skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deal with Microsoft was 11 billion for 49% of the venture. First off, if open AI can't get it done with 11 billion plus whatever Revenue, they probably won't. Second, the way the for-profit is set up, it may not matter how much Microsoft owns, because the nonprofit keeps 100% of the control. Seems like that's the deal that Microsoft signed. They bought a share of profits with no control. Third, my understanding is that the 11 billion from Microsoft is based on milestones. If openai doesn't meet them, they don't get all the money
Dimming is usually done by pulse width modulation. So you can definitely get them to blink at the same frequency, you just change the pulse width.
What about people who write for themselves, and somehow end up on the homepage of Hacker News? You'll end up getting roasted by people like this guy:
> Disagree. Writing a blog post is like getting on stage. You need to come on stage with a dream that you’re going to dazzle the audience with your show. Your blog is so interesting that it’s worth the time to read it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38324486
I am extremely interested in hearing about these coups and your experience in them; if you'd like and are able to share
That's not how this works. OpenAI took investments for a reason. They benefit from the MSFT relationship. Harming that relationship will be bad for them (maybe not catastrophically bad, but significantly bad). I would be surprised if the relationship is not strained after this event since they have almost certainly created a major headache for MSFT (Satya is almost certainly fielding questions from his own board about this).
Unions -> higher costs -> challenging finances for company -> financial trouble -> sale of company.
I'm not sure I understand the situation based off the linked post. I get the part that Meta won't let her create a duplicate, but what happened to her original account? Was her original account banned, or did she just lose her password or something?
By assassination I assume you mean metaphorical? As in to derail his rise before becoming party leader?
I write a lot of Go and used to write a lot of Swift. Swift is what you’ll consider a modern language (optionals, generics, strong focus on value types), while Go is Go.

I appreciate both languages, and of course Swift feels like what you’d pick any day.

But, after using both nearly side by side and comparing the experience directly, I’ve got to say, I’m so much more productive in Go, there’s SO much less mental burden when writing the code, — and it does not result in more bugs or other sorts of problems.

Thing is, I, of course, am always thinking about types, nullability and the like. The mental type model is pretty rich. But the more intricacies of it that I have to explain to the compiler, the more drag I feel on getting things shipped.

And because Go is so simple, idiomatic, and basically things are generally as I expect them to be, maintenance is not an issue either. Yes, occasionally you are left wondering if a particular field can or cannot be nil / invalid-zero-value, but those cases are few enough to not become a problem.
He didn't built OpenAI, which he wasn't a founder of either. By the time he came on as CEO in 2019, they had already built GPT-2, and GPT-3 was likely already well on its way, as it would be released only around a year later.
MaxScale does this for MariaDB
>It’s not malice or incompetence. It’s training.

Am I really supposed to believe that corporate lawyers don't have personal agency? You can defend it however you want, but ultimately I believe that people are responsible for their actions.
And also, like, still sound pretty abhorrent.
Analysis of "What's 2/3 of the Average"
I don't write because: 1) I don't find writing in my native language interesting, 2) I am not fluent enough to write in English, 3) I think I would feel quite embarrassed to share my views under my name.

But I am contemplating about writing under pseudonyms with LLM proofreader assistant. Actually I do it right now with HN but without AI part although these are short creations.
> Many of those policies didn't follow any science. And a bunch of them not working well is likely due to conflicting talking points from various of the powers that be.

Virtually all of them were sold by "trust the Experts" crowd, and supported and promoted by people that literally declared "I am the Science". We've got as close to experto-cracy as we could be without abandoning the democracy completely. So telling "this wasn't true science" has a large whiff of "true socialism has never been tried". I'd say we tried as much as we, as a society, could possibly do. If that didn't work, then the problem is not that we need more experts and have to trust them harder.
Where Are the AI Skepticism Stories?
http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-m...
It was banned: https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1725911405243613591
OpenAI's unique corporate structure left Sam Altman vulnerable. Now he's out
Wikiepdia: Guess 2/3 of the average - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_2/3_of_the_average
That’s essentially what the novel was about - a story of technological development outpacing moral development.
Do go errors or rust options include stack traces?
Quora (2017)
I think my memory of 2012 must be different from yours, though I’m not exactly sure what ‘taken over the world’ means.
The only appropriate target for Microsoft's anger would be its own deal negotiators.

OpenAI's dual identity as a nonprofit/for-profit business was very well known. And the concentration of power in the nonprofit side was also very well known. From the media coverage of Microsoft's investments, it sounds as if MSFT prioritized getting lots of business for its Azure cloud service -- and didn't prioritize getting a board seat or even an observer's chair.
It looks awesome and I look forward to trying it out.

