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He's extraordinarily talented by all accounts, especially at fundraising. But his Apple was Loopt. He's not the secret sauce but a facilitator - more Tim than Steve. Perhaps like Steve was to Pixar.

"The start-up company must either cross or die, but what value is life if
to gain it one has to go against one’s best self?" - Moore, Crossing the Chasm, p. 75
> Sam Altman has been an objectively successful leader of OpenAI.

In what way, exactly? ChatGPT would have been built regardless of whether he was there or not. It's not like he knows how to put a transformer pipeline together. The success of OpenAI's product rests on its scientists and engineers, not the CEO, and certainly not a non-technical one like Mr. Altman.
That’s a lot of words to say you want something for nothing. Embrace it, just say you don’t want to pay for content with attention or money.
"Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, must be sacked."
Would those talented engineers or scientists be content with significantly lower compensation and generally significantly less resources to work with. However good their intentions might this probably won't make them too attractive to future investors and antagonizing MS doesen't seem like a great idea.

OpenAI is far from being self-sustainable and without significant external investment they'll just probably be soon overtaken by someone else.
He did not found Tesla, did he?
How much do they get from you right now with adblock?
Elon brought him in, which is quite the irony. Funny even. It also is the reason Elon and Larry Page don’t get along anymore.

Ilya is certainly world class in his field, and maybe good to listen to what he has to say
Every time there's an article about this fight, someone inevitably chimes in with their "Just Buy Premium" contribution. While true, it's not very useful or topical, and it's been re-posted so many damn times that it's pretty much zero-value.

It's like going into a discussion about building your own custom PC from scratch and posting "Just buy it from Dell!" I mean, no shit!

Everyone obviously knows paying is an option. These articles/discussions aren't about the obvious, short, straightforward path.
They both fit the data equally well, with the debatable exception of the cosmic microwave background, which debatably provides an absolute rest frame, thereby violating the SR postulate that all rest frames have the same laws of physics.
The vast majority of keyboards and mice are USB-A, so you want at least two USB-A ports for those.

Even Apple recognizes this, which is why the desktop Mac's still have a couple of USB-A ports.

(And most of the rest are Bluetooth, not USB-C!)

USB-C has its merits, but I think they are bigger on mobile devices where you only have a limited number of ports and they have to serve multiple roles. On a desktop, it's certainly nice to have a couple of USB-C ports, especially if they're USB4, but you also have dedicated ports for video, audio, etc, so the versatility isn't quite as valuable.
i think the GP was talking about wired peripherals that plug into usb-a ports on the computer side, not wireless mice/keyboards which use usb-c to charge

my current wireless mouse/wired keyboard have usb-c on the peripheral end but I still use usb-a to connect them to the computer
This makes no sense. People are calling what the board did a coup, but Altman is trying (failing?) to stage a coup.

The board was Altmans boss - this is pretty much their only job. Altman knew this and most likely ignored any questions or concerns of theirs thinking he is the unfireable superstar

Imagine if your boss fired you - and your response was - I’ll come back if you quit! Yeah, no. People might confuse status with those of actual ceo shareholders like zuck, bezos, or musk. But Altman is just another employee

The shareholders can fire the board, but that’s not what he’s asking for. And so far we haven’t heard anything about them getting fired. So mostly this just seems like an egomaniac employee who thinks he is the company (while appropriating the work of some really really smart data scientists)
Anyone with a passing interest in designing an AI Chip should listen to the last Latent Space pod with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis.

You either assume transformers are here to stay and somehow get an edge over Nvidia and others trying to do the same or you make a huge variety of bets on whats next.

https://www.latent.space/p/semianalysis#details
I found the return of the HDMI and SD card reader so refreshing but also so puzzling.

On one hand that's what we asked for. On the other hand it was in the same wave as giving up on the touch bar, slowing (stopping ?) the evolution of the iPad, no touch support on the laptops when the design changes were hinting at it.

