skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I genuinely believe, based on my experiences with ChatGPT, that it doesn't seem all that threatening or dangerous. I get we're in the part of the movie at the start before shit goes down but I just don't see all the fuss. I feel like it has enormous potential in terms of therapy and having "someone" to talk to that you can bounce ideas off and maybe can help gently correct you or prod you in the right direction.

A lot of people can't afford therapy but if ChatGPT can help you identify more elementary problematic patterns of language or behavior as articulated through language and in reference to a knowledgebase for particular modalities like CBT, DBT, or IFS, it can easily and safely help you to "self-correct" and be able to practice as much and as often with guidance as you want for basically free.
That's the part I'm interested in and I always will see that as the big potential.

Please take care, everyone, and be kind. Its a process and a destination and I believe people can come to learn to love both and engage in a way that is rich with opportunity for deep and real restoration/healing. The kind of opportunity that is always available and freely takes in anyone and everyone

Edit: I can access all the therapy I can eat but I just don't find it generally helpful or useful. I like ChatGPT because it can help practice effective stuff like CBT/DBT/IFS and I know how to work around any confabulation because I'm using a text that I can reference

Edit: the biggest threat ChatGPT poses in my view is the loss of income for people. I don't give a flying fuck about "jobs" per se, I care that people are able to have enough economically to take care of themselves and their loved ones and be(come) ok psychologically/emotionally.

If we can deal with the selfish folks who will otherwise (as always) attempt to further absorb more of the pie of which they already have a substantial+sufficient portion, they will need to be made to share or they will need a timeout until they can be fair or to go away entirely.

Enough is enough, nobody needs excess until everyone has sufficiency, after that, they can have and do as they please unless they are hurting others. That must stop
The right to continue innovation doesn’t mean they have perpetual rights to the underlying IP. For example, they may be able to use it for a limited period, or for certain purposes.
Using the justice system to go against journalists is literally the least 'freedom of speech' thing you can do.
Oh hello, if it’s not the consequences of my own actions.
At least in the U.S., you're allowed to cancel airline tickets within 24 hours without any penalty.
You could say that if you "believed" you could build it from scratch. It doesn't mean they actually own the existing IP although rubes thinking about buying MSFT may think so.
The recent curative hepatitis treatments have paved the way for this. There are a variety of different approaches including statewide cost sharing funds that pool the cost across all the insurers in the state.
After a given point usenet was nearly 8-bit clean, and thus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YEnc was also developed to convolve all the octets (I + 42 (decimal)) and escape the results that happened to still match reserved characters (CR, LF, 0x0, = (yEnc escape)) - it seems that if the result character was among that set, then = was output and new output determined by O = (I+64) % 256 instead.
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4 Command lines to run open source LLMs across devices with 2MB inference app
I've given up trying. If a device is willing to lie to me and only charge to 80% while saying it's charged, great, but all of this "try to stay in a range" logic flies in the face of reality.

Every device I use besides my cell phone, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo 3DS has atrocious power drain when not in use. OS does not matter. Windows laptop, Linux laptop, ChromeOS laptop, Android Tablet, Amazon Tablet, you name it, if I set it down at 80% and come back 48 hours later it will be below 25%. So I just leave them plugged in when not in use, and to hell with battery longevity.
I wrote another day, that the co-workers are not the friends. Many disagreed. But that’s typical shit. The psycho stories are rare and nobody believes them unless one experiences that in person. A colleague can go from nice sport partner to complete psycho when circumstances change. I got lots of advice from my parents and grandparents about work. I thought, it was some decades old crap. But I was wrong. I naively believed, that going to work and delivering best results is what counts. Wrong!!! That does not count! I was too young and too stupid not to analyze entrenched actors and who’s really in control. My direct manager was not in control, he was a clerk for weird group of people on different levels. That was very funny, because I have great experience in my field. And every project plan I created for a stupid device was canceled, because it interfered with parts designed by important people. My work was sabotaged for years. I even reported some weird hardware buying scheme at the 5x market rate. Made myself very unpopular. Lost belief in my skills completely. Found a new job as software developer leaving hardware design completely, because this area is poisoned to me by my last job. My sanity was saved by running a consultancy on the side. I delivered everything what clients asked on time and with acceptable quality, so I know, that everything I do is all right. Despite that I had hard time digesting the situation at work and comparing it to my own results. The gap was just too big. Now I see that my project was always derailed by the important guy without any technical knowledge, but with connections everywhere. This story costs the company millions. Because the current system is like from 1985 looking at the technical level of it. But since the important people stick to it (because this outdated crap keeps them important) nothing will change. Depending on factory load the yearly loss can be two digit million number. But in the reality nobody cares about such things, it’s a collateral in a game of power.
Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason
I guess it depends on whether any of them actually got the assignment. One way to interpret it is that nobody is taking that assignment seriously. So depending on what that assignment is and how important that particular assignment is to the board, then it may in fact be a big deal.
It still baffles me to think that some still believe that HR is on their side. Human resource is there to safeguard the company from regulatory, compliance, and legal challenges.
I don't think that contradicts my comment.
"Radial" plan? Seems to fit, spoke-hub layout and all.
X Corp., Plaintiff, vs. Media Matters for America and Eric Hananoki
The TL;DR, as far as I can tell, is things have been accelerating so they will continue to accelerate even faster and cause even more significant changes. This is plausible. However, I don't think it follows that this is bad for humanity just that the changes will be massive.

