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> Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been working on a new artificial intelligence venture he is planning to launch, sources briefed on the plan said on Saturday.

Doesn't seem misleading to me.

Maybe Reuters's can't disclose or doesn't know what the venture is, but its reasonable to cite a previous, seemingly relevant report from another outlet.
That was something to do with a VC fund he was raising. This is news that he plans to start a new company following his firing. Not sure what is misleading about this at all.
I always felt a bit like a weirdo writing 7 that way - no one I know writes it that way. Glad to find there are other folks like me.
Love that you're playing in the space! The more people that experiment with approaches, the more we'll see what does and doesn't work.

Couldn't agree more with how painful "coding" in ansible is, my SOP with it is usually just to write a python module to model the flow I'm interested in the moment I find myself trying to implement logic at the yaml layer. The module API isn't horrible, I prefer it quite a bit over puppet's extensibility constructs.

However, the nondeterministic bag-of-state issue will still be impossible to overcome with this strategy. Not to say that making a better ansible isn't valuable for configuration of legacy workloads in legacy runtime environments, only that it's a space that I'm personally putting a lot of energy into never interacting with again if I can help it.
What is the utility of a piece of a forest somewhere in Brazil? Assuming you do not deforest it.
I mean if I asked GPT about any particular number of religions the 'correct' answer would be "hey dumbass, those gods don't exist and it's all made up bullshit", of course that would make lots of people really unhappy and you'd deal with even more bullshit out of humans. Why? Because humans are bullshit generators.
I can't find any similar reports of problems in Denmark, although it does seem to be the same model of bus.
> I think that insight is an important feature that GPT doesn't seem to have, at least not yet.

I actually think this is a limitation of the RLHF that GPT has been put through. With open-ended questions, I've seen GPT4 come up with reasonable alternatives instead of just answering the question I've asked. This is often seen as the infamous, "however, please consider..." bits that it tacks on, which occasionally do consider actual insights into the problem I'm trying to solve.

In most cases it seems to try very hard to mold the answer into what I want to hear, which in many cases isn't necessarily the best answer. A more powerful version of GPT with a less-restrictive RLHF seems like it would be more open to suggesting novel solutions, although this is just my speculation.
Hence the "tin"-foil hat: Reflective heatsink.
How much money do you think sama has available?

I understand that we easily get confused when dealing with fantasy money numbers, but the higher the number, the more the exact number of zeroes actually matters.
The vice angle is that when inflation increases faster than wage work, people switch from a longer term wage, to selling what they can negotiate spot prices for to keep up with inflation - like the value of a bet in gambling, or client prices in prostitution. Wiemar was the complete destruction of a social fabric under reparations and inflation, and the vice businesses that sprung up as people switched from regular wages to survive caused the social reaction that produced the second world war. Unmitigated inflation reduces people to animals.

Inflation destroys stability in the labour market and incentivises piece work to stay afloat.

Fixing the price of goods does not create stable money, it just creates huge black markets in foreign and alternative currency. Ask Argentina, Cuba, and the former USSR.

If you are interested in the history of money and banking, I highly recommend the book The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson as a basis for what most interested people outside of finance understand about how money works.
WinCalendar: Windows-style mini-calendar with holidays for Mac Users
Windows users can launch a mini-calendar from their taskbar, and wouldn't Mac users want a similar feature? Unfortunately, Mac doesn't offer this functionality natively. However, WinCalendar brings the Windows-style mini-calendar experience to Mac. Plus, it allows you to check holidays.

I have created an app like this, but is there a need for it in the world?

https://wincalendar.microstone.info/
> Adam Neumans tactics?

Neuman's still at it with Flow? In line with that, more impetus (not that he needs any) for Sam to go ahead and do it anyway.
Finally some real entrepreneurs innovating. Please take down big tech
Various camelid inspired models and open source code.
Single PoE switch works well, they are inexpensive. If you have Poe injectors that can work too.

