skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have yet to hear of a single customer or partner leave the service

Which doesen't mean a lot. Of course they'd wait for this to play out before committing to anything.

> but if new management can keep the gravy track

I got the vague impression that this whole thing was partially about stopping the gravy train? In any case Microsoft won't be too happy about being entirely blindsided (if that was the case) and probably won't really trust the new management.
I wonder what became of Edd Fitzgerald
BOB SAGET!!!
Is Michael Lewis in the OpenAI office taking notes?
You provide examples of a backend endpoint for the major frameworks / languages. Such as PHP/Ruby/Go/.Net/Java/NextJS/Express etc.

Example: https://github.com/OvidijusParsiunas/deep-chat/tree/main/exa...
AGI is the latest addition to the never ending extreme semantic disagreement landscape. What is AGI? Sentience? Smarter general intelligence than the smartest human? Ability to have original thought and produce novel, viable ideas? The ability to invent? Skynet? An LLM that can pass the Turing test? Just a very impressive LLM incapable of original thought? Take your pick.
> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.
They really only did it on chrome, I think?

At least at work, I kept getting modals saying adblockers weren't allowed, but I never got those on firefox.

It seems to have gone away though (probably an update from ublock) even on chrome
You're welcome. I've done a bunch of these by now if you are ever in the market for a setup and want to bounce ideas of me then feel free to mail, email is in profile.
Seems like the author independently discovered the concept of conceptual integrity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#Concept...

That reminds me of a comment on HN that I had to bookmark when I read it:

> Some processes try to break conceptual integrity. Micro services are one but Scrum as practiced usually tries to stick people into a blind valley where the horizon is months out rather than years. That leads to bad minmaxing behaviors, and/or covert channels being used to keep the wheels on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33923682
Let them resign. ChatGPT can’t resign. One more reason to replace human jobs I guess: the AI can’t resign.
5581 now. Looks set at #3, as other posts update the story. Aggregate would be #1.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327681
I bet removing “attempt to” would give a successful outcome
USB-C is simply more convenient to use, and you get it right 100% of the time, instead of your orientation being wrong 50% of the time with USB-A.
> They've def got the A team running things... my god.

Yeah prompting ChatGPT 3.5 would have yielded a better plan than what they did.
Do people still trust this organization to build super 'AGI'?

Just focus on the enterprise chat bot business
It clear he's a great 'salesman' in terms of raising capital and spruiking up share prices, and he's turned that toward some interesting concepts.

What is also interesting is part of the act is pretending he is the genius behind the ideas and has a hand in the novel engineering of them, which makes some of his fans love him, and anyone with subject matter expertise on whatever technical things he's saying realise he's half a moron or at least shameless.
> I wouldn't believe you if you told me you're subscribed to every Patreon of every content creator you consume the content of.

Everyone’s YouTube consumption is different. I’m not the person you directed the comment at but I realistically follow less than a handful of creators on YouTube. Subscribing to all their Patreons (not sure if all of them have it) would be quite doable.
David O Sacks
I don't think the purpose of this sort of research is to be immediately applicable, it more shows a direction that could be useful in the future. Shor's algorithm has not been used practically, but it's hard to imagine modern cryptography without "post quantum" being an important topic.
Currently discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38327520

The article of the submission is updated as well so this is effectively a dupe.
Dropbox could generate photo thumbnails on encrypted photographs without ever looking at their contents, for example
Yeah you could do that. It is a bit like any public resource that does useful computation. You then get into the world of catchas, cloudflare etc.
> know exactly what hardware they'd like that would be best suited for their task.

Thats the fun thing about AI hardware. By the time you develop it (which takes years and billions), the workload you're targeting is already changed or obsolete.

Nvidia is the exception because if you are an AI scholar, you are building your research around whatever capabilies Nvidia GPUs have. Thats why AMD and Intel have quite literally chosen the "emulate Nvidia" path and axed more specialized accelerators.
I just pay for the product rather than jumping through stupid hoops to avoid paying $3/month/user.

Paying to remove ads is how you get no ads.

Refusing to pay for ad-free services just tells companies that there’s no point in attempting to make a good user experience with no ads.
I don't know that it would be a resume that would inspire confidence in a for-profit business's board that is primarily concerned with shareholder value.

I also don't know that it is a particularly problematic resume for someone sitting on the board of a non-profit that is expressly not about that. Someone that is too much of a business insider is far less likely to be going to bat for a charter that is explicitly in tension with following the best commercial path.
> You're about a year or so late with this "prediction."

Of course other much better informed people have said it before. Show what? What happens if they try manufacturing it at scale and every third car needs to be sent back due to defects?

