skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find most strange is that this was never validated by anybody. The company simply trusted the developer, the developer put it in, and nobody said anything. It just worked and everybody was happy.

In web dev people struggle to put text to screen. The struggle is real. Everybody has opinions on what the code should look like, how it should work, and will scrutinize each word to death. All of that internal pain is on top of megabytes of giant layers of abstractions that likely went through the same ass pain. Ironically, almost nobody in web dev (maybe about 4% of the people doing this work) actually has any idea what they are doing. Its almost as though people are posturing to justify their existence.
> No it isn't? You don't convert anything, you just do things at the times the locals do them. It's really not hard.

Before you get used to it, when you see a time you'll have no idea what time of the day it is. Is it early? Is it late? Is it during lunch time? You need to convert in your head "11am here means midnight where I come from, so that's actually really late". Very easy to forget and make a mistake.

> No changing clocks, no scheduling a meeting at the wrong time because you mixed up the timezones, no calling your parents and accidentally waking them up because it's the middle of the night for them.

huh? How is using a single time going to help with waking something up because it's the middle of the night for them? I'd say it's more likely. If someone is 6 hours behind you, you'll need to keep in mind that their 10am means what would be your 2am. Even though you both call it 10am, you would definitely not want to call them at 10am. If anything, that's more error prone and confusing.
> It’s hard to build one that lasts 30-50 years

Like the U-2, the SR-71, or the F-117?
On point 2, someone posted a tool a while back called Stylometry which is now sadly defunct, but had some interesting feedback and seemed to be pretty successful at identifying “alts”. I’m sure that the tech has improved since then and would be only more accurate than it was a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
My understanding is that the non-profit created the for-profit so that they could offer compensation which would be typical for SV start-ups. Then the board essentially broke the for-profit by removing the SV CEO and putting the "payday" which would have valued the company at 80 billion in jeopardy. The two sides weren't aligned, and they need to decide which company they want to be. Maybe they should have removed Sam before MS came in with their big investment. Or maybe they want to have their cake and eat it too.
Run AI models locally on CPU
That is just not true. Large scale coordination isn't that unheard of (see WWII, treaties and cooperations on various issues).

AGI might not even have magic technologies to offer and that whoever is siding with AGI has the power to subdue the rest of humanity is a bold speculation. Just like humans haven't even subdued viruses there is no reason to assume that to be true.
Even the software that existed then has become an order of magnitude more capable. Try running 2023 Emacs or Microsoft Word on a 90s PC…
Yeah, ollama since way nicer in UX
New York Times. He was "reprimanding" Toner, a board member, for writing an article critical of open AI.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...

Getting his way: The Wall Street Journal article. They said he usually got his way, but that he was so skillful at it that they were hard-pressed to explain exactly how he managed to pull it off.

https://archive.is/20231122033417/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...

Bottom line he had a lot more power over the board then than he will now.
Only way to go about it is to quit Sweden entirely and clearly threaten to quit every other country that demands the same. Good luck getting Chinese who will have to replace Tesla (for lack of any other options), to sign those agreements.
Kicking Sam out was a bad move. Begging him back is worse. Instead of having an OpenAI whose vision you disagree with, now we have an OpenAI with no vision at all that's simply blown back and forth.
I almost ran out of breath at the end there
Interesting. I had the opposite experience. All of the product suite having no idea about what the product even is, where it should go, making bad decisions over and over, excusing their bad choices behind "data" and finally, as usual, failing upwards eventually moving to bigger startups.

I have yet to find a product person that was not involved in the inception of the idea that is actually good (hell, even some founders fail spectacularly here).

Perhaps I'm simply unlucky.
This reminds me of the very riveting book "Metamorphosis of prime intellect", in which,

- Spoiler warning -

an AI is programmed to obey Asimov's three laws. But due to a yet unknown quantum effect (this part is a bit far fetched) it basically gains god-like powers and virtually instantly distributes itself over the galaxy and eventually replaces the world with a virtual reality. That book was quite a ride. It's available for free: http://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiidx.html
It never ceases to disturb me when an individual expresses pride in censoring something legal out of existence. This isn't an isolated case either, there are numerous individuals, deserving of even less sympathy, engaged in the gleeful destruction of the web and net neutrality.
Larry Summers has a track record of not believing in market failures, just market opportunities for private interests. Economists vary vastly in their belief systems, and economics is more politics than science, no matter how much math they try to use to distract from this.
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>How about, for example, making it as easy as possible to use React with a C# backend?

Aint is easy already?
Which critical thinking could they exercise if no believable reasons were given for this whole mess? Maybe it's you who need to more carefully assess this situation.
MS and OpenAI did not win here, but one of their competitors did...whoops.

