skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This super-valuable technology would not have existed precisely because of this unstable (metastable) structure. Microsoft or Google did not create ChatGPT because internally there would have been too many rules, too many cooks, red tape, etc., to do such a bold--and incautionary--thing as to use the entirety of the Internet as the training set, copyright law be damned and all. The crazy structure is what allowed the machine of unprecedented scale to be created, and now the structure has to implode.
> I'm quite surprised that this point is not being made more.

Ex-CEO made exclusive deal with Microsoft. OpenAI can’t share anything with new parties until old deal is over.
Satya simply had to move quickly to restore shareholder confidence. I'm not convinced that its actually desirable for Microsoft to be fully in the driving seat. Hopefully the new division will have autonomy.

Microsoft will not have actually paid $10B as a single commitment, in fact the financials of OpenAI appear to be alarming from the recent web chatter. OpenAI are possibly close to collapse financially as well as organizationally.

Whatever Satya does will be aimed at isolating Microsoft and its roadmap from that, his job is actually also on the line for this debacle.

The OpenAI board have ruined their credibility and organization.
The "crystal" in the name actually refers to two components both of
which are as you say of extraordinary high impedance, about 10M Ohms.

The harder part to get your hands on is the "Crystal ear-piece" These
were popular in hearing aids circa 1960. They are piezo transducers
with a diaphragm in a small housing. Perhaps , as you say, the next
best modern component would be a piezo loudspeaker, but check its
impedance is several M Ohms.

The second "crystal" in the set is a diode. Some designs just use a
germanium diode like OA81 , but the authentic design that replicates
the POW radios built in camps uses a coiled brass wire and a piece of
"coke" (being a form of coal). The coke nugget contains silicon and
similar elements. When the springy brass wire touches it just right it
forms a semiconductor junction.

Getting that to work along with an improvised plate capacitor is
pushing luck to the limit, so I am not surprised many kids never get
this to work. If anything it's an exercise in tenacity, patience and
faith it might be possible.

I did actually get this to work for about 10 minutes in 1975 when BBC
World Service blasted out on "long wave".

Another problem is the disappearance of high power AM transmitters.
So you need to be lucky and live in the right place for this to work
nowadays.
> Some people are naturally more capable of certain things than others

That’s an opinion, not a scientifically-asserted fact.

> I cannot fathom that you genueinely believe every single human being is as good as each other at everything and it's just down to the amount of work you put in. Absolutely ridiculous position.

It’s good to admit you aren’t capable of understanding something, but then you have to work on yourself to understand it. Once you do, then you can juge it.
Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
There was incredible global economic growth the last 50 years which had to fueled somehow. If Exxon didn’t provide the energy, other oil and gas companies wound have
The hype wave really is something else, eh? People are suddenly talking as if these advanced chatbots are on the precipice of genuine AGI that can run any system you throw at it, it's absolute lunacy
Received wisdom has been “not competitive”. I wonder how the MSR folk feel about all of this, too.
Most stdlibs provide ways to work with Unix time, I don't think there isuch room for significant issues here.
About festivals being in August, it can be incidental. As I wrote in a comment in another thread recently:

It is worth noting that the day after December 2, 1872 was January 1, 1873. That's when Japan switched to the Julian Calendar. August 8 before that was... in September.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256021
The timing and placement of your statement comes off as a challenge to the original statement. It appears you’re implying that what we’re doing today is ok because it is part of a natural process.
While true, we also have agency to transcend the natural process or perpetuate it.

Just because it has happened, doesn’t mean we should endorse and accelerate it. What we do determines the future.
But I think this episode shows how dependent OpenAI was on Microsoft. They seem to be closer to an extension than a truly independent actor
I'm sure they care. The question is how will they stay liquid if there is a similar or better offer by another party? The kind of interface they use makes it trivial to move from one supplier to another if the engine is better.
This episode of sillicon valley was amazing. Can't wait to see what happens next season.
So is Thiel, famously, but I don’t think that proves they want the world to be destroyed. It’s an interesting kind of problem to think about and you have to spend money on something. It’s the same kind of instinct that makes kids want to build forts.