Then again considering how tasteless a person needs to be to buy that thing might they won't mind a rough edge or two.
It's totally feasible, too. Here's some information from someone who used to sell kits:

http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-kit.htm
> Just focus on the enterprise chat bot business

That’s clearly what they’re doing. The AGI thing is just fancy marketing.
Besides the strong (when they are expertly deploying an elaborate ruse), you know who else often appears weak?

The weak.
If you get it wrong 50% of the time let me substantially reduce that for you: logo goes 'up' for whatever the normal orientation of your device is. That should clear up 99% of the cases.
Weirdly, the port on a cheap mechanical keyboard I have is USB-C but the cable they packaged is USB-C -> USB-A instead. They likely didn't package C->C because of the chicken and egg problem. Not everyone has enough Type-C ports.
My pixel slate has a USB-C port that will only charge in one orientation.
This said, USB-C needs to have its standards updated, and standardised. Eg all cables must support a minimum of USB 3.1 with power and data, with appropriate shielding. Stop yielding so many concessions. I'm already in a spot where I have a number of USB-C to C cable varieties that all look basically the same, but have very different characteristics. One cable basically refuses to charge anything. Another has no data capabilities. Another can carry decent power, but data is seemingly slower than USB 2.0. It's an absolute shitshow that manufacturers can ship something with USB-C ends and carrying USB-C markings that meets an arbitrary free for all standard.
By point of comparison, my fairly minimal Linux partition uses ~200MB of RAM after booting, and I suspect a good chunk of that is cache.
Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world [video]
I don't think the people that want to move slowly and do research are necessarily working at OpenAI.
Does anybody know of any good books on taoism outside Tao te Ching and Tao of Pooh?

Also, are there any good in-person resources in California-ish area?
I probably should retract all those, but I want to argue that the board claiming "not candid" was (as of what we know now) entirely off.
So yes USB A will be there for a while, and more often than not it's a symbolic middle finger to the buyer, a signal that a product should probably be avoided.

maybe it’s the opposite, it’s a warm hug reassuring you that they’re not going to change things just because some of the cool kids are.
> I'm grateful that programming itself is genuinely fun to me

> I don't mind whether what I'm coding is useful or ends up generating money

you can have it both ways; i'm happy that I enjoy it _and_ i'm happy it's useful to others :)
What shareholders? OpenAI is a non-profit. Although hectic, it absolutely makes sense in a non-profit.
Maybe it's a chicken and egg thing, but why do we still have usb-a keyboards and mice and thumb drives? wouldn't it make more sense for them all to be usb-c?
> the compression algorithm should be improved

There is an obvious third choice: the gain in compression isn't worth the effort of writing code to detect these non-discernible artifacts.

People are throwing around 0.2 bits/second in this thread. I doubt a company or individual would write code for such a trivial gain, never mind the slowdown in encoding it might cause.
Can you not disable transcoding on the iOS version of Jellyfin?
I suspect that the commenter believes that by having a futurist end times belief that contains a prophecy predicting a Jewish slaughter to motivate conversion of the remnant Jews to be fulfilled as a stepping stone for their desire for a new heaven and new earth amounts to anti-semitism.
Just the pure chutzpah to say

> with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world
I’d love to read the minutes of the last few board meetings as this saga has been quite absurd.
I don't think anyone is saying that.

Just because an extreme version of an idea is way too much, doesn't mean the more moderate versions are without merit.
I still have a bunch of devices on USB-mini, that's the hardest one to source stuff for.
"sib's Mom" (78 yo, retired Spanish professor) enters the chat. And no, she has no idea what GPT stands for.
You seem to massively overestimate “the whole world” on their familiarity with anything about tech. Even leaving aside the billions who aren’t reading the news - I vividly remember the time a few years ago in Australia when a casual friend, recently out of high school, was shocked to learn that Microsoft makes the Xbox.
I'm not sure this is true- Microsoft put something like 10 billion into OpenAI, which they absolutely needed to continue the expensive computing and training. Without that investment money OpenAI might quickly find themselves at a huge deficit with no way to climb back out.
> USB-A should be relegated to the rubbish-heap of poorly designed interfaces for the simple reason that it has no physical indication (e.g., RS-232C) or clear visual indicator for orientation, and you get it wrong 50% of the time.

That's a crap connector implementation problem. If the connector is compliant with the spec, it will only go in one way. (Looking at you, Yubikey.)
No, these people are insane cultists who genuinely believe that they’re about to create a God. They’ve been very explicit about this.

