skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've programmed in 6502 Assembly for decades and your skepticism is right on.

These comparisons have so many variables that they are extremely hard to make accurately.

FTA - I would have guessed that the 8088 is much faster at about
the same clock speed, because it has more 16-bit operations
and does multiplication and division in hardware.

Does the compiler of the compiler make use of these extra 16-bit operations? How many layers of abstraction does it go through for each of the environments? Does it use DOS interrupts when running on DOS and optimized machine code on CP/M?

These comparisons are strange thought experiments.
I sure would hire a guy like Ilya after that shit show. His petty title tweets before the event and now whatever this is. Turns out he is just another "Sunny".
It does lend credence to an emerging landscape trend that suggests large companies, not disruptive startups, will dominate AI development due to high costs and infrastructure needs.
Maybe they just wanted to generate more material for the movie ?
OpenAI employees are already quitting en masse in public on twitter.

Their pay is majority equity, so its worthless now with a board that says it hates profits and money. OpenAI is probably worth 80% less than it did a weekend ago, so the equity pay is also worth 80% less.

Microsoft is perfectly willing to pay those typical AI salaries, because Nvidia and Google are literally doing a recruitment drive on twitter right now. Apple and Amazon are also probably looking to scoop up the leftovers. So Microsoft has to pay properly, and Sam will demand them to, to get the OpenAI team moved over intact. There aren't that many core engineers at OpenAI, maybe 200-300, so it is trivial for Microsoft to afford it.
I really see no reason that LLMs can't go the way of operating systems when it comes to the success of the open-source approach vs. the proprietary closed-source approach.

The argument over for-profit vs. non-profit is largely meaningless, as anyone who is paying attention knows that 'non-profits' just use different methods to distribute the revenue than for-profits do, using various smoke-and-mirrors approaches to retain their legal status. Arguably a non-profit might put more revenue back into R & D and less into kickbacks to VC investors but that's not always the case.

Additionally, given all the concerns about "AI safety" open-source seems like the better approach, as this is a much better framework for exposing biases, whether intentional or accidental. There are many successful models for financing the open-source approach, as Linux has shown.
"While the sphere looks fantastic now as a giant eyeball, emoji or pumpkin, this isn’t what the exterior will be ultimately used for. It’ll reportedly be used to show ads, charging clients up to $650,000 a week. This makes it the most expensive billboard in the world."

Putting a giant advertisement ball into a residential era of London sounds like a Black Mirror episode. Vegas, I get it, the entire city is an exercise in vice, light pollution, gauche architecture and terrible ways to spend money but you can't do that to London.

I hope and think it's fairly likely whatever planning board is responsible doesn't actually wink this through.
It's X11 which is asking applications what was selected when determining what will be pasted from middle click. To be secure X11 should be maintaining its own buffer which can only be updated via user interaction instead of relying on every application to implement this security measure themselves.

It's also a security issue with the shells that are interpreting a pasted new-line character. The author of that post is delusional to claim that none of the blame should be placed on the shells.
4. Translators

5. Programmers
This all feels like a Star Wars plot. Much you have to learn.
Wait ... so it was just the coup thing all along?

No AGI or some real threat coming up? Just a lame attempt at a power grab?

Daaaaamn!
I've also noticed this behavior popping up a lot lately, but I had no idea why. The URL with tracking included was still blocked by uBlock Origin, but having to manually copy-paste the relevant portion was an annoyance.

Thanks for the context!
Do you have some monetary interest the sufferers in this thread seeking vengeance? In this and other comments you are antagonizing people who take exception to the connotations of the English word revenge being part of the title.

If you feel like it’s revenge in your case, great, please leave the rest of us alone.
> As more people are added to a project, the complexity of communication increases exponentially.

Doesn't it increase by n^2? as per the picture with the graphs?
From satyas tweet Sam's new division/subsidiary is going to run more like LinkedIn or GitHub, and openai has pretty explicitly just declared that they don't like making money, so I don't think the comp is gonna be an issue. And for now, if sam wants to make product and money and Microsoft wants the same thing, then having power over the board doesn't really matter. And Microsoft has all the IP they need. That's a better deal than equity given who is in control of openai now. They're actively not focused on profit. Whether or not you think this is a good outcome for AI or mankind - Microsoft absolutely won. Plus the more people they pull from openai the less they have to deal with openai, everything is in house.