Wifi cameras are more for convenience than reliability or dependancy.
He helped make a new pie and decided to take a slice
There is a movie called closely watched trains which is humorous but not relevant.
As soon as ML generated voice becomes really good, call scammers will use it against elderly people. That's going to be the #1 application far and away from anything. And as soon as it's out, a whole bunch of extremely privileged ML people will throw their hands up and say, "oh well, cats out of the bag."
>it seems to be mostly academics and the wife of a Hollywood actor

This argument would require you ignore both Sutskever himself as well as D'Angelo, who was CTO/VP of Engineering at Facebook and then founding CEO of Quora.
Falsehoods programmers believe about community management
Sam acknowledged her as his sister. It would have been called out far earlier if false
This is a molecular study. Not done in humans. It is showing the molecular effects of nanoplastics within cells. Does not claim anything about effects in humans directly, just provides a model for future testing.
A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
That's a unnormalized metric: shuttle had two failures in 135 flights and generally carried up way more people per flight and also did way more stuff per flight.
Not just that but if a thief is going to break into your home, a wifi hammer will render a lot of smarthome gear including cameras useless.
I suppose if the new 'venture' is for-profit it might give credence to the view that Altman and the board diverged because of his desire to turn OpenAI toward exactly that.
All you need is HR... I'm a cynic. He got the funding so, which is a lot (as an achievement and in terms of mones raised). He just started to believe to be the genius not justbin raising money, but also is building product and organisation. He isn't and never was. What struck me so, even the adults hired to replace him, didn't have the courage to call him out. Hence his comeback in function if not title.

Well, I'm happy to work with adults again, in a sane environment with people that known their job. It was a very, very useful experience so, and I wouldn't miss it.
The big insight we've obtained from LLMs is how much of human discourse is glorified autocomplete. Humans are usually not very profound.
Everyone has a walkie-talkie with decent crypto in their pocket already. The problem is portable radios have limited transmission range, so you'd need some sort of a ... maybe network of towers that could pick up and re-broadcast the signal? Hmm.
> Employers can make provisions that you’re not allowed to moonlight in other positions.

Not in California. Only company executives can be bound by such agreements. Direct competition is of course prohibited.
New value is being created all the time. The actual value is not the house; it is your desire to have that house, for which you are going to be ready to trade some money (either to buy or to rent).

The total value of a country usually grows with time.
The second video is just a nonsense troll, if you want good level conversations and skepticism about Helion you'd better check what the fusion subreddit says about it https://old.reddit.com/r/fusion/search/?q=helion&restrict_sr...

Long story short: Helion plans a net-electricity demo in 2024 and to start selling to the grid in 2028. The timeline seems too good to be true but no one says it's impossible. Many says they have not enough publications and that there are many scientific unknowns. Failure is a possibility, success also. Given the timeline we'll know soon.
It seems pretty indicative to me. Bubble sort is a simple idea that I understand conceptually but haven’t written the code for yet. That summarises most of my job. And yet, 30 years in, I still make stupid mistakes all the time.

I think the difference between professional engineers and person writing the blog isn’t necessarily skill. I think it’s how we react when we make mistakes. Maybe the real test of a programmer is watching how calmly they can write their buggy bubble sort, then test it and fix the bugs. Bugs happen. How we roll with the punches is what makes some people great.
At least many CNCF projects are now adopting Rust, Java, C# and even to a lesser extent C++.
It's buggy but a page refresh or settings tweak normally does the job of getting the dual subtitles working which is the main thing I use it for and there's nothing better out there as far as I'm aware. Tbh I find it odd that big streamers like Netflix and Youtube haven't built this in as a feature already. Feels like it would be pretty trivial to implement and would be of great value for a lot of people.
One of the points in the article is that inflation wouldn't be necessary. Is inflation a workaround for the same issue that this is trying to solve? I imagine a bizarro world where they use this system and call inflation nonsensical- we already have expiring money!

I'm not an economist but it's intriguing. Keynes at least thought it was interesting as well.
Was there any time when the US (or the rest of the world for that matter) practiced responsible capitalism?
It's not like crazy out of control avant garde different thinking UI designers haven't and totally ruined the user interface of a simple video player ever before!

Interface Hall of Shame - QuickTime 4.0 Player (1999):

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm
Of course, that line of thinking involves the inevitable follow up: when is something a “copy” vs a “genuine invention”. If company has a patent on making widget A, how different does a previous employee who leaves and makes widget B have to be before it’s not considered a violation?

I am no expert here but my understanding is that the case law around this is much more well trodden in patent land than it is for noncompetes
Also spoilers
Is Bill Gates really loved by all ? I feel like it was the case before COVID, but then his reputation seemed to go from loved to hated
Can you please not post in the flamewar style and also please not fulminate in HN comments? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
For a paid font $75 for an unlimited lifetime license is not at all expensive. I suspect the difficulty isn't so much getting people to pay $75 for a font, but getting people to pay for a font in the first place. The font market is essentially split between free fonts and expensive fonts. The people willing to pay for fonts are not particularly price sensitive, because if they were they would just be using a free font.
Yeah that's right. There's a blogger in another post on HN that makes the same point at the very end: https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
I think you would feel differently if one day your heart stops and the doctors can stop you from getting brain damage using this technology.
I don't dispute that they say that at all. Therein lies the tension -having multiple goals. The goal is to uphold the mission, and also to make a profit, and the mission comes first.

