skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no greater mental relief than owning your home outright. Until you do that then you'll never fully understand.
Do people just find these facts inconvenient? Unbelievable.
Why? Whoever is responsible for the data, we could assume if MS knew it, the owner of the data knew it too - if it's not MS, MS would notify them immediately. Of course, there's an option that the owner is privately held, has no investors and no interested third parties and no clients - then there's nobody to notify and nobody to defraud. But who would that owner be then?
On this kind of story, where access is going to give you some insights, I'm happy enough to see her reporting. But yeah, absolutely spot on about Swisher in general. She has no technical chops to tell when someone is bullshitting her and egregiously pulls her punches, until you piss her off individually (see her falling out with Musk)
That law isn't in effect until the end of November. It's a new regulation.
Mostly because the horse was a rich person's toy that most people could not afford. Horses as farm animals was only really a thing for maybe 70 years, for most the ox was much better: it ate less and was more mild mannered. The American prairie need the faster speed of the horse to make the plow needed work, otherwise they wouldn't use them. Coyboys also used the horse for roundup, both niches that started in the mid 1800s.

My grandpa remembered the horses and didn't miss them at all. They had an ugly temper and you had to feed them daily even if you didn't leave the farm. They were purely a cost sink worse than a car or tractor.
tl;dr: the author doesn't think AGI is possible (or somehow thinks it won't affect anything) but Ilya does think it's possible, and the author is concerned by this for some reason.
Could that not change as the board changes?
I agree with you, but I’d venture to guess most of those companies would use “combat” in that sense as an analogy.

The DoD does not.
I’m so grateful this wasn’t downvoted/flagged

HN has a sense of humor after all :)
Underrated point.

Humans tend to "align" with the greediest and/or most functionally pathological who accumulate wealth and influence.

We should not expect tooling to have a distinct fate.
Buying Out Investors
Something of that sort is my top guess, but I think it's not that clear and I'm not sure if this journalist is to be fully believed. In particular here is some strong evidence against it:

* They say in the statement that Sam "was not consistently candid in his communications with the board" which is pretty strong and sounds like lying. If it was just a disagreement in direction it feels like they would have said something about vision here

* This happened supper abruptly, it sounds like maybe the head of the board wasn't even told earlier or maybe was mad enough to wait to announce he was quitting? Idk, regardless it doesn't seem like anything that was brewing for awhile, because if it was why not wait half an hour for the markets to close?

edit: I guess she addresses some of this and said this in reference to why they said Sam was lying "Not sure. About plans for development day. Unless their statement was just cloddish. They certainly have made it feel sorted. Unless it was that it is a loaded word."
This has the nasty side effect of rendering WiFi pretty much unusable too.
Wait, this guy really landed an AI lead job in a few hours?

Edit: Ok seems to be a joke account. I guess I’m getting old.
You bring it in for an oil change every few months, that isn't a big deal. Modern ICEs are very reliable in general, and there are many other parts on a car to break that are common to the EV.
That's exactly what they should do.
And Ilya Sutskever was born in the Soviet Union during its end stage crisis days. Your point being?
I am working on a C version of the disruptor ringbuffer it is very simple and I need to verify it so it's probably not ready for others but it might be interesting. Aligning by 128 bytes has dropped latency and stopped false sharing.

I have gotten latencies to 50 nanoseconds and up.

disruptor-multi.c(SPMC) and disruptor-multi-producer.c (MPSC)
https://GitHub.com/samsquire/assembly

I am trying to work out how to support multiple producers and multiple readers (MPMC) at low latency that's what I'm literally working on today.

The MPSC and SPMC seem to be working at low latencies.

I am hoping to apply actor model to the ringbuffer for communication.

I'm also working on nonblocking lock free barrier. This has latency as low as 42 nanoseconds and up.
There's a lot to criticize about Axios, but having high-profile connections is like the entire reason they exist. They don't make stuff up.
> They tried this in Texas. During the 2021 winter storms consumers who opted for cheaper rates tied to the actual generation costs ended up with $20k+ power bills.