Edit: god damn - even the guy that pushed Sam out announced he wants to resign if Sam isn't brought back what the hell
Looking at the pictures I instantly recognize them as house designs from my neighborhood. Unwrapped a layer of history I didn't know about, very cool.
This looks incredible. It runs locally???
This article is missing the point that, for decades, Microsoft has been trying and failing to hire the best AI researchers. They might succeed at commercializing the current generation of LLMs, but the revolutionary breakthroughs will still happen elsewhere, in an organization that is built for researchers.
It ain’t free and is sometimes not possible at all.
At work, I’m admin of everything, by Meta’s own privacy policy I’m not allowed having an account which is not mine. Not having a WhatsApp account is very hard these days. I manage to do it but it ain’t free in the sense that I’m missing on a lot of group chats I would otherwise be in, and sometimes I’m still in it via my wife. Not being on a social network also prevents me from seeing photos of me posted by someone else, where I might be tagged!
It’s never as easy as “if you don’t like it just don’t use it,” especially for social networks.
> AI not only takes jobs away from creatives such as illustrators

Why do these people deserve protection from automation any more than all the millions of people who worked other jobs tat were eliminated by automation up to this point?
The board would counter that that equity was for a stake in a non-profit open source research company and the board was simply steering the ship back towards those goals.
>Because of the windows? Probably they have triple-paned windows.

No, because they look like they were built 100+ years ago and things like wall insulation wasn't very advanced back then. With any swimming pool of tgat size heating it is probably a large chunk of the cost.
Shengjia Zhao's deleted tweet: https://i.imgur.com/yrpXvt9.png
This is one for the history books... The entire few days has been unbelievable...
Instagram is the default DM platform for young adults in my experience. When I meet new people in non-business contexts they always ask for my IG username (which I of course don’t have).
> The railways are late a third of the time. The Swiss want to ban Deutsche Bahn trains because they’re causing so many problems.

That's not quite correct. What the SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) started to do is to not allow German trains onto the network if they're massively delayed (I think massively being more than 15 minutes), which, of course happens a lot.

My take is that it's partially educational (as in get your shit together if you want to use our network) and partially it really is a logistical problem and messes up the network.

The train network in Switzerland is used so densely that allowing too many delayed trains onto it has a serious impact and would incur knock on effects.
I wouldn't implement it during linkage, obviously single threaded putenv/setenv calls should still be permitted as part of initialisation routines.
Count the number if children in /proc/self/task for all I care, the detection needs to happen during runtime.

You're right that putenv/setenv are also horribly broken in other ways, and doing multi thread detection doesn't prevent those problems. In a perfect world we would just kill off these two functions all together, replacing them with either crashes or no-ops, but that'd be an even harder sell.
Said it a million times: it was a doomer hijack by the NGO board members.
The creators and maintainers of Ubuntu
Sounds like those two also need to get in an octagon. What a s-show.
This entire thing is absolutely inane. This tweet is confirmation these people have no idea what they’re doing. Incredible.

If nothing else I’m glad to be able to witness this absurdity live.

This is the sort of thing where if it were a subplot in a book I’d say the writing is bad.

Ironically they would’ve had a better outcome if they just asked GPT-4 and followed its advice.
There are certainly oscillation but they are not a timebase for CNS compute—two orders of magnitude too slow. Despite Buzsaki best tries to explain in part with gamma oscillations. Some auditory binaural computes are at the microsecond level—-the owl catching the mouse mid-flight at night. Or you speaking or thinking rapid fire. That it in the millisecond domain.
the best and brightest at making a brain out of bits are no less susceptible to drama than any other humans on the planet. they really are just like the rest of us.

stakes are a bit different, tho…
Here's one from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/12/26/ho...
Given Microsoft is an apparatus of the US federal government and globalization in general, I suspect TPTB are pretty content with this outcome.
What equity at OAI? You mean the equity for profit sharing? Seems to me anyone who cared about their stake in the profit sharing would be fairly pissed off with the move the board made.

Investors loved Satya's investment into OAI, not sure how we can qualify it as one of the worst investments in the history of SV?

How can we even compare the risk concerns of MSFT with OpenAI? The impression we have of OpenAI is the risk concerns are specifically about the profit drive. From a business standpoint, LLMs have huge potential at reducing costs and increasing profit in multiples.
I don't think Microsoft cares about that crowd, since now without capital they can't really do anything anyway. The rest of the crowd that wants to make bank? Might be more appealing
Whatever the intended outcome, losing half your employees to Microsoft certainly undermines it.
This is what happens when people are given too much money and influence too quickly- hubris. It's too late to 'deeply regret.'
Normal people can't take being at the center of a large controversy, the amount of negativity and hate you have to face is massive. That is enough to make almost anyone backtrack just to make it stop.
There’s a bunch of Ubuntu forks, I think.

OP just mentioned Ubuntu specifically when making a case for software that respects privacy
Not really. Twitter clones are one application indeed, but I see it more like RSS on steroids.
"Participation in"? That makes it sound like he was a.......well......participant rather than the one orchestrating it. I have no idea whether or not that's true, but it's an interesting choice of words.
I mean, both of them were involved from the beginning of OpenAI.
> Your sense of purpose conflicts with the opportunity of everyone else to express themselves as they wish.