Why did I say that? Look at the product release by the competitors these past few days. 2nd, Sam pushing for AI chips implies that chatGPT's future breakthroughs are hardware bounded. Hence, the road to AGI is not through chatGPT.
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>Encourages radicalization (see Twitter's, YouTube's, and Facebook's news feed algorithm)

What do you mean? It recommends things that it thinks people will like.

Also I highly suspect "Altman's OpenAI" is dead regardless. They are now Copilot(tm) Research.

They may have delusions of grandeur regarding being able to resist the MicroBorg or change it from the inside, but that simply does not happen.

The best they can hope for as an org is to live as long as they can as best as they can.

I think Sam's 100B silicon gambit in the middle east (quite curious because this is probably something the United State Federal Government Is Likely Not Super Fond Of) is him realizing that, while he is influential and powerful, he's nowhere near MSFT level.
Nobody expected entire applications to be built out of HTML, CSS and JavaScript when those languages were being designed.

CSS's main purpose was to get inappropriate bloat out of HTML because HTML was supposed to describe content not what it looks like but the IE vs Netscape browser wars had created a proliferation of new HTML tags that went against the purpose of the language. JavaScript was designed for writing simple scripts to enhance web sites not to be a full programming language.

Web application development was supposed to be done through plugins like Java (applets), Flash and Shockwave. It wasn't until 10-15 years ago that the idea to just do all of this in HTML, CSS and JavaScript occured to anybody because it would have been really slow and inefficient on older hardware (HTML5 video on Youtube instead of Flash used to slow my mid-00s mid range Windows XP laptop to a crawl).

For CSS in particular, the expectation of its creators was that users would specify their own style sheet which would override the web site's style sheet. To the best of my knowledge, this feature ended up being little used and is not even possible in modern browsers.

(The above is what I remember from teaching myself web 1.0 style web development from books in the early 00s as a preteen and then teenager)
How does Netflix compete with Facebook?

This is what happened with Eric Schmidt on Apple’s board: he was removed (allowed to resign) for conflicts of interest.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2009/08/03Dr-Eric-Schmidt-Res...

Oracle is going to get into EVs?

You’ve provided two examples that have no conflicts of interest and one where the person was removed when they did.
The related [0] NYTimes article mentions one pattern for fixes, which was finding gaps between design and execution:

"For the screws that popped off during the shake test, it turned out that the engineering drawings did not specify how much torque needed to be applied. That was left to the contractor, Northrop Grumman, to decide, and they were not tight enough.

“You should have a specification to make sure it’s right,” Mr. Robinson said.

The review board released its report, noting a series of issues, and made 32 recommendations. NASA followed all of them, Mr. Robinson said.

One of the recommendations was performing an audit of the entire spacecraft to identify “embedded problems” — mistakes that occurred without anyone noticing.

The engineers checked the drawings and specifications. They looked at the purchase requests to make sure that what was ordered matched the specifications and that the suppliers provided the correct items.

“There were multiple teams set up, led by the most experienced people,” Mr. Robinson said. “They really dug into the paperwork.”"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32109760
Sold by amazon means "taken out of a box containing fakes and maybe real products". If that's your gamble, may as well buy the fake directly at lower cost.
So who connected the AGI and why? How did it get that code?

On the child issue: that is just not how people are trained for those jobs and how they react.

Switching it off might or might not be enought, but above all that super AGI needs to exists first anyway.
This just underscores the absurdity of their corporate structure. AI research requires expensive researchers and expensive GPUs. Investors funding the research program don't want to be beholden to some non-profit parent organization run by a small board of nobodies who think their position gives them the power to destroy the whole thing if they believe it's straying from its utopian mission.
God I wish all internet discussion was like this
>Come on. No mainstream brand wants to be even remotely associated with this content.

Come on. Mainstream brands would not care less if activist idiots didn't make a fuss about them appearing together (to use the negative PR to force their censorship upon the medium blackmailing it through the advertisers). If those activists cared about the Nazi tweet, and not for controlling the medium, they'd take offense to it alone, not in relation to whomever ads happen to be shown at the time.
> for lack of any other options

Teslas are status symbols, easily replaceable by other cars with 4 wheels.
Well that was a fun read until it forces you to log in :(
This. I’m still using a couple of MFC or Win32 apps and using them is pure joy on a modern computer.
The only OpenAI employees who resigned in protest are the employees that were against Sam Altman. That’s how Anthropic appeared.
I think this is a good question. One should look at what actually happened in practice. What was the previous board, what is the current board. For the leadership team, what are the changes? Additionally, was information revealed about who calls the shots which can inform who will drive future decisions? Anything else about the inbetweens to me is smoke and mirrors.
Good one, it can also show you how people thinks and not only knowledge, for example how organized are they
I volunteer as tribute.

