skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm shocked at how many bugs and UI issues I've encountered with the Quest 3 and the associated ecosystem (mostly the web store and android app). I can't help but think of Jonathan Blow's talk Preventing the Collapse of Civilization[1] when I use it. I tried listing all the issues I encountered, but gave up after 4 pages. The poor UX is a bizarre contrast to the foundational VR stuff, which is fantastic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
'Utterly inefficient' seems a bit hyperbolic.
People are forgetting that OpenAI started as a legit non-profit. It was not meant to be a big money making startup. So presumably getting a cushy board member position was not as hard because this was just some weird philanthropy thing that some SV people were funding...
Having talked with Annie, she's not willing to be bought off, as Sam has tried to do before in the past with her.
not sure you can call it total speculation, it's a subject matter expert giving their opinion based on public knowledge. OpenAI has to solve how to improve their model while being limited by GPU capacity and seeming to be having diminishing returns in terms of model size. And that was before their CEO and president both quit/got fired
That's not true in the slightest. They too some risks* that didn't pay off but that's what happens when you do whatever you feel like.

*
- big picture mode
- steamlink
- vr integration (somewhat successful)
No, it's really not. ;P

Their reasons for disliking the Apple ecosystem are fine, it just doesn't need the tone. It's like reading something from /. circa the mid 2000s - most of us have grown up since then.
Here's an archive of the thread in question: https://web.archive.org/web/20231117022239/https://nitter.ne...

I don't know how anyone can 'report' on a tweet without quoting said tweet with a straight face.
> In my opinion, the technical know-how of Zuck was perfectly valid to build Facebook, but not this.

Technical know-how is the least of their problems. The tech is irrelevant to me. Facebook's user-hostile and abusive actions have made it so that now anything they make is automatically something I want nothing to do with.

In my opinion, no matter how good the tech is, anyone foolish enough to participate in Facebook's "Metaverse" is just bending over, spreading, and asking to get screwed over and over again. The company has repeatedly demonstrated that it is toxic, criminal, and actively harmful to their users. No amount of fancy VR tech could ever be cool enough for me to let them use me. They can change their name as many times as they like, but they've already shown us what they are.
https://archive.is/inaoT
Sam and those that want to continue stealing ip and destroying entire industries in the process will leave, while ethical machine learning scientists will remain.
> Maybe Chinese manufacturers will get into western markets

They already have - volvo makes nice evs but pretty pricey
If it turns out that the ouster was over a difference of opinion re: focusing on open research vs commercial success, then I don't think their current Rube Goldberg corporate structure of a non profit with a for profit subsidiary will survive. They will split up into two separate companies. Once that happens, Microsoft will find someone to sell them a 1.1% ownership stake and then immediately commence a hostile takeover.
The US Propaganda Machine of World War I
The linked paper of Fischer is highly recommended (OA).
You can't be serious. You think that Microsoft themselves saying they didn't know DISPROVES that it was a covert power grab by them? Have you heard of "lying"?

I'm not saying I think it WAS that, but come on.
Btw, all these analysis are valid for EV cars too.

EV cars are terrible for CO2 emissions. because their battery packs are too big.
The new information is that Altman has left, this makes it certainly interesting for most people; besides she postet some new tweet about it today
That's my unsubstantiated hypothesis. The board going so public of this nature could only mean he was doing some grave shit like embezzlement or intentional financial misreporting.
Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294
Hacker News does not rely on any public cloud infrastructure; and uses a completely bespoke web framework and (I believe) bespoke programming language. Scaling that setup is hard.
Who says the LLM’s don’t know?

Testing with GPT-4 showed that they were clearly capable of knowingly lying.
Here's a thread titled "Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her"[1].

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
They make 30% on almost every PC video game sale in the west. Even if they sell 10 million copies of HL2 tomorrow, it's only going to move their bottom-line marginally.

And that's ignoring the fact that HL2 is 90% off right now ($1) and they're giving away HL1 for free.

No. Valve just does whatever Valve wants. The most valuable thing they're getting out of this is probably goodwill.
what examples are you considering here, bioweapons?
Gag orders are absolute, you're not allowed to tell anyone about what you're gagged on except for the specific people the government agrees to.
Just look at how this news is doing on reddit (a service i conflate a little more with the general public than hacker news which learns towards silicon valley technology) and you can easily see the truth of your statement.
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294
Kara Swisher is a person I would generally believe about tech news. Seems weird to suggest she’s lying or flatly incorrect based on supposition.
No, it’s actually enjoyable.
None of these actions should be considered unusual from a woman (and probably a man, too) who was involved in a decision the result of which (with or without knowing the context) would piss off a lot of men. The only social media it's safe to leave open are those that allow shutting down of all DMs, and don't divulge information which could identify the physical places she habituates.
Unrelated, but maybe you mean special relativity. Poincaré was very close and others like Lorentz would have made the logical leap to discover special relativity.
Most scientists however agree that GR would have taken much longer for someone to fill in the crucial gap of modeling gravity as the geometry of space time.

