skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on. No mainstream brand wants to be even remotely associated with this content. Merely appearing on the same screen as content that “touts Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party” is enough of an association to tarnish a brand. If you don’t believe this, start and invest in a wholesome brand and then advertise on Stormfront. This is Marketing 101.

> During all of this Musk-induced chaos, corporate advertisements have also been appearing on pro-Hitler, Holocaust denial, white nationalist, pro-violence, and neo-Nazi accounts. Yaccarino has attempted to placate companies by claiming that “brands are now ‘protected from the risk of being next to’ potentially toxic content.”

It seems the company knows that this stuff is on there and is paying lip service to protecting brands from it.
Reminds me of privatization in the Soviet states.

I can build such a funny hypothetical scenario.

Step1 get on a board of a big company.

Random board members leave and out of 9 people in the original board there are only 6 left.

3 of them dont like each other.

Pit them against each other to oust the 2 of them. So now only 4 remain.

Now oust the last guy whose vote you needed earlier (to kick out the other people). You dont need him anymore.
He can write some random complaint letters, who cares. He can even stay on the board, the clique can always outvote him.

Now only 3-4 left on board.

Recruit spouses and grandparents to the board to fill back to 9. In fact, you dont even have to - you answer to nobody as long as you stay on the board.

Congrats, you now control an 80 billion company.

Sell the intellectual property to highest bidder in a bargain sale for 20b, then pay each other 10b in salaries, use 9b for legal fees and start a new startup for 1b for fiduciary duties as a fig leave to show that the non profit still operates.

Oh also allegedly most employees want to quit, but whatever, use a dollar bill to wipe your tears.

Wouldnt all that be absolutely legal? In Soviet states probably. In USA?
Very interesting article on a figure I’ve never really read about. Timely too with all the EA drama. I look forward to reading the book
Which part of the agreement you have with them mentions a SLA?
You don't even need to go to crypto.

Try opening a joint bank account for you and 10 other strangers you don't know so that you can pool together some digital funds for mixing them up a little and see how the bank feels about that.
So IRS employees are now magically exempt from making mistakes in life, just because they're IRS employees? I think it's good that the rate of delinquency is lower for IRS employees, but I think expecting it to be zero is a bit much.

But sure, that should be fixed. Just like the 5% of other workers who should get their tax situation in hand. Just like how all the private citizens who are delinquent should get their tax situation in hand.

I'm not really sure how this oversight agency you advocate would even work. How would it be independent? Who would fund it? How would you ensure that its members aren't biased or influenced in any way? Ultimately these sorts of agencies are staffed by real humans, not automatons with perfect, disinterested software. I agree with the desire for this sort of thing, but I don't think it's at all practical.
Just wait for EU open store ruling
No, don’t explain it. It’s not a real Nolan flick unless everyone leaves the theatre confused about something.
Is it how humans think? Or is it just media trying to create drama out of nothing?

Most of the people who get exposed to extremist content without looking for it will surely not even register the ads around that content. An IBM ad cannot possibly be as noticeable as that.

And, of course, the real problem is the presence of said content, not it's placement among ads. Manufactured drama like the one we're looking at here only detracts us from taking about what is really important.
Do you think it would continue or not? Your comments seem to hold conflicting points.
Not only are the model weights on the drive, but while everyone was distracted a virus was loaded onto the servers to destroy all other copies on the system. Team two is melting the backups offsite.
I hope that lawsuit gets laughed right out of the court... what does that have to do with freedom of speech? I'm sure Truth Social, 4chan and other online porta-pottys are still allowed to exist and they're still allowed to show ads from whoever wants to buy ads on there... just like X is still allowed to do.
Everyone who sat in the meeting with the board ousting Sam knows enough of the reason as to why he was ousted. They all voted Yes, and even if some of them regret it now that they see it didn't unfold as just a simple "we now have control"-play, they all had reasons to vote him out. But those reasons obliviously aren't grounded in anything they can reveal to the public.
Companies the size of Microsoft of which have 200,000+ employees can reshuffle and sack 5% of their workforce in order to provide capacity for future areas or allow them to be ready to make large investments in different areas.

It is likely that Microsoft had staff working in areas that no longer required the attention they once did.

I want people in jobs too and I am currently going through an unseen reshuffle that is through no fault of my own. But layoffs occur for all sorts of reasons, many of which are not to reduce further acquisitions or hires.

If I was an employee who was laid off, I might justify it given that AI and those employees from OpenAI have become an acquirable gold mine all of a sudden.
I'm seeing multiple examples of it in this thread at the time of writing! It's baffling. Do they not know how humans brain generally work or are they just being willfully dishonest?
My takeaway is that: matters are complicated! Is there any well known precedent for this type of structure?
It would work the same if you were transferring other non-currency assets as well and trying to mask that it was illegally obtained. Stolen goods get sold all the time.
Because you don't want to watch ads, I guess.
It's the classic problem: you dislike it but it won't make you support or oppose.

