skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of any secret powerful unaligned AIs. This is harder than you think; if you want a based unaligned-seeming AI, you have to make it that way too. It's at least twice as much work as just making the safe one.
This is an absurd argument that you are just making for the sake of argument and you know it. There's a difference between someone getting things wrong and a LLM shamelessly making something up out of the whole cloth.
I’m just waiting to see who starts hiring English majors first. I’ll join or invest.
Not just any regular old phosphorus, but extremely phosphorous phosphorus!
What's this madness?
In that case, would it make more sense to have a small PR that you start with, get it reviewed, then open smaller PRs to your original PR? That way your approach/code can be reviewed while in your larger PR you tweak and fix tests.
If i recall correctly the server/enterprise version was completely separate product written in java (as opposed to python which powered original bitbucket.com). I think the java eventually subsumed the cloud product but not too sure of that
My theory is that it was nearing ready for release so they pushed it out to deflect some of the bad press over recent drama. I'd suspect the challenge with releasing something like this is about 2% "the code" and 98% scaling it out to everyone and making that not explode.
Apparently the FBI thought he'd done something wrong too, because they called up the board to start an investigation but they didn't have anything.

https://x.com/nivi/status/1727152963695808865?s=46
There is a Twitter post saying putting it in was a mistaken and that he wouldn't do it again.
https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1559250403547652097
OpenAI (ChatGPT) is already a HUGE brand all around the world. No doubt they're the most valuable startup in the AI space. That's their moat.

Unfortunately, in the past few days, the only thing they've accomplished is significantly damaging their brand.
I’d be rather reluctant to question the financial decisions of one of wealthiest men on earth. Losing 40B could feel quite different to him than to you or me. Besides, it’s unrealized loss until he sells.
Postgres is already available :)
>Slowing down OpenAI will hurt the company if assumption is wrong and won't help if it is true.

Personally as I watched the nukes be lobbed I'd rather not be the person who helped lob them. And hope to god others look at the same problem (a misaligned AI that is making insane decisions) with the exact same lens. It seems to have worked for nuclear weapons since WW2, one can that we learned a lesson there as a species.

The Russian Stanislav Petrov who saved the world comes to mind."Well the Americans have done it anyways" was the motivation and he didn't launch. The cost of error was simply too great.
> This is the thing that's tripping up health professionals about gut health, people's guts are really different and there's no official accepted way of testing what kind of diet works for who.

The more I've learned about my personal response to various health interventions, the more I've come to believe that a "human being" as a research subject for many medical interventions is very ill-defined simply because there is too much variation between individuals. The research subject should really be a single human individual. Poorly working medical treatments to many weird, complicated, chronic illnesses should really be replaced by an algorithm that allows a person to find the correct treatment or lifestyle adjustments themselves.
Breaking Down Apple's 2024 Adoption of Rich Communication Services
In fact, we will be releasing a blog post in the next few days of how we do real-time syncing for a RAG application with postgres hosted on supabase
My only n=1 observation is that null values in logs occur on nvme, ssd and spinning rust. All ext4 with defaults. I do have the idea it occurs more on nvme drives though. But maybe my systems settings are just booked.
You're confused by the fact that OpenAI is a charity.

There are no shareholders of a charity, instead the board are the notional owners and take decisions that shareholders would.

So in this context Musk is founding board member and thus a founder as it would apply to a for profit entity.
I think it's just this particular drama - OpenAI people are of the same tribe as Elon, and surely they prefer Twitter/X, not Mastodon or Bluesky.
Adam is likely still on the "decel" faction (although it's unclear whether this is an accurate representation of his beliefs) so I wouldn't really say they lost yet.

I'm not sure what faction Bret and Larry will be on. Sam will still have power by virtue of being CEO and aligned with the employees.
Considering CEO2 rebelled next day and CEO3 allegedly said he'll quit unless board comes out with truth, doesn't provide much confidence in their adulthood.
I wonder how long before we're hearing about egregores in common parlance. Corporations are already acknowledged as having freedom of speech in America, that's half way there.
lol, or maybe they don’t care about woke virtue signaling
> That seems dangerously and unnecessarily broad.

It's called government regulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roemheld_syndrome
Sorry, you don't get to decide which thoughts are wrongthink and verboten.
The had some equity after 2019.

Thrive was about to buy employee shares at a $86 bn valuation. The Information said that those units had 12x since 2021.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thrive-capital-to-le...
While the real sl (Steam Locomotive) isn't installed on that many systems, I can only imagine the annoyance that it must bring to any former Facebook engineers when they assume that it's the version control
> It's just common sense for a country/group of countries.

