skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this not just a different manifestation of the third key observation?

"Division of Labor: There’s a limit to how effectively a task can be partitioned among multiple workers. Some tasks simply cannot be divided because of their sequential nature, and for those that can be divided, the division itself can introduce extra work, such as integration and testing of the different parts."

Just replace 'workers' with 'teams'.
Observation: Crystal Radios can be thought of as Radio Frequency (RF) to Direct Current (DC) "diodes"...

Also they can be thought of as RF to DC Transducers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transducer
Sam Altman is a businessman through and through based on his entire history. Chances are, he will have found an alternative means to make profit on
OpenAI and he wouldn't do this on "charity". Just as how many CEOs say, I will "cut my salary" for example, they will never say "I cut my stocks or bonuses" which can be a lot more than their salary.

Either way based on many CEOs track records healthy skepticism should be involved and majority of them find ways to profit on it at some point or another.
Yes, there are plenty. You can have a look here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
I think that would be consistent with his testimony. Profit sharing is not a salary and it is not equity. I don’t believe he ever claimed to have zero stake in future compensation.
> When you're so close to something that you lose perspective but can still see that something is a trapdoor decision, sleep on it.

Advice I wish I could have given my younger self.
> They definitely do not. That's not how work-for-hire translations work. You pay someone to translate your shows' subtitles for you, then you own the copyright on that work that you paid for. That's how that works. No weird region-locked silliness.

If you skip the fact that Netflix do regional deals with local content houses to sell Netflix-made stuff either in theatres or get TV releases, in which case translations could be a part of the deal to be be provided by the local entity who's getting the rights; or the other, more common scenario, where Netflix acquire local content for wider publication (e.g. Casa de Papel/Money Heist is a very popular example), where again, there might be complications.

> Apple TV shows something like 50 languages. More than I can be bothered to count, certainly.

I haven't found that to be the case, but had Apple TV only briefly because of the general poor quality (watched 3 series on it, all three devolved into trope after trope barely going below the obvious surface).

> Sit down and think about how absurd it is for the bastion of wokeness that is Netflix to discriminate this profoundly against inter-racial love. On purpose. They wrote the code to do this.

Is woke in the room with us right now? Can you point it out and explain what it is? For the record, "races" are a stupid social construct that should have died out with the Nazis. And people can be of different ethnicities while speaking the same language(s), or inversely of the same ethnicity while speaking different languages. Being "woke", "inter-racial" and different languages are completely orthogonal topics.
I've been there. It is an extremely remote place, where the locals all know each other and it is very beautiful but with some of the worlds most dangerous sharks paying regular visits to the beach. And when you look across that beach, you are literally gazing off into the horizon of the end of the Earth. There's literally nothing between Esperance and Antarctica.

Its no wonder the place breeds the silent types.
Yeah. I need to take a break from theory crafting on this one. Too many surprises that have made it hard to draw a coherent line.
The maddening thing is that it is that kind of movie in many places.

It has rules, it has structure, it has proposed reasons that things work the way they do.

People wouldn't be nearly as obsessed about Star Wars if it were all just handwavey reasoning.

One reason, for all it's flaws, Last Jedi is my favorite new film. It simultaneously admits (through character dialog) that "there are rules" and "there are egregiously no rules".
> Perlin noise on a plane, can be either in line with the camera or off at an angle.

This looks like trash and doesn't look like clouds. Even if you're doing procedural clouds, everyone does them differently. And a lot better than just slapping Perlin noise on a plane. Photoshop filters cannot change the bones of a cloud, and when people are illustrating clouds they're taking entirely different approaches. They're not just "this cloud, but flat" or "this cloud, but with a fuzzy diffused look." All you're doing is showcasing your own lack of knowledge on the subject while filling the arrogant techbro stereotype perfectly.
i think it means the effects of living in a small community far from the rest of civilization. where i am from people living away from cities, especially in the mountains also have a reputation of not talking much. i think in the US too.
The sphere uses a different kind of outdoor LED display. It will be fine for a long time.

https://supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/las-vegas-sph...

https://supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/las-vegas-sph...
They forked a company.
Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI if its closed source?
Interesting and insightful read - definitely seems like someone has been paying attention throughout.

I can't get past this snippet:

> they ultimately had no leverage because they weren’t a for-profit company with the capital to be truly independent.

Maybe I don't understand non-profits, but.. they're allowed to amass a war chest for expansion and to pay for dependencies, right? They're not compelled by charter to have no capital like some sort of a corporate equivalent of a monk -- it's just OpenAI that did not have enough capital to grant them better negotiating terms. How is that different from any other startup that gives up ownership of its IP in exchange for investment?
I thought they were talking about inside the libc implementation. Though, if that was done and people call getenv from async contexts, it could deadlock.
I wonder if she (Tasha? Tascha?) was Sam FTX's girlfriend before Caroline. She hired him at the Effective Altruism foundation or whatever it is called after he left Jane Street.
> Anything that has updates and doesn't need to be an instant notification.

