skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I predict the opposite with apartment complexes. Apartment management companies love additional streams of revenue.

EV charging companies will offer revenue sharing (if they aren't already) so that the apartment complex gets a cut every time a car is charged.

Prices will be marked up because only the apartment management company can offer the convenience of charging at home.
Odyssey by Homer (just finished)

Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (just finished)

In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland

Started by quit:

Aeneid by Virgil (too much of Roman propaganda)

Catch 22 by Heller (had it on the list because of recognition but, disliked it 5-10% in)
Perhaps the wording here is a bit confusing, but I think it's unambiguous that responding to a comment using the commenter's name ("John, you misunderstand") comes off as patronizing.

The commenter above doesn't mean that any reference to someone else by name ("Sam Altman was fired") is patronizing.
I was following their Dota project from the beginning, and I think what they did made sense. Their goal there was to demonstrate real time decision making and teamwork in a complex environment without perfect information. OpenAI Five did a splendid job of doing that.

I would view it as the equivalent of making self-driving cars that are constrained to a single city. Sure, it doesn't have the full capability that a human would have. But who cares.
It is much ado about nothing, to quote our laudet poet in the English canon. Who gives a shit about AI, really?
Based on Worldcoin and the Lex Fridman interviews I've long suspected his influence at OpenAI to be limited.
People also seem to forget that there are "cost of living adjustments" for a reason. Many companies will fight and suggest that you don't need salary X if you don't live in place Y.

It's not impossible and $250k is nowhere near the ceiling. But you're not going to find those jobs on a causal LinkedIn search like you would in California.
With the exception of a few select programs where a mouse is indispensable, I'm a happy Magic Trackpad user for over 10 years now. No RSI ever.
What? He didn't tell the board that behind ChatGPT, there is actually a bunch of low-paid people copying/pasting quickly from Wikipedia?
Microsofts AGI predicted this a year back, so they've just been sitting on it.
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I find it hard to believe that the board of OpenAI isn't smart, savvy and self-interested enough to know that not delaying the announcement by an hour or so is the wrong move. That leads me to believe that yes, this was something big and worthy enough of being announced with that timing, and that it was probably not a mistake.
You should find reporting that's accessible, you're still effectively posting a hard paywalled link.

The other thing is that there are currently five stories about OpenAI events on the FP which is a few too many as it is - you're probably better off posting updates and your commentary there.
Apart from some piddly tech, silicon valley startups primarily sell stock. And a monday company will be free to capitalize on the hype and sell stock that won't have its shoelaces tied like a non profit.
Who isn't? That does not mean you cannot do well on financial news. The best way forward is to buy VTI/VTSAX (they are eqiivalent, just based on whether you want to buy a mutual fund or ETF) and wait 20 to 50 years.
As an autistic person, I cannot imagine a worse form of torture. Well done!
Yet the DoD's bureaucracy is neither combat nor inspection ready.
My friend, I agree with you on the source likely being a fundamental or philosophical differences. The lie that I was calling out is that AGI/superintelligence is "the most important invention," and that's philosophical differences I hope the board had with Sam.

There really is no evidence at all for AGI/superintelligence even being possible to claim it's as important as Sam has been shilling.
You pay off pieces. They acquire more than they pay off, though. And their income keeps going up so it’s not necessarily a problem to do that. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean the debt they’re taking on is for good. But the rough idea of expanding the debt with the GDP seems reasonable to me.
>The only thing I crave from my job is cash so I can take care of me and my family

sounds like purpose, of which you need mastery of some skillset to earn your autonomy to furfill.

That said, I'm sure there's much easier ways to earn 250k than untangling a governement codebase. Not that they are offering that to begin with.

>just hand me the check so I can be on my way.

Yeah, you probably wouldn't pass clearance with that attitude if we're being frank.
Brockman is with Sam, which makes them a formidable duo. Should they choose to, they will offer stiff competition to OpenAI but they may not even want to compete.
> If Sam Altman starts a new company by next month, and him and Greg Brockman know all details of how GPT4/5 works, then what what will this mean for OpenAI's dominance and lead?

Well, if two top level officers dismissed from top posts at OpenAI go and take OpenAI's confidential internal product information and use it to try and start a new, directly competing, company, it means that OpenAI's lawyers are going to be busy, and the appropriate US Attorney's office might not be too far behind.
It happily answers what good Obama did during his presidency but refuses to answer about Trump's, for one. Doesn't say "nothing", just gives you a boilerplate about being an LLM and not taking political positions. How much of hate speech would that be?
> The religion of the engineers is the hopium of Silicon Valley elites. It’s less a complex theology than an eschatological soporific, a prosperity gospel for venture capitalists, founders and wannabes. It tells its votaries that profits and progress point in exactly the same direction, and that by doing well they will most certainly do good.

