skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why Sam Altman (who can have the funding, talent, and the vision OpenAI has right now) can't just create OpenAI 2.0?" is an amazing question that also answers whats OpenAI's moat.

People speculated it was the funding, or attracting talent or having "access". Turns out it was none of them (obviously they all have a part, but having all three doesn't mean you can best OpenAI which gives you the fundemental reason why it is so hard to compete with them).
Short-term could it be configured as push to talk?
Not if they do that crap in the workplace.
I had the same experience as what you described (with a lot of experimentation with alpha and beta, as well as uploading different audio clips).
Yeah, he seems really blunt, crass, and insensitive.

His vice says she's against calling it marriage, which does seem homophobic, but she says she's not bothered by the rights afforded by civil unions. This isn't the worst thing; she's not going campaigning against the right of gays to have their marriages/civil unions recognized by the government, at least.

https://www.ambito.com/politica/la-vice-milei-se-mostro-cont...
> the dude with a billion connections managed to use them to get cash for the startup

Yes, exactly.

Strong qualifications, strong execution, strong results
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The amount of time that pace kept up was also impressive, lasting well into the 2000s.

One of the first computers that was mine (as opposed to being a family computer) was a summer 2000 iMac DV with a 400Mhz PPC G3, 10GB HD, 128MB RAM, and 15” 1024x768 CRT. When I upgraded to a new iMac in 2005, it had a 2Ghz PPC G5, 500GB HD, 2GB of RAM, and a 20” 1680x1050 LCD.

That’s a ridiculously huge jump for just 5 years’ time. I can’t imagine where things would be now if that rate of advancement had continued through to today.
Also, one of the papers OP mentions had its own thread,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107614 ("Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science"—256 comments)
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Hi, agree this is a nuanced area. I can comment generally on how other founders have threaded this needle. The IEP isn't a very mature or robust alternative at present.

As you know, the H-1B category is quite strict in permitting paid work only for the H-1B employer-petitioner. It prohibits paid freelancing of any kind, including driving an Uber, running a paid Substack, working for an overseas employer, and monetizing your side project. That's the bright line you start with.

So, Step 1, what can you do with your side project that keeps it in the realm of a hobby, while in H-1B status? Probably quite a lot. You can test and perfect how the thing runs. You can polish the user interface. You can talk to your target audience, every day. You can immerse yourself in how they describe the needs, hopes, fears, etc., that your product addresses. You can set up a special-interest website for it (but not on Shopify).

IOW do it for fun, not for money, at first. Take it as far as you can in the special-interest realm. Get all the "hobbyist" moving parts working together.

Step 2, start building your O-1 visa evidence portfolio, at the same time. Pick a niche, related either to your side project or your job, and become a subject-matter expert in that thing. Publish, do podcasts, get interviewed, do open-source, attract some "sustained acclaim." As long as you don't get paid, it's perfectly consistent with H-1B status to become an influencer in your niche specialty.

Step 3, when your product's ready to monetize, you'll also be ready to incorporate, have your company sponsor you for your O-1 visa, and have an O-1 evidence portfolio ready to go. Alternatively, present yourself and your product to an accelerator, O-1 portfolio in hand.

Check out the links in the "Swizec" comments above. Swizec didn't have an H-1B, as I recall, but he's absolutely cracked the code on how to build your own O-1. And with an O-1 portfolio already built, you'll have many, many options for moving forward.

Long answer to short question. But it's a great question! I hope this framing might help others who are tackling this challenge also.
It's a definition, not a consequent. Definition is equality not if-then.
The cost of vary headers is usually not in hashing the keys but storing multiple entries per url in an arbitrarily large combination of headers. I can imagine cdns not wanting the hassle, though I don't live the outcome.
Right, I’ve noticed this trend too. It sucks and I find myself frustrated by how easily people go along with smooth talking sales/business types and allow them to take over positions of power. The truth is that builders can exist and build amazing products without the sales guys, but the sales guys would have absolutely nothing without the builders. I’d even go a step further and say that the best products are built by solo or small teams of impassioned builders and as soon as sales/business types get involved things start tending towards enshittification.
Replaced by 21 new species of cockroaches, in just NY. thanks to humans.
Things balance themselves out, but maybe not as favourably.
> You can already configure ~everything

E.g you can't remove these annoying "remind later" things (without disabling integrity protection and patching OS files), and they are everywhere. Enshittification of windows is going strong, there are more and more things you can't configure anymore
What are Matrix Foundation for now then? They say:

> act as a neutral custodian for Matrix and to nurture it as efficiently as possible as a single unfragmented standard [0]

But do they have any reason to be neutral now? Since some of the "legal directors of the non-profit Foundation" are co-founders of New Vector. There can be a conflict of interest.
It’s like an amnesiac updating a todo list.
Certainly, but then it has little advantage over e.g. ChatGPT voice mode. I guess running locally is an advantage but the voice and answer quality is worse. The much better latency and more natural conversation is what I like about it.
Aliens who invaded would most likely have technology much more advanced than ours. I doubt our space lasers would be of much use.

