skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is not a good article. One of the main issues is the board’s responsibility and legal requirement to support the non-profit’s 501 charter. No mention of this at all in the article!

At least one of the article’s authors seems to have a friendship with Sam Altman based on two interviews I have watched with them (and this is just my opinion). It seems to me like the article was written in support of Microsoft’s position, not surprising since Microsoft may be an advertiser in Bloomberg’s media.

I wish Sam Altman the very best in his future projects, and as a fan of OpenAI’s work I would like to see rapid progress. However, the more I dig into this, I agree more with the board taking some strong measures to meet their legal obligations.

Sorry if this sound like a rant, but I am growing tired of reading articles and then have to do the extra work of analyzing if and why I am being shown biased material. What happened to news outlets fairly telling both sides of the story.
The example for "Friends don't let friends make heatmaps without maxing out outliers"[1] is so common. It's also very frequent in stats visualisations in videogames. If you play strategy or simulation games they often have visualisations to help the player understand what's going on/wrong, but for heatmaps because of the effect of outliers the heatmap gradient is often pretty useless. For example in the game oxygen not included, frequently if you do the temperature viz, everything just turns to either blue or some shade of pinky-red, because if you have a volcano or other heat source all the other colours seem cool. So you can't distinguish between a 1000C volcano and your slightly overheating 270C steam room for instance, they'll just be a pretty uniform shade of pinky red, and your overheating 60C base will be blue because it's pretty cold relative to them. Meaning that heatmap is pretty much useless for diagnosing a bunch of temperature problems.

[1] Can't remember the exact wording but that one it's like number 6 or 7.
Reddit does this too. You can add a ".json" suffix to any post and get the JSON response.
I'd say Elon Musk is a top pick for the alt-ceo. He seems to share the very same concerns regarding AI as the board members that fired Sam. Of course, Musk has had backlash for Neura-link not being focused enough on safety, so who knows. I would figure that the board needs to find someone who shares their beliefs and is also a very good CEO. Wonder who else would fit the bill here.
The reason he left in the first place was becasue they didn't want him to run it. He was on the board years ago.
I only got to know Altman from the Lex Fridman podcast, but he never striked me as particularly ethical or insightful.

For a while I felt more hopeful about OpenAI being truly open and benefiting everyone (perhaps I was naive).

I hope he doesn't end up being the CEO again.
Yes. GPT-4 is surely a drop in the hat compared to the endgame. Each generation of hardware becomes more and more capable, and hardware is what matters in the end. If anything starting fresh would likely pay off in an enormous way for him, as cash would be easy to raise, and he would be able to maintain his position indefinitely without risk of the board losing their minds.

Get NVidia, AMD, or Apple to help fund the new entity and/or get some chip designers on board to push things further than OpenAI can without reaching into Microsoft’s pocket. A pocket I’m sure will be much tighter after the recent chicanery.

Capital would NOT a problem at this point as it’s beyond proof of concept… A normal start up, trying to prove itself, sure, but at this point Altman has proven the idea and himself at the helm. I’d also argue the dataset they used to train it, is not that relevant long term. As the data itself was agglomerated from the internet and can be had again. Even better data perhaps because the copyright holders can become investors. You really just need the capacity to deal with it, from ingestion to legal, which is a capital problem.
I'm not gonna pretend homogeneity isn't a factor.
Why Startups Fail in the Philippines (2014)
Emmett Shear Becomes Interim OpenAI CEO as Altman Talks Break Down
Cool work! I tested it and got some mixed results:

1) it throws an error if it's installed to any drive other than C:\ --I moved it to C: and it works fine.

2) I'm seeing huge latency on an EVGA 3080Ti with 12GB. Also seeing it repeat the parsed input, even though I only spoke once, it appears to process the same input many times with slightly different predictions sometimes. Here's some logs:

Latency to LLM response: 4.59
latency to speaking: 5.31
speaking 4: Hi Jim!
user spoke: Hi Jim.
user spoke recently, prompting LLM. last word time: 77.81 time: 78.11742429999867
latency to prompting: 0.31

Latency to LLM response: 2.09
latency to speaking: 3.83
speaking 5: So what have you been up to lately?
user spoke: So what have you been up to lately?
user spoke recently, prompting LLM. last word time: 83.9 time: 84.09415280001122
latency to prompting: 0.19
user spoke: So what have you been up to lately? No, I'm watching.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 86.9 time: 88.92142140000942
user spoke: So what have you been up to lately? No, just watching TV.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 87.9 time: 90.76665070001036
user spoke: So what have you been up to lately? No, I'm just watching TV.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 87.9 time: 94.16581820001011
user spoke: So what have you been up to lately? No, I'm just watching TV.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 88.9 time: 97.85854300000938
user spoke: So what have you been up to lately? No, I'm just watching TV.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 87.9 time: 101.54986060000374
user spoke: No, I just bought you a TV.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 87.8 time: 104.51332219998585
user spoke: No, I'll just watch you TV.
user spoke a while ago, ignoring. last word time: 87.41 time: 106.60086529998807
Latency to LLM response: 46.09
latency to speaking: 50.49

Thanks for posting it!