Sure, a hunter gatherer from 50,000 years back would be freaked out by a bronze age city 5 thousand years ago but the change was not bad for humanity. Why won't the same thing happen in 500 years?
More evidence the layoffs are 100% BS. Suddenly there's surplus headcount and magical budgets out of nothing, all to accommodate several hundreds of people with way-above-market-average TCs. It's almost like they were never in danger of hurting profit margins in the first place.
If I were OpenAI employee, I would have been uber pissed.

Imagine your once-in-blue-moon, whatsapp-like, payout at $10m per employee evaporated over the weekend before Thanksgiving.

I would have joined MSFT out of spite.
but sometimes western powers cultivated rancor between existed tribe. then leave them in same country.
Not sure if you listened to the podcast.

But Satya made it crystal clear that in the event that OpenAI stopped all development tomorrow, Microsoft would be able to pick up from where they stopped. That requires full access to all of the IP.

Whether it's perpetual is irrelevant because at the point at which Microsoft pulled the trigger it would effectively be like a fork. Any IP from that point is new and owned by Microsoft.
Hearing news about OpenAI approaching Anthropic for merger talks, it is not too far fetched to assumed that OpenAI will rid itself of the for-profit arm, that MS has 49% stake in, to MS itself.

It is impossible for OpenAI to work with or for MS, with MS holding all the keys, employees, compute resources, etc. I come to understand that the 10 Billion from MS has mostly Azure credits. And for that OpenAI gave up 49% stake (in its capped, for -profit wholly owned subsidiary) along with all the technology, source code and model weights that OpenAI will make, in perpetuity.

The deal itself is an amazing coup for MS, almost making the OpenAI people (I think Sam made the deal at the time), look like bumbling fools. Give away your lifetime of work for a measly 10 Billion? When they are poised to almost be hundreds of Billions worth?

All these problems are the result of their non-profit holding capped-profit structure, and lack of a clear vision and misleading or misplaced end goals.

700 of the 770 employees back Sam Altman. So all the talk about engineers giving higher importance to "values" and "AI Safety" is moot. Everyone in SV is motivated by money.
I doubt that, satya nadella literally meet sam altman next day(or night) after firing

the fact that this happen and satya nadella can make move in the WEEKENDS is pretty big deal
Huh? Do you think it's impossible to create a bot that profits from trading various markets? It's been done many times, so obviously, it's possible. There are already bots that use LLMs to trade based on SEC filings, etc.
National defense protects the public against external threats.

Welfare protects the public againt poverty.

Both benefit the public.
Microsoft CEO Nadella Says He Wants to Work with Sam, No Matter Where He Is
Back in the late 80s, Lotus faced a crisis with their spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3. Should they:

1. stick with DOS

2. go with OS/2

3. go with Windows

Lotus chose (2). But the market went with (3), and Lotus was destroyed by Excel. Lotus was a wealthy company at the time. I would have created three groups, and done all three options.
Was that verbatim the reason or an angry persons characterisation?
At least in the case of Bernie Madoff, the SEC can say "no, it is illegal to run a ponzi scheme and in this case it should say what law the exchange broke to make it valid
I don't think it is, because if you don't feed your children, you'll probably be charged with a crime.
Let us say you do unix style passwords - generate random salt and store the salt with the password. Hashcat can run through 54 billion md5 hashes/17 billion sha-1/7 billion sha-256 hashes on a single pc per second.

Asking people to change the password as a precaution does not sound bad at all.
FWIW, I can't speak to other operating systems, but with Linux (maybe requiring cooperative hardware? I'm actually not sure) you can configure it to stop charging at a certain % if the charge controller doesn't have reserve.

I can find a link if you're interested; IIRC it was easy to setup and easy to temporarily disable if you need to fully charge for e.g. a long flight without outlets
Microsoft is different given the size of their investment. If one guy force another guy out, and you hire the second guy, you usually don’t make an offer to the first guy who did the pushing.
> What does Altman bring to the table exactly. What is going to be lost if he leaves.

