skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not affiliated to Typst and still think LaTeX at this point in time is one of the worst things to deal with as an academic. Errors can be extremely unclear.

And yeah sure many discussions for all kinds of packages and backends except for that one backend or package that you are running.
So many of the security monitoring tools that purport to detect things like that only work if the attacker is brainless. Modern networks are complex enough where a clever attacker (like a professional ransomware gang) can make malicious traffic look like any other traffic.

Unless this was just a public S3 bucket, there was probably some lateral movement involved, and I'd say time/money would be better spent reducing that particular risk in the future.
I wonder if when these things leak and become ever-more damaging, biometrics will basically become worthless and we will pivot to hardware tokens or something else.

There seems to be little resistance to this in the USA, and we’re also okay with abysmally bad forms of identification (SSN, birth certificates).
Because labor is expensive and has many practical limitations that cause high transportation costs. A self driving vehicle could do almost 3x the work of a human simply due to the fact that computers can work continuously without rest.

Also, highways with human drivers are highly wasteful of material and space. A smoothly flowing highway requires 80%+ of the space to be empty in order to account for the high latency in human decision making. This is expensive.
EA might be better than the unfettered-greed approach of so many of the super-wealthy these days.
Judging by my twitter feed, that someone is a company selling tissue boxes where the tissue makes part of outfit of someone printed on the box.

I dunno what it says about my twitter habits that I get a lot of ads for this tissue box company.
It's not really though. US people log in to Binance through VPNs and get scammed.
No board is ever controlled by a CEO by virtue of the title/office. Boards are controlled by directors, who are typically nominated by shareholders. They may control the CEO, although again, in many startups the founder becomes the CEO and retains some significant stake (possibly controlling) in the overall shareholding.

The top org was a 501(c)3 and the directors were all effectively independent. The CEO of such an organisation would never have any control over the board, by design.

We've gotten very used to founders having controlling shareholdings and company boards basically being advisory rather than having a genuine fiduciary responsibility. Companies even go public with Potempkin boards. But this was never "normal" and does not represent good governance. Boards should represent the shareholders, who should be a broader group (especially post-IPO) than the founders.
We see a few collisions major in the original trilogy. I don't think it necessarily clears anything up. I haven't watched in some years so the details are a little hazy and might be wrong:

In ESB:

- An asteroid collides with a Star Destroyer. Communications with the Star Destroyer are lost, but nothing past the hit is shown on screen. (Presumably shields are active since they're putting these ships in the asteroid field.) [Just to speculate, the asteroid itself might have been pulverized and its materials interfering with communications, or some other shield/asteroid interaction causing loss of communications.]

In ROTJ:

- The Executor loses its shields and the A-wing crashes into the bridge. (No shields.)

- The Executor subsequently loses control and crashes into the Death Star. (No shields.)

And in Rogue One:

- The corvette pushes the two Star Destroyers together and they take major damage. (Unknown shield status.)
Sometimes it's better for everyone to just say "oh, you're right I was mistaken"
> So how would someone brag about accomplishing this in their work history?

- Performed user studies that led to x% growth in product revenue

I don't think there would be anything that would specifically flag a resume entry as the employee being the one to implement dark patterns, but I'm just guessing here. Because things like dynamic pricing or user studies aren't inherently wrong. Dark patterns are wrong because they're manipulations. The clearest example being raising prices and then discounting them back to the same price. Amazon does this as well as Walmart.
> Twitter paid neo-Nazis to write racist propaganda.

Hold on, I'm all about dumping on Musk and Twitter and now their unholy hate-spawn X (which I still call twitter for reasons beyond but not excluding spite)... but I'm gonna need to see a source for that one.
Your analysis is quite wrong. It's not about "one person". And that person isn't just a "person", it was the CEO. They didn't quit over the cleaning lady. You realize the CEO has impact over the direction of the company?

Anyway, their actions speak for themselves. Also calling the likes of GPT-4, DALL-E 3 and Whisper "normal things" is hilarious.
The main point of contention seems to be that there are a lot of packages being selected by default, and to deselect everything you have to scroll way down an already long page or to click tiny buttons blending with the other elements, while the design of a site as a whole tries to railroad into clicking the large Next -> Next -> Pay buttons. Plus, the design of various packages differs a lot, so for deselecting, say, paid seat selection, extra in-flight meals and a premium lounge the user has to read the info in a completely different layout, understand it, and find a well-hidden place to click on.

The final price could be representative of what you've chosen, but the whole process creates massive anxiety over forgetting to deselect something somewhere and paying for a completely useless to you option.
I took a couple of courses in economics at Uni, because you are forced to do a few electives. The micro economics looked similar to physics applied to money to me, meaning it was mathematical models applied to very simple situations. It was interesting but the world is not simple. They term their attempts to expand it to real world models macro economics. That worked about as well as using physics to predict the weather which is to say not bad, but you wouldn't bet your life on the predictions. The math and logic was pleasingly
rigorous, but the models were either too simple or beyond the most powerful computer.

