skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The non-profit is legally obligated to follow their charter. If they truly believe that allowing Altman to remain CEO is a contraindication to that, then they have to fire him. They might not survive such a firing due to the fallout, but that doesn't matter - if one option is assured movement away from their charter and the other is potential destruction while still adhering to it, the latter is still the correct choice.
I guess we're on the same footing, as I run a company whose products are browser extensions.

Only time will tell what Google will do; look forward to seeing your opinions as this continues to unfold.
Oh wow, the Lamp on HN? And Peter Hitchens no less. I don't even know how I found myself reading this the other day, but my take away then was it felt like ramblings of an old man wishing the world had technologized "better." Though because Hitchens is a pretty skilled writer, the better part is subtle and it mostly ends up couched as "different". But all in all I was left unimpressed.

Though I did learn about slip coaches, which sounded neat, though pretty clearly fundamentally flawed.
What if he want to fire all of them? Or take all power?
connect to clozemaster.com (3.33.152.147) port 443 (tcp) timed out

My vantage point is within 93.132.0.0/15, in case it's geoblocked

Edit: found a screenshot https://www.programosy.pl/download/screens/19186/android-clo... which looks like a straightforward/nice learning experience indeed
That would be the worst timeline. This shakeup has me 1% hopeful OpenAI will actually return to being a non-profit in spirit, not just name.
>Yet they need massive investment from Microsoft to accomplish that?

massive spending is needed for any project as massive as "AI", so what are you even asking? A "feed the poor project" does not expect to make a profit, but, yes, it needs large cash infusions...
But you do agree that it would be better if we got some studies that went beyond "particles have been observed in tissue" to something like "This is the dose-to-morbidity curve for this group of nanoparticles"?My issue is that we have been stuck with hundreds, if not thousands, of research papers of the first type, and I haven't found any of the latter type.

With regard to your last point, I kind of agree, but there has to be a balance between two extremes. You can't assume something is safe just because you don't have a smoking gun. On the other hand, the "you can't prove it's 100% safe for everybody at all times throughout the universe, so we must assume it's dangerous" position can also be very dangerous. To me, the anti-GMO movement makes this mistake in a serio

us way, hurting actual people in deprived parts of the world. I fear that the microplastic scare is overblown and takes focus away from much more important issues.
I think the story is moreso the moral implications of being withheld from love or community. Hence the second act focussing on the doctor, starting with him being accused of murder, and shunned by society. It's also effectively the entire plan of the monster. The technological development aspect of the story as far as I'm concerned is set dressing for everything else.
This is going to make an amazing Netflix film in a few years.
I cannot imagine the clown car that is the board surviving if Sam comes back.
Because, if you have a mechanism to run arbitrary computations on encrypted data, I’d be a bit concerned about an attacker running carefully crafted computations on the data and deducing information about the encrypted data based on how the ciphertext changes or the time/memory usage of the computation.

This isn’t really a particularly well-informed suspicion: it’s partly based on a sense that FHE is a “have your cake and eat it too” sort of technology that’s too good to be true and partly based on the recent discoveries that fairly well-understood things like speculative execution in CPUswere vulnerable to serious side-channel attacks.
Are you fucking kidding me?

OK. OK. I’ve said this my whole career.

Engineers are the most emotional specie of worker. There is a grand delusion that engineers are rational.

This just goes to show how irrational they are. Snap reactions like this: sign of a brilliant but fucked up engineer.

I am an engineer. I am under no illusion that I’m rational. Quite the opposite.
I tried it but got too many false positives to be useful.
Great training data
The primary purpose of a company is not to take care of employees. It is to make money by providing valuable services to society.

Yes, it is good governance to cut unproductive jobs.
Yeah, it really is the post child for Google not being able to innovate in it's modern form.

What's really changed about their core products in the last 10 years? (maps, mail, ads, YouTube, docs/gsuite) some of them have gotten some nice QoL improvements but nothing has really been added to that list because they keep killing products off.
I can imagine many worse timelines.
Back in the days it used to take a decade to get back a legendary CEO.

On a more serious note though, I hope this stirs some discussion on remembering why there's Open in the name of the OpenAI.
When you are ahead of the curve...OpenAI was only a job or a hop for him, to move on to his next venture...One day that was eventually going to happen, either under OpenAI if the board approved or if he only wanted the fruits of success for himself less the baggage.
That's exactly my thought. "Blindly" following steps in Math or programming is rewarding only when used to solve bigger problems, to sort of free up working memory.
Because current porn companies know the law, and toe the line if they want to stick around.

AI doesn’t. Image generators know what naked people look like, and they know what children look like. And they’re really good at mashing ideas together like that.

Text generators will happily compose any scenario for you.

I’m not here to argue ethics, but it’s easy to see why a nsfw open ai would immediately run into major problems.
AI safety basically is bullshit FUD spread by people hoping to gain a monopoly through regulatory capture.

