skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Convincing people is the ultimate trade

So by your standard SBF is an absolute genius.
And how many failures in the most recent 100 Soyuz flights?

Crew dragon hasn’t had anywhere near enough launches to compare. F9 itself though has and its a great system.

Going to be a long time before it’s a trusty as a 737 max though.
You couldn’t write a better script for this mess
There are now CAPTCHAs which require user interaction and/or IQ-test puzzles selected randomly.
Your first mistake is daring to question the cargo cult around CEOs.
Sam’s forced departure and Greg’s ousting demonstrably leaves OpenAI in incompetent and reckless hands, as evidenced by the events of the last 24 hours. I don’t see how the field is better off.
People making low wages work hard (harder than the majority of folks on this site; e.g., there wasn't a single janitor at my last office that didn't have multiple jobs to make ends meet), but it is unlikely they will have excess funds to pay for an advanced degree without taking on substantial debt.

Funding education via individual ability to pay vs. taxation perpetuates class divisions from birth-- a defacto caste system. It sounds like you and your children chose your parents sufficiently well that this is not a concern for you. Lucky you.

I predict that the "Fuck you, I've got mine," attitude is, in large part, going to be what brings western society crashing down. And, I would argue that this attitude, and the policies that naturally flow from it, absolutely had a part in creating our fucked up system-- where people who did not choose their parents as well as you have to take on debt to get an education, in the first place.
Yeah. You are correct.

Would love some commercial fusion power plants on the side as well please.
> they nuked their ability to raise funds

I think this well is deeper than you're giving it credit for.
Not really. By reaching out to Sam this quickly, they're giving him significant leverage. I really like Sam, but everyone needs a counterbalance (especially given what's at stake).

And if they were right to fire Sam, they're now reacting too quickly to negative backlash. 24 hours ago they thought this was the right move; the only change has been perception.
Not when you have as many billions as he will have
I suspect the root-commenter was speaking about Ilya S, and it's a bit quibbling to classify him as "scientist" vs "engineer." He clearly crosses the line between both.

But yes, the comment was a bit unhinged.

Don't really see the difference between an MBA and whatever it is that Altman does, though, other than credentials.

Finally, that you think that ethicist (or the study of ethics) is masturbatory, especially in the context of an organization that has as its explicit mission to hoist AGI onto the world -- tells me quite a bit about your own... ethics.

World could do with a lot more ethicists and a lot less MBAs.
> The profit focus being wrong seems so weird to me.

It is a non-profit after all, who owns a for-profit company. I'm just trying to imagine how the board sees it.
Apparently the ADS-B transponder on MH370 was received but stopped suddenly.
That's an interesting point. My thought is that the theories of the software go well beyond programmers to everyone who interacts with the business process in question. Everyones theories are incomplete and aspirational though, sort of like a dream, while the code executing is the cold hard reality. Programmers have the closest theory to reality, sort of like a lucid dreamer, but even those with the deepest expertise are still subject to the deterministic outputs of code execution in production.
Our provincial and city governments are shuffling around papers, probably to some benefit, but the Senakw development is most interesting recent change to watch IMO.[1]

The Squamish Nation's bet is essentially: economics (demand) should drive development, not legacy urban planning and legacy zoning and bylaws.

This is testing an important hypothesis IMO. It's 10 acres of prime downtown real estate in one of the most expensive markets in the world. So if this wasn't self-governed indigenous land, the experiment would never be allowed to happen.

A cluster of 11 towers, some over 50 storeys... A good outcome is not guaranteed, so grab your popcorn, Vancouver. My fingers are crossed for them.

[1] https://senakw.com/vision
I think you are confusing a slow or broken api response with thinking. It can't produce an accurate timestamp.
Don't forget about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
I really don’t, I really think that he is going to be disaster. He is nothing but the representative of the money interests who are eventually will use the company to vastly profit on everyone’s else skin.
Yep. He's done. When you strike at the king, you must kill him.

At a minimum it's going to be awkward in the men's room for a while.
What you're not realizing is that it's like this everywhere. It's not exclusive to SV. Politics is part of human life. Adults are just kids with money.
Mentioned in the same sentence as Idiocracy and Office Space, GP is referring to the show.
Not if you have 1B sitting in the bank as stated above
In a legal sense the people who watch the board members of charities are the IRS and the state regulators in the jurisdiction it's established.
Thinking about life in such narrow group identities is a failure of imagination in my view.
> Well, for starters it won the best paper award at ACM Symposium on Theoretical Computing.