That's not necessarily because grid costs + generation costs were separate.

If you want to isolate yourself from the volatility of hourly electric price, the power company can still do that by buying insurance / hedging in other ways on behalf of the customer. The insurance cost can be billed separately, or included in the variable rate (depending on the underlying cost structure of the insurance).
Not a customer nor have I used the app, but I think one use case you're hitting is the following:

I'm an ad management agency that does google ads for 200x ecommerce companies. Every month I have my marketing specialist create a powerpoint presentation with graphs of their performance + a narrative about it (ROAS was up 23.5% but this was mostly due to on-brand search). Instead of my marketing analyst creating this presentation, I just generate it with nbi.ai.

Do I have that right?
Similar reason it's a bad idea for you to be in debt to Tony Soprano, but not necessarily for him to be in debt to you.
But the problem is that you live in England while I live in America. I used to live in England and happily pay more real estates taxes for the privilege of living in the USA.
Or their first real AGI could have ousted him.
Just linking to the education tab of her profile is misleading.

Many people in AI safety are young. She has more professional experience than many leaders in the field.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-toner-4162439a/
In recent profile, it was stated that he jokes in private about becoming the first trillionaire, which doesnt seem to reconcile with the public persona he sought to craft. Reminds me of Zuckerberg proclaiming he would bring the world together while calling users fucking dumbshits in private chats.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificia...
> re the website name (aipanic) and the attitude that the real problem is the people reaction to ai and not ai itself.

The website seems to be about fighting "ai panic" though, not producing/sharing the panic. At least that's how I understand the last sentence:

> It was after this meeting that I decided I wanted to fight the publicly-facing AI hype and doom - even more.
Coming from normal dev work myself, I’m drawn to dotnet nowadays. If you ever make the chance, it’s real easy to get started and do what Python does in aspnet, scripting, whatever.
Slightly easier to read in many cases in all lower case.
Because it would mean more people working on free software which permanently enriches all of us.
Not. He put up money for the non-profit that was basically a donation.
Only if Ilya also quits, but for now there's only radio silence from him.
After looking into it they would have had to give notice in case they wanted to attend but from the sounds of it they may not have bothered to go which would make sense if they knew they were screwed.
"But Altman would be a good source."

No he wouldn't. This is the definition of a biased source. I am sure he would provide a totally unbiased view of why his own Board found it necessary to suddenly take him out completely of his own company when he is THE public face of a massively growing industry.

This space is so incestuous and protecting of its own at its own expense. Good grief.
google has their own piles of data
Nah, it was a pure aesthetically oriented decision from John Ive. The ergonomics could be a lot better too.
As transit gets good people start to realize they don't need to drive so they don't even if they could. Yes driving gets easier, but transit should stand well even in the face of little traffic
Microsoft got access to their IP and capitalized on it.

Likely it's already brought them more than $10B they paid.
Why is it that we let China manufacture aosr everything else but cars are a restricted category?
Yes it likely is very likely he had absolutely no idea and rushed something out
That’s not going to happen with this board.
It was founded as a non-profit. So that $1B was not in exchange for equity. They changed to a capped profit model in 2019. As part of this, Open AI Global LLC was created. This for profit (capped at 100x initial investment) is controlled by the original OpenAI LLC. Employees were granted something like profit participation/equity in Open AI Global LLC, and new investments went into this entity under similar terms. Altman has repeatedly claimed no equity, so, taking him at his word, he did not participate in whatever the profit participation/equity arrangement that was made for employees and new investors.
>Literally the ONLY solution is to ring every phone in the state?

I am still learning about her disability and I'm not perfect, maybe there are other solutions.

As far I understand, an accessible solution is for a special needs caregiver, with her consent, to sit down with her and call me with her. (Literally call me on the phone and then hand her the phone.) Or ask for her permission and then give me her or her mother's phone number with her permission.

If she can send me any email with her or her mother's phone number she hasn't done so thus far, so I don't know if she is capable of that given her disability. It might induce too much anxiety for her to do that.

