skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low pressure sodium is useful for safety (you don't need color vision to see the shadow of an attacker, a fallen branch, shiny reflective shards of a glass bottle, or a pothole), efficient (Lumen/W), and extremely tame for star-observing (look through a narrow-band filter to block the two very thin very close spectral lines (so close you need decent instruments to see that its not just a single one)).
The downside is that you don't get color vision, because the light is so close to monochromatic that you might as well think of it as truly monochromatic for human vision purposes.
> A leader will come back to lead the best shot anyone has gotten in AI development so far.

What am I missing here? There's a handful of companies tweaking weights and optimising infrastructure usage. Won't LLMs naturally advance over time?
280M e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
No CJK support? That's unfortunate, so far I've only found a single code font with CJK support (Code2000) and I'd really like a nicer one.
Option A: try to look good by hiding that you know you messed up

Option B: try to fix mistakes as quickly as possible

.

This is that thing that somehow got the label "psychological safety" attached to it. Hiding mistakes is bad because it means they don't get fixed (and so systems that (do or appear to) set personal interest in favor of hiding mistakes are also bad).
We're not liable to get the facts in an objective and satisfying way here. That makes speculation even less useful, of course. People are liable to pointlessly disagree about what happened here for some time, until (fortunately) people mostly stop thinking about it like with any other gossip.
Seems like MS tries to force Altman back in.

If they succeed, we'll see how much MS cares.
It depends on the resolution of discretization required. Kurzweil's prediction is premised on his opinion of this.

Note that engineering fluid simulation (cfd) makes these choices in discretization of pde's all the time, based on application requirements.
Haha if you think about it like that, it seems like he managed to ingrain some of his methods into the culture..
Pay attention here kids. Even in the hottest yet most experienced startups it is amateur hour. Never expect that “management” knows best. Everyone just takes wild guesses and when the dice roll their way they scream “called it!”

Hilarious. And sad. But mostly hilarious.
outside speculators extrapolating from second-hand rumors and Twitter vibes aren't making coherent sense? Shocking.

Perhaps it's as simple as insufficient oversight and moderation of the GPT store. Or perhaps there's too much legal risk in the expanding scope of b2c services, which could then threaten the existence of the research organizations. Who knows?

Maybe we should stop treating this like sports ball or politics
Is Ilya not a co-founder as well? And I don't think Sam has substantial AI research experience either.
Why do so many people buy into this belief that Sam Altman was the special sauce in OpenAI?
Looks amazing. I want to try it but I use Android and Linux. There's no version for me.
Yep, a video about it capturing a murder (blurry video from 7 years ago I'm sure it's even better today):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLr0KMsRAA
> we dont make tools to hurt us

We have many cases of creating things that harm us. We tore a hole in the ozone layer, filled things with lead and plastics and are facing upheaval due to climate change.

> they will be aligned with us because they designed such that their motivation will be to serve us.

They won't hurt us, all we asked for is paperclips.

The obvious problem here is how well you get to constrain the output of an intelligence. This is not a simple problem.
It's not only Sam, also Greg and a few other engineers have already resigned (and one can assume more to follow)
While the unceremonious firing was bad I am sure this could have gone down way worse than this. Way way worse.
This fear seems to have been largely played up for drama. My understanding of the situation is that at one point they went 'Huh, we could potentially set off a chain reaction here. We should check out if the math adds up on that.'

Then they went off and did the math and quickly found that this wouldn't happen because the amount of energy in play here was order of magnitudes lower than what would be needed for such a thing to occur and went on about their day.

The only reason it's something we talk about is because of the nature of the outcome, not how seriously the physicists were in their fear.
There's an even more insane example:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-roman-mosaic-...
> I can certainly personally feel the difference health-wise between 600ppm and 1200 ppm.

You can psych yourself into feeling anything if you buy a machine that displays numbers and prime yourself to get anxious if the number goes up. Why would you buy this machine in the first place, if not because someone convinced you that you should be anxious about whatever numbers it might display? It’s a circular argument grounded in marketing.

