skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is that this is Lina Khan's specialty.

So what? I've already explained in detail why there's no case here. I would hope that Khan isn't dumb enough to start a futile, unwinnable fight.

Google has plenty of antitrust problems, for example, paying Apple $billions per year to be the default search engine on iOS. But the desktop Chrome extension API is not one of those problems.

> Google is undoubtedly calibrating many of their business decisions to make sure that they don't attract scrutiny.

The word "undoubtedly" is incorrect. I'm explicitly doubting you. Not to mention that if Google was actually worried, they wouldn't be doing this extension transition in the first place.
The EV still requires tire maintenance-- I think the trouble of dealing with that utterly dwarfs oil changes.
Yes, you are probably less likely to get a panic caused by a nil reference in Rust than in Go. My point is that the equivalent software written in Rust (or most other languages with option types) would probably have had at least some of these very same bugs.
Next word generation is one way to put it. The key point here is we have no idea what’s happening in the black box that is the neural network. It could be forming very strong connections between concepts in there with multi tiered abstractions.
The article claims:

> HawkEye 360 satellites can detect RF signals in the GPS bands, as well as other GNSS systems, e.g. GLONASS

Seems like a misunderstanding. They claim detection in that frequency, not GPS devices that listen to that frequency. So jammers, probably.
archive.is link: https://archive.is/ux1Rl

non-paywaled coverage: https://bnn.network/politics/canadian-detainee-in-china-accu...
I mean most cancer is still diagnosed and treated in a "classical" manner. I doubt he'd deny it genomics has massive potential in oncology.
Down 2% is tanking a stock?
But it is not the same as being hooked up to a sewage system.

Nor are the houses always hooked up to a water main. And instead rely on wells.

The point is that they don’t have the same services, and it would incredibly expensive to provide them. The same for electricity.
https://archive.ph/Ze8SY
If it happens to only be miscommunication, that will be the biggest blunder of economic history caused by misunderstandings.

If true, Sam would have kept his job just by communicating more and better.

If true, the board wouldn’t have a lose CEO in the wild and talents now possibly trying to build a competitor…
Nuclear is not cheap.
Yeah, I see this as a pretty bad day for the AI world, the splintering of talent could very much hold back development, considering how OpenAI is so far ahead of everyone else, anything that slows them down while others start up, means slower benefit to society.
> The text only mentions satellite phones

iPhones 14+ are satellite phones to a limited degree. [1]

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213885
I see an analogy with AI becoming _so good_ that it will attempt to remove the human to improve its reward.
I don't work there, but yes. Almost every tech company hires Data Engineer types these days.
Right.. but isn't the relative growth of the respective EV classes more relevant to the hypothesis that it's demand outstripping supply? The prices and battery sizes are a tiny fraction of e-cars so the unit volume doesn't strike me as a like a weighty argument. If it were the other way around, with e-car prices rising faster, we could speculate that it was because of eg cosntrained battery supply.
I believe that stuck feeling, the helpless head banging feeling, is your brain forming new connections and breaking old ones. In other words, learning. That’s where the experience points are. Accept the feeling of being dumb and the reality of being smart, mixed together, and you’re advancing for real.
Photo and Video combining tool for Google Photos
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Not really. Rich people don't sit on cash. They have their money either in safe staff that has real value so it isn't affected by inflation (like real estate or gold) or some gambles like stock or other stuff.

When rich people use cash it's usually borrowed as needed.
You could recommend content based on user query, tag content produced by the user, use colbert as part of a ChatBot to show evidences to the user questions
I was fortunate enough to watch Steve present some of these demos live last night at the Future of Coding meetup in London where the whole room was buzzing - the potential here feels immense. Especially when adding a more rigorous FSM/statechart engine into the mix, which @davidkpiano has already demonstrated: https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano/status/1725522630457840037 (as opposed to relying on GPT-generated JavaScript...based on a png of a FSM diagram!)
Surely Ilya Sutskever must have known what was being worked on as Chief Scientist?
I also live in a country like this and it manages to have a budget surplus, incredible public safety and social peace in spite of all that :) Which makes me feel most European taxation systems are just an engine of depriving middle class from ever being able to compete with the rich, not at all socially oriented.
> They lead with the fact that it was shocking and irresponsible.

I can see where the misalignment (ha!) may be: someone deep in the VC world would reflexively think that "value destruction" of any kind is irresponsible. However, a non-profit board has a primary responsibility to its charter and mission - which doesn't compute for those with fiduciary-duty-instincts. Without getting into the specifics of this case: a non-profit's board is expected to make decisions that lose money (or not generate as much of it) if the decisions lead to results more consistent with the mission.
You're missing that boards have fiduciary obligations to govern and cannot do so when the CEO isn't fully communicative with them.

