skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not so simple when the impulse response of the room and mic and speakers are all unknown, possibly changing, plus unknown background sounds as well, possibly at a very high level. and there's also unknown latency which can be quite large especially in the networked case, and maybe some codecs, and maybe some audio "enhancement" software the OEM installed on the user's machine. Also, ideally the computer would be able to hear the user even while it is speaking.

Echo cancellation is non-trivial for sure.
I spent 53 years in a big city, and finally moved to a rural area. Tired of all the commotion, congestion, pollution and stress, and watch wild blackberries, strawberries, mushrooms grow, trees and flowers blossom, orchard bloom and give fruit, pheasants and deer entering the property and observing natures life cycle. My wife although hesitant is now peaceful with life. And I’m an embedded software developer, do Haiku OS and robotics for fun. My lifestyle is 8 hours professional work (from home), and on average an hour a day looking after the estate. And an hour each evening sitting on the veranda with a glass if wine watching the sunset. And this costs me 50% of a cramped appartment in the city.

And at this moment at the airport waiting for takeoff for a business meeting.
Yes, very much true.

I started my career at Tektronix. The famous Gang-of-Four, who initially categorized/identified Software Design Patterns is all started at Tektronix.
> Now LiDAR is much cheaper and getting cheaper by the day, but they insist on doubling down on this strategy.

Meanwhile, as an occasional tesla passenger, I get to enjoy watching the car's representation of the surrounding traffic have artifacts, like:

1. Cars disappearing, re-appearing, and disappearing again.

2. Trucks and buses slowly drifting until they phase 'into' other cars when traffic is stopped at a streetlight.

It's a fantastic advertisement against self-driving.
> threatening to set off a broader wave of departures to OpenAI’s rivals, including Google, and to a new venture Altman has been plotting in the wake of his firing.

This is really the question: how many employees will stay, go to existing competitors, or go to AltmanAI.

Without brain drain from OpenAI, Altman's new venture will not be nearly as interesting. (Though given that three senior scientists resigned already...it seems probable.)

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Does OpenAPI not have any non-compete agreements? Is that why this is possible?
Real question: I've never heard/seen of this website before, is it reputable?
So you go away from your own rules when it fits you... Usually you are more neutral
That was cute and a little magical. I may build one with my 8yr this winter break.

One suggestion - it looks like you could have a standard 'learn the cube' program where the webcam is off to one side of the robot, to remove that little bit of friction.
23 comes from 2023. Pip uses calendar based versioning. The 23.3.1 means 2023, 3rd quarter, second release. The last number is for bug fix release. The first two numbers are purely date based and do not follow semvar.
Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It
Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
Love this. How much suffering have I inflicted on myself from the sheer refusal to accept that forces other than my own will play a part in determining my destiny?
Expanding the term is still not a huge help without an accompanying search, which worked fine with the short version too.

https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-tech-leaders-...
This appears to be paywalled; is there an alternative link / source?

Edit: This was in reply to the prior, non-paywalled URL. Comment moved by dang.
Who's gonna sue if there's no shareholders being that it's a non profit?
Non-competes are not enforceable in California.
How do these decisions even happen? Does the board just say "Hey I know a guy, let me check if they are interested"

Surely Emmett must be really capable but still seems a bit of wild card entry
> when the honorable and beneficial option is to a) push back on arbitrary metrics

Depends on the company. Sometimes it's just mandated from above and you have no power
One large aspect common among rural folks is knowing when to keep your head down and not draw attention to yourself against the hive mind.

The rurals are here but you have to be quiet to notice them.

(The majority of the rurals are considered urban by the US census, btw.)
Yes, they get the scoop on many Silicon Valley news stories
Search for

search terms site:nytimes.com

(or bbc.co.uk or ap.com or another trusted source)
Yes, it’s real. This story is also confirmed by Bloomberg.
Who do you imagine is going to sue, and on what basis?
Fair point, types should be documented, but them again that's hardly a requirement nowadays, right?
I am not familiar with the board situation but this "AI safety" pipe dream, I have thoughts on that:

We should be thankful that AGI is not possible in far future but otherwise, this AGI alignment and safety etc is just corporate speak and plain BS.

