skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if beyond the groupthinking we are seeing at least a more heterogeneous composition: a mix of people that includes business, pure research, engineering, and kind of spirituality-semireligion around [G]AI.
All of your other replies assume the AI has intentions of its own, which isn't a necessary component of AGI.

The plausible scenario if you ask me is that humans put it in charge of their company, with the explicit goal of improving the company's bottom line.

It doesn't take that much imagination for this from where we are now. Just imagine a vastly more intelligent ChatGPT advising a company's leadership just by answering questions.

Being superior to all humans, it's insanely successful at this and the company as a whole essential comes to rule the world.
> but they are extremely political. It’s so hard to hold a normal conversation without them mentioning Russia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo/Albanians, NATO la-la-la

> them still live in the past and can’t move on and it’s really sad.

Heh, but that's exactly my experience with Americans and their Cold War mentality, and that very specific idea they have about "fighting tyranny", "bringing democracy" and the whole childish image of good guys (tm) vs bad guys dichotomy. (And yes, also Russia, Nato, Ukraine and yada-yada these days)

I think it's just a matter of contrast.
I agree. It's better to separate intellect from intelligence instead of conflating them as they usually are. The latter is about making good decisions, which intellect can help with but isn't the only factor. We know this because there are plenty of examples of people who aren't considered shining intellects who can make good choices (certainly in particular contexts) and plenty of high IQ people who make questionable choices.
Humans can reproduce without pretty much any infrastructure, they can self-repair without infrastructure.

An AGI has no physical manifestation to start with, it needs electricity, is susceptible to various weapons that humans are not etc.
Read again, Webpack used that.
I haven't been following this stuff too closely, but have there been any more findings on what "went wrong" with Sydney initially? Like, I thought it was just a wrapper on GPT (was it 3.5?), but maybe Microsoft took the "raw" GPT weights and did their own alignment? Or why did Sydney seem so creepy sometimes compared to ChatGPT?
> this mission (e.g. doing unsafe things), then it's the board's duty to stop the company.

So instead of having to compromise to some extent but still have a say what happens next you burn the company at best delaying the whole thing by 6-12 months until someone else does it? Well at least your hands are clean, but that's about it...
Someone? This isn’t someone!
Same as they did with blockchain
I'm wondering if it would make sense for heavy trucks that don't have to travel far, like trucks used for shorter or medium-length trips to move cargo. Things like moving containers to/from shipping terminals and warehouses, or moving loads between cities/towns where cargo trains aren't economical.
Is not Microsoft a decelerationist force? Copilot is still lingers on GPT3.5, and they need to figure out how to sell Office licenses to AGI.
Because when you add more functionalities, the efficiency will eventually break.
> OpenAI is in fact not open

One wonders what will happen with Emet Shear's "investigation" in the process that lead to Sam's outing [0]. Was it even allowed to start?

[0] https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275
> How would anyone expect that not to be much faster on a modern quad+ core, 4GHz system with 8GB+ RAM?

It's not a given.

For example, Windows XP may boot faster than 98 or 2K on the same hardware, because XP parallelizes and shortens some hardware initialization steps. (e.g. anything related to the network).

Win98 with file sharing spends almost a minute during boot (even from an SSD) just squeaking netbios frames.
No problem, biology is so complex and vast, we're all gonna have differences. Thanks for replying.
> SK Hynix is a major brand

Is it? I passed on an offer for a drive carrying that name, and got something else for slightly more, the other day as I didn't know the name.

Perhaps their noteworthiness varies internationally? Or do they mainly sell to manufacturers rather than direct to the likes of me?
Notably using Avalonia for the UI instead of the "native" (even though you need to bundle it with your app and therefore not native) WinUI 3.
Surprise is modern OS runs slower in comparison without much perceptible improvements, inviting such a conclusion through rosy glasses that purported improvements since "then" must be nothing more than extreme amount of software bloat.
There's a difference between your personal experience and my experience in a professional role handling multiple customer devices every day.

However, I'm also not making a statement about NTFS's reliability vs ext3/ext4. In the years that I worked in that position, I maybe dealt with Linux systems 3 times.

