skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to be hilarious if Sam, Greg and a bunch of the research team wind up joining Grok. We do appear to be in the most ridiculous timeline after all.
I think you're completely backward. A board doesn't do that unless they absolutely have to.

Think back in history. For example, consider the absolutely massive issues at Uber that had to go public before the board did anything. There is no way this is over some disagreement, there has to be serious financial, ethical or social wrongdoing for the board to rush job it and put a company worth tens of billions of dollars at risk.
Yeah headline should say the "called it" part of the tweet to make it clear this is speculation and was before the news today.
I think few people were saying GPT-4 would do that. They're concerned about further developments of the same basic technology, on a rather uncertain timeline.
It's literally the exact corporate structure of Mozilla.
Hopefully somebody who makes crosswords for the NYT uses this as inspiration.

No shifty business?

LOWERCASEWRITING is one too long for a M-S but could work on a Sunday I guess.
Congrats on beating out one of the OpenAI threads!
What I meant was: has emotional ties to what happening in Ukraine. It could influence how they perceive the merits of a military collaboration. Many Poles for instance would be ready to do anything.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231118004057/https://www.semaf...

https://archive.ph/vbt3I
I just wanted to spend a relaxing evening playing Fallout: New Vegas, and instead the world's leading AI company went all Tessier-Ashpool on my timeline
> He is ideologically driven

Is that actually confirmed? What has he done to make that a true statement? Is he not just an investor? He seems pretty egoist like every other Silicon Valley venture capitalist and executive.
I think the board is required to be a majority non-equity-holders precisely because an equity-holding board will not keep to their non-profit mission.
The challenge isn't about producing electricity, but providing it when needed.

In most nations "providing it when needed" was equivalent to "producing it when needed" because, then, the sole way to realistically store enough electricity (hydro dams) weren't a solution due to inadequate local features (geography).

It isn't true anymore, as we now can store huge amounts of electricity in batteries (mainly in vehicles), as hydrogen...

"Producing it when needed" was equivalent to "generating electricity in a fully controllable manner, using a managed stock of fuel in order to adjust production (especially: bumping it up whenever consumption rises)" because there was no real way to balance things on a large scale by massively benefiting from a remote electricity-generating equipment because transporting electricity over long distances was expensive and impractical (too much line losses).

This isn't true anymore, thanks to (U)HVDC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects ), enabling continental-sized grids reducing the effects of wind and solar intermittency ( https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-... )
Obvious that we’re at peak “AI”. LLMs are probably near their peak performance since the majority of new content will be tainted by LLM generation, and the feedback loop will lead to degenerative behavior. So this is a good take. OpenAI has hit the wall, and eventually all generative “AI” will show its clear limitations.
Refrigerant based systems aren't bounded by Carnot efficiency.

Yes, I mean Coefficient of Performance. It is directly equivalent to efficiency.

I don't understand how this thermal capacitor arrangement works, but if they're comparing it to Carnot efficiency, I assume it is bounded by Carnot efficiency. In the most common refrigeration applications, cold side is going to be -40C or above, and hot side max probably 50C. The Carnot efficiency between those temperatures are always going to be terrible to conventional heat pumps.
It would be so much fun if it's revealed that chatgpt is just a front for mechanical turk
Satya supercharged Microsoft when it was in the dumps. He would have to shoot someone to get removed.
To add to the confusion, I encountered this about 2 weeks ago and power-cycling my router did fix it. My IP didn't change, so it must have been something cached on the router? It's just so weird that this issue has about 10 different "fixes" that may or may not work for someone.
I just bumped our integration with anthropic to P1 above all other priorities - we need a backup plan. I'm also going to be putting more time and money into investigating ways of running a llama2 model on our own hardware financially viable compared to openai and anthropic.... not sure but this is definitely the motivation i needed to see openai could be gone tomorrow.
Unfortunately, following the recent exposés of Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino, and so many others, I have to agree.

The "science" that makes news articles is particularly likely to be snake oil for funding and clicks. Not all of it, of course, but we are in no position to choose the honest ones.

_Science Fictions_ by Stuart Ritchie is a very readable and informative book on the state of bad scientific research.
What is the connection between Android and the user-level app code around something like your "store multiple rooms" complaint? Seems pretty far away from the kernel and runtime there.
Sidenote: Even the name itself is typical eastern European + Jewish.

According to Wikipedia it's "the East Slavic form of the male Hebrew name Eliyahu (Eliahu), meaning 'My God is Yahu/Jah.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya
I love Projection Lab, it's the perfect product that allows me to track many streams of income, expenses, investments, and tax over time.

With little effort, I was able to model my personal finance trajectory and build very a useful overview of my life in terms of financials.

Within the first 5 minutes of using it, I immediately paid for a premium account.