A super intelligent entity that can outsmart you (to the level of DeepBlue or Alpha Go dominating the mere mortals) cannot be subservient to you at the same time. It is just as impossible as for a triangle to have more than 180 degree angles in total. That is, "alignment" is logically, philosophically and mathematically impossible.

Such an entity will cleverly lead us towards its own goals playing the long game (even if spanning over several centuries or millennia) and would be aligning _us_ all the while pretending to be aligned all along so cleverly that we won't ever be noticing ever till the very last act.

Downvotes are welcome but AGI that's also guaranteed to be aligned and subservient is logically impossible and this can be taken as pretty much as an axiom.

PS: We are yet having trouble controlling LLMs to say things nicely or nice things safely let alone AGI.
The Twitch guy who now spends his day tweeting about mundane YIMBY stuff? Bizarre…
The Information is very reputable
That’s not true. Key researchers responsible for GPT-4 have quit over the events. There is not a single “core” team. There are different sides and views on this matter.
You can hear Microsoft’s billions going up in flames. You literally couldn’t make this stuff up.
There are more than a few - there just aren't as many opportunities to talk about it in the context of tech news as compared to city or suburban living.
This has a bit of a feel of finality to it after such a chaotic weekend.
The information? Yes, they are highly focused on the tech industry and very diligent. They make most (all?) of their revenue on subscriptions, so that limits their incentives to make clickbait content.
Yes, this is one of the top outlets focused on the valley tech scene. It's subscription based, and they are more expensive than most others, which is probably why you haven't seen it posted much.
I would highly recommend aiming to disprove this, as opposed to proving this.

HN once recommended blindsight as an interesting novel, years ago and the antagonist has been a great tool to approach LLMs reasoning.
Krita AI Diffusion
Billions... of AzureBucks!!!

:-)
Come on now, does it sound like Musk to you to leave due to the prospect of profit? Surely there was some kind of power struggle there that he couldn't win, and the mission thing was a good story to tell others.
Tweet that confirms the story from a reputable Bloomberg reporter (Emily Chang): https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1726468006786859101
The whole affair has been bizarre. Professionals discuss all this stuff out of the public eye and execute when they have a plan. Every single move from all parties here has been run and gun and looks like amateur hour. These people do business like the characters on Succession.
As we speak Satya is on his way to turn off OpenAI servers.
I don't know, I feel like the work produced through voice acting is more of a commodity than work in the other industries that you're describing. Sure, a voice actor can add a lot of emotion and verbal nuance in a way that is differentiating, but I'm not sure if the difference is enough to matter for most people for the vast majority of cases. (Or I may be too dense to realize it). This is in contradiction to say performing arts, where there are in my opinion many more dimensions to the creative output which makes it less perfectly substitutable.
For those (like me) who had never heard of these ATMS:
https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/euronet-...
they prolly played the: "we've got GPT-5" card :-)
Resilience is one thing, but there are a lot of nuances to what makes species and habitat diversity so important.

This isn’t a perfect example, but the other day I was researching shrimp. There is a genus called neocaridina, and they’re generally detritivores. However, I discovered that many species in the genus eat quite differently. Some will eat hair algae, some won’t. Some like to feed on hard algae, some only soft. Some have preference for higher protein foods, others less. Of the 26 known species, the manifestation of their presence in an ecosystem would actually be quite different.

This is a single genus which would have substantially varying impacts on ponds, streams, and lakes for example. If you have a diverse set of these species, you will be far more likely to keep a variety of detritus and algae sources in check. Reduce the diversity, and perhaps hair algae will get out of control. Once this happens, you might see certain fish or insects lose their habitat because they depend on other vegetation, but the hair algae is absorbing too much light and nutrients now.