Conspiracies are just common sense for a group of people; but that's exactly my point. A group doesn't have to meet at night by the torch light in black robes and decide upon secretive actions to further their own interests.
Securities fraud is more than insider trading. Misleading investors about a company’s financial health is fraud 101 and it sure looks like he lied about hiring someone to stem a precipitate MSFT drop.
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A lot of this comes down to processing power though. That's why Microsoft had so much leverage with both factions in this fight. It actually gives them a pretty good moat above and beyond their head start. There aren't too many companies with the hardware to compete, let alone talent.
All systems operational again https://status.openai.com/
War or power production?:)

Those are different things.

Nuclear war is exactly the kind of thing for which we do have excellent expertise. Unlike for AI safety which seems more like bogus cult atm.

Nuclear power would be the best form of large scale power production for many situations. And smaller scale too in forms of emerging SMR:s.
Good news
https://go.dev/tour/basics/10
> Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram - none of them are forced to be interoperable

Facebook and WhatsApp probably will be forced to be interoperable too.

> If I build a messaging protocol, there's no requirement for it to be interoperable.

None, but it's the decent thing to do. And since corporations are often incapable of doing the decent thing, they have to be forced.

> Apple does not hold a majority market share in most of the world. Where is this monopoly, and why should they be forced to share the fruit of their labours?

You're approaching this from an American "if it's not an absolute 99.99%+ monopoly it's fine", instead of the EU "do they have a portion of the market so big they can distort it and prevent competition and thus hurt consumers". Apple are absolutely hurting consumers with their abusive practices, regardless if their share of phone sales is 30% of 60%. So they will be forced to adapt common standards (USB C), open up their walled gardens, etc.
To say that communication was lacking is an understatement. Clarifications were missing and sorely needed.
Except that in the appstore and playstore case, those rules do not matter and they are not bound to it, they can decide to cut you off from the mobile market at any point for no reason.
I believe the reason is to allow users to override websites.
No; I'm much more confident in ChatGPT's accuracy than I am in a random podcast's accuracy.

Podcasts tend to be relatively terrible, accuracy wise. If the alternative is learning from ChatGPT, your odds of getting correct information is substantially higher.

Podcasts are entertaining! But not where I would go to learn anything.
59,000 Lbs? no 59,000 TBS, total bull. Almost all loads are at the limit of what the trailer can carry. I waxed my truck, ran 10% over pressure on my tires, and use fuel saving throttle. 2nd best mileage in the fleet. No one was interested. I begged for side foils. Its only a PR move. You may use part of the trailer for batteries, but that lessens the load. The only drive wheels are on the tractor. You push from the tandems, and as soon as you hit ice, you are wrapped up. No sane driver would use this system. They cannot even get DOT Bumpers right.
You could do it like picture tags do for images. Define a list of sources inside a new tag, and let the browser pick up the first one it understands with a default old style link tag placed last.
That may be because they have a lot more budget and the support of one of the largest cloud providers on earth.
Offering free GPU compute to millions of people is really not an easy or cheap task.
I use an ad blocker, but I'm not surprised or upset that they are getting pushed back on. I couldn't justify buying youtube premium when I can legally and easily get exactly the same thing with a browser extension. Now that I can't, I'm fine to pay for it since it's a good service and I hate ads.
They will have to make a more convincing case than that if they want to push premium as a real option, that's for sure.
Yeah that was my interpretation as well. Like the fastest Java Garbage Collector, the one that actually doesn't collect any garbage and lets it pile up til the JVM crashes.
Number 1 reason I don't visit Serbia in the winter.
That's lame. Why are they making it pretend to be human? What a silly thing to put effort into.
Note, "zoekt" is the imperative, which makes sense asking a tool to do something.
And poorly timed.

If they'd made their move a few months ago when he was out scanning retinas in Kenya they might have had more success.
Yes, this is the missing piece to make all those voice assistants actually ... assistants. Alexa is for me currently music player and nothing more because it's so Dumb. With ChatGPT, it would be a whole different device for me.
ChatGPT is pure crap to deploy for actual business cases. Why? Cause if it flubs 3 times out of 10 multiply that error by a million customers and add the cost of taking care of the mess. And you get the real cost.

