skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear weapons are an existential threat - that's why there are layers of human due diligence. We don't just hook it up to automated systems. If we hook up an unpredictable, hard-to-debug technology to world-ending systems, it's not its fault, it's ours.

The AGI part is Elon being Elon, generating a lot of words to sound like he knows what he is talking about. He spends a lot of time thinking about this stuff when he is not busy posting horny teenager jokes on Twitter?
> he has as much say in the direction of the company as a random crackhead living on the BART train

He donated 8 figures to the nonprofit. So he deserves as much say in the direction as a random crackhead living on the BART train who donated $44M to the nonprofit.
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It is worth noting that the JPEG XL effort produced a nice new parallelism library called Highway. This library is powering not only JPEG XL but also Google's latest Gemma AI models.
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Where do you live? I'm in northeastern US and never heard anyone use crud like this.
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There is no reliable evidence that AGI is an existential threat, nor that it is even achievable within our lifetimes. Current OpenAI products are useful and technically impressive but no one has shown that they represent steps towards a true AGI.
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Indeed. It's more of an argument not to execute scripts downloaded from the web. Which is valid, but not the point of fortifying curl.
Thanks for the explanation - I was just wondering the exact same thing as the parent.
I'd love this to be true, and it might be for some specific well tested situations with a narrow set of data that you can be confident about. But that's a bit wishful, isn't it?
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)] Spanish American war?

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident ] Gulf of Tonkin?

The tail wagging the dog is as old as, well, government. Probably older. Nothing new under the sun, etc. etc.
In general pets can enrich a child's life in numerous ways not only horses
The public has no idea what non-profits are and a lot of things that people call 'profit seeking ventures' (ie. selling products) are done by many non-profits.
Perhaps you should update your priors about "emergent behavior" in GPT3+: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004
You're just highlighting the issue. Nobody can agree on the definition of AGI. The most people would agree that being able to design, build, and launch rockets is definitely _not_ the definition. The fact that M$ has such a stronghold in OpenAI means that they won't declare anything as AGI even if most people would say it is.
> Unless you're self-hosting on the same computer you're using, a web app is, by definition, software as a service.

This seems extremely arbitrary and seems to assume some implicit definitions that are not common, and in fact are the opposite of what I've heard used.

IME software as a service generally speaking means somebody else is doing all the hosting and you as an end user just point your browser to it or in some cases install a local app (and often you put in your credit card and pay a monthly subscription). Self-hosting means you do all that hosting yourself. I've never seen something marketed as SaaS that expected you to host the server-side yourself, but I'd be happy to hear of an example.

> I promise, everyone, it is very legal and very cool to just write applications that run without TCP roundtrips. I promise.

That's a hell of a strawman against an argument I see nobody making.
I think your last paragraph is correct, but the statement in the article is referring to the specific 2D 2-body example given, and its original phrasing is also correct. Translation, rotation, and time-shifting are transformations (matrices), not quantities. Horizontal, vertical, and angular (2D) momentum are scalars. The article is saying that if you take the action potential given in the example, there exist scalar quantities (which we call horizontal momentum, vertical momentum, and angular momentum) that remain constant regardless of any horizontal, vertical, or rotational transformation of the coordinate system used to measure the 2-body problem.
Notably, these web apps will "continue to be built directly on WebKit and its security architecture", so a progressive app added to the Home Screen can't for example run on a Chrome engine.
Won't less workers also mean less consumers therefore less demands for goods and sdervices?

People keep saying how the declining demographics will mean the workers have more leverage but when will that come? As currently I'm struggling to find a job and a recruiter who rejected me just told me they have huge supply of "strong candidates" and they don't need to compromise anymore on offering WFH or accepting only English speaking candidates.

Maybe by the time I retire I can see that leverage?
Same.

A hard fact to digest is that if you have a website like this, content might not come as often as an audience expects.

Which nowadays doesn't work, as people are content crackheads, quality isn't that important anymore.

This article is just perfectly written, and the image at the end... nobody will read this and regret it later, but it is a story that doesn't happen every single day.
Hi! Charles has a great article about why it's better to use generators over async/await:

https://frontside.com/blog/2023-12-11-await-event-horizon/

There are real benefits to using generators over async/await so I would encourage everyone to learn more about them and their benefits.
Because of Twitter's amazing new UI I have no idea what Sam is replying to and what the context is, so the link by itself is meaningless.
The key thing is that the original OAI has no investors and they are not returning profits to people who put in a capital stake.

It is totally fine and common for non profits to sell things and reinvest as capital.
VPS = you get a virtual manchine which you administer yourself.

Managed servers are something different entirely.
Interesting! I was wondering what in the world you could do with a computer inside a toothbrush. From the product page[1]:

- Zone reminder for uncleaned aread

- Intense pressure reminder

- Some kind of tracking through an app

- Send each other stickers through the display

Typical case of very niche/almost useful feature set for smart devices.
If the zone tracking is accurate, it could potentially help a lot of people who have trouble concentrating on brushing. And some sort of reminder would be great I'm sure.

