skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes!

This is the nugget of this affair if indeed you are concerned about the effect and role of AI in human civilization.

The captains at the helm are not mature individuals. The mature ones (“the adult table”) are motivated by profit and claim no responsibility other than to “shareholders”.
The Peso is soft pegged to a flushing toilet.
I don’t believe startups can have successful exits without extraordinary leadership (which the current board can never find). The people quitting are simply jumping off a sinking ship.
NN/ai concepts have been around for a while. It is just computers had not been fast enough to make it practical. It was also harder to get capital back then. Those guys put the silicon in silicon valley.
A new ultrasound patch can measure how full your bladder is
"Frisco" anyone?

No?
Crazy Efficient: AMD Threadripper 7980X and 7970X CPU Review and Benchmarks [video]
Don't know what's happening, but MS looks to be a winner in long run, and probably most others. Who stay gets promotion, who leaves gets fat check. The loosers are customers, no GPT-5 or any significant improvements any time soon. MS made GPT will be much more closed and pricey. Oh, yes, competitors are happy too.
> It could possibly be done zero-shot using prompting of a LLM

That's how I've been thinking of doing it - seemed like you could use a much smaller GPT-J-ish model for that, and measure the relative probability of 'yes' vs 'no' tokens in response to a question like 'is the user done talking'. Seemed like even that would be orders of magnitude better than just waiting for silence.
> Would going back to medieval times fix it?

Going back to the 90s probably would.
The whole thing starts to look like a coup orchestrated by Microsoft
That is a spectacular power move: extending 700 job offers, many of which would be close to $1 million per year compensation.
It’s unlikely that he can actually do this.

- he doesn’t have anything like a majority in the Argentine congress (in either house). I don’t know Argentine law and would welcome comments from someone who actually does but it would surprise me if this is something the president can do unilaterally.

- as a practical matter, Argentina itself does not have enough dollars to make this happen. You need a ton (more than that…) literally of physical currency to make this work. I don’t think their reserves are sufficient to cover it. (You need many additional tons of coins to make it practical too…)

Separately this is generally not a great idea economically. You do kill inflation in Argentina (replaced with American inflation but that is extremely low and stable by Argentine standards). But you have no control over your monetary policy or your exchange rates. If your economy is export driven to (e.g.) China, you now have to worry about the dollar-yuan rate, which is not under your control.

Of course this is also Argentina which is a particular basket case economically so I won’t rule out the possibility that this could be better than what they have now (or would have had under the loser in this election). But my guess is this would be worse if implemented.

For a country which produces a large number of really outstanding economists (including great macroeconomists!) Argentina is surprising disaster.
I don’t think he’s getting a job at Microsoft, even if everyone else does.
Good luck getting any talking therapy through the NHS. From what I understand it's not an area they invest in.
So, all this happens over Meet, in Twitter, and by email. What is the possibility of an AGI having took over the control of the board members' accounts? It would be consistent with the feeling of a hallucination here.
Argentine here.

This is false: we will abolish legal tender.

Currencies will compete.
Many people will choose the dollar.

This is the fulfillment of Hayek dream of stripping control of the currency from the state.
If you have:

- intellectual property as of today

- the servers that run it

- the people that wrote it

- the executive leadership that executed the play so far and know the roadmap ahead

What else do you need?
> Are Microsoft the good guys now

I don't think any huge corporation is "the good guys", although sometimes they do some good things.
Emissions from ChatGPT are much higher than from conventional search
Board will be ousted, new board will instruct interim CEO to hire back Sam at al, Nadella will let them go for a small favor, happy ending.
Everything on social media (and general news media) pointed to Ilya instigating the coup. Maybe Ilya was never the instigator, maybe it was Adam + Helen + Tasha, Greg backed Sam and was shown the door, and Ilya was on the fence, and perhaps against better judgment, due to his own ideological beliefs, or just from pure fear of losing something beautiful he helped create, under immense pressure, decided to back the board?
Well, TCP is stream oriented and unicast, but doesn't take much to conceive a message oriented protocol that does anycasting.

As a real world example of anycasting queue that I'm sure you have used, consider the queue behind accept(2) or pthread_condition_wait.
Let me clear, as a local to Stratford (not within direct line of sight to where this would be though), I don't particularly support this project. But, there's already a fair amount of green space around the Olympic park.
633 isn’t as based-on-true-events as Dambusters. AFAIK there was no actual collapse-a-cliff mission, though various sub pen destruction bombing attacks were carried out.

It’s true that the action in 633 is closer to Star Wars, though. Dambusters is what Lucas cribbed some lines and the cutting between the action and the control room thing from, but the action itself is more from 633. It’s also a better movie. The action in Dambusters is remarkably ugly and hard to follow even by the standards of contemporary (and much older!) air combat movies.