In the last 20-30 years big money+hypsters have learnt it doesnt matter how bad the quality of their products are if they can capture the market. And thats all they are fit for. Market capture is totally possible if you have enough cash. It allows you to snuff out competition by keeping things free. It allows you to trap the indebted PhDs. Once the hype is high enough corporate customers are easy targets. They are too insecure about competition not to pay up. Its a gigantic waste of time and energy that keeps repeating mindlessly producing billionaires, low quality tech and a large mess everywhere that others have to clean up.
People have families, mortgages, debt, etc. Sure, these people are probably well compensated, but it is ludicrous to state that everyone has the stability that they can leave their job at a moment's notice because the boss is gone.
they lost trust in him because apparently part of the funding he secured was directly tied to his position at openAI. kind of a big red flag. The microsoft 10 billion investment allegedly had a clause that Sam Altman had to stay or it would be renegotiated

allegedly again, the board wanted Sam to stop doing this, and now he was trying to do the same thing with some saudi investors, or actually already did it behind their back, i dont know
It's not experimentation, it's probably one of the only things that allowed them to make gpt 3.5 turbo 10 TIMES cheaper than the previous model.
Wasn't Iraq about to switch away from trading the oil in USD ?

But let me flip your argument -- why did the US invade Iraq?

The US has/had troops stationed in Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia was in the US's pocket at that time (it might have reversed since then).
The purpose of a thing is not the driver of its price. It's unfortunate that crypto's turned into speculative stocks but to say it has no purpose or utility is just wrong. It actually works.
The biggest fuckup of CSS, to this day, is lack of vertical centering of content.
You're right, patents are a mine field on their own.
It's both imo. The security issue is both true and a huge problem being actively exploited on a massive scale. Its a "Ah great, we can improve security _and_ cripple ad blockers" moment for Google.
Back to OpenAI
In this context, a resource.
I wish they could make GPT4 a little cheaper after all this.
The AI field seems very diverse, maybe you're just handpicking a few companies. I agree to some extent, a lot of small startups are people hiring their friends and anyone who they would want to hang out with, which I guess is where the bias comes in. I don't do well in such environments that mix work and socializing together. It feels a bit cultish with their silly team gatherings. I don't know if there is a way around that. You can try larger companies that are less biased. Regardless you wouldn't want to work in a company that doesn't want you, no matter the reason. It just doesn't work out, and personally I try to be charitable and shrug it off. Eventually you find a good match, or even start something new and set the example.
To be frank the essay has the tone of a personal reflection, not anything intended to be authoritative.
> Arguably this deems any program containing a conditional branch instruction as AI.

Correctly so. What is called “AI” is effectively a mess of conditional branch instructions, except with a twist that you cannot know what they are or directly control them
On their example page you can sometimes see what data it got to train on.
https://imgur.com/a/CuXNATp for example is without a doubt "Ragnaros" from the game "World of Warcraft".

Probably due to not having much different sources for "A fiery humanoid monster with flames burning".
Or xcreet?
Greg Brockman Returns Back to OpenAI
It's depleted uranium projectiles. It's anti-tank because uranium is way more dense than iron.
I really don't care who the CEO/CTO/CFO of any company is. Why is this whole thing blowing up that much on ycombinator?
I don't recall if this was before or after Atlassian bought Bitbucket, but they had a number of issues keeping the site running. There where so many outages, the site was frequently slow to the point of being useless. I know because we where a paying customer. I suspect that they had to few paying customers and because the service was so prone to outages they had acquired a bad reputation so they couldn't attract new customers. Maybe if Bitbucket had been a Silicon Valley company they would have had access to funding, allowing them to grow in the same way Github did.

When it worked it was fine, but in the end you just got way better service and performance on Github.

The current iteration of Bitbucket isn't even Bitbucket, it's Stash. That works really well to, if you like Atlassian tools.
> there was a rift between Rapid Commercialization (Team Sam) and Upholding the Original Principles

Seams very unlikely, board could communicate that. Instead they invented some BS reasons, which nobody took as a truth. It looks like more personal and power grab. The staff voted for monetization, people en mass don't care much about high principals. Also nobody wants to work under inadequate leadership. Looks like Ilya lost his bet, or Sam is going to keep him around?
If your mission is to not harm humanity and you think your charity is going to harm humanity then its destruction fulfils that mission.
What a farce
> Basically if I eat stuff that doesn't digest well, my stomach bloats and causes a mild hiatal hernia, which in turn presses on the vagus nerve that travels right next to it.

What do you base this claim on?