Or people who are mentally deficient and actually believe in rokos basilisk and its ilk.
Now seems like the perfect time for him to go raise, bring over the team he wants, and retain ownership and control in a more effective way than a non-profit. Idk why he would go back without BOD capitulating a lot.
This entire post is a big workaround go's insufficient type system because nil is not modelled in it. That's not safe.
100x first-round investment and lower multiples for subsequent rounds, so much less than $1T.
You should consider talking to the researchers who developed IEEE 1789. 120 Hz is problematic for many people, but 10kHz seems unusual unless you’re a camera.
Sure. They just call Sundar.

Yo, bro what up. Want to grab lunch?
I'd bet money Satya was a driver of this reversal.

I genuinely can't believe the board didn't see this coming. I think they could have won in the court of public opinion if their press release said they loved Sam but felt like his skills and ambitions diverged from their mission. But instead, they tried to skewer him, and it backfired completely.

I hope Sam comes back. He'll make a lot more money if he doesn't, but I trust Sam a lot more than whomever they ultimately replace him with. I just hope that if he does come back, he doesn't use it as a chance to consolidate power – he's said in the past it's a good thing the board can fire him, and I hope he finds better board members rather than eschewing a board altogether.

EDIT: Yup, Satya is involved https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1726025717077688662
>Median

Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over (LES1252881600Q)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

>It seems to be a "crime is on the rise" situation; a 50% gain after a 50% drop doesn't get you back to 100.

The statistics are recording absolute numbers, not "50% gain after a 50% drop".
> In thread-per-core, global state is sharded across cores and never accessed "from the outside"

...or possibly it's accessed from everywhere, and locks are needed again. What you're describing is kind of an ideal application architecture, not a hard rule about thread pinning.
Musk threatens 'thermonuclear lawsuit' against media watchdog
On board with this. Arguing that a for-profit is somehow the moral position over a non-profit because money is tangible while the idea of doing good is not well-defined.. feels like something a Rockefeller owned newspaper from the Industrial Revolution would have printed.
And we know politicians use technology too. Yet here we are.
Bit more context as a CS researcher: Symposium on Theoretical Computing (STOC) and Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) are the two main computer science theory conferences, they're not random journals or something.
Here's Weaver's own account:

http://www.chuckyeager.org/news/sr-71-disintegrated-pilot-fr...

I love the serendipitous detail of what happened on his next flight, though I'm sure it was not so amusing when it happened.
Yes, but often not in the interaction areas: http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html

Or, take a look at the interaction mechanisms and palettes in MacPaint:
https://www.punchkick.com/blog/2015/08/07/how-apple-has-shap...

Even in the 1990s, it was a lot of squareness.

And, as I point out, physical objects have rounded corners for a reason. Computers GUIs do not share that reason.

Rounded corners are a design choice. A different design choice can be made.

One other thing that people forget is that rounded things generally suck for packing.
Thinking of cancelling our OpenAI subscriptions. What do you think?
I have to admit, what I've been reading is confusing.

My first reaction has been negative. Yes, in a bubble of personal ignorance about what actually went on, my first impulse was to side with the two people who got pushed out.

We have been playing with OpenAI for some time. Nothing serious yet. Moving off the platform would probably have zero impact. I haven't looked for a curated list of viable alternatives, if that exists.

So...the second impulse was to think about cancelling our (multiple) paid accounts. Yet, I am trying to not make a decision with foggy data.

OpenAI should probably release detailed and truthful information on what happened to allow users to make decisions.

In so many ways, the shockwaves they sent into the market support the idea that a closed GPT controlled by a single entity that is able to behave in this manner might be the wrong effort to get support.

Thoughts?
> Not at the same level of quality.

Engine quality? No.

In terms of systems? Design? Storytelling? LGS games were way ahead of their time, and have vastly more relevance than anything post-Romero ID made.
Google actually IS a tech company, they were and still are a advertising company first but then other things followed that also drives their ad market. Still Google is actually BOTH. You can buy a Pixel phone or a Chromebook and Google makes money from it even if you install Linux in the Chromebook and /e/ OS or Graphene or some other de-googled Android on it.
The selfie example has an explanation under it. Summary: because the video subsurface is square and needs to be clipped to produce rounded corners. Otherwise you would have corners of the video surface protruding from under the corners.
I do agree, but more importantly love this part of the argument!
Its when all the personality differences become too much to bear and suddenly people are accused of not even knowing themselves.
Been there before, what a wild ride!
Man, the board already looked reckless and incompetent, but this solidifies the appearance. You can do crazy ill-advised things, but if you unwaveringly commit, we’ll always wonder if you’re secretly a genius. But when you immediately backtrack, we’ll know you were a fool all along.
> But until the board clearly states this it is also speculative.