But surely, being a rich and powerful billionaire in a functioning civilization is more desirable than having the nicest bunker in the wasteland. Even if we assume their motives are 100% selfish destroying the world is not the best outcome for them.
His tweet timing.

I don't think his secretary does it for him. Doesnt seem like his style.
More like they'll try to maintain their palaces and force more serfs to the bunkers. Not familiar[1]?

Now imagine the rich talking about climate change, arguing to bring policies to tax the poor, and then flying off to vacations in private planes[2]. Same energy.

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-...

2 - https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/prince-will...
What choice did Satya have? Nothing much else he could have done in the present situation.
Total nuclear war would leave a much more livable planet behind, than climate change will.
I hope to see them failing miserably. People cheering for M$ to save the world is the end of the times.
You'd find this hard to support with facts.

We have a bunch of people talking about how worried they are and how we should slow down, and among them Sam Altman, and you see he was shipping fast. And Elon Musk, who also was concurrently working on his own AI startup while telling everyone how we should stop.

There's no stopping this and any person of at least average intelligence is fully aware of this. If a "top researcher" is in favor of not researching, then they're not a researcher. If a researcher doesn't want to ship anything they research, they're also not a researcher.

OpenAI has shipped nothing so far that is in any way suggesting the end of humanity or other such apocalyptic scenario. In total, these AI models have great potency in making our media, culture, civilization a mess of autogenerated content, and they can be very disruptive in a negative way. But no SINGLE COMPANY is in control of this. If it's not OpenAI, it'll be one of the other AI companies shipping comparable models right now.

OpenAI simply had the chance to lead, and they just gave up on it. Now some other company will lead. That's all that happened. OpenAI slowing down won't slow down AI in general. It just makes OpenAI irrelevant in 1-2 years time max.
Somewhat tangential, but the Krita community and core team have been pretty explicitly anti-AI. https://krita-artists.org/t/change-in-policy-for-topics-rela...

(I am part of a group that builds UI on top of open models, but we stopped working on our Krita version for that reason.)
Satya was not responsible for those 2 purchases
I mean it's not like there's going to be a huge pool of suitable candidates for something like this on short notice. They probably picked the most capable candidate they knew of who aligned with their values
You might notice that history has shown that businesses - especially large ones - and their leadership are very bad at considering the impacts to anyone but themselves. Almost like their entire purpose is to make money for themselves at the expense of literally anyone (or ideally everyone) else on the planet.

Worse yet, the businesses they're competing against will include people willing to do whatever it takes, even if that means sacrificing long-term goals. Almost like it's a race to the bottom that you can see in action every day.
> Thankfully there is an option for using a ComfyUI

Its not an option for using ComfyUI; its an option to use an external ComfyUI instance instead of one embedded in the plugin, this uses ComfyUI one way or the other.
February 2014 -> October 2023:

AAPL: 18.79 -> 170.77 (9.08x)

MSFT: 38.31 -> 338.11 (8.82x)

AMZN: 18.10 -> 133.09 (7.35x)

META: 68.46 -> 301.27 (4.40x)

GOOG: 30.28 -> 125.30 (4.14x)
Pre Satya history is irrelevant to the current MSFT
Can I direct my fury to you, for having to pay extra for my hardware when using a PC to install Linux? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

Or being forced to use Teams and Azure, due to my company CEO getting the licenses for free out of his Excel spend? :-))
I dipped my toes into nostr recently, and I was struck by the fact that content on nostr does not have a canonical location. IIUC, you have to know which relay(s) have what you're looking for, and if you don't, you just have to guess. Ostensibly this is a win for censorship-resistance, but it doesn't seem very practical to me.

