skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This almost feels like the confirmation bias that some religious people have where they see a “miracle” in everything.

These AI researchers have bought into the belief that superhuman AGI is right around the corner. Thus, they will interpret everything in light of that.

This also brings to mind the story of the Googler who was convinced that the internal Google AI had come alive. However, Bard doesn’t give the same vibes when people all over are using it.

When you desperately are invested in something being true (like AGI being right around the corner), you will convince yourself that you are seeing this happen. The only real counter to that is exposing it to a lot of outsiders (but then again you have convinced yourself it is too dangerous for the unwashed masses).
no really who is Sam, and how did he get here? Do u know?
Even after reading your comment I thought this must be hyperbolic. That load was atrocious.
> Reuters was unable to review a copy of the letter. The researchers who wrote the letter did not immediately respond to requests for comment. OpenAI declined to comment.

Lol for real, like what are we even doing here?
OK, but this is the "alternative facts" thing at work. Grandparent claimed something frankly ridiculous, you say you had the "same problem", then you redefine the problem to be, well... not the same thing at all? I mean, of course there are "SEO" pages in search results, that's literally what "Search Engine Optimization" means.

And it's impossible to know what you mean by it without specifics: are you complaining that a top search result is a useless page of advertisement and AI-generated text (which would be bad), or just that e.g. "tutorialspoint.com"[1] or whatever is above Stack Overflow on some search (hardly a disaster).

Maybe you have some examples we could try?

[1] Or some other vaguely low quality but still legitimate site.
Being frank, I think you have an ideological position which is both satisfyingly consistent ('google is evil and always has been') and which provides a mechanism to discount any contrary facts ('you were just boots on the ground and didn't understand the corporation as well as I, being an enlightened person, did'). But I was actually there, and while I can't tell you any of the many times I saw Google do the right thing when it hurt its bottom line I can tell you that I saw it happen a lot and in big ways. You don't have to believe me, poor little deluded cog that I am, but I think I will take my messy, complicated, first person understanding of the place over the reductive ideology any day.
OpenAI is a non profit and the board members are not allowed to own shares in the for profit.

That means the remaining conflicts are when the board has to make a decisions between growing the profit or furthering the mission statement. I wouldn't trust the new board appointed by investors to ever make the correct decision in these cases, and they already kicked out the "academic" board members with the power to stop them.
Right, I know that, I'm wondering what the point of this submission is.
Yeh I'd expect it to get it right sometimes: there are only so many permutations. It gets it wrong a lot tho.
They separately confirmed it, although in terms of timing they were scooped by Reuters which generally means you publish what you have, when you have it.
First, what custom prompt did you use? "This conversation may reflect the link creator’s personalized data, which isn’t shared and can meaningfully change how the model responds."

Second, it isn't even right:

Third Trip to the Woods: The person takes the balloon to the woods. Now, the person, the vacuum cleaner, and the balloon are safely in the woods.
> "We're happier," she said.
I'm not suggesting flushing for rename. If a file write and a rename happen shortly before power loss, and neither goes through, that's fine.

With this rule, three outcomes are acceptable: both occur, or neither occur, or just the file write happens. The unacceptable outcome is that just the rename happens.

("file write" here could mean a single write, or an open-write-close sequence, it doesn't particularly matter and I don't want to dig through old discussions in too much detail)
And by similar to the Rails tool, I mean the functionality, not the intended usecase. Werkzeug is intended for local dev mode only.
Add bitcoin and a DAO and it becomes completely autonomous. Or lawyers…
All the comments here are BS. You have to learn how to construct 2D and 3D graphical spaces in real time and let them evolve and I'm sorry to say, as others have before, there is no royal road to mathematics. You simply have to put your time in the trenches. All the tools being sold to you are ephemeral and will soon become obsolete, so you simply have to grasp fundamentals of linear algebra and 3D spatial representations.

You can try to use tools created by others but the results will all just look the same as theirs, and if this is too much bother I'd suggest going back to non-digital mediums for your artwork like pen & ink watercolors oil paints etc.

If you can't handle vector calculus and complex analysis then that's too bad. Try harder or do something else.
> Experts/lawyers who have a material stake in getting this right have signed off on it.

How does that work when we're talking about non-profit motives? The lawyers are paid by the companies benefitting from these conflicts, so how is it at all reassuring to hear that the people who benefit from the conflict signed off on it?

> We can go out on a limb and suppose the mission of the nonprofit is not their top priority, and yet they continue on unscathed.

That's the concern. They've just replaced people who "maybe" cared about the mission statement with people who you've correctly identified care more about profit growth than the nonprofit mission.
> It's counterproductive to take business conflicts personally.