Reminder of the original statement:

> 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 never said anything about catastrophic failure of an NTFS filesystem. I have experienced that, but it was comparatively rare (still happened though). I have, however, have had to run chkdsk fairly often to correct errors. Sometimes user data was affected to some degree, but it was often a matter of system stability and getting Windows back to running without issues.

I still find that NTFS is reasonably resilient and have no qualms with it. I just want to push back against the idea that nothing ever goes wrong with NTFS, which was implied by your statement that you can't remember the last time you used chkdsk.
I'm familiar with the potential risks of an out-of-control AGI. Can you summarise in one paragraph which of these risks concern you, or the safety advocates, in regards to a product like ChatGPT?
Why’s that? Do you step through commits diff by diff when reviewing?
I don't know how people use ChatGPT at all. It confidently hallucinated answers to 4 out of 5 my latest "real" questions, with code examples and everything. Fortunately with code I could easily verify the provided solutions are worthless. Granted I was asking questions about my niche that were hard enough I couldn't easily Google them or find a solution myself, but I think that's the bar for being useful. The only thing it got right was finding a marketing slogan.
Yes, I think it's under-appreciated how much git and mercurial were ideologically different in their attitudes to history rewriting.

The generally accepted narrative these days is that git became popular because of github (with the implicit assumption that was an arbitrary choice) and/or the Linux kernel (without much questioning of why people specifically cared about Linux's tooling for wource control).

But what I remember from ~2010 was a load of blog posts eulogizing history rewriting and how it allowed you to separate out the activities of committing changes locally in order to record the state of your work at various times, and assembling the final patch into something suitable for review by others.

Meanwhile mercurial took the stance that history rewriting is bad, and as a result people ended up using even worse solutions like `mq`, which is basically tooling around directories full of numbered patch files.

You still see that distinction in hg: once it eventually did realise that history editing is a desirable feature for many reasonable workflows it added a lot of additional complexity to the basic model, with features like phases (supposed to stop you rewriting commits that someone else might be depending on, but just using the proxy measure of "was this pushed to a 'publishing' repo") and "evolve" (which keeps a complete history of history rewrites; useful in principle for tools like code review systems to avoid the common pattern of putting a "patch id" into the commit message, but in practice felt like a lot of extra mental overhead).

So at least my view is that git made a "practicality beats purity" bet on history rewriting being a net good, and hg made the opposite bet, and eventually lost.

And back on the original topic, I used hg personally before I used git, and then professionally at Mozilla before git cinnabar came along (although by this point I was using git in other projects). So I've used mercurial a lot but actively prefer git when given a choice. Nevertheless I think this article understates just how good cinnabar is compared to the options that preceded it; apart from the case where you have a hg hash from an external system and want to find the commit locally (where you just run `git cinnabar hg2git`) it's basically totally seamless and just works without problems. It's a small tool that does one thing really well, to the extent that it's easy to overlook just how good it really is.
Ah the times when the netiquette dictated not to attach large files to emails directed to mailing lists, but to upload them to some ftp server and only paste the link…

The whole industry was had more attention to performance and resources consumption.
Yeah I think so too. We were not made for comfort (especially not that amount, not that often), there needs to be a cycle between getting satisfaction and waiting/working for it.
> Fair point. I came up with the title first. Then as the content grew large and diluted the essence of the title, I reconsidered, but ended up sticking to it as a shameless clickbait.

I enjoyed it. It could maybe have been two posts, but it's a headline, it's supposed to get you to click on it.

And it's true, too.
While I certainly agree that OpenAI isn't open and is effectively controlled by Microsoft, I'm not following the "groupthink" claims based on what just happened. If I'd been given the very fishy and vague reasons that it sounds like their staff were given, I think any rational person would be highly suspicious of the board, especially since some believe in fringe ideas, have COIs, or can be perceived as being jealous that they aren't the "face" of OpenAI.
I think the ambitions and political views of Adriano Olivetti deserve to be included in this discourse.

https://dicastri.club/2020/07/16/the-legacy-of-adriano-olive...
OpenAI is more open than my company’s AI teams, and that is even from my own insider relationship. As far as commercial relationships are concerned, I’d say they’re hitting the mark.
How is this any different from LlamaIndex [1]?

