skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupidity is not defined by self-harming actions and beliefs - not sure where you're getting that from.

Stupidity is being presented with a problem and an associated set of information and being unable or less able than others are to find the solution. That's literally it.
"Just in time for the holiday season, fans can now buy Songcards for their friends and family."

What is a Songcard? Why should I gift one? This is more like an #ad than a substack blog post.
There has been massive progress in ML every year since 2013, partly due to better GPUs and lots of training data. Many are only taking notice now that it is in products but it wasn't that long ago there was skepticism on HN even when software like Codex existed in 2021.
Said purpose and values are nothing more than an attempted control lever for dark actors, very obviously. People / factions that gain handholds, which otherwise wouldn't exist, and exert control through social pressure nonsense that they don't believe in themselves. As can be extracted from modern street-brawl politics, which utilizes the same terminology to the same effect. And as can be inferred would be the case given OAI's novel and convoluted corporate structure as referenced to the importance of its tech.

We just witnessed the war for that power play out, partially. But don't worry, see next. Nothing is opaque about the appointment of Larry Summers. Very obviously, he's the government's seat on the board (see 'dark actors', now a little more into the light). Which is why I noted that the power competition only played out, partially. Altman is now unfireable, at least at this stage, and yet it would be irrational to think that this strategic mistake would inspire the most powerful actor to release its grip. The handhold has only been adjusted.
stock options were probably the focus rather than the salaries
The F-117s are technically still operational, even after their official retirement. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/retired-f-117-nighthaw...
From my very clueless perspective, it seems very possible to train an AI to use Blender to create images in a mostly unsupervised way.

So we could have something to convert AI-generated image output into 3D scenes without having to explicitly train the "creative" AI for that.

Probably much more viable, because the quantity of 3D models out in the wild is far far lower than that of bitmap images.
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I'm going to try that, but I have little hope since this happened ever since the drive was brand new.
Ok...

So the alternative to great man theory, in this case, is terrible man theory... I'm not following.

If focusing on control over openai, is great man theory... What's the contrary notion?
Gpt4all does
How do you do expensive bleeding edge research with no money? Sure you might get some grants in the millions but what if it takes billions. Now lets assume the research is no small feat, its not just a handful of individuals in a lab, we need to hire larger teams to make it happen. We have to pay for those individuals and their benefits.

My take is its not cheap to do what they are doing and adding a capped for-profit side is an interesting take. Afterall, OpenAI's mission clearly states that AGI is happening and if thats true, those profit caps are probably trivial to meet.
If it were so, people wouldn't take rent amount into consideration when renting an apartment.
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Like an AI then.
Depends how it's banned.

Some countries block exchanges within their jurisdiction from offering Monero, for example, but it can still get obtained via other means. Peer to peer, offshore exchanges, decentralised exchanges.

Owning it isn't a crime.
When the board was asked for details by the team, they said they
couldn’t provide a specific example because Sam had been so
deft—as if he had cast a magic spell on them.

I've read pg et al singing praises about Sam, about the magic he works. I saw the /results/ when he became Reddit's CEO for a few days ('a child's play' for him, by his own admission: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/comment/c... ). But his magic is done mostly behind-the-scenes and behind closed doors. To be the fly in the room to see the magic spells he casts, see the Sam Altman distortion field...
just redid the ux and making a new one, but here's a quick example: https://www.loom.com/share/fa84ba92d7144179ac17ece9bf7fbd99
When a politician wins with 98% of the vote do you A) think that person must be an incredible leader , or B) think something else is going on?

Only time will tell if this was a good or bad outcome, but for now the damage is done and OpenAI has a lot of trust rebuilding to do to shake off the reputation that it now has after this circus.
Ignoring kolhapur region of Maharashtra is another travesty. Not to forget, bhoot jholakia (ghost pepper) from Assam
For those looking for an open source alternative with Mac, Windows, Linux support check out GPT4All.io
Launched Playtoob, a simple YouTube companion, because my 5yo daughter loves it
Hi, this is a very simple Youtube playing companion, to watch what you actually choose. I'm a father and a developer. My children needed this. So, I'm lucky I could build it. This became also my preferred Youtube watching experience. Please try?
The problem is that business people have been just rubbing together libraries for decades making money (though maybe not the MOST) and will see these frameworks as a "simple" way to accelerate development, when in fact most of them are opinionated (and bad) ETL. Just put langchain together and it's done, right?

I went through building a RAG pipeline for a company and brought up at each stage how there's been no tuning, no efficacy testing for different scenarios, no testing of different chunking strategies, just the most basic work done and they released it almost immediately. Surprisingly to not much fan fare.