Edit:

3) It's hearing itself and responding to itself...
Sam Altman won't return as CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman Will Not Return to OpenAI as CEO
> Even if Altman had been engaged in some kind of criminal act, this is not the way in which you proceed.

Sometimes this is the _only_ way in which you proceed. If you gain knowledge of something truly egregious and don't eject the culprit you become immediately liable for any future malfeasance. Sometimes 'wow, gtfo right now' is the only safe course of action.
My kneejerk reaction was agreement with you

But looking at their website, they’re mainly trying to add some much needed standardization in how to deal with artists

and its totally fine for them to burn their own capital to do that

the friction they are trying to solve is how to close a deal better

artists frequently aspire to make money, and are wholly unprepared on how to. these are the people running around worried that venmo is going to snitch on them for taxes, a concept that requires complete segregation from being a merchant with any semblance of organization

this trickles down into other things, is this commission work for hire, does the commissioner or buyer own it? for existing pieces, what? and many other issues that can completely wreck a deal just by presenting a contract to an artist at all

so they want to incorporate all the artists and give them legal counsel and CPAs, and then their network

this is logical, it might not work out for this firm. one way to make it more likely to work out is getting a Techcrunch article and people discussing it. the artists will reach out themselves.
Ok. So just invest in one stock. The market never crashes and businesses never go bankrupt.
Optus' official position on the events that they tabled to the Australian parliament are is at [1]. In summary:

> "This unexpected overload of IP routing information occurred after a software upgrade at one of the Singtel internet exchanges (known as STiX) in North America, one of Optus’ international networks. During the upgrade, the Optus network received changes in routing information from an alternate Singtel peering router. These routing changes were propagated through multiple layers of our IP Core network. As a result, at around 4:05am (AEDT), the pre-set safety limits on a significant number of Optus network routers were exceeded. Although the software upgrade resulted in the change in routing information, it was not the cause of the incident."

> "It is now understood that the outage occurred due to approximately 90 PE routers
automatically self-isolating in order to protect themselves from an overload of IP routing
information. These self-protection limits are default settings provided by the relevant
global equipment vendor (Cisco)."

> "Several hypotheses and paths to restoration were explored over the period up to 10.30am."

And then in later statements:

> "Nokia is our managed services partner for our network, and they were involved from the very beginning in managing the incident and recovering the network; their staff are based in India in two locations"[2]

One of the key problems appears to be heavy reliance on outsourced Nokia staff in India, who seemingly would have been disconnected from Optus' systems in Australia. Then within Australia for local Optus staff, perhaps staff had Optus-provided mobile phones and couldn't be reached if the mobile phone network was down. At the minimum, you'd like to think that on-call operational staff exist near all PE routers and have multiple communication means such as mobile phones with other carriers, satellite phone, fixed Internet connectivity not provided by Optus.

The total outage duration was 6.5hrs to diagnose the problem and a further 3.5 hours to get 98% of connectivity re-established. Resolving the problem once diagnosed required physical presence at 14 sites across Australia to reset 90 PE routers (as part of "100+ devices").

[1] https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=2ed95079-023d-4...

[2] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/optus-had-not-contemplated-an...
Are gpus even available? Espically in the scale this hypothetical new company would need.
> My understanding is that Sam is in shock.

https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1726468006786859101?...
There was a lot of variety in the catalog, so lots of duplicates nearby would probably be the owner's choice rather than one developer doing the whole neighborhood.
Not if you had a Philips drive which coastered every second CD-R, which were $5 each even in bulk. It was a lovely introduction to the futility of class action lawsuits.
If they had said "Sam has helped OpenAI tremendously over the years, and we thank him for his invaluable contributions. Going forward, he will be using his skill set to pursue other opportunities, while OpenAI continues its mission to advance AI for the betterment of humanity."

That would at least made it seem like they knew what they were doing.

But investors would have still beaten them over the head.
hmm, interesting, I couldn't find that "parachute him..." part of the quote in any archived version of the article.

Oh, I see, it was here: http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
Of course, this is a must from the board members. They certainly won't pick a CEO who's not in that camp.
A retrospective on Errors Management: where do we go from here?
But is this even approaching Eleven? Doesn't seem like it from the other comments here.
Would like to hear about the tab S* is transforming what exactly?
I have a couple similar and there was a time when I used one a LOT in bed - but living conditions have changed and I don't get to use as much as I used to -

wondering how others are using them these days.
Great talk and very well presented.
That was awesome! Not surprised at all that these tubes were super expensive, especially with a palladium + gold interior coat :-).
Yeah this is the real reason right here.

