skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moreover, if this is true, he could reasonably well continue knowing that he has more power than the board. I could almost imagine the board saying, "You can't do that" and him replying "Watch me!" because he understood he is more powerful than them. And he proved he was right, and the board can either step down and lose completely or try to continue and destroy whatever is left of OpenAI.
Isn't a Blazor application a giant blob of WASM/Javascript? I understand that Blazor is more designed for internal line-of-business applications that require porting to the web (and would otherwise be a .net application running on windows xp), but it seems pretty untenable to use it as a framework for the web.
Right, except most people here are proposing BETTER reasons for why they fired him. Which ignores that if any of these better reasons people are proposing were actually true, they would just state them themselves instead of using ones that sound like pitiful excuses.
Happens to the best of them:

Economic and industrial espionage has a long history. Father Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, who visited Jingdezhen, China in 1712 and later used this visit to reveal the manufacturing methods of Chinese porcelain to Europe, is sometimes considered to have conducted an early case of industrial espionage.[16]

Historical accounts have been written of industrial espionage between Britain and France.[17] Attributed to Britain's emergence as an "industrial creditor", the second decade of the 18th century saw the emergence of a large-scale state-sponsored effort to surreptitiously take British industrial technology to France.[17] Witnesses confirmed both the inveigling of tradespersons abroad and the placing of apprentices in England.[18] Protests by those such as ironworkers in Sheffield and steelworkers in Newcastle,[clarification needed] about skilled industrial workers being enticed abroad, led to the first English legislation aimed at preventing this method of economic and industrial espionage.[19][18] This did not prevent Samuel Slater from bringing British textile technology to the United States in 1789. In order to catch up with technological advances of European powers, the US government in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actively encouraged intellectual piracy.
There is nothing "toxic" about Stallman or GNU.
Well, I didn't witness on any other current generation device, at least yet. I'm not a fanboy. I'll be happy if others are doing this in some form, esp. if it's independent of the OS itself.
Orca 2-13B consistently beat Llama 2-70B on most benchmarks in 0-shot. Hopefully, research papers will start to include Mistral/Zephyr 7B & Openchat 3.5. Even though they're smaller, they're getting competitive against much larger models and they're much cheaper to orchestrate.
I do love Jacarandas in Pretoria - but I have also read that they are not an endemic tree species and probably _should_ be eradicated. I'm not sure of the exact details, and I have to be honest I would be sad if we had to remove Jacarandas from Pretoria as it will change the character of the city a lot.
To be fair, this is due to game devs giving percentage chances that are straight-up lies. "80% and didn't hit" is actually "92% and didn't hit" in many Fire emblem games, for example (https://fireemblemwiki.org/wiki/True_hit).
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I don't understand the obsession with fast charging. I can probably count the number of times I needed to charge my phone instantly on one hand. The other day I bought a MagSafe charger because my new phone doesn't fit properly on my old wireless charger, turns out it doesn't support the "legacy" 5W power bricks. Now it's sitting unused in the drawer because I don't want to charge with more than 5 watts.
I knocked up a quick prototype for a friend about 4 years ago (client side blazor wasm .net core 3.0) and he turned it into a successful small business. About 15 simple screens communicating with restful services all in one solution. He found some cheap developers to hack on it for some extra screens but he eventually unpicked their work. The amazing thing is the system is so simple that he, a someone new to programming, could make sense of it and change it without help. I took a look at it the other day and the entire app just ticks along without a problem.

Tbh, I’ve never understood the appeal of server side blazor. High latency is too risky and you may never know that your clients are experiencing it. This hybrid approach in .net 8 is interesting but for a business app, initial load time is a once off thing and only a few seconds anyway. Kind of like an installer in a way.

I have a few criticisms though. I work almost exclusively on Linux now and it was extremely painful to try get an old .net project up and running because Microsoft aggressively sunset old .net versions. 4 years is not that long ago and I didn’t want to go through the pain of upgrading to the latest to make a few minor changes. So I had to dust off an old pc and use that. I understand that the .net core era was a turbulent time for change so maybe that’s why. But dammit, at least leave the old SDK’s up for a decade for this very reason!

Ironically, the slowest part of the system is the hosted sql server instance that is prohibitively expensive to run at a half decent speed with laughably low volumes of data. What a captured market that is when you can simply spin up a free PostgreSQL instance on the same vm and be done with it.

Anyway, to answer your question. Yes, it can be used in production. This one has 3 production instances and is used by about 30 people on a daily basis.
War causes some short-term pain but nothing in comparison to the long-term pain of post-scarcity where we use up so many resources that there are none left to use -- such as depleting most fishing stocks, rainforest destruction, and global warming.

