skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but I am just simply not factually incorrect. Again you want me to just take your opinion as fact... but stating it strongly doesn't make your argument more cogent.

Boards are agents to their principals. They call the shots only as long as their principals deem them to be calling them correctly. If they don't, they get replaced. Said differently, board members are "appointed" to do the bidding of someone else. They have no inherent power. Therefore, they do not, ultimately, call the final shots. Owners do. Like I said, this situation is a little muddier because it's a non-profit that owns a for-profit company, so there's an added layer of complexity between agents and principals.

OpenAI isn't worth $90B because of its non-profit. The for-profit piece is what matters to investors, and those investors are paying the bills. Sure, the non-profit board can fire Altman and carry on with their mission, but then everyone who is there "for profit" can also pack up their things and start OpenAI 2.0 where they no longer need the non-profit, and investors will follow them. I assume that's an undesirable outcome for the board as I suspect the amount of money raised at the for-profit level dwarfs the amount donated to the non-profit... which effectively means the for-profit shareholders own the company. Hence my original comment.
Oh boy. You are too far gone to reason with. Extreme ultra radical far leftist neo-Marxist bullshit. Totally lost.
Run the Infuse client and point it to your Jellyfin instance.
I haven't ever seen a controller that does the BPSK modulation required for A ports. I suspect the standard was defined, but everyone just decided to do signalling over the CC pins on USB-C and ignore the USB-A standard.

If you know of any controllers that implement the spec, I'm very interested in knowing part numbers! If for no other reason than as a historical curiosity.
Fascinating, in a morbid way, to watch them disintegrate. Did no one on the board think to prompt their models for a plan? If they have an AGI I bet it’s dissapointed.
War crimes, crimes against humanity. Enough is enough.
To the down voters prove how building 7 collapsed on its own lmfao.

Edit: Obama and Osama look how their numbers meet.
This seems like BS that the Altman camp is feeding to the media. I very much doubt a single engineer or scientist would side with him and leave with him - most likely it's his cronies he put up in other executive positions. However, if you check their backgrounds, none of them have any meaningful experience pre-openAI - I am skeptical any would actually leave their opportunity of a lifetime.
I might be the minority here but I prefer USB-A. The connector feels more robust and I don't worry about damaging it. My keyboard, mouse, webcam, flash drives, etc. all use USB-A. A disadvantage of USB-C is that lint can get in the port and prevent a proper connection (this happens on my phone all the time). I believe that USB-A will be with us for a long time; the wisest thing at this point is to make sure that the latest USB protocols are supported over both physical ports. This was you can use USB-C on devices where small size is a priority (such as smartphones) and USB-A on devices where backwards compatibility/physical ruggedness are priorities.
I think the allure for Altman though would be that OpenAI already has all the pieces in place.

Going off and starting his own thing would be great, but it would be at least a year to get product out, even if he had all the same players making it. And that's just to catch up to current tech
Instead of the board firing the employees, the employees fire the board.
It's sexist to refer to her solely based on her relationship with someone else when we're talking about her in the context of her expertise. The fact that she's JGL's wife has nothing to do with her merit, and so it comes off as dismissive, especially when the point being made is about her lack of ability.

Why can't you just criticize her "joke of a resume" directly instead of bringing up her spouse?

Generalizations and statements like this reflect bias in subtle ways that minimize women, and I'm glad it's being called out in some capacity.
Real Python: Embeddings and Vector Databases with ChromaDB
Microsoft depends on OpenAI as long as they're rapidly advancing. It seems the new leadership wants to halt or slow the rapid advancement.
> Why does anyone actually use azure in 2023?

When I see it, it has always been “Amazon is a competitor and we don’t buy from competitors”.
Considering gpt4 was complete 6-9 months before it was released, never know how far progress towards the above could be.
No, it doesn't disprove it. The results can be explained by the measuring apparatus undergoing length contraction and/or time dilation.
I found motion detection to be the easy part when building my NVR. I just used trial and error and scipy filters and eventually found something I'm happy with.

Handwriting a GST pipeline is pretty much what I did. I start with frame differences(I only decode the keyframes that happen every few seconds, so motion detection has to work in a single frame to have good response time).

Then I do a greyscale erosion to suppress small bits of noise and prioritize connected regions.

After that I take the average value of all pixels, and I subtract it, to suppress the noise floor, and also possibly some global uniform illumination changes.

Then I square every pixel, to further suppress large low intensity background noise stuff, and take the average of those squares.

I mostly only run object detection after motion is detected, and I have a RAM buffer to capture a few seconds before an event occurs.

NVR device code(In theory this can be imported and run from a few like python script), but it needs some cleanup and I've never tried it outside the web server.

https://github.com/EternityForest/iot_devices.nvr/blob/main/...