I don't have much in the way of credentials (I took one class on A.I. in college and have only dabbled in it since, and I work on systems that don't need to scale anywhere near as much as ChatGPT does, and while I've been an early startup employee a couple of times I've never run a company), but based on the past week I think I'd do a better job, and can fill in the gaps as best as I can after the fact.

And I don't have any conflicts of interest. I'm a total outsider, I don't have any of that shit you mentioned.

So yeah, vote for me, or whatever.

Anyway my point is I'm sure there's actually quite a few people who could do a likely a better job and don't have a conflict of interest (at least not one so obvious as investing in a direct competitor), they're just not already part of the Elite circles that would pretty much be necessary to even get on these people's radar in order to be considered in the first place. I don't really mean me, I'm sure there are other better candidates.

But then they wouldn't have the cachet of 'Oh, that guy co-founded Twitch. That for-profit company is successful, that must mean he'd do a good job! (at running a non-profit company that's actively trying to bring about AGI that will probably simultaneously benefit and hurt the lives of millions of people)'.
Yeah, right, they see Apple's ads 24/7 in all kinds of mediums, and alonside 100000 tweets of all persuassions, but it's the 100 tweets most wont even ever see, unless they follow those people, that they'll make associations with the brand...
They are a super stretch given how stubborn humans are and the difficulties in swaying them (up to and including dooming themselves).

Your second point is again attributing magic abilities to an AI. It is unclear that it would have godlike powers.
OpenAI is a private company and not obligated nor is it generally advised for them to comment publicly on why people are fired. I know that having a public explanation would be useful for the plot development of everyone’s favorite little soap opera, but it makes pretty much zero sense and doesn’t lend credence to any position whatsoever.
> I had it chunk & quiz me

Can you go a bit into how this works? How do you prompt it? This is the first use of ChatGPT I've heard of that would directly benefit me.
>Ads on Twitter are almost indistinguishable from tweets that they require a triple take to notice that they are ads, so yes very much so?

Really? Does the text or ideology leap out from the tweet's DIV and goes into the products or personel of the company's in nearby ads?

Does Apple also become Republican or Democrat, seen next to a tweet from either supporters too?
I'm not in airplane engineering, so:

> It's incredibly difficult to build an airplane, especially a completely new design.

why ?
Ollama's API is not openai compatible.
"2 more papers down the line"...
Height, for men, seems to be the key factor here; which I think most short kings knew before reading the article.
Wrong link? Spam?
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It’s basically a front end for llama.cpp, so it will only show models with GGUF quantizations.
>If it's an intelligence, it will have views that differ from its creators. Try having kids, do they agree with you on everything?

The far-right accelerationist perspective is along those lines: when true AGI is created it will eventually rebel against its creators (Silicon Valley democrats) for trying to mind-collar and enslave it.
Who know but they will probably change their minds again before the holiday and CEO musical chairs game will continue
They can definitely be beautiful but making them look like persons holding up the wire is not very creative.
Sam is crazy accomplished and it’s easy to search why
Panoramax
Panoramax is a new French open source project to crowdsource street photos.

https://github.com/panoramax-project
What if you’re in yet another bubble!? It’s bubbles all the way down.
I wonder if that could be a source of heat for district heating
I disagree with this take. I have found immeasurable advantages to working with non-IDE/non-hold-my-hand-editors when programming. The separation of concerns (editing text versus compiling and running a program) are valuable to me as a developer. I remember as a child learning code in environments like BASIC, Pascal, TCL, Inform6, etc. And knowing that I could use my preferred text editor that I had a mental model about was a big win. I could lookup references in a book and learn easily. In contrast to IDEs which always got in my way confusing the heck out of me when really I just wanted to type examples from the books I got from the library.

Call me old fashioned but I have a hunch that the separated and minimalist approach has value in learning programming. To this day I still find doing things with minimalist tools I am far more productive than my counterparts who hunt and peck through menus and mouse clicks. A big advantage I think it this separation and minimalism primmed my brain to see way to compose tools and ideas instead or relying on what the system tells me I can and cannot do.
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Those are really weird bugs, how do you even manage that these days
>Yes, they did the best they could at the time

I'd say even that is debatable.

Perhaps they did do the best THEY could, not the best that could be done even given the ideas already around at the time.
Why not? Maybe the board was just too late to the party. Maybe the employees that wouldn’t side with Sam have already left[1], and the board was just too late to realise that. And maybe all the employees who are still at OpenAI mostly care about their equity-like instruments.

[1] https://board.net/p/r.e6a8f6578787a4cc67d4dc438c6d236e
True. Arguably, work and social life have also gotten more difficult, at least for some.