Updating your code: Easy.
Updating 10 different libraries that you depend on but don't know anything about: Not so easy
Correct, neither iso strings mor numbers can get you out of this dilema.

While ISO uses UTC offset and time zone interchangeably it actually is only defined over offsets, not locations.

I've had this problem discussed before. Typically the situation is firing events based on times at specific locations. It is neither straight forward with date libraries nor ist it easy with numeric computation. Sometimes it makes sense to render it down to a specific point in time at storage and not expect the country change timezone overnight. Some times the location itself may be changing randomly (moving objects) but in that case it typically just meant recalculating offsets on movement events.
> The blue line corresponds to a O(√N) cost of each memory access. Seems like a pretty good fit, no?

Kind-of obvious, and I’m sure I’ve bumped into this before, but it suddenly surprised me again looking at this: a sqrt(N) line on a log-log graph is a straight line, so at a glance looks identical to the linear N aside from slope, and without a reference point N, and with two axes of differing units and differing spacing, it’s pretty hard to see whether a line is sqrt(N), or how far away from N it is.
Really? Could you please share the email address that you tested on nitink.saas@gmail.com? Atleast i will try to trace the issue which caused it as 'undeliverable'. Thanks!
> make arbitrary and capricious decisions

You think they just acted on a whim? Why?

Why is everybody assuming that the board just flipped out and did something insane?

To me, the rational assumption is that the board - being composed of multiple people who seem fairly well-grounded, i.e. not terminally online twitter types - are acting rationally. That's supported by them acting professionally; releasing one single press release and then shutting the hell up, presumably on the advice of their lawyers.
Emmett Shear is the new interim CEO
- Patrick's Parabox
I live in a rural area of Oregon. I was born in the Bay Area and once I had my first taste of rural life I had no desire to go back.
Yes,the heart circulates blood through the body, which is still attached to the head. The intervention is disconnecting the blood supply of the head from that of the body and using an external pump that mimics the heart's pulsations to supply "head only" blood so that drugs can be delivered to the brain but not the body (or vice versa). But it's not total isolation of the brain from the body, just from things in the bloodstream like hormones, drugs, cytokines, etc. the nervous system is still entirely intact and connected throughout.
Emmett Shear:

"Motte: e/acc is just techno-optimism, everyone who is against e/acc must be against building a better future and hate technology

Bailey: e/acc is about building a techno-god, we oppose any attempt to safeguard humanity by regulating AI in any form
around and around and around"

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1683208767054438400
“My understanding is that Sam is in shock”

https://x.com/emilychangtv/status/1726468006786859101?s=46
A Cautionary Lesson from Non-Profit Organizations [pdf]
Most of the people here don't know who founded OpenAI and why they founded it.
Board in the question is the real developers of this technology and has members known to be not sold before. Ilya and his team is the core developer even we can call them inventors of this tech. While others who paid by sam can be replaced, the core teams always stated that they want "open" sourced project and not a value and profit based company.

I think it is a good thing that OpenAI won't let silicon valley bully run into company. They spent whole their life on this technology and they won't let any "i'm the network guy and i'm the CEO" type of guy sell and brag about it.

He even went to take Hawking Fellowship award. What? Bro, let ilya or alec take it. What a douche!
> If the model does not have the capability to transform into a different arbitrary space for every separate sentence, reasoning is not possible.

You're making an authoritative statement on how reasoning works based on conjecture. I remind you that this field is in active study.

The "function" that sufficiently approximates the phenomenon of higher order reasoning may well mode collapse into a compact representation that need not exhaustively span the space of all "sentence representations".

You can illustrate for yourself that it is not at all clear your premise is a necessary condition.

Our brains can reason. Are you proposing its mechanism of action is by "transformation into a different arbitrary space for every sensory experience X"?

I mean maybe? But what if there exists some higher order space that actually generalizes perfectly and captures the basis vectors of these seemingly orthogonal spaces? That can also be the case. Which is why in truth we don't yet know, and to say your view is correct is suspect.

Hope you see now why this claim is an overstatement and missing some qualifiers.
Some other notes:

This graph, in the financial times article about immigration, indicates 5. 5 deaths per million. The growth is horrible and yet the reality is nothing like the one being lived in by the US. Most hackernews posters often post about gun violence in the US as being something necessary to address and also simultaneously something that does not impact their day to day decisions around errands like the grocery or activities like music festivals or conferences.

Just to put things in perspective, deaths by firearm are around 60 per million in the US, twelve times the Swedish figure.