It doesn't really matter
Really like this concept. Difficult to tell what key events are missing from timeline, unless you already know.
This is closely related to the “hairy arm technique” (it’s known by multiple names). This is where some people find it is necessary to nitpick everything even when it is unnecessary and the solution is to purposely make one aspect of some plan obviously bad, dumb, or nonsensical.

The person will then insist that be removed, ensuring the actual underlying work isn’t impacted by their incessant pickiness.

I’ve had to use this technique myself a few times, mostly with micromanagers/agile fanatics/product owners and the like.
Another wonderful helper in Pry is `show-method`. If you type in `show-method Foo.bar`, it will pull up the source code for that method, or class, or whatever you pass to it. Great for looking something up when you don't understand what's going on behind the scenes, especially since it works on code from gems as well.
My first "This is bloatware!" moment was when Win98 integrated Internet Explorer into the desktop shell. I didn't knew what bloatware was until then.
Microsoft played almost no role in the process except to be a place for Sam and team to land.

What the process did shoe is if you plan to oust a popular CEO with a thriving company, you should actually have a good reason for it. It’s amazing how little thought seemingly went into it for them.
This was the kind of review I was talking about. But you should also look at the specific capacity you're after. IIRC for the 980 non pro the 1 TB is better than the smaller ones.
I believe fast.ai does this - they start with you using real tools and teach you the foundation as it becomes relevant
Could this be applied to other models like Llama2 or Mistral?
Honestly I feel that we will never be able to preemptively build safety without encountering the real risk or threat.

Incrementally improving AI capabilities is the only way to do that.
> What happens if a child uses a computer at a friend's house to go online and something bad happens?

The guardians of the child should be held responsible.
When a child goes to a friends house their friends parents become the guardians. You as a parent decide trust that their friends parents are suitable for looking after your child.

It's the same as if you go in to the shop. Your relying on the shop keeper to keep the store responsible ensuring its not dangerous to yourself. As with the library, the library is responsible.

You walk in to my house, trip up on some turned up carpet who's fault is it? Your's technically because you should of seen the risk. However it is mine for having an potential hazard.

I should of informed yourself, btw the carpet is unsafe. The parents should of educated the child that the internet is unsafe and that such acts of this can occur online. This isn't 2005 when the internet was new, this was 2014 when internet was fully blown.

It could be more education that parents require however the parents are or at least should take blame. It was a website on the internet, their daughter was 11.

Parents should of known that on the internet malicious content exists: as do noodie magazines exist on the top shelf of the news agents.

This case plays out like the one of the parents of Maddie. They went out for a drink, left their three year old alone in a vila in another country but it's not our fault for going for drinks.
So apparently, Sam Altman is so skilled he can cast magic spells on people? This just all adds credence to the fact he was fired because of a coup.
We by-and-large ignore a lot hypothetical (and non-hypothetical) risks, what I am missing is a sound argument why this one deserves particular attention vs the others. Otherwise, "just flip the switch" is a potential non-naive approach given limited resources.
Unfortunately the engineers aren’t usually the ones getting the praise but CEO or other singular figurehead.
Unfortunately I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Some people ARE allowed while others are not. Sadly it seems the most creative or involved people (devs, artists) are not while a PM is.
I didn’t claim employees were engaged in groupthink. I’m taking issue with the claim that because there is no public explanation, there must not be a good explanation.
Infact, as stated in the paper, this is bad news

> We therefore leave the attention layers untouched

Meaning, presumably, that the GPU memory remains the bottleneck

Flops really are quite cheap by now, e.g. vision inference chip ~$2/teraflop/s !!
I answered your comment above here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38377302
Maybe, personally I don't trust closed source apps like these for that reason.

And when I do try them, it's with Little Snitch blocking outgoing connections.
My kid doesn’t have the dexterity (and thus the patience) for it but his best friend is constantly trying to get him to make castles.

Because he’s not interested (and a little jealous I bet), he mentions they could 3d print castles easier (neither own one so I’m not sure it’s a valid argument).
Microsoft's bug bounty turns 10. Are these rewards making code more secure?
> The process has conclusively confirmed that OpenAI is in fact not open and that it is effectively controlled by Microsoft.

What leads you to make such a definitive statement? To me the process shows that Microsoft has no pull in OpenAI.
A Decennial Study of Social Media Reminiscing, Memories, and Nostalgia
Qless is a good language-agnostic queue system; its essentially a bunch of Lua that runs within your redis server(s), and then you have a client library in your language of choice (i know of at least ruby, python, nodejs and php libs for it) that calls to the Lua.

https://github.com/seomoz/qless Is the original project.
It seems you'd need to include the same key as you'd log in with. If you hash a UUID primary key then the same attack just requires changing the username as well as the password hash. Like, if I change withinboredom to projektfu with projektfu's password hash, I could log in and mess around, then change everything back.

