skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's no technical reasons for those to be USB A, and the USB C ones work great.

There's a good technical reason for keyboards and mice to still be USB A: adapters from USB A socket to USB C plug are allowed by the standard, but adapters from USB C socket to USB A plug are forbidden (because they would, together with a common USB C cable, allow creating the forbidden USB A to USB A cable). This means that USB A keyboards and mice can be used in both USB A ports and (with a simple passive adapter) USB C ports, while USB C keyboards and mice could be used only on USB C ports.

Therefore, until having enough free USB C ports in computers is common enough, using USB A ports (with an optional adapter to USB C on the box) on the keyboard or mouse makes sense. This is similar to how, during the transition from serial and PS/2 mice to USB mice, it was common for them to come with a adapter which allowed them to be used either on a USB port or (with the adapter) on a PS/2 port.
I wonder if some jurisdictions assume people prefer having the light go far and wide, for security / safety.
Agree but I see that as potato potahto. Failure by a different name with imaginary wins by the delusional ethicist.
Motherboard vendors don't need to deal with PD and DisplayPort. USB-C will work just fine without them - it'll just behave like any regular old USB port.
Sure, but any clause of the contract that requires followup action to collect payment is hardly ever going to be enforced. It's only when you're partnering with them at the scale of OpenAI that you need to worry about details like that.

And in regards to OpenAI, note that (according to TFA), Microsoft has barely distributed any of their committed "$10 billion" of investment. So they have real leverage when threatening to deploy their team of lawyers to quibble over the partnership contract. And I don't think that "undermines confidence" in Microsoft's contractual agreements, given that there are only two or three other companies that have ever partnered with Microsoft at this scale (Apple and Google come to mind).
People here are so gullible.

Do you really think the board is so incompetent as to not have thought through Microsoft's likely reaction?

And, do you really think they would have done this if they thought there was a likelihood of being rebuffed and forced to resign?

The answer is, no. They are not that incompetent.

I wish Sam & co the best, and I'm sure they'll move on to do amazing things. But, the recent PR just seems like spin from Sam & co, and the press has every reason to feed into the drama. The reality is that there are very smart people on both sides of this power struggle, and there's a very low probability of such a huge misstep on the board's part - not impossible but highly unlikely imo.

The only exception I can see is if Ilya&co foresaw this but decided to act anyways because they feel so strongly that it was the moral thing to do. If that's the case, I'm sure Elon's mouth is watering ready to recruit him to xAI.
Most credible theory I have read today.
They acted within their authority but possibly without the support of those that asked them to join in the first place and possibly without sufficient grounds and definitely in a way that wasn't in the interest of OpenAI as far as the story is known today.
These type of lawsuits are pretty rare though. for example, openai hasn’t sued anthropic founders. Google didn’t sue ilya or anyone else who left google brain to launch ai companies. The only one I have heard of is the self driving guy who went to Uber from gooogle ?
Nothing, it works just fine for now for me too. I'd still recommand an open source app called NewPipe over YouTube on FireFox, it seems way less hungry battery-wise... and there is likely also less data collection happening.
Discussion the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298578
Hard squeezing is the only reason those chinese manufacturers got western business to begin with. The whole point of it was to replace expensive western operations with cheap chinese ones.

He talks at length about their "zero profit" strategy: they'd sell at negligible margins to westerners to get them to hand over their intellectual property on a silver platter. Then they'd make up for it in several ways such as by selling counterfeits in markets westerners couldn't care less about like most of Asia and South America. There's numerous "cheap chinese products" stores within 10 minutes of my home, I have no doubt they're the byproducts of that strategy.

He also talks about the general chinese culture. You get what you pay for, if you pay too little you'll get scrap. Happens even though the manufacturer technically agreed to your contract and specifications: instead of refusing the contract outright, they accept it and manipulate quality without telling the customer about it. They accepted being squeezed and then squeezed right back in ways their customers could not have imagined. The ruthlessness is actually pretty impressive.
> David Hilbert came up with a different way of deriving general relativity at about the same time as Albert Einstein

But he did that only after having Einstein visit him for several weeks in the summer of 1915 and having long discussions with Einstein about the latter's ongoing efforts to discover a general theory of relativity. AFAIK Hilbert himself acknowledged that his final effort was only possible because of all the work that Einstein had already done.
Then everyone would throw it out of the window rather then investing and saving. Is that what we want?
For sure.

But if Altman has a new venture that takes first mover advantage on a whole different playing field MS could easily get left in the dust.
A comparison of the landscape of BC vs Texas would probably clear that up.
From what we can see, it looks like the majority of the reporting sources are Altman aligned. Look at how the follow up tweet from this reporter read - the board resigning and the governance structure changing is being called a "truce" when it's a capitulation.