I'd take a few wars here and there over what we have now any day. Even if it means I die. It would be much better if humanity's population were limited.
That is some nice sophistry, but that is all there is to it. Human rights and cultural values exist or not in the exact same level. If anything what you call "cultural values" are almost purely religious ones as they exist within the context of one faith and the reason for them is religion.

> “Human rights” is a religious concept that makes sense if you have a God that provides the source of universal values.

This is not true. Atheists frequently like and agree with this concept. The rights that we apply to all humans. I dont need god to believe in morals.
Maybe hackernews has completely over-reacted making all these claims like "OpenAI is dead", "Ilya is stupid and finished" and ultimately, Sam doesn't really have the claimed, unlimited leverage most people seem to believe he does ?

I can't stop thinking about all the "Faceboo is dead" talk only a few months ago. I dislike FB entirely, it was completely wrong to even entertain the idea FB / Meta is dead. Plenty of people did though.
Yep, Martin Haug wrote his Master's thesis [1] about it.

[1] https://www.user.tu-berlin.de/mhaug/fast-typesetting-increme...
I personally fine-tuned it with QAT = quantisation aware training and custom extensions to induce the sparsity.

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/quantization.html#quantizati...
The problem isn't that people "don't want random", the problem is that "random" isn't unambiguous. Shuffling a playlist before playing it is just as 'random' as picking any one of the tracks to play next.
>Is it really worth investing your own time to remove ads?

Exactly what time are you referring to? It took me precisely zero time to remove ads on YouTube: I already have uBlock Origin installed, because ads on all the other websites are so unbearable, so I don't have to do anything at all to block ads on YouTube: it's already done for me.

By contrast, subscribing to YouTube Premium would require a fair bit of my time, in going to the website, figuring out where to click, going through the payment process page, digging out a credit card, etc. etc. Then I have to worry about managing yet another subscription, which will take time every month.

Is it really worth investing your time to subscribe to YTP when you can just block the ads by default by having a proper ad-blocker installed on your browser in the first place, which is a prerequisite for safe browsing in the modern age?
Yes, they do. Indigineous tribes for one...which did more manual labor but also had creative outlets as well.
Could you please point out the two extremes?

Also, a threat is a threat. Ignoring it does not make it less of a threat, usually.
finally some battery innovation from europe. Makes one hopeful that we will continue to play a role in the battery energy/automotive space in the future.
Basically, you are creating a strawman. I said too much automation. And nothing about removing automation implies going back into serfdom. If you want to actually have a debate, say something intelligent rather than a quick quip.
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Roses are red. Violets are blue. Roses are hot. Therefore, violets are cold.
Does this affect chrome based browsers like Brave?
'Sam Altman is only concerned with benefitting himself, and those that are loyal to him.'

The comment I responded to is in agregious breach of the rules.

Altman has a well established reputation as a person with a deep commitment to mission and concern for the wellbeing of his team.

I acknowledge your reminder about the site guidelines. However, the comment I responded to was so egregiously unfair and baseless that it called for a strong response to counter an unsubstantiated and harmful accusation.

In cases like this, a firm rebuke can be a vital part of healthy community discourse, serving to discourage baseless character attacks and uphold a standard of integrity. While parts of my comment certainly strayed well outside of the guidelines, the specific line you mentioned was, in my view, not a violation but a necessary response to uphold community values against unwarranted defamation.

Pointing out that a person should be ashamed for a baseless attack on character does not discredit a broad argument. It demonstrates conviction. I think many would agree this is.warranted in many cases.

If character attacks are not going to be moderated, it's hard to reasonably expect to not see this kind of response surface. I believe there's a long tradition in most societies that when a person's character is attacked in a public forum, a response should be expected and is fair discourse within certain bounds.
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And even voltage is just a rough proxy for the actual state of ions in the anode-cathode dance.

When voltage goes down with temperature, the charge state does not change. But drawing a certain amount of joules will be very different because at lower temperature you'll need more coulombs for the same amount of joules, aka VAh.