All assuming database access but for some reason reading the database doesn't get me what I want. Perhaps this system is used to get a bearer token or session cookie for another system I can't access.
Or it's just hard no name a single example and it's more the sum of small manipulations.
> And I think for such an entity we may be closer to emerging than we like

Why are people talking about it as if it was a bad thing? If I listen to people everyone seems to be dissatisfied with their life as of now, due to work, politics, society and everything else. If AGI was to arrive it would potentially remove those frustrations, right.
Flying is dofferent from being operational in the military sense.

Still impressive that those bird are still airworzhy so.
QVPro? It's still on the internet! http://www.multimediaware.com/qv/
You just don't see many pickups at all in the UK or Europe, only really as obviously imported ones (Usually the really annoyingly big ones). Their roles are filled by various vans, small trucks or trailers. Probably an unsecured storage area would seem insane to most people from the UK unless you actually needed it for a trade
My take on this is that when AI gets the ability to manipulate matter, we get very unwanted results very quickly if we don't tame it preemptively. In other words, when it's not just about moving bits and language around, but interacting with the world and building tools, and self-replicating itself like a computer worm. That's concerning.

We need to sandbox AI, and build very good safe-guards so it can't escape that sandbox. Come to think of it: we can barely secure sandbox environments in computing, and there are documented cases of malware escaping a VM and contaminating the host.
Seriously? No rebuttal to my points, just dismissing me as a person? Edit: I don't mind if you insult me, as long as you back it up with facts. Like I did.

I really want that Azure information and whether prefilling works there as it does with Claude or not. Can you provide that at least before you walk away?
I am looking at solving this challenge in a specific way: using high-perf, GPU-accelerated HW simulators and ML algorithms to tune a new HW architecture automatically. Best ML HW => run on it the best ML models => produce new best HW (arch) => build new best HW => GOTO 10.

Reach out if you are interested in any way.
The environment in a small to medium company is much more homogenous than the general population.

When you see 95%+ consensus from 800 employees, that doesn't suggest tanks and police dogs intimidating people at the voting booth.
> From everything I can tell the people working at OpenAI have always cared more about advancing the space and building great products than "openeness" and "safe AGI".

Board member Helen Toner strongly criticized OpenAI for publicly releasing it's GPT when it did and not keeping it closed for longer. That would seem to be working against openness for many people, but others would see it as working towards safe AI.

The thing is, people have radically different ideas about what openness and safe mean. There's a lot of talk about whether or not OpenAI stuck with it's stated purpose, but there's no consensus on what that purpose actually means in practice.
Or he is great in manipulating people so it's hard to point at a single proving example
Or different suburbs than you’re used to. The ones nearest to where I live in DC are more urban than the California suburbs I grew up in (which were by no means rural) but they were designed without sidewalks or direct routes so kids need to be comfortable biking in the street with huge SUVs and pickups passing a foot away at 40mph – unsurprisingly they don’t and that’s probably the right call because multiple times a year someone in those safe suburbs is killed at a place where their city felt street parking was more important than sidewalks.
Comparing pain isn't a good thing, my friend. A person can still drown in a puddle while someone else drowns in the sea. Your pain is valid and matters just as much as theirs. Good luck to you. Take care of yourself. Look into spoon theory.
A CEO is not a researcher. A researcher can be a CEO but in doing so stops being a researcher.

Maybe (almost certainly) Sam is not a savior/hero, but he doesn't need to be a savior/hero. He just needs to gather more support than the opposition (the now previous board). And even if you don't know any details of this story, enough insiders who know more than any of us of what happens inside oai - including hundred of researchers - decided to support the "savior/hero". It's less about Sam and more about an incompetent board. Some of those board members are top researchers. And they are now on the losing camp.
What this proves is that OpenAI interests are now entrenched with profit.

I’m assuming most of the researchers there probably realize there is a loooot of money to be made and they have to optimize for that.

They are deffo pushing the frontier of AI.

However I wish OpenAI doesn’t get to AGI first.

I don’t think it will be the best for all of humanity.

I’m scared.
This looks great!

If you're looking to do the same with open source code, you could likely run Ollama and a UI.

https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama
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https://github.com/ollama-webui/ollama-webui
It turned out to be more like 48 hours but it was super cool!
And yet here we are with a result that not only runs counter to your premise but will taught as an example of what not to do in business.
Sure, axioms are the basis of our abstract thinking. But simply beeing aware of that basis allows you to change your perspective/abstraction towards stuff.

You dont have just one body of beliefs, you try to have a qualified take on all of them. This is where your question revolves around. Whats "a body of beliefs"? And is it open or closed?