Basically it felt like they froze the hardware form factors in time to solly focus on the ARM transition and the Vision Pro. That's a good decision on many front, and also a sign that the mac is now in its "conservative" phase where change isn't to be expected for a very long time if ever.

Now that Panos is also gone from Microsoft, I wonder where innovation will happen on the laptop/desktop side. Asus and Lenovo ? If it doesn't, desktops will slowly fit into the mainframes' position, and laptops will be legacy/ultra niche tools.

Perhaps then it will truely be the year of the desktop for linux ?
> 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.

You have exceptionally strong opinions about USB A and C.
He presumably can attract investors?
What happens at 5:01? The servers blow up?
That assumes Altman competitor can outpace and outclass OpenAI and maybe it can. I know Anthropic came about from earlier disagreements and that didn’t slow OpenAIs innovation pace, certainly.

Everything just assumes that without Sam they’re worse off.

But what if, my gosh, they aren’t? What if innovation accelerates?

My point being is it’s useless to speculate that Altman starting a new business competing with OpenAI will be successful inherently. There’s more to it than that
I'd consider paying for Premium if they remove the free with ads version of Youtube. Ideally every single person on the planet blocked ads on Youtube on every imaginable platform so they were forced to restrict all access to content if you didn't pay for Premium.
OpenAI staff to the Board: "Bring Sam and Greg back, or we all resign"
Staff resigns
it's really this. the constant showers at random hours of the night are probably her ptsd from the event manifesting into a ritual. she's trying to wash that filth off her.
Who sacks the person who sacks?
That's not how whistleblower to the public works.
Indeed, this is the real damage.
That's why i'm totally fine when everyone disagreed with me on almost everything.
In theory, a significant group of senior researchers has agreed to resign.

Additionally, investors have threatened a lawsuit and Microsoft has said they'll withhold cloud computing credits.
OMG, Cuba could got Martian technologies and outperform US in Space.
Not sure why the downvotes - this definitely seems to be a coordinated effort, rather than one off brand-management exercise by IBM, but to what end I have no idea. Evidently Media Matters is somehow inciting this?
I only really watch YT on my phone, and Youtube ReVanced has been amazing for an ad-free experience.
Phone, tablet, laptop, tyre pump, MiFi 5G hotspot, VPN router, portable monitor... most of my devices are USB C, except for my car (2019 - recent rentals are USB C), desktop PC, keyboard and mouse.

I think it's great for travel, combined with an Anker 737 or similar battery and Anker 736 100W charger.
Arlo’s base station is an AP.
In this case, it seems that computer scientists are serious about saving humanity, while salespeople just act as if they are doing so publicly.
but he wants to jail the model he builds. As Sam says, he should think more about what he actually wants to do, and then do it. Not go in 2 opposite directions at the same time.
On mobile, they don't play videos unless the screen is on except if it's an ad, then they have all of these favorable bugs where your phone unexpectedly starts playing a whistling song with a twanging ukulele talking about mattresses.

There's that other bug where they disable the navigation during the ads and you have to turn the screen off and back on to the lock screen to get rid of it.

Such fortuitous defects.

Brendan Eichs Brave browser bypasses the YouTube bullshit if you want a workaround on android.
For many people ChatGPT is the brand (or even just GPT).
Very telling to see how many VCs are still lining up to give money to this scumbag. This is a guy with zero technical credentials and whose most notable accomplishment was selling out the ML/AI research community.
59% of 18-25 year olds in the United States are overweight or obese
I fully agree with you. Xen was quite crap in the original, but in Black Mesa it is fantastic, and feels really alien and weird.
First it remains to be seen if Microsoft is going to do something drastic.