It's simpler and much less naive than that: Everything about the 'religion' results in the SV powers getting more power and wealth. It's just plain selfishness taken to an extreme, just greed and megalomania. Remember 'effective altruism', which somehow led to the same conclusion - I should get more money and power.

These are very capable people. It's corrupt for them to lower themselves to such brazen deceit - including to themselves - and continue to hold power and wealth (and such corruption is a demonstration of power - 'I can do it, and there's nothing you can do to stop me'). SV arose in part due to the corruption of older industry; SV embraced merit and the belief that anyone could achieve anything.

Now SV is the corrupt, entrenched status quo; what will disrupt it? Will or can that succeed by using SV's tools, such as social media and AI?
Bravely done by the board - it shows that they are actually trying to build something like AGI and not just talking the talk.
Here’s the section you’re referencing: 17 USC 117. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
Nicely put.

The original vision is pretty clear, and a compelling reason to not screw around and get sidetracked, even if that has massive commercialisation upside.

Thankfully M$ didn't have control of the board.
teams is the absolute worst
Can non-ADHD people change what they find interesting at will? I've never met anyone who seems to have that ability, but I suppose I don't know for sure.
Can you please try to recall and link to the interview? I'd love to see it.
Train a LLM exclusively on HN and make it into a serial killer app generator.
He already did that once and got burned? His opinion has changed in the decade since?
Gossiping is deeply human though. Some believe it’s the main reason speech developed at all.

So please let us go about our most favorite activity.
Rogue superintelligence: Inside the mind of OpenAI's chief scientist
> Pushing too hard and too fast does not seem consistent with lying to the board.

They are different things, but they are consistent in that they are not mutually contradictory and, quite the opposite, are very easy to see going together.
Really? Referring to someone by first name is perfectly ordinary where I’m from, regardless of relationship. If someone doesn’t want me to do that, I’d expect them to introduce themselves as “Mr. so-and-so”, instead.
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I worked at Oculus on every headset from Rift DK1 to Quest 2 from 2012-2019 and this statement could not be more wrong.

> That was Corning, not Meta.

You need more than a glass maker to build novel optical designs, besides which, none of the headsets at least within that time window used any material from Corning. The lenses in DK1 and DK2 were essentially straight copies of an off the shelf magnifier. The first consumer Rift used a Fresnel lens design that was re-optimized internally off of a design that started at Valve. The design was just the tip of the iceberg though. A colossal amount of engineering work went into manufacturability, especially around coatings. Rift S, Quest, and Quest 2 all used an evolution of that design that took in further advancements done internally within both the product and the research teams. One general note on all of this is that "lens design" for isn't a matter of drawing some curves and throwing it out to a factory.
Not if the AGI was making the decision. A bit demanding to think the Professionalism LLM module isn't a bit hallucinatory in this age. Give it a few more years.
> Have you read any news about Mozilla's budget in the past 10 years or so?

Revenue/Expenses/Net Assets

2013: $314m/$295m/$255m

2018: $450m/$451m/$524m

2021: $600m/$340m/$1,054m

(Note: "2017 was an outlier, due in part to changes in the search revenue deal that was negotiated that year." 2019 was also much higher than both 2018 and 2020 for some reason.)

2018 to 2021 also saw their revenue from "Subscription and advertising revenue"— Representing their Pocket, New Tab, and VPN efforts to diversify away from dependence on Google— Increase by over 900%, from $5m to $57m.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/who-we-are/public-records/

Seriously, Mozilla gets shat on all the time, presumably because they're one of the few sources of hope and therefore disappointment in an overall increasingly problematic Internet landscape, and I wish they would be bigger too, but they're doing fine all things considered.

Certainly I wouldn't say their problems are due to this particular apsect of their legal structure.
> Did you watch "The Big Short"? You are sounding like one of those jocks-turned-real-estate agents that are bragging about how easy it is to make money and thinking the analysts were idiots.

I've literally no idea what this means. Who thinks who's an idiot in this analogy?

> All I am saying is "please let's not collectively put ourselves in the hands of any single entity". Are you sure I'm the one projecting values, here?