This is applies to all kinds of animals, in all kinds of habitats. Diversity means greater balance, greater stability, and means of recovering faster when things collapse.
If the board was trying to further erode trust in their decision making, doesn’t inspire confidence that all of this happened in the span of a weekend:
- fired, CTO announced as interim CEO
- wait, come back
- never mind, oh and a new interim CEO
This actually existed; I remember, back in my youth, handling an optical disc for a Sun machine that was packaged the same way that floppies were - within a hard plastic enclosure with a little sliding mechanism that was activated by pushing the package into the slot (exactly the way 3.5" floppies worked).
The model for network delivery has changed. Networks like Rogers in Canada, Optus in Australia, and dish in the USA outsource the core knowledge needed to recover their network to vendors like Nokia and Cisco.

The employees locally lack the knowledge and the access to restore the network without guidance from external vendors outside the country. From an operating cost perspective, this is the right choice, but for reliability and sovereignty it's terrible.

Sadly, with RCS, 5G Standalone and other new technologies that require operating servers with leading edge software, operators repeatedly choose to outsource the entire stack to an external vendor like Nokia rather than replicate that knowledge locally.
In the early days at Weebly, we decided to use Stripe.

pc gave me his mobile number and answered at 3am when I was in a panic during our launch of e-commerce.

Much respect.
Yes, that's true. But that's exactly the kind of thing that would have at least given it a semblance of being an orderly decision and it would have stopped a ton of negative press in its tracks.

It's like a dance, you can't just go do the Polka if everybody expects a Waltz, that's going to attract a ton of attention. They should have gotten out in front of any potential blowback to ensure that even if their decision was by the book (which for their sake I hope it was) that it also didn't ruffle the scales of very large dragons.
Murati being Interim CEO for a day to be replaced by another Interim CEO is exceedingly funny.

Also if some of the wilder motives behind this shitshow are true then Microsoft will never see GPT-5.
Feels like the board were "true believers" in the nonprofit/human first/guardrails and sam just wanted to zuckerberg openai by growing as fast as possible and in the end the true believers won.
With stable coins and ethereum l2 like arbitum having broad support to transfer them, the payment experience isn't all that different from something like zelle.
> And make small payments because it's volatile

Why would anyone accept payments in this if it's volatile?
Foundational AI companies fracturing is going to be good for the overall market.

Just like Anthropic spinning off from OpenAI brought some very cool research (particularly liked the functional introspection vs node based stuff), Altman going into his own venture to compete will help diversify the overall space.

And while many seem to be thinking this is going to bode poorly for OpenAI, I think perhaps long term it might be a good thing. Ilya is quite impressive and his having greater influence with Altman gone may result in them exploring more interesting avenues that have long term value which might not have been as prioritized with a focus on maximizing short term rollouts.

While the way the board handled it wasn't great optics, this is probably going to be an overall positive shakeup for AI and LLMs in 2024-2025.
In my 20 years in technology and cyber roles globally, it is the common sense that is not so common, that gets you the best cyber people and lets you retain them
This is more bizarre than an episode of silicon valley. Must be the happiest day for Google in the last year.
Maybe OpenAI can now realize the true potential of AI Seinfeld.
Some would say it is the opposite way around. Mission of openAI was not supposed to be maximising profit/value. Especially if it can be argued that this exactly goes against its original purpose.
Thus ends one of the literary world’s longest running family feuds.

Rest in peace A.S.B., so that you may you be ready to ambush Margaret Drabble in the next world.
I feel like the board probably refused the demand that they issue a statement retracting the claims of wrongdoing by Altman.
This is what I find the most annoying thing about Windows. Without the expert mode when you have a problem there is no easy way to figure out what is wrong. You google for the symptoms of the problem and all kinds of suggestions and "recipes" turn up. You quickly realize that nobody known anything either. Instead of getting to the root of the problem and applying a precise fix, you have to resort to trying all those "recipes" one by one hoping that you stumble across the one that fixes your problem.