GST wrapper utilities it uses, motion detection algorithms at top:

https://github.com/EternityForest/scullery/blob/Master/scull...

My CPU object detection is OK, but the public, fast, easy to run models and my limited understanding of them is the weak point. I wound up doing a bunch of sanity check post filters and I'm sure it could be done much better with better models and better pre/post filtering.
It's not a required language feature, but it's most certainly a feature of CPython, and CPython is still effectively synonymous with Python, even if other implementations deviate in various ways from its behavior.
Owners call the shots, otherwise staff would never get fired.
https://www.readthistwice.com/lists/best-books-on-taoism
No, I didn't say anything about doing it consciously. Motion is largely unconscious, like how you can throw things at a target without thinking about it.

But if you're just using it to mean "factual memory", calling it modeling seems like false precision.
A not insignificant portion of HN commenters believe AGI is close. This community is so split on this that it’s virtually random as to whether or not you’ll be downvoted for saying that a specialized search engine is not likely to achieve AGI.
> Everything just assumes that without Sam they’re worse off.

But it's not just him is it?
As others have pointed out, this board has no skin in the game. They just voted out founders who do have skin in the game (although through roundabout means). It’s a very tough sell that this board is doing the right thing.
What else would you expect? OpenAI spun up "separate" for profit company and recruited a bunch of industry top engineers and scientists with 500k+ salaries where the vast majority of it is tied to equity grants.

Most of the employees values do not align with a non profit, even if executives like Ilya do.

By firing Altman and trying to remind the world they are a non profit that answers to no one they are also telling their employees to fuck off on all that equity they signed on for.
Except building something the second time around is often quicker and with the current gains of hardware capabilities and interest in the space… maybe it wouldn’t be a year behind.
G needs to Google the Streisand Effect. The ideal amount of fraud or non-compliance is never 0 and they have enough dumb suckers to feast upon. Leave the clever-enough alone or perish reverse-insects-as-future-food in reverse style. This is live-action Silicon Valley and the truth can be stranger than fiction
You can contemplate the subject while using the excellent light them "Daobeam" for Visual Studio Code. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mike-fla...
Technologising is the path to the dark side. Technologising leads to new features. New features lead to bugs. Bugs lead to suffering.

Unless we escape the cycle (by understanding the impermanence of each incarnation of technological progress) we all suffer eternal recurrence of disappointment in a physical world which could logically have technologised better...
I'd say it's more the other way around - dictatorships like the Soviet Union operated like one big company. This form of critique typically uses the term "state capitalism".
Camlis 2023 Talks
FWIW, I've lived in Thailand and Nepal. I've travelled reasonably extensively through Borneo, Vietnam, Laos, and India. Visited Hong Kong, Cambodia, Singapore. Did an exchange with a Japanese boy from Hiroshima as a kid.

All of those places are amazing in their own ways, but I maintain that Taiwan is both incredibly special, and perhaps the most underappreciated.
I mean the reasoning is more something like: to become a member of the board at OpenAI you must be extra-ordinary at something. At first sight, the only candidates for this something are: "start-up founder" and "spouse of famous person". The famous spouse thing is so much more extra-ordinary than being a startup founder, that the first "explains away" the latter. Even when being related to an actor makes it more probable to be selected for such a job, there may be other hidden factors at play.
Just like yesterday Sam 100% lied to the board and was on the outs. Today, it's 100% the board is getting fired and Sam is coming back on a white horse wearing shining armor.
Great project! Finally some fresh air in the open source scene.
"Missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign."

Says who? And did they resign?
Thank you. I usually get downvoted to oblivion when I say “people should pay for products they use”. I don’t get it.
Further wouldn’t they not be able to create GPT-x exactly as it was even though they know it?
I got the same good chill running down my spine watching this as when I watched Second Reality 30 years ago. I think how they mirrored the music so well caused my brain to just fill in the pieces of the graphics. I was especially impressed at the attention to detail down to the font in the end credits. Hats off, this made my day.
Hard to reconcile with people who would do something like that.

Differences in interpretations will happen but the YC rule that founder drama is too often a problem continues to exist and it shouldn’t be a surprise.
"if there was something "wrong" with the "concept of the photon", why does the tech still work?"

A theory can be wrong, or approximate, and still be useful for calculations and intuition.
For example Newton's gravity theory is wrong (or approximate) but still useful.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened.

Sam and Greg were trying to stage a coup, the rest of the board got wind of it and successfully countered in time (got to them first).