I wonder if there's an easy/obvious way to enhance RSS with instant (or near-instant) notification capability. Perhaps HTTP long polling/Websocket? For small setups, it wouldn't scale/cache as easily as "check this URL every hour, and remember to include ETag/If-Modified-Since", so perhaps for public feeds it could be done via a specialized aggregator / caching proxy network? Maybe model the API after Pushover? <https://pushover.net/api/client#websocket>

Use cases is any kind of feed that can update in very short intervals (minutes), or benefits from quick round-trip times, but the exact update frequency can be extremely irregular. For example status alerts, social media posts, blog/forum comments, security updates.
"recursive self-inquiry and feedback"

It's a word predictor. It's really good at predicting the next word. There's no self to inquire into.
MS is risk adverse in every way except for one, which is to blow up Google.

To me this is exactly why I’m skeptical of Microsoft’s strategy here. They seem to be convinced that their success at unseating Google is assured. Meanwhile, google’s share price has barely flinched. Also, the way this has played out just feels desperate to keep the whole thing going. Wouldn’t Microsoft want at least some clarity about what actually happened by the board up and fired the CEO on the spot before doubling down to bring him into a position of power within the company?
Who he?
You're making the assumption that the technical folks won't follow him, and that's a pretty ridiculous bet at this point unless you've got some more data you're just not sharing.

Out of the gate the technical folks at OA had to be perfectly fine with Microsoft as a company given they knew all of the tech they were building was going to be utilized by MS carte blanche.

So now that their OA equity is staring down the barrel of being worthless, what's stopping them from getting a potentially slightly lower but still significant payday from MS directly?
This whole thing smells bad.

The board could have easily said they removed Sam for generic reasons: "deep misalignment about goals," "fundamental incompatibility," etc. Instead they painted him as the at-fault party ("not consistently candid", "no longer has confidence"). This could mean that he was fired with cause [0], or it could be an intended as misdirection. If it's the latter, then it's the board who has been "not consistently candid." Their subsequent silence, as well as their lack of coordination with strategic partners, definitely makes it looks like they are the inconsistently candid party.

Ilya expressing regret now has the flavor of "I'm embarrassed that I got caught" -- in this case, at having no plan to handle the fallout of maligning and orchestrating a coup against a charismatic public figure.

[0] https://www.newcomer.co/p/give-openais-board-some-time-the
There definitely is still a place for transistor radios. What your wife described is the exact reason why I and some other people own ham and GMRS handhelds. Even an off the shelf FRS radio from Wallmart or whatever is worth having around because they can receive signals from GMRS repeaters. And said repeaters by law are not supposed to be connected to the internet, so there's a good chance they'd continue working and relaying signals for tens of miles even if telecoms are down.

Battery power is so ubiquitous now that I think actually owning a crystal radio is mostly obsolete, but knowing how to build one is a valuable skill. Every part can be made from junk. Even a piezoelectric speaker can be made using Rochelle salt.
The big winner in this episode of Silicon Valley is the open-source approach to LLMs. If you haven't seen this short clip of Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever looking like deer in the headlights when directly asked about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N36wtDYK8kI

They sound a bit like Bill Gates being asked about Linux in 2000. For an overview of the open-source LLM world, this looks good:

https://github.blog/2023-10-05-a-developers-guide-to-open-so...
Jazz <3
Yeah that sentiment in the article reflects a common mistake in America regarding capitalism. Many countries, from Western Europe to Japan and New Zealand, already outperform the U.S. in key metrics like average lifespans, social mobility, and rankings of "happiest countries to live in" (where the U.S. often ranks around 15th).
I understand where you come from, but I believe it is way too late for that.
I used to be an Apple "fanboy", way more moderate than the term suggests but up until 2016-2017 I thought their approach made more sense and was seeking the best compromise possible.

But now they are too far gone in the money making, empire building side. I believe the culture that built the Apple we loved is completely dead now and all the people that were the keepers of that have either moved out themselves or got pushed out by management to make way for the new culture of ultra greed rent seeking.

I think it is naive to believe we can go back to what Apple was. It is a shell of itself and even the hardware products are somewhat nice but feel very bland and uninspired for the price (they also have a lot of performance/durability problems because of cost cutting, margin chasing). And this time there is not Steve Jobs to come back.

In my opinion it is better to see the objective truth, cut your losses and move on to another cheaper and more open platform. There is not much to expect from Apple, it's all downhill from here...
So, xAI is really far behind and they need time to catch up.
> Are there special circumstances with the openAI board?

Yes, see below.

> Whose interests are the OpenAI board representing?