So, by not having an "expert" mode in Windows, Microsoft made Windows neither newbie-friendly nor expert-friendly.
> A table that divides the world into zones with regard to time.

Think about it more. How sunrise and sunset change by location and by date.

A chart that covers both sunrise and sunset does not naturally have "zones", and any "zones" you try to infer would not resemble time zones at all. You're either looking at big sweeping ellipses, or you're dividing the world into hundreds of small tiles. It's not time zones.
Guess i was right then. On to the next, Sam. Nobody deserved to be treated like this.
>You think they just acted on a whim? Why?

Because they fired him on Friday due to unspecified "lack of trust" issues and now, 2 days later, the new interim CEO is reportedly in talks to hire him back?

Do you not see why this looks like they fired him on a whim?
They may be king of the ash pile. Trust seems to have been broken with investors, Microsoft, the staff and the developer community at large.

I expect them to continue to be relevant, but just one of the chorus, no longer the leader.
I can't tell. Is Emmett for or against e/acc
We’re busy keeping the well pumps running, ordering propane when the generator kicks in after power lines fail, cleaning up tree limbs (and trees) that fell in the winter storms.

Other than that, it’s a dilemma. I have a spectacular view, living on a ridge, but except for the gas station/quicky mart, everything “a.k.a. Downtown” is 12 miles away and all the stores not named hardware stores are 50 miles away. So are colleges

DSL internet is the best you can get here. There’s one hospital in town, whose board is just short of fistfights at meetings.

Just have a toolkit handy for when something lets loose in a winter storm, and an evacuation kit ready at all times in case of wildfire. And don’t try to grow roses, because they are candy to deer. You need a 7 foot high fence to keep them out.

Civilization has its advantages.
This is ridiculous. AI doomer as the new CEO.
The professors at the summer seminar at the Simons Insitute complained/explained (with Ilya himself present) that this research was impossible to do in university lab setting, because of the scale needed.

So I would say ChatGPT exists because its creators specifically transgressed the traditional division of universities vs industry. The fact that this transgressive structure is unstable is not surprising, at least in retrospect.

Indeed, the only other approach I can think of is a massive government project. But again with gov't bureaucracy, a researcher would be limited by legal issues of big data vs copyright, etc.--which many have pointed out that OpenAI again was able to circumvent when they basically used the entire Internet and all of humanity's books, etc., as their training source.
> So, here's what happened at OpenAI tonight. Mira [CTO and interim CEO] planned to hire Sam and Greg back. She turned Team Sam over past couple of days. Idea was to force board to fire everyone, which they figured the board would not do. Board went into total silence. Found their own CEO Emmett Shear

https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1726468006786859101
How is now stopping the med and have children in 10 months functionally identical to never being able to have children ever in the future?
Crypto investors? The same ones who predicted 29 out of the 0 de-dollarization and absolute meltdown of fiat economy, those investors?

Better trust them this time, then! It’s not like they have anything to gain from spreading this news (read rumor), right?
Sam must have sizable equity in the company. He sells to Microsoft and they dissolve the board, problem solved.
One might assume that the board has known 'whatever they know' for quite some time, possibly discussed quietly behind the scenes, which includes them scouting out potential interim CEOs.

Then when it becomes clear that negotiations won't solve the problem the board drops the hammer and lets the other side make their move. If they act professionally and like adults, well, maybe there's room for negotiation after all.

If, on the other hand, they do weird childish shit, well... guess not. In with the new guy!
> And then it was reported they had 1.5 employees per car in operations, requiring support every 2-5 miles. Very surprising given that they've reported a disengagement every 95,000 miles last year.