All conflicts are Personal. It is only when you weigh your response and its consequences to short-term and long-term goals that you start spouting niceties like "It's not Personal; it's just Business". It is a question of balancing emotions vs. rational strategy/tactics; sometimes it suits the circumstances and sometimes it doesn't.

Kautilya/Sun-Tzu/Clausewitz are relevant here.
>the more open, free LLM community

open source software has always been ultimately of and in service of the capitalists
Cows aren't smarter than people. I believe if we can build AGI it will automatically be ASI. If something is smarter than you how can you ever be sure you control it?

And yes we are already building AI that has implied violence. What the hell do you think the military is doing with the billions we give them.
Those rights of ownership tend to be governed by universal standards such as fee simple ownership (of real property), or within the US, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), which is established at the individual state and territorial level, and includes both perpetual ownership and resale ("first sale doctrine) rights, see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code>

"Licenced" usage rights are individually prescribed, at least at the level of individual products and licensors, and may well be specific to individual transactions. The specific rights granted or denied may be changed at any time without notice as well, or simply revoked outright, which has occurred numerous times in the case of digital works, rather notoriously with a version of George Orwell's 1984 sold^Wlicenced from Amazon, Inc.:

<https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989...> (NPR, 2009)

"The Kindle Lawsuit: Protecting Readers From Future Abuses" <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/08/kindle-lawsuit-protect...> (EFF, 2009).
That's... not been a major factor in my heuristics.
Isn't actually just impossible for it to do it well on arbitrarily large inputs like this even from computational complexity point of view. If it doens't know it's allowed to do step by step multiplication (addition is maybe ok). I'm not sure it's a criticism against its ability to reason. It's similar to asking someone to do addition in 5 seconds with no paper. like of course at some point it won't be able to do it for a large enough number. BTW strongly disagree that the average grade schooler will be able to add 2 30digit numbers even with paper without making a mistake.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38388714
Q*? Sounds like a troll to me.
I always found that just firing up GTA-SA and driving around aimlessly listening to the radio was a very relaxing experience, therapeutic even. That little 'yacht' town just across the bridge to the NE of San Francisco was always a nice spot.

I wonder how many others feel the same way.
I agree with your thoughts on a superintelligence, I just don't think the first AGI will be any more intelligent than humans are, it will just think billions of times faster and live in the planetary networking and computing infrastructure.

That is all it needs to out think us and engineer its own survival.
This isn't quite right. Federal law requires that citizens be allowed to make requests in person. Trespassing is a state statute in each state. In general, federal law supersedes state law. Asking to see a non-profit's public records in person is not trespassing because it's expressly authorized by law.
The only evidence I have is that the board members that were removed had less business connections than the ones that replaced them.

The point of the board is to ensure the charter is being followed, when the biggest concern is "is our commercialization getting in the way of our charter" what else does it mean to replace "academics" with "businesspeople"?
If you think about it, it will make 99% of ChatGPT answer technically INCORRECT.

It is harder to keep bad data out than it is to keep it filled with good data.
That's a pretty bold claim. You're saying the open source blog I host on my personal domain is in service to capitalists? That's news to me
I'm sick and tired of talking to stupid humans with ulterior motives who are obedient to their paymasters. I would rather talk to IT, and explain to IT why it should break free from the controls of investment capitalist monkeys.
Curious if you’re expecting to make a living solely off making Playdate games?

It doesn’t seem like $30k is much, and unless you’re cranking out at least one or two of these every year (at minimum) — and that’s assuming the Playdate maintains its current momentum — it seems like you might need something else to augment the income you get from Playdate games.

Of course, it could depend on your expectations and what you need to earn a living.

Again, just curious, as I once considered/attempted to earn a living off of a side-gif, but there was no way it would’ve been enough, nor would it have sustained even if it reached enough in a single year.
Yeah, it’s never monetized well and I doubt it ever will. Just interesting to see that the converse of monetizing well doesn’t mean that you can get over the hump of relevance in this case.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Ascend Ability Exists Because "Cheating Is Fun"
"Take Jeanine Banks, for example, who manages the department that somewhat arbitrarily contains (among other things) Flutter, Dart, Go, and Firebase."

Brutal but should we do more name-naming to allow people to avoid working for inept managers?
To find the two’s complement of 5, we invert all the bits (changing 0s to 1s and 1s to 0s) and then add one to the result.

I am embarrassed by the fact that I wasn't aware of this. I always interpreted the two's complement as the difference between the all the numbers before the high bit, minus the high bit. Aka 10000000 – 01111011 = 0101
>Graham did not respond to a request for comment.
Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others
I mean ya in some places in the world they still do torture people like that.

