skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing, using electric appliances and vehicles means you can actually rely on more than one source of energy (including oil, using generators). A gas heater uses nothing but gas. An electric heat pump can be powered by anything that pushes electrons.
SBIRS is the upgrade, previously it was DSP, since the 70s.

https://missilethreat.csis.org/defsys/dsp/
If you're still bad at coding after 10 years, give up.

There are dozens of other things you might be great at, and every minute you're spent flogging the dead horse of becoming a coding genius, you're missing out on the opportunity to practice something you're really talented at.
No context was provided or mentioned. I personally don't find this opinion agreeable or interesting, just because the person saying it has money. As far as I can tell, they have no involvement with OpenAI, happy to be proven wrong.
Oh, I didn't see your post. It's wild how much difference timing and slightly different wording can make. I couldn't have predicted which one of these posts would take off honestly.
It's a bad idea to make yourself dependent on a new service from the outset.

They could have gone bankrupt, been sued into the ground, taken over by Microsoft...

Just look at the just because they fired their CEO.

Was the success based on GPT or the CEO?

The former is still their and didn't get inferior.

Slower growth doesn't mean shrinking
Check the difference between Sf mono and this, not worth 75$ usd
Are you speaking towards the employee or towards the quant firm? If the employee has no standing to claim value, then why does the underlying business get to?
Which reminds me, I really need to finish Person of Interest someday.
And the board was ridiculous thinking they could demote him and have him stick around. That was either weirdly short-sighted or strategic theater. I kind of think it might have been the former.
Policial moves are helped if there's some kind of spark to change the status quo.
I have spent time thinking about who would become the next CEO
and even without mushrooms my brain came up with a totally out
of context idea:

Bill Gates.

Microsoft is after all invested in OpenAI,
and Bill Gates has become "loved by all"
(who dont remember evil Gates of the yesteryears.

I am not saying it will happen, 99,999% it wont but still
he is well known and may be a good face to splash on top of
OpenAI.

After all he is one of the biggest charity guys now right?
Surely it will, but prob only Elon and a couple others will know about it
It's because it's golang and that's how they oninonatedly want it. (Seriously, the community is incredibly stubborn and controlling)
If this [1] works, why shouldn't locating mobile phones from space work?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fcc-aims-to-help...
What are the units on 1 in 75? People? Missions?

To compare with other launch methods, you'd need to use the same metric.

IIRC, Soyuz is actually more deadly, but it's been some time since I've seen the stats. Both Soyuz and the Space Shuttle are by far the most deadly form of transportation.
Yes? I agree, and don't see how what you've written either extends or contradicts what I wrote.
That’s a broad, uncharitable brush with which to paint everyone else. Maybe we need a razor: hesitate to attribute to sociopathy that which can reasonably be explained by a benign difference of opinion.
Thanks for the reference. My takeaway from reading up on him is, not very smart at all.
instead of speculating what Jewish people who are Republican or Democrat think of the ADL, couldn't we actually poll them?
They did a comparison with graphene particles of the same size and they were neutral to the biological structure in question, only polystyrene of that size would bind to interfere with normal cell function in vitro and mice.
It could also be cynicism and not naivete? It'd be pretty amazing if OpenAI actually wrested away control for the betterment of humanity. That'd be the good news of the decade... just hard to imagine in this world.
Will Sam and Greg now go and create NextStep?
(The OpenAI version)
I kept on re-reading the RSTS/E BASIC PLUS language manual until it made sense. I remember DIM statements being the hardest thing to figure out.
He was one of the founders according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
False:
Yannick edited with Inspected Element.

At the timestamp (around 18:11) you can see when he hovers over the CEO link, the bottom of the screen displays "https://openai.com/careers/backend-software-engineer-growth": https://youtu.be/YiS1cJU2zS8?feature=shared&t=1091

Also, there was no archive of the page if you search under the career prefix on the Web Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://openai.com/careers/*
A Theory on Why Sam Was Fired
I swapped my car for an electric cargo bike
I’m really hopeful about the higher density housing around transit. Vancouver’s housing crisis is always juxtaposed by so many derelict Vancouver Special homes just sitting around , and swathes of area just being unused
> Hype and announcements, sure, but this is the first time there's actually a product.

No, its not. Its just once the hype cycle dies down, we tend to stop calling the products of the last AI hype cycle "AI", we call them after the name of the more specific implementation technology (rules engines/expert systems being one of the older ones, for instance.)

And if this cycle hits a wall, maybe in 20 years we'll have LLMs and diffusion models, etc., embedded lots of places, but no one will call them alone "AI", and then the next hype cycle will have some new technology and we'll call that "AI" while the cycle is active...
I think you are missing the point, this is offered for perspective, not as a “take”.

I find this tweet insightful because it offered a perspective that I (and it seems like you also) don’t have which is helpful in comprehending the situation.