Curious how you claim zero false negatives though (as in missing a person it should have detected), unless you’re reviewing all the data or have another system hooked up to it verifying? Or perhaps you simply mean to imply nothing bad has happened due to a missed detection?

In curious hope it did during Halloween with all the costumes? Are you able to have it pre alert you that kids are coming to the door?
As a man I'm all for it. But I think the women I know would object to walking at night on pitch-black streets.
“He disagrees with the leaders of my tribe, hence he’s a member of the enemy tribe. That makes him bad!”
Sorta yes and no. Huge capital injections became a necessity _after_ the release of ChatGPT. Pre-ChatGPT capital costs were much lower for OpenAI, the popularity of their chat bot (100 WAU apparently) created an existential crisis for capital.

Before that, as a pure research organization, capital requirements were much smaller and (probably) could have chugged along without a player like MSFT, or at least a much lighter partnership.
Rounded corners for windows have been in the Macintosh operating system since the beginning.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
We don't even know if they're profitable right now, or how much runway they have left.
>The for-profit would not exist if the non-profit was not able to maintain control.

The non-profit will not exist at all if Microsoft walks away and all the other investors follow Sam and Greg. Neither GPUs nor researchers are free.
> Default Gender = Male is... not great

enum Gender {
Unspecified,
Male,
Female,
Other,
}

impl Default for Gender {
default() -> Self {
Self::Unspecified
}
}

or:

enum Gender {
Male,
Female,
Other,
}

and use Option<Gender> instead of Gender directly, with Option::None here meaning the same that we would mean by Gender::Unspecified
That never stopped the regulators. If they thing "there must be a law", then there's a law, and if it makes much more trouble for you and doesn't create any benefit overall - well, that's your trouble, not theirs, they can put "saved lots of lives" in their legislative resume and be happy.
definitely -- UK govvies appear to be leaning on an unequivocal legitimacy; i.e. you can't do anything about it even if you knew.
There's a vast ocean of difference between 'growth at all costs' and 'good corporate governance'. OpenAI is bleeding cash. Sama knows that you need to bring money in to build important new technology, especially in this non-frothy high interest rate economy. So while it's not critical to make a profit, you need to keep the lights on to keep the new research and development going. What Ilya and the board have done is completely wrecked OpenAI's momentum at a critical time. Unless they are sitting on world-changing AGI, this move made no sense and they don't have the company's best interests at heart.
A.S. Byatt has died
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Nuked the notification stream with UBlock: `##section > ol`

It's an interesting observation on the reason behind something that's understood fairly well in management circles from its impact: Retention of software engineers is really important!!!

I never really had a conceptual model for the period in a project where I can't really effectively write code outside of exploratory exercises. Building a theory of the solution to a problem is absolutely the most difficult part of any project that I've worked on.

In brownfield projects I will usually start out with a
manual linting pass. I read code deeply enough to understand it to a point where I feel like I can make delinting changes to it. This helps me build up a theory of the solution space that those who came before me, the act of delinting, commiting, and pushing stands as something of a mental proxy for having written the code myself.

Greenfield projects are much more difficult as you have to synthesize this theory from whole cloth rather than learn it by reading the musings of coders that came before. IMO, this is incredibly valuable as very few devs I've met have the capacity, even if they have the experience.

In many ways I think that past successes in founding companies is used as a proxy signal for this skill by investors when making a bet on a venture by tenured tech founders.
How the Internet Has Changed the Psychology of Persuasion and Influence
So they are no longer allowed to be back at it? What are you trying to suggest here?

Be supportive of countries wanting to be interested in science instead of being so negative
"Most people" aren't in peak fitness...
A number of users have posted their experiences so far on the GitHub discussion

- https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#...
- https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#...
- https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#...
- https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/7932#...

I have found my frigate+ model to be much more accurate and crazy good even at night. Will be curious how things change when it snows here more often, since I've not submitted any examples of winter at this house yet.
Not sure why you think he's German, but yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#History
See, and we didn't even need an LLM to tell us this!
Or as an alternative question: is it less moral to do this experiment than eating the pig? Because society seems to be by far and large be okay with eating pigs.
Some of us:

Don't remember faces or names.

Remember a face but can't put a name to it.

Remember names but can't put a face to it.

Remember names and the faces that go together. (Lucky Bastards!)
> Maybe OpenAI starts to open source everything

I really doubt it
Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(supercomputer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix
And even more importantly, a mountain of conversations/responses to train on.
It depends. Some jurisdictions blur the lines between NDAs and non-competes. For example, in many areas NDAs can also prevent you from working for a competitor due to "inevitable disclosure."
Man that just screams chaos and disorder. I wonder what it's like right now in the internal chats.
Training GPT3 required massive amount of compute, and not to mention paying top salary for top talent. Billions were injected even before chatgpt was anywhere near.
What if we ban subscriptions and have to pay per view? Of course that would be great for me because I watch one episode of one or two TV series per week when there is something I like to watch and then nothing for months. It would be probably bad for people that like to watch something every day, unless prices are substantially low or there are volume discounts. But a volume discount is more or less the definition of a subscription.
Benefactors? They got the deal they could to get onboard an benefited a lot from it.
Dope AF. Can't wait to get it!!
> Sustkever et all resign, new board appointed and Sam and Greg come back.
> Things could be back to business as usual by Monday morning.