Additionally, AI advances in recent years have been unprecedented, and there's no similarly compelling warning sign for alien invasion.
You'd be right if it was actually a definition. But it's not. It deals with the attributes of the thing rather than the thing's essence.

Like, the "definition" of car is 'a vehicle moving on wheels', but we can't from that conclude that all vehicles moving on wheels are cars.
You can get them on gog too:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/human_resource_machine

https://www.gog.com/en/game/7_billion_humans

also gog has WHILE TRUE: LEARN()

https://www.gog.com/en/game/while_true_learn

because how many games expose you to machine learning?
There's still websites like Agora Road that have an old internet feel, you just have to put work in.
Yeah, I suspect there will be a strong over reaction regardless of whether Altman is reinstated or not.
> Not sure why you would expect that turtling (porc(upine)ing) would work in a competitive game with 2 teams, the opponnents will just take the rest of the map and then crush you using these extra resources.

That's exactly the issue, when playing in a random team. Matchmaking can be a real dice roll in a small playerbase (which SC2 4v4 is). Sometimes I get teammates 500MMR below me, where the metagame is almost always turtling to T3 behind infinite static defense.

Being the only aggressive player in a game with 7 turtles feels extremely unrewarding. Sure I can go expand first into 80+ workers before making a single army unit. I just think games like this suck.

Even if you execute your initial greed correctly, you're still vulnerable because they've been building T3 units, you have more places to defend, and a bigger part of your popcap is taken by the workers. Maybe it would actually be good here if SC2 didn't have a popcap (so that you continue to capitalize on your initial greed for the rest of the game), but that would make Zerg incredibly broken - they make more stuff (including workers) faster than any other faction.

> And a lower population cap would make it easier to turtle, not harder, so I'm kind of confused as to how it worked in your example ?

Lower popcap means you don't get to continue building an even bigger, more unbeatable army behind a wall of turrets or cannons. Static defense doesn't really help against armies (only deters harassment), because siege weapons. Sitting on a maxed army is throwing away a temporary advantage. It incentivizes to attack first, because even if the opponent is maxed too, any time you take an even fight near an enemy base, you get to deal a little bit of damage to their eco or production (the win condition is to destroy all enemy structures).

SC2 recently rotated the entire team map pool; many maps now have very few bases and a very short rush distance. Some people still try to turtle, but it's difficult as attacking early is so much stronger. The average quality of the games has IMHO gone way up.
Founder here. I launched Ultorg a few days ago, so I still haven't quite figured out if there ought to be a free or reduced-functionality tier yet.

There was a big "The fallacy of freemium in SaaS" post from another founder a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832809), which inspired me to try with "free trial then paid-tier-only" for the initial launch. But I might change it later.

For now, I've set a rather long free trial period (21 days).
I tested "me@example.com" is unknown, I reckon you can add example domain to your regex.
Also tested an iCloud Hide My Email email address created 10mins ago shows undeliverable, which is understandable.
I'm just curious how you envision ai helping people in the future? There are countless technologies that are amazing in scope but never get any traction due to not being able to market, sustain and promote themselves properly.

Additionally, how do we get there and who funds it in the long term? When you actually consider how much compute power is required to get us to this point of a "pretty decent chat bot/text generator". It doesn't really seem like we are even 20% of the way to agi. If that's true then no amount of crowdfunding is going to get it even remotely close to providing the resources to power something truly revolutionary.

Don't get me wrong I agree with some of the points you've made and Microsoft are certainly in it for themselves but I also believe that they would like to avoid owning Openai as they'd not want to position themselves clearly as the sole caretaker of ai due to the amount of scrutiny they'd be under.

All that is to say, whether you like him or not, he has taken interest in ai and Openai as well as being a leader on discussing the ethics of developing ai to stratospheric levels that has made many industries and governments take notice.
Why on earth would they do that? That would just open them up to liability.

You're too used to this tech-sector 'put everything on twitter rn' bullshit immature behaviour.

Do you see the boards of GM, IBM, etc slapfighting on twitter? No, you don't, because it's abnormal.

Totally normal for a board to release a press release and then STFU. Weird twitter slapfights between CEOs and boards are not what we want to encourage. This isn't the pro-wrestling circuit.
Okay, that's pretty neat making them out of ceramic. I would love to see the entire process from mold to finished product. I'm guessing the painted the phosphor on to a glass square and then melt/welded it to the ceramic molded tube. I would further guess a similar process was used to attach the electron gun at the back while drawing a vacuum.

