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Still wondering why Sam was kicked. He is indeed super smart, but I don't trust his integrity and morality based on his past intentions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin
* pushing for AI regulation
What if the date for DST changes tomorrow, but only in some locations? How will you know which stores times need to be adjusted and which don't?

UTC to local time is not a function, it is not somethung that can be computed once and stored for the future. The two are fundamentally different concepts, and can only be related to one another in certain contexts, and only reliably for the past.
I was really just exploring a hypothetical. This whole idea of synchronizing lights is pretty dumb. It won't work, and even if it did it's still a bad solution.

Better solution is less lights, or turn them off at night or any of the other solutions we've been talking about for 30 years. Remember when street lights were killing sea turtles?
whats it due to then in your opinion?
I haven't dealt with Cloudflare specifically, but I did deal with a number of big CDNs for large amounts of traffic. They were pretty adamant about NOT supporting arbitrary Vary header values. It broke some logic on a few of our systems and we eventually just decided to work around it instead of pushing our case.

Interestingly, one of the big CDN providers did have controls in their UI for explicitly allowing/disallowing Vary header entries but they disabled it for us at some point (e.g. it was still in the UI but greyed out). I assumed once we hit a certain level of traffic it was too computationally expensive? Ever since, I've avoided any kind of fancy header/response variance in APIs just in case I end up in the same situation. It is rarely a necessity. IIRC, the only thing they continued to support variance wise was gzip (e.g. content-encoding).

It's also worth noting they were extremely conservative with query parameters too. Also to reiterate, this was very high traffic and high volume with expectations of low latency, so probably not applicable to most people using CDNs for static website assets.
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I think it's a bit over the top to apply it to the current topic. I don't know Sutskever personally but I think that he was trying to be responsible and had a right to be kept in the loop as per the way the organization was formed. Same with the people that backed him up. I think that's very different from being a sociopath.

Same for Altman. If he is a sociopath then he may also be one the greatest actors of all time.

I'm not saying I think what they did was a good plan or that I believe the GPT Store or GPT 4.5 is going to take over the world. But I just think that from the perspective of safety-oriented people it was probably fair to evaluate the trajectory as dangerous and to try to reign it in a bit.

Personally, though, thinking short term, I hope Altman comes back and we get a GPT Store soon.

I also hope that open source models continue to improve and serious safety research continues full speed.
Properly and absolutely airgapped should do it. Internet is the big vector that can't be closed once exploited.
Awareness means being able to say "I don't know." And none of these models will ever eject that answer.

The reason: The training set does not include "I don't know." Everything on the net is confidently right or, more often, confidently wrong.

LLM is Artificial "Bullshit" rather than Artificial "Intelligence".

Every time we make advances in AI, what we discover is that humans have less intelligence than we ascribe rather than machines have more.
Well, the opposite is also not very desirable: <https://qntm.org/abolish>
They might've done a bad job of it, but if they looked at how to make the office more comfortable and then implemented the suggestions, that sounds like a good thing?

I like working from home, but I definitely want to see my co-workers in person sometimes. So if they can bring some WFH benefits to the office, that's great!
> EA used to be great.

It was always a cult-like delusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33618156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34646361
The weights aren’t MIT-licensed, so this is not usable in commercial applications, right?
He seems to have gone the way of Eliezer Yudkowsky (but with actual technical chops).
Transmuted into Effective Accelerationism (e/acc). Cringe.
While we had a few end to end browser tests they tended to be slow so the pattern we ended up at was to generate output from the API to use as mock data in the UI tests.

I think it usually make sense to test the business logic at the JSON API level (except for particularly complicated parts where unit testing of that complex logic may make sense) and then use snapshot tests for the display logic.
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Is that related to GlobalFoundries?
The fact that they didn't follow up with evidence immediately shows that they are incompetent.

You don't just accuse someone of committing a heinous crime and stay silent. What is the detail?
Please take credit where credit is due; you used the word instance :-).

I figure what we're doing in these threads is kind of what sci-fi authors who were way smarter than myself have done for decades:
Muse about a topic, put down some ideas maybe some new vocabulary Etc. Then when new technology comes out those of us who are well read can look back and say "A ha! That clever bastard knew it all along!"
I wish I could interview Musk. Give him a hard interview for once. Going on Lex Fridman is like going for an interview with an adoring fanboy.

Just want to see someone interview him who is as smart as him. Me
> Loud voices stated that pros hated the keyboard, hated the Touch Bar, hated having to use dongles to do certain tasks like give a presentation or pull in photos from their camera. People also waxed poetic about MagSafe.