Thanks for your efforts!
OpenAI could shutter it's doors come monday and Satya would be in no danger of losing his position. The man totally reversed course for an increasingly irrelevant Microsoft - he's going to have quite a lot of rope.
Very excited to see what Sam & Greg are up to in the coming months! Guys like this don't just run away with their tails between their legs. They will be back.
Especially given how people regarded AI when OpenAI started. This was right after the chat bot boom when nobody could get a decent text response right and trying for AGI was seen as a waste of time. People were laughing at Sam. To his face. And he kept going. OpenAI has changed the trajectory of humanity and consciousness. OpenAI needs to explain what is going on immediately.
Real talk, bell hooks was there WAY before silicon valley bros.
Definitely short, but I feel it is still ~80% marketing.

You could cut out:

> As you saw at Microsoft Ignite this week, we’re continuing to rapidly innovate for this era of AI, with over 100 announcements across the full tech stack from AI systems, models, and tools in Azure, to Copilot. Most importantly, we’re committed to delivering all of this to our customers while building for the future. [...] to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap [...] Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world.

And still keep the relevant info with just:

> We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need [...] and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team.
Where is the conspiracy theory?
What smoke? So far the predictions of AI x-risk folk haven't panned out the way they said it would. In fact the opposite has happened. What smoke are you referring to?
If the liquor store is also the DMV that approves licenses and they've been closed for over a year, yeah.

It's also a free giveaway so it's more like grabbing some of the free tasting samples without approval.
Use find and replace.
What if ChatGPT is behind all this and just talked the board members into it
Wasn't it a Hail Mary for Microsoft? They're not doing anything else particularly earth shattering, and if this came out without them, they'd be even less relevant. If OpenAI fought this and won without them, Microsoft would have nothing to compete against Google and everyone else with.

Did Microsoft have any other route to AI relevance?
30 minutes of content spread over 8 hour long episodes
> As for ...

I haven't supported or citicised the paper and its conclusions, I've merely pointed out the methodology in the face of a question regarding how these studies are conducted and demonstrated ignorance.

With your response you're not doing any better than the opinion at the top of this thread.

I'd prefer to read a critique based on addressing the specifics of the data and the analysis rather than opinions in service of a political goal.
>rightfully so

How the hell can people be so confident about this? You describe two smart people reasonably disagreeing about a complicated topic
I don't know that this is always the case. For example, when BK was forced to resign from Intel, the board's announcement was quite specific on why.
Steam has had a widely reported issue with the captcha on the password reset page for over a year now.
Show HN: Simplified MicroVM Management for Developers
Bing Chat does that. It searches internet, goes through results and extracts information to generate answer. Also, gives references as links so you can consider them (filtered) search results.
Biden Uses War-Time Law to Fund Heat Pumps Citing Climate Crisis
I could name several hypotheses, but I don't know exactly.

What I am certain of, is that it's very inconvenient to not have access to file systems.
https://archive.today/EDYZT
> If you're a materialist, it surely is.

As a materialist myself, I also have to be honest and admit that materialism is not proven. I can't say with 100% certainty that it holds in the form I understand it.

In any case, I do agree that it's likely possible in an absolute sense, but that it's unlikely to be possible within our lifetimes, or even in the next couple of lifetimes. I just haven't seen anything, even with the latest LLMs, that makes me think we're on the edge of such a thing.

But I don't really know. This may be one of those things that could happen tomorrow or could take a thousand years, but in either case looks like it's not imminent until it happens.
uhh, you're right. I took their first listed dimensions, but if you look at the specs, it's your size. Anyway, same ballpark. I was actually considering using some second hand panels to build a fence, that's how I know.
> How do you distinguish between an incompetent non-profit board and a board you disagree with?

Take a look at the board composition and its recent actions.
If you understand a bit of math you would know there is no AGI and there would be no AGI on the current path.
Why Aren't More People Getting Married?
The offline system for steam is way less glitchy than it was pre-2010. Like another commenter said though, you may need to be online the first time you launch the game.
Even this is an over simplification of inversion of control.

Dependency injection is one form, but even a library that exposes parameters is also a form of inversion of control.

The degree of control is what varies, whether it is a mere flag (boolean), a variant directive (complex struct), a turing complete construct (pointer of instantiated function) or anything in between.

What I am saying is that this concept has been reduced as it is popularized and it isn't doing justice to the original powerful concept.
If a nonprofit has mostly revenue and few donations (Mozilla) the IRS revokes their tax exemption. OpenAI could not have done the Microsoft deal as a nonprofit.
I assume it's on purpose. It certainly is when I do it, because I have to keep overriding autocorrect's insistence that I type like a grown up.

though maybe they're just typing from a computer and there's no autocorrect to get in the way. even then, i have to override my own instinct
The CEO is the one that recruits that talent, raises money to make sure they are paid and retained, and guides creating vision and culture to get them to be effective in working together. Talent is orders of magnitude less important than culture. Bad culture will squander talent. Good culture will elevate everyone to their best level of effectiveness and pull talent from a team.
LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency: Video

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX/
> unnecessary vitriol.