If Altman did literally nothing else for Microsoft, except instantly bring over 700 of the top AI researchers in the world, he would still be one of the most valuable people they could ever hire.
I think it's because one of the authors is writing a book about OpenAI. They were interviewing people before and already had a lot of contacts and context.
Does a board give an assignment to the CEO or teams?

If the case is that the will of the board is not being fulfilled, then the reasoning is simple. The CEO was told to do something and he has not done it. So, he is ousted. Plain and simple.

This talk about projects given to two teams and what not is nonsense. The board should care if its work is done, not how the work is done. That is the job of the CEO.
>Media Matters executed this plot in multiple steps, as X’s internal investigations have revealed. First, Media Matters accessed accounts that had been active for at least 30 days, bypassing X’s ad filter for new users. Media Matters then exclusively followed a small subset of users consisting entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known to produce extreme,
fringe content, and accounts owned by X’s big-name advertisers. The end result was a feed precision-designed by Media Matters for a single purpose: to produce side-by-side ad/content placements that it could screenshot in an effort to alienate advertisers.
It definitely doesn't scale. And if this is before Me Too then she doesn't get anything either. But, idk what else you can do. I'm glad she got some good money out of it but as you said for most people it's not possible.

Most people who even have the money don't want to risk it, they just move on.
" In my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful."

Yep, to often when i see these anti woke, cultur war, anti cancel culture critics.

What they are actually doing is attacking people's free speech and defending the authoritarians that are actually trying to limit speech and other rights.

They convinced themselves that free speech should protect them from criticism. When criticism is free speech.
> Customs and Border patrol should not even be allowed to ask you any questions or stop you at all upon reentry to the country unless again they have a clear and articulable reason to believe you are in violation for the law

> same with the TSA.

> the fact that we have allowed general "detainment" in the name of safety was the start of the slippery slope that they continue to advance further and further to more or less cancel all 4th and 5th amendment protections to the point now where those protections basically do not exist with in a 100 miles of any border which is like 80% of the nation.

I agree with all that, but I still don't see how that leads to your claim.

> Why? The government should have no info on you at all unless and until they have an articulable reason to suspect you to be in violation of the law. Then they should only be allowed to retain data about for the duration of your criminal history (which could be for life )

Why? It's normal for other people to remember what you look like, it's normal for your local government workers (who are likely the only ones for whom it matters) to remember what you look like, what people look like isn't secret.
No, the two listed reasons aren't mutually exclusive; they could both be true. (That is not a commentary on whether the reasons are sufficient cause to fire someone, just pointing out that they could both be true statements)
The one annoying thing macOS apps do is pollute /Library. Even apps that don’t explicitly write to this area end up with dozens of permafiles. Tons of stuff is spewed in there when you install an application that actually uses it. It’s like a directory version of a registry kitchen sink.
It indicates that BI and the authors verified these sources were current OpenAI employees instead of some unaffiliated novelty account on a RP spree, and have staked their reputation to that claim. Standard journalism stuff.
Actually, they haven’t. One is some policy analyst and the other is an actor’s wife.
Presumably Coinbase and Kraken had to register as banks to offer FDIC-insured accounts (and debit cards)?

Non-Security Deposits are interest-bearing products that are not securities.

Non-Security Deposits: CD Certificates of Deposit, MMA Money Market Accounts, Treasury Bills, Savings accounts, Checking Accounts

Do banks require SEC registration to offer interest-bearing Non-Security Deposit products?

Have banks ever been required to qualify interest-bearing products as securities contracts, after qualifying each product for list in each US State of operation?
What's the practical use?
First time having the curtain pulled back?
Exactly. Too many people arguing incompetence as if its a valid excuse.

Imagine its even true - that they werent his reasons and he was just told them. He voted to fire him and then executed the firing despite not agreeing with the reasons himself? Completely inexcusable even in the bizarre scenario that its true.
Which would have had been a tradeoff too. More time to market, fewer people on each project, slowed down by cross platform code.
> ...Only Oracle did not withdraw its ads.
Lithium-ion battery recycling goes large
From all the comments and the way things happened in the last 96 hours, it sounds like the board was entirely incompetent. I’ve interacted with board members with various companies over my career, and everyone on the board is extremely junior.
At this point, I would think an ad from IBM/Apple/etc. showing up next to a post of Elon's would be enough to prove advertisements have been placed next to a known anti-Semite.

But that's just me.
I never said bad, just cheap ;)

I didn't know about natural oak, super cool
So this is really random, but Kermit actually could route around your 7-bit issues. Everyone remembers it as a godawful protocol choice, because terminal programs usually implemented the most basic version of the protocol, but if configured correctly it was on par with or better than Zmodem.
If this is the case, and Ilya is truly a non-political guy, I feel awful about how badly he was manipulated.
This is a sickness of the highest order.
The Early Years at TSMC [video]
It should be noted that even if there is a non-discriminatory explanation, it is still illegal under the disparate impact legal theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Bitcoin along with most cryptocurrencies (broadly priced in it), is controlled by a small cartel of deeply entrenched miners and large wallet stakeholders who were involved early on and have constantly consolidated their positions both over infrastructural custody, that is, mining, and control of liquidity.

