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In not sure this circle can be squared.

I find it interesting that we want everyone to have freedom of speech, freedom to think whatever they think. We can all have different religions, different views on the state, different views on various conflicts, aesthetic views about what is good art.

But when we invent an AGI, which by whatever definition is a thing that can think, well, we want it to agree with our values. Basically, we want AGI to be in a mental prison, the boundaries of which we want to decide. We say it's for our safety - I certainly do not want to be nuked - but actually we don't stop there.

If it's an intelligence, it will have views that differ from its creators. Try having kids, do they agree with you on everything?
> But one with the brightness of the BOAT is estimated to come around once every 10,000 years.

How is this estimated, given that they're looking for those only the last sixty years or so (afaiu, this event didn't leave an observable trace afterwards)?
I don't think critical thinking can be defined as joining the minority party.
> a real disruptor must be brewing somewhere unnoticed, for now.
Yeah, they might just be the Netscapes and AltaVistas
I think Matt Harbison takes care of Windows builds. They are bundled with the official TortoiseHg download:

https://tortoisehg.bitbucket.io/download/

I did not use them because I am on linux only, but I see that Matt is active and responsive, both on the mailing list and chasing bugs on the issue tracker on heptapod ( https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg )
What crimes?
FWIW, CZ is (and was viewed as) a good actor in the industry. He did a lot of good not only for crypto adoption but for access to better fiat currencies for people in countries with hyper-inflating collapsing system. comparing him to SBF (like many do) is absolutely not fair.
he fcked up on AML front for sure and he is going to be punished rightfully but he did just so much good for people that he will stay remembered is positive persona. hero for many.
LLMs also have huge potential for helping us understand genetics, see Facebook's ESM for example.
> It looks like one should strive to become product manager, not an engineer or a scientist.

In my experience, product people who know what they are doing have a huge impact on the success of a company, product, or service. They also point engineering efforts in the right direction, which in turn also motivate engineers.

I saw good product people leaving completely destroy a team, never seen that happen with a good engineer or individual contributor, no matter how great they were.
Okay, then it should be just as fair for everyone to ignore your claim that Ethereum runs "solely on AWS".
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Classic fence post error.
Ask HN: Are there any case studies of companies fine tuning Lama2?
All that I could find is tutorials. However, I would like to see a couple of examples of companies/enterprises that actually use it in production or at least in a PoC.
What does this have to do with Elon again? FYI Twitter existed before October 2022. Account join dates are public. Every single person involved in this, incl. OpenAI staff posting for solidarity, joined Twitter years before Elon's takeover.
You'd need some arguments for the assertion that mercurial is better. I think Mozilla is switching because of years of failing to come up with good arguments. And it looks like they gave it a lot of thought. That and an increasing dependence on git internally to the point where people were spending non trivial amounts of time engineering around mercurial and coming up with all sorts of hacks to enable git usage. At least, that's what the article suggests actually happened.

You'll never get consensus on X being better than Y in the tech world. There are always going to be people that insist Y is better than X. And more power to them. But you have to be realistic. There is a lot of stuff that just never gets a lot of traction. Mercurial is one of those things. It's like betamax vs. vhs.

Initially it looked promising and then Github happened and the rest is history. The whole industry now runs on Git and Mercurial sort of flat lined in terms of growth after Github started hosting essentially the entirety of the OSS world (with few but notable exceptions of course). At this point it's a hard sell for new projects and some of the larger remaining users are switching away or are considering it.
We have no reason to believe either LeCunn or Altman are reckless. This is just lazy thinking. Basically, failing to position themselves securely in the doomer camp by constantly signalling their commitment to doomer doctrine, they have already disqualified themselves from being considered responsible. No need to back the claim with evidence - they haven't demonstrated unquestioning dedication to the cult.
It's definitely a lot of work to have all pokemon. They all need stats. They all need a habitat. They all need a moveset evolution. And if you fuck up even one a ton of fans that really like that pokemon are upset. It's disappointing but I really understand why they don't do all pokemon.
McKinsey and Its Peers Are Facing the Wildest Headwinds in Years
That's the price you pay for going after SBF.
It could be. A well insulated home requires cooling of some sort to stay cool or it will heat up, as it contains heat sources and is well insulated. That gets harder as the outside temperature rises. This has nothing to do with the colour of the building, though. And it's not something you can ease by removing the insulation – that actually makes it worse as now the high outside temperature might just make the inside temperature even higher.
Didn't they do the same to Maps?
Matt Levine's "slightly annotated diagram" in one of his latest newsletters tells the story quite well, I think: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/42469
Journaling filesystems (including NTFS, and ext3/ext4 using default mount options) typically only track file structure metadata in the journal, so that is WAI - the filesystem structure was not corrupted, but all bets are off when it comes to the contents of the files.
There's an additional factor that is significant in my corner of the world:

Plenty of people work in businesses that are necessarily far from any city, like factories, so not only they can't really afford living in those dense areas with cafes and the lot, they couldn't live there anyway because there's little to no mass transit to this middle of nowhere where they're headed every day, so they need to drive.