Yes, if we compared the current laptop lineup to 2015's, the only real significant changes are USB C and the 14" notched screens. Internals radically changed as well as performance, battery life, and that's where Apple is keeping the focus (rightly so given the reaction to the current models, where the consensus seems to be to not touch anything anymore outside of the battery and the chips).

> The iPad has had hardware revisions since then (it has gone from A15X to M2)

Yes, same path as the mac where internal changes seem to be the priority. The biggest change for me was the introduction of the cantilever keyboard as an option, which as you point out went along with Mac-like features coming in the OS.

In contrast, in the same time span Microsoft introduced the Surface Studio line (the elusive 2+ desktop and the widely loved but crazy expensive laptop) and the Surface Pro line that directly answered the "What's a computer ?" question Apple was asking. Looking at the numbers [0] it seems they found a decent niche where the iPad has stagnated for so long.

I think Apple could have interesting ideas for the next iPads, but as you say, no leaks whatsoever at this point probably means it's at least a year down the line, and if it's a real big change the iteration process will need that much time (and they should take their time. A half baked prototype would be killed on the spot after such a long wait)

[0] https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/microsoft-su...
My e2e tests automatically dump a multitude of debugging information and throw open a console from which I can quickly fire up code debuggers, logs, screenshots, network traces and browser traces in a few seconds.

Building test tooling is hard I'll grant you. It requires engineering chops and being up to date on the latest tooling. But not luck.
Even if he isn’t critical to OpenAI’s future there is the issue of how the board handled this. They surprised everyone from their most significant investors to their employees, which would be justified if they have a very good reason. Without an excellent reason, all of this looks capricious and incompetent.
Are they spoiled, or do they have a reasonable expectation?
He has succeeded in forcing a negotiation on the issues he's unhappy about. If he felt his concerns were being ignored previously, well, that is certainly no longer the case. I wouldn't assume necessarily that he's not going to get any of what he wanted.
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And both those things are much less an issue if you can physically bother the person whose supposed to be doing them.

Like sure, we should be able to fix them. But if WFH creates extra friction that doesn't exist in-office, that's an extra resource drain that ought to be accounted for.
> You have to know that it's a timestamp

So what? That's true of all formats. How is it relevant to the choice of which format to use at which stage of the process?

> and you have to know what timezone it's in.

You don't.

> clearly a timestamp

Not very helpful. It's easy to set up types in advance. Don't figure out if things look like timestamps at parse time, or you'll be causing the same problems that turn gene names into dates and choke on people named Null.
The community upgrades to whisper are far faster than real-time, especially if you have a powerful gpu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
I have seen these issues here in Germany too. Fintech-banks like N26 or Revolut used to fill the gap and give you a quick bank account before you could settle down in a permanent address.

The problem is that they require a work permission for the account, which used to be quick, but since the immigration system is now overworked, they're giving one year Visas and taking their time to give the work permission. So N26 or Revolut are only really available for European citizens (that was the reality for a few years now, dunno if it changed).

Funny enough, more traditional banks have picked up the slack and dropped the strict requirements, and you can open an account from day one of being here with them.
Yeah, but also remember that Altman and Musk started the non-profit to begin with (back when both their reputations were much different). They were explicitly concerned about Google's dominance in AI. It was always competitive, and always about power.

Wikipedia gives these names:

In December 2015, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research announced[15] the formation of OpenAI and pledged over $1 billion to the venture

Do any of those people sound like their day job was running non-profits? Had any of them EVER worked at a non-profit?

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So a pretty straightforward reading is that the business/profit-minded guys started the non-profit to lure the idealistic researchers in.

The non-profit thing was a feel-good ruse, a recruiting tool. Sutskever could have had any job he wanted at that point, after his breakthroughs in the field. He also didn't have to work, after his 3-person company was acquired by Google for $40M+.

I'm sure it's more nuanced than that, but it's silly to say that there was an idealistic and pure non-profit, and some business guys came in and ruined it. The motive was there all along.

Not to say I wouldn't have been fooled (I mean certainly employees got many benefits, which made it worth their time). But in retrospect it's naive to accept their help with funding and connections (e.g. OpenAI's first office was Stripe's office), and not think they wouldn't get paid back later.

VCs are very good at understanding the long game. Peter Thiel knows that most of the profits come after 10-15 years.

Altman can take no equity in OpenAI, because he's playing the long game. He knows it's just "physics" that he will get paid back later (and that seems to have already happened)

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Anybody who's worked at a startup that became a successful company has seen this split. The early employees create a ton of value, but that value is only fully captured 10+ years down the road.

And when there are tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of value created, the hawks will circle.

It definitely happened at say Google. Early employees didn't capture the value they generated, while later employees rode the wave of the early success. (I was a middle-ish employee, neither early nor late)

So basically the early OpenAI employees created a ton of value, but they have no mechanism to capture the value, or perhaps control it in order to "benefit humanity".