As a developer, I am not particularly invested nor excited by the announcements but I thought they were fine. I think things may be a bit overhyped but I also enjoyed their products for what they are as a consumer and subscriber.

With that said, to me, from the outside, things seemed to be going fine, maybe even great, over there. So while I understand the words in the reporting (“it’s a disagreement in direction”), I think I lack the perspective to actually understand what that entails, and I thought this was an insightful viewpoint to fill in the perspectives that I didn’t have.

The way this was handled still felt iffy to me but with the perspective I can at least imagine what may have drove people to want to take such drastic actions in the first place.
> Swapped: '/' and '\', '*' and '#'
First two problems are easily solved with money
To some extent, yes. They're mostly investing in it to use it's products in their own stuff, so they need models that are useful in the corporate world, not necessarily those models imbued with a deep and abiding love for humanity.
Exclusive license?
OpenAI's median salary of engineers is $900k. So yeah AI companies need money to be successful. Now if there is any way to generate billions of dollars per year long term without any profit objective, I will be happy to know.
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I wonder why there's so little interest in fixing all the footguns in C++.

But there is a lot of interest. CppCon has multiple talks on how the language is too complex and/or what paths could be taken to simply it.

I guess it doesn't matter much now since C++ is the new Fortran,…

C++ isn’t the new Fortran, it’s the new C. Fortran had ultimate primacy in the numerical code domain, C++ is used there too but almost everywhere else too.

… but there are so many little things they could fix with a -std= flag.

The problem is that any change to behavior will break code. And in the cost benefit analysis, making the language more accessible to potential new users doesn’t, and shouldn’t, take priority over current users. Now, there is a balance to strike, but simplifying C++ basically must be done through adding new features and interfaces.

Reaching the end of a function the should return a value but doesn't should be an error by default.

There are some nuance around this, but in the general compiler warnings/attributes and static analysis can do catch the cases of interest. Even if the language was changed to require this, I doubt implementations could actually check all code paths in every function.

char is 8 bits

Recommend using fixed width integer types instead?

require braces for if & for bodies

This isn’t a problem I see beginners usually having. But this is a style of code I’ve seen in many high profile code bases and it would be a . Anyway, aclang-tidy check is enough to enforce this.

make vector::operator[] range checked by default (and add an unchecked version)

The checked version already exists as .at(). It’s regrettably not the default, but again, changing such behavior would be far too inconvenient for the billions of lines of code out there.

I guess by the time you get to the point of proposing changes to C++ you have Stockholm syndrome.

There is a lot of behavior that experienced C++ developers simply get used to, e.g. std::map[]. However the reason for the lack of proposals for fixing basic problems is that they’re DOE and/or equivalent to choosing an ant-hill to die on.

I guess they did add string::starts_with at least. After like 30 years.

Utility functions are nice but they are hardly the most pressing issues facing C++ users.
https://aihorde.net/ is one that I've been running off and on.
In two decades of tech booms, when have we seen a huge company actually do what's good for society? Our economy and society elevates sociopathy by design.

The "difference of opinion" is a fundamental difference in ideology and motivations, not to mention day to day operating differences.
Nobody cares about making an AI with basic human survival skills. We could probably have a certified genius level AI that still couldn't do any of that because it lacks a meaningful physical body.

If we wanted to make that the goal instead of actual meaningful contributions to human society, we could probably achieve it, and it would be a big waste of time imo.
Keep in mind that the rest of the board members have ties to US intelligence. Something isn't right here.
There is a political economy as well as a technical aspect to this that present inherent issues. Even if we can address the former by say regime change, the latter issue remains: the domain is technical and cognitively demanding. Thus the practitioners will generally sound sane and rational (they are smart people but that is no guarantee of anything other than technical abilities) and non-technical policy types (like most of the remaining board members at openAI) are practically compelled to take policy positions based either on ‘abstract models’ (which may be incorrect) or as after the fact reaction to observation of the mechanisms (which may be too late).

The thought occurs that it is quite possible that just like humanity is really not ready (we remain concerned) to live with WMD technologies, it is possible that we have again stumbled on another technology that taxes our ethical, moral, educational, political, and economic understanding. We would be far less concerned if we were part of a civilization of generally thoughtful and responsible specimens but we’re not. This is a cynical appraisal of the situation, I realize, but tldr is “it is a systemic problem”.
A sizable portion of the HN bubble is wannabe grifters. They look up to successful grifters.
I wholly agree with this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314821
> But I guess what it comes down to is I don't think we can accurately predict the path of the transition, especially because it has already changed several times.

The schedule was pushed back. That's the only change. Could the schedule be pushed back again? Perhaps. But speculations about various other unspecified changes are entirely imagined and not based on the evidence.