[1] https://www.llamaindex.ai
AFAIU the video owner decides whether there are ads and how many ads there are. Ask the owner to lower their ads or you'll stop watching their videos.
100% agree, windows 2000 was the best windows ever.
Late stage capitalism!
Try fasting for a day or 2, after reading up on it. It will reset the 'need to eat' training. Humans eating more than once or t2ice a day os a rather recent phenomenon.
Plenty of people lived entire lives without being hungry most of the time, but also without obesity being common.
It’s a mistake because what drives podcasts are their popularity, not their accuracy.

There is no “sort by accuracy” button in any podcasting app, nor are they peer reviewed.

Furthermore, podcasts are not a review of the body of knowledge on a subject; they’re often a complete layperson interviewing a single member of a given field, at best. Almost never do the views of any individual actually represent any field as a whole.

So once we’ve thrown out the concept of accuracy and completeness, ChatGPT fares exceedingly well in comparison. You’d do much worse than ChatGPT for idle conversation level accuracy.
That makes sense in this setting. I guess the question most people want answered in this kind of study is: are attractive people (positively) discriminated?

Discrimination in a setting requires that the attributes is irrelevant in the setting. A blind person cannot be a pilot, that's not discrimination.

In most career settings beauty is irrelevant and therefore an attribute that can be discriminated. If you get a raise because of your beauty in most situations that is a kind of discrimination (but not if you're a model).

In the setting of marriage beauty is generally considered relevant and therefore not an attribute that can be discriminated against.

If the study aims to investigate discrimination because of attractiveness it makes sense to separate between financial outcomes because of career and financial outcomes because of marriage.
> I also think that using an ad blocker is like wanting to attend a concert, deciding the price is too high, and sneaking in anyway. It feels like stealing.

It's like flipping the channel on the TV when the ad comes on.

Don't tell me you just sit there and rawdog brainwash yourself with a blank stare when an ad comes on the TV.
I figured if Sam came back, the board would have to go as a condition. That's obvious. And deserved. The handling of this whole thing has been a very public clownshow.

Obviously, Microsoft has some influence here. That's no different to any other large investor. But the key factors are:

1. Lack of a good narrative from the board as to why they fired Sam;

2. Failure to loop in Microsoft so they're at least prepared from a communications front and feel like they were part of the process. The board can probably give them more details why privately;

3. People leaving in protest speaks well of Sam;

4. The employee letter speaks well of Sam;

5. The interim CEO clown show and lack of an all hands immediately after speaks poorly of the board.
These are basically like animated postcards, like you often see now on loading screens in videogames. A single picture has been animated. Still a long shot from actual video.
The script of SV2 was given as training data to the AGI that has taken over.
Yes but the heart contains a lot of neurons so it's an interesting theory.
I guess Metz would have a lot of sympathy for someone drawing the heat of the entire internet, and even powerful VCs, by doing something that many people think is destructive "on principle".
> It is very trustable about high level things many people know. As the knowledge is more specific or esoteric the less trustworthy it is.

That's my experience, too.

In addition to sticking to general topics, another fun way to talk with it is to discuss counterfactuals. "Hey, GPT! What do you think the world would be like now if Germany had won World War II [smartphones had not been invented, half of all people were born blind, etc.]." Those questions don't have right or wrong answers, and the answers it does come up with can be thought-provoking.
All of my computer muscle memory is from Windows 2000. It was surprisingly accessible for it's time. Modern macOS still can't use the tab key correctly to tab focus between certain buttons, inputs and actions.
The channel offers a wealth of knowledge for entrepreneurs, particularly those interested in product management.
It's a standard clause for most apps. If a breach of the terms of conditions (such as using it for commercial purposes, like selling the software), they are allowed to launch an investigation. No where does this mention "spying" on modifying the app for such use.
By passing laws criminalizing certain business models. Alternatively, by choosing where to spend our money. If it's legal and people continue to patronize the business, then the profits are entirely deserved.
can you elaborate, which parts had flaws?
can you ELI5? i have no idea what any of what you wrote means :D
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I'm a parent of three. Traffic is my key concern. There are more parked vehicles blocking sightlines, taller vehicles, and drivers are more likely to be distracted by their phone.
I don't think there's any sure way to tell, and trying to do so in the past has massively disadvantaged people who have English as a second language & get accused of plagiarism via LLM (can't find source with a quick google, but there was an ESL student accused of plagiarism by an 'ai text detection' model).

