skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
personally, it comes from spending too much time on IRC back in the day and now thinking it's normal not to capitalize ;-) a bit of a stylistic choice

but over time I've become accustomed to capitalizing a bit more often and it's become sort of random. I actually have auto-capitalization turned off on my phone
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312704
My point is that the LLM is the result of the training. It is not what is doing the training. Like a program is the result of coding. A program doesn’t itself perform the coding. An LLM being created by a training process is a different mode of operation than using the resulting LLM to generate content.
It's a satire site.
Finally some non-Elon-related drama in tech happening.
The reduction in time, inconvenience, and headache going from ICE to EV is pretty amazing. I'll basically never have to go to another gas station, ever again! No more oil changes. My last ICE car? Toyota Corolla. No contest in convenience and reliability.
One "person familiar" is inappropriate sourcing for something so consequential. Not a good look for Axios.
Oh that’s an interesting source I haven’t considered. It is rather stylistic.
So you know that they are rule and norm breakers, no rule too tiny to be broken and skipped in the name of productivity/health/insert-hot-thing-of-the-day
Ooof, I would sell personally unless they manage to seize control of OpenAI by Monday.
> In July, a mid-air brawl between passengers caused one flight to make a landing 700 miles away from its intended destination.
Url changed from https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/1723966761962520824, which points to this.

I'm not going to change the title because this entire thread was determined by it.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess nobody knows it's a satire site.
"I didn't lie, I was just hallucinating" repeated Sam while being exited from the building.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic. MS has been sued for bribery and kickbacks and has paid a sizable fine to settle (including a criminal fine) with the US Justice Department.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-settlement/micr...
Both, you can't lose!
Microsoft has a "Cloud + AI" division [1]. I wouldn't be surprised to see Sam Altman at or near the top of that organization come Monday.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_engineering_groups#C...
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312704
Not trying to pick a fight here, just want to understand the truth. Is it possible that millennials are bombarded by internet and media that’s designed to keep your attention and entertain you, such that millennials are not focusing on how to earn a better living or increasing their skill set during a time in their lives when it matters most? The amount of information we have at our disposal is incredibly more accessible than it was for boomers in their 30s, for better or for worse.
Mira wasn't on the board, but if they were concerned about her they wouldn't have made her interim CEO.
Considering the timing around APEC I think it's quite reasonable to suspect he met with high-ranking officials of some "hostile" government and made some promises or deals that the board was very unhappy with or that may have even veered into national security concerns.
That does sound like loony tunes. If the board elects itself then I think it is a very very bad arrangement for something as important as OpenAI.
Maybe auto-correction is off because you need to type too much acroynms and jargons and auto-correction is annoying?
Greg adding “safe” in his statement compared to the board’s message points at a security reason (presumably sharing with the CIA who’s spending a lot of time asking specific questions about bioweapons).
So does Sam still have the little backpack that self-destructs ChatGPT?
I don’t think you can conclude that the ship is sinking per say, rather those at the helm are being changed.
I'm impressed by how good he is at failing upwards.
Please, everybody involved knows chatgpt is nowhere close to agi. There is plenty of money to be made even for the stochastic parrot that it is.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312704
a habit of a certain era of internet kids.
Microsoft (with thousands of lawyers on staff) invests $10B in a company and has no power or leverage over the decisions of a non-profit board headed by several names no one has heard of.

Come on. No way Microsoft’s team does a deal like that with 0 power or knowledge in a situation like this. That’s ludicrous.

Edit: the only case I can see for MSFT being truly blindsided is as follows. Elon is behind it. Sam and Elon have their breakup. Sam seems to win. They close the deal with MSFT, all is good. But Elon is intimately familiar with the corporate structure and all moves made historically, maybe even has some evidence of wrong-doing. There is probably only 1 person in the valley that could pressure the non profit to oust Sam (and by extension Greg) AND provide the financial/legal/power backing to see it through. It takes a lot money and influence to do this from the outside. That is really the only scenario I could see MSFT truly being blindsided for getting out-maneuvered by a dinky non-profit board.
I think those are already posted 100 times on the main thread, and discussed in detail. None of that is new so can't be the reason for something like this.
Well - that could be one way of looking at it...

But on other other side of a hypothetical situation spectrum, it could also mean something like "Our agreement with OpenAI provides us with robust fallback access to Source Code, Training recipes and Model data in escrow should a particular trigger situation happen."
Thanksgiving firings mean fewer end-of-year bonuses and also peace of mind to the admin and legal teams.
Given the way the board announcement ended on the commitment to the original charter of AI for everyone and the way this mention of safety is being thrown in, I suspect it may have been strong disagreements over continuing to be closed with research in the name of safety or open with the research community in the sake of advancement for all.
custom layer

Tracing is extremely opinionated in the name of performance. In practice this means you can end up in a position where you've got to take some huge chunk of code to change a small part.