I did not know that you could make a tube that way!
More resilience to disease or collapse maybe? Honestly, other than 'because I like animals', I don't really know though.

I would be interested in the answer to this as well.
I also appreciate how some of the examples randomly put the bad examples at the end instead of the beginning.

I'm not going to say people with glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but maybe you should walk outside first.
Yeah, my immediate assumption upon reading the statement was that there was some scandal far worse than what's revealed here. If there's nothing further, they really screwed up with the wording. They should've fired him as CEO but allowed him to stay on as an advisor and then mutually agreed on some "Sam is resigning to devote more time to his other pursuits" wording, like what happens when most other executives get fired. In this case it'd even be true.
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>It’s telling that every legitimate way of bridging onto iMessage to date has required an Apple device.

AFAIK you could get imessage to work on a hackintosh, which technically isn't an apple device.
THey define High Status:

> Which means that educated and/or affluent

Both are equally tarred with similar traits, which I think the article describes quite well.
> 16550A UART

*wave of nostalgia*
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Interesting point. I would argue that every collective movement has philosophical-logical paradoxes. Religious organizations are some that immediately come to mind. Political action and legislation is another example.

Likewise, any attempt to "social engineer" for the benefit of some will in some way result in a loss for others. I can't argue any for any law of conservation of "benefit" here. I'm just suggesting that there are always pros and cons.

And thanks for the link!
they could've said nothing in the statement, but they went so far as to say that he wasn't "candid" with the board.
I've yet to hear what, exactly, underlies the sneering smugness over the notion that the board is going to get their asses handed to them. AFAICT, you have a non-profit with the power to do what they want, in this case, and "corporate titans" doing the "cornered cat" thing.
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Of course for many items the advertised price will simply increase to the true price, as some advertised prices are unsustainable without the hidden fees. That alone is a big win for consumers because they won't have to waste time finding out what the real price is.

It probably will bring some prices down though, by making comparison shopping easier, and by preventing some sales where the customer would have accepted the fee after getting partway through the buying process, but would have rejected the true price up front.
> Sure, it all seems to work for now... and then a customer signs up from Tuvalu, and performs a billable action at 11:59PM on the last day of the month, and your whole billing system falls over because they now have a split invoice generated for next month while it's still this month.

You think there's much of an overlap between systems that do time zone arithmetic with naive timestamps and ones that bill in the customer's time zone?
I would do anything to erase all the lobbying organizations listed in this article to be wiped off the face of the earth and prevent their replacement.

Ridiculous. Transparent pricing is a fundamental feature of market economics and distorting that distorts that feature
This is such an asinine trope. Do you really think small prey animals lived in peace around the world before people arrived with cats?
Seriously, this will be the exact reason the word schadenfreude exists.
What do you find hard about WebRTC?

I would love to help. Would even code up a prototype if you wanted :)
The problem is not the lack of "metric" itself, its just how vague and subjective that metric is.
See the conclusion remarks in the paper - they acknowledge that voice cloning is not that good (yet).
The existing statements seem like slander no?

Not issuing the statement would be putting a lot of potential liability on them.
No system, just stop using force to protect the interests of capitalists.
Culturally they were all relatively equal. Same base religion. This is not the case with the refugee situation across Europe.

Not to mention that the Australia thing happened in a time when there was plenty more space & opportunity.
Do you understand what USA means? United States, it is a union of independent states. It's like you asking why all countries in the European Union doesn't have the same taxes or why all countries in Africa don't have the same taxes.
Congrats on launching, Eirik!
You keep saying it's a preference. It's not my preference but it's become something I've been conditioned to accept like not being able to know what a medical procedure will cost until after I get the bill. That doesn't make it preferable nor desirable.
He took a rare example of a mission focused and open source tech organization and turned it into just another proprietary silicon valley cash-grab grift.

That alone should be reason enough to fire him and not look back.
Haven't followed prices for years, but now that you mention it I checked.

Common price for the Pixel 7a is 549 EUR ($599) here, Black Friday 449 EUR.

Considering 24% sales tax, which is included in my quotes but probably not in yours the difference is not that high.