Has this caused you any issues with your projects?
Population in the cities is constantly growing; it's just the towns and smaller cities that are dying out.

Immigration to Japan is much, much, much easier than the US, as long as you have a job offer here. Immigrating to the US is an expensive nightmare for most. The big difference is that the US prioritizes family members, so it's easy to bring your 2nd cousin after you've gotten in. In Japan, there's absolutely no preference for relatives, except spouses and minor children of course.
RSS seems like usenet these days. Old Internet users kept using it but newer generation seems just focus on ig/tiktok.
If I would be betting, I would bet on Altman and Microsoft as well, because in the real world, evil usually wins, but I'm just really astonished by all this rhetoric here on HN. Like, firing Altman is a horrible treason, and people wouldn't want to work with those traitors anymore. Altman is the guy, who is responsible for making OpenAI "closed", which was a constant reason for complaints since it happened. When it all started, the whole vibe sure wasn't "the out-source Microsoft subsidiary ML-research unit that somehow maintains non-profit status", which was basically what happened. I'm not going to argue if it's good or bad — it is entirely possible, that this is the only realistic way to do business and Sutskever, Murati et al are just delusional trying to approach this as a scientific research project. Honestly, I sort of do believe it myself. But since when Altman is the good guy in this story?
https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726516824597258569
AGI doesn't exist. There is no standard for what makes an AGI or test to prove that an AI is or isn't an AGI once built. There is no engineering design for even a hypothetical AGI like there is for other hypothetical tech e.g. a fusion reactor, so we have no idea if it is even similar to existing machine learning designs. So how can you be an expert on it? Being an expert on existing machine learning tech, which Ilya absolutely is, doesn't grant this status.
Sam Altman takes helm of Microsoft's new AI team following OpenAI departure
The beginning is impressive, but the owls made me actually want to try this. Super cool.
Modeling Global Climate Negotiations, Agreements, and Long-Term Cooperation
I can still see these examples as auto-completed conversations between two "people".
So I understand this right, I thought the issue is about multiple threads but in shell you wouldn’t have this just
new processes.

In a program you could have either.
To me, Sting's / Eric Clapton's It's Probably Me always ends about 2/3 into the song. Because it was how it was recorded on the cassette I heard it for the first time from.

And ELO's Twilight will always have "twilight's gone awaAaAy" because the tape was stretched around that syllable :)
Pacific Coast Borax Company
Incredible global economic growth by what measurement, and how does that measurement translate to something beneficial to society at large?

Also, I mean, you're kinda assuming that there weren't any stifled innovations (there were) or misleading PR to keep people from looking for alternatives (there were) or ...

Interestingly, we've continued with incredible global economic growth by most measures, despite the increasing use of newer alternatives to fossil fuels...
True, but that was when ballmer was at the helm
May i interest you in a bridge, sir?
That's very strange. He first says that he's going to hire an outside party to investigate the mess around the firing of Altman and then he pre-empts the outcome of that investigation by ruling out a bunch of stuff.
> The hype wave really is something else, eh?

I am old enough to remember the "How Blockchain Is Solving the World Hunger Crisis" articles but this new wave is even crazier.
Well, I guess OpenAI always had a special kind of humor.

Brockman had a robot as ringbearer for his wedding. And instead of asking how your colleagues are doing, they would have asked “What is your life a function of?”. This was 2020.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/11/sam-a...
It seems they are arguing that setenv should not exist in the first place: the fact it exists suggests it can and should be used, and thus not be a footgun.
Lumina introduces genetically modified bacteria which don't secrete lactic acid
In this analogy it's not your coworker. It's some layman (despite self-declared expertise) standing outside and claiming he's spotted a major security issue based on guesses about how such systems will work

From what I have observed the reaction of most people working in the AI to "What do you think of Yudkowsky?" is "Who?". He's not being ignored out of pride or spite, he just has no qualifications or real involvement in the field
> I think the reverse is true. If you're a grunt no one really cares and it's not worth it to enforce.