Prometheus metrics

Prometheus should handle OT, no?
> I am not even sure of who really has control over things.

Honestly, this is the big problem with Big Non Profit (tm). The entire structure of non-profits is really meant for ladies clubs, Rotary groups, and your church down the street, not openai and ikea.
> The Open AI board letter, representing just 4 people, screams butt hurt and personal disagreements.

"screams butt hurt"? the board put out a blog post saying the CEO had lied so badly they'd insta-sacked him.
non-Elon-related so far
https://www.monkeybrains.net/ probably can help you.
Back when this plan was publicized, you could legally own an AR-15 in New Zealand without much trouble.

It's still the case for bolt- and lever-action rifles and similar stuff.
That's what I thought.

OpenAI's statement implies he was aware of the demotion... but his statement seems to imply he wasn't.

I guess the most likely situation is that they put out the press release, told him (or vice versa) and it took him a bit to decide to quit.
companies will just go to japan where its legal
Why is the site not loading? I keep spamming F5 every 1-2 seconds and its not loading..
Yes, but you need 2 to start ($100), that's the cheaper version of the MOCA adapters (the high use cost $80/each) that's just one room. It's an extra $50/$80 per room. If you're only looking for one connection, MOCA seems alright, but if it's going to be multiple rooms, it's better (and cleaner) to just do the in-wall wiring.

These prices are also recently reduced. Without them you're looking at $150/170 a pair depending on the version you buy.

https://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-MoCA-Network-Adapter-Ethern...
> Why would he recuse himself?

Usually mandatory for decisions about a board member for them to be recused. That there is an overwhelming potential for conflict between personal interest and the firm’s is pretty clear in that case.
Well, technically is still bash who does the tab-completion, flatpak just provides a helper.

Try tab-completion under pure sh or powershell
Thermonuclear winter is more likely at this point. 4 AI safety believers that formed a board majority just got spooked.
Claude is a drop in replacement for most use cases. You'll be fine.
Not sure why you were downvoted. It is very hard to understand who really has power at OpenAI, and as of now half of the board consists of people whose biggest life accomplishment is somehow getting on the board.
>$0, so far

>$0, so far

Come now, amortize what the eventual service costs will be...
Not really, even in the Midwest, such as the Metro Detroit region, 250k is definitely attainable. I’m in that band and live there.
> Hes buddy buddy with Satya.

Why would he accept to work under Satya?
I think you are only telling the gloomy side of the story.

I think the answer might be nice if there's a better story.

Maybe not so much living without and riding bicycles and walking, but maybe more like:

- telecommuting - with government overriding 3-days-in-office ceo stuff

- goods delivery instead of shopping, maybe permits/regulations/etc to prevent 1000 delivery vehicles

- car rental, or fractional ownership, or something for exceptions

- rezoning/rebuilding so neighborhoods have some services within a short distance.
I'm glad OpenAI happened, but I'd be happier if it stumbles a little and does not full-on capture the entirety of AI. I think a shake-up is good for the world.
Yuzu Progress Report October 2023
Lolwut? Who is Jimmy Apples?
I think that clears up the personal indiscretion theory.

If others are willing to voluntarily follow you out, I would say it points to some internal power struggle that underlies this whole affair.
very odd... this looks like some kind of forced takeover
What's with the lowercase? I think it's cute if someone is being deliberately low-effort, or trying to present that way, but IMO it's cringe to use it for consequential official statements like this.
What an unbelievable turn of events! To the outside observer, OpenAI is one of the most successful, well-oiled machines, shipping nearly weekly and doing an unbelievably good job marketing itself. Clearly, there's a lot of turmoil going on behind the scenes.
Well, if you are doing put and call options betting on increased volatility, I think you’re right!
A fine example of why MSFT is an investment and reliability risk in the industry.
I've seen this from a couple of VP/SVP level execs at companies I've worked. My pet theory is it's some kind of weird "My time is too important to even use the shift key" signal. They probably add up the cumulative amount of time they would spend using the shift key and multiply by their compensation and realize they could buy another car if they just optimized that useless key out of their lives.
If they actually end up trying to manufacturing it at scale they'll end up having redesign it which will lead to significant delays.

You just revealed yourself as someone uninformed about what's actually happening with Cybertruck.

If they actually end up trying to manufacturing it at scale they'll end up having redesign it

You're about a year or so late with this "prediction."
Or report him to the board.