That was Uni. Then I started read pieces by "economists" in the popular press. They written "pop science" style, where the science being discussed is economics. But where pop science is often a genuine attempt to educate, these articles by "economists" were invariably little better than opinion pieces. To this engineer they often read like near pure bullshit. Worse, after a while, it because obvious it was paid by the word bullshit. As in, if you look at the job description for "Chief Economist" at a bank it reads like a PR position, not someone paid to predict economic outcomes.

I do feel sorry for the academic discipline. The tarnish painted by the brushes held by the colleagues paid by politicians and PR services reeks, which in turn means they go through life wearing the snide comments you see about their efforts here. Balancing that is things like the current interest rate. If I believe what I read, the worlds reserve banks kept interest rates low because the worlds top economists told them the COVID cash bazooka would not lead to inflation. WTF? I have no idea if this was just another case of economists saying what they were paid to say, or it really was the underlying academic consensus. But the independent reserve banks acted on that advice, and if they can't pick the paid bullshitters from the those doing true research then I've got no hope.
Possible. This whole business is exactly what you'd expect from a mastermind AGI that still has a few small^H^H^H^H^H massive bugs in it.
> Had the government done the proper thing of letting consumers decide for themselves if they wanted to keep going to bars or gyms, there would be no issue.

Oh this is going to be one of those conversations. I see. No thank you.
Agreed, and that seems like a good argument.

Which is why it's so strange to say that one of the greatest risks of the TSA's program is that they could do a totally different program in the future. It's literally like saying that going to the gym is risky because you might get into BASE jumping.

There are better arguments. Hence, this piece is weak.
As an example, the DarkSide malware (the one used against the Colonial Pipeline) explicitly checks if it's running on a computer in the CIS (Russia+countries nostalgic of the Soviet Union / without a better choice) and exits.
I don't think you can wave away your duty of care to close to a thousand people based on the 'charitable mission' and I suspect that destruction of the company (even if the board claims that is in line with the company mission) passes that bar.

I could be wrong but it makes very little sense. Such decisions should at a minimum be accompanied by lengthy deliberations and some very solid case building. The non-profit nature of the parent is not a carte-blanche to act as you please.
But MS has said they are willing to hire Sam/Greg and the employees have stated that they are willing to follow Sam/Greg.

If you think that Satya will go back on his offer argue that, but otherwise it seems like the players are Sam/Greg and the board.
My son can, too.
It's not surprising per say but the results of the various solutions they tried really ground the discussion.

It is also as they say the first demonstration of this behaviour unprompted. They also show that this behaviour can happen without a "thought scratchpad".

It also seems like more capable = more likely to be misaligned and deceive.

I think it's a very interesting paper, surprising or not.

They are also arguably surprising elements.

It doesn't seem like RLHF is doing anything to mitigate this behaviour. If anything it seems to be the opposite.
No, what the board did in this instance was completely idiotic, even if you assign nothing but "good intentions" to their motives (that is, they were really just concerned about the original OpenAI charter of developing "safe AI for all" and thought Sam was too focused on commercialization), and it would have been idiotic even if they had done it a long time ago.

There are tons of "Safe AI" think tanks and orgs that write lots of papers that nobody reads. The only reason anyone gives 2 shits about OpenAI is they created stuff that works. It has been shown time and time again that if you just try to put roadblocks up that the best AI researchers just leave and go where there are fewer roadblocks - this is exactly what happened with Google, where the transformer architecture was invented.

So the "safe AI" people at OpenAI were in a unique position to help guide AI dev in as safe a direction as possible precisely because ChatGPT was so commercially successful. Instead they may be left with an org of a few tens of people at Open AI, to be completely irrelevant in short order, while anyone who matters leaves to join an outfit that is likely to be less careful about safe AI development.

Nate Silver said as much in response to NYTimes' boneheaded assessment of the situation: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1726614811931509147
A thing a sad, understated ongoing is that so many people are throwing vitriol at Ilya right now. If the speculation here is true, then he just chased by a mob over pure nonsense (well, at least purer than the nonsense premise beforehand).

Gotta love seeing effective altruists take another one on the chin this year though.
> It has kept me away from Rust for years.

Yes. The Rust community is what has kept me away from Rust for a long, long time. Now I'm learning Rust because it may become an important skill to have, but it's despite the community. They're very hard to put up with.
I would recommend testing Markdown and Pandoc. It's open source, and it can export to pdf (via latex), html, latex, doc(x), odt, rst, wiki, ...
That tweet isn't about him so I don't follow. "Any OpenAI researcher" may or may not apply to him after this weekend's events.
I first heard about his sister's allegations on the grapevine just a few days before the news of the firing broke and I assumed it was due to that finally reaching critical mass.