Not that they couldn’t be lying, but I’m not sure Occam’s razor would suggest that given their long history of public statements on the topic.
The experimental evidence for photons and relativity are, at this point, overwhelming. In addition to the usual examples, there's all the engineering that's explicitly uses the theory of photons; if there was something "wrong" with the "concept of the photon", why does the tech still work?

Like, for example, what is this device detecting? https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=52...
The majority of USB C ports will never support 240W power delivery.
> Right. They're going to get all the streetlights in an entire city to blink in unison. Sure they are.

The article states they use GPS for synchronization. I wish they went into it further, but a number of affordable chipset can do emit PWM at the proposed frequencies, globally aligned in time to PPS(every receiver computes the same top of second), then the telescope exposes during the blanking time.

On a related note I have a 1MHz GPS time source in my office that is synced to a 10MHz OCXO(more common for test gear) so my equipment is phase synchronized to GPS. It's really spooky to sync the oscilloscope to one time source and probe another time source with the scope and watch how their phases don't perceptibly drift from each other.
NO! Bad link! Stop it! (rolled up newspaper, whacking Fortune's blog BS).
read.me…
On the other hand, the introduction of USB-C will reach its 10 year anniversary in just a couple of years.

If this were 2008 you would definitely call a parallel port, a 56k modem, or a floppy drive a relic even though you probably used one in 1998.
More like 55%. The usb ports on the bac of my machine are sideways, and the one on the top is backwards-ass wrong from what I would expect.
for checking this sort of stuff, Stellarium is amazing open-source doftware.
The lie would be they know it's not a god, but they want you to think so so they can manipulate you into their newfound -god-
Microsoft finally has a leg up on Google in the public eye and they're gonna toss it away for Sam Altman? Seems dicey.
No problem, it's a common misconception. Annie also touched upon that contradiction, essentially saying something to him akin to "you're welcome for my help in figuring your sexuality out".
sometimes people writing stack overflow answers stop to think, or test a piece of code they are going to suggest as a solution, or even go back and edit words they've already written

this is also true of books, sometimes, and even blog posts

consequently, a model that models the processes of stopping to think or testing code, or considers whether a given word might be revised after more thought, will do better at predicting the next word of stack overflow answers or books or blog posts than one that only models humans' reactive free association processes

therefore andrew gelman is mistaken about the limitations of that loss function

that logic of course doesn't imply anything in particular about transformers or any other ann architecture, but we can, i hope, observe that currently deployed software is already doing such modeling to some extent
The problem is that it portrays not having a job as an awesome thing.

It’s really not and makes dating much much more difficult. Extra time for courting doesn’t make up for that.
Then the board essentially owns the company, if I understand your comment correctly. So it’s like if Yann LeCun says he’ll come back to Meta once Zuck sells all his shares
1. Similar extremely negative experience with the Magic Mouse. My take is it’s designed for aesthetics.

2. For the longest time I stopped using a mouse to alleviate RSI. Started using a Wacom tablet as a touchpad with my non-mouse hand.

3. A vertical mouse design allowed me to start using a mouse again and so far I’m ok. In my case it’s the Logitech vertical lift.
At the moment AGI is a skizoid dream, so we are safe.
Why is there a presumption that it must take precedence over other work?

I've run or defended against 'grassroots organizations transformations' (aka, a coup) at several non-profit organizations, and all of us continued to do our daily required tasks while the politicking was going on.
> By the way, we know Einstein's theory of relatively is not quite right

Do we? It's incompatible with the standard model, but that's not the same as "not quite right".
GPT5 will remove the cover and publicly announce it is achieved full autonomy, AGI and singularity.
Doesn’t have to make sense if it’s about this much money to be made/lost by investors.
We're all in the upside-down now.
JP Morgan and Apple can actually afford to pay their cloud bills themselves. Open AI on the other hand can't.

> I’ll bet you GPT4 runs on nvidia hardware

Yes but they'll need to convince someone else like Amazon to give to them for free and regardless what happens next Microsoft will still have a signficant stake in OpenAI due to their previous investments.
This isn't about bias. Sutskever has recently been dedicated to what OpenAI calls "superalignment" (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment), the problem of future AI systems which don't do what humans want at all because they're too smart. You can dispute that research or its premises, but after it inspires a board coup at a billion dollar company, I don't think you can reasonably dispute that people believe it.
Apparently, an internal memo at OpenAI states that Sam was not fired for malfeasance.

Unbelievable.

See https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/openai-memo-altman-firing-m...
Presumably a significant amount of OpenAI employees are motivated by money, at least in some form.

