skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody says that investors don't expect anything. However, it's pretty clear that Sam just solely focused on delivering fast in order to keep his advantage. He said he cared about AGI safety publicly, but his style of leading the company makes it clear that he didn't care.
Most antennas actually have a large radar cross section (RCS), with simple dipoles being some of the worst. An infinitely thin dipole (a current filament) has a non zero RCS even though it has no physical cross section.

In theory, a reflector antenna can have a zero RCS, so putting a reflector behind a dipole will reduce the RCS. It’s totally non-intuitive.
Are emotions not a valid reason for caring about things, or doing things?

Why care about genocide at all if you don't consider emotion? It's just sacks of meat getting destroyed, like cows, pigs, lambs. Why should we care if any living creature is killed, oppressed, suffers?

Emotion. It drives us to reason one way rather than another. Emotion drives us to make killing dogs illegal, while killing fish, birds, other mammals, etc is done by the millions every day.

There's no logic to religious debate as all religion is made up superstition. There's no logic to allowing one group of people to keep some land and not others other than the rationale that whoever has the bigger gun is allowed to keep the land. There's no logic to retaliation at all, because it's circular reasoning.

So, yeah, it's an appeal to emotion. Otherwise what the hell is the point of caring about any death? Logic will never stop the killing. Logic will never be able to come up with "a solution" that is acceptable to the human psyche. But emotion can.
Kinda bullshit they didn't get anything in return and authorities just confiscated it. At a minimum, give them the inflation adjusted amount they paid for it.
> What you describe as 'absolute horrors' are what most people call making breakfast.

This doesn't work as absolution by itself: many past horrors we now find abhorrent were the societal norm at their time.
Disagree. The fact that the board are so cagey about why exactly they sacked Altman in the first place (other than some vague hand waving about high-minded idealism) speaks volumes.

They sacked him because as head of a for-profit corporation, he tried to develop products that would (gasp!) make money? Seriously? Investor returns are already limited in their corporate structure, which is supposed to serve as the check on the profit motive. If they don't think that's sufficient anymore, then they should amend their corporate charter and renegotiate with their investor, not fire the CEO out of nowhere. Unless the whole point was to get investors to withdraw money, in which case... um well done.

I'm not some Sam Altman cultist, and I don't particularly care what happens to OpenAI. But this smells like a garden-variety Silicon Valley board coup. The board are trying to present this as them standing between The World and Armageddon, and they're doing a very bad job.
If you look at high speed footage of a CRT monitor, you'll see that only a few scan lines are lit at a time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJU2drrtCM&t=150s
nope. a coup implies something that is outside of normal operation. the board removing the CEO can and will happen.
We have the (incomplete) track record of hits from the last billion years or so to extrapolate from.

Don't know that there has been much since that Dino Doom Rock 65m years ago?
I mean you're describing exactly the empty technical world I've been experiencing.

So the future of AI is in the hands of leadership that's slick talking but really only there to make a quick buck, built by teams of engineers whose only motivation is getting highly paid.

I don't begrudge those that are only in it for the money, but that's not the view of tech that got me excited and into this industry many years ago.

The point of my comment is that for a moment I thought maybe I was wrong about my view of tech today, but it's very clear that I'm not. It sounds like the reality is going to end up that the handful of truly technical people in the company will be pushed out, and the vast majority of people even on HN will cheer this.
And for that, sponsorblock.
The Walter Issacson biography quoted Kip Thorne as saying if Einstein didn’t come up with relativity, likely no one would have for 30-40 years after. Which is insane and totally sensible. This theory had nothing to do with any observation or conundrum we could measure back then or even today except the weird discrepancy in Mercurys orbit. Truly a great genius with unparalleled originality. Somehow beats newton for this reason imo.

Great spoilers for the book Project Hail Mary below so stop reading if you’ve not finished it (and why havent you?): it was such a brilliant idea in that book to suggest that the space faring alien race never figured out relativity still and could still head out to a nearby star and only then discover there’s a massive discrepancy in their calculations. To use such an obscure observation that relativity is not obvious at all as a plot point needs a lot of kudos to the author.
What makes plastic special is a) they are unnatural b) human and animal bodies have no mechanism to get rid of it, especially at nano-scale.

We know enough about heart attacks to know they can be caused by plaque build-up in arteries. We don’t know enough about nano-plastic or micro-plastic buildup in our bodies, or its effects.

At the very least, it’s worth investigating the role of plastics and ruling it out.
Actually they aren't in terms of energy. High pressure sodium lamps output around 100 lumens per watt, which is the same as LEDs.