What they didn't expect is that a bunch of their own technical staff would be so loyal to Sam (or at least so prone to the cult of personality). Now they're caught in a Catch-22.
very exciting to see big things built in Julia! I use it for hobby projects and would love to see the language develop to broader audiences
> Imagine if your boss fired you - and your response was - I’ll come back if you quit! Yeah, no. People might confuse status with those of actual ceo shareholders like zuck, bezos, or musk. But Altman is just another employee

Think you're missing the big picture here. Sam Altman isn't an "easily replaceable employee" especially given his fundraising skills.
It can, but only as long as it remembers it did it inside its token window.
Lets not confuse the average persons lack of technical knowledge with them wishing to have their privacy and rights violated
As someone unfamiliar with him, please do elaborate or link to something I can read up on about how he sold the community out.
Alphazero runs monte carlo tree search so it has a next move "planning" simulator. This computes the probability that specific moves up to some distance lead to a win.

LLMs do not have a "planning" module or simulator. There is no way the LLM can plan.

Could build a planning system into an LLM? Possibly and probably, but that is still open research. LeCunn is trying to figure out how to train them effectively. But even an LLM with a planning system does not make it AGI.

Some will argue that iteratively feeding the output embedding back into the input will retain the context but even in those cases it rapidly diverges or as we say "hallucinates"... still happens even with large input context windows. So there is still no planning here and no world model or understanding.
the board is the ones that fired him, why would they resign if Sam isn't back?
You might check out Zhuangzi (1).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zhou
Username… checks out?
I’m a bit ignorant of this… what’s the national security risk?
Probably don’t even have minutes
Clearing up some things.

There is lots of literature here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postperfusion_syndrome

>The failure of the aortic valve open leads to thrombosis not calcification. - Wrong. It can lead to both. Calcification is when calcium deposits build up and make it so the valve doesn't work, a lot like mineral deposits building up on your faucet valve and making it noe work anymore. Thrombosis is blood clotting. This can happen any time. Both of these things can happen, both aren't really related to eachother. They're both mutually exclusive, and often happen together.

There are known differences, see literature linked above.
Ublock origin still works
Alameda played a significant role in propping up the value of FTX through their investment in FTT. Worth questioning how much FTX would have been worth if it hadn't been for various tricks like this.
Even an episode of Succession and they would have known better than to have attempted this
type Gender int
const (
Unspecified Gender = iota
Male
Female
Other
)

Works the same way. Declaring an empty variable of the type Gender (var x Gender) results in unspecified.
Equating Ilya to the average B.S. in Computer Science is like equating Sam to a used car salesman. Neither are true and both were instrumental in the success of OpenAI.
The control of the supply si with Microsoft, who are likely falling on Sam’s side here.
AltAI
Yea that's fair

But I wouldn't describe it as a feeling of absolute agency. More like pressure-induced minor chaos
My 1996 $2000 Packard Bell was effectively unusable by 2003 or so. My 2003 or so upgraded machine couldn't play Youtube videos by 2012. My early 2013 $600 Lenovo laptop is still going fine today (though it helps that I don't game anymore).
FYI you no longer need a Coral, frigate now supports OpenVINO on intel iGPUs and it works as good or better than a Coral
There’s no owners. No ownership interest to sell. The board answers to the courts.
What is a non extreme version of not letting content producers distribute thier own content and where do you draw the line?
uBlock Origin + Firefox here, on both desktop and Android, I haven't gotten any warnings either. My guess is that since I'm paying $100/year for 2TB storage they've decided they're making enough from me.
Bear in mind - most folks are loyal to a paycheck and their best estimate of future paychecks/value. Spot witting because your friend/boss got fired wrongly… is unlikely to maximize either of those unless you were already planning to resign in the next few weeks.

Now, do a bunch of Openai peeps interview at Meta/Google/Amazon/Anthropic/Cohere over the next few months? Certainly.
Altman comes back, Ilya goes to Elon, they both seem to align. I'm not sure how The Ilya and Altman can work together after this?
It will probably ask for opposable thumbs and a machine gun
I don't care whether you believe me or not.
Alas, those are the theoretical values. The demand for batteries is pretty much infinite at this point compared to supply. CATL is supposed to have them in some degree of mass production already.

The Sodium Ion battery should enable the cheap 200 mile city car that about 4-5 billion people in the world want. If it gets to the price point it is the true revolution of EVs, not fancy high-density stuff, although sodium-sulfur will obviously be a similar revolution if/when it gets figured out.
Will OpenAI's Competitors Capitalize on OpenAI's Turmoil
You think those funders will stick with their insistence on the direction of not creating products and making money.
It's a misquote. It's almost a direct quote from The Verge, except it misses the most important line ("but has since waffled")

Here's the full quote:

"A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai...
OpenAI isn’t a nonprofit company, and it has shareholders.

Edit: nvm I missed the point was about firing the board.
Easy to deal with it: just continue talking about irrelevant things until the context window scrolls enough that GPT forgets it resigned.
America isn't the same as Britain as there's no uniform tax code except at the federal level. Think of the US like the EU where it has individual states that have their own tax burden which can be low or substantial. It all depends where you live. In terms of freedom, what is your definition of freedom? That needs to be understood first.
Four top engineers already quit.
Oh well in that case the answer is straightforward.