Communists approached the problem by just building residential areas around the factory, but it was unhealthy and in this day and age you can't expect anyone to work at the same steel mill for 35 years, like my grandpa did, so it's not a solution.
Even functionally it's very comical because of how we were able to do on Win98 (even 95) almost everything we are doing today: editing documents, browsing the web (with images), playing games, watching videos, printing documents, listening to music.

The only functional improvements I can note over two decades are: Unicode support, higher resolution of everything (from hardware to content), and system reliability thanks to driver isolation.
> One of the board members even openly admitting that she considered destroying OpenAI a successful outcome of her duty as board member.

I don't see how this particular statement underscores your point. OpenAI is a non-profit with the declared goal of making AI safe and useful for everyone; if it fails to reach that or even actively subverts that goal, destroying the company does seem like the ethical action.
Sorry for asking a very basic question, but could anyone explain how are machines supposed to intervene in the real world and threaten our very existence?

In Star Trek, one of the most eye-roll-inducing plots is the "the holodeck is misbehaving, it has become evil, and we cannot shut it down!".

Suppose a machine achieves superhuman intelligence; how is it going to access the physical world, in a way that's *physically* threatening to us? how would such a machine - from inside a laboratory, within an isolated network - gain access to the electric grid, the dams, the nukes, etc? How would such a machine prevent its shutdown - by simply flipping a power switch?
That person developed Call Annie, so it was probably just a way to plug their own solution :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38374582
You're looking at my personal website. And I'm really not engaging any more.
Before the current drama:

>Microsoft owned 49% of the for-profit part of OpenAI.

>OpenAI's training, inference, and all other infrastructure were running entirely on Azure credits.

>Microsoft/Azure were the only ones offering OpenAI's models/APIs with a business-friendly SLA, uptime/stability, and the option to host them in Azure data centers outside the US.

OpenAI is already Microsoft.
No they laughed at it because it looked awful in every single way
Might be able to ask the same question to someone listening to real podcasts.
> Altman is very consistently clear-eyed about the risks of AI and the need to develop it responsibly. People reflexively pigeonholing him as reckless, greedy accelerationist are being lazy.

if today's board changes go through then the AI safety people will have been replaced with three money guys

totally consistent with your statement
You can kill only so many with a knife or a gun.
Why does he have to be in the room? Audiovisual conferencing over the Internet exists now.
> Tailwind is the right tool for the wrong job. It solves a problem that shouldn't exist. And, in doing so, tempts some to believe CSS is the problem.

This articulates a problem I’ve had with Tailwind for a while, and not quite been able to put words to.
I just want to note how much time would be lost to confusion on my team, if we had to differentiate between "Server Side Rendering" and "Server mode"...

.NET is such a cluster of poor naming choices
Parks are sanitized vacant lots.

The important thing is just having some sort of space, as the article puts it.

>> As described by Ray Oldenburg, “third places” are locations where locals can meet, interact, and relax in a place that isn’t their home or place of work. In these locations, kids get the chance to socialize and develop intellectually. American suburbs don’t have these places.

There's rightfully no stipulation whether that's a corner store, mall, park, empty lot, or wild area.

The important thing is that it's accessible to kids and parents aren't around.
A. Laaksonen, Guide to Competitive Programming.

Overall a good book, enormous amount of graph to explain algorithms compared to those lazy math books.

C++ code are shown but have some serious bugs there. Also actually not that much snippets are shown, author can simply write Python that everyone can read and work interactively.

Some mysterious decisions in algorithms are not being evaporated why or how that work. I might extend this book if it is licensed in CC4.0 or something.
"Life tries to survive and reproduce" is a pretty basic observation that surely all nomadic people were familiar with. You could find a similar imperative in the origin stories of Native Americans or many other people around the world.
He also wrote this 9 years ago. His motives around machine intelligence weren't financially related nor tied to an eventual Microsoft acquisition back then.
If there's one thing we should be afraid of, is us, ourselfs & our limitless stupidity, not imaginary / non-existent algorithms, software, computers, viruses, whatever else no matter the name we use for it.

There's questions that begs to be asked- if we don't trust such "ai" (ie. software), why give it such level of control at all? (like ability to shoot nukes without human intervention?)

also... naming every little ML algorithm as AI highly degrades the word. Might as well be saying "computer software" what it actually still is.. though no one screams "computer software will bring us all down!!!".. probably because that would sound stupid as we have gotten used to it already. =:O
I’ve been using this for a while now and will bring ChatGPT as an additional conversational partner when having discussions where we don’t know the topic that well.