Probably Google charges some extra to cover for the millions of GDPR fines they regularly get here ;)
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Really? “The better a neural network can predict the next word in text, the better it understands it. […] People say that deep learning won’t lead to reasoning, but in order to predict that next word, […] who was the murderer, that requires some reasoning, a fair amount of reasoning […]”

Predicting the next word in that situation might require understanding. It doesn’t follow that trying to make it predict the next word better will result in understanding.
A few comments comparing this drama to an episode of Silicon Valley has resonated most of the weekend with me.
>I would've thought that if he'd done something actually bad they would've come out and said it already

Seems to me that if OpenAI is serious about building AGI, it's reasonable to replace their CEO even if the CEO has done a number of mildly-bad things. We should have high standards for a position that comes with so much responsibility.
Perhaps we could genetically engineer plants to, like, just use more CO2
> Sounds fun and unrealistic - for sure to lead to more of the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
AND a complete Moby Dick move. You're going to suddenly get up and compete with all the chip designers and beat them at their job? Computer chips are literally the most complex products in the world. It is an astonishing development that the most profitable company in the world was able to make chips, let alone chips that beat Intel and Nvidia in some key metrics. It took Apple more than a decade of shipping chips in phones to be able to move up to desktop-class.

The board was right to get rid of a guy who would rather hunt a white whale than do his job.
Thousands of new species are identified annually. So I guess we are on the positive side.
The article leads with Shadow and Bone being canceled. First season was fantastic, but season two was an incoherent unwatchable mess. I'm not surprised it was canceled.
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Is the logic here that training a base model isn’t as easy or even possible in the same way that OpenAI did in the past, and that what they have in a trained model is valuable in that even with all the code and experience it couldn’t be reproduced today with new restrictions?
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They'd be really dumb to bring him back.
Yeah, I never worked in a field that did double blind studies - did my MSc in Oceanography, and these were areas I felt bias could (and likely generally did) seep in within Oceanography. I assume each field has its own weak points, but I’d assume most fields do have them, since there’s so little real, independent reproducing of results, we’re basically depending on individual scientists to be perfectly objective, which just isn’t how human beings work IMO.
Coulda sworn the Board did that.
Andrew Garfield would make for a good Ilya
He should make ClosedAI and then publish all the work as open source
Yeah, I’m a snob. I get that…

But, by God, have you seen them? Fisherman’s Wharf. Niagara Falls. Pretty much anywhere near a Hard Rock Cafe.

Overpriced, awful food. T-shirts that say “I visited <location> and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. A Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.

On the streets, evangelicals from Ohio who, when they discover you’re Australian, will ask you about some random preacher you’ve never heard of. Parents with miserable kids looking wistfully in the direction of whatever tourist attraction they’ve spent thousands to get to and are not experiencing because the the kids want to go to Ripley’s Believe it Or Not and eat chicken nuggets off the kids menu at the Hard Rock Cafe.

Never, ever again.
Moved away from Termux because of the lack of storage space on my device (have a very sizable collection of local music). When I get a new phone, with a larger storage capacity, I'll be installing it again right away! I miss using it.
> grabbing a GPS signal every hour

RFID-style sync to some device with accurate time (probably a phone) would be the best way to keep an electronic watch mechanism accurate on a day-by-day basis.
I have literally never seen an announcement by a board when they fired an exec that was as pointed as the OpenAI press release without there being some major malfeasance.

When there is just a standard "disagreement of direction", there are usually some platitudes saying the exec is pursuing other opportunities, or even more forthright saying there was just a difference of opinion.

I think any reasonable observer who is familiar with corporate press releases would naturally assume Altman had done something egregious given the language in the announcement.
> 1.fuck riding a bike on the road here, half of Tasmanian adults are the type of functionally illiterate arseholes who'd intentionally drive too close to a cyclist for shits and giggles

I feel like that is most of Australian drivers, however, I am glad I live in Melbourne and not Sydney. NSW roads are chockas and also, they literally try to kill you there, just for passing them while they are sitting banked up in traffic.
Because they're right. Maybe principles other than, "Get the richest," are important when we're talking about technology that can end the world or create literal hell on Earth (in the long term).

One wishes someone had pulled a similar (in sentiment) move on energy companies and arms suppliers.
Well it of course depends on - if those sectors were massively propped up by goverment. That was most certainly the case for the engineers in USSR you mention, but even so - had there not been state conflict, and more open opportunities for foreign investment, how are we to say they couldn't have fared much better? We should catch up in 10 years and do a rain check on this ;)
Are you being sarcastic here? Regarding Covid, America did go through "Let each individual choose their own best remedy if they're willing to take the risk," and we all know how that worked out.
You can, but you need a supportive community. Muslim countries have effectively banned alcohol, not only as a legal matter, but in practice. Alcohol or drug use subjects you to shaming and other social consequences. When the community is permissive, the law alone won’t work.
Well, yeah, when traveling you kind of have to do that especially since it's unlikely you know the exact exchange rate at that moment. It would quickly become unacceptable to live that way every day of your life unless you are particularly insensitive to price.
Clearly in no small part from his loud and vocal influence. Everything went according to the profit-first playbook he lives by.