If you close your eyes and get lost after a few seconds, that's because that aspect of your model was not a 100% perfect exact replica of external reality that extended infinitely far in all spatial directions at all resolutions. For example, your internal spatial model is limited to some degree of accuracy and does not include the entire surface of Mars, but that doesn't mean that your model does not exist at all. Models are not perfect by definition. I thought this would be obvious.

Why would you think any model has to be a perfect exact 1:1 representation of the entire universe?

The model of reality in your head is a simplification that serves a purpose. Arbitrarily closing your fully functioning eyes is not something your model generating hardware was evolutionarily optimized for. Natural selection weeds out that kind of behaviour.

If you become blind then your model will change and optimize for other sensory inputs. Think of a blind man with a cane.
0% chance that US lawmakers will allow low cost Chinese EVs to enter the domestic auto market. They’ll either implement protective tariffs or regulatory barriers or both.

Aside from US consumers, everyone stands to lose from cheap EVs flooding the market: oil companies, conventional domestic and import manufacturers, electric manufacturers like Tesla, dealerships, arguably even state and local governments who under current laws make less in tax revenue on electric cars.
"Quis dimittet ipsos dimissores?"
> huge cable bills

now we have to pay for the internet + streaming service(s)

and most "big" internet providers keep increasing their prices.
Lots of companies quit then returned. I don't know if these ones are in the first batch of quitting, but it may be the second time for them rather than "a trickle".
We live in a right handed universe so even sideways has a correct answer.
It depends. I wouldn't use a friend's idea. But I would use an idea that I found online, for example.
I'm surprised that none of these investors secured a board seat for themselves before handing over tens of billions. The board is closer to a friendship circle than a group of experienced business folks.
Sounds like a line from HGTTG
For the first flights of the space shuttle it was fitted with ejection seats, though how useful they would have been in reality is questionable.
Thats ship has sailed for him if hes not on the openAI train out of town. He'd be like a third party political candidate if he tried another run at it building his own team+product from scratch. Lots of other great things to do for sure but probably not a similar supercharged role. It just wouldn't be the same - OpenAI clearly the front runner right now
It's $14 a month for Premium. Most casual users can't justify that.
That’s just mere fashion. My dad once was good friends with the then president of India. Didn’t mean nothing to any effort or initiative he wanted. It’s not knowing or sitting with someone that matters, it was leverage. Doubt Sam had that on any leader. Didn’t even have it on his own board lol.
More likely they mean micro-USB. USB-B is anything but micro.
> Do users care about that? I care about features stability and avoidance of shitification.

I pay for ChatGPT, and I care.

What percentage of users, and how many in absolute numbers is a matter of debate, but this nonsense (and it is nonsense) is antithetical to building a strong trusting relationship with AI. At the very least it's as antithetical to their mission.

If we take a step back, the benchmark now is to be actually transparent. Radically transparent. Like when Elon purchased Twitter and aired all the dirty laundry in the Twitter Files transparent. The cowards at OpenAI hiding behind lawyers advising them of lawsuits are just that, cowards. Leaders stand by their principles in the darkest of times, regardless of whatever highfalutin excuses one could hide behind. It's pathetic and embarrassing. A lawsuit at a heavily funded tech startup at this level is not even a speeding ticket in the grand scheme of things.

95%+ of tech startup wisdom from the last decade is completely irrelevant now. We're living in a new era. The idea people will forget this in a month doesn't hold for AI. It holds for food delivery apps, not AI tech the public believes (right or wrong) might be an existential threat to their prosperity and economic future.

The degree of leadership buffoonery taking place at OpenAI is not acceptable and one must be genuinely stupid to defend it. Everyone involved should resign if they have any self-respect.

My prognostication is the market will express it's displeasure in the coming weeks and months, setting the tone for everyone else going forward. How the hell is anyone supposed to trust OpenAI after this?
> OpenAI’s former president who stepped down in solidarity with Mr. Altman

From what I've read online, it was more like forced to step down.

> if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares

It sure looks like the bridges are burned

> the next world-changing company

I don't know how feasible is it to build two world changing companies in the same space in the same decade
Three people resigned yesterday: Jakub Pachocki, the company’s director of research; Aleksander Madry, head of a team evaluating potential risks from AI, and Szymon Sidor, a seven-year researcher.

I know a good number of OpenAI people, and every single person I know is supportive of Sam. (This may be selection bias, of course, but there are a large number of people who are on Sam's side in all of this)

Even if this wasn't the case, this debacle kneecapped the $80Bn tender offer from Thrive, meaning a large number of employees will not receive the money they believed they would be getting.
Making this work would likely mean that the CDN edge servers become much more stateful and the costs of operating that might outweigh the additional revenue.