But sooner or later someone would have done it.
It'd be hard to fit AA and even AAA in the profile of the Magic Mouse.

The obvious response is that the mouse should be thicker to accommodate those batteries, but that goes against Apple's entire ethos.
cos it's still running off an old server. that and bigger news stories lately, so the YC data center currently likely resembles the fields around Ypres, ca. 1918
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Yeah I pretty much agree with this take.
I'm just confused as to how the CEO of Quora became a board member.
What does that even mean, "make it"? AGI that nobody can even define? Obviously not, nobody is gonna make it.
Neither of those gets wiggled around during use though.

The wireless mice I've had with optionally connected cords for data/charging do tend to have a big glob of plastic at the end that locks into the mouse housing so none of the strain is on the actual USB connection.

Things like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Gaming-Mouse-Cable-Meters-Copper/dp/B...

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251800588456430.html
Shia the beef all the way.
What I'm going to write here, will not be taken well by many: If you noticed almost all of YC's new companies are AI-based, maybe Sam was doing something favorable for them w\o disclosing or getting approved by the board.
It's hilarious that people are commenting about Microsoft being "down". It's up over a $100 per share since the beginning of the year and at an all-time high.
Not one size fits all, I'd probably look around B&H camera rig section.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Camcorder-Mounts/ci/13931...
Yes I would even say it's the opposite.

Through the public actions of Sam Altman in various places like the US congress it has become rather clear that his goals are to device and fear monger to create an environment of regulatory capture where due to misguided laws OpenAI will have an unfair competitive advantage.

This might be quite in line with what Microsoft tends to like. But it also can be a risk for MS if regulation goes even a step further.

This is also in direct opposition with the goals OpenAI set themself and which some of the other investors might have.

So MS being informed last minute to not give them any chance to change that decision is quite understandable.

At the same time it might have been pushed under the table by people in MS which where worried it poses to much risk, but which maybe e.g. might need an excuse why they didn't stop it.

Lastly is the question why Sam Altman acted the way he did. The simplest case is greed for money and power, in which case it would be worrying for business partners at how bad he was when it comes to public statements not making him look like a manipulative untranslatable **. The more complex case would be some twisted believe that a artificial pseudo monopoly is needed "because only they [OpenAI] can do it in the right way and other would be a risk". In that case he would be an ideologically driven person with a seriously twisted perception of reality, i.e. the kind of people you don't want to do large scale business with because they are too unpredictable and can generally not be trusted. Naturally there are also a lot of other options.

But one thing I'm sure about is that many AI researchers and companies doing AI products did not trust the person Sam Altman at all after his recent actions, so ousting him and installing a different CEO should help increasing trust into OpenAI.
Molestation is about power and opportunity, the gender of the victim is often inconsequential. You'll find plenty of straight pedophiles who abused victims of either gender, and the same with gay offenders.
> it just doesn't need the tone

IMO it does, people aren't machines and they both tend to produce and respond to strongly worded criticism.

> It's like reading something from /. circa the mid 2000s - most of us have grown up since then.

New humans are created all the time, the people who disliked at what big companies were doing back in 2000s - and being vocal about it in the social platforms of the time - growing complacent in 2020s doesn't mean everyone else has to do the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9CGm7rgilE&lc=Ugzcn8AOCsMHD...

This comment on the OpenAI DevDay video aged really well:

> @JustinHalford: Some odd tension coming from Sam. I’m sensing some tension in the Open AI/Microsoft partnership.
I worked at a recent YC AI startup (2022-2023 batch). The only favorable thing was a few hundred in OpenAI credits.
> the latter being the more important in this case

Why is that?
I just read it as illiterate and am amazed someone that deliberately writes like that was chairman of the board.
What is all this nonsense about MSFT stock price? Nothing material has happened to it.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MSFT:NASDAQ
Yeah the prices are dropping already

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/are-americans-falling-out...
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ev-makers-turn-to-discoun...
Definitely not them, I guess! Though I can't say that my eyes are going bad.
Chief Information Scapegoat Officer
This, tho.
what was strange about it? seemed pretty straight forward to me
I always enjoy seeing games running on platforms never intended and especially not even invented at the time, but sometimes I think we forget how powerful computers weren't back then.

Didn't Half Life require a Pentium (as in the first one) and something like 32 MB RAM when it came out?