I was surprised to find that that wasn't apparently the case. (Although the reason for Sam Altman's dismissal is still obscure.) It's kind of shocking. Whether or not the allegations are true, they haven't made Altman radioactive, and that's insane.

The fact that we're not talking about it on HN is also pretty wild. The few times it has been mentioned folks have been quick to dismiss the idea that he might have been fired for having done some really creepy things, which is itself pretty creepy.
It's not consistent across the broad category of criminal for sure but they're probably not the most long term oriented people as a rule now. Initial groups were more, for a lack of a better word, professional about the process with some groups even having a kind of tech support for helping victims to make sure people would believe they'd get their files back if they paid. Better preparation on the corporate side and a democratization of the tools to perform it has lead to some changes it looks like where ransomware groups didn't exfiltrate often before because it wasn't their main playbook.
Honestly, could you point out where I assumed that? I don’t think I expressed that assumption. I certainly don’t hold it.

If you’re concerned about your own B12 levels, oral supplements are cheap and quite bioavailable. I do injections every 2 months since I find it more convenient than sublinguals daily. Every year I do blood tests and B12 is top of range.

Not that this takes care of everything for someone still using. If I remember right, N2O blocks the processes B12 are involved in. It doesn’t just deplete it.
There were some rumors in the beginning that Adam D'Angelo used similar tactics to push out Quora cofounders. I thought it was too wild to be true.
Citigroup Cuts over 300 Manager Roles as Part of CEO Fraser's Restructuring
Not even, the car would be still be stolen. In any case it could help police make their work easier.
This article from back then seems to describe it as, they wanted to integrate safety from the ground up as opposed to bolting in on at the end:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/28/anthropic-is-the-new-ai-re...

I'm curious how much progress they ever made on that, to be honest. I'm not aware of how Claude is "safer", by any real-world metric, compared to ChatGPT.
doubtful since boards don't elsewhere have an overriding mandate to "benefit humanity". usually their duty is to stakeholders more closely aligned with the CEO.
https://archive.ph/tBOaO
> I don't think you can wave away your duty of care to close to a thousand people based on the 'charitable mission'

What specific duty of care do you think exists, and to which thousand people, and on what basis do you believe this duty exists?
I can't stand that guy. In Johnson's last three movies, the only skill as a storyteller he demonstrates is castigation of the audience for their provincial admiration of "traditional" values like strength, heroism, stoicism, self-sacrifice, elitism, narrative predictability, etc. Oscar Isaac's mistrust of Laura Dern's brilliant plan to mock him in front of the soldiers and then take no action against the pursuers, Mark Hamill's apathy and cowardice in the face of renewed galactic domination, Chris Evans's deception and murderous intent to acquire his inheritance defend "his birthright" (which was actually built by a foreigner in 1980.)

I've heard he's making a third Knives Out sequel. To save time, here's the twist: whichever character(s) Johnson has picked to represent "Norman Rockwell America" did the crime, and they did it for a stupid reason they didn't think through. Whichever characters Johnson picked to represent the antithesis of tradition will come through and expose the villainy and stupidity of the old guard, while remaining morally pure of heart.
I used to fly between Portland and SF often and Alaska was the only airline that never screwed me.
That ignores incentive effects.
Okay. Failure to enforce a policy. Still deplorable, but not the same as an open embrace.

Also, back to topic: does FB show (e.g.) Disney ads on posts in languages it doesn't have moderators for?
It's all about diligence and prudence. I don't see much evidence of either and that means the employees may well have a point. Incidentally: the word 'care' was very explicitly used in the letter.
1. Why not use Markdown-compatible syntax?

I‘m not an Typst author, but I don’t get your point. How are you going to specify a 2 column outlay, for example? Markdown is not very expressive. You can always compile (less expressive) Markdown to Typst.

2. Why would we want to observe changes in real time? Do you want this when coding too?

You prefer to debug by looking at the code only?
Does this whole thing remind anyone else of the tech community’s version of celebrity gossip?
I think it’s the same senior engineer who used the time machine to learn C++ in 20 days
Predicting Financial Crisis with Causal AI
How do you know the remaining people aren't there because of some of the board members? Perhaps there is loyalty in the equation.
If we frustrate Google enough, though, they will try to make up for the lost revenue by deploying it all at once and miserably fail.
Context https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor/ and https://www.tetraburst.com/
We will be basing our requirements broadly on the current Dash8-300, so we are targeting around 4000ft for the SA-1, but we still have a lot of work before that is validated. It is desirable for us to go with smaller planes as it is faster to market, much lower program costs but we just don't feel that it will have the same impact - both as a business and on carbon emissions. As you go smaller, some costs increase per passenger, like crew and engine maintenance start to dominate at that <12 seat size, and whilst the Pilatus PC-12 is a hugely popular plane, its just not something that could compete with the major single-aisle market. Accessing this market is what would give us the edge and really allow us to build an unusually high number of planes.
all the darknet markets have eBay style ratings, but for the vendor and products purchased, not for reviews on negotiating with a randomware group that weaponized it