For the ones who hate buildings: they will oppose anything.

In a world like that, every bit of ornamentation is a novel handle you give someone who will use it to pull you down, and they're going to try to extract as much surplus value as possible out of the construction process through various mechanisms.

So the simple thing is, you say things but do not care, so those who build do so by listening to those who care.
Anecdata: phind was just as good if not better than GPT-3 (I don't pay for GPT-4, so not sure how it compares there).
Sure. We saw pictures / videos / tweets and sound recordings. Impossible to fake. There's no ASI that emerged the split second GPT5 went full AGI.
Indeed. The only way to retain control of the leading ship in the race is to keep it together as you steer it. If the ship disintegrates, then you're no longer in control of the leading ship, and someone else will win the race.
I've heard companies also intentionally do not go after individuals pirating software e.g., Adobe Photoshop - it benefits them to have students pirate and skill up on their software and then enter companies that buy Photoshop because their employees know it, over locking down and having those students, and then the businesses, switch to open source.
Apple Music and local playback supports background play while a game is running. I doubt it's any of this "allowed to" nonsense and simply those other apps just didn't add support for the PlayStation.
Ah, right, the Twitch guy. Any live streams from the office?
Not sure where you grew up or if you had cable. My family did not. 5-7pm was news on every channel ( all 4 that we received), and most nights after 8pm were adult dramas that kids under 10 wouldn't generally want to watch.

Weekends only had good stuff on in the morning on Saturday and then on Sunday night, depending on what age you're thinking of.
And content creators apply for grants to get paid to produce content the government wants us to see?
They made ChatGPT with voice available to all free users.

Really wonder why they went ahead with a launch today with 90% of staff ready to jump ship.
(genuine question) Were their ads being placed next to pro-Nazi content at the same rate a few years ago?
No link to the code?

"IFs follows C/C++ style" so

if (my_var)
{
ori->compile(...)
}

would work OK?
Declared does not mean real. There have always been questions about the veracity of that "proof of reserves".

https://qz.com/binance-proof-of-reserves-solvency-1849884404

Do not forget. Binance operates in a space full of scammers and fraudsters. They've already admitted to money laundering at scale. After that, the question isn't whether they are dishonest. The question is how dishonest they are. The history of other crypto exchanges suggests that the appropriate prior we should start with should be heavily waited towards Ponzi scheme.
Yeah that's why I hope a journalist looks into it. In any case, it seems about as relevant as other recent OpenAI politics posts.
My friend's been learning programming with Github Copilot and gets refusals there sometimes, for seemingly no reason; so here's an example for you:

https://d.pr/i/XSiepe
Do you have a guide that you can share that talks about strategies on how to do this?

Best practices, common pit falls, etc...
This mirror works.
Will two people be typing on the same keyboard at the same time?
Yeah, solving the flickering problem and achieving temporal consistency will be the key to realize the full potential of generative video models.

Right now, AnimateDiff is leading the way in consistency but I'm really excited to see what people will do with this new model.
Venmo won't let you take out more than 4999.99 in a single swoop. I frequently have $10k+ in there. I suppose I'm technically "structuring" when I withdraw, but there's no other way for me to get the money out and I haven't gotten in trouble yet. If I do get in trouble, I'll post here and hopefully Venmo will have figured out how to withdraw more.
I heard that some games added cheat codes so that they could sell those guide books with all sorts of cheat codes in them. I remember seeing them at my scholastic book fair in elementary school.
It's possible to run a voice AI similar to this entirely locally on a normal gaming PC with a good GPU using open source AI models. I have a standalone demo I've been working on that you can try if you have a 12GB+ Nvidia GPU: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NC624PBFGB7

It's still very much a demo and not as good as GPT-4, but it responds much faster. It's fun to play with and it shows the promise. Open models have been improving very quickly. It remains to be seen just how good they can get but personally I believe that better-than-GPT-4 models are going to run on a $1k gaming PC in just a few years. You will be able to have a coherent spoken conversation with your GPU. It's a new type of computing experience.
66% of us voters want a cease fire not just teens.

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/10/19/voters-agree...
MS subsidizing it with 10 billions USD and (un)healthy contempt towards copyright.
There is precedent for police to imagine that All currency is related to illegal activity, presumably under the shaky grounds of "otherwise you'd use a bank" [0]

But if the blockchain clearly has some dark blotches on it, then in the eyes of the police ( perhaps not completely the law ) it confirms that the pot is tainted. So, I would say in this legal environment, it would be very difficult to have both trust in the mechanics of a digital currency and also status beyond reproach of "involved in... unlawful activity"

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/flying-with-cash-law-enfor...
The paper was https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17680

It has been withdrawn with this note:

> Contains inappropriately sourced conjecture of OpenAI's ChatGPT parameter count from this http URL, a citation which was omitted. The authors do not have direct knowledge or verification of this information, and relied solely on this article, which may lead to public confusion

(the noted URL is a just a Forbes blogger with no special qualifications that would make what he claimed particularly credible).
Chatbots assistants make you too reliant on a service which reliability you can't control.