Even if this is the case, and Jeremy Howard’s Twitter thread on this would lend credence to this version, OpenAI butchered the execution. If firing Altman really is about not letting profit ruin a very important advancement in technology, the board would have the moral upper hand. And yet, their communication has been so poor that right now, they’re not exactly winning the PR battle.

If you’re gonna stage a coup for such a high profile company, you better know what you’re doing. So far, it’s been looking like amateur hour.
This is ridiculous haha.

Another great example that even huge multi billion dollar companies are lead by people. What a mess.

However this plays out, this is a big wake up call for everyone who is currently dependent on OpenAI. More changes will be needed to restore trust. It's going to be messy for a while. For a company that has executed pretty much perfectly until now it's so surprising how they just ruined their reputation like this.
They loved to trot out the “mission” as a reason to trust a for-profit entity with the tech.

Well, this is proof the mission isn’t just MBA bullshit, clearly Ilya is actually committed to it.

This is like if Larry and Sergei never decided to progressively nerf “don’t be evil” as they kept accumulating wealth, they would have had to stage a coup as well. But they didn’t, they sacrificed the mission for the money.

Good for Ilya.
Neither. Unnecessarily politically combative language doesn’t contribute to the discussion here.
this sounds like some wow guild drama
Not really. Outside of the valley and tech press circle jerk nobody really cares about him.
Lack of accountability. Inability for self reflection.
I hate to appeal to authority, but the guy who made it is a retired fusion scientist and he raises valid points.

Btw, the first result in the search you posted links back to the video...

https://old.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/133ttne/can_we_talk...
Theory: "imposter syndrome" is simply seeing the truth. No one lives up to the social conception. Einstein needed help with mathematics. The realistic perspective is the curiosity of a scientist; the humility of a mortal. Knowing the premises does not automatically imply you know all the consequences... even though it "should".

Bugs have been found in production binary search.

Skipping bubblesort, I think quicksort is easy to implement, if you know Hoare's fp insight (I remembered it, but had to check it was him). Making a version that is both efficient and correct may be harder for me... Similar for Boyer-Moore substring matching (I remembered their names!)
I often wonder how cutting and folding a bit of sheet metal and bolting it onto the streetlight as a shroud is overlooked whenever streetlights are built or repaired. There's one that shines directly into my bedroom but there's no good reason for it to illuminate any part of the building I live in.
What? Did I miss something?
That's no surprise. Anybody who has studied chemistry knows that temperature has an effect on the speed of a chemical reaction. The rough Rule of Thumb is that the rate of a chemical reaction doubles for every 10 degree Celsius rise in temperature.

Marine animals take on the temperature of the water surrounding them. Heat that water, you heat the animal. No surprise at all.
I don't follow. You think there won't be barely-trained people working in auto shops? The people who put put on tires and do alignments would be pretty similar to the people who do oil changes. They'll just do oil changes in addition to putting on tires.
On my first day ever in production on AWS, we had an entire 9 hours of downtime[1]... so maybe I'm a bit biased, especially because we had another one not too long after that one[2] on Christmas freaking Eve. Prior to moving to AWS, resolution timelines were able to be passed to stakeholders within minutes of discovering the issue. After moving to AWS, we played darts and looked like fools because there was nothing we could do while the company hemorrhaged money.

The cloud is much more mature as is dev-ops in general, these days, but major outages still happen. If you run your own cloud, you'll still have major outages. You can't really escape them.

If you have the expertise or can get the expertise, to do it in-house, you should do it. Just look to the US and its inability to build an in-expensive rocket, or even just manufacture goods. They outsourced everything (basically) to the point where they are reliant on the rest of the world for basic necessities.

You gotta think long-term, not short-term.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/message/680342/

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/message/680587/
These HOAs are getting out of control!
At my job we wrote tests in Smalltalk and that was before Kent's work. It wasn't the later tests-first discipline. If I recall correctly write tests later was fairly common then in ST shops. SUnit also had the virtue of standardizing the terminology and testing frameworks.
Free Will and ChatGPT-Me
Who can beat The Donald? The Rock
> The statistic you cite show exactly what one would expect: Bicycles are less safe than cars

Let's place the blame on the people at fault of those injuries, not on the victims. Otherwise we would believe that schoolchildren are dangerous because of all those mass shootings.

So, who kills whom? Cars cause the vast majority of the injuries and deaths. Yes, pedestrians and cyclists are the ones dying, but only because car drivers are killing them. Replace cars with lighter vehicles and both pedestrian end cyclist deaths would plummet.

How many people are injured or killed by bikes or mopeds? You called them a "menace", but how many people have they killed in the past five years, and how does it compare to cars? Who is the actual menace, the schoolchildren or the shooters?
I wasn’t making any point. Just that that the initial patent example isn’t a good one to use.
All this drama over a parrot.
In all seriousness, FoundationAI sounds pretty good.