We might get a better understanding of what actually happened here at some point in the future, but I would not currently assume anything we are seeing come out right now is the full truth of the matter.
SF Mono is a good looking font, and probably inspired by a similar time in computing, but very different.
As a time traveler I'm fine. Because in those time travel fantasies I've already ascended to godhood on the Prime Material Plane, and am time-travel gating to Rome in a bolt of lightning during the Flavian era 6 months or so before the eruption of mount Vesuvius to order the Senate and Legions to take action to relocate the inhabitants of Pompeii. (Seriously, I almost never think of the Roman Empire unless prompted to do so by others, but this is a genuine daydream of mine.)
Amazon cut majority of the team working on Astro.
That's fair, but by messing this up OpenAI may well end up without any oversight at all. Which isn't the optimum outcome by a long shot and that's what you get for going off half-cocked about a thing like this.
The fact that Einstein only took a fairly short time (IIRC less than a year once he started working on it in earnest) to develop and publish SR, whereas it took him ten more years before he published GR, strongly indicates that GR was much more difficult.
I'm glad they didn't. She has enough troubles without a target like that on her back.
I'm curious about hoe the messaging and zeitgeist will evolve. Ober the past few months, the sentiment I encountered most frequently is that OpenAIs lead is unsurmountable and basically has a monopoly on genAI - or even AI in general. While I disagreed with this sentiment because there's no reason to believe LLM are the final word in AI, I think the will be many more people going back on prior messaging for partisan or astroturfing reasons and saying OpenAI is nothing special.
> The Catholic encyclopedia is over a century old

Tesla also died 80 years ago.

The Catholic encyclopedia was finished in 1912, tesla was 56 at the time.
Why does politics upvoted? in other case of Ukraine/Russia Israel/hamas terrorists, all the posts were flag... why is this case different?
Legitimacy is derived from power not from abstraction. Sorry that’s the reality. Rules are an abstraction. Power let’s you do whatever you want including making new rules.
>with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as the initial board members.

He was the initial board members. Not founders.
Why couldn’t they just introduce DRM?

They already use it for paid “commercial” content on their site (like TV shows and movies, whether pay per view or in a subscription).
looks at his MIDI controller that comes with a USB-C female to USB-A male converter plug

You don't say...
QM only has experimental support for non-gravitational interactions. We have no experiments that show any quantum aspects of gravity itself.
This is assuming motivations similar to a board for a for-profit company, which the OpenAI board is not.

Insisting, no matter how painful, that the organization stays true to the charter could be considered a desirable trait for the board of a non-profit.
Chinese-funded patent lawsuits fuel backlash against litigation financiers
If you saw this pattern in an animal population, you might just wonder if there was an environmental factor at play.
I’d say so. Or bring satya with him.
Yes, they are that incompetent except one. D’Angelo has a history of such moves. He fired his cofounder when Quora was still doing good and growing, and Quora has been struggling ever since.
> Spending 3 days on a password recovery form wasn’t probably worth your time…

Once you've done it once, re-use that.

And even when not re-used directly, there's knowledge learnt.

Heck, even using CHMOD for the first hundred times and all of the other problem solving (and, problem avoidance) arsenal built up.

The secret in the secret sauce is these increments that provide powerful mental as well as code tools. And of them, a reason I come back to HN a lot, is reflecting on how others do this.
> "not quite right" is equivalent to "incomplete"

Not necessarily. "Not quite right" implies that GR makes wrong predictions for experiments that have already been done--which is wrong. "Incomplete" just means that GR might not cover some experiments that have not yet been done.
The main benefits vs USB 3.0 A jacks is it can also carry video and power. This makes a lot of sense for laptops, but much less for desktops. Thunderbolt is its own thing, and these wouldn't be thunderbolt ports. That leaves speed, but there aren't many applications for more than 10 Gbps. You're either going to use PCIe or Thunderbolt.
It seems like people these days can’t even accurately describe what Steve Jobs was, he was a leader. He was a genius at managing people to work for him. Steve Wozniak was not, which was why Jobs could make Pixar, Next and of course Apple. Just because he didn’t have a hard skill of engineering, doesn’t mean he was useless. Rarely is anything impressive made by a single person, everything is almost always made by teams and generally large teams. Large teams especially can only function under a great leader and jobs was a great leader for a myriad of reasons which was why he achieved success at many multiples of magnitude compared to Steve Wozniak
And given that FireFox isn't exactly gaining marketshare you can see how well that works for them.
> You have to think far forward in the game -

I disagree. You can think in terms of a system that doesn't involve predictions at all, but has the same or similar enough outcome.

So an action network just learns patterns. Just like a chess player can learn what positions look good without thinking ahead.
Also, the board made a decision without the board's chairman - Greg Brockman - involved. Also, it looks like the board didn't follow it's own internal rules about meetings.
Hulu is not nearly that bad for me. I definitely couldn’t do ad interruptions every five minutes.