Its the difference between aproaching realitiy heuristically (and never reaching a final answer, thus constantly revising your thinking) and just picking one set of beliefs/axioms/ideology and call it holistic, like religion does.

Its the way of the sceptic and imho the only way we should think ... or at least be aware of the heuristic nature of thinking.
Is this similar to what iOS 17 uses for its new autocomplete?
UK watchdog threatens enforcement action over ad cookies
Depends if he was entirely candid about which spells he was casting on them I suppose.
No the board is just one instance. It doesn’t and shouldn’t have absolute power. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

There ist the board the investors the employees the senior management.

All other parties aligned against it and thus it couldn’t act. If only Sam would have rebelled. Or even just Sam and the investors (without the employees) nothing would have happened.
So Altman started it and ended up winning it, clearly his coup. Sad how employees were duped into standing behind him.
The alternative for the toxic teratogenic heavy metal that is depleted uranium is the toxic teratogenic heavy metal that is lead.

Banning depleted uranium doesn’t solve anything.
I’m always on the lookout for chícharones cooked in a healthy fat, but I’ve never found them cooked in anything but vegetable oils.
We (my neighbors and I) had to institute a rule that if the gate is shut no knocking on our door because all the kids were running around knocking on each others doors so much. No one could get a meal in or sleep in on the weekend past 8.

And I live in Chicago.
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It doesn't happen daily, does it? This one was a one in several thousand years event.
POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES (2009)
The silicon valley/startups/VC tribe, and they favour Twitter because 1. that's what their friends use and 2. they like Elon Musk, they want to be like him.
Not surprised though, with AMD being able to patch the Linux kernel and scheduler to its liking in order to squeeze out the maximum performance for it's architecture, versus depending on Microsoft to have the good will to figure it out on their own dime.

I'd be curious if the businesses buying these $20k+, 96-core, HEDT workstations actually do run Windows on them in order for this to be that big of a problem for Microsoft worth addressing, or if it's Linux all the way anyway for them so Windows isn't even on the radar.

Anyone here in the know?

Also, obligatory: "But can it run Crysis?" (in software render)
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375239
Interesting, I always thought that research and startups are very similar. Where you have something (product/research-idea) which you think is novel and try to sell it (journals/customers).

The management skills which you potentiated differentiated the success of the two firms. I can see how the lack of this might be wildly spread out in academia.
Fantastic read, I’ve done some work adjacent to this for real life mapping and coming up with clean algorithms for this stuff is so satisfying. This was particularly well explained
It doesn’t need to have magic technology, just access to critical pieces of software it hides in/merge with.

See how quite a few people reacted when Replika was nerfed. Imagine what happens when more important pieces of software are supposed to be turned off to eliminate a rouge AGI. (Pretty many who argue against AGI danger will be the first to argue against it.)

Have we even managed to eliminate all the dumb computer viruses from the world?
People have been using GPU + DMA for low latency / real-time / high compute intensity applications for some time (using them for adaptive optics of all things). My PhD student's been cranking it to 100/200/400G, with 'just' DPDK, gpudev, and persistent cuda kernels..

Depends on the application, batching policy, compute intensity, etc. But you can put 8 NICs and 8 GPUs in one node (and have them communicate through nvlink, so huge intergpu bandwidth!) which I can't for CPUs. You can maybe also get some unobtainium A100X or CX7+H100 to skimp on PCIe if you're well funded...
They're still operational systems in the military sense, just no longer front line combat assets. They've been relegated to R&D & training.
I honestly have a really hard time believing that the reason newspapers are so expensive to run these days is due to web hosting costs—I would imagine that most of their budget is spent on staffing (though I couldn't find a budget breakdown with a quick search, so I'm only guessing here).

As a side question: what are you reading about that independent blogs consistently offer the same quality of reporting as major news organizations?
Back in the day I used Linux for rendering my Blender animations because my tests had shown it was 10% faster than the same machine running Windows 10. With render times of more than 8 days this quickly paid off.
Reminder that lying to law enforcement is a federal crime. If one of the board members said something to the Government that they can prove is a lie, they’re likely criminally liable. The mere fact that they were talking to law enforcement at all would indicate they did not have any sort of counsel in the loop which is a tragedy in and of itself.
The title is an allegation.
When Twitter first came out, I thought it would be RSS for the masses. The character limit made it useless for conveying anything but a headline, so that's what it would be used for: a headline with a link pointing to content elsewhere. People wouldn't consume content on Twitter, they'd find content on Twitter.

Alas, i was very wrong.
In my opinion, a living creature is more than just an input and output mechanism. If I were to think up one way to define consciousness, it would be that it provides output even in the absence of inputs.