[1] https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/october2023/engagement-anno...
Right, we have all 3, and they have different forms. 1950s is the least dense.
! ((Planned -> Friday) -> (Friday -> Planned))
AI doesn’t need meat or grain.
That may be the case, but I have a feeling that it will end up being presented as a alignment and ethics versus all in on AGI consequences be damned. I'm sure OpenAI has gotten a lot of external pressure to focus more on alignment and ethics and this coup is signalling that OpenAI will yield to that pressure.
Completely disagree. Right now they're not much more than a fancy reseller of OpenAI's technology. The real prize would be exclusivity and control of the roadmap.

Buying them (or getting de facto control) is clearly an easier way to achieve that, vs. replicating the technology in-house.

IMO this is the most important part of Nadella's blog post:

> Most importantly, we’re committed to delivering all of this to our customers while building for the future.

It's curious to me that they see the departure of Sam Altman as a reason to remind us that they are "building for the future" (which I take to mean: working toward independence from OpenAI). I think it actually lends credence to the theory that this was a failed power grab of some sort.
Getting "page not found". I don't think I have an account....
Nah. LLM's are hype-machines capable of writing their own hype.

Q: What's the difference between a car salesman and an LLM?

A: The car salesman knows they're lying to you.
Meta does a ton of ongoing work to optimize the stack in the headset. I was just reading about Application SpaceWarp (https://developer.oculus.com/blog/introducing-application-sp...) earlier today and it's impressive.
This looks shady as hell to me. But, whatever. Thanks for enlightening me, I didn't know that.
Post author here. Thanks to the folks who read through my rambling. There was another trick I discovered a couple days after writing this blog post while trying to fix a file that was decompiling with just empty output. The code pattern that tripped it up was something like the following:

SOME_VALUE = {value: key for (key, value) in Foo.__dict__.iteritems() }

Which at a bytecode level expands to something like:

def <dictcomp>(input):
result = {}
for (key, value) in input:
result[value] = key
return result

SOME_VALUE = <dictcomp>(Foo.__dict__.iteritems())

The name `<dictcomp>` is intentional here. Decompilers (or at least uncompyle) relies on the function name to figure out what composition syntax the function is for (or a lambda, or generator). The python compiler emits `<dictcom>`, `<setcomp>`, `<listcomp>`, `<genexpr>`, and `<lambda>` depending on the type of function. The obfuscator renamed this function of course and causes the decompiler choke on a whole file if this appears at a module level.

The game developers also reached out to me and others after seeing this post appear on the /r/WorldofWarships subreddit. They want to understand why we would need to introspect these files for mod creation or data mining.

I already explained some of this in the post, but at a mod level the API docs are _really_ bad and actually no longer exist since the developers migrated away from a standard forum to Discord for all comms and killed the forum. For ModAPIv2 which is heavily restricted to pre-approved mod developers there are no docs at all!

Additionally, they rely on a community-created tool for rendering replays to an MP4 for their tournament match recaps: https://github.com/WoWs-Builder-Team/minimap_renderer. The replay format is entirely undocumented and relies on data mined from this tool and other resources for parsing some data structures.

There are a _ton_ of community-developed resources that have only been made possible through reverse engineering of some shape that are critical for understanding the game. I do appreciate them reaching out for hopefully a positive dialog.
Do you also use this argument to discount the value of AI investments/R&D near to those of mere manufacturers of robots?
Of course they don't. The profits would be directed to those that own it.

I've worked for companies whose CEO had wealth that was way higher than 500x my yearly salary.

And even still, that was a misinterpretation on your part. It is a partial strike, only against Tesla. The dockworkers are still servicing other companies.
"One device" could be your router, and if your router can't do 2.5gb then nothing will be doing 2.5
Apparently, Open AI's board decides when AGI has been achieved. When it has, all bets are off with Microsoft(and presumably other sponsors ?). Any exclusive IP or deals no longer apply.
I wouldn’t keep working for them. Sometimes there isn’t an optimal outcome, in which case it’s often best to cut losses and leave.
There are a ton of factors that go into making solar a sound decision.