For lack there of, PsychohistoryAI it is!

RIP: AlignmentAI
Transfer of intellectual property is already illegal. If a quant was aware of something amazing they could try to transfer it anyway - just without taking the employment. Yeah, it’s illegal. So non competes are about the person and the skills the person brings. And fuck that.
Meta owns whatsapp.
Please, its dead obvious for anyone with a working brain that in average ChatGPT says a lot more true statments than Trumpt, and that didn't stop him in the slightest to become President, so judging those capabilities for estimating the potential damage it could make to society is just plain wrong.
> Title is a bit overblown for the actual epiphany

Ok, let's use that word above since the article uses it as well.
Ok, from battle trenches: even if there is a perfect index for your query, the slower plan might still win and there is little you can do about it. So, often you rewrite query or even restructure tables to archive performance.

If rewriting query and remodelling data are out of question, the options are much more limited.

Second, not only queries have rps, they have hourly, weekly and seasonal distributions. They evolve, become deprecated, and have different SLAs, tables have different write to read ratios. There was an instance recently when I slowed down a query, quite intentionally by deleting a very good index for the query and substituted it with worse, but smaller BRIN index.

The thing is, this particular query did not matter as much and SLA permitted slowdown, write path was far more important.
It wasn't engineers that did this bullshit, it was one scientist, an ethics researcher, an mba, and an art school grad.
While I do not defend astrology, I think there is a problem with assuming that internal consistency is a defect of existential philosophy.
> it has its own wifi network so, even if it's using spectrum, it's probably not affecting my LAN throughput

Unless you're using dedicated APs it is absolutely affecting your other wifi users.
It could be that Microsoft is leveraging them to bring him back. This board may seem mercurial at the moment, but we really, truly, and honestly still do not have the big picture yet.
In terms of objectives, the stated primary objective was to get through staging without blowing up. That was a success. The secondary objective was getting to reentry for the Ship - testing the heat shield, which was a failure.
This saga is somehow more absurd than HBO's Silicon Valley.
The non-profit path is dead in the water after everyone realized the true business potential of GPT models.
Someone disabled the transponder before they turned off into the ocean is why.
I don’t think so. I think it means OpenAI releasing papers again and slower, less product-focused releases
My bad. It just feel like it needs more research.
Also first thing I thought of.
I haven't had the chance to try it, but NerdFonts has a font patcher CLI tool that should be able to fix that.
Yes, this attempt was a mess from the start. I don’t know which rumors to believe or care about, but the underlying story for me was that the board was acting like children with an $80b company that some believe to be strategically important to the US or maybe even mankind. If they had done this “properly” and their message was about irreconcilable differences between productization and research they could have made an actual go at this.

If they really believed in the non-profit mission, and Sam didn’t, they probably torpedoed their chances of winning.

This was all they had to write and today would be a different day:

> We regret to inform you that Sam Altman is being let go as CEO of OpenAI due to irreconcilable differences between his desire to commercialize our AI and OpenAI’s research-driven goals. We appreciate Sam’s contributions to the company and the partnership he established with Microsoft, which have set a foundation for OpenAI to thrive far into the future as a research organization with Microsoft focusing on commercialization of the technology.

> We want to assure you that ChatGPT and current features will remain and be upgraded into the future. However, the focus will be on developing core technologies and a reliable, safe, and trustworthy ecosystem for others to build on. We believe that this will allow us to continue to push the boundaries of AI research while also providing a platform for others to innovate and create.
what would the role and deliverable of the non-profit be though? so far they innovated, shipped fast, cut costs and sold plus subscriptions and dev apis for personal and enterprise use. and to be fair i really liked using their apis. so how would them being fully non-profit look like even? genuinely curious.
When he got started, yeah. I don't know how he became a YC partner without investing a lot more than he would've netted from the Loopt exit.

At this point I don't think anyone can question his track record, based on OpenAI's success at both R&D and fundraising. They are apparently trying to get him back onboard, if that means anything...
My objection is that OpenAI, at least to my knowledge, still is a non-profit organization that is not part of the government and has some kind of public benefit goals - that sounds like an NGO to me. Thus appointing “NGO types” to the board sounds reasonable: They have experience running that kind of organization.

Many NGOs run limited liability companies and for-profit businesses as part of their operations, that’s in no way unique for OpenAI. Girl Scout cookies are an example.
While I think this is wonderful, it is surreal that a province more than three times the size of Texas, with a smaller population than metro Houston could have a “housing crisis”.
I disagree with what he did in this situation. But it's complete bullshit to make this about his ethnicity or to imply he had anything but good intentions here. By all accounts, he did what he felt was right for the safety of the world, even if I think it was misguided.
Because of the rather well documented effects on health and visual performance.