How in the world is losing Sutskever business as usual?
Thank you! Website is going to get doubly refined soon. I’d like to develop a UI framework one day, but one that never ever changes in its core design. It just gets refined over time. I must say, it’s a real pleasure to design websites. Not just frontend, but database, all the Django stuff, domain models, I love the whole thing.

The font needs work, especially Bold cut. I completely redesigned all glyphs from scratch and trying to get to release it. It's been a learning experience. Also condensed version is coming with it. All upgrades will be free to existing customers.

Btw, I agree with OP about good samples. It also bothers me a little bit when I see huge zoomed in shots of typefaces: Good for grabbing attention, but bad functionally unless it’s a display typeface specifically for billboard/headline use. So I will go to town with samples in 12 point size. We have a few but clearly not enough.
Task-adaptive physical reservoir computing
I've never understood this idea of good torrents being hard to find. TPB has been around for a long time.
If you are making $10 million a year based on an employee's personal contribution to the company, and paying them $135,000, they are likely underpaid, and another company might gladly pay them $250,000 to add $10mm to their bottom line. But the non compete holds them in the job paying less. Their value to the company clearly allows them to pay $250k to that employee, but it's the non-compete that is allowing the company to profit an additional $120k. There's no case for non-compete beyond "excessive profit margins".
Well yeah, obviously for violent and threatening acts there is an exception. Which, I cheerfully point out, was never really a factor in the COVID policies which failed to prevent anyone I know from catching COVID. I think by this stage that literal - everyone I know caught it eventually with maybe 1 exception. So coughing or not coughing in someone's face has not actually made much of a difference RE catching the thing.

And it is interesting to note that the actual principle in the case you raise is that it should be illegal to do anything in someone else's personal space that they don't consent to, which has nothing to do with the state of science.
Clocks and watches have shaped our civilisation
It’s Europe. Borders and people moved around constantly, and nationalism was not a thing for most of the continent’s History. Italy as a country would not exist for ~600 years when it was painted.

I haven’t seen a complete study of where and how that painting moved since it was done, but there are plenty of possibilities that don’t involve anything dodgy.
An AI hardware venture from scratch? I can't believe it.

Perhaps there is an AI hardware start-up out there Altman wants to buy.
In terms of rentals, yes. If there is any sales it is usually leasehold as the other comment mentioned. You typically also see a portion of units allocated for non-market accommodations for first nations people, as is this case for Senakw if I recall correctly.
He might as well come back if the entire board resigns and he gets to pick the new board and turn it into a C corp.
Yes, but at the same time shared memory concurrency is not considered an unsafe usage of Go either...
> then I haven't seen it

Unless I'm missing something, this stands to reason if you don't work there.

Kinda like how none of us are privy to anything else going on inside the company. We're all speculating in the end, and it's healthy to have an open mind about what's going on without preconceived notions.
And then rename it ProfitAI, so as to satisfy all of the "Open" nay-sayers?
Personally I'm on the wait list, mainly because it cracked a problem in seconds that one hour plus on stackoverflow hadn't solved. I didn't go to ChatGPT first because (erroneously) I figured the issue was too esoteric for it to crack.

Specifically, following an update to Samba 4.13 our diskless DOS systems failed to map their drives on the server. ChatGPT came up with the answer first time, with a bunch of specific settings in smb.conf, unclear which did the trick but it worked at first attempt (after numerous failed SO-inspired guesses).

The day before, a co-worker sent a draft of a Web UI layout that was clearly doable but well beyond my CSS abilities . Four hours later, with copilot assistance, the web page (a complex form) got a big thumbs up.

Today, I asked a question about how to solve a problem I'd struggled for some months. No useful answers on SO, lots of net-poking and thinking got me a working solution that seemed pretty cool. And...I asked ChatGPT, first try it gave me CSS that was definitely better than my efforts.

On the other hand, in my specific domain of expertise, the answer are either egg-suck or trival.

So (for me, personally) the real boost is in areas I have a little knowledge and can figure out the right question to ask an AI.
A better UI for recordings viewing and seeing times of activity are coming in the future.

Frigate already supports customizing recording retention per camera for 24/7 and event based recordings.