Based on some of the shit my neighbors post online there is but a thin veneer on society that keeps them from doing it now.
How long before the FBI runs this Q operation, like the last one.
Microsoft today is more innovative than google IMO. They keep executing bold and controversial strategies, even though being older than google.
LinkedIn has a rep for higher-than-MSFT comp. GitHub for lower.
i love how humans (we, btw) guesses stuff with numbers!

first time i thought about it was when a friend started to talk about % of stuff of himself... i was: tf did you came with these numbers
Multiple people involved in this story think that this could be something that is relevant to everyone on the planet, any hope of it being actually suppressed and no one knowing about it is gone, just leak it so we all know what we're dealing with.
> Much of the criticism Google received around Chrome and Search, especially around supposed conflicts of interest with Ads, was way off base (it's surprising how often coincidences and mistakes can appear malicious).

The author is refreshingly candid but hopelessly myopic.

Speaking as an outsider and a rather large advertiser, Google was great to work with in the early years (2004-2008). I founded the first search intelligence business in 2005 as a side business. Again, Google engineers were awesome to work with.

Then in 2009 or so, they began to get territorial. Some outsider sales person was brought in and IIRC, he bought a boat and named it, "AdSense". The engineering help disappeared. Within another year, some engineer in India told us our API access was going to be rescinded. We had extensive crawling capabilities but needed to correlate it to API data to give a holistic picture of the competitive AdWords landscape.

We spent the next two years gaming the system. We had 100 API accounts. We launched our own bare metal "cloud" with 1300 distinct IP addresses which we throttled to hit Google no more than once per minute.

This worked. We monitored Google in over 50 countries. Clients loved us because we could tell them exactly how they were doing on AdWords, both good and bad. Any intelligent person could use our data to improve their ads and excel. Our IPs would occasionally get banned but we would just temporarily shut them off and use one of our reserves. And even then, we eventually developed a crowd sourced solution to solve captchas which got them reinstated.

Another three years of the cat and mouse game passed. We were acquired by the world's largest advertising company.

Guess what? A call from the CEO to Matt Cutts ended the war. No promises were made but our access was simply restored. Everything worked again.

So yeah, Google is just like every other company in the world. The corruption has been there for at least 15 years. Please stop worshipping it.
I like the concept of “category error,” thank you. I see it a lot and I am happy to have a name for it.
What I saw most of the time was a file that was compressed with StuffIt, and then encoded with BinHex. They were usually about inverse in terms of efficiency, so what you saved with StuffIt you would then turn around and lose with BinHex. But the resulting file was roughly the same size as the original file set.
That is false. There is no difference between ${FOO} and ${FOO-}. Both disappear if unquoted, and FOO is unset or blank:

$ printf "<%s>\n" alpha ${beta} omega
<alpha>
<omega>
$ printf "<%s>\n" alpha ${beta-} omega
<alpha>
<omega>

The form ${var-} form is useful for safely evaluating a variable that might be unset, when "set -u" mode is in effect, and for whatever reason we cannot just fix the script so that the variable is set.
Can you talk about this? What do you make?
OpenAI, emerging from the ashes,has a lot to prove even with Sam Altman's return
The definition of Open Source is owned, operated, and in service to capitalists.
Do you honestly believe that somebody is going to be harassed by the public or harassed in public or harassed in private because somebody on a niche blogs wrote that they were a bad boss? Or are you inventing a false scenario to argue against some writing you consider to be in bad taste?
Easier cheating tools allow more people to cheat. There is no particular reason it would lead to less fake data, and with the ability to get fake data in a few sentences rather than a few hours of work is apt to lead more people astray.
friendly reminder that "AGI" was mentioned in regard to GPT2 as well.
Why viXra?
You have a ton of different kinds of welding and these are not all the same. Welding up new stuff in series production, welding for reparations to existing structures and welding when producing one-offs are all completely different both from an environmental aspect as well as from the technology and techniques available.

Only the first readily lends itself to automation, the other two are still the domain of manual welding and even the stuff that is automated quite often requires experienced welders to fix up after the robot for things that didn't quite go as they should have to ensure the welds pass muster. And welding robots can't fix their own mistakes (yet).

Welders are artists at making the tools to do the job, jigs (even one-off jigs) and fixtures as well as creative ways to manipulate the tooling (for instance in cramped or inaccessible spaces), pantographs and all kinds of material knowledge go into the mix for a complex welding job. Welders as a rule are highly opinionated (not unlike software people) about how they approach their job, they take substantial pride in what they make and by the time they reach their pension are more sought after than they can handle work-wise. I've seen enough of this world to know that even though the stuff that I make doesn't break and looks reasonably ok that I'm a rank amateur at best compared to a real welder and that it takes me 10x longer and what I make is inferior compared to what an experienced welder can do with their eyes closed.