[edit] oh, and talk about ripping off 633—the new Top Gun! Complete with all the mocked-up training runs! Hahaha.
Is this final stages of the singularity?
Probably just the trademark. I doubt you get 10B from microsoft and still manage to maintain much independence.
> Frankly it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone

Sounds like that's what someone wants and is trying to obfuscate what's going on behind the scenes.

If Windows 11 shows us anything about Microsoft's monopolistic behavior, having them be the ring of power for LMM's makes the future of humanity look very bleak.
What a bunch of immatures.

If anything this proves that everybody is replaceable and fireable, they should be happy because usually that treatment is only reserved to workers.

Whatever made OpenAI successful will still be there within the company. Next man up philosophy has built so many amazing organizations and ruined none.
We can certainly believe Ilya wasn't behind it if he joins them at Microsoft. How about that? By his own admission was involved, and he's one of 4 people on the board. While he has called on the board to resign, he has seemingly not resigned which would be the one thing he could certainly control.
How about: acquimire
_I_ would in their shoes because I'm not just in it for the money and I care about the craft.

But clearly I am not them. :-) Mathematically it doesn't make sense for Google. It might make sense from an anti-trust perspective...
This makes the old twitter look like the Wehrmacht in comparison.

The old twitter did not decide to randomly detonate themselves when they were worth $80 billion. In fact they found a sucker to sell to, right before the market crashed on perpetually loss-making companies like twitter.
The best part of Satya’s tweet is that he opens it with “we’re committed to our partnership with OpenAI” and then mentions that he’s hiring Sam and Greg and “colleagues”. Nearly spat my tea out laughing at that one. Well played.
CC-BY-SA is much closer to GPL.
Are you trying to day it's rare or not rare?
Obviously this is just some people talking nonsense on an obscure news group, but the premise is wrong: 808x didn't need to be faster than an 8-bit CPU. The reason someone bought an 8088 computer was to run 8086 software. That software wouldn't run on an 8-bit machine. E.g. it was close to impossible to run a C compiler on an 8-bit system. The talk of bus width and 16-bit multiply is irrelevant. The feature people wanted is the ability to address more than 64K memory.
I hear Microsoft is hiring... the board should have resigned on Friday, Saturday the latest because of how they handled this and it is insane if they don't resign now.

Employees are the most affected stakeholders here and the board utterly failed in their duty of care towards people that were not properly represented in the board room. One thing they could do is to unionize and then force that they be given a board seat.
At this point, after almost 3 days of non-stop drama, and we still have no clue what has happened to a 700 employees company under million of people watching. Regardless the outcome, the art of keeping secrets at OpenAI is truly far beyond human capability!
>(so only actual things that can be prescribed and work, not optional luxury or homeopathy crap).

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Semaglutide has been approved (ie. has proven to work) for the treatment of obesity.

>In France I doubt there's any differentiation of fancy vs non-fancy versions of foods, let alone cheeses. It'd be insulting to the nation to contemplate such a thing.

Do you know this for a fact or just simply guessing? I find it very unlikely that France (or any other free market economy) doesn't practice product segmentation for foods.

>I didn't know jewellery was a prerequisite to getting married.

But poor and middle class people buy "luxury" stuff as well. When that happens, how is it fair that they're getting taxed the same as Bezos buying a mega-yach?
> Taken all this into account, it is possible that the emissions from a ChatGPT query are more than a hundred times that of a conventional search query. But as I don't have enough data to back this up, I will keep the conservative estimates from above (50x - 90x; 60x most likely).

> Now, if we want sustainable ICT, then the sector as a whole needs to reduce its emissions to a quarter from the current ones by 2040. The combined increase in energy use and growth in adoption of ChatGPT-like applications is therefore deeply problematic.
Oh my goodness, this just gets more entertaining everyday.

Money talks...
I guess this is the Open in OpenAI, eh?

Absolutely bonkers.
But wouldn’t the coup have required 4 votes out of 6 which means she voted yes? If not then the coup was executed by just 3 board members? I’m confused.
If it wasn't for X we'd be hearing some flavour of the news in 24 hours time, from mainstream media, with all their editorial biases, axes to grind and advertisers to placate.

It's fascinating to hear realtime news directly from the people making it.
“All of my friends go some place where I don’t agree with their policies. Therefore the place should change their policies”.
I've gotten that really slow UI loading almost always lately and I've always assumed that it's because I'm running uBlock Origin.

Although I just tried opening two videos and both opened basically instantly.
Are they intentionally conflating privacy with ads? They are still going to harvest your data either way.
Deservedly or not, Satya Nadella will look like a genius in the aftermath. He has and will continue to leverage this situation to strengthen MSFT's position. Is there word of any other competitors attempting to capitalize here? Trying to poach talent? Anything...
Do you think that people buying mechanical watches are under the illusion that they're more accurate?