OpenAI has a weird charter which mandates the board to uphold a fiduciary duty not to the shareholders but rather to being "broadly beneficial". This is very uncommon. It means that the board is fiscally required to uphold safety above all else; if they don't, the board members could get sued. The most likely person to fund such a lawsuit would be Elon, who donated a lot of money to the non-profit side of OpenAI.

Here's the OpenAI page which explains this unique charter:
https://openai.com/our-structure Excerpt: “each director must perform their fiduciary duties in furtherance of its mission—safe AGI that is broadly beneficial”
Can you explain why without using the word "embeddings", in a way that convinces us that it's just autocomplete?

Or to put it another way: what is being embedded? Is it an abstract concept like question-answering?
Me too, I just wish there was a way to see the notes on desktop as well
If you go to the right faculty, then it very much does. You can write thesis about deep neural nets in CS universities, if you wish. Just like what I do now.
He should really stick to the end, at least that will give some EA people to support him.

Now this is only childish and petty.
If you work for OpenAI and care what the reason is, assume you need to find a new job.

If you are a customer, arrange to use alternative services. (It's always a good idea to not count one flaky vendor with a habit of outages and firing CEOs.)

If you are just eating popcorn, me too, pass the bowl.
I would event go as far as say that the main reason behind the tweet is not to show regret, but to plant the idea that he didn't orchestrate but only participate.
No, not really. You never know when the library reads the enviroment variables. But i can make sure, that the parts under my control do not modify them after start.
We witnessed the insane value destruction over the weekend. Every OpenAI employee is aware that everything they have and what is promised to them is whipped out. Their best chance is that Sam brings them to that new company within MS. They will get the same or better deals as they had. And they will probably deliver within 6m what OAI has now, and what spooked Ilya to launch this coup.

This was a brilliant power move by Satya. I don't see any hope for OpenAI after this brain drainage.
Well written. Well done. Early hn vibes.

A lot more in here, that actually helps to understand what's going on with openai, and what might happen next in the space.

I think the last paragraph is a key point/question.

"Ultimately, though, one could make the argument that not much has changed at all: it has been apparent for a while that AI was, at least in the short to medium-term, a sustaining innovation, not a disruptive one, which is to say it would primarily benefit and be deployed by the biggest companies. The costs are so high that it’s hard for anyone else to get the money... ..This, in the end, was Nadella’s insight: the key to winning if you are big is not to invent like a startup, but to leverage your size to acquire or fast-follow them."

Use models like innovative disruption with caution. Look to their assumptions.

How this plays out is not going to follow the pattern of web 2.0 or Kodak digitization.

The road to AGI is one thing. The road to 1 billion market caps.. not necessarily that same thing.

The road to victory, or definition of victory, are very vague still.
From a legal (EU) perspective, it's a question how you market something. If you say apples are generally healthy, it's produce. If you say an apple will cure your cancer, it's a medicinal product.

2. Medicinal product: Any substance or combination of substances presented for treating or preventing disease in human beings.

Any substance or combination of substances which may be administered to human beings with a view to making a medical diagnosis or to restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions in human beings is likewise considered a medicinal product.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Major mental gymnastics.

Do you want your service to be available to European customers? Play by their rules or withdraw. Nothing special.
I think the reality is the opposite. Sam has said that he doesn't think Transformers/GPT architecture will be enough for AGI where Ilya claims it might be enough.
Has anyone seen him? They might be murdered by the same rogue AI that took over their twitter accounts.
I used the crystal radio that is one of the steps described in this [1] book a fair bit. My grandfather taught me how to make proper PCBs after this and built more complicated radios with him.

[1] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/M...
> in something so important,

Much as LLM is essentially industrial strength gaslighting, so is the meta around it.

It's not so important. There's not much there. No it's not going to take your jobs.

I am old enough to remember not only the How Blockchain Is Solving World Hunger articles but the paperless office claims as well -- I was born within a few weeks of the publication of the (in)famous "The Office of the Future" article from BusinessWeek.

Didn't happen.

No, a plausible sentence generator is just that: the next hype.

In fact some of the hustlers behind it are the same as those who have hustled crypto. Someone got to hold the bag on that one but it wasn't the rich white techbros. So it'll be here. Once enough companies get burned when the stochastic parrot botches something badly enough to get a massive fine from a regulator or a devastating lawsuit, everyone will run for the hills. And again... it won't be the VCs holding the bag. Guess who will be. Guess why AI is so badly hyped.

If you think the ChatGPT release happening within a few weeks of the collapse of FTX is a coincidence I have ... well, not a bridge but an AI hype to sell to you and in fact you already bought it.
This should be a top level comment on news like this. Everyone needs to be reminded that this is neither a new behavior nor something unintentional.
Same URL now posted five times by the same user in the past two weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38239729

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38231510

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38204193

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38188209
I actually agree with this. All along, people thought that automation would mainly replace manual labor (which I also disagree with in many instances -- I believe people should be able to make a DECENT wage doing things, even manual things, even if other things become more expensive for people "at the top").