Further, as every greying country attempts to use immigration to grow a declining population, some flavor of this comment will negatively impact their efforts:

“Swedes make you feel foreign even when you have the passport, even my kids who were born here,” he says. “They blame immigrants for everything. But this gang violence affects me, my family, my friends as well."
Xerion: Out of Stealth Mode with a Major Battery Breakthrough
?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Shear
we already have that, it's called nature parks
I’m sure it’s a stressful moment in time for him, but he certainly won’t look back and say it was boring.
First Wife is a professional voice-over actor. I saw someone left her a bad review saying "Clearly an AI."

2023. There is no way to win.
This is not a serious BOD. This is going to the courts, and it couldn't happen any sooner.
We did the same. But there are so many trash in that genre though, we dropped more than a few
Loving life in the woods, 1 acre in the sticks, with gigabit fiber and squirrels. It’s peaceful and productive.
Arguably it has been disappearing; there is less animal biomass in most of the world than there was since we began keeping record.
Bloody monday
Great news, guess throwing shade and getting a mob to publicly support you on Twitter doesn't do anything
So that's a yes.
'OpenAI’s "primary fiduciary duty is to humanity," not to investors or even employees.'

I'm so proud of the board for sticking to their principles over profit. This is a huge victory for all of us, and a chance for everyone to come together and approach AGI safely and for the benefit of all.
This is good. If Sama managed to overthrow the board I'd be worried about the future of AI safety
Thanks for trying it out!

For longer videos Youtube will insert multiple ads during the content which you might be hitting if you search through. The extension should still trigger for those ads, but it's not as seamless an experience as the ad blockers. Is that what you're describing?

Open to feedback! Have my email in profile & listed with the extension
Can we use English rather than Twitterisms, please? That's "effective accelerationism"; a term I, along with most people, have not heard of.

https://beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-ten...
Grew up in a rural area but have lived in many places now including cities and suburbs.

Totally agree with your point though: a large segment of the car hatred movement types strike me as lacking significant perspective.
> 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

Yeah but you can put a $2 USB A-C adapter plug on the end of it and just leave it there
I don't get it...cryptocurrencies were meant to facilitate the transfer of money not to make people rich. Use it for what it's meant to be used - to make payments. Generate a wallet using python, deposit a small amount of cash at the nearest crypto ATM and use it like a normal bank account. And make small payments because it's volatile and your money might get lost on the way to its destination.
It's not that they carry diseases, though that's not great for species that get those diseases, it's that this particular species of mosquito (Aedes aegypti) is really just a pest we bring with us. They aren't native to most places and pretty much follow us around and prey on us, piggy backing on the most invasive species of all.
Crazy how a 4 person board staved off pressure from a behemoth like Microsoft
I wish they made one season only shows. Would solve their problem and ours. It's really rare that a show over the second season maintain the same quality (there are exceptions)
https://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
I think there is a consensus that developing AGI is the most important thing for the continued existence of human civilization. And we know a chair or table will not stand with just two legs. In fact some believe the USA grew into the most prosperous and powerful country because its founder were wise enough to design the government with three branches, each with their own powers and checks and balances between them.

We have seen that Ilya and Sam can not work together on their own. With only two natural leaders, there is no way to solve any dispute, as voting would lead to a stalemate. I believe Elon has a lot to bring to the table here, he nearly perfectly fills in the deficiencies of the other two - Elon has a strong grounding in ethics and morals (consider how many of his ventures post Paypal have been to truly benefit human society rather than just make money) which I feel could rein in Sam's tendency to ruthlessly pursue profit with questionable morality - see WorldCoin. Additionally, I think his real world experience could counter-balance some of the naivete we've seen with Ilya since his rather sudden entrance into the spotlight.
I truly hope the right people consider this and can convince Elon to step up and fulfill what may be considered his true potential.
*salivates in Discovery*
There's a huge financial incentive for them to punish competitors this way and it's been hugely effective in the US market. Why wouldn't they?
Hey,
I checked the rapidapi logs in your case. Did you check the reason shown in json response on landing page? It must be disposable or catch-all email addresses.

You claim you entered 4 legitimate email addresses.
Just to confirm if i am right, could you please share it on nitink.saas@gmail.com?
Presumably that would still cause issues at the rounded corners because you need to blend those pixels to make them look nice.
You're assuming it'll continue on that path, and well.

Personally I think this is where they'll end up stagnating, although I'm happy to be wrong. It's going to make recruiting top talent far harder, and ultimately this hiccup will cause them to lose their edge. Losing that edge lessens the desire to go there, which will drive down competitiveness, which will further pull them back from the fray. I believe it'll make the US less competitive, which makes me sad.
> How are leap seconds handled?

Unix time has uniform handling over leap seconds, regardless of the precision.
"OpenAI ... dangerous accident." Like what, giving a freshman wrong dates for the Garfield presidency?
Fun fact: there are currently no time zones with 15 minute offsets.