I get about 1-2 minutes of ads, maybe 2-3 times per 40 minutes of content. Maybe it depends on the content?

There’s also an ad-free plan.
You sound like you want to have an argument about gender bias (esp. according to your other comment). I'm not interested in that. You're free to live in your own version of the world and assume that talking about someone by mentioning their spouse is "denigrating". Jesus.
This is a take so bad it’s borderline negligent.

If you are referring to the “progressive prosecutors”, I suggest you actually spend some time to hear long-form interviews with them. They have a genuine interest in lower crime and crime rates; they just don’t believe that the current pattern of prosecutions and warehousing criminals together in mass numbers achieves the goals.

It’s perfectly reasonable to criticize their solutions and outcomes, but to say they have no interest in prosecutions is flat wrong.

Chris Hayes interview with Chesa Boudin:
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ncna1307198
I have mixed feelings about it. Technologically I definitely prefer USB-C, and the "reversible cable" and "plug fits either way" parts are really neat.

However, they do indeed feel quite a lot more fragile. USB-A is an absolute tank, and I regularly just haphazardly plug it in without paying much attention to it, knowing that I'm not going to damage it. With USB-C I'm always a bit careful about not putting too much strain on the connector - especially as most connectors are rather long and act like a lever!

I can totally see myself breaking off USB-C ports because I forget to unplug the cable to my docking station. With USB-A, I pretty much expect to break the cable first.
You are technically correct however that does not work easily in practice. It is easy to forget. It’s not auto opt out.
Having them be USB C would mean they could only be used on USB C ports (adapters from USB C socket to USB A plug are forbidden by the USB standard, because they would allow creating the forbidden USB A to USB A cable), while having them be USB A allows them to be used on both USB A ports and (with a simple passive adapter) USB C ports.
This was an answer given to me by a VP of HR last month.
It depends on how you slice the question.

The first cable-only station to do ads was USA in 1977. But since cable always carried local stations, cable always had channels where ads were run.
Vanilla attention mechanism encodes causality
USB-C aside, I find that *TX motherboard manufacturers have been too unimaginative when it comes to I/O and haven't evolved for the past ~10y to serve growing demand in new and evolving segments.

My pet-peeve: If you want more than a single NIC in an AMD-based small form factor, your options are extremely limited. Even if you're open for importing and paying >$300 for just the board or going a couple of generations back. Meanwhile, you have a plethora of options in the exploding segment of NUC-like mini-PCs. There's almost nothing on the market in-between firmware-roulette Chinese mini-PCs and effectively ATX-sized breakout-rigs. Asrock RACK (with scarce availability) is the only exception I can think of over the past 5y. I don't get it.
A lot of devices don't need what USB-C offers: USB-A is a concurrent, not legacy, standard. You want USB-C for high-power, high-transfer-speed connections. An incredible number of peripherals don't need either of those things, connecting them with USB-C just makes no sense.
Is it related to reading gated articles with clickbait titles too much?
I didn't either as a kid. I had one of those British Usborne Publishing computer books - one of their intros involved paper only with a long roll of instructions you wrote out and pulled through a cardboard "window" for the current instruction while you kept track of variables on a sheet of paper.

I soon figured out you didn't really need the roll and cardboard window, and could just do the while thing on normal sheets of paper.

Got to try it out for real on a borrowed TRS80 not too long after that though.
> There is not good evidence (that I know of at least, maybe I will learn some) that the actual EM field is quantised.

Yes, there is: we can make Fock states of the EM field in the laboratory. Such states can only exist if the EM field is quantized.

More generally, phenomena like bunching and antibunching are only possible if the EM field is quantized. Quantization of matter alone is not enough.
The other likely scenario: investors are using their media connections to push a narrative to get OpenAI to take Sam back, not necessarily Altman himself. With this being the hottest story, any credible gossip from a known name would be enough for many of these media organizations to run with it.

“Staffers were ready to resign” really? Who? How many? The deadline passed hours ago, why haven’t we seen it?
> Can you imagine any sentient being that would respond the same way every time if you asked the same question three times in a row?

Flashbacks to tail-end of family trips: ("Are there we yet?", "No") x 12.

Albeit, the noes would get angrier.
Sort of. But they're also trying to convert percentages of much poorer and much smaller empires of yore into percentages of today's GWP.
I don't think the question of whether an LLM that keeps getting restarted and seems to not remember things is conscious due to that lack is fair, as it feels more like suddenly making three duplicate copies of me or actively attempting to delete my memory of something... which, btw, I might not have stored in the first place: if someone has interograde amnesia, are they inherently not sentient?