I don't care what messaging platform you use. You appear to deeply care what other people use, and therefore what should be important to them. Yes, I'm pretty sure.
Steam uses Chrome for its web integration. They *can't* support OS's that Chrome doesn't anymore

If you already own the game though arguably it's not unreasonable to download a "NOSTEAM" torrent (if any still exist) of the relevant game you'd want to play on your XP rig
From the interviews with him that I have seen, Sutskever thinks that language model is a sufficient pretraining task because there is a great deal of reasoning involved in next token prediction. The example he used was that suppose you fed a murder mystery novel to a language model and then prompted it with the phrase "The person who committed the model was: ". The model would unquestionably need to reason in order to come to the right conclusion, but at the same time it is just predicting the next token.
why are there smoke coming of the plant if it's closed ? I'm not quite following what you're actually meaning to say here
Each to their own but if you read and understand the comment above they're describing a dedicated OS for the task .. so think about what you'd choose to write a small task dedicated OS with.

Simple C is most likely, ASM is possible, a language such as OCaml generating C to hook into the low level buffers would be intriguing ... the list is long and largely determined by the experience preference of whoever tackles it.

The major features for performance are to allocate and manage all memory from the start .. determine your thresholds of performance and put everything required together on cold start so as to avoid any thrashing at runtime.
In my country there is no obligation for power distributors to connect new customers to the grid if it is uneconomical. Those people are expected to sort their own off-grid installation. Stringing 5km+ of conductor for one customer makes no sense at all. In fact, many distributors are actively paying a small number of (willing) customers to install off-grid installations so their grid connection can be decommissioned as it saves everyone money.
They also said Greg was going to stay at the company and then he immediately quit. I find it very hard to believe that smart, savvy, and self interested are adjectives that apply to a board who doesn't know what their own chairman thinks.
sama? gdb? these acronyms are getting out of hand!
Did you mean to link to a different tweet? I don’t see how what you linked “basically confirms” literally anything related to this. Can you spell it out for those of us that aren’t reading literally every rumor and gossip that’s popped up in the last 12 hours?
I'd love to see Ilya's ChatGPT sessions as he was planning this, refining his message to persuade the board, and thinking through every contingency.
At this stage, no publicity is bad publicity. If they really believe they are in it to change the future of humanity, and the kool-aid got to their heads, might as well show it off by stirring some controversy.

Microsoft is bankrolling them but OpenAI probably can replace Microsoft easier than Microsoft can replace OpenAI.
It's easy to get the share structure you want if you're the founder of a typical C Corp. Sam Altman can probably do it in his sleep.

In a non-profit structure, your options are much more limited. There are no shares, no shareholders, no IPOs, no investors, no valuations that you can appeal to as an indicator of your performance. Conflicts within the board often boil down to a battle of reputation and influence, ego and resentment.
Sure, they could simply copy the GPT papers (as they are entirely public) and implement them inside their own products, as they are doing already with GitHub and Office. There is really no need to hang onto OpenAI's word.
std::collections::vec_deque is implemented as a growable ring buffer so you might like to start there

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/vec_deque/index.ht...
Entr – tool for watching files and running commands
Useful little utility that can be used to, say, run tests when files change, or trigger a reload in your browser.
That only works if you have it run a python script. If you use the non data analysis version it fails.
Sama - Sam Altman
In my experience Teams is great for calls (both audio and video), horrible for chat. I guess because it's built on top of Skype codebase? (just a guess)

But it's out of the scope for this discussion.
Fallout 4 is better anyway.

/duck
For a company to be as successful as OpenAI, two people won't cut it. OpenAI arguably has the best ML talent at the moment. Talent attracts talent. People come for Sutskever, Karpathy, and alike -- not for Altman or Brockman.
> Maturity is necessary [..] better ways to express yourself in 2020+.

Well, part of my opinion is that i disagree that trying to force a specific tone is a sign of maturity and i do not see that as a better way of expression.

It can be easier to stomach, especially to those who do not want to see the opinions discussed, but at last personally i do not consider that as better.
I would say yes for madoff . Lots of people made a ton of money of him for decades , and losses were not as bad as originally thought.

There is bound to be a few people who have a soft spot and will give him money again .
All video call software suck in various ways. Corporate IT throttling&filtering and analyzing traffic with a mismash of third party offerings ”to increase security” does not help.
The statement said "Jewish communities", not Jews. The ADL and Israeli government fall under those categories. This kind of response is just like the ADL, who attempt to smear anyone who criticizes their influence as an anti-semite.

You can also engage in that broader topic without defending obvious shit-stirring specific examples/figures, like Musk.

Sure, but when a topic that people don't want to discuss is brought up, people will spend eternity addressing the manner in which it is brought up to avoid addressing any of the concerns directly.
Well, its a couple of short tweets that of a very terse anonymous claim about background and turning point of the conflict (but without any details of the conduct related to the internal tension it reports), and a journalists predictions prediction of Altman landing on his feet.

