skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Certainly no one is suggesting these systems can become "alive",

Lots of people have been publicly suggesting that, and that, if not properly aligned, it poses an existential risk to human civilization; that group includes pretty much the entire founding team of OpenAI, including Altman.

The perception of that risk as the downside, as well as the perception that on the other side there is the promise of almost unlimited upside for humanity from properly aligned AI, is pretty much the entire motivation for the OpenAI nonprofit.
being a lowly millionaire doesn’t get you much these days. almost certainly anyone who was hired into a mid level or senior role was probably already at least a millionaire
How do you resolve timestamps around the time the offset changes then? Give the new offset a unique name?
The Linux system calls used by cosmopolitan work fine on Android provided they aren't blocked by seccomp policy. Some of those blocks make sense, others not so much. Yesterday I discovered I could use all the stat variants but not statx.

I believe the features provided by standard C libraries are well covered by the set of allowed system calls.
TheInformation: Dozens of Staffers Quit OpenAI After Sutskever Says Altman Won’t Return

>Dozens of OpenAI staffers internally announced they were quitting the company Sunday night, said a person with knowledge of the situation, after board director and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever told employees that fired CEO Sam Altman would not return.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dozens-of-staffers-q...
I thought I knew what the author meant until I got to the end. I could be that they're referring to HTML as one API, and JSON-RPC as the other API.

Originally I thought they meant 2 JSON APIs. One that's tightly coupled with the HTML to handle all the "ajax" requests, and the other for 3rd parties to fetch arbitrary bits of data.

Otherwise, I know what you mean. My company has our internal RPCs and then our customer-facing API and the customer one hasn't been updated in ages and it's just a thin layer over some old internal RPCs we used to have and now we have to maintain backwards compatibility but keep breaking it anyway.
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There is also an R package to do the same thing as a ggplot theme: https://xkcd.r-forge.r-project.org/
Want to bet? Altman has been building himself as the public face of AI and won't let that go so easily. It's not like his world coin is taking off...

And non competes can be as airtight as you like.. they are completely unenforceable in California which is where OpenAI's HQ is based and where Sam Altman lives.

First the loyal will jump ship. Followed quickly by the mercenaries who see the chance to join a new rocket ship from the ground up. Then as OpenAI's shares tank on the secondary market the rest will decide they've seen enough of their paper money burn and cash out.

OpenAI will survive but its going to be a much smaller company and a much smaller valuation.

As for Microsoft I'm guessing one of the strings Nadella was pulling was threatening to revoke credits, resources and even use by his teams and I'm sure he would be interested in investing in whatever Altman starts next and dedicating those now spare machines to the new enterprise.
If you think those 21 species were the only ones going extinct you're badly informed.

About 200 plant and animal species go extinct every day.
Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Yoshua Bengio, Geoff Hinton, Demis Hassabis (DeepMind CEO), Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO), and Bill Gates disagree with you.

https://twitter.com/robbensinger/status/1726039794197872939
On the other hand, if Kyle was ousted for pushing too hard too fast at Cruise, that seems like out of the frying pan into the fire. See https://archive.is/Vqjpr
They were apparently unhappy with him because he's too good at business, so I think his reputation is intact.
Boards have exactly one job.

(It's firing the CEO, if anyone wasn't aware.)
I wish there is a benchmark comparing the impact of all the different tweaks on the performance of the model.
Given all the random, ish, folks leaving openAI at the same time, understanding the context immediately is beneficial. I assumed this was a flamey post by a rando, not dang.
So is this a company or something else that starts with a c? (Thinking of a 4 letter word.)
Hmm. I just imagined an alternative interpretation of this question.

Finding them could be an indication that AI has become alive. In much the same way that organisms have evolved by physical processes but possess emergent behavior.
> How did that even happen on Sam’s watch?

What do you imagine he could have done about the board of a non-profit as CEO and fellow board-member?
"It's a coup" is loaded language and lets the user insinuate their position without actually explaining and justifying it.
Sorry, which character are you talking about? (Also lol "religious text", how dare people have didactic opinions.)
This hinges on Open ai being as forthcoming with new models as they previously were. I'm not sure that's going to happen. Certainly the new board will be more inherently against it. Not sure what outs they have though besides the obvious one.
Andrej Karpathy literally just tweeted the nuclear radiation emoji lol.
Well that hardly seems ethical...
Counterpoint: I grew up in a suburb south of Portland in the 80's. My first experience with economic uncertainty and the consequences for a family were seeing a friend's father laid off from Tek.