> Submarines are equipped with advanced air filtration and CO2 scrubbing systems to manage air quality. These systems can handle higher CO2 levels effectively, unlike typical office HVAC systems.

The question is the CO2 level in the air that the humans are breathing. Obviously the systems on a submarine or spacecraft are going to be more powerful than the systems in a normal building because they can’t just exchange air with the outside. That’s like saying you need a better heating system in Alaska than you do in Hawaii. That doesn’t mean you have to set your thermostat to 50 degrees if you live in Alaska. You can still set it to 70 degrees. Likewise, if it was important or necessary for a spacecraft or submarine to provide 600ppm CO2 concentration to the crew that is responsible for safely maintaining that vessel, they would be designed to that specification. They aren’t because it isn’t necessary.

I’ve seen evidence that 3000ppm is more comfortable and desirable than 5000ppm, but nothing to suggest that 1200ppm is of any concern.

And frankly, it’s insulting to my “general intelligence” that you would have ChatGPT (which is not an AGI) argue with me in the first place. One would expect GPT’s reasoning here to have flaws which a moment of critical thinking can uncover. Now that I have done so, do you have any thoughts of your own to provide?
It seems silly to me but then I always prefered Asimov positronic robots stories to yet another retelling of the Golem of Prague.

The thing is the cultural Ur narrative embed in the collective subconscious doesnt seem to understand its own stories anymore. God and Adam, the Golem of Prague, Frankensteins Monster none of them are really about AI. Its about our children making their own decisions that we disagree with and seeing it as the end of the world.

AI isnt a child though. AI is a tool. It doesn't have its own motives, it doesn't have emotions , it doesn't have any core drives we don't give to it. Those things are products of us being biological evolved beings that need them to survive and pass on our genes and memes to the next generation. AI doesn't have to find shelter food water air oxygen and so on. We provide all the equivalents when there are any as part of building it and turning it on. It doesn't have a drive to mate and pass on it genes it doesn't have any reproducing is a mater of copying some files no evolution involved checksums hashes and error correcting codes see to that. Ai is simply the next step in the tech tree just another tool a powerful useful one but a tool not a rampaging monster
> Your night vision is separate in each eye.

As a kid, I also learned your eyes will individually adapt to not only brightness, but color.

The front door to the house was open and I put my face with my nose along the edge of it. One eye faced indoors, one eye faced outdoors. After a short amount of time I pulled my face away and it was quite clear that color in each eye had adapted to what it was seeing.

fun but weird.
ya that’s a crazy conflict of interest. 8 years ago it may not have been so obvious though.
Ok then what better signal do you propose should be used to predict success as a CEO?

The fact is that most people can't do what Sam Altman has done at all, so at the very least that past success makes him in one of the few percent of people who have a fighting chance.
You're (willfully, I think?) conflating two things.

However, the way they told the public (anti-Sam blog post) and the way they told Microsoft (one minute before the press release) were both fumbles that separately could have played out differently if the board knew what they were doing.
What he wants is to control global AI development. He just lost that battle.
I don't know how accurate the numbers are, but a quick Google says Roman villas cost 200k-2M denarii[0][1], while Wikipedia says of currency and pay:

"""
It is difficult to give even rough comparative values for money from before the 20th century, as the range of products and services available for purchase was so different. During the republic (509 BC–27 BC), a legionary earned 112.5 denarii per year (0.3 denarii per day). Under Julius Caesar, this was doubled to 225 denarii/yr, with soldiers having to pay for their own food and arms,[15] while in the reign of Augustus a Centurion received at least 3,750 denarii per year, and for the highest rank, 15,000 denarii.[16]
"""

Which corresponds to 13 years 4 months gross pay in the best case of the highest earner and cheapest villa, or 17,777 years for the worst case combination from those numbers.

[0] https://history.answers.com/ancient-history/How_much_did_hou...