I think the 3DS should be at least that powerful, or is there something I'm missing?
aaah such a methodical and painstaking expression, writing with caps and quotes, period and all.. suspects shields one from hyperbole :D
Started OpenAI in his apartment :') (with a cash infusion of $100 million).
Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?
I use all lowercase on platforms where I share original content because I like the aesthetic of lowercase letters. They look more harmonious to me. I only use uppercase when using acronyms because I think they're recognized quicker by their shape.
It's not stealing, please stop repeating this nonsensical comparison.
Military contracts are posted and solicited publicly. There's no "dark" acquisition of the type that you are suggesting. You can look up if OpenAI has any contracts with the DoD at [0]. They do not.

[0] https://www.usaspending.gov/
The point is maybe that corporations are proven to be poor stewards of who deserves sponsorship/patronage, so while sponsorships/patronage are the things that make the most sense as sustainable under our current economic models and corporate ones are currently the only ones that seem reliably sustainable yet there aren't enough of them and a lot of important labor is getting underfunded/unfunded, maybe that deficiency points to our economic models themselves as the problem.

Sure, we don't have a better economic model on hand. That's most of what I was pointing out. I don't know what the answer is, but root cause analysis suggests we may have some flaws in our root economic models that as a society it would be great to fix and raise a lot of boats, not just open source developers but artists and craftsmen and writes of all sorts that are also under-appreciated in the current economic models.
Where can I read more about this non Title 10 funding?
It's pretty concerning that there are users on this platform operating like this given what it could imply.
The LLMs of today are just multidimensional mirrors that contain humanity's knowledge. They don't advance that knowledge, they just regurgitate it, remix it, and expose patterns. We train them. They are very convincing, and show that the Turing test may be flawed.

Given that AGI means reaching "any intellectual task that human beings can perform", we need a system that can go beyond lexical reasoning and actually contribute (on it's own) to advance our total knowledge. Anything less isn't AGI.

Ilya may be right that a super-scaled transformer model (with additional mechanics beyond today's LLMs) will achieve AGI, or he may be wrong.

Therefore something more than an LLM is needed to reach AGI, what that is, we don't yet know!
It’s not just speculation though, it’s based on what OpenAI has done since releasing GPT-4.

The promised “foom” just hasn’t happened.
1 qu17.
See my comment above. I don't think OpenAI's absurd corporate structure will survive this.
There is one set of capitalized letters - in Greg's post: "AGI"
To have a "real" AGI is a dream ML researchers have been chasing their whole lives. The top engineers in ML, earning six figures, sometimes claim to have achieved it. People all over the world are expected to benefit when a practical AGI reaches them.

Yeah, the shoe fits.
My assumption about AGI is that it will be used by people and systems that cannot help themselves from killing us all, and in some sense that they will not be in control of their actions in any real way. You should know better than to ascribe regular human emotions to a fundamentally demonic spiritual entity. We all lose regardless of whether the AI wants to kill us or not.
"Why is it dark in some places when the Sun has risen?"

If the Sun is above the edge of the Earth, then there will be light ("daytime") everywhere at the same time.
More new information from Swisher:

> "More scoopage: sources tell me chief scientist Ilya Sutskever was at the center of this. Increasing tensions with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman over role and influence and he got the board on his side."

> "The developer day and how the store was introduced was in inflection moment of Altman pushing too far, too fast. My bet: He’ll have a new company up by Monday."

[source: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294]

Sounds like you exactly predicted it.
Or maybe he just believes the things he testified to. Would be parsimonious.
and mira murati spent 3 years at Tesla
Not necessary if you can make sure the builders can do their jobs without disturbance.
No, you shouldn't generalize from a few examples. A good referral will get your CV in front of the hiring manager, skipping the screening and HR process. If you just get permission to put someone's name on the application that may not count for much. You should ask your contacts to get you on the short list so you bypass at least some of the hiring funnel.

Right now the job market for more junior people looks brutal -- too many people with little experience and the same "skills" mix chasing a reduced number of jobs. If you are still early in your career you will find job hunting tough right now regardless of contacts and referrals.
I had implemented more-or-less this same concurrency scheme for an IPS/DDoS prevention box ~10 years ago, running on Tilera architecture. It was fast (batching + separating read & write heads really does help a ton)... but not as fast as Tilera's built-in intercore fabric. It had some limitations but was basically a register store/load to access and only like 1 or 2 cycles intercore latency.

(Aside, generic atomic operation pro-tip: don't if you can help it. Load + local modify + store is always faster than atomic modify, if you can make the memory ordering work out. And if you can't do away with an atomic modify, batch your updates locally to issue fewer of them at least.)
Why does Microsoft need him? Microsoft has some of the foremost researchers and research divisions in the world and have successfully demonstrated their ability to evolve as a business. Altman's background doesn't seem remotely enough to have such a high-level position at a company like Microsoft.
They... don't? The only reason they need proofs is to write papers proving other things. Not to do the actual work of their fields.
Human cloning
This is still one of my favorite sequence of events and a painting that still resides on my wall.