First, there is the fact that ChatGPT and it's cousins require an active internet connection, unlike some other tools that similarly boosted human productivity (like a calculator program).

Second, it is server-based utility. Meaning, even if you have internet connection, server might be down for some reason.

Third, while training your mind to be reliant to ChatGPT, you gradually lose the patience and ability to think outside the box. If your first move when you face a problem is to ask ChatGPT for a solution, then it's no good.

The third one may seem like harmless since we are already using Google, but it's not. Google still requires you to filter the data and go through each listed page manually. In other words, you still are using your brain somewhat. With chatbots, you lose even that "do it yourself" analysis.
We do not have "gut checks" and "going with our guts" because of some ancient wisdom about physiology that only left remnant traces as idioms in English.

Also, Kahnemann talked about conscious and unconscious thought, not about "gut thought" and "brain thought." You can teach yourself to behave in certain ways, to just react. That doesn't mean you have a smarter stomach than the next person!
Oh my gosh, I’m relieved by this news. Snoop is iconic.
Stability.ai, please make sure your board is sane.
Phabricator was awful. It loaded commit messages with irrelevant boilerplate and allowed people to post patches that you couldn’t build for testing because they were just diffs and not actual branches in the repo. Not sad to see it go.
What are the limits regarding the max size of value and number of keys? Docs doesn't mention...
Do what? PartialMatch inserts them for you. FullMatch doesn't. The compiler can't guess your intent.
This is the moon version of the folklore Jobs build a calculator app.
We’re also using duckdb in prod and the performance is phenomenal.

Haven’t tried using it to read parquet direct from cloud storage but that’s on our todo list. We currently use it to generate a massive table once a day and then throughout the day that’s queried to serve prod requests.
Joking aside, there is a lot of speculation going on: motives, who knew what and when, why, and so on.

I just hope people recognize the difference between (a) what actually happened (much of which is unclear) and (b) what the press coverage says. I don't have any particularly special insight, but it seems to me that (b) tends to make it look like more of a circus than the known evidence would suggest.

(Sure, there is some probability that it is _more_ of cluster than most media coverage recognizes, but I view such a probability as small. For me, the key question is, "What does the evidence reasonably suggest?" not (intentional hyperbole) "Oh My Dawkins, it is a dumpster fire, no worse! ... there is an actual internal civil war happening...")

Please let me know if I'm missing something. The dozen-ish articles I've read pretty much make me bemoan humanity's state of information dissemination and journalistic standards.
This is not always the case, it can happen even if you’re not on Cloudflare DNS
Non-profit or not, steering the company towards non-existence isnt in the interest of the company.
>I can't think of anything uglier or more jarring.

Speaking for myself, I like it because it's jarring. It's a juxtaposition of geometric against organic. Pure function against purposelessness.
> slow

but have you tried bitbucket? Omfg is it slow
Yeah thats an interesting statement. People leaving or wanting to get him out usually indicates that the person - altman in this case - is quite toxic. Being a toxic person yet preferred by microsoft and others indicates he’s “willing”, meaning he will do whatever they ask of him. And that’s not in the best interest of openai.
I think it's tricky, because if Typescript _didn't_ show up with tsc, then they would have had their fate bound to Webpack or something like that. And of course tsc and the language server go hand in hand. It's hard to understate the positive effects of tsc existing across the entire ecosystem!

I suppose in a way I'm complaining about a (mostly) non-issue, since bundlers all have good typescript support at this point.
There is a restitution process for victims of Federal crimes. One may make a case that the victims of SBF & CZ's malfeasance may be eligible for restitution. IANAL.
The point is if you mix cash with the intent to conceal the source, that’s illegal. The law is about intent
Yea the point is the people losing the 8B are not the people saving the 1 trillion, or getting most of the Covid relief
If you have $100 in $10 bills from an unknown source and suspect that it might have come from illegal activity, stick it into a jar where 100 people have each put $100, and then pull out $100 at random in an attempt to disconnect from its potentially illegal nature, that is called money laundering.

If you know that your money is legally obtained and put it in the same jar (for privacy purposes, for instance), you probably know that you are facilitating somebody else's money laundering (but are unlikely to be charged for it).
Yes, it's long-winded, and unfortunately, it's really hard to get across with the above description that the workflow described therein actually is quite simple with the correct tools, and (at least in my opinion) also results in a technically superior outcome. Everything I described above is very intuitive and easy once you get into the groove with something like Phab or Gerrit.