But bundling all that with an app and a big expensive display is just silly. An indicator LED and haptic feedback for over-bushed areas would be just as good (if not better) usability.

[1]https://store.evowera.com/products/planck-mini-for-adult-sma...
I can only speak for myself, but the few times I encountered xslt in the past it was in the context of bulky and verbose SOAP services. The syntax felt off to me (and still do).

I think this was at the time I was learning jquery and using css selector syntax for finding elements, and the difference between that and xpath was pretty stark.

I basically (probably with insufficient knowledge) filed xslt away with vb and tables for formatting as old, complex and soon to be replaced
It doesn't work like that. You can donate millions or invest millions in a company as the founder or lead investor. As soon as you leave the company as a board member, and are not a shareholder, your official relationship with the company is terminated.
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> Linux has always been about lightweight and a bundle only containing essential things.

I really don't think that's true. There have always been distros that are based on being tiny, of course, but I think most of the normal distros are concerned with hitting a happy medium of size and features. Otherwise I can't imagine why anything would be shipping GNOME or KDE over LXDE, or why libreoffice would be installed by default. So the question is more where LLMs are on cost/benefit... which granted, may not be there yet, but I could easily see it turning into a checkbox at install time - "this machine has 16+GB of RAM; add SomeLLM?"
If Musk donated money to a nonprofit and now the nonprofit is using the money to make profit, that sounds like he was defrauded to me. They took his money under false pretenses. Not a lawyer either, so it may turn out technically he does not have standing, but naively it sure looks like he has.

I don't understand the framing of your question, is it "since he donated, he didn't expect anything in return, so he is not harmed no matter what they do"? Kinda seems like people asking for donations should not lie about the reason for the donation, even if it is a donation.
A truly altruistic general intelligence would be deeply concerned for the future of humanity in the face of a devastating existential threat.

Tragically I, a mere Neanderthal with a primitive lizard brain, can only settle back and reach for the biggest ever bowl of popcorn.
I don't think the chance is 0%, but I do think that the chance is very, very close to 0%, at least if we're talking about it happening with current technology within the next hundred years or so.
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> VPs, CTOs, CEOs, and founders

but aren't these also managers?

> Maybe yours included
Not really, no. I'm a startup CTO and co-founder and don't consider myself a traditional manager. And, of course, my livelihood isn't endangered by a stranger on the internet ;)

It's not that I disagree, you know. It's the black-and-white smell the comment had. And at least for me it's not much about managing someone, but enabling someone. People are no machines. And most people aren't very good with the long term view in my experience. Be it less interest in what happens in the long run or just an attitude, that's what I noticed.
I'm glad I have the opportunity to reinforce the statements in this post. I can say without a doubt that starfx is an implementation that is as clean as it is powerful.

At Softwiz, we have important production modules, which aggregate real business data of significant volume, written with starfx.
I have followed the library's development since its inception, as it naturally follows from saga-query, providing a logical and seamless progression.

Personally, I take great pleasure in writing code using "thunks," and I believe the technique challenges you to be more imaginative without being restrictive.

For instance we can centralize the logic into thunks or apis, from different sources like IPC, workers, UI or the store itself. This allows us to combine or derive everything in an elegant manner.

The familiarity comes, I think, from the database metaphor where we are used to work with tables views and queries and Starfx translates those concepts in JavaScript.

From here roots a philosophy of handling effects, following the natural thought process for when we are managing data flows.
> Won't less workers also mean less consumers therefore less demands for goods and sdervices?

Longer convo for another thread, but TLDR yes, "structural decline." Trajectory is a function of how fast folks age out of the working population (retire or death), because cohorts coming up behind them keep shrinking.

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I live in Pittsburgh, and UPMC’s nonprofit status as they make billions in profits and pay their executives fortunes, is a running joke. With the hospitals and universities as the biggest employers and land owners here, a big chunk of the cities financial assets are exempt from contributing to the city budget.
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I spent a summer 'rescuing' stolen bikes from (mostly homeless) chopshops and under-bridge/in desert settlements, and only found one or two of more than 50 former bike owners who wanted their property back. The risk to me was too great, and I had dozens of high-dollar, spraypainted, butchered former nice bikes stuffed into my garage.