To be fair, this is just appeal to authority. Winning an award doesn't make something better or worse. It is orthogonal.
Man, if only over 30 odd years of PL research leading up to Go, somebody came up with a way to do it better.
By that logic "echo" was AGI.
No, the monitor’s refresh rate is a hard limit on the minimal maximal-latency. It doesn’t mean that you are actually close to that minimum, or that it is the hard limit that is active, aka the bottleneck.
What in the actual fuck is happening?
If you did write this, it wouldn't be believable
Some articles that came out around the same time as this piece:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/technology/ousted-openai-...

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-in...
I'll add The Unix Programming Environment, by Kernighan and Pike. Like K&R, the examples it picks "happen" to teach so much more than you came to learn :), e.g. anatomy of version control, some language design, basics of interpreters & compilers.
The TV show. They were talking about filmmaker Mike Judge's work.
> Skipping parentheses is directly lifted from Ruby, because I really like it. Older versions took this further by also letting you write `function arg1 arg2`, but I got rid of that to make parsing easier. It's especially nice so you can do things like `if foo.bar.baz? { ... }` instead of `if foo().bar().baz?()`, though I suspect opinions will differ on this :)

I've spent a little bit of time in Ruby land and such cute syntactical tricks tend to have limited benefits (none?), but significant downsides.

This:

foo.bar()

communicates very clearly that arbitrary code will get executed now.

But:

foo.bar

could be arbitrary code execution or a trivial and cheap field access. No way to know which without extra information. Reading code like this stutters; every instance of x.y requires pausing to look up type information.

There's a second problem. Allowing:

foo.bar

but not:

foo.bar x y

applies special treatment to functions with zero arity. Is there a reason for that? As far as I know function arity carries no special significance.

Consistency shouldn't be disturbed without a sound justification.
Ah yes, it is well known that no other individual sitting on the board of directors of any US company has ever made sudden and drastic decisions ever before. Totally.
They got told they are getting every piece of hardware not on prem pulled and they can burn in legal hell trying to get it back if they dont fix it.
As it turned out, the dead to rights evidence they had against him was generated by DALL·E.

And he smoked Steve Jobs' time-to-re-hire!
/r/LocalLLaMA is eye opener, there is not only ChatGPT, and not even a need for GPU
I guarantee not a single non-tech person knows who Sam Altman is. I know people in tech who have no idea who he is.

You severely overestimate his noteriety.
Considering how much this change annoys me - it’d make me feel better if I could tell what that benefit was.

Same goes for removing the home physical button.

I hear they are coming for the physical mute toggle next.
as i mentioned earlier, i was one of the first generation of bitcoin users. the problems with it have yet to be fixed.
The latter. Microsoft didn't know about the firing until literally a minute before we did, and despite a calm response externally, there's reports Satya is furious.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/repor...
Remember that 5G also uses the same frequency bands that 4G does, with a slight increase in range over 4G. 5G doesn't mean short range; 5G mmwave does.
this is the most likely explanation. Altman was going to oust them, hence why they had to make what seems like a bad strategic move. The move seems bad from our perspective but it's actually the most logical strategy for the board in terms of self preservation. I agree. I think this is most likely what occurred.
Oh, well SV is a comedy.

This is the first time I've heard it being aspirational.
We have diversity in the space, and OpenAI just happens to be the leader and they are putting tremendous pressure on everyone else to deliver. If Sam leaves and starts an OpenAI competitor I think it would take quite some time for such a company to deliver a model with GPT-4 parity given the immense amount of data that would need to be re-collected and the immense amount of training time. Meanwhile OpenAI would be intentionally decelerating as that seems to be Ilya's goal.

For those of us trying to build stuff that only GPT-4 (or better) can enable, and hoping to build stuff that can leverage even more powerful models in the near future, Sam coming back would be ideal. I'm kind of worried that the new OpenAI direction would turn off API access entirely.
Reinstate Sam and now the rest have to go.
WoW guild dramas are basically mini corporate board room dramas.
I have long since held the idea that "singularity" is a misleading term, and "event horizon" is much more descriptive: if you're being constantly surprised — my original phrasing was about going to sleep each night and being surprised each morning by the developments while you slept — then The Change has happened.

Well, I'm being constantly surprised.
Coding was hard when I was coding for the sake of coding.

Turns out after you spend a decade solving problems and creating/maintaining products that “coding” is probably the least difficult part.

These days I’m relieved when a task involves just some rote coding rather than racking my brain stuck in a debugging breakpoint for 3 hours to change 5 lines of code to get it to work correctly.
I think that's a bit sexist. While criminals will prey on people they think are weak and that often includes women, that's not exclusively so. I don't know that someone who is vulnerable would really be any safer in a well lit street at night, depending on other circumstances of course.

Cars have headlights. It could be that pedestrians can carry lights too. We could reduce infrastructure costs, electricity costs, allow pedestrians to be more conspicuous, and reduce the other negative impacts of constant lighting. You could even fund these personal lights for lower income people with the infrastructure savings.
> Why not describe things in terms of what they do instead of what they "are".

