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It's important because right now everyone, OpenAI employees included, has no idea why Sam Altman was fired. And now we're being told that we may or may not hear the reason in 30 days.

What could the reason be that would justify this kind of wait?

I'll point out that Sam also doesn't seem to want to say the reason (possibly he's legally forbidden?). And all of the people following him out of OpenAI don't know, and are simply trusting him enough to be willing to leave without knowing.
Dunno. As distinct from lies? Perhaps.

IIRC early Christianity thought acting violated the ten commandments, and some fiction writers today say their job is to tell lies for money.
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My point was that it's not a matter or DirectML or torch, it's simply a choice of backend for torch. It's an easy way of adding AMD support to torch based projects in Windows, there's probably an equally easy way of adding ROCm support in Linux. It's just that using cpu or Cuda is built in and usually the two default options when writing torch code, and somebody have to care enough to explicitly add AMD support.

It's not exactly as easy as just changing one line by the way, not all operations are implemented so there's some testing and maybe some rewrites needed. Hopefully the GPU backend mess gets solved in the general case soon.
Shells don't generally use the libc environment; this would be too limited to implement even standard POSIX shell functions with local variables, or non-exported variables. It's much easier to set up purpose-built data structures to track variables, and construct an argument for execve().

(Edit: removed unneeded pointing out execve)

Also shells generally have their own program search anyway since they need to support built-in commands. It's not particularly hard to implement PATH search.
I would say it has more or less equal revenue streams in comparison to other tech giants.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff8RCKwUcAEkWk_?format=jpg&name=...

If you look at the charts with revenue streams - Microsoft is the most diversified in that regard, because basically each and every branch of Microsoft produces the similar amount of revenue.

With Xbox getting Activision it lifts up More Personal Computing to the level, comparable to other streams (and even higher than Windows).
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It is a massive stretch given how well the materials are policed or how much effort is required to make them. There is no reason to assume that there is some magic shortcut that AI will discover.
Hm, it does not correspond to my observations. I'm using Firefox and the videos load and start just as they usually do.

A/B testing? :)
> I really don't understand why any technically proficient user would willingly use any of the official YouTube frontends.

- Because I don't see ads with YouTube Premium

- Because I add things to my playlists

- Because I more often than not find interesting things to watch there

- Because I like using it on my phone or TV

There's a lot of reasons why someone would prefer the official apps over some third party app that might break every few months.
In this context, this is about the idea of AI safety. This can either refer to the more short-term concerns about AI helping to spread misinformation (e.g. ChatGPT being used to churn out massive amounts of fake news) or implicit biases (e.g. "predictive policing" using AI to analyze crime data that ends up incarcerating minorities because of accidental biases in its training set). Or it can refer to the longer term fears about a super-human intelligence that would end up acting against humanity for various reasons, and efforts to create a super-human AI that would have the same moral goals as us (and the fear that a non-safe AGI could be accidentally created).

In this specific conversation, one of the proposed scenarios is that Ilya Sutskever wanted to focus OpenAI more on AI safety at the possible detriment of fast advancements towards intelligence, and at the detriment of commercialization; while Sam Altman wants to prioritize the other two over excessive safety concerns. The new CEO is stating that this is not the core reason why the board took their decision.
To me this just feels wasteful. Most APIs only ever return one type of thing. So the business of asking for application/json with every request and then the API confirming that, yes, it's still sending application/json;charset=utf-8 just seems a pointless waste of bandwidth. Same with API versioning. Most APIs are stuck at v1 forever. It never changes. It never gets verified. It gets hard coded all over the place. All for the option to, maybe introduce a v2 on the same server. Seems like a lot of premature optimization for not a whole lot of gain.
The control still resides with the platform, a lot of those feeds are of the title+first sentence type, so you'd still need to visit the platform to read the content
A 5 SECOND timeout for a concurrency issue? I doubt it.
I would imagine that in a well coordinated company engaging in this kind of thing, the order wouldn't be "slow down firefox", but something along the lines of "use XYZ feature that firefox doesn't support and then use this polyfill for FF, which happens to be slow". Something that doesn't look too incriminating during any potential discovery process, while still getting you what you want.
And the Minecraft mod packs have a much higher complexity than Factorio. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jYSfDcbY0w0
The Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Python Foundation, RISC-V, and Wikimedia Foundation are all esteemed non-profits crucial to technology's advancement...
I think putting out fires is a great start for an interim CEO. It's kind of the job description.
considering how an AI is built, it's ironic that you're skeptical of popular thinking.
> In the last day this site has been all about him.