Yet another reason why it's a bad idea for a CEO to also be on the board. And probably also evidence that it's a bad idea for conflating the jobs of CEO and chief spokesperson.
That's a good observation. Plus, you'll get black bars anyway, if you resize the window to not be the same aspect ratio as the video.
And is your low-tax country doing better or worse (for society as a whole, not just for you) than France?
It's a list of all instances of ".unwrap()" in the project, so of course it includes instances irrelevant to my point. Seems uncharitable to assume that I haven't looked through it on that basis.
I've worked in my local courthouse lots of times, pulling cable. Depending on where I was, someone would let us in then I'd be alone with coworkers, or there might be a guard with us. If there was a guard, he wouldn't be paying close attention to what I was doing (especially if I was on a ladder above a drop tile ceiling), would be staring at his phone, or even leaving us alone to go to the bathroom.
Also raises deep concerns on governance structure. That the board took this action without consultation with key investors is madness. That they wrote up something which made it sound like a disaster internally further eroded trust that they actually know what they are doing.

I’d expect a tough challenge ahead as msft/other stakeholders try to put guardrails in while dealing with the fact that whoever’s bright idea this coup was - is now in charge.

What a mess.
Sam Altman likely to start company with researchers from OpenAI: Bloomberg
That’s right. Which isn’t the company that just fired Sam Altman.
It amazes me that in 2023 this is not a solved problem by design of the language. Why go doesn’t adapt the “optional” notion of other languages so that if you have a variable you either know it is not null or know that you must check for nullness. The technology exists
Either the board is now lying to the employees, or the board monumentally fucked up with their communication publicly (vaguely indicating some serious wrongdoing in their statement yesterday). Either way, the board look like morons. Concerning they're now in charge of some pretty powerful and important tech.
> Nevertheless, they are frustrating and hamper the learning process

But that is the learning process. What else is there to learn in a language if the syntax doesn't count? They're all Turing complete and all of them can do everything. All we need to do is learn the exact magic words.
Connection multiplexer for Golang: serve different services on the same port
Maybe just plain old triangulation? The constellation consists of 21 satellites. If multiple satellites receive the same signal, the difference in arrival can be used to precisely locate the source.
That sounds very plausible. Another option is that as more information like this becomes public pressure will mount next week to restructure the board and the organisation and try to repair things.
I just wanted to second this, I recently went through all of Karpathy's videos from almost zero baseline ML knowldege and am now fairly comfortable writing language models from scratch (simple bigram statistical models, MLPs, transformers, etc.).

Karpathy is quite good at helping you build an intuitive understanding of core concepts and linking/referencing literature where appropriate for the more curious learners. Thanks to his videos, I was able to read through several of the foundational papers on resnet, convnet, transformers, and some misc. normalisation techniques without _too_ much struggle.

At one point in time I also went through half of Andrew Ng's CS229 ML lectures from Stanford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGwO_UgTS7I&list=PLoROMvodv4...). Found them much more math/proof heavy, but definitely valuable for understanding the underlying statistical methods & theory that ML apply.
AI researchers have been making breakthroughs and proclaiming that AGI is "just around the corner" since 1959.

There's absolutely no reason to believe OpenAI is right about this when thousands of experts have been wrong. AGI is deceptively difficult because it's almost impossible to see how far away you are from the goal. You can see how far you've come and extrapolate, but that's always a mistake.
I really appreciate the time you took for writing this and I'll definitely have a look to this Podcast you mentioned!
I use calibre-web and love it.
> There's something about commercial trade that grounds people.

It's called shareholder lawsuits. I really do wonder about boards of non-public companies, though. I'd expect them to be, on balance, not much different from NGO boards or even HOA boards.
>It's just refactoring the codebase a bit, reorganizing it, making it cleaner and more structured

Famous last words.
Thanks for this recommendation. I'll search for information about this.
Well it'd still be worth "1 dollar". But that's the problem with talking about the value of a dollar - the typical unit of measurement is the dollar itself.

However, in 1900 you used to be able to buy 70 pounds of potatoes for $1. Now you can buy 1 potato.

So yeah I would say that's pretty expired.

https://historycollection.com/30-things-you-could-buy-for-1-...
"The crew escape system was intended for emergency bailout use only when the orbiter was in controlled gliding flight and unable to reach a runway. "

I'd take my chances and stay with the orbiter
Interestingly some humans will admit to not knowing but are allergic to admitting being wrong (and can get fairly vindictive if forced to admit being wrong).