"Dear Sir! As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I have significant ethical concerns about the ongoing experiment ..."
The Wordle clone is less exciting but you can scroll down to see the source code and JS output more easily: https://squint-cljs.github.io/squint/?src=https://gist.githu...
Soon: "New CEO of xAI revealed to be Sam Altman"
Since he was chair of the board... I'm curious how the rest of the board implemented this.
This statement is the absolute bare minimum they could have written. Terse, no marketing, straight to the point. Its nice for a change.

But given the usual verbiage / pomp-and-circumstance (etc. etc.) on typical announcements, getting something so short and simple like this just feels weird.
So is this the way the government takes control of the AI, next OpenAI will have new but familiar owners from Raytheon and the other Pentagon crowd?
> Usually they just vote their friends on

You actually think that for-profit corporate boards are significantly different, especially in the startup/early IPO phase?
You can thank this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
This all feels very stupid on their part now looking at the board member names but I never saw this point raised before on HN. I guess nobody could predict this including MSFT.
> you don't want two or more lets of wires running to every house

I do! I do! Very much like I do like several fiber optic cables running to the building where I live, for me to choose from.

The problem is. of course, that it's too expensive to afford in most places, and definitely too expensive in low-density suburbia, where rooftop solar makes most sense.
When you keep poking the Bear, it isn't surprising that he will wake up unhappy.
There's no job quitting note like an all lower-case job quitting note.
No one actually believes in that baloney, not enough to fire the CEO over anyway.
Because it's a conflict of interest - a CEO should absolutely recuse themselves from a vote on whether they should be removed. If a CEO refused to do so, the board should adjourn and reconvene without the CEO present.
I think the microphones used for noise cancelling were prone to getting damaged, same thing happened to my gen 1s too
This suggests that a real schism is occurring at OpenAI. I anticipate hearing of two different philosophies at play.
After the APEC event he went to a Burning Man event in Oakland where he spoke too...
i would urge you to compare the current state of this question to appx one year ago
> in traffic that feels unsafe

I understand that's how it is in the US, but there's many places where that is not a problem.
In journalist speak, that means "credible person I know who would get fired if I said their name."

It's probably literally an exec on the OpenAI/Microsoft partnership.

The alternative to "a person familiar" is us as readers never get this information at all.
In all other circumstances I would agree with you but

1. Sam Altman started this company

2. He and other founders would benefit enormously if this was the way to solve the issue that AI raises, namely, "are you a human?"

3. Their mission statement:

> The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has accelerated the need to differentiate between human- and AI-generated content online
Proof of personhood addresses two of the key considerations presented by the Age of AI: (1) protecting against sybil attacks and (2) minimizing the spread of AI-generated misinformation
World ID, an open and permissionless identity protocol, acts as a global digital passport and can be used anonymously to prove uniqueness and humanness as well as to selectively disclose credentials issued by other parties
Worldcoin has published in-depth resources to provide more details about proof of personhood and World ID
> The heart attack he must have gotten seeing the stock prices.

Why would a 2% drop bother him?
And the person who decided that the settings (disable usage for training data) and (save prompts) can't be individually controlled. Also that the default is that your data is used for training purposes. Both are clear indications that privacy was no importance to them.
Elon co-founded OpenAI. So, this isn’t exactly non-Elon.
> having Byraktar nearby would have raised alertness of the crew

One theory I heard was that the drone was specifically used to distract the (mechanically steered) primary radar of the ship, thus allowing the antiship missiles to approach undetected from another direction.
Watch "The Limiting Factor" channel on YouTube. Seriously, it's like an engineering course crossed with an expensive besoke industry report.
It only matters if you give a fuck. You don't have to give a fuck to make an impact in the technology market.
Based on all the diesel locomotives out there, the best way to turn diesel into motion is with a diesel engine running at optimal conditions driving an electric generator which in turn runs electric motors for the drive wheels. At least for very large loads, they are much more efficient per ton of goods than a diesel truck.
AI Being Used to Train Medical AI
He was chairman of the board, no? surely he was in the meeting? More likely it's some kind of schism and he was on Sam's side.
But those are people who have some skin in the game right? And shareholders can change the board structure right?
wait...isn't "the decision" referred to in the parent comment about the removal of Altman?
I understood it as there are additional and ongoing incidents and possible board was given hard evidence of such.
This reads like he's trying to calm investors to save MSFT... Monday is going to be interesting!
I'm web3 neutral, but this is relevant because:

1. Sam Altman started this company

2. He and other founders would benefit enormously if this was the way to solve the issue that AI raises, namely, "are you a human?"