I don't know what you mean? having lots of HN posts about you doesn't show leadership, it at most shows fanboyism amongst HN posters.
that's too infrequent for the news
follow the money

employees will follow orders, orders are made by people who control the money
lol, I think this ended up being one of several factors that made me switch to firefox (now vivaldi).

The "extra chance to consider your life choices and do you really want to watch this video" was a feature not a bug.

Plus now tiktok and telegram are orders of magnitude more popular than YT. Im seeing more and more creators arrive on YT as their "second choice" platform.
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-strategies/app-and...

Seems odd to do something so brazen while also publishing information that (could) prove intent.

Google also modifies how business information can be accessed from Firefox Mobile. You can't read reviews easily from Firefox Mobile. At least not my install.
I don't use firefox but have noticed a strange delay occurring during the past day or two. Wondering if it's coincidence. I use ublock origin, so maybe youtube's detecting its presence somehow and forcing a delay? (ublock is up to date so I don't get the message from youtube telling me to stop using adblockers - perhaps this is their next attempt to annoy people into paying/allowing ads?).
It was made by 2 people. Probably neither of them have Macbooks.
Developing new algorithms and methods doesn't necessarily, or even typically, take billions.
Yeah, fork()+immediately exec() should be safe, but those use cases are almost always better with posix_spawn(), due to issues with fork(), like memory copying. And if you want to use the p-variant of posix_spawn you’re back to setting PATH beforehand. These APIs designed back in Stone Age just aren’t very well thought-out wrt concurrency and high performance.
Yes, moral Puritans just in a new modern form.
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A clever person got that account banned. When you try logging in with that email and a random password, it will fail, and Windows will allow you create a local account. (ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37179504, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33049235).
Unlimited time off sounds like a really nice idea, but it seems that you are not alone in your conclusions, and some companies who have paid attention to the efficacy or otherwise of the policy have had a rethink. Here's a case study by an HR software company from the UK on why they found it to be counterproductive. I found this case study whilst researching unlimited time off whilst interviewing for a job at Shopify a couple of years ago as they had such a policy (glad I passed on it, given the number of jobs they've shed since then!).

https://www.charliehr.com/blog/we-tried-unlimited-holiday-he...
> most of the current OpenAI staff would follow him

Source please? This just keeps getting repeated but there’s extremely limited public support and neither Sam’s nor the board’s decisions indicate he has a whole lot of leverage.
If that’s true, it is pure evil.
Official open hours are unfortunately not the real open hours. As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38331076 writes, I was also standing several times in front of the building just to read on a sheet of paper at the entrance that the pool is closed.
This thread is a Duplicate of parent.
>watch a non-profit board destroy a piece of software,

You're saying this while the top thread on HN at the same time is how Firefox is artificially slowed down on Youtube lol. That is why they lost market share. Not because they lack the incentive to shove ads in your face, but because companies that run the internet also run Firefox's competition.

Firefox is objectivele fine. Linux is fine, openAI as a research institute would be fine. They aren't stagnant, they're being gutted or undermined by competitors that will not see them succeed.
I doubt OpenAI employees will take much of a loss, Sam Altman will probably get MSFT to match their salaries, and they will still have a licence to use most of the OpenAI IP including GPT-4 weights.

The real loss is taken by the other OpenAI investors.
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WCA Delegate here. The limiting factor generally isn't cost, but the need to handle cubes of various sizes and other puzzles entirely. Having a robot that can only scramble a 3x3 isn't useful for the majority of competitions.
Where did you get that strange idea?
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I use it via Azure Open AI service which was uncensored... for a while.