> If you have an inside scoop on how this is unfolding inside Google, or have worked there in the past, then you'd be in a better position to know.

I'm a professional browser extension developer and have been watching this closely for quite some time, for obvious reasons.
Gardening leave leaves (pun intended :)) the possibility for the employee to leave with highly valuable acquired knowledge (trading strategies, algorightms, etc...) for a much higher salary and bonus than the gardening leave provides. Or maybe I am mis-understanding how gardening leave works? Thanks!
No hungarian language support, meh
Two interesting books about Unix might be interesting - one was written by Peter Salus almost 30 years ago and the other one was written in 2019 by Brian Kernighan for Unix' 50th anniversary:

Salus, Peter H. (1994). A Quarter Century of UNIX. Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-54777-1.

Kernighan, Brian W. (2019). UNIX: A History and a Memoir. Independently published. ISBN 978-1695978553.
If you presuppose that consciousness follows intelligence you end up in a philosophy that you rewrite endlessly. If you suppose the inverse relationship where consciousness is pre-existent and an intelligence becomes self-aware as a result then you instead embark on a spiritual quest.

The mind has the interesting property that as it cuts itself into pieces it hones itself sharper and sharper. This however is a painful way of life where joy and innocence are sacrificed for power and control.
> this is like complaining you don’t have privacy when turning on your house lights at night because optical satellites can see that there is light.

That scenario is also worrisome if the consequence of that observation becomes something like "Oh, the house of Citizen #DYSTO-48195812 had its lights on during the following intervals, click for footage and probable active occupants."

"Privacy" isn't about the raw mechanics of observation or single data-points, it's about capabilities and powers and how those might be abused by other humans.

> intercontinental ballistic missiles

Well, if allll someone needs is to detect giant missiles roaring into the edge of space on a pillar of fire, then we should be ultra-suspicious if they start building a system which goes beyond that into, say, following around the hot-spots of individual human heads.
Gps uses satellites, and basically the only high speed internet you can get without a house is starlink. Both get better with starship
Thinking you can develop AGI - if such a thing actually can exist - in an academic vacuum, and not by having your AI rubber meet the road through a plethora of real world
business use cases strikes me as extreme hubris.

… I guess that makes me a product person?
Statistics as defined by training data.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
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> Unification of residential zones into a single zone with (marginally) higher density, which could make it easier to further increase density in the future

Isn’t it going to be BC-wide (except for towns below 5,000 people, or where the vacancy rate is above 5%) that every lot will now “as of right” allow for a minimum of 3 dwelling units per lot, growing to 4 when the lot is a certain size, and then up to 6 if the lot is even larger?

To me that’s a big step up (3-6x current density!).
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But in addition to the problem of predicting the future that applies to any businesses assessment of what will best serve its future goals, the goals of a charitable nonprofit are often not things that are easily to measure achievement of or progress toward objectively, which makes some debates even fuzzier than they are in business organizations.
I've seen some discussion on HN in which people claimed that even really important engineers aren't -too- important and that Ilya is actually replaceable, using Apple's growth after Woz' departure as an example. But I don't think that's the best situation to compare this to. I think a much better one is John Carmack firing Romero from id Software after the release of Quake.

Some background: During a period of about 10 years, Carmack kept making massive graphics advances by pushing cutting-edge technology to the limit in ways nobody else had figured out, starting with smooth horizontal scrolling in Commander Keen, through Doom's pseudo-3D, through Quake's full 3D, to advances in the Quake sequels, Doom 3, etc. It's really no exaggeration to say that every new id game engine from 1991 to 1996 created a new gaming genre, and the engines after that pushed forward the state of the art. I don't think anybody who knows this history could argue that John Carmack was replaceable.

At the time, the rest of id knew this, which gave Carmack a lot of clout and eventually allowed him to fire co-founder John Romero. Romero was considered the kinda flamboyant, and omnipresent, public face of id -- he regularly went to cons, worked the press, played deathmatch tournaments, and so on (to be clear, he was a really talented level designer and programmer, among other things, I only want to point out that he was synonymous with id in the public eye). And what happened after the firing? Romero was given a ton of money and absurd publicity for new games ... and a few years later, it all went up in smoke and his new company folded, as he didn't end up making anything nearly as big as Doom or Quake. Meanwhile, id under Carmack kept cranking out hit after hit for years, essentially shrugging off Romero's firing like nothing happened.

The moral of the story to me is that, when your revenue massively grows for every bit of extra performance you extract from bleeding-edge technology, engineer expertise REALLY matters. In the '90s, every minor improvement in PC graphics quality translated to a giant bump in sales, and the same is true of LLM output quality today. So, just like Carmack ultimately turned out to be the absolute key driver behind id's growth, I think there's a pretty good chance it's going to turn out that Ilya plays the same role at OpenAI.
How many labor hours could it possibly take to assemble a car that costs $5,000 retail? Probably a lot less than a more expensive car, right?