3. Their mission statement:

> The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has accelerated the need to differentiate between human- and AI-generated content online
Proof of personhood addresses two of the key considerations presented by the Age of AI: (1) protecting against sybil attacks and (2) minimizing the spread of AI-generated misinformation
World ID, an open and permissionless identity protocol, acts as a global digital passport and can be used anonymously to prove uniqueness and humanness as well as to selectively disclose credentials issued by other parties
Worldcoin has published in-depth resources to provide more details about proof of personhood and World ID
If it comes out Elon had a hand in this, I might as well cancel my Netflix.
Maybe non-profits are just frontends of some three letter agencies :)
Wow look at that garbage Twitter thread following it, with shitty ads and .eth jackasses. Twitter has really turned into 4-chan lite
There is no crime. observing something is not a crime.
Edit: I called it

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725682088639119857

nothing to do with dishonesty. That’s just the official reason.

———-

I haven’t heard anyone commenting about this, but the two main figures here-consider: This MUST come down to a disagreement between Altman and Sutskever.

Also interesting that Sutskever tweeted a month and a half ago

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907

The press release about candid talk with the board… It’s probably just cover up for some deep seated philosophical disagreement. They found a reason to fire him that not necessarily reflects why they are firing him. He and Ilya no longer saw eye to eye and it reached its fever pitch with gpt 4 turbo.

Ultimately, it’s been surmised that Sutskever had all the leverage because of his technical ability. Sam being the consummate businessperson, they probably got in some final disagreement and Sutskever reached his tipping point and decided to use said leverage.

I’ve been in tech too long and have seen this play out. Don’t piss off an irreplaceable engineer or they’ll fire you. not taking any sides here.

PS most engineers, like myself, are replaceable. Ilya is probably not.
The problem I ran into with Rocket was that because it had stagnated for so long it was incompatible with currently maintained versions of some of the dependencies (I want to say diesel, but I could be wrong).

I'm glad to see that it's been picked up again and 0.5 has been released. I got used to Axum (and rather like it), but in some ways I thought Rocket was friendlier to use.
...that's a random post, Jimmy's not some OpenAI insider lmao. Hope he sees this
I think its about making complicated stuff reduce down to counting.
Some people just don't like to press shift. I moaned at one of my friends about this, years ago, and I got a 1-word reply that really stuck in my mind:

> thomas.

And there is indeed no law against not pressing shift.
Well the first sentence in this news piece adds a lot more color to the official press release and stands out on its own:

"Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation."
Do you know what Critical Race Theory is? Or its superset, Critical theory? If it's taught at any level below highschool the US is probably the best educated country in the world, and critical thinking should be really high (is that why the less wrong movement emerged from your country?). In any case, I would be impressed, but I would understand the reasons to not teach it too early.
Sure, the investors own the company and the board answers to them. Nonprofits are significantly disconnected from their own financial incentives. I have witnessed it at every nonprofit I have worked for.
Sorry, but I still can't really figure out what's going on.
So he didn't say something antisemitic?
Was that just one of many other statements which were antisemitic?
It's all open to interpretation?
I was at amzn when jeff formed the first board. No skin in the game, and no shareholders with any votes. I gather this is pretty typical.
If the AI ecosystem is so fragile that the ouster of two men from one start up is enough to destroy it then it wasn't ever a solid bet. I don't think this will mean much for the broad viability of these systems. Gpt is clearly valuable, but I guess we need to figure out if these systems can be run profitably. I'm not sure people have given much thought to how insanely expensive running massive gpu clusters is. It might just fundamentally not scale well.
My blog post bemoans coupling terms for license change to terms for the initial license, effective on release. BUSL does both license change and an initial, "non-production" license, all in one form. This new FSL does license change and a PolyForm Shield-esque "don't use to compete with us" license, all in one form. The more choices the forms make and bundle together as a package, the more likely we are to see yet another announcement of a new form with some other predictable, but as yet unbranded, combination.

It's not about minimizing blanks to fill out. It's about maximizing what terms licensors can share and reuse, and what "brands" for those terms they can promote and popularize.

It's pretty clear what the questions are for scheduled relicensing: "what new terms?" and "when?" And it's a relatively small legal job to write terms that just schedule a new license to kick in, with blanks for the answers.

I don't see why we'd want to "hard-code" those values, given how much licensors' choices have varied. The original users of scheduled relicensing, and most recently Hashi, chose copyleft licenses, not MIT or Apache 2. Of the recent crop of companies announcing scheduled relicensing, I think Sentry's the first I've seen that chose two years.

There is also a lot of variation in what terms developers want to apply from initial release, but a lot of it has been independent reinvention on recurring themes. If we popularize a named form just for scheduling relicensing, projects can put those terms in `FUTURE-LICENSE` or somesuch and whatever license terms they want for day one in `LICENSE`. Then we can focus on developing a recognizable set of restricted-license choices that serve most developers in these situations, for maximum reuse. The "menu" of PolyForm licenses https://polyformproject.org/licenses/ has already put a few into the field. Some are proving more popular than others.
Confirmation https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
“We still can build things with your data, you know for the shareholders”