Im not saying one party is right or wrong, just pointing out that there is bound to be conflict when you give employees a bunch of profit based stock rewards, Bring in in 11B in VC investment looking for returns, and then have external oversight with all the control setting the balance between profit and mission.

The disclaimer says "It would be wise to see the the investment in OpenAI Global in the spirit of a donation, with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world"

That doesnt mean investors and employees wont want money, and few will be scared off by owning a company so wildly successful that it ushers in a post scarcity world.

You have partners and employees that want to make profit, and that is fundamental to why some of them are there, especially Microsoft. The expectation of possible profits are clear, because that is why the company exists, and why microsoft has a deal where they get 75% of profit until they recoup their 11 Billion investment. I read the returns are capped at 100X investment, so if holds true, Microsoft returns are capped at 1.1 Trillion dollars.
They can’t stop another country developing AI they are not fond of.

They can use their position to lobby their own government and maybe other governments to introduce laws to govern AI.
Modern AI also isn't AGI. We seem to get a revolution at the frontier every 5 years or so; it's unlikely the current LLM transformer architecture will remain the state of the art for even a decade. Eventually something more capable will become the new modern.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-ceo-ouster-followed-de...
Have a look at the Postgres filter for the Envoy proxy: [1] (blog announcement post).

While it's not capturing as of today query performance, it collects notable telemetry for Postgres in exactly the way you mention: just because the traffic flows through it, making it a way to collect data "for free" and definitely without taking any resources from the upstream database.

It can also offload SSL from Postgres. The filter could be extended for other use cases.

Disclaimer: my company developed this plugin for Envoy with the help of Envoy's awesome community.

[1]: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/08/13/envoy-1-15-introduces-a-...
It's completely ignorant to discount all organizational leaders based on your extremely limited personal experience. Thousands of years of history proves the difference between successful leaders and unsuccessful leaders.

Sam Altman has been an objectively successful leader of OpenAI.

Everyone has their flaws, and I'm more of a Sam Altman hater than a fan, but even I have to admit he led OpenAI to great success. He didn't do most of the actual work but he did create the company and he did lead it to where it is today.

Personally, If I had stock in OpenAI I'd be selling it right now. The odds of someone else doing as good a job is low. And the odds of him out-competing OpenAI is high.
> It’d also help work around rules like the one my HOA imposes, where roof mounted solar can’t be street visible.

I feel like if we cared about climate change at all there would be federal (global?) laws with severe penalties making rules like the one above highly illegal.

What is disgrace
>has been working on a new artificial intelligence venture he is planning to launch

What does "has been working on" mean? He's been fired for a day. When was he working on it?
Agree, this is dumb. This should be a part of the compiler if the language def can't simplify this for the user.
Because sometimes these systems don't detect those changes. Continuous recording with object detection and tagging solves this problem.
I had no idea what was going on under the hood but used PGAnalyze for about 6 months after launching a new product. It was excellent at suggesting indexes and monitoring unused ones.

However, after a few months the ROI crept down until it wasn't worth it anymore (access patterns stabilized). I'm tempted to bring it back once and a while but the price tag keeps me from having it always on.
The solution is to replace the board members with AGI entities, isn't it? Just have to figure out how to do the real-time incorporation of current data into the model. I bet that's an active thing at OpenAI. Seems to have been a hot discussion topic lately:

https://www.workbyjacob.com/thoughts/from-llm-to-rqm-real-ti...

The real risk is that some government will put the result in charge of their national defense system, aka Skynet, not that kids will ask it how to make illegal drugs. The curious silence on military-industrial applications of LLMs makes me suspect this is part of the OpenAI story... Good plot for a novel, at least.
I'm hacking on some GPT-for-long-form-text stuff right now and it is _eye wateringly_ expensive once you start generating at anything close to "professional human" token outputs. $80 per month sounds already pretty optimized.
Still, the whole "this is what we have imagine what the gov has" is usually wayyy overrated of a take and IRL it's usually way more boring and incremental, closely tracking commercial industry.

In most cases it's their ability to spend money to build large teams to employ tech, the complete scale of operations (XKeyscore+TEMPEST comes to mind), and the care they take is where things like the NSA dominate vs the average ability of the best hacker. Their unique advantages are only rarely in the individual technological leaps, which either a) industry has no match of or b) well informed technical experts are unaware of, like the things you reference.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The fact that every government in the world is stumbling over themselves to become customers?
She works for RAND Corporation
The problem is that it might unfortunately be necessary to have this kind of funding to be able to develop AGI. And funding will not come if there are no incentives for the investors to fund.