From here on out, it's politics and money -- you can see that with the support of Microsoft's CEO, OpenAI investors, many peer CEOs from YC, weird laudatory tweets by Eric Schmidt, etc.

The awkward, poorly executed firing of the CEO seems like an obvious symptom of that. It's a last-ditch effort for control, when it's become obvious that the game is unfolding according to the normal rules of capitalism.

(Note: I'm not against making a profit, or non-profits. Just saying that the whole organizational structure was fishy/dishonest to begin with, and in retrospect it shouldn't be surprising it turned out this way.)
If, as the article claims, there is a vulnerability in certain wallets, then checking said vulnerable wallets could expose them to attack.
Something just as effective happens automatically:
really driven non-altruists achieve success and realise it doesn't bring happiness. Then proceed to donate their wealth.
Buffet nor Gates started out as altruists but are both planning it as an end.
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I expressed a feeling which communicates a type of commentary.

Another comment questioned another comment in a normal way with personal touch.

There are plenty of useless comments on hn. Plenty of personal anecdotal evidence which people don't get.

If you want a pure discussion a link to sources would be a sane default
Netflix lost its value a long time back. They know it, the people watching know it. What else can they do but cancel shows and raise prices.
I'm mostly being facetious, but if you have an unlimited budget to throw into a legal war chest for the purpose of making someone's life miserable, you can make someone's life miserable.
I wish I could interview Musk. Give him a hard interview for once. Going on Lex Fridman is like going for an interview with an adoring fanboy.

Just want to see someone interview him who is as smart as him.

Anyway sad to see this report. Reason I bring up Musk is he is so self righteous about focus on rockets and EVs. What's the point of a rocket reaching Mars if there is no Earth left to supply it?

We are in the Holocene Extinction and the best minds are ignoring the problem and driving the dagger in deeper. That's sad.
Another interesting take backed by little evidence in the real world.

The most egregious abuses of morality have come from for-profit startup CEOs.

Especially with the "move fast and break things" attitude that YC has helped to cultivate.
Freedom of religion doesn't mean we:

1. Can't question religious values, the religions themselves.

2. Have to welcome people with extreme religious ideas that put religion over the ideas of a liberal democracy.

For example, would you be suspicious of a person who belongs to a cult?
Oh well I guess that depends on the win condition, and yes I can imagine 1000v1000 units can be fun (myself am an avid enjoyer of 4v4 in SC2). But especially as the number of players go up, I think the popcap should be going down. I've played a couple custom 2v2 games in SC2 with a reduced popcap (100 instead of 200) and the games were wiiiiiiiild: you have very little economy and turtling is just impossible, so the games end up being constant and insane back&forth to claw an advantage.

I guess what I really don't like in RTSs is turtling. If I wanted to play SimCity, I'd be playing SimCity.
> EA was founded on rejecting a great falsehood: a lie that almost everyone believed, that is not just false but the opposite of truth. This was the lie that donating based on your feelings was the best way to help people.

What utter nonsense.

EA is as myopic when looking at normies, as it is when performing introspection.
>Are infill and outpainting equivalents possible?

Do you mean outpainting as in you still what words to do, or the model just extends the audio unconditionally the way some image models just expand past an image borders without a specific prompt (in audio like https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1650001584485552130)
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No. They used Oauth. I wrote their entire Oauth system. And it was a nightmare reading through Oauth/OIDC specs for something that could be handled trivially with http basic auth.
You forgot to mention when did you did it, back then a lot of librairies where not compatible.
Would a 2.75 trillion dollar software company that has been around since the inception of the modern computer be able to keep up?

Probably. If the people running it and the shareholders were committed to keeping up and spending money to do so.
I've seen several people claim it is an "outrageous conflict". I'm not really seeing that.

Seems like a well done nothing burger with a side of french cries to me.
And then remember that the cell and cable companies had to be threatened with lawsuits to stop labeling some of their fees as taxes.

"Charges can only be labeled as a tax if 100% of the charge goes to a government entity."
> Also, they know all their own special tricks that could be implemented directly in hardware to dramatically reduce energy consumption or performance per dollar, and might not want to tell Nvidia all that stuff.

You seem to be saying that the good reading of the situation is that Altman will take OpenAI's internal secrets (so secret they don't even want to tell their existing chip suppliers) to his own side hustle. But that's not actually good; in fact it's exactly the kind of thing that a CEO should not be doing.

If OpenAI wanted to influence non-Nvidia chip makers into building the perfect next-generation chip, not one of them that would turn down that call.

> Sam is already so rich, and he really doesn’t strike me as being primarily motivated by personal financial gain at this point.