Boom and bust tech companies are not all good for the communities they sprout up next to.
It's a really good point. It's natural, but if an API is primarily used to serve a front end, all other internal consumers (analyst, data science, etc) take a back seat. I think it also leads to situations where most of the engineers on the team don't really understand the "natural" data domains, but always think about it in a front end lens (e.g. pagination, merging of different concepts because they are on the same UI element, very quick endpoints only, JSON instead of less web friendly serializations, etc)
Things just got pretty interesting. On one hand, the board has doubled down on their decision, which lends them some credibility, on the other hand Altman seems out for good from OpenAI.
To me this choice feels like a push for monetizing... The guy has very little AI expertise.
> If Sutskever remains at the company, OpenAi can continue to improve its ChatGPT models and produce model 5.0?

I think the more important question is: Is Sutskever interested in a model 5.0 anytime soon? If he really ousted Sam A. because he thought they moved "too fast" wouldn't he rather work on making 4.0 "more secure" (whatever that means) instead of producing a 5.0?
People can always come up with something, so you need more than that for an interesting prediction.
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A better way to ensure non-contiguous memory is allocating 2, maybe 3x the memory you need by repeatedly calling mmap(), then picking random points in that memory, and using those. Otherwise chances are your memory is still contiguous
Uber folded too. They lost their founder before that happened and the whole self driving division was probably running on inertia. Clearly the new management wasn't interested because they sold it soon after.
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> And the fact that Emmett is only interim should give you a hint something is up.

That they didn't complete the process of a permanent CEO over the weekend after firing and then negotiating with Altman?
Fun fact: In Europe this kind of junk fees mostly do not exist and taxes are included in prices.

It is weird how much easier it gets for customers to compare offers. Comparing political systems, in the US the gov protects revenues and the EU it protects consumer rights.

You can experience this for yourself: try booking a flight with a old fashioned carrier like lufthansa.de and then go to a "we will rip you off for sure" travel-portal from uk to book the exact same flight or a low-cost airline like ryanair. You find the portal by a simple google search, as they are so "cheap" compared to the official price.

The portal shows a price that is 20% less then the carrier price, but somehow you always end up paying at least 30% more, even IF you are really good at the game of "avoid bullshit upsell checkboxes".
> Apple used to be nimble when Steve was alive, but went to coasting mode since then

Give me a break. Apple Watch and Air pods are far and away leaders in their category, Apple's silicon is a huge leap forward, there is innovation in displays, CarPlay is the standard auto interface for millions of people, while I may question the utility the Vision Pro is a technological marvel, iPhone is still a juggernaut (and the only one of these examples that predate Jobs' passing), etc. etc.

Other companies dream about "coasting" as successfully.
Related:

Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i... (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19293129)

XKCD Plots in Matplotlib: Going the Whole Way https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/07/10/XKCD-plots-in-matp... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11642344)
> Sure, it all seems to work for now... and then a customer signs up from Tuvalu, and performs a billable action at 11:59PM on the last day of the month, and your whole billing system falls over because they now have a split invoice generated for next month while it's still this month.

A one-off is not "whole billing system falls over". These things are inevitable because bug free software never happens, and so humans exist to deal with these situations. Unlike what an update that changes API would do. Now you can't update unless you rewrite everything, and you certainly will have regressions just because of this rewrite
Jobs here, for myself at least, are very word of mouth and Weddings, Parties, Anything.

I have no LinkedIn, Facebook, Github profile .. just a backlog of people and companies I've worked with since the late 1970s.

There's a Radio Quiet Zone here for the SKA Square Kilometre Array which has ongoing odd jobs, there and on the super computer farm. Some kid I used to joke about with on the School of the Air when we were in short pants is now some kind of multi billionaire with agriculture, aquaculture, mining, green hydrogen, etc stuff going on.

We (circle of scaly mates) started a few companies when short of things to do, back whenever .. these are still about in various forms - one got picked up by the US Standard & Poor for their intelligence desk.

This week I'm making the cage over the peach tree parrot proof, pitchforking sawdust and shit underneath the fig tree, and waiting for a call to come and be a chase bin driver (pulling up behind and parallel to a moving combine harvester to take the offload back to the bins .. rinse, repeat).

Mining companies like data driven solutions, there's a lot of mapping | survey work, Rio Tinto is automating the Feck of everything, Trains, Trucks, and so on.

There's lab work, lawyers up the whazoo, accounting firms, parts and tradespeople warehousing yards - so a lot of that type of web | office support stuff happening.
I would be. It's much quicker to draw this than to write code for it.
Staffers Quit OpenAI After Sutskever Says Altman Won't Return
"I specifically say I’m in favor of slowing down, which is sort of like pausing except it’s slowing down. If we’re at a speed of 10 right now, a pause is reducing to 0. I think we should aim for a 1-2 instead." - Emmett Shear, Sep 16, 2023

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397?t=8nHS...
Musk fired most of the engineers. I'd be pretty surprised if we see the level of attrition at OpenAI getting within an order of magnitude of that. We are just making predictions, though. I could be way off the mark and many more people are willing to jump ship than I imagine.