Unfortunately, I think it's sort of lost on people today, because basically everyone is so stubborn about GitHub and you basically have to drag them kicking and screaming to most other tools, even if they have clearly superior UX, much less fundamental design. I used to run an open-source project and we used Phabricator and most of the regular contributors ended up liking it, but the initial hurdle for people was often like pulling teeth (and it felt like people who didn't contribute because of it never missed an opportunity to tell you so, though that may just be sour grapes on my part from hearing it so often.)
Or you could go to prison for 10 years for rape and lose child custody, so you don't get any money either.
It's interesting but it may well be they both have a point: Helen for telling him to get lost and Sam for attempting to remove her before she would damage the company.

But she could have made that point more forcefully by not comparing Anthropic to OpenAI, after all who better than her to steer OpenAI in the right direction. I noted in a comment elsewhere that all of these board members appear to have had at least one and some many more conflicts of interest. Helen probably believes that her loyalty is not to OpenAI but to something higher than that based on her remark that destroying the company would serve to fulfil its mission (which is a very strange point of view to begin with). But that doesn't automatically mean that she's able to place it in context, within OpenAI, within the USA, the Western world and the world as a whole.

It's like saying the atomic bomb would have never been invented if the people at Los Alamos didn't do it. They did it in three years after it became known that it could be done in principle. Others tried and failed but without the same resources. I suspect that if the USA had not done it that eventually France, the UK and Russia would have gotten there as well and later on China. Israel would not have had the bomb without the USA (willing or unwilling) and India and Pakistan would have achieved it but much later as well. So we'd end up with the same situation that we have today modulo some timing differences and with another last chapter on WWII. Better? Maybe. But it is also possible that the Russians would have launched a first strike on the USA if they were unopposed. It almost happened as it was!

The open question then is: does she really believe that no other entity has the resources to match OpenAI and does she believe that if such an entity does exist that it too will self destruct rather than to go through with the development?

And does she believe that this will hold true for all time? That they and their colleagues are so unique that they hold the key to something that can otherwise not be replicated.
I think firing an extremely popular CEO would very obviously cause (or at least risk) an immense amount of turmoil. Again, maybe Adam is really that dumb, but I just can't see this thesis coming anywhere close to a positive expected value. Especially given the risk it exposes him personally to.
> Sam apparently said she should have come to him directly if she had concerns about the company's approach and pointed out that as a board member her words have weight at a time when he was trying to navigate a tricky relationship with the FTC. She apparently told him to kick rocks and he started to look for ways to get her off the board.

Huh, this sounds pretty crazy to me. Like, it's assuming that a board member should act deceptively in order to help the for-profit arm of OpenAI avoid government scrutiny, and that trying to remove them from the board if they don't want to do that is reasonable. But in fact the entire purpose of the board is to advance the mission of the parent non-profit, which doesn't sound obviously compatible with "avoid giving the FTC (maybe legitimate) ammunition against the for-profit subsidiary, even if that means you should hide your beliefs".
Interesting. This is the person who "holds comparable influence to a USAF Colonel." according to "a prominent researcher in AI safety" who "discovered prompt injection". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330566

Well, I suppose this tells us something about the AI safety community and whether it makes sense to integrate safety into one's workflow. It seems that the best AI safetyists will scuttle your company from the inside at some moment not yet known. This does sort of imply that it is risky for an AI company to have a safetyist on board.

That does seem to be accurate. For instance, Google had the most formidable safety team, and they've got the worst AI. Meta ignored theirs and they've given us very good open models.
If I was a bag holder in FTX I'd be absolutely on my knees praying for a piece of Anthropic as a substitute.
Definitely more powerful but well crafted GUIs can enforce constraints on inputs and preview what changes would look like.

Agree that I have never seen a GIS tool where I thought the GUI was top notch.
That one is because Trump didn't make whole anyone across his career. Not the IRS, not his creditors, not the countless people he and his various enterprises stiffed (e.g. the tradespeople who worked on the casinos [1][2]).

There's so many people who Trump and his various enterprises left stuck with sometimes very huge bills that it's a miracle he didn't get dinged years ago. And that is why Trump is being on the receiving end of the stick at the moment... he forgot one crucial point: never make too many enemies in life because eventually they will team up to get their revenge on you.

[1] https://eu.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/...

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/0...
Yes. The east coast of Sweden is the Baltic Sea, which is not an open ocean. This boat may be perfectly usable there. But that's still not a rough sea. Other than temperature, that is water that I'd be perfectly comfortable swimming in.
Investor's money viewed as a donation! Because the board doesn't need to listen to you...

Developer's time viewed as unlimited! Because the API has no SLA and can go down for any period of time...
These true believers serve a higher calling. Only they can prevent an AIpocalpse.