Some people surely buy them for the status symbol aspect, and those are definitely the ones we notice because their watches are big and tacky.

There are far more mechanical watches who don't wear brazen Rolex-esque "look at me" watches. You may not notice us because we're wearing Seikos, Citizens, Timexes, etc.

Ironically the accuracy and ubiquity of mobile phone based timekeeping has made mechanical watches more practical. You don't need your wristwatch to be hyperaccurate if you're carrying a phone.

when a $10 digital watch does the job of timekeeping just as well

Surely not everything in your life is chosen strictly on terms of absolute performance?

I'm sure you own some articles of clothing that were chosen despite the existence of cheaper alternatives that are functionally equivalent for your use cases.
Maybe Sam Altman was starting to build out the features that poe had, making poe into a redundant middleman? We see that a lot.

By ousting Sam Altman they could ensure that OpenAI would stay just offering bare bones API to models and thus keep poe relevant.
He seriously underestimated how much rank and file employees want $$$ over an idealistic vision (and sam altman is $$$) but if he backs down now, he will pretty much lose all credibility as a decision maker for the company.
Naming it RustGPT because parts of the ui was written in Rust feels weird, you could name it HtmxGPT aswell.

In reality, it contributes nothing to gpt.
inb4: this is why we need unions!
>, then Microsoft essentially killed their own $13B investment in OpenAI earlier this year.

For investment deals of that magnitude, Microsoft probably did not literally wire all $13 billion to OpenAI's bank account the day the deal was announced.

More likely that the $10b to $13 headline-grabbing number is a total estimated figure that represents a sum of future incremental investments (and Azure usage credits, etc) based on agreed performance milestones from OpenAI.

So, if OpenAI doesn't achieve certain milestones (which can be more difficult if a bunch of their employees defect and follow Sam & Greg out the door) ... then Microsoft doesn't really "lose $10b".
> People will always try to store their wealth in inperishable goods.

Exactly this. This is how money came to be, "organically", in the first place. Because of modern fiat currency people tend to think that money is some sort of invention, but it doesn't take much to realize that if you're a dairy farmer then barter is completely untenable. How do you save and store enough milk to buy a car, and who has a car for sale and wants to trade it for a ton of milk anyway?

Throughout history everything from salt to spices to metals has been used as currency. There are 5 properties that make for a good currency:

- Easily divisible

- Relatively light weight / easy to store

- Difficult to counterfeit / fake

- Other people are highly willing to trade for it (high market value)

- Durable / non-perishable

You need all of the above, which is why precious metals became so common.

If fiat currency "expired" then people would just replace it with something that satisfies durable / non-perishable.
I think the benefit of going to Microsoft is they have that perpetual license to OpenAI's existing IP. And Microsoft is willing to fund the compute.
I don’t get it either. Who gives two shits about a sv bigwig who’s playbook appears to have been promote open ai and then immediately try to pull up the ladder and lock it with regulatory action.

This guy is a villain.
No small employer wants a disgruntled employee who was forced out of a better deal. Satya Nadella has proven reasonable throughout the weekend. I would expect he asked for a seat on the board if there's a reshuffle, or at least someone he trusts there.
It's not over until the last stone involved in the avalanche stops moving and it is anybody's guess right now what the final configuration will be.

But don't be surprised if Shear also walks before the week is out, if some board members resign but others try to hold on and if half of OpenAI's staff ends up at Microsoft.
I can't reproduce this either. YT on FF plays immediately for me
How’s the security? If I render other people’s stuff, how do I know that render code doesn’t install a keylogger, steal my auth cookies, and send spam email from my machine?
They might not be able to if the legal department is involved. Both in the case of maybe-pending legal issues, and because even rich people get employment protections that make companies wary about giving reasons.
Can you be more specific about what you mean?

Can Facebook know that for instance I am a man, or I live in the US, or that I speak English? What is the line?

Ive never seen a practical model for what "privacy" means in this regard. Of course targeted ads are not new, as advertisments you see in Vogue is different than those in Men's Fitness and different that those in Jet.

So happy to consider the idea that privacy is something that can't be sold no matter the price as long as you have a coherent model of what privacy is
Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish for those unfamiliar.
Milei voiced opposition to BRICS so I don't think this has any effect on that.

Bloomberg article covering Argentina's dollarization when it was first proposed by Milei which has some better info on what that means for Argentina
https://archive.is/tef4H
IMF paper linked at the bottom of that article is a good read on what dollarization actually means for an economy outside of a political agenda.
Employees at OpenAI have signed a letter telling the board to resign
Our currency is already super devaluated and everything has been artificially frozen for three months now, because the main rival was our current ministry of economy and he burned all ships to try win the election. So expect at least one if not two huge devaluations (40-60% each) before the year ends.