Will the person plan on living there for the next 5-10 years? Will installation costs finally start falling three years from now? Will the government institute a large grid connection fee so as to significantly impact payback periods? Is the roof going to need replacement within the next 10 years?
I knew one guy who was working for a company that did that. Bit it's not an ideal use of batteries. Semis avoid cities, they avoid stop and go. Long cruises negate the hybrid advantage.

Where hybrids shine are in heavy vehicles that do a lot of stop and go -> urban delivery trucks and contractor vehicles. This is where all out effort of electrification should start with, hybridizing these vehicles.

Also, if you're serious about CO2 emissions, the most effective way to decrease them is to enforce lowered speed limits.
“You go to [work] with the [board] you have, not the [board] you might want or wish to have.”
we are reading 'panic' the same way :) fight panic all you want, but ai rendering the vast majority of humans redundant is quite a more pressing problem to fight, i would say.
The AI treadmill inextricably leads from AI to AGI to MAGI to MAGIC.
I grabbed a 32gb mi60 on a lark, because at the time it was ~$300. It works fine with recent ROCm etc, but it has the following potentially severe drawbacks:

1. It is not a recent GPU, so don't expect blazing inference speeds

2. It is designed for external forced air, so you will need to push air through it somehow

3. The one I got is actually not a normal card, I think it was a firmware testbed, and has no VBIOS and reports its product name as "TBD"

It does work and have 32gb of VRAM though.
Unless Google (or someone else) outright acquires GPT4 and future GPT research, it's unlikely that someone will suddenly overtake OpenAI. From what we've seen, no one is close to GPT4, sometimes not even GPT3.
Facepalm

It took a minute (and reading other comments) before that clicked :)

SHIFT key...
This is from September
OpenAI "Is Not Gonna Make It"
Just hope this will bring more "Open" into "AI.com"
MSFT is though, and it appears to have dipped almost 2% on the news.
Are google search results plagarism?
> You ever been on a bus with a raving lunatic?

Ever been in a car driving next to a raving lunatic? Nearly get forced offroad at 60mph into a gully by a braindead 'passer'? 'Throwing tax money...' ... you mean, like building yet another $500M freeway that almost immediately becomes congested? (Heavy shopping: Did that recliner fit in the back of your BMW?)

I've ridden metro buses since I sold my Dodge van in 2006. Total raving lunatics: 1. Collisions/repairs,oil changes, tires, license fees: $0. Total buses that chugged: none. Grocery-shopped by bus? Always. Waiting for a bus that never came? 1.

Heavy shopping? delivered. (It's a thing now.)
Bad weather: usually I wait until tomorrow.

Edit: 17 years * 10,000 mi/yr = 170,000 miles. @10 mpg = 17,000 gallons. @$3/gal ≈ $50 grand. P.P.S.

@Car engine efficiency 25% .... ≈ 12,700 gallons wud have gone directly to fumes and heat. ≈ $38K.
That word "augmented" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. LLMs don't "augment" data, they generate/hallucinate it. Sometimes they recall it.
Altman told people on reddit OpenAI had achieved AGI and then when they reacted in surprise said he was "just meming".

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-agi-sam-altman...

I don't really get "meme" culture but is that really how someone who believed their company is going to create AGI soon would behave? Turning the possibility of the success of their mission into a punchline?
> It's definitely possible for CEOs to steal from employees..

I'm pretty sure that CEO salaries across the board means that CEO's are definitely — in their own way — "stealing" from the employees. Certainly one of those groups is over-compensated, and the other, in general, is not.
The Heroic CEO * meme.

Most easily identifiable by the 'familiar' first name use.

* The Heroic CEO toils against naysayers and unbelievers to deliver on his immaculate vision. It's too important to follow the rules.
If we look at Critical Theory in practise, as taught to students, here is what we have:

https://crittheory.ucdavis.edu

"We are united by no single set of presuppositions but, rather, by a shared commitment to close reading, rigorous thinking, and the pursuit of what Marx famously called “a ruthless critique of everything that exists.”