[1] https://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-houses.php

[15] Adkins, Lesley; Adkins, Roy A.; Adkins, Both Professional Archaeologists Roy A. (2014-05-14). Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-7482-2. Archived from the original on 2023-09-04. Retrieved 2022-04-14. - https://web.archive.org/web/20230904145101/https://books.goo...

[16] appears to be the same link as 15, don't know why it's listed separately on Wikipedia
More like Duolingo’s decline. They brought their mobile transaction money grubbing “hearts” system to the browser version punishing people for making mistakes (which is the opposite of how you learn a language). But of course you can pay to refill your hearts early!
No? Nothing is spoiled in that scene.
Are you the sort of person that hires someone that can successfully organize a coup against corporate leadership?

It feels like there is an impedance mismatch here.
And any talented engineer or scientist who actually wants to build safe AGI in an organization that isn't obsessed with boring B2B SaaS would align with Ilya. See, there are two sides to this? Sam isn't a god, despite what the media makes him out to be; none of them are.
It is being retired, it is a massive bloat compared to vulkan (mainly because of the glsl compiler), so it is reasonable to say than building upon it is a mistake.
You might want to become familiar with the use of the word as a verb instead of a noun. It might make you look less than whatever this makes you look.
It's sort of like if they didn't have a change control process, deployed on a Friday, realized the deployment was broken, and are now hurriedly trying to roll it back before business hours Monday.

Not really a good look from a company that's leading the charge on such a pivotal technology.
still, linux kernel is around 30 million lines of code if I'm not mistaken as a reference. most probably they have their reasons, but it smells weird to me.
A big problem with Try is the function signatures...excuse me, I would like a <<T as Try>::Residual as FromResidual<Result<T, !>>::Output, please. Yes, that is a caricature and I don't know the proper signatures, but c'mon. Read the discussion for the Try v2 RFC if you want a better idea.

...and then they add more syntax sugar to partly sweep the complexity under the rug. I like Rust as much as the next person, but I'm apprehensive about how this will play out.
Or he gets to return to OpenAI and have a Steve Jobs style cull of the board. Either way as someone who enjoys the drama I’m stoked.
AI Girlfriend Went Down After CEO Jailed for Setting His Apartment on Fire
Cops in the US are not paid to defend the public. There are Supreme Court cases ruling that e.g. they can in fact just hide behind a door while you're actively being murdered.
I agree that it's the tech and Altman isn't the secret sauce, but if Sutskever shuts down further product offerings, then the investors lose billions.

So I was just saying that from the investor's perspective, the concept was flawed or at least very questionable from the beginning.
Is it forbidden to remind people that Israel has repeatedly massacred Arabs, because they're Arabs? Is it also forbidden to talk about Arabs have done the same to Jews? Is it forbidden if you mention one but not the other?
You do not need to deforest a forest to harvest trees. Assuming an annual growth of X m³ha-¹ you'll be able to harvest X*area by taking only mature trees. If you start out from a clear cut or a forested area grown from a recent clear cut you'll need to stagger the first few harvests (which will produce less wood that projected) to create more diversified age strata but once you have this system going you'll be able to keep on harvesting without breaking the forest cover. The effect of such a management technique is not too different from the way trees naturally age and die, especially not when tree crowns and branches (which used to be of little to no commercial value although this has changed with the increased demand for biomass for heating purposes) are left in the forest to make sure the soil is not depleted.
I've been using it for 2 months now, and I strongly agree - it's very reliable, and object detection is spot on. I'm running 2 cameras with just the cpu, and still have plenty of breathing room.
Not surprised at all. My take: the board had a nice little talking to with their main donors (Satya?) and a whole bunch of key employees.

Next prediction: Ilya hightails it.
I guess if you're genuinely playing with friends you'd have an agreement not to use any out-meta prompts :)
What if we are just the result of a ml network with a model of the world?
Is there a compelling narrative to think that he wasn’t useful?
Please don't attempt to start language wars on threads here. They're a curse; they grow like kudzu and take over the whole thread. This is interesting computer science, and in the ecosystem of Hacker News, superficial bickering is its top predator.
Lol. You literally know nothing about this person other than what you found online. She could be brilliant or offer a perspective the business needs.