Now you have to apply in writing to Microsoft with a justification for having access to an uncensored API.
"Open"AI indeed was, and is, ironic, but in reality, MS acquisition of Altman and co is not going to change anything for anybody besides a bunch of California socialites. Not sure what sort of democratisation you are referring to, but I can bet my firstborn that whatever product MS develops will be just as open as GPT4.
They have done such research before, Google published this at a time when developers were all "100 ms more or less web load time doesn't matter". Since then webpages has gotten much more focused on performance.

https://blog.research.google/2009/06/speed-matters.html
is it still a thing that you have to use Edge on windows to get 4k HDR, but you can't on Chrome?
Buy a movie on YT or DVD, and then... watch a torrented version? This isn't the future we were promised, but it sure is the future we have.
The board of directors trying to get Altman back after firing him effective immediately, failing, and giving the job to their second choice underscores the level of incompetence and lack of professionalism at OpenAI. They seem to be in a bit over their heads with a company that is supposedly worth 80bln dollars. Not with that board it's worth that much.
I wonder if this actually decreases the byte over wire. 5000 compresses a lot better.... sorry for OT
I've recently done a pc upgrade and am now enjoying 64 gigs of ram. Decided to watch a live stream on youtube this weekend.

Firefox: 22 GB of ram usage for the youtube tab after ~15 minutes. Tab became unresponsive.

Edge: Out of memory error after ~5 minutes.

Chrome: working fine, the youtube tab sitting peacefully ay 400-600 MB.
The original paper: https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2310.16191
Nah, that's got a risk profile. They could implement whatever your strategy is in the next release. You aren't going to necessarily get the longevity of the naive approach.

Plus a Firefox dev would discover that more easily as opposed to this version which they can just dismiss as some JavaScript bug on YouTube's part
Should be: LOL LGTM
I'm not sure if reading the book would help. If the manager has a technical background (e.g., they have worked as developers before) then they already know the main point of the book. If the manager does not have a tech background, then there's little that the book can do for them.
I think it's already unquestionable that the board fucked up. That's not to say this has to be the end of OpenAI or anything so drastic. But announcing you're suddenly firing your CEO for lying to his board, without discussing it with the President of the Board who you are also side-lining, then having your interim-CEO start negotiations to bring the lying CEO back, then firing this interim CEO to bring on a new interim CEO - all in the span of a few hours - is ridiculous behavior. I very much doubt anyone will take the actions of this board seriously in the future, and I very much doubt they will remain in power if OpenAI does continue.
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They aren’t CS graduates so they can’t really be human or have thought processes. Literally stealing their work to pad a VC linesheet must honestly be the most altruistic of options.
Corporations literally are maximizing profit. Researchers at least can have other motives.

If Microsoft came up with a way of making trillion dollars in profit by enslaving half the planet, it kinda has to do it.
I am sure Sutskever knows openai as an economically competitive entity has been living on borrowed time. this is a global arms race and this tech will bleed out everywhere. implementing LLMs is not rocket science per se and there are multiple places in the world this work can be done.

the bottleneck right now is mostly compute I think, and openai does not have the resources or expertise to allieviate that bottleneck on a timescale that can save them.
I hope they keep this code in YT.

It will be a party for the EU to punish Google with an anti-monopoly lawsuit.

Best case: google gets forced to split up chrome, youtube and search as they obviously abuse their power.
I don't know what OpenAI board fears, but until someone gives electric grid controlls to AI or something like that, the only big negative impact is education.

I' curious, how did wikipedia destroyed your generation? I see it (and use it) as a great learning resource.
Haha, I didn't even think of that
The way you worded was very confusing to me as well. I also interpreted the same way. I’m not a native English speaker, though.
Odds on Emmet announcing he's joining Sam and Greg at MS by the end of the month?
Yeah but testing if they work does, that's the problem.

There are probably load so ways you can make language models with 100M parameters more efficient, but most of them won't scale to models with 100B parameters.

IIRC there is a bit of a phase transition that happens around 7B parameters where the distribution of activations changes qualitatively.

Anthropic have interpretability papers where their method does not work for 'small' models (with ~5B parameters) but works great for models with >50B parameters.
Also, it isn't uniquely attributable to Sam. They all do it, use copyrighted material, for training data. By "all", I mean all LLMs (to my knowledge). They don't do it intentionally, but it gets scooped up with everything else.

Hmmm, just thinking... Adam d'Angelo is one of the board members of OpenAI. He has the entire corpus of Quora content to use as training data, i.e. the rights to it are his. But I doubt that only Quora content was used by OpenAI during the past 8 years or so since it was founded! And the content on Quora isn't that great anyway...
All this Microsoft affair seemed weird from the beginning. After all, Elon and co. created OpenAI to compete with emerging AI monopoly of tech behemoths - Google/FB/MS.
I think they only disabled adblockers to logged users probably because non logged users don't have to agree to terms of services.
This is absolutely ridiculous and short-sighted. AI is a tool that is and always will make the creation of art less a matter of the expression of the human soul. What techies NEVER understand about art is this: that art is not just the end product for the artist but something they use to express THEMSELVES.