And it goes on to a list a bunch of Cultural Marxist bullshit. It is basically Neo-Marxism. Indoctrination into their twisted belief system and political revolutionary ideology. "Critical" as in rejecting and overthrowing the established order of things to make way for their bullshit utopian vision of society. I reject it outright. You are entitled to disagree. This is just my personal opinion.
It's a whole lot better than nothing.
True, but MSFT is a public company and appears to have been affected by this disclosure.
Probably officially dropped, but gfx900-series works fine on ROCm 5.7 here, which actually goes back to vega10 (IIRC mi50/mi60 are vega20).
Still have to give notice
Discussed at the time:

Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29320078 - Nov 2021 (326 comments)
The Simpsons has a few vaguely similar outcomes over decades of saying random shit.

It's not the same at all.
> She has no credibility as anything other than an opinionated "journalist"

Oh come on, Swisher has been a tech journalist for 20 years. She has actual documented credibility. Now whether or not she holds up Altman as the next Jobs or SBF, yeah who fucking knows. But to dismiss her integrity as a journo is going to require some evidence.
Not at this point, they've already gotten $13B from Microsoft, and reportedly making $1.3B in revenue in annualized revenue, with increasing growth. OpenAI is not hurting for money anymore.
Unless you’re using Internet Explorer, every browser works on every site. I’ve never had Chrome installed even as a backup. Have yet to find a site that doesn’t work on Firefox.
My Open AI bill was (opens dashboard...), $43,xxx last month.

First thing tomorrow I'm kicking off another round of searching for alternatives.
No need to be personally defensive. What the other comment says is entirely true. There was a mass migration, particularly during the civil rights movement. Here's just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#/media/File:Gary,...

Plenty of other data shows the same thing. Racism is very much a part of what built suburban america in the large even if it doesn't apply to you or your family personally.
That's why we offloaded phone validation to Telegram - it is too costly to send SMS in other countries than our home market and spammers are finding ways to get phone numbers for free from different VoIP providers. We need to implement complicated SMS sending limit logic to avoid abuse
Does he think they are going to some day accidentally become the Tyrell Corporation from Blade Runner?
Microsoft is also having its annual conference Microsoft Ignite that ... just concluded today?
Please don’t patronize me. It indeed looks like the press release from OpenAI is under scrutiny. What you fail to understand is human nature and the way people really do things ^TM

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725685211436814795
Sam studied at Stanford for a year
Announcement on twitter: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
A great many people disagree and do not think that is a likely or even remote outcome. If they are correct, then you are shouting "FIRE" in a crowd for no reason.
Maybe the real scaling hypothesis was the friends we made along the way
Reminds me of how rich YouTubers make apology videos. No makeup (but yes makeup), no script (but yes script)... make an effort to seem effortless
I'm still not sure what is the point of the article.
That’s an invalid argument. The mere existence of a resource doesn’t render work related to analyzing, extracting, or utilizing that resource insignificant, irrelevant or reduce value created.

Just because the oil is in the ground doesn’t mean the crew pumping it didn’t work hard.
Comedian James Veitch tricked their verification 2 years ago:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-CopbQ_QgmM

I guess they’ve improved it since then.
I think some people approach this looking for ways the reality of ChatGPT is inconsistent with the hype. But if you just look at it plainly as-is and compare it to where we were 5 years ago, it's pretty amazing, lies and hallucinations and all.
MIT certainly doesn't say it can't be revoked. But do you really think it's inherently revocable at will, in all or even many practical circumstances?

From the US law perspective, I understand that some courts have decided that non-exclusive licenses without stated terms can be revoked at any time. But I wonder about situations when a court looking at a permissive grant for open software wouldn't also bring contract and quasi-contract concepts to bear. There's clearly an expectation of reliance, MIT and BSD themselves contain contract-type disclaimers and exclusions, and what a licensor might get in return doesn't have to be money.
EU allows use of controversial weedkiller glyphosate for 10 more years
Do these people type all lowercase on purpose? Is it a power move/status thing?

I'd have to go out of my way to type like that, on mobile or at a workstation.