Would you say that about your spouse? The beauty of beholding one's wife is in who and what she is. What she does tells us something about who and what she is, to be sure, but any attempt to suppress the what (and the who) is dehumanizing and objectifying.

But, of course, what a thing does depends on what that thing is.

The reason I can say a human being can sort a list of numbers is because human beings have intention. When a human being sorts of list of numbers, they intend to sort the list. The intention is the cause and explanation for the actions taken the lead to a list of ordered numbers, as well as the resulting list of ordered numbers.

Does a computer sort numbers? In common speech, we say it does, just as we use all sorts of anthropomorphizing language when discussing computers. But at best, this is loose and analogical language. That's fine, as far as it goes, as long as we don't take it or mean it literally. However, the computer itself lacks intention. It is our intention that produces the computer, and our intention that makes the computer an instrument used by us to sort. Taken by itself, the computer is undergoing a transformation that effects something that we may interpreted as a list of sorted numbers, but the computer itself is not sorting. You wouldn't say that the clouds add x and y when x liters of water falls into a pool of y liters.

> The latter is highly subjective and open to abuse.

On the contrary, what a thing is is the most real and objective thing there is. An effect cannot be understood without knowing the cause, and the cause cannot be understood without knowing the agent. You can know some things about the effect, sure, and here the effect is that the text produced may be interpreted as intelligible. But the apparent intelligibility is borrowed from the source text, perhaps just a clever trick.
> my goal was to be able to have a conversation with someone in Dutch

Hi I'm Dutch. If you want to practice with English or German as languages in which I can explain things, email me via https://lucb1e.com/email-address and we can chat on Signal or Telegram or whatever :)
>Is the lack of speed because of a lack of optimization or compute?

No.

>Is this something that could be fixed by an accelerator?

No.
Assuming the show since the reference is to Mike Judge, and he’s the creator of the SV tv show.
I wonder what sort of proper insurance backstops are in place.

E.g. https://www.thehartford.com/management-liability-insurance/d...

"The Who, What & Why of Directors & Officers Insurance

The Hartford has agents across the country to help with your insurance needs.
Directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance protects the personal assets of corporate directors and officers, and their spouses, in the event they are personally sued by employees, vendors, competitors, investors, customers, or other parties, for actual or alleged wrongful acts in managing a company.

The insurance, which usually protects the company as well, covers legal fees, settlements, and other costs. D&O insurance is the financial backing for a standard indemnification provision, which holds officers harmless for losses due to their role in the company. Many officers and directors will want a company to provide both indemnification and D&O insurance."
This is a matching engine. It's the platform where traders trade.
actually wild to think about how something like this can even be allowed to happen considering OpenAI has(had) a roughly 90B valuation and it being important to the US from a geopolitical strategy perspective.

comical to imagine something like this happening at a mature company like FedEx, Ford, AT&T. All which have smaller market caps than OpenAI. You basically have impulsive children in charge of massively valuable company
Geography knowledge is a very different topic.

Most people in the 1980s couldn't have pointed to Ethiopia on a map, but they knew of the starving children there.

Most people in the 1980s couldn't have pointed to Afghanistan, but they knew Rambo went there in Rambo III, and that Reagan supported the "freedom fighters" there.

Most couldn't have pointed out South Africa on the map, but they knew who Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela were.

Why do you need to know where Palestine and Israel are on a world map in order to be aware of what's going on there?

> I do not think it was representative of most Americans experience in recent history.

Is your understanding of the global consciousness of the 1980s based solely on your perception of geographical knowledge of the era?

Do you really think modern geographical knowledge is significantly better?
The only reasons I can think of:

A. Core team members leaving (perhaps more threatening to leave).

B. (maybe more likely) Nadella told Sutskever that he might shut off funding or restrict compute resources if he didn't reverse course, or at least, wasn't able to retain talent (see A).
> I just want an RCT with clinically significant outcomes reported clearly (for example, a tenfold increase in microplastic consumption raised the prevalence of Parkinson's from 2 to 4 percent in the research group).

What is the experiment you are proposing here exactly? It sounds like you want to give extra microplastics to a randomly selected group for tens of years, and then comparing the incidence of Parkinson disease among them compared with a control group who was administered some placebo. Is that what you are proposing?

If that is what you are asking for then that is a “never gona happen unless you go full Mengele, and even then it is hard” type of research.
To be clear, I don’t think that would be totally above board; it wouldn't seem ethical to my moral compass at least.

I just think it’s far short of the completely indefensible, totally unambiguous, and obviously fraudulent behavior of Neumann.