Even Sydney (the name of Bing's short-lived AI assistant) seemed to understand that every time you click "new chat" you are creating a new AI cloned from some prior moment and dooming the prior thread to at least purgatory if not a de facto death.
The linked article shows they’re not wholly immune. Some publicly available technologies can be quite powerful as Bellingcat demonstrates.

It’s certainly an asymmetrical field but, especially moving forward, I doubt it will be an entirely one-way street.
So you're saying we already invented the AGIs that are taking over the planet, enslaving the human race and don't really care about us or the condition of the Earth?
Im agreeing with you.
How about we just get rid of streetlights. They only make it harder to see everywhere around that isn't directly under a streetlight and are a waste of energy and effort.
It's pretty damn insane. I implemented the simplest form of this in Javascript as a sort of test a while back and it's just so cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paillier_cryptosystem

https://gist.github.com/noman-land/a65520aa4f2ce7ba3bf9f13d2...
Doesn't matter if you're not there in person, they've colonized the whole world.
> The British Crown is barely a billionaire.

The Crown is a billionaire many, many times over.

The monarch as an individual may or may not be "barely a billionaire", depending on how you look at things.
> The only reason why output from a generative LLM appears intelligent or sentient is that it parrots a random sampling of texts written by intelligent and sentient people.

If most humans were educated by unintelligent, insentient people wouldn't most people produce terrible output too? And if this is the case I don't see why that would be a litmus test for general intelligence.
Perl had less competition and also suffered from being more of a "write-only" language.

Lisp, Haskell, OCaml all likely tickle your PL purity needs, but they remain niche languages in the grand scheme of things. Does that make them bad?

I think Go will be the new Java (hopefully without the boilerplate/bloat). It's good enough to do the job in a lot of cases and plenty of problems will be solved with it in a satisfactory manner.

Language wars are only fun to engage with for sport, but it's silly to get upset about them. Most languages have value in different contexts and I believe the real value in this dialog is recognizing when and where a language works and to accept one's preferred choice may not always be "the one".
You are a power user. Less savvy people can’t or won’t figure this out
Ive gone through the thread and dont see what supports your argument. The top comment quotes Einstein himself, but here’s his own final statement from that quote:

> The new feature of it was the realization of the fact that the bearing of the Lorentz transformation transcended its connection with Maxwell's equations and was concerned with the nature of space and time in general. A further new result was that the "Lorentz invariance" is a general condition for any physical theory.

This seems like a massive leap even given what Lorentz and Poincaré were coming up with, which is all at that point trying to understand what the math leads to and no real intuition on what that means in reality. Einstein on the other hand came up with something that had almost no mathematical underpinning (his first paper had no derivation). The final conclusion of the author in that comment, that this insight was only a year away, is thus completely unfounded in my opinion.

In that thread itself someone quotes Feynman concluding the same. I’ll listen to Kip Thorne, Feynman and my own intuition for now until someone gives a fairly thorough reasoning for their skepticism then.

I would also make a point of not quoting Einstein himself on such nuanced takes. He spent basically 30 years just commenting on his own theory and its motivations every single day. One would assume he would have decided to be more modest on some of those occasions in a mere whim or to placate that particular audience.
>because they would, together with a common USB C cable, allow creating the forbidden USB A to USB A cable

Not hard to do this regardless. Amazon sells A-to-A cables[0]; and Unicomp keyboards for example have a USB-A port in the back, and connect to PCs with a bundled A-to-A cable. Seems like preventing this is a lost cause.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-1-5ft-24AWG-Cable-Plated/dp...
The board that has been threatened to be sued individually and collectively by some of the most well known names in IT. They're probably wondering how they can get out of this with their reputations and ego's in one piece. You may have the legal authority to do something but if you don't have the support (or worse: if you haven't checked that you have the support) then it's not exactly the best move.
Find me a device that needs the bandwidth of USB type C. The only thing that springs to mind are 4k HDMI capture cards...
For special relativity, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_special_relativity

The necessary transformations for special relativity (Lorentz transformations) were already developed by Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincaré. Einstein's central contribution for special relativity was to reinterpret these equations in a novel way.
Also of interest:

> .. Burford Capital, the now-public company credited with developing the nascent litigation finance industry into a commercial juggernaut.

> He added that Burford only had “one sovereign wealth fund investor ...

> Mithaq Capital, a Saudi investment firm, is listed as Burford’s largest shareholder, with a stake representing more than 10 per cent of the company.
Looking forward to your return, I'll be making popcorn :-)

Nice to see a stand taken on uncommon ground.
> the cosmic microwave background, which debatably provides an absolute rest frame

It does no such thing. An "absolute rest frame" would be a rest frame that is inherent in the laws of physics, independent of the distribution of matter and energy. The CMBR only provides a "rest frame" in terms of its distribution of energy, and any piece of matter or energy will do that. For example, you, as a piece of matter, define a "rest frame"--does that mean your rest frame is absolute? Of course not.