Suggesting that some inarguably brilliant technologists and business people would invite a moron to crash their party makes you look petty (at best) and like an idiot (at worst)
They were both on the board for the Centre for Effective Altruism.
It's more like two of your coworkers deciding to fire you without hearing you out.
A real power struggle! How exciting. It goes to show that no matter the structure, when it comes down to it the investors always have the last say.
My PIN is 3414, copy it as much as you like.
Off the top of my head, I'd likely try to embed a reference tone. If I couldn't do that imperceptibly I'd then look at what a discontinuous but small phase shift would look like. That would had harmonics and again, it would be a question of how perceptible were the harmonics.
There's another article I was reading last week about this

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/asteroid-will-cov...

It's really stunning how much information can be gathered from such an event.

All this knowledge merely from our single planet by tiny variations of measurements in finely calibrated instruments as if you were able to map out the city of Paris confined to the observations from a single window.
Ha - good point.
I'm never unimpressed when we can make these kinds of advanced notices. I know it's just math, but there's a lot of objects out there to run all of the simulations against to see what will be where when while in our line of view.
Because cities are made for people to live in.
Humility is my most used tool. Pick up lots of new things, embrace being a beginner.
They get to pretend to have huge cloud usage - a huge chunk Azure comes from OpenAI - which they count as another massive gain in a different division in the company.

Their stock is probably up $250B because of this investment...

The idea they're getting screwed is interesting.

Microsoft is a lot of things - stupid and incompetent are neither of those things.

They want to have their cake and eat it, too.
Security and safety here seems to be mixture of technocratic naivety and PR. Like there was "don't be evil".
Not like the board, except Ilya has some real capital or expertise to convince everyone this is the right decision.

If they do, it is the perfect time to speak out loud, not letting this news bubbling up to the front page and everyone is talking about how disastrous they were?

What is this board waiting then? The weekend??

The board isn’t bullet proof and they are not god. They can fire Sam yes, it won’t stopping people thinking this is stupid or this won’t do more harm than good to OpenAI
Who hired those people? The answer to that is either the founders or some chain of people hired by the founders. And hiring is hard. If you're good at hiring the right people and absolutely nothing else on earth, you will be better than 90% of CEOs.
Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326146
I don't get your point. He's a capitalist, no doubt, but he also knows the rules will change rapidly if we ever achieve AGI.
still, having 3x the lines of code compared to the linux kernel is... weird.
> This is 99% from Microsoft & OpenAI's other investors.

Exactly. You can bet there have been some very pointed exchanges about this.
100%. Hear hear. It's very visible who knew about OpenAI before ChatGPT currently. It's somewhat frustrating to find 99.9999% of people had the standard genius-warrior-hero-CEO narrative locked in. I don't think even Sam in his most private of moments would come close to endorsing some of the hyperbole I've seen the past day.
The board members should have a high degree of trust and cohesion. That does not mean they should see eye-to-eye on everything. But lack of trust and backstabbings like this can create a poisonous atmosphere on the board and ultimately affect the company's ability to execute effectively. If the CEO has to worry all the time if the board is going for his ouster, this will resemble the HP and Yahoo boards of the 2000s decade.
George Lucas's neck used to have a blog [0] but it's been inactive in recent years. If Ilya reaches a certain level of fame, perhaps his hair will be able to persuade George's neck to come out of retirement and team up on a YouTube channel or something.

[0] https://georgelucasneck.tumblr.com/
There are still plenty of long investors out there. Amazon barely made a profit for many years and Bezos made it very clear that a quick profit wasn’t his focus.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/12/4217794/jeff-bezos-letter...
There’s https://www.modular.com/mojo a Python superset

But it’s meant for AI
Would Altman's bio be any more impressive if framed the same way? A trash tier startup, failing upwards to a VC, and starting one of the sleziest cryptocurrencies around. Sure sounds like no actual work, qualifications, competence or results.
How are you finding it out by [yourself]?