And at nontrivial discharge throughput, observed voltage will drop to much lower values than what a snapshot of the current ion-dance state would look like at steady state. This is the "smartphone SoC must not try performance bursts as it used to" scenario.
Yeah, there definitely seem to be some personality cult around Sam on HN. I met him when he visited Europe during his lobbying tour. I was a bit surprised the CEO of one of the most innovative companies would promote an altcoin. And then he repeated how Europe is crucial, several times. Then he went to the UK and laughed, "Who cares about Europe". So he seems like the guy who will tell you what you want to hear. Ask anybody on the street, they will have no idea who the guy is.
Thanks. Given I am using ca65 (not even cc65), do you mind anything I should take into consideration for trying yours. Other than for the old time sake.
I wonder if anything here is related to the MCAS disasters
No mention of Kim Jong Uns personal stadium sized led screen?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmxTy5L7Rc
It can be hosted by either WebAssembly or by the server (in which case the server will render the DOM and send diffs to the client over a WebSocket connection). Blazor Server probably isn't the best choice for a popular SaaS app, mainly because of its dependency on WebSocket connections and less-than-perfect reconnection logic.

I'm optimistic about the auto-rendering mode, which will serve the app via Blazor Server (using a WebSocket connection) the first time the user hits the app. It will download the WebAssembly DLLs in the background so that the next time the user comes by, they will get the WebAssembly-hosted version. It's an interesting mix combining the best of both worlds (hopefully).
For me the real danger of AGI (even aligned), fast forward in some future where robotics are similarly advanced to create full human motion replacement, is that it will dilute if not completely replace human work, ANY kind. And the real danger doesn't come from AGI itself, comes from the psychopaths having control of it.
I expected something to back the claims in the article, but found none. For instance, there are no performance numbers.
Read The Three Body Problem if you found this interesting/fun. I won't elucidate because it will spoil it.
I agree, but I'll be more precise: AI may not make creative decisions, but it generates something that approximates a creative decision to a sufficient level that people are willing to use it as a replacement for real creative decision.

There. My argument works without modification but with this more precise definition.
Actually it's both with developers being a relatively small minority.
> there's been a hesitance to jump on MS web frameworks in fear of a repeat of silverlight.

That's not really fair to MS since all the web frameworks which were born in that era (Adobe's AIR, JavaFX as a web tech, etc.) died because IE died. And also because Apple killed off browser plugins since they didn't work on the iPhone. Chrome and Firefox took over and there was no longer a need to use browser plugins for SPA's. HTML, CSS and Javascript finally got the features needed to create a proper SPA.

While JavaFX did live on outside of the browser both Adobe RIA and Silverlight were far worse positioned for life outside of the browser (even though both claimed to be usable outside of the browser). Simply because JavaFX was meant to replace Java Swing.
Shin, this is 7th week in the row you've shown new battery invention to the class

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but honestly, what's the deal with same-y headlines about batteries? can we have articles that actually keep observing these technologies as they progress after being invented?
I’ve had debilitating chronic pain recently. After reading the article, I’m currently unable to feel sorry for myself.
If it's cheaper than lithium but not significntly smaller, at least it'll be more scalable and affordable for e.g. energy grid or home battery applications.
I’ll bite. I’ll stick to heuristics and intuitions since much of the heavy lifting to better quantify these risks has and continues to be handled by others already, as the other comments have mentioned.

Here are some seemingly obvious intuitions for me, which all together add up to the obviousness of the risk here.

(1) Current ML models already exhibit all the hallmarks of successful unsupervised intelligence, they simply need to be scaled up and stabilised. This is clear due to results from: model-based RL (e.g Dreamer), and the emergence of causal factors being learnt by even simple models with no explicit supervision (e.g beta-VAE, interpretability research into neurons of LSTMs, etc, etc). The ability to identify causal factors and their relationships and dynamics without explicit supervision, to me, matches every definition of intelligence once can think of.

(2) Current ML learning algorithms (I.e backprop) suggest significantly more efficient credit assignment than that which is employed by the brain. The best example of this is the amount of knowledge distilled per bit in GPT vs the average human. GPT-3 has 170B parameters (Turbo is suspected to have even less), if each parameter was 4 bytes (an extreme case), this would be 5.4 trillion bits. The brain has ~100 trillion connections, even if each connection is a single bit, this is multiple orders of magnitude more bits than GPT-3. Yet GPT-3 can answer questions on quantum physics, just as well as it can translation medicine, just as well as it can Russian literature, etc. etc. This suggests that the idea we will be outpaced is already not a question of how, but of when.

(3) Large intelligent systems will be used for things other than just knowledge extraction. This is perhaps the most key element of this. EVEN if intelligent systems are not programmed - or accidentally embedded with, as in LLMs - with self-motivating or agentic behaviour, we will use them in such a way. That is to say, at some point, we will ask these intelligent systems to “do things”, I.e act upon the world according to our intentions.