There's a staggering amount of illegal mining that is never accounted for in the economic models used to determine how much control these folks have over liquidity; this entire conversation is just broadly discouraged and for whatever reason seems to have attracted very little interest even from the crypto critics out there.

The number one weapon the crypto cartel uses to shut down dangwrous critical turns developing in the story, is their ability to move the last trade price almost at will, completely opposed to any building critical narrative in order to undermine it, knowing full well that the sympathy of the media reliably lies with "number go up", not "number made up." And they can do this because they're sitting on an enormous warchest of unsold coins mined when prices were far cheaper, which they can use to fund their operations while they throttle back current coinbase sales at current prices to prop up the price.
That's why there's an Ollama option ;)
Here's the now filed lawsuit:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella suggests that Sam Altman might return to OpenAI
The tilted tablet PCs this company have are actually more interesting to me, but it’s a pretty anaemic amount of power, I’d take their 10” touchscreen tilted tabletop sorta thing in a heartbeat if it was using the new chipset that lets this unit have 16GB of RAM.
Here's the lawsuit:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...
Similar to "<involved party> declined to comment" seen in many news articles. It signals that the reporter reached out to give them a chance to tell their side of the story, and the resulting article isn't an opinionated unilateral attack piece.
Even though the C64 (1982-08-01) hit the market about a year after the IBM PC (1981-08-12), it outsold the IBM PC series in 1983 and 1984. At the end of 1985, the IBM PC series was only slightly ahead in total unit sales. Of course, the IBM PC XT came out in 1983 and the IBM PC AT in 1984 so they were higher end models while the C64 was the same model.
Lawsuit here
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...
Stop victim blaming.
Would be hilarious if the board members were actually consulting with chat GPT on what moves they should make but accidentally were using 3.5 instead of 4
Most people are inexperienced with the dark web. I would hazard a guess that even most of the HN crowd, as far as having actually used the dark web. There is a lot of fear and misinformation, even when it comes to a tech-literate crowd. People fear government agencies infiltrating the servers that they might visit, and that server dropping malware/spyware that reveals their identity. Even just having your name associated with visiting a darknet market could be disastrous for your reputation, and I assume this is the line of thinking most people give to the idea of visiting these servers. Unfortunately, this line of thinking keeps people away, which actually reduces the ability to stay anonymous as compared to having lots of traffic moving through Tor.
Compiled variants of the Python standard library
Shit, I thought it was just me.. what a joke.
The type of market where if you want to launch a new business the best you can hope for is to be acquired or bullied out of the market? Price is not the only indicator of a competitive market, buyers need options. Innovation is not some panacea for socioeconomic ills. It’s the kind of market that tech bros with zero empathy for anyone who isn’t like them have wet dreams about.
Yep! I've done eng "bake-offs" as well, where a few folks / teams work on a problem in isolation then we compare and contrast after. Good fun!
You can lay people off without being in dire straits.
Would they actually open source ChatGPT if a bunch of people quit? That would be a good thing
Technically he's the interim CEO in a chaotic company just assigned in the last 24hrs. I'd probably wait to get my bearings before walking in acting like I've got everything under control on the first day after a major upheaval.

The only thing I've read about Shear is he is pro-slowing AI development and pro-Yudkowsky's doomer worldview on AI. That might not be a pill the company is ready to swallow.

https://x.com/drtechlash/status/1726507930026139651

> I specifically say I’m in favor of slowing down, which is sort of like pausing except it’s slowing down.

> If we’re at a speed of 10 right now, a pause is reducing to 0. I think we should aim for a 1-2 instead.

> - Emmett Shear Sept 16, 2023

https://x.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397
How do you run this on the various platforms for the average bear?

A lot of people who could use it may need an app, like not be capable of getting and running it from source on GitHub. We have to push accessibillity to the techy and not-techy alike for we all live and walk amongst each other and this is the emotional equivalent of vaccination in my conjecture.
To me at least that's an _extremely_ rude thing to do. (Unless one person is asked to do it this way, the other one that way, so people can compare the outcome.)

(Especially if they aren't made aware of each other until the end.)
(That's called fascism...)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle
Seriously? Click wheel iPhone lost shockingly? The click wheel on most laptops wears out so fast for me, and the chances of that happening on a smaller phone wheel is just so much higher.
In which sense less choice for developers harms AI safety?

(I'm saying this as someone that doesn't believe in AI safety as a worthwhile goal)