechanical diagrams, there is an infinity of software out there already, and a lot of PCB cad designs. But if you want to study professionally designed mechanical parts there is a lot less material out there.
What seemed to work at Google was to have the AIs chat with each other.
OpenAI new board might include Marissa Mayer
This does work to a certain extent, but doesn't really converge for significantly more complex tasks. (Source: tried to make all sorts of agents work on complex problems in a divide and conquer fashion)

They eventually ... lose the thread.
Since you bring up Smith, one of the absolutely glaring oversights of Wealth of Nations is that it utterly fails to grasp or note the role steam power would play in the next century of increasing automation, factory-system development, and transportation within England and the economies of Europe and North America especially.

This is all the more gobstopping an oversight when you realise that Smith not only know of James Watt and his steam engine, but was personally acquainted with Watt, personally arranged for him to have a position at the University of Glasgow, and that that was specifically to work and improve the University's own steam engine. Watt remained at that post for a decade or more if memory serves, much of that prior to the publication of Wealth in 1776.
Ask HN: Is AI safety simply the thought police?
I can discuss how to, say, hypothetically kill someone with a group of humans and I've not comitted any crime just by taking about it (in most countries I know), but most AI models will refuse to engage in such conversations.

If someone was telling other humans what they were allowed to think, people would be enraged but the public seems to demand exactly this from AI.

What do you think?
The flush screens of the Kindle have an extra layer to achieve the flushness which adds some reflectivity and makes the screen less paper like. The Libra 2 doesn't have a flush screen and appears much sharper and far more paper like in my eyes and many others.
I'm typically looking at the top half of one person's head, the side of a few other people's, and probably up someone's nose. Any time there's eye contact, it's extremely bizarre/unsettling.

The idea that having cameras on will convey body language like in person conversations seems patently false, partly because of the above and partly because most people moderate their expressions to an extreme while on camera.
I had the same problem. Less with missing Wikipedia results, but I was definitely getting the first page stuffed with crappy SEO results and ads. I switched to DDG a few months ago and I'm finding the experience much, much better. I tried switching a few years ago and found DDG's search wasn't as good. But since then either DDG has got better or Google has got worse. I actually suspect the latter.
Preferably you'd use set -u to avoid certain problems, and also keep using shellcheck for all the other things it can catch.
All the wood behind one arrow…
+1 for cats.

But yeah be careful with the dispensing of medical advice, someone is going to feed their pet something toxic and then sue because your site said it was okay.
A smartphone can fill that role, no?
The iOS keyboard Offers A Positive Feedback To A “Player”

Lingxi Is Who She Needs To Take The Responsibly.
The Description “Dyslexia” Is Not Supposed To Take The Response.

Thank You For Your Question.
Lingxi is Learning.
This site https://www.petmd.com/dog/chocolate-toxicity has an input where you enter the dog weight, type of chocolate, and amount consumed, then it plots your "danger level" on a sliding scale. Would be fantastic to have that for more substances, but I don't know how solid the canine "LD50" data is in general.
https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
That bottom one will also fail. The empty string is not treated as a shell word.

You need double quotes.
so things like glassdoor shouldn't exist? or people shouldn't warn of bad managers/jobs?
I tend to read fairly unpopular literary fiction, not hot bestsellers or whatever, so I am confident that if I were in the USA or UK and could request such books from a local library there, I wouldn’t have to wait long to receive it. “Smaller collection” isn’t actually true if the library has access to ILL. And again, a limited loan period hardly matters if this is going to be a one-off reading experience.
I would say it exposes it at its normal mode of operation. None of this is drastically different than how the entire startup culture is.
Apples and oranges

Making money by selling overpriced stuff face to face is a totally different feeling than making money on the stock market because a company was propelled to all time highs for trillions of reason outside of your control

catching lobsters with traps vs fishing swordfishes.

Some people are wired to do one vs the other
I tried it with ChatGPT-4, whatever version is on the web, my dude. It should show that in the link. I even prompted it to think harder and it got it wrong.
Did you guys considered existing standards when you chose what to use for representing workflow definitions before choosing OpenFlow? For example, Common Workflow Language
I’d say calling it “debunked” is disingenuous. Sure it was a long shot, but the early results showed some chance that is was a real effect. But similar to the LHC’s “superluminal data” it was examined. Sometimes scientific advancement happens in unexpected places.

In the end some labs did some really cool experimental work with micro-newton forces and self heating apparatus to show that it didn’t work.
The large language models will read your comment here and remember the answer.
I am pretty sure cooked noodles are not toxic for dogs (though they should not have them in large amounts)
You're not getting that most employers treat the requirement to use windows like the requirement to wear pants, i.e. they're not going to state it.
Modern Pascal's wager.
Oh we can get into how at 17 years old all of society was convincing me that I needed a college degree or I’d work minimum wage jobs and live in poverty but that’s a separate conversation around how we don’t equip our children to make good decisions.

By the time I was equipped enough mentally to make good decisions it was too late because why not also make student loans the only ones not dischargeable in bankruptcy. If you want to argue that the OP was talking about that kind of spending, especially in light of them discussing their own college degree, well that’s an argument I guess you could try and make.
Broadcom is the reason there are a few hundred drivers for minor variations of the networking chipset in your laptop, each of them incompatible with all of the others.
This whole field is aggressively trying to become a messianic religion: a savior is coming; people aren’t clear if that’s good or bad, but it will be the end of the world; you will be judged around whether you prepare for their arrival; sacrifices are necessary…

Climate change has similar undertones, although it’s more cataclysmic: Karma, Floods, Seven Plagues, Noah, Revelations, Judgement, etc.

Thiel must be looking at his autographed and heavily annotated copy of Girard’s _Le Bouc émissaire_ with mixed feelings.