You can also set different retention periods based on the type of objects that were detected.
Yes and no. It is a great pacifier, but my grandma of nearly 90 years old also legitimately understands any english that comes her way much better after doing that on duolingo for a few months. She enjoys it greatly, I do not understand how with all the advertisements and ten types of currencies/points/lives that I cannot make heads or tails of but she likes it.

Especially the animations, she often remarks how cute they are and wants to show us. It's adorable and I'm super happy for her :) though also disappointed that, when I installed duolingo for her, it wasn't the innocent learning app with good UX that I knew it as from like six years earlier
I also write Z and z with a stroke. And then someone on Twitter suggested we should add it as an option. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it despite of writing it that way! It’s coming.
I imagine they also wanted to make 1 mouse ambidextrous. Maybe they should just tilt it and ask the user to choose handedness. I use a track ball and split keyboard and it has never been an issue no one can use my setup except me.

The constant need to have lithium ion is really terrible. Battery life is less of an issue when I can swap batteries quickly with common sizes.
ChatGPT provides a lot of the model through prompting to provide information of the "black box"
Not the DAC but a DSP can do it. So the chain would be DAC> DSP (compression) > ADC What i trying to say is that the “watermark” would theoretically survive data compression (WAV>MP3, FLAC, AAC) but not dynamic range compression.
What a wild ride this last 24 hours has been.
Standard Ebooks serves requests per month with a 2GB VPS
Satya be like, fine, it’s time for adults to take over.
- That's a hell of a show, what do you call it?
- The Aristocrats
With the way they fired him and the statement they made, it's hard to see how any of the remaining four could stay on if he did come back... as was previously mentioned, if you shoot at the king, don't miss.
That is just embarrassing.
As long as it hasn't achieved orbit, all the pieces will end up on an elliptical track with the lowest point inside the atmosphere. Some stuff might get flung way up, but it would still need another maneuver (requiring working engines) near the highest point to circularize the track to prevent it from coming back down.

There's not much ambiguity for when to destruct. It's just: has it gone far enough off course that it could free-fall outside the predetermined borders where it's acceptable to crash? Then it's time to blow it up so it doesn't fly any farther.
Precisely. Good founders, bad founders, in the eyes of the beholder.

I'm pretty sure I have a completely different opinion on what constitutes a good founder and what constitutes a bad one compared to Sam Altman, fortunately I don't have enough clout to make authoritative statements on the subject.
Detecting GPS spoofing would be useful in Ukraine?
But you might argue the fact that most software is always adding features and changes is because it really is never a perfect representation of some target theory. In that case, the theory inside the heads of each person behind the software may even be incomplete compared to some perfect representation, and the work done by a company in the user/feature iteration cycle is the process of reconciling the drift between each of them towards some shared theory.

I don't think it's uncommon for parts of the theory already enshrined in implementation to be forgotten to time as it passes, if it's not regularly revisited and cogitated on.
I agree, the abrupt nature sort of indicates something serious.

But I've seen "on the spot firings" somewhat with Open Source-based, high profile startups. There's always a point in a FOSS startup's life where Investors/Board/Founders/SrStaff have core communications break down in one day (aka yelling matches) and people leave immediately--typically from debate on GPLv3, legal violations w/GPLv3, profit strategy, and 'community' support. Makes me now wonder what was the orig exit strategy for OpenAI.
If the CEO was not important and basically doesn't impact anything, as you say, then why would the board feel the need to oust Altman for "pushing too fast" in the first place?
Can it detect a dog peeing indoor?

I always wanted to set off an alarm if my dog tries to pee inside.
No.

The article is light on details, but:

> A simple device that makes LED lights flicker at a very high frequency that is imperceptible to the human eye

> shutter, which needs to be lightweight and agile enough to blink about 150 times per second.

Subjecting an entire city to 150 Hz flicker is not even remotely acceptable. IMO this needs to comply with IEEE 1789.
OpenAI Investors Scramble to Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO
Just call it "Foundation".
Ideally yes, but sometimes your tables get so monstrously large that the auto-analyze is sampling thousandths of a percent of rows, and fiddling with sampling targets can throw off seemingly unconnected queries.

Planners are mysterious black boxes, which we can at best influence.
At least the 3 independent members will be gone. Either will try to burry the hatchet with Ilya or he leaves as well.
Really appreciate introducing Spoonfed Chinese to me! I was looking for a good Anki deck about a year ago and couldn’t find anything good, this looks perfect for me.
I don’t understand why and how they didn’t consider this sort of discussion before so unceremoniously firing him. The others on the board outside Ilya need to go.

I don’t consider anybody beyond forgiveness and if Ilya takes a professional lesson from this and Sam learns to be more mindful of others’ concerns, I consider this a win for all. Starting over in a new entity sounds great but would be years of setback.

I hope they work this out.