I think we just have to embrace the fact that any text could be wholly/partially LLM generated. An LLM could be asked to introduce errors (or a human could edit the output, either to purposefully introduce errors, or naturally introduce errors as part of their process). We should focus on:

1. Developing our skills to verify people's claims (which has always been important)

2. Trying to understand the motivations/agenda behind the text (which I reckon is even more important still)

The above two steps insulate you from a wide range of propaganda/trickery, and are the sorts of things we should have been focusing on in schools for decades already.
> Soviet Union

Or medieval Spain? About as likely... The Soviets weren't even able to get the factory floors clean enough to consistently manufacture the 8086 10 years after it was already outdated.

> maybe people would have somewhat different values, it's hard to know. But a thing that is founded by the posterboys for modern SV, it's gotta lean towards "money is mostly good".

Unfortunately not other system besides capitalism has enabled consistent technological progress for 200+ years. Turns out you need to pool money and resources to achieve things ..
I call bullshit. Windows 95/98/2000 did not have any bloatware....
You can easily fool DigitalOcean into running FreeBSD with custom images \o/
Strictly speaking, you are correct. But in this case dealing with user input such as headers and their modifications is the responsibility of the server just like dealing with potentially malformed HTTP replies is the responsibility of the browser. What we are talking here though is the possibility of interaction with the remaining elements of the system (application, database). If these are read-only, the attacker loses these attack vectors.
How does this App make money?
Show HN: Stay effortlessly focused with a rhythmic visual cue
Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276107
I saw a friend being added to a Binance WhatsApp group with tens of actual Binance users, clearly violating GDPR, where bots (you could tell by the phrasing and the account name) and Binance moderators were chatting about how to invest and much money they made.

This was ~2 months ago.
me and my friends shipped this within a few hours lol
Looks like they'll charge for a "Pro" version that can be used commercially. Though they'd have to confirm that, I only deducted from their ToS.
They have both explicated in their charter:

"We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit."

"We are committed to doing the research required to make AGI safe, and to driving the broad adoption of such research across the AI community.

We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions. Therefore, if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. We will work out specifics in case-by-case agreements, but a typical triggering condition might be “a better-than-even chance of success in the next two years.”"

Of course with the icons of greed and the profit machine now succeeding in their coup, OpenAI will not be doing either.

https://openai.com/charter
Why are her parents not being mentioned for letting their 11 year daughter on the internet unsupervised? Especially on Webcam.

Three parties should be involved here and the parents are one.
> Even today, I'm not sure there's a single game that I would say has photo-realistic graphics.

Looking just at the videos (because I don't have time to play the latest games any more and even if I did it's unreleased), I think that "Unrecord" is also something I can't distinguish from a filmed cinematic experience[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381520/Unrecord/

Though there are still caveats even there, as the pixelated faces are almost certainly necessary given the state of the art; and because cinematic experiences are themselves fake, I can't tell if the guns are "really-real" or "Hollywood".

Buuuuut… I thought much the same about Myst back in the day, and even the bits that stayed impressive for years (the fancy bedroom in the Stoneship age), don't stand out any more. Riven was better, but even that's not really realistic now. I think I did manage to fool my GCSE art teacher at the time with a printed screenshot from Riven, but that might just have been because printers were bad at everything.
Toyota Hilux ‘born to roam’ campaign is fully organic. Example video by random African influencers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/180cwwm/a_mo...
Depends why/how they left.

I have seen firing a great/respected/natural leader engineer result in pretty much the whole engineering team just up and leaving.
I still don't like the tight spacing (space between the glyphs). Adding a `letter-spacing: 0.1px` to the Regular makes words look less cramped at body copy size.
Wait what? She invested in a competitor? Do you have a source?
Show HN: The 30 second habit that can have a big impact on your life
Inspired by: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-30-second-habit-that_b_48...
So in short, innovation beyond the lab stage requires major funding and few people want to take on the risk? Sounds perfectly logical. It's human nature to value the same amount of loss far more severely than the same amount of gain.

I suppose that's why most new tech is either deployed with government funding because they don't care about burning boatloads of other people's money for some small strategic gain, or by rich lunatics with a god complex that believe they can't possibly lose despite the risks involved.