It doesn't justify anything because it doesn't tell you much of anything about what happened, even if you assume that it is entirely accurate as far as it goes.
Did we ever think LLMs were a path to AGI...? AGI is friggin hard, I don't know why folks keep getting fooled whenever a bot writes a coherent sentence.
I can tell you right now that the government agencies are ahead of for-profit ones. Whether you choose to believe it is up to you.
I'm going to predict more by tomorrow as the AGI secures its position.

In other news, Tesla FSD has been rebranded Saneer-Weeksbooth Autobot. So be careful out there folks.
That is some of it. The function names also include a lot of template specializations (thanks to a newer release of MSVC). Between lots of functions and very long names it adds up quickly. The function names are all unique so there are no savings from string pooling.
> A MagSafe connection to the front of the mouse seems like it would be much better.

Yes, but even that would change the aesthetic of the mouse when right-side up. Though yes, I like your suggestion

> It's on par with the Apple Pencil that charged in the bottom of the iPad.

That's probably worse though. And yes I agree it is bad

Basically yes, while charging upside down is ugly I think they kinda accept it because it's not "while in use" (also there might have been some space or other design constraints, etc)
The way Sam and Greg were fired maybe led him to no longer have faith in the company and so he quit?
Was Madry at OpenAI for a sabbatical? I thought he was a professor at MIT.
Looks like HN usernames.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sama

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gdb
New Zealand has recently directed distributors to change to cost reflective pricing, which resulted in big increases in the fixed daily charge, and moderate decreases in the variable charge. Lots of people hated it, but it's clearly the right thing to do.
This is not the reason Ilya did it. Also the rest of that guy’s comments were just really poorly thought out. OpenAI had to temporarily stop sign ups because of demand and somehow he thinks that’s a bad thing? Absurd.

That guy has no sense of time, of how fast this stuff has actually been moving.
This is the sector of the economy that ipos in cargo shorts I don't think formal writing would be expected or appreciated
Well it begins. OpenAI will be a shell of itself in very short time.

Advice: you can't win over a narrative, which is what Sam has become. People and resources will come to him, by themselves.
Quite possible actually, this seems to become a really hot political potato with at least 3 types of ambition running it 1. Business 2. Regulatory 3. ’Religious/Academic’. By latter I mean the divide between ai doomerists and others is caused by insubstantiable dogma (doom/nirvana).
i would buy the SHIT out of a costco car
I'll sell my soul for about $600K/yr. Can't say I'm at the top of the AI game but I did graduate with a "concentration in AI" if that counts for anything.
This just sounds like survivorship bias to me. I am sure there is a lot of junk COBOL that killed the companies that relied on it. Nobody cares today because the business is gone.

Something that's interesting to think about is that because the cost of changing COBOL is so high now, only the most important change requests actually get implemented. Compare that to a team that can develop and ship a change the same day; their efficiency leads to more requests that end up being bad ideas. The Pentagon has designed a system to ensure that only the most well-thought-out ideas make it into production, they just went about it in a very strange way.
Feels like Griffindor beheaded Slytherin right before Voldemort could make them his own. Hogwarts will be in turmoil but that price was unavoidable given the existential threath?
No, if you read this article it shows there were some issues with the way they tested.

> The claim that GPT-4 can’t make B to A generalizations is false. And not what the authors were claiming. They were talking about these kinds of generalizations from pre and post training.

> When you divide data into prompt and completion pairs and the completions never reference the prompts or even hint at it, you’ve successfully trained a prompt completion A is B model but not one that will readily go from B is A. LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A” when the training date is split into prompt and completion pairs

Simple fix - put prompt and completion together, don't do gradients just for the completion, but also for the prompt. Or just make sure the model trains on data going in both directions by augmenting it pre-training.

https://andrewmayne.com/2023/11/14/is-the-reversal-curse-rea...
Sam should lead a group of outstanding engineers to rebuild another AI company. Maybe in the long run, leaving openai's naive board of directors might not be a bad thing for him.
Things have changed a lot. Companies have locked down their data a lot in the last year. E.g. reddit, twitter

Even if things hadn't changed, OpenAI has been building their training set for years. It is not something they can just whip up overnight.
It's the system throwing a bone to the general populace in order to maintain an extremely unequal order. Aristocratic landowners mostly do what they want, and there has been no land reform for centuries, so a few concessions were thrown in to allow peasants to make a living somehow.