As for Microsoft, if they let OpenAI go, then what? Does Google pick them up? Elon? They are still looking to invent AGI, so I'd be surprised if no one wants to take advantage of that opportunity. I'd expect Microsoft to be aware of this and weigh into their calculus.
Well, they make different kinds of bad content, like in-depth investigations of how cool the parties their subscribers hold are.
You're trolling. But this is doable bro. We artificially select dogs for reproduction to create different phenotypes (aka breeds). Certainly we can do this for cats. Specifically breed cats that have high rat kill counts. This is similar to greyhounds where dogs are bred for pure speed.

The goal isn't to change the population of cats but to use the cats the same way we use certain dog breeds for herding.
Fun plot style, but the "noise" is too regular to really look right. Seems like like it basically just superimposes a sine wave onto all the straight lines.

Compare the axes of the plots, or the vertical lines on the bar chart which have a pretty distinct periodicity, to the original:
https://xkcd.com/373/
Sorry I misread that as “got a Material Science phd”
I think there's an important difference between not understanding and not doing the work yourself because you are in a managerial/advisor position. If you give Hinton a recent paper on LLM RLHF he will understand the nuances in it, he just delegates the actual work. If you give Emmett Shear or whoever such a thing, they almost certainly don't. For a deep tech company focused on research (not some consumer SaaS thing) I don't think you can be a good CEO if you don't even have an understanding of what you are building.
Spoken to a bunch of folk at OpenAI, it really does seem to be regarding safety. Ilya was extremely worried, did not like the idea of GPT’s as users can train AI’s to do arbitrarily harmful stuff.
Rural is actually a perspective. I live in a "town" of 23.000 people. I am Dutch and I do not live in a large city. Amsterdam is the nearest city for me and that is 65 Km away. It's one hour by train and 45 minutes by car. Every time someone asks we where I live they never heard of my town as it is insignificant. 4 Km from my town is a slightly smaller town called Enkhuizen and it more known so I always reply that it is near Enkhuizen.

BUT: Even though this sounds big: I do not have access to Greenwheels (car ride sharing service) this is only available in big cities. Specialty shop that promote more green, no plastic and healthy stuff: big cities not in my town.
It was a particular housing development and not a whole city AFAIK, but what first comes to mind is Hollywood(land)

https://www.theeastsideagent.com/history-hollywoodland-story...
was it even reported? i heard a bunch of stuff that seemed to be hypothetical guessing like "satya must be furious" that seemed to morph into "it was reported satya is furious"

i've seen similar with the cloud credits thing, people just pontificating whether it's even a viable strategy.
Very peculiar timing with Emmett Shear becoming the interim CEO of OpenAI
Because they were the best. Now that they're actually committing to hobbling themselves, why would these employees stay unless they're AI doomers?
Do you have alternative book recommendations?
OpenAI is hiring former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear to run company two days after
What is it with all this personality cult about founders, CEOs and CTOs nowadays? I thpught the cult around Steve Jobs was, bad it pales in comparison to today.

As soon as one person becomes more important than the team, as in the team starts to be structured around said person instead of with the person, that person should be replaced. Because otherwise, the team will not be functioning properly without the "star player" nor is the team more the sum of its members anymore...
Why though? Companies invest to see profit or get products they can sell. This is not only about the CEO. The CEO change signals a radical strategic shift.
Can microsoft sue for the drop in valuation of its shares?
I really love the idea of plugging a phone into a dock on a desktop. I remember Ubuntu phone had it 10 years ago. But if I can remotely stream any OS, that’s the future of personal computing.
> His contribution is pretty much just keeping some grad students on the problem.

I think the second best thing after having technical knowledge is to recognize smart employees and then not get in their way...
>For example, you could argue that investing in founders like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Wozniak would be a bad idea because none of them had completed a 4-year degree.