I also suspect they could very well secure this kind of agreement from another company that would be happy to play ball for access to OpenAI tech. Perhaps Amazon for instance, who’s AI attempts since Alexa have been lackluster
It' time to just let ChatGPT to be the real BOSS, no more non-sense.
There is a javascript library for interfacing with Youtube's API directly. It can also run on browsers. Using this, it's pretty easy to create a simple extension that replaces the default video player with your own. You can do a lot to improve your experience this way. I've made one which allows for higher quality streaming, pre-buffering video in the background, more subtitling options, etc... [2] [3].

[1] https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js

[2] https://github.com/Andrews54757/FastStream

[3] Chrome (also available for Firefox): https://chromewebstore.google.com/u/1/detail/faststream-vide...
I had something similar happen. I'm fine with a blank screen and waiting 5-30sec.
I don't want intrusive ads before during and after a 5 min video on water heater maintenance.
> is a sign of weakness

It's often a sign of incompetence though. Or rather a confirmation of it.
Topically in an MC queue, a consumer "consumes" an element and won't be available for other consumers. For example a job queue. Also typically queues either grow unbounded or pushes fail.

So no, I wouldn't say that the disruptor is a normal SPMC or MPMC queue as it semantics are different.

But yes, it has pretty much the same characteristics of UDP.
I'm not so sure.

Ilya was apparently instrumental in this, and he didn't have to pursue this?

It didn't have to be a "you're with me or you're with them!"
Is this a way of saying that AI safety is unnecessary?
Over the years "tech" has been less and less about making things and more and more about making your investors money. Technical talented used to be extremely important in this industry, but it's slowly been being worn away over the years.

I still like working in this industry because you can still find interesting problems to solve if you hunt for them, but they're getting harder to find and it increasingly seems like making good technical decisions is penalized.

It's sad to see even on HN how many comments are so dismissive of technical skills and ambitions, though I guess we've had more than a generation of engineers join the field because it was the easiest way to make the most money.

For a brief moment on Friday I thought "maybe I'm too cynical! Maybe there still are places where tech actually matters."

Not surprised it looks like that hope will be inverted almost immediately. I also suspect the takeaway from this will be the final nail in the coffin for any future debates between engineering and people who are only interested in next quarters revenue numbers.
I don't see how Sam can return if the board doesn't resign. It's either them or him at this point.
I can’t speak for other people, but I feel like my life is a revolving cocktail of USB Type-A, Type-B, Micro, and Type-C. I can’t just cut and re-crimp my old 2001 Sony Memory Stick USB adapter (which still has drivers available for Linux) to support USB-C.

One thing that stuck out to me about the article is that the author didn’t talk much about their use cases with USB.
I remain unconvinced of the practical applications of solutions like this.

These seem like academic toys.

Pre-processing a dynamic database is a non-starter. No database that is used for any real world use case is static at scale, especially not internet traffic.

I’m not expecting FHE that’s fast in my lifetime, but I’ve been wrong before.

Context: I led a team which built the first open source production-grade implementation of hardware-accelerated PIR which is currently at use at scale.
Does it sound like an ethical move to host this kind content on your servers at all? This isn’t default behavior but why is it behavior that can be achieved at all?

Remember that social media platforms are in full control of what they tolerate. It’s their servers. They have all the data.

It doesn’t matter how “scummy” MM is if X has no ability to remove objectionable content or at least mark it for non-ad placement. Their failure to moderate is not the advertisers’ problem. What this shows is that X has insufficient control and can’t implement basic standards.

Then on top of all this you have a shadow CEO who can’t control his impulse to publicly agree with anti-Semitic content.

That, my friend, is what you call an unforced error.

Advertisers are only going to get more demanding with media platforms as AI technology advances. There won’t be an excuse for being unable to detect hate content. They’ll be expected to have content evaluation fully automated.
Ah yes I want it so much that despite being able to block YT ads for years and get all the content for free and still able to do that now I pay for premium. Clearly I just want free shit.

I know it's crazy but what I actually want is an ad model where I don't feel the need to make it go away and might actually enjoy. An ad model where it doesn't have to interrupt me and force itself upon my eyes because it's actually content I would watch on my own.