UNLIKE other tools, AI makes creative decisions. No other tool has done this, and moreover, its primary purpose is to take away the reliance on artists. The ultimate aim of BIG TECH is to take away this reliance so that they can be the ultimate source of cheap art, just like cheap slave labour is the ultimate source of cheap and unsustainable clothing for most people.

Therefore, AI will NEVER be a tool to create art like other tools. It is is a tool that will outcompete humans on a massive scale so that even if "normal human art" exists, it will never gain much traction or commercial viability.

To be honest, AI is absolutely sickening and companies like Microsoft and OpenAI make me sick.
I have the complete opposite perspective. Their initial api went live sometime late 2020. They have done a fantastic job scaling, releasing features while growing the business at a rate we have not seen many times before.
That's because it's not actually what's happening. I'm all for bashing bigcorps and especially ad empires but reddit folks confused correlation with causation here.

The code in question is part of a function that injects a video ad (that plays before the start) and the code itself is just a fallback in case it fails to load over 5 seconds so that video page doesn't break completely.

Why was this affected by user agent change? My best guess is that on some combinations they somehow decide not to show any ads at all (for now) and therefore this function is not called and some other code path is taken. This is consistent with my own experience with the recent anti-adblock bullshit they implemented. The banner was not being shown after user agent change implying it's one of the considered variables.

You can verify all this if you click 'format code' in browser debugger.
> Never mind that every other streaming app vendor figured this out

Did they? Both Prime Video and Disney+ have very very narrow subtitle and audio language choices.

> If you call their support, they'll gaslight you and mumble something about "copyright", which is patent nonsense. Copyright doesn't restrict Netflix from showing more translations for their own content that they made themselves. They own the copyright on it, which means, literally, that they have the right to do whatever they please with the copy. Including showing the associated subtitles to you.

Maybe they mean the subtitles' copyright?

As someone who speaks multiple languages, and has the habit of watching with subtitles in the original language of the content if I speak it; otherwise default to English subtitles with original audio... none of the streaming companies have managed to handle that properly. Way too often the audio is only dubbed (often badly), or only my subtitles in my local language (French) are available, regardless of the original language of the content. I'd rather watch British movies with subtitles in English, not French, thank you very much.
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People who only use smartphones are just screwed anyway.
> I love HL, and if I could get hold of it without Steam, I'd have it, but I don't know of a way to do that, and I've lost the copy I originally bought because leaving Steam meant loosing everything.

(Used) physical copies are still reasonably available. For Half-Life 1 those should all be pre-Steam AFAIK. The high seas are also always an option - don't let others' morals stop you from preserving your childhood memories.

Also while I don't mean to be uncritical of Steam and Valve, loosing access to your games sounds highly unusual. Did they actually take your stuff or are you simply choosing not to use Steam? If its the latter and you still have a working login, then you could download your Games using Steam, steamcmd [0] or reverse engineered downloaders [1] and play them forever using the Goldberg Emulator [2] instead of Steam.

[0] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

[1] https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

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Such fix won't sleep for 5000 ms though. In my reading it looks like a part of the adblocker detection code. (EDIT: Relocated the actual analysis to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38346602 for more visibility.)
How is the best way to programm with them?, IDE or LSP?
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With your large earnings you will have no problem paying for membership of a nice spa club of which there are many in Berlin. These places are not overrun with 'low education bracket people' as you put it but sadly however a scourge of a different sort, namely what I would describe as 'clueless ignorant pricks'....
Given the recent updates, yep they definitely missed lol. That's a lot of "openai is nothing without its people" tweets, including from the interim CEO...
That you think that there's like a handful of clever tricks that an AI can bestow upon some child and ta-da they can build a nuclear bomb in their basement is hilarious.

What an AI would almost certainly tell you is that building an atomic bomb is no joke, even if you have access to a nuclear reactor, have the budget of a nation-state, and can direct an entire team of trained nuclear physicists to work on the project for years.

Next thing you'll be concerned about toddlers launching lasers into orbit and dominating the Earth from space.
Seems like they'd want people to, idk pick up to 4 languages themselves in settings if they are really attached to their picker. Which makes more sense to me.
Well at least the clowns have manifested often in my workplaces.
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