$1000 in tariffs can pay an American factory worker’s total compensation for something like 15-20 hours. But you don’t even have to pay that wage when there’s Mexico.

Find me a top 20 vehicle that’s produced outside of NAFTA: https://www.kbb.com/best-cars/top-10-25-best-selling-cars-tr...

The Suzuki Samurai’s cult following only exists because it was a vehicle that was literally discontinued for slow sales. This example of a winning formula is from an entire brand that left the US market for being too far downmarket.

Cheap city cars struggle to survive and most have exited the US market. Recently discontinued models include the Chevy Spark/Aveo, Mazda2/Toyota iA, Mitsubishi Mirage, Honda Fit, and the list goes on.

The low cost of gas, low vehicle taxes, plentiful infrastructure for larger vehicles, the high profitability of financing, and high median wealth has pushed the US auto market upmarket. Brands who try to sell a utilitarian experience tend to get burned. Brands that sell financing reap the profits.
There are obviously similarities, but there are also important differences between SpaceX's solution and a conventional water deluge system.

The primary purpose of the water here is not to dampen the sound/energy, but to cool the metal plate below the rocket.
Ilya is pushing the unsafe AGI narrrative to stop public progress and make OpenAI more closed and intentionally slow to deliver. There are definitely people who are not sold by this.
No expert is going to suggest any normal car should operate for 26,000mi per oil change. Even modern synthetics and modern engines recommend 7,500 or so miles, and can often be stretched for a bit over 10,000mi, but 26,000mi as a normal interval is way beyond that.

My modern car recommends synthetic changes at 7,500 miles by the book. Sending off samples to the labs, it looked good at that point but started to get some bad degradation at about 11,000mi. It would be sludge a little after 15,000mi and would have probably destroyed the engine before 25,000mi
It’s more likely that Microsoft won’t sue at all because OpenAI hasn’t done anything to cause them to (when have you ever heard of a company suing another company over a change of leadership?) and it’s just some silly HN speculation that makes no sense.

Or that if Microsoft did sue (perhaps because something that happens in the near future violates their contracts) OpenAi just spends like 1% of their cash on legal fees. $100 million in legal fees is not an existential risk to companies who recently raised $10b.
Tone Policing is a type of ad hominem logical fallacy, as explained in the article.

If committing ad hominem logical fallacies is one of the rules of the forum, then this forum is a waste of time.

This thread has already been a complete waste of time.
So it isn't actually true that it is "constantly scanning every inch of the entire globe with IR cameras with missile/plane/boat/person(?) level resolution" then, or it is true and they know exactly where the plane went down they just don't tell anyone about it for some reason. Its either or.
He probably isn’t that bad. He just has imposter syndrome most likely… He is assuming people sit down and write things like web browsers in a single, linear sitting. You don’t write any nontrivial software easily if you’re doing something new. The decisions you need to make when developing real software or systems are numerous. Having been in the industry for a very long time and having worked with arguably some of the smartest people in the world, no one lives up the the romanticized “super cider genius” that solves all problems effortlessly in their first go. I am currently a researcher at MIT. I work with some of the most brilliant people out there and you’d be surprised what “simple” things or concepts they struggle with… Everything is simple when you know the answer, but try devising the answer to a truly original problem that hasn’t been breached yet and see how far you get. Even simple sorting algorithms, and basic data structures, were the product of research that took a long time. People didn’t just sit down one night and invent the quick sort in one go….
There is no board, only Ilya
Cameras are so cheap now, and prices will keep falling, that I think in the future pretty much everything will be filmed.

I'm not saying it's good or bad. But it is inevitable, and we need to adjust to that reality.
I don't like Uber but no one is taking them over for a long while. They are not profitable but they continue to raise prices and you'll see it soon. They are doing exactly what everyone predicted by getting everyone using the app and then raising prices that are more expensive than the taxis they replaced.
I found some
Hmm, is this why the press keep saying that microsoft was "blindsided" by the announcement? was it an attempt to cover this eventuality - because of conflict of interests? They also announced wanting to build their own AI chip lol
> I realize this is less than most,

It's not just that it's a bit less, it's like a few standard deviations less.

The average US car goes a hair over 13,000mi/yr.
"Hand-picked by so-and-so" used to have another name: "one of the good ole boys." Before that, in England, one was "sound." It's not a qualification, it's an anointing.

So we have "handing out money," OpenAI, a typical fusion outfit (breakeven next year, every year), and a cryptocurrency that has already been chased out of the one country that tried to adopt it.

I like Sam Altman and he seems to be a genuine person with laudable goals, but OpenAI is the only place where he really seemed to deliver, and even then there are a lot of people unhappy with the non-profit/private subsidiary surprise structure.