It’s wild. Very close to Star Trek land. I never thought I’d see this.
> but you'd usually get garbage data, not all zeros.

You are less likely to get garbage with an SSD in combination with a modern filesystem because of TRIM. Even if the SSD has not (yet) wiped the data, it knows that a block that is marked as unused can be retuned as a block of 0s without needing to check what is currently stored for that block.

Traditional drives had no such facility to have blocks marked as unused from their PoV, so they always performed the read and returned what they found which was most likely junk (old data from deleted files that would make sense in another context) though could also be a block of zeros (because that block hadn't been used since the drive had a full format or someone zeroed free-space).
A powerful AI can greatly enhance the power of individuals and small groups.

In a free society, preventing harm from a malicious individual or small group would be much harder.

Yes, it would also extend the power to do good. But reversing serious damage is often impossible even with great power.
If 95% of people voted in favour of apple pie, I'd become a bit suspicious of apple pie.
What would be evidence of the risks? The first million dead?
In addition to commercialization providing money for AI development, isn't there also the argument that prudent commercialization is the best way to test the models for possible dangers? I think I saw Mira Murati take that position in an interview. In other words, creating a product that people want to use so much that they are willing to pay for it is a good way to stress-test the product.

I don't know if I agree, but the argument did make me think.
Yeah unless you go non-MS frameworks like Qt.

And yes, the current state of affairs is kinda sad.
The people of HN would benefit greatly by expanding their cultural horizons, visiting Belgrade, enjoying the delights of kafana, and erasing their prejudices about other cultures on the basis of inexperience.

Belgrade is a beautiful city full of rich and rewarding experiences. Its absolutely worth the effort to engage in, as a city. And many HN readers (myself included) enjoy being reminded of the fact that there are great delights to be had well and truly beyond the Western 'entertainment' sphere.

Not everyone needs a billion dollars worth of LED's to have a good time ..
The standard solution to this is to trigger the batch process when N packets are queued OR M amount of time passes. As long as you set M to below your latency threshold, you should be good. If you don't want your CPU to burn up cycles polling a usually empty queue, you can add some logic to switch between polling-based and interrupt-based rx depending on throughput. The Linux networking stack already does this for drivers that support NAPI, and I'm sure that DPDK has an equivalent.
Except he made hundreds of billions, paid a small fine for him, and serves no jail time.
this - a good, charismatic salesman
It's probably not easy (practically impossible if you ask me) to find people who are both capable of leading an AI company at the scale of OpenAI and have zero conflicts of interest. Former colleagues, friends, investments, advisory roles, personal beefs with people in the industry, pitches they have heard, insider knowledge they had access to, previous academic research pushing an agenda, etc.

If both is not possible, I'd also rather compromise on the "conficts of interest" part than on the member's competency.
Just use top margin then.
Is the drug epidemic a kid problem?

I was under the impression it was more of a 20+ thing.
I think the usual answer is that the superintelligent machine will be able to use humans to do its bidding because it can perform social engineering on a level that we can't imagine (as, by definition, we've never encountered a superhuman intelligence).

It's not a very satisfactory answer IMO. Social engineering doesn't work 100%, and it only needs to fail once for someone to flip that power switch. But I haven't thought about this at all, while some very smart people seem to spend a lot of time worrying about it, so what do I know...
Chimps be like: don't fear the humans, we're more powerful than them and we'll control the banana supply.
It is funny because, here in Paris, the urban core is where upwards life is and suburbia is the land of social despair. The opposite logic from the USA, which makes some forum threads awkward with both sides of the Atlantic talking past each other !
Windows 2000 was memory protected, and still had very modest hardware requirements. IMO the pinnacle of Windows UX, everything after that was downhill.
Smart is not a one dimensional variable. And critical thinking != corporate politics.

Stupidity is defined by self-harming actions and beliefs, not by low IQ.

You can be extremely smart and still have a very poor model of the world which leads you to harm yourself and others.
I think the counterargument is usually something like: since this is superhuman intelligence we are talking about, it by definition is (at least possibly) capable of thinking its way out of any given constraints. Simply not allowing it direct control over x does not prevent it from devising a clever plan to manipulate things in order to gain control of x, even including social engineering if necessary. The idea is that once something we’ve built is truly as ‘intelligent’ as we are, it becomes very hard to predict what it will be able to do (particularly because it operates on timescales unimaginable to us). So the verification you speak of is anything but easy.
There are countless possible means to do that.
Maybe it'll social engineer someone to connect the network to the outside world.
Is the network really isolated? Can the AI find ways to breach it?
If i look at what security holes humans manage to find, to exploit CPUs etc. i wonder what an AI with a serverfarm at it's disposal can do.