LLM’s actually admit to being wrong easily, but aren’t great at introspection and confabulate too often. also their Meta cognition is poor still.
Iirc, SAR satellites in polar orbits measure Doppler effect of distress beacons to compute coarse latitude. It’s been working for decades, so I imagine recent advances in signal processing might be able to significantly improve precision.
Investors are not gonna like when the business guy who was pushing for productizing, profitability and growth get ousted. We don’t know all the details about what exactly caused the board to fire Sam. The part about lying to the board is notable.

It’s possible Sam betrayed their trust and actually committed a fireable offense. But even if the rest of the board was right, the way they’ve handled it so far doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
For more information about the games in the package:
https://alternativeto.net/software/esports-for-engineers/abo...

Grand Prix Legends demo (free but not open source) is one of the sim racing games in the package. It just turned 25 years old last month, but is still played online by hundreds of fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5OqIOIhlyA
YW and thank you/props for being this responsive.
He achieved because he manage to befriend a bunch of very rich people who are financing him to eventually take ownership of the technology
This could yield a lawsuit at some point if those PPUs are worthless due to the board refusing to allow profits…
Emily Chang from Bloomberg reports: Satya Nadella was "blindsided" and is furious. Details in paywalled article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/openai-al...

Chang does not make it clear whether the source is close to Sam Altman.
OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman
> One other thing to take into consideration, is that to play the game of Go you can't just think of the next move. You have to think far forward in the game -- even though technically all it's doing is picking the next move, it is doing so using a model that has obviously looked forward more than just one move.

It doesn't necessarily have to look ahead. Since Go is a deterministic game there is always a best move (or moves that are better than others) and hence a function that goes from the state of the game to the best move. We just don't have a way to compute this function, but it exists. And that function doesn't need the concept of lookahead, that's just an intuitive way of how could find some of its values. Likewise ML algorithms don't necessarily need lookahead, they can just try to approximate that function with enough precision by exploiting patterns in it. And that's why we can still craft puzzles that some AIs can't solve but humans can, by exploiting edge cases in that function that the ML algorithm didn't notice but are solvable with understanding of the game.

The thing is though, does this really matter if eventually we won't be able to notice the difference?
Sure. But a for-profit startup developing AI on a blockchain for pet social media is not MSF.

Moreover even in MSF if the CEO is being paid based on a compensation consultant’s report of the market rate “in order to attract and retain the best talent to advance our mission” well then everyone else should be paid on the same principle.
Hochul Signs Bill Giving Prosecutors More Power to Halt Deed Theft Evictions
Monkey Island: Amsterdam
Have you ever felt pressured to do work for a corporation when you'd prefer not to? (E.g. take a job for the health care/other life needs).
> I cannot think of a single facet of their day-to-day operations, product roadmap, competitive position, etc. that would be improved

If the dispute is over whether they should be a pure research nonprofit or not, then operations, product roadmaps and competitive positions are things they would not even want to begin with. It was only four of them that booted the other two out, and of those at least two seem to be professional non-profit board sitters. The transition of OpenAI into an actual product company doing something useful for other people is incredibly recent, it's barely a year old. It may be that they simply felt that offering products isn't what OpenAI is meant to be doing.

Alternatively it could be some blowup related to doomerism, although the memo saying it's not related to "safety practices" may rule that out.
My favorite NDA: https://friendda.org/
I remember a passage in one of the Aubrey/Maturin books, in which the ballroom at an onshore function is decorated with the following signal flags: https://tmg110.tripod.com/SigFl/sig-1.gif , presumably intended to encourage the navy men in attendance to "engage the [female party guests] more closely".
Right, PPUs are worthless until profitability but the board doesn’t want to be profitable?
> That's when I decided that I didn't need to go to college. I could just teach myself, for free, through all these online resources.

> I went through all the tracks, from basic HTML (again) to JavaScript and even Ruby amd Python. And I was super proud of myself for doing just that. I then started this 2-day python crash course...

> It's been 10 years since I first started learning how to code. And I still struggle with it, a lot.

> I go back to the basics, again and again and again.