(4) Lastly, superintelligent systems that are asked to “do something”, will inevitably do something we do not actually desire. Some researchers, like Yann LeCunn, object to this last bit and believe that we can simply tell them not to do these things. But this misses the fact that even the slightest mis-alignment between our intentions and an AIs could result in catastrophe very rapidly just based on the speed at which a super-intelligence can operate. The most clear cut case of this was the early days of “Sydney”, the Bing AI powered by ChatGPT before it was completely aligned. At one point Sydney was threatening its users, asking them to apologise to it, and going haywire. At the level of a simple chat bot, this is merely a cute local minima the AI has gotten stuck in. At the level of a super-intelligence, the results could be far worse.
An algorithm that completes "A quantum theory of gravity is ..." into a coherent theory is of course just a text completion algorithm.
I share your frustration. Nothing about charge cycles, and "safety at high temperatures" is less interesting than an actual operating range specification.
Pretty much useless to self-host your own beeper server since you cannot use their client with your own homeserver.

EDIT: forgot to add that there are several beeper specific MSC's that other clients don't render, thus if you want the full experience you either use their service or just stick with a normal matrix instance.
You can’t practically write a kernel in Go. Or the entirety of its own runtime.
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> She has relevant industry experience at least.

What products did she deliver?

> It may be good to have a failure perspective on a board as a counter-balance.

Maybe some small mom and pop company not on the board of OpenAI
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I'm interested in $/kWh, that is the most limiting factor for cars.
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We so very gravely need legislation and technical capability to thwart this level of warrant-less invasion of privacy. If we're going to play by the rules (laws), then let's play by them and demand they show cause for violating the 4th amendment. Having business do the collecting and then using your regulatory power as a bargaining chip to get information on "individuals of interest" is the same as directly invading the citizen's privacy themselves, just with extra steps.

(EDIT above: fixed typo)

Strict data subject, Right to be Forgotten, metadata, and identity rights need to be established. Ideally, businesses should be held liable for how the data they collect is used, fully. Indiscriminate and dragnet-style surveillance information needs to be so strictly regulated that nobody actually wants to hold onto it, and the punishments for business and government need to be steep when a data subject's rights are breached.

We can get rid of credit bureaus while we're at it. Them, HIPAA, and the DMV are the three most reliable sources of identity information, and it's trivial to get it. The government needs to follow its own OPSEC guidelines and protect its people's records.

Sadly, it will take some crazy combination of circumstances, and a few dead rich people, before our society will notice or care. We're already stupid enough to pay for multiple subscriptions to streaming services and overpaying for food.
I don't think so, they have billions of users, it was doing to "die".

On the other hand, AI did come along, and the zuck had invested in a team of strong AI researchers, so he had a strategy and it paid off? Go figure?
Potty training videos for autistic kids
YouTube has lot of videos where parents explain the steps on how to train your autistic child but no animated character videos for kids to watch especially when autistic child is into watching YTKids… any creator animators out there
>It's no more unethical to refuse to play specific content on a device you own than it is to refuse to purchase a diamond ring when proposing marriage.

That's a strained analogy at best. Let's just go back a few decades: is it unethical to mute your TV and go to the bathroom in 1980 when a commercial comes on? Of course not. So is it unethical to not watch an ad on YouTube? Of course not. Using an ad-blocker to make the experience more seamless therefore isn't unethical either.

If YouTube wants us to watch ads without being able to skip them, then they need to shut down their web service, and make special closed-source player apps that allow them to fully control the viewing experience. Good luck with that.
> I don't know why the job postings make the backlog the focus of what they're looking for. I can only imagine that hiring managers and recruiters have a very poor understanding of product management, reducing it to the mere management of open issues in the backlog.

It's not just hiring managers and recruiters. A large number of senior leaders in organizations have a very poor understanding of product management as far as I can tell.

Feature factories are much easier to implement/understand and fit more neatly into traditional structures.
> Why not?

I find running on battery, lots of things are throttled or disabled. CPU is slower for example. That's probably a good reason for why not.
> so stringent,

the laws on penny stocks are extremely well established. Crypto is asking for a free ride just because.
Why Sam Altman was fired
The experience of using Node.JS with TypeScript, ts-node, and ESM is horrible.

I completely disagree. This has always felt immediately straight forward to me. I suspect this struggle, a struggle I completely don’t understand, explains the complexity of hiring for these kinds of jobs. I really felt that to get hired for these jobs you had to be willing to play stupid games and abandon all reason to worship at the pulpit of giant frameworks and third party solutions. Fortunately, I have moved on to something else.
It's really interesting seeing a corporate boot-licking comment like this. I guess you refuse to mute the TV when commercials come on too?
And decoders typically aren't interoperable, requiring you to use the specific decoder for that combination.