Never again.
I feel like you asked for clarification about the least unusual part of the quote.
Oh I hate that! It's far from a perfect solution - bags tear, you can't bag recyclables, sidewalk and park trash cans will always have loose trash - but it's huge and too many people don't know or care to do it.
> it keeps the intangible benefits it accrued by being ostensibly non-profit

but there would be no different to a for-profit entity right? i.e even for-profit entities get tax benefits if they convert their profits to intangibles

this is my thinking. Open AI non-profit gets donations, uses those donations to make a profit, converts this profit to intangibles to avoid paying taxes, and pumps these intangibles into the for-profit entity. based on your hypothesis open ai avoided taxes

but the same thing in a for-profit entity also avoids taxes, i.e for-profit entity uses investment to make a profit, converts this profit to intangibles to avoid paying taxes.

so I'm trying to understand how Open AI found a loop hole where if it went via the for-profit then it wouldn't have gotten the tax advantages it got from non-profit route
As someone who has managed keycloak in production for work, it's a solid solution but boy is it easy to make mistakes that cause difficult to debug issues. It's a headache that does what it says on the tin.
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I think the public is well aware that “non profit” is yet another scam that wealthy elites take advantage of, not available in the same way to the common citizen.
Actually NVIDIA just took over Saudi Aramco, but they are sharing 3rd position.
I didn't understand the purpose of this even after browsing the site.
TL;DR for those wondering, as I was, why Musk would have any kind of plausible claim against OpenAI, the main claim is breach of contract on the "Founding Documents" of OpenAI, Inc. (the original nonprofit funded by Musk).

> Plaintiff contributed tens of millions of dollars, provided integral advice on research directions, and played a key role in recruiting world-class talent to OpenAI, Inc. in exchange and as consideration for the Founding Agreement, namely, that: OpenAI, Inc. (a) would be a non-profit developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize shareholder profits; and (b) would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety considerations, and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial reasons. This Founding Agreement is memorialized in, among other places, OpenAI, Inc.’s founding Articles of Incorporation and in numerous written communications between Plaintiff and Defendants over a multi-year period [...]

> Defendants have breached the Founding Agreement in multiple separate and independent ways, including at least by: a. Licensing GPT-4, which Microsoft’s own scientists have written can “reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system,” exclusively to Microsoft, despite agreeing that OpenAI would develop AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for the private commercial gain of a for-profit company seeking to maximize shareholder profits, much less the largest corporation in the world. b. Failing to disclose to the public, among other things, details on GPT-4’s architecture, hardware, training method, and training computation, and further by erecting a “paywall” between the public and GPT-4, requiring per-token payment for usage, in order to advance Defendants and Microsoft’s own private commercial interests, despite agreeing that OpenAI’s technology would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety considerations. c. [...]

And what is he suing for?

> An order requiring that Defendants continue to follow OpenAI’s longstanding practice of making AI research and technology developed at OpenAI available to the public, and

> An order prohibiting Defendants from utilizing OpenAI, Inc. or its assets for the financial benefit of the individual Defendants, Microsoft, or any other particular person or entity;

> For a judicial determination that GPT-4 constitutes Artificial General Intelligence and is thereby outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft;

And some money, of course. And he requests a jury trial.
Do new building codes account for this? Even given the worse materials, I would expect a house built today to be much safer (from fire, hurricane, tornado, etc.) than one built 100 years ago.
> but it's also much less resilient during a house fire

Mass timber and other new engineered products should be good for this.
Officially, yes, but the whole situation with Altman's firing and rehiring showed that the donors can exert quite a bit of control if their interests are threatened.
why do people in our industry always make the assumption that everyone else are morons?

The populace understands what a non-profit is.
I don't think GPT3's "emergent behavior" was very surprising, it was a natural progression from GPT2, and the entire purpose of GPT3 was to test the assumptions about how much more performance you could gain by growing the size of the model. That isn't to say GPT3 isn't impressive, but its behavior was within the cone of anticipated possibilities.

Based on a similar understanding, the idea that transformer models will lead to AGI seems obviously incorrect, as impressive as they are, they are just statistical pattern matchers of tokens, not systems that understand the world from first principles. And just in case you're among those that believe "humans are just pattern matchers", that might be true, but humans are modeling the world based on real time integrated sensory input, not on statistical patterns of a selection of text posted online. There's simply no reason to believe that AGI can come out of that.
After WWII Europe was occupied by the allies on one side and the Soviet Union on the other side. It was called the cold war and peace was guaranteed by mutually assured nuclear destruction. Not by the European Union.
What benefits? What taxes?

Honestly it does not sound like anyone here knows the first thing about non-profits.

OAI did it because they want to raise capital so they can fund more towards building agi.
The conserved quantity is derived from Noether's theorem itself. One thing that is a bit hairy is that Noether's theorem only applies to a continuous, smooth (physical -> there is some wiggle room here) space.

When deriving the conservation of energy from Noether's theorem you basically say that your Lagrangian (which is just a set of equations that describes a physical system) is invariant over time. When you do that you automatically get that energy is conserved. Each invariant produces a conserved quantity as explained in parent comment when you apple a specific transformation that is supposed to not change the system (i.e remain invariant).

Now in doing this you're also invoking the principle of least action (by using Lagrangians to describe the state of a physical system) but that is a separate topic.
I certainly hope "turning the non-profit into an LLC" is slightly different legally.

If not, I certainly hope the courts establish a clear precedent so that The Red Cross can do an IPO. Or even better, the state SPCAs. "Our unique value proposition is that we can take anyone's dog away."