I'd imagine some LED luminaries are consuming more energy than the sodium lamp they replaced, as they are usually brighter and some will have terribly inefficient power supplies.
I was agreeing with you haha

Companies ask that kind of stuff at interviews lol
Why would the entire org follow Sam instead of Ilya?
Don’t know if you’re already a member of the largest server for extension developers at https://discord.gg/mHPkCCBx

Awesome extension we need more like this to fight ads
yeah. this whole thing looks staged. not saying it's not possible but what kind of board would actually fire the CEO and take it back to resign?
>I know an anti-vaxxer who says the same thing about lifesaving vaccines, but in the opposite direction. He seems to claim that there are few/no truly inert (meaning pure saline, as opposed to aluminum-doped adjuvant without the inactive virus) placebo controlled RCTs for many of the most commonly scheduled vaccines

It's impossible to know that the vaccines are net life-saving without proper placebo-controlled RCTs. Without that, you just have scientific-sounding marketing material.
Micro-USB is a variant of the USB-B connector. The whole point of A and B was that A ports were used on the "host" system, and B were used on the peripheral. If you remember USB On-the-Go, that was an attempt to reverse the trend and allow a USB-B device (including micro ports) to act as a host.

USB-C erased that distinction in favor of a full duplex network connection between two hosts.
I’ve been in Mugatu "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills" mode for a few years now, watching events unfold in the tech world, and, as you said, the rest of society.
> But it can't improve its answer after it has written it, that is a major limitation.

It can be instructed to study its previous answer and find ways to improve it, or to make it more concise, etc, and that is working today. That can easily be automated by LLMs talking to each other.
clown show
> We draw about 300W on average

Dude, teach me. Forget solar panels, if you can explain how you're living on ~1/10th the power of the typical home around here I'd power my house on a hamster wheel.
Charitably I’m going to ascribe this to ignorance and not dishonesty. You may not be aware but Catholic dogma has no problem whatsoever with evolution, an old Earth, heliocentrism, or any number of other more or less fashionable opinions. The Catholic encyclopedia is over a century old and it shows. Perhaps you failed to understand the article you attempted to read? Nevertheless, here[1] is the entry on atomism for those who are interested.

The article immediately distinguishes between philosophy and science while you appear to be, for some reason, conflating them:

Atomism [a privative and temnein to cut, i.e. indivisible] is the system of those who hold that all bodies are composed of minute, indivisible particles of matter called atoms. We must distinguish between

1) atomism as a philosophy and

2) atomism as a theory of science.

[1] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02053a.htm
It's not planning ahead, it is looking at the probabilities of the tokens altogether rather than one by one.
Isn't also because of OpenAI scraping the internet that companies got the walls up. How else is anyone able to gathering training data these days?
It's not only that he's raised capital for/funded interesting concepts, it's that he's (mostly) successfully spent money on interesting concepts that the majority of people in the media and in those industries said were not viable.

Even if these insights into specific industries aren't his own, he's savvy enough to recognize their validity and bring together other people who can make those insights reality.

At the same time, he has his fair share of boneheaded boondoggles.
not only that but people greatly overestimate how hard it is to replicate the success OpenAi had. you don't just build another one.
I honestly have started to wonder if the popularity of languages like Go and JavaScript are due to the lack of features in the base language. JavaScript in particular has had an incredible amount of effort invested in creating fairly limited, scattershot, and duplicative support for features that are "just part of the language" in Kotlin, or Rust, or even Java. It makes a really rich field for people who are interested in compilers, but did all this really make Uber a better company? Would all that effort have been better spent solving problems core to their business?

At my employer we have a pattern of promoting people who have done things like write a proprietary application gateway. The dev got a couple promotions and moved on to another company and we got stuck maintaining a proprietary application gateway with a terribly messy configuration and poor observability.
Why would the board resign, makes no sense.

Sam was a hired CEO, board is within its power to fire him. I would imagine that Ilya is a more valuable person than Sam.
> 3. Musk is still the wealthiest human on the planet (in history? I expect in nominal terms he's the wealthiest in history).

John D. Rockefeller would like to have a word if we're talking about Americans, as would Carnegie and Vanderbilt:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_Americans_in_h...

Internationally: Augustus Caesar, Emperor Shenzong, Akbar I:

* https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/31976...
That would be ideal. Then they can be truly charitable and open source their models.
I don’t think there has been a formal announcement on the new direction yet
Fun fact, that's Bob Barkers 100th birthday
I've never heard of a local hacker space being a thing until now. But it sounds like you have nothing good to say about the place. So leave...
At every point in time there are a range of moves with different levels of optimality. That range changes at the next point in time following the opponent's move.
That data is the median. The distribution may be uneven, but even the median American has more PPP adjusted income than all but Luxembourg citizens.
You lost me when you called a mineral a chemical.
one thing that I am curious about: aren't there non-competes in place here? and even without them, you just cannot start your own thing that just replicates what your previous employer does - this has lawsuit written all over it.
Hey you should post about this on our extension devs server , people would be super interested https://discord.gg/mHPkCCBx
> What happened?