What would you propose instead ?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38041817
Bingo.

I met Conway once. He described investing in Google because it was a way to relive his youth via founders who reminded him of him at their age. He said this with seemingly no awareness of how it would sound to an audience whose goal in life was to found meaningful, impactful companies rather than let Ron Conway identify with us & vicariously relive his youth.

Just because someone has a lot of money doesn’t mean their opinions are useful.
@justin66 is correct. It was WSJ Tech Live, not Bloomberg. What I was referring to happens at 7:32 in the video.

Altman answers questions like he is a ChatGPT. Freedom to bullshit.
“The only appropriate response” implies that Jews cannot be criticized or questioned in any way. Reading the exchange it is very obvious that musk does not hate Jewish people and is not saying anything hateful about them.
That’s not a very good example. A patent is available to read specifically because the discoverer has entered an agreement with the government to share the relevant information in return for exclusive use for a set period of time.

If they had not patented whatever it is they had, anyone could replicate the information/item in question with no penalty.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231118210909/https://www.reute...
That's a really, really good point. Maybe OpenAI, at this level of success, can keep the money coming in though.
I've been following the project from a distance. I'm waiting for proper nix support to test it.
Some random comments on Duolingo:

I honestly don't see the point of following CEFR for an app like Duolingo.

Professional and GOOD teachers, that love to teach and did that for several years, know how to teach a language. THey don't need to follow something such as CEFR to know if they do well and what is interesting to teach and in which order.

I find it more important to make interesting lectures which do not follow a standardized curriculum. When someone is learning a language in this way will naturally go toward a CEFR based courses if needed afterward, with a big head start and only when he feels ready.

Also, not allowing to see 'already seen' vocabulary is a very strange move for an app, I guess it's for preventing having the vocab in a app like anki which makes duolingo less useful, but still, even if I don't use such app, having to screenshot all the time to have my vocab is a total pain.

Finally, the app doesn't seem to understand which words/sentences you already know and master and clearly do not need to see for the 400time instead of new vocabulary. Even having maximum points all the time and very fast will usually result in the same vocab shown again and again. It seems like an almost basic statistical problem, so I don't get why it's not fixed.

Also, some vocab is very strange, for example using 'es tut mir leid' in German to just say 'I'm sorry' feels like the content is automatically generated instead of having a linguist or even a German behind.
You don't need to do anything special. Just render to the front buffer immediately and don't worry about the current scanout position. If it's above the part of the screen you're updating, great, you saved some latency. If it's below, latency is the same as if you waited for vsync. And if it's in the middle, you at least get a partial update early.
Thanks for sharing, will definitely check this out!
From the link you gave:

> During the popularity of Tide Pods as an Internet meme, in the month of January 2018, the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) "recorded 606 exposures in children less than 5 years old," in addition to an increase in teenage exposures. In January 2018, there were more teenagers exposed to pods than in all of 2016 or 2017.

It sure sounds like the internet memes did in fact lead to a big increase in consumption of pods. Also, note that the 2012 and 2013 numbers were for young children. Internet memes would be more likely to be seen to older children and teens.
Wait, so they're doing computation on encrypted data and inferring some information about the relationships between data in the encrypted set?

How is that even possible? That seems to defeat the purpose of encryption, or at least show that our encryption is severely flawed.

This is the first time I've heard of this and it's kind of blowing my mind
There is no question that this is someone with serious mental health issues, and is not an entirely reliable narrator

She also has a financial motivation as she's using the attention to solicit Venmo donations

Still can be a kernel of truth here though, seems like Sam certainly has not treated her in a healthy way
The for-profit would not exist if the non-profit was not able to maintain control. The only reason it does exist is because they were able to structure it in such a way that the for-profit is completely beholden to the non-profit. There is no requirement in the charter for the non-profit or the operating agreement of the for-profit to maintain a balance - it explicitly is the opposite of that. The operating agreement that all investors in and employees of the for-profit must sign explicitly states that investments should be considered donations, no profits are obligated to be made or returned to anyone, all money might be dumped into AGI R&D, etc. and that the for-profit is specifically beholden to the charter and mission of the non-profit.

https://openai.com/our-structure
I can communicate via a satellite using my amateur radio walkie talkie using a few watts. Imagine what’s possible with nation state budgets.