There shouldn't be this much struggle after 10 years. I wonder if your issue is you were never intentional in your learning and practice and just bounced from topic to topic. You say you're the "idea guy." There's a saying that it's better to finish something than to start something.
Non profits don’t have investors.
In retrospect, it wasn't the brightest move for Microsoft to be baking this in to their OS, Office suite, search engine, etc. Having a core feature of your core products depend on a startup with a bizarre profit/non-profit structure is idiotic. Amazing they haven't been building this tech themselves - maybe that's their next move. Poach as many of the OpenAI staff as they can and build in-house.
Very effusive and well-written praise for Sam Altman's friend and colleague, Greg Brockman.
Thank you for a real answer, this is what I was looking for!
Looks interesting.
Developer license: $75. No free version.
Last time I looked at this the Coral devices were out of stock and price gouged. Looks like I can at least order now with a lead time of 22 weeks from mouser.

https://coral.ai/products/m2-accelerator-dual-edgetpu/
Apple Announces 2023 App Store Award Finalists
Many people back kickstarters to back the person, not the product, and Simone is well known and nice enough that I think that enough people would do that regardless of whether or not they needed these hangers.
i'd be willing to believe it's an economics thing more-so than a physics thing.

one could envisage a '747-like' sized plane with many passenger escape-pods similar to the pod from an B-58 Hustler -- but who would pay the astronomic cost for such a ticket?

and similar to what the other person in this thread mentioned : those escape pods won't help during takeoff/landing phases.
>The sum of all human artifacts ever made (or yet to be made) doesn't exhaust the description of a rock in your front yard, let alone the world in all its varied possibility.

No human or creature we know of has a "true" world model so this is irrelevant. You don't experience the "real world". You experience a tiny slice of it, a few senses that is further slimmed down and even fabricated at parts.

To the bird who can intuitively sense and use electromagnetic waves for motion and guidance, your model of the world is fundamentally incomplete.

There is a projection of the world in text. Moreover training on additional modalities is trivial for a transformer. That's all that matters.
I'm curious what recourse Microsoft has, if any. Presumably there's some clause protecting them against openAI self-immolating?

Interestingly, the situation is fully reversible for now:

1. Majority of employees sign a strong letter condemning the board and calling for their resignation.
2. MSFT threatening to activate whatever protective clause they have
3. Other investors/donors threatening lawsuits.
4. Sustkever et all resign, new board appointed and Sam and Greg come back.

Things could be back to business as usual by Monday morning.
> with an average email response time of about 5 minutes to anything.

Seems like he's always considered this a good measure of a founder's quality.

From a 2019 interview- https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman/

> You know, years ago I wrote a little program to look at this, like how quickly our best founders — the founders that run billion-plus companies — answer my emails versus our bad founders. I don’t remember the exact data, but it was mind-blowingly different. It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response times
Not that different in U.S. The older bills without modern anti-counterfeiting (colored threads, holograms, etc) already attract increased scrutiny (not exactly worthless, but heading in the same direction). I recently went to an In-N-Out with a $50 bill from around the turn of the century, and a manager had to be called over to inspect it.
One downside of this mechanism is that it reduces the light-gathering power of the telescope according to what fraction of the cycle the shutter is open.

Another possible concern may be that while the shutter is partially open, the resolving power of the telescope may be reduced, introducing diffraction artifacts into the image. A liquid crystal or Kerr cell shutter opens and closes everywhere across the full aperture at the same time, but they introduce polarizing elements into the light path.

The shutter in StealthTransit's current product is a leaf shutter, and for its original purpose of blocking satellite interference, the above concerns are probably not an issue, if the shutter is open almost all the time.

https://stealthtransit.com/
This memo creates more questions and answers, and it hints at the forming of internal factions in OpenAI.

Who's the COO talking on behalf of when he says "we have had multiple conversations with the board"?

Who's full support does Mira (Ilya's choice) have?
Why does it need saying?

The rapid escalation from "we seem to disagree on this" to "walk them off the premises" was standard practice at OpenAI, along with firing people on Friday, at noon.

Many people were "resigned" while they were actively discussing (or at least so they thought) any disagreements with their immediate management, or the higher echelons of OpenAI.

Coordinating this internally took more than a few days, and there must have been a few middle-managers involved in several meetings to coordinate this.

Details on Ilya's selection function on who to read in to this would inform a lot of his most intrinsic motivations for this.

It's a pity to see brilliant minds unravel under the pressure of their own invention . . . and so publicly.
I agree that this looks ... weird and uncool.

But on a cursory look it seems to me like the boards' intentions are the right ones, while Sam seemed intent on making the most money possible with no regard for any of the Org's founding principles. It's why the "Open" in the name had become a joke.

I had no hope that OpenAI would ever deliver on its original mission, because when has a commercial takeover ever been reversed?

This may or may not kill OpenAI's lead, but maybe at least it will bring back openness ...
The situation has no good answers, and Hamas committed murder, but this part is not the truth:

> Israel was out of Gaza for years prior to Oct 7

Israel has conducted military actions in Gaza, but more significantly, they've blockaded Gaza, turning into a ghetto, since the 2000s. They control the Gaza economy and much more. It's not like the Sinai Desert that Israel left decades ago and has no influence in.