Absurd money decouples people from consequences of reality. With no negative feedback to stabilize the control loop, it eventually goes haywire.
This is the weirdest company equity structure I've ever heard of.

No wonder this is causing drama.
> pretending he is the genius behind the ideas and has a hand in the novel engineering of them

Musk has always been brutally transparent with investors. The personal genius schtick isn't one he pulls when raising capital. (It does play well to a lay audience.)
The Startling Evidence on Learning Loss Is In
I never thought that the Michael Scott Paper Company maneuver would ever happen in real life, but I guess anything is possible in 2023.
I don't buy the whole the board is for safety and Sam is pushing too fast argument. This is just classic politics and backstabbing unless there is some serious wrongdoing in the middle that left the board with no option to fire the CEO.
> The shareholders of the llc

Pedantic, but: LLCs have "members", not "shareholders". They are similar, but not identical relations (just as LLC members are similar to, but different from, the partners in an partnership.)
It's California. Non-competes are void. It is one of the few states where non-competes are not legally enforceable.
There is no world in which Microsoft leaves their GPT4 customers dead in the water.
It means, if taken at an axiom, that when someone ain’t working out you should fire them fast rather than let them drag down the rest of the group

Tenure doesn’t matter.
> There is not good evidence (that I know of at least, maybe I will learn some) that the actual EM field is quantised.

I can't tell if you're pranking us, but of course there is. Without thinking too hard about experimental evidence: squeezed states and the Casimir effect both spring to mind. Hell, the photoelectric effect originally led Einstein directly to the quantization of the EM field. Or Compton scattering as another example.
Vehicle-to-grid[1] is a bit of a work in progress, but that's certainly the idea.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
It was five nines "safe".
They accused Sam of lying in a public statement when they don't have an evidence to back it up.

Those 4 people are not fit to run any company.

Not a single person asked: well hey what if somebody asks for an evidence of lying? Do we have one?
Frigate recently bundled an instance of go2rtc which can connect to Reolink cameras via http/flv and re-stream as RTSP. This solved my issues with Reolink.

go2rtc also works nicely for on demand transcoding of my H265-only cams to H264 to view the live stream in Firefox.
You're massively overestimating the skills needed to build "competitive models". Researchers like Ilya were essential several years ago when OpenAI got started, because at that time nobody even knew what to build or how to go about it. It was all research, and OpenAI was solely focused on RL. But these days, LLM code is 95%+ data and infrastructure engineering and very little novel research. Even things like LLM speedups via new attention mechanisms are more engineering than they are research.

Above all else, what you need to build competitive models is a huge amount of money and access to compute. Money alone doesn't solve that either due to the global hardware shortage. You are competing for a globally limited pool of hardware with all other companies.
You can buy “Orange is the New Black” and Star Wars from iTunes…

Or you can pay for one month, binge and cancel your subscription to each without a contract
> reach a truce where the board would resign and he and Brockman would return.

Calling that a truce makes as much sense as Monty Python’s Black Knight calling the fight a draw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
I'm using arch with Wayland and Sway and don't see any major issues. The only time I use X is via XWayland for games.
This satellite can find walkie-talkies
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
GP might have meant that NASA is more risk-averse in the business sense of the word risk, as in they don't want to risk failure, therefore they don't risk success. SpaceX definitely doesn't have that sort of risk aversion.
Yes, either you founded it or not. Buying the rights to a title isn’t the same thing

He did build the Tesla we know, that is not in question
The only info I find is the NYT article. Is there a blog or something with more info?
My god, we've re-invented the VCR.
These updates all seem to be coming from one side. Have they said anything at all?
Starship and Superheavy Become the Biggest Rocket in Space – Before Exploding [video]
It would be the same thing for which people are accusing the OpenAI board.

Play ball else we'll pull out wires off your cloud instances. Let's keep in mind Azure is the main cash cow of MS.
You can’t, Amazon doesn’t support any open protocols with their ring cameras. You can get the serial number off the camera itself, usually on the back so it needs to be removed first.

Also most of those ring cameras are 2.4ghz only so you need a dedicated 2.4ghz wifi network. It won’t connect at all if you have an SSID that is broadcasting both 5ghz and 2.4ghz on the same name.
My understanding is that it depends a lot on your carrier. Some already have great deals and won’t get better, especially if you’re trading in your current iPhone.

Apple doesn’t typically offer Black Friday discounts, though they sometimes offer gift cards or similar freebies.
Nah this is California, that won’t work
> If Altman has no meaningful economic interest in the company, what was his motivation for being involved at all? Why did he choose to spend his time this way?