You make a great point quoting Hinton's organization. I need to give you that one. I suppose I do need to start following their posted charters rather than answers during interviews. (not being sarcastic here, it seems I do)

The difference between him and Woz or Zuck isn't just limited to them actually attending college, but also the fact that the conditions under which they left departed early can not only be looked up easily, but can be found in numerous films, books, and other popular media while there's no trace of even temporary employment flipping burgers or something relevant to his interest in writing fiction, which seems to be the only other pursuit besides warning us of the dangers of neural networks at a time when the hypetrain promoting the idea they were rapidly changing the world, despite not producing anything of value for over a decade. I'll admit the guy is easier to read and more eloquent and entertaining than those whose input I think has much more value. I also admit that I've only watched two interviews with him and both of them consisted of the same rhetorical devices I used at 15 to convince people I'm smarter than them before realizing how cringey I appeared to those smart enough to see through it, but much more eloquent. I'll give one example of the most frequent one, which are slippery slopes that assume the very conclusions that he never actually justified. Like positing one wrong step towards AGI could only jeopardize all of humanity. However, he doesn't say that directly, but instead uses another cheap rhetorical device whereby it's incumbent on him to ensure the naive public realizes this very real and avoidable danger that he sees so clearly. Fortunately for him, Lex's role is to felate his guests and not ask him why that danger is valid and a world whereby a resource-constrained humanity realizes that the window of opportunity to achieve AGI has passed as we plunge into another collapse of civilization and plunge back into another dystopian dark age and realize we were just as vulnerable as those in Rome or the Bronze Age, except we were offered utopia and declined out of cowardice.
You're thinking about "alive" as "humanlike" as "subjective experience" as "dangerous". Instead, think of agentic behavior as a certain kind of algorithm. You don't need the human cognitive architecture to execute an input/output loop trying to maximize the value of a certain function over states of reality.

> But it isn't anymore dangerous than any other faulty software that has access to sensitive systems.

Seems to me that can be unboundedly dangerous? Like, I don't see you making an argument here that there's a limit to what kind of dangerous that class entails.
> What do you imagine he could have done about the board of a non-profit as CEO and fellow board-member?

As board members, both Altman and Brockman would have presumably had to vote on any changes to the board - including reduction in number of members and appointment of new members.

Do you think the composition of the board before Friday could've been reached without some level of support from Altman and Brockman?
Global scientist consensus is nonsense. There’s only consensus if dissidenters are excluded and suppressed.
Had a friend who fell into that black hole, it's so time consuming for peoplecwith little time
The contrast between the media's depiction of today's events with this outcome demonstrates how much Sam and his aligned interests can influence a narrative. The vast majority of reporting indicated that Sam held all the leverage, the board members were about to be fired, and a new board would be appointed which would be much better aligned with Sam. These accounts took special care to portray the current board as inept, wavering, and eager to backtrack. However, the reality appears to be that the board was steadfast in their decision and focused on moving forward in search of a new CEO. The truth is, we still don't know the real reason why Sam was ousted. His removal may be justified and it may not. But in the absence of information, media speculation was overwhelmingly biased in Sam's interests. If the news that the board did not immediately backtrack and capitulate to Sam's demands seems to be coming out of left field, you've likely fallen victim to this narrative. Chances are the board is not as incompetent as you were led to believe, and any judgement of their competence should be reserved until further details are provided on the reasons for Sam's removal.
Welcome to hn. Here it's all about money
I have been using HN for about 6 years now.

Since then it has become my goto site for information or even learning anything new.

It’s where i get my motivation and new ideas
The one with the same name as the new CEO. Pretty straightforward.

> Also lol "religious text", how dare people have didactic opinions.

That's not what a religious text is, that'd just be a blog post. It's the part where reading it causes you to join a cult group house polycule and donate all your money to stopping computers from becoming alive.
Shameless plug but this is exactly how I put together the graphs in my blog post[0]. It's very easy to use and surprisingly versatile although I did add a bit of photoshopping to get things exactly as I wanted them.

[0] https://summer.ai/blog ChatGPT should be your first cofounder
The CEO is so far removed from day-to-day operations that there's no benefit in them having an idea about the technical nitty gritty.
So they should keep buying H100s (and H200s) and pouring billions into their own chips on the expectation that OpenAI will fulfill its contractual obligations under THESE circumstances? If they stop doing that, how long before all of Azure is busy on a money losing chat program under all new leadership that doesn’t have the same plan that was sold to MSFT?
Surely you realize he was on the board for the first 3 years and is the primary reason why the current board shares his concerns about AI
Malware.

Most binaries that I have seen in the wild use cosmo/ape binary format to have "free obfuscation" that is hard to analyze by antivirus and EDR software due to its mutating self-extracting pkzip-like behavior.

Well, and of course CLI tools. I guess it's the same selling points that fit golang as well - aside from cosmo's binary format having a universal header.
For what it's worth, the MIT Technology Review these days is considered to be closer to a "tech tabloid" than an actual news source. I personally would find it hard to believe (on gut instinct, nothing empirical) that AGI has been achieved before we have a general playbook for domain-specific SotA models. And I'm of the 'faction' that AGI can't come soon enough.