The man started a fucking cryptocoin just a couple of years ago. That doesn't exactly scream "not motivated by personal financial gain".

> I just can’t see this all being some ploy to extract money from OpenAI by forcing them to buy his own company’s hardware at unfavorable prices.

Agreed on this. The company would never ship anything for OpenAI to buy. But what he appears to be doing is trading on the OpenAI name to hustle stupid money into the biggest money pit since WeWork.
It’s been exposed for what it always was.
> The people who flamed Python for these breaking changes were either extreme outliers or the sort of people who would be happy with the language never making breaking changes, ever, no matter how bad of mistakes in design were discovered.

Count me in the "don't make breaking changes" camp. You can spit out warnings to prevent developers from using certain language features in new code, but changes which outright break old code should be extremely rare.

This is how Javascript works (the language, not the ecosystem around it), and it means I can update my web browser and continue visiting old websites.

I don't think most languages should go as far as Javascript. However, the case for a breaking change should be a heck of a lot stronger than "we think all timestamps should have timezones now." That's a fine opinion to have, but it doesn't mean you should go break stuff.
I /adore/ the italics. It's the major thing that keeps me on this font above all others.
>>been completely and utterly discredited by the accomplishments of Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, the ACA.

I would not consider any of those programs a success, Social Security is going bankrupt and combined with the national debt pose a HUGE economic problem for the US over the next decade or 2

Medicare/Medicaid only survives by providers over charging private parties to make up for the terrible reimbursement rates to providers, in sort most workers in the US are charged 2x for medicare, once as a payroll tax, and then again by massive insurance premiums to subsidize medicare/Medicaid

ACA I am still amazed at the mental gymnastics that the court used to rationalized that as constitutional at all, but aside from that there is very little to be proud of in that law, it was designed to make insurance more expensive and less responsive as a prelude to Single Payer. The designers of it wanted to collapse insurance to make Single payer the only viable option.

>>Right, this allows citizens to sue. Contrary to what you claimed.

Incorrect again, I clearly stated that the government has immunity unless it allows you to sue them, nothing in the Federal Tort Claims Act would allow for a tort claim for what we are discussing here, the Federal Tort Claims Act has a very narrow and limited circumstance where it can be used to file a case against the federal government
If they're not earning a fair income, then their wage/salary should be increased. It's ridiculous to make their pay vary from day to day depending on how guilty their customers feel.
That you’re phrasing it as “training an LLM to keep secrets” suggests a misapprehension: A downloadable LLM that knows secrets fundamentally cannot be expected to keep them. The fixable condition is much weaker: capabilities, if an LLM has the capability to do dangerous things.

The problem for secrets in general (which is a separate issue to LLMs, I interpreted you asking me about the EU Chat debate as an attempted gotcha not as a directly connected item) that no matter what you do, we’re unstable: not having secrets breaks all crypto which breaks all finance and approximately all of the internet, while having it creates a safe (cyber)space for conspiracies to develop without detection until too late. And also no room for conspiracies means no room to overthrow dictatorships, so if you get one you’re stuck. But surveillance can always beat cryptography so even having the benefits of crypto is an unstable state.

See also: Gordian Knot.

Find someone called 𐀀𐀩𐀏𐀭𐀅𐀨 to solve the paradox, I hear they’re great.
you'd have to do something along the lines of what voice comm does to combat the output feedback problem. i think it involves an fft to analyse the two signals and cancel out the feedback, im not 100% sure on the details.
Regardless of the distinction between sales tax and VAT, if any given US state wanted to have the state sales tax be included in the price that is shown to the end-user (at least in physical stores that exist in that state), I don't think there's any federal law preventing them from doing so. In other words, rather than having the store list a pack of gum for $1.00 and then charging me $1.06 at the register, the state could just require that the store list the pack of gum at $1.06. If that means the price of a can of Arizona Tea has to vary by, like, two cents when you cross state lines, that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
I'll have to dig into that a bit, thanks for the pointer.
To clarify, I find your sentiment touched on an aspect of the article that 1) I felt wasn't properly conveyed in the piece itself and 2) Is not being address adequately in the comments here.

> I see what you’re saying but even taking cultural differences into account I can’t imagine people from the regions listed in the article aren’t at least on some level unsettled by earning a dollar an hour to read accounts of rape and label porn for AI.

I agree. I'd go as far as to say with confidence that many of them are unsettled by these things, if my impression of Pakistani or Southeast Asian culture is at all accurate. On the contrary, I could surely imagine a considerable amount of people in other cultures being less unsettled by what's described in the article.

This story happens to touch on the intersections of certain cultural, socioeconomic and moral elements. I wish a different publication reported on it.