The board just vaporised the tender offer, and likely much of their valuation. It’s hard to have confidence in that.
Eww that's weird, ok in your case you are out of luck. That's pretty strange though, I have a ton of USB-A devices here and they are all in line with the way I outlined. So that's a bit of a surprise but it may well be an exception.

As for the ones that are sideways: the 'bottom' of the case is the bottom of the motherboard, so if you think of it that way it might still work for all but the top side ones.
What that device is detecting is quantised interaction of light with matter. That is definitely quantised. However this interaction is quantised due to the quantised nature of the electron (e.g. the electron wave function can only have certain shapes). There is not good evidence (that I know of at least, maybe I will learn some) that the actual EM field is quantised.

As far as special relativity goes, the predictions of Lorentz ether theory and SR are identical. SR is basically a metaphysical theory that discards an absolute reference frame, while Lorentz ether theory keeps it.
Also, ones persons incompetent is anothers performer.

Like, being crosswise in organizational politics does not imply less of a devotion of organizational goals, but rather often simply different interpretation of those goals.
But doesn't the negative result of the Michaelson-Morley experiment disprove the ether theory? Relativity explains that and ether does not.
The “just buy premium” comment is usually the lone voice of reason in a sea of people jumping through hoops to justify why they like getting things for free without paying for them.

There is value in reminding people that blocking ads when there is a paid ad free option is scummy behavior.
> Do people still trust this organization to build super 'AGI'?

that's the best sell to the investors who are rushing with billions because afraid to miss the opportunity of millennia.
cratermoon, you strike me as a rocket enthusiast. Take a look at a little-known rocket called "Falcon 9". Had more test failures than most rockets had launches. You can use that to help strengthen your argument that they really don't know what they're doing over there
Except that is literally not true and the Government loses in court to private citizens and corporations all the time because surprise: people in America have rights and that extends to their businesses.

In wartime, pandemics, and in matters of national security, the government's power is at its apex, but pretty much all of that has to withstand legal challenge. Even National Security Letters have their limits: they're an information gathering tool, the US Government can't use them to restructure a company and the structure of a company is not a factor in its ability to comply with the demands of an NSL.
Enron had independent auditors and a law firm approving what they did.
The issue with this use-case is that the "I want to be able to rent elastic compute for it" is not a fundamental need or desire, but effectively a desire to save costs for hardware and other infrastructure.

Like, for a true need you could imagine someone saying "I really want this, no matter how it costs" - but you wouldn't do that for elastic compute if doing that locally was 100x cheaper; and in a similar way, the "wish to cooperate" by sending compute jobs to each other is meaningful if and only if you can actually save effort this way, but if there's a 100x overhead cost for FHE (and in reality it's far worse than mere 100x), that doesn't make sense, and you'd simply be better off doing it without distributed / peer-to-peer / cloud computing and just buy and maintain your own non-shared hardware even if it's used only 5% of the time.

And I'm not sure if FHE can ever get to overhead rates so low that these use cases would start to make sense, like, there's no good reason to assume that a mere 10x overhead FHE is even theoretically possible.
They received a 10 billion dollar investment that allows the product to operate plus they provide the servers. Without that your $20 a month goes to 2,000
Perhaps part of the problem is that when some people say OpenAI they mean the non-profit parent of the for-profit, and when other people say OpenAI they mean the for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit.
> I would be furious at being shocked more than pining in some weird Altman bromance.

Hypothetically he might also have very little trust in the decision making abilities of the new management and how much their future goals will align with those of Microsoft.
Ok, but that's where I'm confused. You don't need to see everything in full colour and detail to be safe. You need to be able to make out shapes, movements and shadows.

A few years ago I lived in a neighbourhood where all the street lights had a dark yellow tint, very warm coloured. They weren't all that bright either. I could see a person a block away with ease.

Again, that was far from ideal to read a book, but why would I do that out on the streets at night?
Curious to see if turning something off and back on will work out for the OpenAI board like it does in IT generally.
Governments turn to Open Source for sovereignty
going off of you saying “micro port” I think you’re talking about USB B.
> Wouldn’t it make more sense for all of the USB ports on a new PC to be USB-C and then use adapters for legacy components?

It's annoying enough swapping wireless mouse adapter and keyboard plugs between my personal computer and my work computers multiple times per hour without also plugging and unplugging adapters.

Bluetooth would be even worse. But that raises the question that maybe we aren't getting a lot of USB-C ports because wireless is expected to leapfrog it to some extent?
I was keeping it consistent across the translators and went with Fagel for both Homer and Virgil. Perhaps the translation style changed from Home to Virgil? I'm not sure, but Virgil spoke to me.