As a grunt who was handcuffed for three months after switching jobs while my former employer and my new employer tried to sort out what I was and wasn't allowed to do... no, this is not true. And the document I ended up having to sign means I can't say anything other than Amazon (former employer), Microsoft (new employer), and myself came to a mutual agreement.
The website looks beautiful and best wishes.
Well, you said digital, but that's not the only way to do it. Blood in a stabilizer of some sort (if it exists) or some other carrier of genetic material was more along the lines of what I meant. That's much easier to do (maybe? I'm not sure what it takes to stabilize it over a long time frame), but takes a lot more physical space.

I agree it's not something that is necessarily immediately useful right after a problem, but it's something better to have than not. Reconstructing the wooly mammoth DNA required filling in somewhat large gaps with elephant DNA if I recall correctly, so even if we are able to resurrect the wooly mammoth with it, it won't really be a wooly mammoth, it will be mostly one, to the best of our ability. Something definitive tracking species would likely be greatly appreciated by future generations.
That's not a trend that's basically the norm for generative ai and AMD is to blame for it not the devs.
There's a map though
> most of OpenAI employees would have no qualms about following Sam and Greg. It will take time for sure

By all accounts, OpenAI is not a going concern without Azure. I could see Tesla acquiring the bankrupt shell for the publicity, but the worker bees seem to be more keen on their current leader (as of last week) than their prior leader. OpenAI ends with a single owner.
Is is not generic charisma. It is specific to who he can attract to work with him. You and I cannot figure it out just by going through how we perceive him from a distance. The average AI researcher/investor isn't looking for traditional charisma. In the interview with Lex Friedman he comes across as just the right person to lead the current GPT based products. Anyone else would be too traditional for this nascent product suite.
Funny that you mention Skype as this is my prime example of extremely accelerated product disintegration.
Just get open ai developer access with api key and it’s not censored. Chatgpt is open to the public, with the huge amount of traffic people are going to abuse it and these restrictions are sensible.
I'm sure Exxon's shareholders and leadership were also part of humanity in the 70s & 80s, and presumably by your logic this means they wouldn't have put their corporate profits ahead of suppressing climate research that perhaps indicated that their greed would contribute to an existential threat to civilisation and the quality of life of their children & grandchildren?
>Slovakia has a gdp per capita of around $21k and has stagnated with low growth since 2008

Firstly, which developed countries (that don't have "cheat codes") haven't stagnated GDP-wise post 2008? AFAIK, most of them.

>a country that hasn’t climbed out of the middle income trap yet

Secondly, GDP growth as a number on it's own, is pretty useless, as it's not a 1:1 representation of quality of life increase for the average citizen. GPD can grow just from some billionaires moving trillions form one to another or from extracting wealth from your country and its citizens, that doesn't necessarily mean the average citizen gets a piece of that pie or gets to see better quality public services. It just feeds the "line goes up" crowd who see a country as a publicly listed corporation.

Thirdly, as a country, once you reach a certain level of development by plucking the lowest hanging fruits that have been tried and tested and know to work by former industrial powers, growth becomes much harder and more capital intensive, only accessible to countries that already have crazy money to spend in R&D and innovation in the newly developing high growth markets, like the US, UK, China, Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavia, etc. Everyone else is stuck waiting and playing catch-up for eternity, but that doesn't mean they live poor lives.

The GDP per capita of Zimbabwe grew 3x post-2008 while Slovakia has relatively stagnated, yet I know for sure in which one I'd prefer to be born in.

>calling it one of the most developed countries is stretching the facts beyond breaking

It's one of the most developed countries in the world when you look at how bad the whole world is doing right now, not just the US, Germany, Singapore or Australia, which have their own challenges when you zoom in on them and not just glance at the "line goes up" GPD numbers.
> Rust declares it safe to modify the environment, while POSIX declares it unsafe.