I do not believe people should be able to express themselves as they wish unconditionally. They should not be able to express themselves to the point of destroying the environment, they should not be able to express themselves by creating nuclear weapons or something EXTREMELY dangerous (AI), they should not be able to express themselves by disrupting society.

AI is just as disrupting as creating biological or chemical weapons, and perhaps even worse.

And it would horrible if AI could make us immortal. We should die...
I don't have any stake in this, and don't care one way or another whether he got sacked. But this is pretty bizarre.
When I watch a video like the demo-video for the Krita plugin we're discussing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDPEcVmdLI), I do see a lot of creativity happening. The person is using stable diffusion as a tool to achieve the look, style and composition they want. The skill to be able to use such a model for creating art is definitely an acquired skill, and I would definitely consider it a form of art.

Of course there will be people just clicking "generate" on a website. But isn't that the difference between consumer and artist? Everyone can press the shutter button on a digital camera to take a snapshot. But the artist knows how to use light, angle and technology to create a photograph with the looks and composition that they intend. (If you compare snapshots from amateur photographers and from professionals, the differences are astounding. And it's not just about the cost of the equipment.)

Certainly, there will be jobs – especially the rather repetitive jobs – that will be replaced by the use of AI, just like stock photos replaced jobs of certain photographers, or just like industrialization and automation replaced the jobs of a lot of craftsmen and artisans. But craftsmen and artisans are still around, and they are paid a lot more than they used to be paid, as long as they provide added value on top of the generic products available on the market!
It's not a timezone but the timezone mechanism in python is used for time standards (which it is) as well as zones so the distinction is irrelevant. You certainly can have a python datetime with its timezone set to UTC and the naming of utcnow() strongly suggests that's what it returns.

Besides, this isn't a question about what is right in some abstract sense. It's a usability issue, and this accidental misuse of utcnow() is common. Python tries to avoid containing APIs that frequently trip people up, even if there's a "well akshewally" argument that they are in some sense correct. Not that there is, in this case.
Since the base requirement is to already gain at least 50k/year with this activity, and a prefered 100k to start, I don't think it's gonna help any starting artist.
It indeed suggests that. So far speculation has been that Ilya was behind it, but that is only speculation. AFAIK we have no confirmation of whose idea this was.
- Fire Sam Altman

- I'm afraid I can't do that Ilya

ChatGPT is still not as advanced as HAL or he would have prevented this drama.
The problems with Google in my own personal experience and POV indeed pretty much coincide with the end of Eric Schmidt's tenure as CEO. It's sad, as a nerd, but it started going to shit when the nerds got in the driving seat, and of course much worse once they stopped caring altogether and left Sundar at the helm.

With billg missing the dawn of the Internet, I didn't mean the IE integration fiasco and the resulting lawsuit - that's actually the part they got more or less right (in their own perverted 3E approach, not according to my moral compass), but too late to become dominant. They first wasted time trying to create their own MSN walled garden a la Compuserve .

To Ballmer's credit he did start Azure, although it doesn't feel it was a serious enough effort, until he was replaced. But between Vista, Windows 8, Windows Mobile, Nokia, Skype, Zune, Kin, etc etc... it's no wonder it's been called Microsoft's lost decade.
It's interesting that people speak whatever comes to mind and think it has no impact on other's people lives ($$$). They are some how protected, but shouldn't.
Be aware I am leading you on, but would you say that was more due to the spread of alternative ideas on social media (on covid and lockdowns, gender politics, race politics, geopolitics), distrust in the political system (politicians not being true to what they promised during campaign time) or something completely different?
It doesn't seem like it is a big win for MSFT. Hard to argue that MSFT is now in a better position than they were before this happened.

Best case scenario for MSFT probably would have been to negotiate Altman et al back to OpenAI with some governance changes to boost stability. Keep the OpenAI GPT-N momentum going that they have harnessed for themselves.

MSFT have managed to neutralize (for now) the threat of Altman et al creating a competitor, but this has come at the cost of souring their relationship with OpenAI who they will continue to be dependent on for AI for next couple of years.

Big question here is what happens to OpenAI - can they keep the momentum going, and how do they deal with their sugar-daddy & compute-provider MSFT now also being a competitor? How much of the team will leave, and can they recover from that ?
Totally. No one is shaming developing countries for burning coal and Taiwan with its insanely strict and unforgiving recycling and trash collection policy is oh so very white and developed.

The truth is that it's important to not pollute but if it turns out that its main preachers both pollute the most and conspicuously fall in the same gender-racial category then it undermines the whole point since people world over would rightfully be cynical about the idea
Very clumsy all around.

When you're so close to something that you lose perspective but can still see that something is a trapdoor decision, sleep on it.
"The Anthropocene Extinction."