At the beginning of next year you will be able to exchange every peso in existence for about 40 billion USD or so, a lot a money, but not really...
Childhood dreams change too. iirc, my earliest dreams were to be a photographer, scientist, explorer. My parents eventually convinced me into thinking that being a doctor is the only way to be successful and that was my dream most of my childhood.

Later in my early teen years, I was impressed by technology & business and wanted to do tech start up. My parents again convinced me to stay focused on medicine because I could earn enough from it and do my own business in my 40s.

And then I got into video games and wanted to make my own games. I started to learn some programming on my own and I was good at it. I was never good with biology and chemistry. Eventually I failed to get into medical school and did computer science.

My goal was to make games but I am doing pretty good as a backend-focused fullstack dev.
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Someone passed this along to me. They have some cool features to go up against Jira.
Not necessarily, it would be just RAG, the use the standard Bing search engine to retrieve top K candidates, and pass those to OpenAI API in a prompt.
Written history is usually a simplification that has lost a lot of the context and nuance from it.

I don't need to follow in real-time, but a lot of the context and nuance can be clearly understood at the moment and so it stills helps to follow along even if that means lagging on the input.
"it would take an extraordinary mind to foresee all the possible twists."

How far along were they on GPT-5?
From the perspective of an observer on the ground. From your perspective, the observer on the ground will appear to age faster.
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

1. Board decides to can Sam and Greg.
2. Hides the real reasons.
3. Thinks that they can keep the OpenAI staff in the dark about it.
4. Crashes future 90b stock sale to zero.

What have we learned:
1. If you hide reasons for a decision, it may be the worst decision in
form of the decision itself or implementation of the decision via your
own lack of ownership of the actual decision.
2. Title's, shares, etc. are not control points. The control points is the
relationships of the company problem solvers with the existential threat stakeholders of the firm.

The board itself absent Sam and Greg never had a good poker hand, they needed to fold sometime ago before this last weekend. Look at this way for 13B in cloud credits MS is getting team to add 1T to their future worth....
Many organizations forbid providing references, but then this policy is hard to enforce. It is weird to be asked for a reference from your current employer, though.
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There are also some very questionable statements in the articlle like saying that 6502 instructions only need one cycle. It's 2 to 7 in reality.
Over the years the comparison between 6502 vs Z80 tend to show that you have to clock the Z80 at about twice the frequency of the 6502 to get the same performance. 8088 having a slight edge over the Z80 it is clear that a 5 MHz will be quite faster than a 1 MHz 6502 (C64 was even under 1MHz as the VIC chip would steal some cycles every 8th display line)
Capital punishment exists in many countries, but still fails to dissuade many people of murder.

It's not about wanting to destroy the world, but short term greed whose consequences destroy the world.
OpenAI's upper ceiling in for-profit hands is basically Microsoft-tier dominance of tech in the 1990s, creating the next uber billionaire like Gates. If they get this because of an OpenAI fumble it could be one of the most fortunate situations in business history. Vegas type odds.

A good example of how just having your foot in the door creates serendipitous opportunity in life.
Does the Nostr community have an opinion on key management? The FAQ says:

“How do I find people to follow?
First, you must know them and get their public key somehow, either by asking or by seeing it referenced somewhere.”

You can do a lot of cool things if you start by assuming everyone has a strong identity communicated via key pairs. The trick is managing those keys… discovery, validation, revocation, etc.

Keybase was (is?) amazing for this. They couldn’t figure out the business model though, and it’s a zombie since the Zoom acquisition. Keys.pub tried a more open implementation, but has been discontinued.
In non-WhatsApp ubiquitous places, “what’s your IG?” is the standard when you meet someone in the wild. You can always go with “oh, just WhatsApp me!”, but then again you’re still on Meta. I’m talking about age range till like 35ish, probably.

Also, significant chunk of people don’t use Instagram/Facebook for posts, but just like another messaging app. I basically have my notifications enabled for DMs, and not that interested in content scrolling.
Nah, you have to use the classic
1) What
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880
It looks like it's OpenAI²: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726516824597258569
FreshRSS does that. You can self host it or sign up on an existing server. https://www.freshrss.org/
'eat your own lunch before someone else does'
It is fascinating, how the simplest things on websites can be made arbitrarily involved, convoluted, over-complicated. And how those over-complications can then serve as a credible deniability.
Exports. Argentina should be a wealthy country, but it’s been squandered by corrupt politicians.
>"I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions."

Wasn't he supposed to be the instigator? That makes it sound like he was playing a less active role than claimed.
Microsoft is eating the world
Do you have an authorative source on the vitamin K information? Not because I doubt it, I just want to read about it.
> it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyon

Didn't follow this closely, but isn't that implicitly what an ex-CEO could have possibly been accused off ie. not acting in the company's best interest but someone else's? Not unprecedented either eg. the case of Nokia/Elop.
Nah, you have to use the classic

"1) What"

https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880