Did you find out e.g. Facebook will do the damage that it did and continues to do in social terms?

Have you done anything or has Facebook changed its way based on your ‘findings’?

The choice here is: does capital coupled with runaway egos provide better stewardship of socially impactful technology development or paper pushers or CIA plants?
Also, there's no real evidence of Microsoft being philosophically opposed to releasing model weights. That's entirely come from the AI safety people who want models with reactively updated alignment controls. If anything having model weights would mean being able to walk away from OpenAI and keep the thing that makes them valuable.
How does any of this prevent a computer from using that same wallet/hash to sign in?
This is a thread about Go, not about Rust. There is a bunch of interesting computer science in this post, and if interesting new computer science is a baby seal, Rust vs. Go discussions are hungry orcas.
Mention of occlude refers to the presumed typo “occult” in the title. Understandable question, given occlude and occult both work there.
Link fixed. The source actually adds the nuance you mentioned. I guess it's possible they might oppose the Hamas rule, but also support the graphic violence of Oct 7th.
> And it’s because he isn’t. This is “rules for thee but not for me”. He as a bad fit, 2/3 the board outed him, and investors are mad because they didn’t feel included.

The fact that they're openly considering bringing him back should tell you that he's not just some random person whose job anyone can do. He's extremely well connected and was the face of the company - the face of deals that the company made. And you have to consider whether internally the employees are supporting this - if I were at OpenAI I would be pissed that the board decided to fuck around when we were doing so well.
It sort-of did have fast RAM for video! The chips used could do 2e6 bytes/second, or thereabouts, of which the CPU could demand just ~1e6 (or near enough), at predictable regular intervals. The remainder is entirely free for the video system! (This was a very common arrangement for the 6502, as it has predictable data bus accesses.)

I'm not especially familiar with the Apple II's graphics capabilities, but it sounds like all its various modes need ~1 byte/microsecond for the visible period, so this would work out.
> Obviously Sam wasn’t the best fit for OpenAI

It's quite possible that he wasn't the best fit, and that the board is an even worse fit. Judging by the behavior of the board, it's hard to see them being a good fit for the company.
seems to be Szymon Sidor – https://archive.is/Ij684#selection-595.304-595.316
Genocide is different from killing, or even mass killing. It’s a political vision of the future where the other ethnicity simply cease to exists. Israel has 10% arab citizen living peacefully, serving in the army, being elected, and nobody wants to remove them from that land.

Compared to the arab world where not a single jew remains (or close to it).
Democracy is a blunt instrument, for disputes you can't resolve by talking. And the smaller the voting pool the more you can try to reach accomodations rather than the majority imposing on the minority.

The two thirds can undoubtedly do this. But the whole structure is in a bad way if they actually do.
It’s not about that it happened, it’s about how MM intentionally misrepresented the facts to hurt the image of the company. It has nothing to do with Musk, or whether one likes or dislikes him. I despise him, for that matter. But this is simply unfair. This is absolutely not the default user experience for regular users, and the spokesperson is right. Does it begs a review of the ad placement mechanics? Sure. Is MM interested in working together with the platform to improve this situation? Doubt. Did they leverage their fabricated evidence to promote a scandal? Definitely. Does this sound like an ethical move to you?
Maybe, or maybe he was in fact unpopular among the majority and you are seeing Altman supporters leave. It happens.

There is nothing to indicate that this bleeds OpenAI more generally. The rank and file aren’t as fire as I’m aware aren’t resigning en masse.

Executives come and go. Show me why these people matter so much that OpenAI has no future then we can talk. It’s in fighting that became public and I’m certain people are pulling whatever strings they have on this, but I don’t see objective evidence that these people make OpenAI successful.

This needs to play out