It seems likely that AI will either replace or augment people in the most creative fields, creating a homogeneous MUSH out of once interesting things, making us consumerist and mindless drones that simply react like amoebas to advertising, buying junk we don't need so that the top 0.1% rule the world, pushed their by their intense narcissism and lack of empathy (like Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella who are by definition narcissists for doing what they do.)
> Star Wars is quite loose in its narrative, requiring a significant amount of suspension of disbelief. Star Wars, if you look at it closely, has many inconsistencies, and it is rather shallow

This is the duality of the original trilogy.

(Since we're talking about the trench run: if you've not seen it, please enjoy the audio of the trench run played over the corresponding sequence from 633 Squadron, itself based on true events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU )
Scammers scamming old people is already very wide spread, so should we maybe outlaw telephones as well? Or maybe mandate anti scamming filters that disconnect if something is discussed that could be a scam? If I think about it that actually would make more sense, but still be problematic.
This stuff is better than anything Netflix, Disney, Amazon or Apple TV released in recent years…
>more risk averse than the OpenAI one

At least it's not sci-fi-risk averse ;)
Hangovers end. Hunger is withdrawal.
I tried calling MS to get a refund in 2000s, they said we had no right to it because our PC was bought for a company. EU has protection for consumer rights, but if you are a small company juggernauts like MS can pretty much tell you go f* yourself.
I believe him.
And that’s how Microsoft ended up being cheered by everyone as the good guy.
Stadium card stunts and the art of programming a crowd
In my municipality the tax rate varies by what items you are purchasing and those items change at least yearly but frequently mid year.

There are tax regimes where how much of an item you buy changes the calculated tax.
>Most consumers can't solder, and I wouldn't even know where to find an electronic parts store. I can buy a (probably bad, but better than nothing in a pinch) USB-C

But these PSUs haven't got any receptacle you can plug a replacement USB-c cable. On the brick side the cable goes into the brick. That's it.

Fair point about soldering and general rarity of electronic parts stores. If things remained as repairable as they were let's say 30 years ago you wouldn't need to know how to solder, but you would have an electronics store within a short driving distance where they'd solder the barrel jack on for you.

A common argument is, but everything is miniaturised now, to which I say, so what? Microscopes and bga rework equipment has been available for even hobbyist for quite some time.
> Semaglutide is a weight loss treatment that costs $10+k a year. It is ostensibly a luxury for the well-off. Does it fall under the 2% rate for medicine?

Trivially resolved. In France only medicine which can be reimbursed by social security (so only actual things that can be prescribed and work, not optional luxury or homeopathy crap).

> Parmigiano Reggiano DOP aged 48 months is arguably a luxury

In France I doubt there's any differentiation of fancy vs non-fancy versions of foods, let alone cheeses. It'd be insulting to the nation to contemplate such a thing.

> And what of a poor couple that's getting married

I didn't know jewellery was a prerequisite to getting married.
I suspect he regrets just because it backfired, big time.

Microsoft is just gobbling up everything of value that OpenAI has and he knows he will be left with nothing.

He bluffed in a very big bet and lost it.
"Ilya does not care about safety or the humanity. This is just ego and power hunger that backfired."

Which I'm inclined to believe.

What's with all these people suddenly thinking that humans are NOT motivated by money and power? Even less so if they're "academics"? Laughable.
so let’s try to lock up all of the guns (we can’t) and prevent anyone from making or using guns (lol) because there aren’t any valid use cases for them, except you know the government probably needs it (surprise) since they can’t ostensibly stop other governments from trying to make and use guns (duh.)
Where are you going to get this ‘crew that cares’? How much of a premium does making them care cost?

When you’re hiring a crew to build one house, what’s their incentive to do a great job? You’re not likely to build another house soon.

I don’t understand why people romanticize Sears houses like this.

It’s like saying ‘I’d rather have an IKEA table assembled by a person who cares than a piece of furniture made by a craftsman who makes the same table design again and again’.
> art galleries displaying things like empty canvases or toilet bowls

This is so far from the norm and feels like a television lens version of artists and art galleries. Yes, Duchamp used a toilet bowl in 1917 as art which was over 100 year ago. This is known because no one had done it before and presented an everyday object as art. This is 106 years old but still referred to so you can guess it was a big deal.

My suggestion is to visit a modern art museum in a larger city and you'll see this kind of "easy bullshit art as a statement" doesn't really exist.

https://www.tate.org.uk
https://www.hauserwirth.com
https://www.moma.org
https://www.davidzwirner.com
https://gagosian.com
Ah yeah, back when Star Wars had plots…