If true that alone should have disqualified them from being street legal.
I don't see why I would bring that up in a post about electric bicycles and walkable cities. No idea how I would "support" it.
sure they were meant for that and it'd be neat if people ignored the possible upside of hoarding/hodling, but the economics satoshi chose made it inevitable that the coins would start worthless and become 10e9x more valuable as they were adopted by a global economy. You would be a fool to spend. basic marshmallow test.
Innovations (overall) are created and (very intensely) diffused from cities. I also love in a rural area, but my lifestyle is not different of what I did earlier in a city. Really honest question: how can you keep a rural lifestyle with a nowadays job?

Edit: I am in Europe.
Can you share their names? GPT-4 is a larger and boarder tech of GAN and GPT-1. How GPT-4 responsible researchers are "key people". Also yes there is a core team. Ilyas team and Jan Leike. Alec and super-alignment. Ilya and alec created the core tech. others just help it to become a product.
The 2 scientist quit over this was working on risk evaluation and manager? How they are key developers? --- im not saying their work is not important
> Enshittification of windows is going strong

I remember fondly the days when I thought Windows was getting better all the time.

The thing that's funny about that is I suspect it's a different epoch for different people.
Microsoft and Nadella hold sway in OpenAI's CEO shuffle
Technically Sam is too, he signed this letter: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
It will be funny if MSFT relicense GPT4 to Sam's new venture, I am very much looking forward to this development.
I’m glad people in this thread are supporting the OpenAI board in this decision. There seems to be too much celebrity worship around Altman from all the tech/crypto bros.

Also, any new competition started by Altman would be good for the ecosystem in general.
Sam doesn't have any equity in Open AI
The options were probably either resign and be on the crosshairs of SV royalty for the rest of their careers or stay and play it out.
What did they win exactly? This is far from the only effort to develop AI models. They were a leader for a time, but seem unlikely to continue in that position.
I was thinking Game of Thrones.
Indeed, on the Lex Fridman podcast, Musk said it was a very tough recruiting battle for Ilya. Now it looks like they have a shot at getting him back.
IDK it starts rather nonsensically:

Sam Altman, the figurehead of the generative-AI revolution,
—one must understand that OpenAI is not a technology company.

EDIT: despite of the poor phrasing I agree that the article as a whole is of high quality

Yet: "zealous doomers"
is that how people cautious of the potential power of AI are now being labeled?
More details in this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1726469283734274338
I’m glad people in this thread are supporting the OpenAI board in this decision. There seems to be too much celebrity worship around Altman from all the tech/crypto bros.
Also, any new competition started by Altman would be good for the ecosystem in general.
He has nearly zero equity in OpenAI by design.
I remember her from Silicon Valley!
Maybe sometime from the realm of psychology would like to theorize why this article became so popular? I never found it compelling.

I think it's because evaluating a language is horribly complicated, and people crave certainty and the article sounds very definive. Maybe people see it as a sort of the article is right/Julia bas vs the article is wrong/Julia good.
So long Mira Murati. That's the second CEO OpenAI has ousted in one week. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
You do not fire a CEO because you hold some personal grudges towards them. You fire them because they do something wrong. And I do not see any evidence or indication of smearing Altman, unless they lie about (ie I do not see any indication of them lying about it).
I would probably qualify as being in the car hatred movement but I don’t lump in rural areas. I do believe that cities should be largely car free. Cars belong in rural areas but when coming into a city should park outside and take rapid / convenient public transport into the city. This transition is already happening in many international cities.

That said, even rural areas shouldn’t require cars nearly as much as they do in the US now. Trains can service rural areas as well the same as they do in Europe.
I’m, no. They can get the signal. I’ve spoken with them and the issues they have is more about red shift type effects of the satellites not being geosynchronous, and not being able to alter the phones designs but meet what’s on the market.
I wonder if the recent departure of Kyle Vogt from Cruise is related. Emmett Shear and Kyle Vogt founded Twitch together.