Like take for example Fly.io's blog. It's is some of the best advertising for the service and is definitely why I use them today. Raymond Hettenger's python YT series is a fantastic ad for his consultancy. Wendy's Twitter was/is hilarious. But its a weird dynamic because if the content is good you don't have to pay for it which seems silly because it's an ad all the same.
Atomism is a philosophically offensive position to those of Tesla's personality type. Catholic Encyclopedia has an entry against it (while barely admitting an instrumental interpretation of atoms for chemistry). It's almost as bad as evolution!
The article seems lacking, and doesn't give much background on how we got to where the title came from. A shame, really. Im sure there're better articles out there
Any good, independent site hosting deals around?
I'm trying to move as far away from the Evil Giants, so... where is good to host my little website of personal, experimental kluges? Free maybe, or tiny money amounts eh.
thanks,
mishi
Both can be used to treat asthma. Actually, I was mistaken. I thought they were both steroids but salbutamol is not, so my point is moot.
More generally, I'd think many/most mechanical keyboards are USB C.

But I'd think that the budget, off-the-shelf keyboards would be USB A.
>People are calling what the board did a coup, but Altman is trying (failing?) to stage a coup.

The board removed the board's chairman and fired the CEO. That's why it was called a coup.

>The shareholders can fire the board, but that’s not what he’s asking for. And so far we haven’t heard anything about them getting fired

nonprofits don't have shareholders (or shares).
> Since Youtube no longer allows AdBlockers

You mean "since YouTube attempted to bar adblockers, but instead entered into a war with them that it cannot win, most users of adblockers continue to watch YouTube without issues".
Photoprism, synology photos, immich
Strictly obeying their overlords. Ensuring that we don't end up with Skynet and Terminators.
Schrödinger AI, open and closed simultaneously depending on how its observed?
It’s pretty crazy that an operating system needs that much at all. I mean, we all get used to these big numbers but 4GB is actually a lot of bits. A single GB can store more books than a human can read in their lifetime. Somehow, we have accepted that the most fundamental piece of software on a computer should require many lifetimes worth of books of RAM. We have come a long way from thinking we would never need more than 640k!
Watching a blank screen is still a huge quality of life win.
Thanks - didn't know that was possible.

On ebay.de, seeing a bunch sold between ˜€500 and ˜€700, including one sale of Photoshop (only) for €799...
It's sacks all the way down.
The major investors whose money is on the line and who are funding the venture, Microsoft, Sequoia, and Khosla, were not given advanced warning or any input in to how this would impact their investment.

I would definitely say the board screwed up.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/17/openai-in...
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. It's way beyond time the USB-A interface is eliminated. USB-C can't get here fast enough.

My MacBook pro only has USB-C ports, they work well for data, video out, as well as power (charging) and I am glad to be rid of the USB-A ports.
I don't think anyone has reported an end to scaling laws yet.
It seems a lot of work to do this and worth it.

As a surprised customer of YouTube premium having all ads gone across videos and music across all devices really might not be a bad deal for anyone on the fence for a family plan and all your devices.

In terms of working around ads.. There are some neat solutions that seem to work ok for YouTube on tv.. but so far the family plan seems ok.

Was anyone able tog eat off the premium plan and have no ads on their phones, computers, tvs and smart speakers?
I recently spent a week in Sisters, Oregon (where Thompson Guitars is making me a beautiful walnut guitar which I can't wait to play for y'all at future tech conferences).

I fell completely in love with the city on my first evening there. It took me a few hours to realize why: there are almost no streetlights. The main drag (Cascade Ave) has tasteful, downward-angled, orange lights. And the rest of the city has none at all. And. it's. awesome.

You can be standing in the middle of joyous nightlife, in earshot of two different live bands, and still see a stunning sky full of high desert stars. Each business lights their little strip of sidewalk as they see fit.