Boris Groh releases "Russian warship, go f*k yourself!"[0] on Art Station, March 5th, 2022[1] featuring the Moskova off the coast of Zmiinyi (Snake) Island with a Ukranian soldier holding his rifle in his left hand with a lovely finger extended on his right. This painting was submitted in a contest to become a Ukranian postage stamp.

He, of course, wins the contest as he should have given the significance.

The stamp was published by Ukraine on April 12th[2]. On April 13th, the Moskva was hit with two Neptune missiles, sinking her[3] on April 14th due to "bad weather" while being towed.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-16/young-...

[1] https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5BYLXJ

[2] https://www.ukrposhta.ua/en/news/57619-ukrposhta-issued-one-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/politics/russia-moskva...
Or Musk returns to the board of OpenAI after a hiatus.
It sounds like a good question to ask but the main point is that there is a use case for a truck this size/capacity that can work 12 hour/day. At worst it displaces a diesel truck working 12hours/day with same km.
EV. Are awesome as they don't need to idle their engine so no diesel (or very few electrons) spent while waiting for loading etc.
Having read the article I do get the feeling that safety is an underlying current in most of her answers. This certainly gives weight to this being a safety first camp vs growth first camp theory. I hope they don't slow down the pace of innovation too much as there are many startups just waiting for a few improvements here or there before something else becomes viable. And given her answer to the following question I am somewhat optimistic:

Steven: "[...] By putting things like GPT-4 in the wild, it’s almost like you’re forcing the public to deal with those issues [...]"

Mira: "[...] especially as the technological progress continues to be so rapid. It's futile to resist it. I think it's important to embrace it and figure out how it's going to go well."
> and it would have been in the official announcement.

It is:

> As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
Charging is faster and more convenient at home. Theres nothing special about 10min fast charging vs the current 15min.
I have no idea what you're referring to as I don't follow these types of things day-to-day, but it absolutely baffles me that we're having this conversation in the first place and that people are seriously making a "it's okay to lie through your teeth if people are being stupid" argument. It's morally bankrupt, corrupting, and is utterly vile.
hope the scientists win, money men have made too much money off the ideas of others. They just pool money, hedge their bets and wait for a whale.
By that metric go back to John Barber’s 1791 patent for a gas turbine.

Brayton needed to solve actual hard core engineering problems to make the device practical, thus it wasn’t the same idea only similar. There’s little comparison as Brayton was selling commercially viable engines vs writing a paper on a much older idea.
1st gen MM uses 2xAA. Apple even had a branded NiMH bundle for that and keyboard.
This is immensely dumb. What secret cabal of researchers would they be hiring that would be capable of being ahead of Deepmind/OpenAI? Where exactly would they find these people? Shadow MIT? CalTech2?
To maintain a clear separation between for-profit and non-profit activities. If a non-profit operates in a market with for-profit competitors, tax authorities may start considering it a for-profit organization, making all of its income taxable.

And maybe to allow choosing the right people for the right job. If the non-profit has an ideological purpose, its leadership should probably reflect that. At the same time, the for-profit subsidiary probably works better under professional management.
Followup tweet by Kara:

Dev day and store were "pushing too fast"!

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702612379378120
I've been blogging for 21 years.

Sending the newsletter takes me literally 30s thanks to the automation I setup, and means my blog is now available to email people in addition to RSS/Atom people.
The size of the fire from one of these trucks getting into an accident is going to be impressive
Good news is the team at OpenAI consists of more people than just herself.
Cool.

Typically land next to the shore is expensive and riddled with people who want to keep it clear of industry. People are loathe to allow even wind turbines on their precious horizon.... How close to the shoreline do these things need to be?

Also, an aside. Waste brine saturation seems to be a laypersons idea of a severe problem, when in actuality it really isn't. See Australia's desalination plants (Perth, Adelaide, others) and their outflows. 100+ Billion gallons a year with no big issues.
My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products
Hopin'AI is gonna'be lit.

Imagine if all the top talent from multiple agencies united for the coming Senescent Wars.

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Agreed. If a government never intends to reduce its debt load, it may as well just start printing money outright and giving it to their friends. In fact that would be fairer because debt creates an artificial burden on the shoulders of the population who then has to pay a second time for all that mismanagement and/or corruption. First they pay through inflation, secondly they pay through enslavement to repay the debt which backed the inflation which enriched those who are now enslaving them.
It’s got some board members: tick.

They got rid of a guy for lying to them: seems reasonable

Promoted an interim CEO in the interim: yep

His mate took his toys and left in response: seems OTT but that’s his problem.

Not seeing the problem here?
The WiiU, the previous Nintendo console, had it too.