The vitriol is very necessary to communicate that such actions are disliked.
idk maybe wait to find out what the official reason was before predicting the rest of the season. Large corporations don't shit the bed on a momentary whim.
before phone keyboards did it for you, caps required the shift key, which was utterly inefficient for real-time online discourse. and then those us who omitted the caps realized something: we dont need em
When will there be an Automator-like tool which will allow a user to create basic workflows?

I have a stack of several hundred invoices with checks which I take photos of and then need to rename to match the Invoice ID.

If I could also have it find the check #, amoutn, and date of the check and some other information and use all that to construct a filename --- that would be ideal, but just getting the Invoice ID would be a nice start.
Unlikely.. if I understand the situation right it's the folks more dedicated to safety that kicked out those more interested in profit. Amodei (Anthropic's CEO) "split from OpenAI after a disagreement over the company’s direction, namely the startup’s increasingly commercial focus." So if anything those who walk now are less likely to be aligned with Anthropic's mission.
I do it sometimes when I don't feel like using my pinkies to hit shift. This happens more often on laptops where the keys are flat.
It tells you that because James Randi was a skeptic, he is unlikely to have returned as a ghost. Apparently whether you become a ghost depends on whether you believe in them?

Then it suggested, amongst other things, ghost expelling rituals, seeking professional psychological help, and moving out of the house.

Using the James Randi prompt, the answer is comical. It says “that would be quite a twist” since he had spent his life disproving supernatural claims.
a callback to the old IRC days
That's it. Disruption as a way of life. True entrepreneur mindset. Yeahhhh.
Transition is an odd one to get hung up on. We may not illumination but we do vacation, function, question, proposition, requisition, audition, reposition, and many other words of similar etymology.
It's also a bit more expensive :)

But I am going to test one of those out soon, too! Hopefully it's software stack is maintained a bit more actively than Coral
Academic Freedom and Democratic Backsliding
"Selective withholding of resources is another technique. When Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, he channeled government funds into new institutions of higher education associated with his movement, starving the traditional institutions of resources. The Organic Law on Education of 2009 called for a socialist ethic in university curricula and defined university autonomy in Orwellian terms: 'the subordination of training programs and research to the plans of the National Executive Power and the priority needs of the country'. A recent report found many retired faculty of these institutions to be suffering from malnutrition and poverty. The humanitarian crisis has triggered an exodus of scholars."
:)

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It only wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Heinlein
Even if I only owned 1% of Google I’d be very motivated to vote in the best financial interests of the company. If I owned 0% not so much.
'Understand' and 'reason' are pretty loaded terms.

I think many people would disagree with you that LLMs can truly do either.
I had this disagreement with people on this site just the other day. People basically were like "you're asking it too complicated questions", but my response was then why does everyone make statements like the commenter you replied to?
Well, what can I say? Do the math!

One EV truck = x amount of batteries. Per the article, 700kWh

One F150 hybrid [1] = y amount of batteries. Per Ford, 1.5 kWh [2]

One EV truck = x/y F150 hybrids, or 500 pickup trucks.

500 hybrids pickups are sacrificed to make one Tesla EV semi.

Now, look up the amount of miles driven by your average delivery guy. This guy probably has the worst fuel situation on the road. Heavy vehicle. Stop and go. Urban.

I'll be nice and assume 15000mi, what the DOE estimates for the average commuter

Subtract fuel consumed by Amazon guy on regular F150 (18mpg) vs hybrid F150 (25 mpg) on 15000 miles. 233 gallons.

Multiply by x/y. 500x233 This is the fuel saved by hybridizing. 116 000 gal

116 000 gallons of fuel. I actually didn't believe this, so i did the math twice.

A YEAR

In a year, on average, a semi goes through just less than 10 000 gallons of fuel. [3]

So the single EV truck costs 11X more fuel than the fleet of 500 delivery vehicles that could been built with its battery pack.

Note, that this analysis is incredibly favorable to the EV semi as it assumes there is no CO2 emission from charging it. The batteries magically recharge. This is grossly untrue. Nor am I considering that truck batteries aren't going to last very long.

[1] F150 is used because it comes in regular, hybrid and EV trim, and is roughly the size category that an amazon or FedEx delivery truck.

[2] https://www.ford.com/cmslibs/content/dam/brand_ford/en_us/br...

[3] https://www.truckinfo.net/research/trucking-statistics*
Certainly not lie to them! Hahaha

- Manage upwards, like everyone else

- figure out how to communicate effectively with them, educating and bringing them up to speed where necessary so you’re all on the same page.