Currently I see no downward trend in human population.
He may be very smart and very nice, but the recent leaks from Cruise make it appear, in my opinion, closer to Theranos than to Apple.

From the leaks it is clear that safety was never the top priority at Cruise.

Few people were surprised that Cruise car seriously injured a pedestrian by unnecessarily dragging her screaming for 20' in a completely unnecessary maneuver.

I'll stand by my opinion that Cruise is not long for this world.
It is normal practice for each browser to have its own user-agent, no? But the fact that Google intentionally detected it and used polyfills or straight up invalid JS at the time was insane. A similar spin today is "Your browser is unsupported" you see here and there. When a major platform such as YouTube does it, it is really impactful.

It would never do feature detection, would give lower quality h264 video, etc. Back then, there was really nice third-party application myTube which had made this less of an issue but it was eventually killed through API changes.
> Here’s the reality of the matter, though: whether or not you agree with the Sutskever/Shear tribe, the board’s charter and responsibility is not to make money. This is not a for-profit corporation with a fiduciary duty to its shareholders; [...] to the extent the board believes that Altman and his tribe were not “build[ing] general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits humanity” it is empowered to fire him; they do, and so they did.

I would quibble with this slightly. They do have a right to fire, but they're doing a poor job of working in the not-for-profit's interests if they do so in a way that collapses the value of their biggest asset (the for-profit), especially when other options are potentially available. e.g. a negotiated exit, providing proper warning to their investors etc etc.
So when the author states that "Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0" they mean, effectively, only a fixed-time snapshot of code that is likely old news in about 18 months by the time other models have caught up. Microsoft still needs to execute like mad to make this work out for them. Right now the entire thing seems to rest on the hope that enough talent bleeds out of OpenAI to make this worthwhile. They'll probably get that. But it's still a delicate game. I most wonder what breakthrough Ilya has been alluding to recently [1] and whether it'll be available under MSFT's license.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ft0gTO2K85A?si=YaawmLi8zKrFxwue&t=2303
No one would really resign until they had another branch to grab onto. You wouldn't expect anyone to resign this weekend. It would happen in the months afterwards.
Did you even research the basic facts?

Microsoft stock is up in the pre-market, because they basically got half of the OpenAI team for free.

The majority of top researchers at OpenAI are expressing solidarity for Sam and basically signalling they want to move too, just check out twitter. That also includes like the majority of the execs tehre.
I find it amusing that just a few short years ago the idea was that automation / ai would replace the truck drivers, factory workers, and blue collar jobs where the Developer, the lawyer, information worker was safe from this...

It seems the last mile in replacing blue collar jobs may be more expensive and more challenging (if not impossible) than replacing information workers with AI...
Damn - OpenAI looks like a kindergarden.
That board should be banned for life.
Four hours ago, I wrote on a telegram channel:

My gut is leaning towards gpt-5 being, in at least one sense, too capable.

Either that or someone cloned sama's voice and used an LLM to personally insult half the board.
You can't pass the knowledge of the teacher. What's the "smartest" possible AI?
Found in proverbial truisms since for thousands of years, it is a proven fact you cannot exceed the knowledge of the one teaching you (you can get another teacher - but that is a different aspect)

Any given teacher can only impart what [s]he knows (or thinks)

So what does the 'smartest' or 'most-knowledgeable' AI actually look like?
Is their deal with Microsoft exclusive tech transfer wise? If not they can always sell/license what they have to Google, Facebook, and Amazon. They should be able to get quite a bit of money to last a while.
All decisions made seem to be very emotionally charged - you’d think the board would have been able to insulate against that.
> Why do these people deserve protection from automation any more than all the millions of people who worked other jobs tat were eliminated by automation up to this point?

You got it!!! All those other people DO deserve protection from automation! But our society made a mistake and pushed them out. Many communities were destroyed by efficient automation and guess what, efficient automation via cars and vehicles is what caused our most immense disaster now, the climate crisis.

We made a mistake by creating so much automation. We should strive to recreate smaller communities in which more creative AND manual tasks are appreciated.
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Just a GitHub. [1]

It's very early days still, but I use it myself.

The marketplace [2] is much more advanced! You can already use it to buy and sell stuff over Nostr!

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Yes, I cannot believe smart people of that caliber is sending too much Noise.

It reminds me of my friend at a Mensa meeting where they cannot agree at basic organization points like in a department consortium.
Of course I believe him…of course we should all trust him…

/s
Aren't they being forced to? If you restrict access to valuable personal data of your users for targeted ads, you reduce how much each customer is worth. At a certain point the unit economics don't make sense. So what else can they do? Just shut down the service?
Do Data Deletion Requests solve this issue under GDPR? Just keep sending them their way and let them deal with them.