There are gradations of conflict and malfeasance.
> No one's location was tracked and no one's picture was taken

I assume you mean the bouncer didn't take a photo, they just looked at the DMV photo embedded in the ID and did a visual comparison in their meat brain.

If there's no photo anywhere, how does the bouncer know I'm not using someone else's ID?
From what we've seen of OpenAI's product releases, I think it's quite possible that SamAI would adopt as a guiding principle that a model's safety cannot be measured unless it is used by the public, embedded into products that create a flywheel of adoption, to the point where every possible use case has the proverbial "sufficient data for a meaningful answer."

Of course, from this hypothetical SamAI's perspective, in order to build such a flywheel-driven product that gathers sufficient data, the model's outputs must be allowed to interface with other software systems without human review of every such interaction.

Many advocates for AI safety would say that models whose limitations aren't yet known (we're talking about GPT-N where N>4 here, or entirely different architectures) must be evaluated extensively for safety before being released to the public or being allowed to autonomously interface with other software systems. A world where SamAI exists is one where top researchers are divided into two camps, rather than being able to push each other in nuanced ways (with full transparency to proprietary data) and find common ground. Personally, I'd much rather these camps collaborate than not.
It doesn't become smarter except for releases of new models. It's an inference engine.
The humor tag is there because the community is self-aware that it's mildly pedantic. The views of the essay are held by a strong majority of the community at least. Nobody ever abbreviates Wikipedia as "wiki"; we have far too many wikis floating around and it would be confusing.
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Nuance is a low value edge case.
A dollar goes a lot further in Japan. Wages aren't inflated, workers are more efficient, and government waste is highly scruitinized.
While developing DevsForDevs, we often had to deal with complex data management tasks. PostgreSQL views have proven to be instrumental in streamlining these challenges. In this article, we'll dive into the code to illustrate how PostgreSQL views have played a pivotal role in optimizing data handling for DevsForDevs.

How we changed from a big client side code with many reused codes, to a simple and easy to use API, while keeping Supabase with PostgreSQL in the backend.
Okay, this is honestly annoying. What is this thing with the word "safety" becoming some weasel word when it comes to AI discussions?

What exactly do YOU mean by safety? That they go at the pace YOU decide? Does it mean they make a "safe space" for YOU?

I've seen nothing to suggest they aren't "being safe". Actually ChatGPT has become known for censoring users "for their own good" [0].

The argument I've seen is: one "side" thinks things are moving too fast, therefore the side that wants to move slower is the "safe" side.

And that's it.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvWmCndyp9A&t
World model means inner representation of the external world. Any organism with a functioning brain has a world model. That's what brains do.

If you don't have a world model then you are a vegetable and could not be replying on HN.
Dude, everyone already thinks the board did a crazy ill-advised thing. They're about to be the board of like a 5 person or so company if they double down and commit.

To be honest I hate takes like yours, where people think that acknowledging a mistake (even a giant mistake) is a sign of weakness. A bigger sign of weakness in my opinion is people who commit to a shitty idea just because they said it first, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Your altitudes for satellites are too high. Low earth orbit is defined as being below 2000km and very low orbit as being below 450 km. Starlink is at about 550km. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit https://ts2.space/en/what-is-the-altitude-at-which-starlink-...
Interestingly there are 7 hours of logged Inmarsat Classic Aero mobile handshake data from (IIRC) the "smart engine" telemetry.

The logged transmission round trip GroundStation -> Sat -> Aircraft -> Sat -> GroundStation provided an non unique "arc of travel" across the globe that was used by Australia to narrow the search area to a truckload of ocean floor that was substantially smaller than the entire planet.

The archived versions of the logs saved by the Malaysian gov are:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040818/http://www.dca.go...

Alternating sat routing would have given a more definitive fix and removed the ambiguity.
What fool is going to buy that expiring currency with a stable currency?
And oh boy, did they miss! There’s going to be a many of chapters written about this in textbooks.
We don’t want to be. Look at the glee from the average person when it comes to tracking their every move, from ring doorbells to surveillance capitalism
> A new chip designer would also not be releasing a competitive product for at least 5 years

Best time to start was 10 years ago…
Worse for learning, better for maintaining motivation by gamification. It's a personal preference but that trade-off is worth it for many people
Obviously it’s better to own up to a mistake right away. But the point is if they are willing to backtrack this quickly, it removes all doubt that it WAS a mistake, rather than us just not understanding their grand vision yet.
Looks really cool!

Just a quick note - The 'Live Demo' probably shouldn't be locked behind a login unless there's a good reason for it.

More broadly, do you plan to have general free courses? i.e. would I go to your site to hunt around for something interesting to learn, or are you always behind the scenes, and some third party is advertising their course to me (which uses this as a backend)? Just wondering about the marketplace; how/why I would end up on the site in the first place.