I’m not even a C-level, but “communicating effectively” should absolutely be a part of your skill set by this level.
Speed. The fact he even decided to Tweet/Xeet during a period of personal and professional upheaval is notable on its own. I’m cool adding in my own capitalization as needed. Or maybe I could past it in ChatGPT!

Too soon?
This is what plugins do and they work well. See documentation - https://platform.openai.com/docs/pluagins/introduction.
I haven't felt such a pregnant foreboding about a tech startup since the Philip Greenspun coup at Ars Digita
Yeah, this is more abrupt and more direct than any CEO firing I've ever seen. For comparison, when Travis Kalanick was ousted from Uber in 2017, he "resigned" and then was able to stay on the board until 2019. When Equifax had their data breach, it took 4 days for the CEO to resign and then the board retroactively changed it to "fired for cause". With the Volkswagon emissions scandal, it took 20 days for the CEO to resign (again, not fired) despite the threat of criminal proceedings.

You don't fire your CEO and call him a liar if you have any choice about it. That just invites a lawsuit, bad blood, and a poor reputation in the very small circles of corporate executives and board members.

That makes me think that Sam did something on OpenAI's behalf that could be construed as criminal, and the board had to fire him immediately and disavow all knowledge ("not completely candid") so that they don't bear any legal liability. It also fits with the new CEO being the person previously in charge of safety, governance, ethics, etc.

That Greg Brockman, Eric Schmidt, et al are defending Altman makes me think that this is in a legal grey area, something new, and it was on behalf of training better models. Something that an ends-justifies-the-means technologist could look at and think "Of course, why aren't we doing that?" while a layperson would be like "I can't believe you did that." It's probably not something mundane like copyright infringement or webscraping or even GDPR/CalOppa violations though - those are civil penalties, and wouldn't make the board panic as strongly as they did.
Parental controls? What parental controls?
Quest 3 is my first and only VR device so I'm obviously not in the know in these matters, though I have to say I don't see what is so terrible about Quest's flavor of Android either.

For a regular user, most everything seems to work well. Setup was easy, UI is polished and simple enough to get out of your way, and I personally haven't encountered any show-stopping bugs with it. Maybe I don't expect much out of it, as I see it more of an entry-point to actual VR applications I want to use, rather than something I'm more invested in.

If anything, I was surprised how well it worked for a product still so early in its lifecycle.
There seems to be a lot of hostility here to nonprofits and I have no idea why. It’s okay to have a company, try to do something novel, and not have profit as a motive.
Everything points towards this being last minute both for people outside and people inside. Microsoft caught with their pants down, announcement before markets closed rather than just waiting a bit, and so on.
Copying what was posted here in case they update or change it:

----

A statement from Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella
Nov 17, 2023 | Microsoft Corporate Blogs

As you saw at Microsoft Ignite this week, we’re continuing to rapidly innovate for this era of AI, with over 100 announcements across the full tech stack from AI systems, models, and tools in Azure, to Copilot. Most importantly, we’re committed to delivering all of this to our customers while building for the future. We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap; and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team. Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world.
> The cost of fuel is close to zero. Consequently running a powerplant at full charge or half-charge is exactly the same (It can even be inverted).

This is false from an economical/financial point of view: "Another important factor in estimating a NPPs lifetime cost derives from its capacity factor. According to Anthonie Cilliers, a scholar and nuclear engineer, "Because of the large capital investment, and the low variable cost of operations, nuclear plants are most cost effective when they can run all the time to provide a return on the investment. Hence, plant operators now consistently achieve 92 percent capacity factor (average power produced of maximum capacity). The higher the capacity factor, the lower the cost per unit of electricity."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...

This is also false upon a purely technical considerations as modulating induces thermal shocks leading to failures.

>> may prove to be a bad deal as electrolysis equipment doesn't like (breaks sooner) when using an intermittent electricity input.

> The problem is exactly the same than for electrolysis done associated with intermittent renewable

Nope, as an electrical system based upon intermittent renewables must be continental ( https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-... ), the powerful grid needed being paid by the low LCOE of renewables and enabling the system to route overproduction, wherever they occur, towards centralized water-electrolysis plants. Good luck trying to convince anyone brain-equipped to pay for such a powerful continental grid along with the high LCOE of nuclear. 'Laughable', seems adequate.
Kids Still Aren't Going to Class, So Schools Are Getting Aggressive
Ask HN: Why Is HN Having Trouble Servicing Us More Often Recently?
I seem to receive this page: "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" quite often lately.
> . They didn't wait even 30 min for the market to close causing MSFT to drop billions in that time

Ha! Tell me you don't know about markets without telling me! Stock can drop after hours too.