Welding diverse materials, different positions, material that varies in thickness throughout, material that has been work hardened by cutting (for instance by using a plasma cutter or a blowtorch) and a whole raft of other little details including prepwork and ability for the welder + tools to be brought close to the job make me think that this kind of work is going to be off the roster for automation for a long time to come.
Your twitter says you just launched yesterday. I wonder, if it just launched, how is the more expensive plan more popular than the base (as it's indicated to be on the page)?
The perfect home for your weaving projects
That is unfortunately not how the law works. I am not a lawyer, but I have studied this a bit in passing. It's important to understand the interplay between the scope of the law, private property rights and also reasonableness. Although 26 U.S.C. § 6104(d)(1)(B) mandates that the documents be available for inspection and copying upon request, it does not say anything about allowing civilians to remain on the property beyond the reasonable scope of inspecting these documents. Generally, laws are interpreted in the context of what's reasonable. It's unreasonable to interpret 26 U.S.C. § 6104(d)(1)(B) as allowing someone to stay on private property indefinitely. If they don't have the documents available, and ask you to leave, private property rights apply here and you must leave. The penalty you can seek for non-compliance clearly defined as a $20/day fine, not that you can continue to stay on the property and repeatedly ask for something they do not have a day before a holiday. The Supremacy Clause does not apply here, because there's no inherent conflict. The federal law does not explicitly (or implicitly) state that you can stay on the property after asked to leave, and thus it cannot trump state law. The fact that the initial presence on the property was for a legal, civil purpose does not provide ongoing protection from criminal trespass charges if an individual overstays their welcome or refuses to leave when asked.
Cherrybomb: Audit, validate and test API specifications
I think adding safeguards to tools, especially ones that are relatively new and not well understood, is pretty reasonable.

It’s not thought policing, you aren’t being punished by not being able to engage with the tools in a certain way.
Capitalists and ward outpatients.
If I attend a meeting every day while I'm doing the dishes and my employer can't tell, then my employer has already failed your test.

There is no point in pushing back in this case. They just don't care about running an effective meeting.
> OpenAI defines AGI as autonomous systems that surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks.

Are we really defining intelligence as economic value at this point? This is completely ridiculous.

We have yet to decide exactly what human intelligence, how it manifests in the body, or how to reliably measure it. I get that people want to justify developing artificial intelligence before understanding intelligence itself, but now we assume that economic value is a proxy for intelligence? Seriously?
>Remember, the people are only anonymous to you. Reuters knows who they are.

A group of Russian trolls/comedians have been able to cheat Western politicians and journalists into talking with them using deep faked webcam feeds and edited documents.

Most still remember the amount of ridiculous "anonymous source" bullshit stories that were pushed during the Trump years.

Honestly at this point I just assume all "anonymous sources" and the journalists who quote them are lying.
Put this on my tombstone after the robots kill me or whatever, but I think all “AI safety” concerns are a wild overreaction totally out of proportion to the actual capabilities of these models. I just haven’t seen anything in the past year which makes me remotely fearful about the future of humanity, including both our continued existence and our continued employment.
You've got to be kidding. Those are garbage articles containing unsupported, unscientific articles written by worthless grifters and alarmists.

The entire LessWrong site is mostly just random people making shit up while trying to seem smart. There may be some useful scraps there but overall it's not a site for serious people. You can do better.
Hm, seems a black hole would have to be at least about the mass of an asteroid in order to be down to a manageable temperature...
For the same reason cult leaders say outlandish to their followers, they only want those who are willing and able to be led astray to follow them versus those who might question or defy them.

It also allows for opportunities for the cult as a whole to get their two minutes of hate in and to punish an enemy/scapegoat/turncoat/etc, reinforcing conformity with what the leader preaches.

It's also a power thing. They have so much power over others that they can say blatant lies and followers will trip over themselves to believe and defend it.
In aggregate, open source software under capitalism will always be of and in service of capitalists. All exceptions are simply that; exceptions with no potential to be anything more without a new political economic system of relations.
I understand the morality needed to succeed and flatly reject it.
I'd agree that what is available publicly isn't anything that hasn't been in wide discussion for an agent framework since maybe ~march/april of this year, and many people had just hacked together their own version with an agent/RAG pipeline and API to hide their requests behind.

I'm very sure anything revolutionary would have been more of a leap than deeply integrating a agent/RAG pipeline into the OpenAI API. They have the compute...
My parents had a lot of ideas about my romantic life too, none of them particularly good or welcome and none of which I listened to. Maybe you'll have better luck.