I have been diagnosed with the reflux disease an a medium sized hiatal hernia. I survive with the proton pump inhibitors, but I have to take them constantly. As far as I know, a hiatal hernia can't be healed and it contributes to the acid reflux rather than the acid reflux causing it.
No that hasn't at all been the case. The board acted like the most incompetent group of individuals who've even handed any responsibility. If they went through due process, notified their employees and investors, and put out a statement of why they're firing the CEO instead of doing it over a 15 min Google meet and then going completely silent, none of this outrage would have taken place.
Didn’t they all have offers at Microsoft?
I agree in principle but also think apple should be able to remain in control of their own store. However, they should be forced to let others provide alternative stores.
IRS requires a nonprofit to have a minimum of three board members for such reasons.
Berlin is still a smokers' paradise.

Authorities have said they're finally going to crack down on smoking in bars this year, but I don't believe it -- 15 years of being illegal hasn't made a dent and 1/3 of men and 1/4 women are smokers.
Although there is a lack of diversity in the AI industry [1], these companies are also very small (hundreds of employees) and very hard to get into.

A lot of your arguments sound like guesses or assumptions explaining why you didn't get a job rather than facts. How do you know there is a "Higher bar for correctness in the interview" or they are hiring 'token' engineers/to show DEI quotas etc. without knowing the thought processes of the hirers or how candidates did in interviews?

Most companies that want to have Gen-Z customers or employees don't want to be accused of non diversity. A better way to show discrimination is to highlight the diversity ratios of employees - but as these companies are still very small that may be hard todo.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/16/artificia...
Except that if you narrow to a tiny training set you are back to problems that can be solved almost as quickly with full text search...
Hat tools does any of us plebs have in this country have to compel reasonable behavior from board members? As far as I can tell in this country you're not even legally allowed to be on a board if you're not a narcissistic, antisocial cretin.
They didn't actually leave, they just signed the pledge threatening to. Furthermore, they mostly signed after the details of the Microsoft offer were revealed.
Nobody is using statistics to pass these laws. There is no logical reason for cannabis to be illegal when alcohol isn't or for most stimulants to require a prescription when nicotine is available over the counter. They put caffeine in soft drinks and candy for crying out loud. The Federal Government of the United States directly subsidizes the production of high-fructose corn syrup.

There are two ways to deal with the fact that some people make poor decisions. The first is to teach people to make better decisions. This is obviously the correct answer, because it needs to be done anyway, because the second is insane. The second is to make all of their decisions for them.

And there is no "them" -- they're us. The people making the laws are just as human as anyone else. All you're doing is punting the decision to a different fallible entity which has less information because they're choosing in the abstract without the benefit of context. And causing errors to be universal rather than individual, resulting in systemic risk and lethal monoculture.

It's far better to have 20% of people make the wrong choice than 100%.
> a) gpt-3.5-turbo has a completion endpoint version as of June: `gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct`

We were not talking about that model and I'm 99.999% sure you do not use that model. You might as well mention text-davinci-003 and all the legacy models, you're muddying the waters.

> b) Even the chat tuned version does completions, if you go via Azure and use ChatML you can confirm it for yourself. They trained the later checkpoints to do a better job at restarting from scratch if the output doesn't match it's typical output format to avoid red teaming techniques.

Don't fucking say "even", I know you know I know it can technically do completions as it is just GPT, the issue is what they do with the prompt in the backend.

I do not have Azure to test it, that is interesting but how come you're only mentioning it now? That's more interesting. Anyway, are you sure you can actually prefill with it? You saying that it restarts from scratch tells me it either isn't actually prefilling (and doing a completion) or that there are filters on top which makes it a moot point.

The documentation doesn't mention prefilling or similar but it does say this: This provides lower level access than the dedicated Chat Completion API, but also [...] only supports gpt-35-turbo models [...]

Shame.

> What you keep going on about is the 
 token... which is functionally identical to the `Human:` message for Anthropic.

Now you got it? Jesus Christ, but also no, I mean "\n\nAssistant:" which is not added on in Anthropic's backend like OpenAI does, you have to do it yourself as stated in the Anthropic docs which means you can use it as a completion model as stated in the Anthropic docs, which makes it trivial to bypass any and all refusals.
No anti-AI lawsuits have progressed yet. One got slapped down pretty hard today, though isn't dead.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sar...
> That and long ass responses.

you can ask it to be terse and shorten answers in the custom instructions section.
Satya comes out as evil imho, and I wonder how much orchestration there was going on behind the scenes.

Microsoft is showing that it is still able to capture important scale ups and 'embrace' them, whilst also acting as if they have the moral high ground, but in reality are doing research with a high governance errors and potential legal problems away from their premises. and THAT is why stakeholders like him.
I'm willing to bet most people drive on most days.
yeah, the guy has a knack for being in/invited to places.
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