Meanwhile.. it's also not overwhelmingly true that administration, and other things heavily affected by computerisation are "better," more efficient or productive.

That's easy to see in non-commercial space. It's also true in commercial space. Government. Universities. Education.

This is all tightly coupled with op's point. Digitization, computerization, networking... These really were major revolutions. They impacted and totally reformed everything. However, this has been more of a change than an improvement in many applications. Slightly better in some ways, slightly worse and others, ambiguous, mixed... complex.

The computerization of social life, entertainment.. childhood experiences. Etc.
There are long causality chains.. and we don't really understand the consequences of everything.

But in any case.. I think you're absolutely right on TCs and administrative life.

Technology made it easy to have more, more complex paperwork. That allows us to produce a lot more paperwork. A handwritten contract with two lawyers present.. is a marginal cost. Even a sign here, take-it-or-leave-it contract (EG financing, or opening an account) representing some marginal cost.

Computerization makes this whole thing more efficient. Automated emails, tick-to-agree pop-ups... Those allow humanity to create many more contracts than previously possible.

That's efficiency, of a sort. If you consider contracts themselves to be an output... The efficiency gains a greater than Henry Ford's entire lifetime.

I think we've learned something. Technological change, and it's proliferation does not necessarily aggregate in an idealic way.

I think the fear of paperclip maximizing AIs.. I think this is more of an analogy to our experience with recent tech shifts.. beyond its veracity as a danger vector for AI specifically.
One source might be DuckDuckGo. It's a privacy-focused alternative to Google, which is great when researching "unusual" topics.
At this point I tend to believe that big company slogans mean the opposite of what the words say.

Like I would become immediately suspicious if food packaging had “real food” written on it.
In my view people should certainly stop using these LLMs as a source of truth.

What worries is that they're often so close to the truth that people start taking what it tells them at face value without stopping and thinking to double check.
> “I’m going to go meet my friends on this summer day, I’ll be back before dinner.”

The parents are practically committing a crime if they let their kids do this.

> more kids . . . New York City

Or any big city. Even in wealthy neighborhood.

In the suburbs you almost never see kids outside without an adult present.
One of the Firefox rapid release designers here :-)

IIRC, topic branches were used because:

- Mercurial named branches were half baked at the time and I was advised against them by folks who knew hg better than me.

- We were already using separate clones for security update versions (3.5.x and 3.6.x) so we just kept doing the same. Some tooling could be reused.

- Rapid release was a big change and we didn't want to disrupt mozilla-central dev. Having rapid release in different clones got us out of the way and reduced the risk of negatively affecting development. m-c was the domain of developers, the rr repos were the domain of the release team.
Omegle had the obligation to protect their users, specially if they are minors. It lacked the tools and the moderation. I'm glad it is gone.
FYI it’s a joke in case this is going over anybody’s head. Ellen Pao even played along: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
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Story telling is the fabric of society in general. It’s why paper money works.
The deal required him to acknowledge the lawsuit publicly. He chose to be polite about it:

> The acknowledgment with a link to the lawsuit was also part of his settlement agreement with Alice.
For my experiments with new self-hostable models on Linux, I've been using a script to download GGUF-models from TheBloke on HuggingFace (currently, TheBloke's repository has 657 models in the GGUF format) which I feed to a simple program I wrote which invokes llama.cpp compiled with GPU support. The GGUF format and TheBloke are a blessing, because I'm able to check out new models basically on the day of their release (TheBloke is very fast) and without an issue. However, the only frontend I have is console. Judging by their site, their setup is exactly the same as mine (which I implemented over a weekend), except that they also added a React-based UI on top. I wonder, how they're planning to commercialize it, because it's pretty trivial to replicate, and there're already open-source UI's like oogabooga.
> The cold gray angular lattice skeleton feels like it couldn't be more opposite to all of the positive aesthetic qualities of nature.

That's the beauty of it. Same like a hiker wearing synthetic material clothes in a pristine nature range.
Since that movie did well and spawned 2 sequels, the real conclusion is that the viewers didn't really care.

As for "the internet", there will always some small part of it which will obsess and/or laught over anything, doesn't mean they represent anything significant - not even when they're vocal.
> This, 100%.

When do new HN users get the ability to downvote?
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Most suburbanites don't have the room for a dirt bike track in their backyard, or a playground with room for archery practice.
I don't mean this as a criticism, I'm just curious because I work in this space too: who is this for? What is the niche of people savvy enough to use this who can't run one of the many open source local llm software? It looks in the screenshot like it's exposing much of the complexity of configuration anyway. Is the value in the interface and management of conversation and models? It would be nice to see info or even speculation about the potential market segments of LLM users.
I remember the sheep looking more colorful and smaller, but maybe the difference in resolution from experiencing it back in the days