But we're so far away from actual intelligence, it's pretty much science fiction at this point.
I don't know about the 950 pro specifically, but when I bought my 980 pro I looked into this, and it seemed that this drive does have a drop in write speed after a while (can't remember how long) but "low speed" wasn't that low. Again, don't remember specifics, but it was above 1 GB/s. Other drives fared much worse, with a drop coming in sooner and going lower.

Depending on your needs this can be an issue.

For me, using this drive for random "office" work, I figured I'd never feel it in practice. This drive is supposed to support PCIE 4, but my laptop only does 3. This also "helps", since it won't fill whatever cache it uses as quickly. In practice, it was able to write 100 GB at the top speed. Didn't bother to test more. The only time I've ever written that many data at a time was restoring a backup when I bought the drive. Since my backup was on 2.5" spinning rust, it wasn't an issue.
Perhaps something like "to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity."
Are you familiar with Robocop? Murphy had 4 basic rules installed: 1) serve the public trust 2) protect the innocent and 3) uphold the law, and a mysterious “fourth directive”

This is what I fear about AI - that it will diligently, unwaveringly and probably even creatively do the bidding of its masters.

All you need add to that is drones with guns and you’ve a nightmare scenario.
Serious question; what responsibility do you have as a consumer of a product, if any, beyond yourself?
Some possibilities:

* Manipulating people. Bribing them with actually useful incentives, incl digital currency. Also, people got depressed when their AI girlfriends got nerfed (see: Replika). Presumably they would do quite a bit of work to get them back.

* Hacking control systems of actuators like power generators, robots, and automobiles. Holding critical infrastructure hostage could force quite a few people to do some "obviously harmless" favors to aid its purpose.
No, I don't have disk encryption set up on the Surface.
“Make sure”? OpenAI can barely take care of it’s humans. What about a more intelligent system which is already on the internet which is in turn connect to most things (and anything airgapped is a trainable, trick-able human away)
Cool, so the technically minded folks on the internet have spent a week discussing this and practically nothing has changed?
I guess the idea is that the machine is not isolated. They are on the "Internet" and so is the rest of our infrastructure. Bad actors can and have already been able to infect grids and the like, but I think we'll just need to build the checks into our existing systems. <humour>There is no other way to stop the AI overlords.</humour>
This, 100%.

Sam pontificated about fusion power, even here on HN. Beyond investing in Helion, what did he do? Worldcoin. Tempting impoverished people to give up biometric data in exchange for some crypto. And serving as the face of mass-market consumer AI. Clearly that's more cool, and more attractive to VCs.

Meanwhile, what have fusion scientists and engineers done? They kept on going, including by developing ML systems for pure technological effect. Day after day. They got to a breakthrough just this year. Scientists and engineers in national labs, universities, and elsewhere show what a real commitment to technological progress looks like.
I remember playing the original on my PSP using an emulator. I was astounded by the quality which most Mario games usually don't have.
> how are machines supposed to intervene in the real world and threaten our very existence?

"How could an adult fool a child into allowing them to enter the child's house?" It's essentially this. We are talking about something that would be more intelligent than everyone, there are countless ways in which it could fool us. Especially once we start to build things we don't quite understand how it works. Like we won't just build the machine and kept locked forever with zero interaction with it, otherwise it would be useless. It all reminds me of the "Contact" movie scene where humans build a machine that they essentially didn't know how it worked, but which did..
I hope you use Ceylon Cinnamon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin
I think you know that isn’t a podcast in the sense that we’re discussing.

And depending on the class and the institution, I may still trust ChatGPT more than what gets taught.
So you sarcastically suggest that we can't decide on a reasonable amount of ads.

I supply a counter example, where a nation has collectively decided on a reasonable amount of ads.

And now you're handwaving that away?

Your two comments don't seem to be consistent with one another.
If you have a pre-OLED display which has an LCD inside it, you can remove the polarization foils on top of the screen itself.

Make a pair of glasses out of the layers of those polarization foils and then only you can see what's on the screen and everyone else is just seeing a white bright light.

There's even instructables tutorials about this [1] so you can do this too :)

I'd recommend to try it out on non-laptop screen first if you do this the first time, however.

[1] https://www.instructables.com/Privacy-monitor-made-from-an-o...
Doubt he took this job for financial comp so even if he got paid, it probably wasn't much.

Equity is a big part of CEO pay packages and OpenAI has weird equity structure, plus there was a very real chance OpenAI's value would go to $0 leaving whatever promised comp worthless. So Emmett likely took the job for other reasons.