And it really hit home: It's 2023. The idea that light is an essential safety feature is one whose time has past. 90% of folks have a flashlight on their phone at the ready, and for anyone who doesn't have that privilege, or whose battery is dead, getting light shone in one's direction is as simple as shouting, "help me! I need light over here now!"

Being around the edges of the city at night is absolutely marvelous, especially on a bicycle.

Sisters has ignited in me a belief that streetlights are on their way out - coming to a city near you.
I don't believe this.

You're not entirely focused if you're answering emails on your phone.

Maybe Greg's 50% focus is still good enough for answering to Altman and doing other stuff? It's still giving 50% to both or a different mix.

It's also disrespectful if you're with other people imho.

Anyway my main point is that if you're expecting people to answer you urgently, don't write them an email but find a better channel.
"The deadline has passed and mass resignations expected if a deal isn’t reached ASAP"
Arms race towards people running their own private YouTube instances which pre-fetch subscriptions and recommendations to skip ads. If the video hasn't been downloaded already it pretends to play the ad in the background while waiting. A minor inconvenience, but hardly the end of the world.
And it's probably going to keep getting worse as more synthetic chemicals enter the water cycle and accumulate in plants and animals.
An Uber self-driving car killed a person.
You aren't going to get 20W of fast phone charging power out of USB 2; you get 2.5W tops. USB 3 gets you to about 5W.

Meanwhile USB C goes up to 240W. You're probably never going to get that directly out of a motherboard.
The one thing the internet loves: drama and IRL narratives with twists and turns.

Even when this story is mostly over we're going to have journo thinkpieces out of our ears.
I played Black Mesa a couple of years ago, and I really loved it. All the fun of the original game, but with much better graphics.

Frankly speaking, I find it difficult nowadays to go back to the old, blocky early 3D games. Except for Quake, I will always love Quake.
Sounds like the deadline got moved to a game of chicken.
Whoever's nominally responsible for sacking the people who sacked the people who have just been sacked.
Ultimately the conversion rate of spam continuously proves one of the worst advertising methods. They are ripping off companies they lie to about the conflated stats, and irritating the 80% of users that will never buy anything for various reasons.

It is going to be an interesting waste of resources. =)
They need phase locked too. Edit: article says they're using GPS, probably using PWM-aligned-to-PPS.
Flicker at certain frequencies isn't noticeable to humans in isolation. Add in other types of flicker (lights at other refresh rates, monitors, TV's, etc) and you can see the interference between them.
And even if it did, you can't do clip masks with scanout overlays. So you have to composite (and therefore take the hit of ramping up the 3d capabilities of the GPU).
This was quite cool.

-Regular semantic search for codes in addition to the chat functionality would be nice

-The clarifying questions never really added much value when I tried them

-The regex to grab citations should look for "California..." instead of just "Cal"

-Mobile UI could use some work
Yes, Sokal was word salad.

But they also weren't treating it like a normal paper, and the lack of peer review is part of that.

More importantly, that being the big example, decades later, helps show just how rare something like that is for major conferences and journals.

An estimate of it happening 1% of the time would be much too high, but even if 1% was accurate it would still mean that endorsements are quite convincing.

Let alone getting picked as the "best paper".
“Housing crisis” is not a function of density, but a function of how much demand outstrips supply. The real question to be asking is why the two have been so far apart for so long as to allow us to get to this point.
Thanks. I’ve never seen the word occult used like this, your explanation was helpful.
His star power is much higher than you give him credit for. It's like saying you can replace Brad Pitt with an average actor because the writers are the ones responsible for the script.

You lose other actors who only joined to work with Brad for one. You lose part of your audience and you lose distribution and press opportunities.

If it wasn't for Sam pushing for a version that became gpt3.5 and the popularity that followed and most recently gpt 4 push we would still be waiting for the brilliant people . Google was way ahead in this space but failed to release anything.

As a developer I understand belittling the business side as providing little value but as someone who has tried to get the masses to adopt my software my respect for their ability to solve non-technical problems has grown.