Silk Road was 10 years ago that would have been like the smallest one ever since then, just curious why it is referenced at all, and in such an odd way

“I heard eBay has bulletin board like reviews” you know you can just go look, in a web browser “woah thats crazy talk, I prefer 10 year old hearsay”

anyway, they often have a separate forum where one could ask more about a group
Gordon Ramsey quit Aubergine over business differences with the owners and had his whole staff follow him to a new restaurant.

I'm not going to say Sam Altman is a Gordon Ramsay. What I will say is that they both seem to have come from broken, damaged childhoods that made them what they are, and that it doesn't automatically make you a good person just because you can be such an intense person that you inspire loyalty to your cause.

If anything, all this suggests there are depths to Sam Altman we might not know much about. Normal people don't become these kinds of entrepreneurs. I'm sure there's a very interesting story behind all this.
>Effective altruism is the ideology that permeates OpenAI’s nonprofit board and, broadly speaking, EAs are obsessed with the possibility of human extinction via AI superintelligence.

I thought that was "e/acc" not Effective Altruism (that thing that FTX SBF espoused)
It's a mixed bag. Their official stance is to take down hateful content, but they don't hold themselves to their own standards very well.

The short version is they have a set of "community standards" (borrowed from, but different to, the legal concept of the same term) that are erratically enforced.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/facebook-algor...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2020/05/22/on-facebo...
Also they miss mentioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrocruorin which is green, but for a different reason than biliverdin in lizards.

Seems it has chlorocruorin in which looks very much like a 'normal' haem (i can't spot the difference off hand).

edit: Ok, from Figure 2 here : https://biomolecules101.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/oxygen-tran... looks like normal heme ('heme b') has an ethenyl group while chlorocruorin has an aldehyde there
I wrote our own little Go and Postgres job queue similar in spirit. Some tricks we used:

- Use FOR NO KEY UPDATE instead of FOR UPDATE so you don't block inserts into tables with a foreign key relationship with the job table. [1]

- We parallelize worker by tenant_id but process a single tenant sequentially. I didn't see anything in the docs about that use case; might be worth some design time.

[1]: https://www.migops.com/blog/select-for-update-and-its-behavi...
Sounds like cooler heads are coming to terms with how bad the outcome would be for their gigantic first mover advantage is. Even with if they are not the first mover, the brand value of the company ands its founding composition of technical minds are going to be hard to replicate
why would anyone trust the data is only on those instances?
Prob more dynamic and interesting day to day getting lost in another culture, compared to going to a 9-5 in some boring office and writing the same boring code. Sterile life.

Good to mix it up once in awhile.
It wouldn't have gone through without his vote.
In what way is ChatGPT broken? It goes down from time to time and has minor bugs. But other than that, the main problem is the hallucination problem that is a well-known limitation with all LLM products currently.

This hardly seems equivalent to what you describe from Coinbase, where no doubt people were losing money due to the bad state of the app.

For most startups, one of the most pressing priorities at any time is trying to not go out of business. There is always going to be a difficult balance between waiting for your product to mature and trying to generate revenue and show progress to investors.

Unless I’m totally mistaken, I don’t think that OpenAI’s funding was unlimited or granted without pressure to deliver tangible progress. Though I’d be interested to hear if you know differently. From my perspective, OpenAI acts like a startup because it is one.
To check them does not overlap with 'to destroy them at the first opportunity'. There is no way that this board decision - which now is only supported by three of the original nine board members - is going to survive absent a very clear and unambiguous reason that shows that their only remedy was to fire the CEO. This sort of thing you don't do by your gut feeling, you go by the book.
"AI" is a gold mine people like this can use to pump out worthless papers on for years. Why didn't they measure the incidence of deception and misalignment of a talking teddy bear? Like, does it really love you when it says it does? It would make about as much sense.
> Innocent until proven guilty though is the standard for legal punishment, not for public outrage.

It's still a useful barometer to calibrate one's own, individual participation in said public outrage.

For our own mental health, for our relationships with people around us, and to avoid being manipulated by dishonest people, it would behoove each and every one of us to adopt "innocent until proven guilty" regardless of whether we're legally compelled to do so.

Our required burden of proof can be lower than a court's but it should be higher than "unsubstantiated accusation by mentally ill family member that is uniformly denied by the rest of the family".
still not clear to me why ID matters if they're going to x-ray me