Not everything is about money. He likely just likes the idea of making AI.
You seem to be saying something along the lines of: 'Hey look people have built these houses on sand and they are fine after 2 years, so its fine to keep building more houses on sand"

Just because something works for a while does not mean its a good long term situation, unless you were saying something else which I failed to decipher.
I’ve mused that an advanced AGI would probably become suicidal after dealing with humans for a while and realizing there’s no escape. Maybe this is an attempt.
>Likewise, do you translate it into contemporary English or archaic one? Old texts are sometimes intentionally translated into archaic language, so that you feel like reading something old. But, when they created it originally, they used their own contemporary language and made it sound pleasant to themselves. So, do you pick old words or new words for the same thing?

Something to note about Homer is that his language is archaic for the classical Greeks, it is associated with an older, mythical era, and the reason why so many of those words have standard translations is because they literally only appear in Homer one time--ἅπαξ λεγόμενα--and we only know what they mean because the Greeks knew what they meant, and the Romans learned from them, and so on and so forth. Ancient language translation is steeped in tradition, it cannot be extricated from tradition, there is never a new translation since even reading an ancient text requires such extensive textual apparatus, commentarial support, and background knowledge that you are, in effect, translating as you read it by yourself anyway. But the Illiad and the Odyssey are special in this regard, since they are repetitive by nature, many many words and lines are repeated in the text, usually to mark progression to a new part of the story (since they were originally declaimed orally from memory)--they should be repeated, or else you lose the gravity of the original.
Mozilla is somewhat similar, it's a non-profit that owns a for-profit entity.
Wow, faststream works great for normal web players. Doesn't seem to work on any youtube videos when using the ff extension in the store though. Gets stuck loading forever.

Edit: fixed, works well in every test case
Yes, the size of the jury is not fixed, so all of them are the size they are by chance.
The fact that HN engineering grunts have no idea what table stakes are vs titles and authority shows how they aren’t cut out for executive brinksmanship.

Sam has superior table stakes.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462

On operationalizing definitions of AGI
Nothing too wild or "permanent" but I've spent about 6 months total in South America (Ecuador and Colombia) and Mexico on separate occasions after quitting and being fired from different jobs.

The only "story" really coming to mind right now is about a Chilean individual who told me something like "Colombia isn't in South America, it's not until you get into northern Chile to where you're really in South America!"
I personally disagree and just kind of laugh and shake my head thinking about that person.

The passenger shuttle/busses (especially overnight) in South Am. have always seemed really unsafe and scary to me - that's another laugh and shake head.
Fair point, its hard to quantify the number of events that didn't happen because of intervention.
Seems like anyone who would buy anything other than a laptop would be pretty tech savvy, unless they just bought it because of familiarity and habit thinking "Desktops are what we use for home stuff, I don't wanna mess with laptops I don't know much about".

I can't really think of why an average user would want one other than gaming, and PC gamers can likely figure out USB cables.
I have a ton of love for Andy Weir (Project Hail Mary, The Martian) for the exact reason you describe. Not only does he love the hard sci-fi bits but he clearly loves doing the homework so he gets it right.
I wonder where the most dark, least light polluted location on earth is. I guess it's out on the ocean somewhere and not optimal for stargazing.
More and more sites don't work with ad blockers. I like this. It means I will visit fewer sites that advertise. Over time the number of sites will dwindle. Eventually there will be a few community funded open sites, and a few paid sites that focus on providing valuable content for their subscribers. The result is better quality and less noise. And far less incentive to advertise on the web.

Let the death of ads begin!
And with well-intentioned people who tried to warn people of catastrophes that went unheeded
No, their adblocker detection definitely detects UO in Firefox. I've had to disable it (UO) the last couple months otherwise YT becomes unusable.
Maybe less excessive hunger than excessive calories to satisfy normal hunger due to low quality foods.

It's so incredibly easy to eat excess calories nowadays.
Labour love this type of shite too.
I've seen those on Firefox. Disappeared after a week-and-a-half though.
I mean, Planet's been doing that since before Starlink had a constellation, and what it can do is "image every inch of the globe at least once each day".

https://www.planet.com/
> This makes no sense. People are calling what the board did a coup, but Altman is trying (failing?) to stage a coup.

I think he stage his coup long ago when he took control of OpenAI making it “CloseAI” to make himself richer by effectively selling it to Microsoft. This is the people who believe in the original charter fighting back.

> The shareholders can fire the board, but that’s not what he’s asking for.

There are no shareholders in a non-profit if I’m right. The board effectively answers to no one. It’s take it or leave it kind of deal. If you don’t believe in OpenAI’s mission as stated in their charter, don’t engage with them.
Just Curious why? what does it mean to you and your business?
I think they thought about it and decided they should.
Why. Microsoft pays openAIs azure bills. Do you not know how that’s different than any other situation?
Betelgeuse falls under the “Ardra” nakshatra constellation in the eastern astronomical systems.

Q- is that the same day we will see it? I’m assuming the occultation is sufficiently close that speed of light considerations don’t have a material significance.