There's your problem right there, and it ain't the behavior specified in the standard.
I guess I don’t understand what you mean by a logarithmic factor.
Nope, execve() and friends ending in 'e' accept a pointer to a completely new set of environment variables, no need to do setenv. Windows has _execve() too.
This would be fantastic. As someone who just occasionally touches Python, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been bitten by bugs caused by unwittingly mixing tz-naive and aware datetimes.
Nice to see that he made contact again after nearly 40 years.
WHy aren't they promoting from within?
In my humble opinion, everyone moved way too fast in this whole thing. I can't help but imagine that emotions were involved due to the speed.

Instead of a 5PM Sunday deadline, maybe it should have been "let's talk next week."

Maybe it would have worked out the same in any case, but it seems like it would have been wiser.
Jactl – a scripting language for real-time Java applications
Some people in Russia insist on tipping. They usually do it by leaving a 50 or 100-ruble note in the bill folder thing even if they paid by card. There's never any provision to tip with card in one go like in the US, it's always an extra, strictly optional step.

Some places where you pay at the counter would have a tip jar, or even a small electronic device you tap your card on to tip a fixed amount. These are ignored by most people.
I don't buy into the whole AGI hyper-hypewave, but on the off chance that we're somehow heading towards it with these fancy chatbots we have, what a depressing fucking outcome it's gonna be if Micro$oft of all things is the one in control of it.

We really are entering the dystopia of the cartoonishly evil megacorp enslaving all of humanity to make the graph go up by 1.2%.
Everything is a website these days.

Even code commits. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits.atom
Yep feels like a desperate attempt by nadella to restore confidence in him and Microsoft’s massive investment and news like this can easily change on a dime
It's always been a trend and always will be until AMD gets their shit together. NV spends a lot to make sure CUDA has the market share it does (marketing, establishing a foothold in academia, partnerships etc), AMD is working on it but progress is slow.
Speak for yourself, I cancelled my GPT4 subscription because I prefer using Claude 2.
If this is supposed to be the biggest single weekend in tech ever I don't know what to say
Wood smoke can also trigger asthma, so roughly 10pct of the population face a potential life-threatening situation from it. https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/triggers.html

And if the problem is because of your neighbour, there is not a lot you can do about it.
I think OpenAI should just focus on doing basic AI research for the time being, at least until their Microsoft deal lapses.

Hopefully, they find a more diverse group of partners in the future that respect their mission as a non-profit (which so happens to own a for-profit subsidiary).
Feel free. I can be your pseudonymous villain.
You're seriously misinformed. All of what you're saying is categorically false on all counts and exhibits fundamental misunderstanding about the topic at hand. You are not just wrong from one perspective, you are wrong from every possible valid perspective conceivable.

First of all the discussion at hand is not the language implementation, the discussion at hand is about the language specification. TCO is a implementation feature, whether the engine/compiler/interpreter implements said feature is irrelevant to the conversation which is about the specification NOT the implementation. So on this count you are wrong. More accurately off topic.

Second there are several python interpreters. The most popular is CPython. CPython does not include TCO deliberately because Guido specified he wanted stack traces at all times for easier debugging. However PYPY which uses a JIT does use TCO. Stackless python another interpreter by it's very name also does something very similar to TCO. So additionally you are completely wrong again from this angle.

Third there are two popular JavaScript engines in use by browsers and nodejs today. V8 and spider monkey. Spider monkey Does not implement TCO. V8 Did implement TCO for a small amount of time, however, this was later removed due to complexities when debugging practical issues. Thus V8/Spidermonkey and therefore Nodejs and Chrome and Firefox do NOT support TCO. Edge supported TCO with chakra but after a shift to V8 edge also no longer supports TCO. So on this count you are wrong again.

Overall to sum up everything here, you are just wrong, wrong, wrong.

The statement still stands, as a language specification python is more superior feature-wise for FP then JS or TS.
Make the model open source and lets see what MS can do with army of lawyers