skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SEC seems to bring about 2 or 3 crypto enforcement actions per month.[1]
They're still working down the ICO backlog. Mostly they've been going after issuers and out and out theft.

After FTX, political support for crypto deregulation dropped to near zero. FTX, remember, was lobbying for a bill that would allow all the things for which Kraken is now in trouble. That is going absolutely nowhere now.

Also, the SEC, CFTC, and Main Justice now have their act together on cooperating to deal with crypto scams. There used to be jurisdictional issues. Now, it's just treated as crime.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...
The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI | Ilya Sutskever | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEkGLj0bwAU

At the end of this video he says that there was a plan to share progress (models?) once they got close to AGI.
Is Christmas Season Starting Earlier? A Statistical Analysis
No you are juggling two devices connected by a cable. Definitely not as convenient as having it built in to the laptop.
I agree with the definition everyone seems to be eating up, but I think it’d be healthier if we all started calling bs on the double speak and hidden profit motive of the use of “safety” and make them be more upfront about the intent.
Seems very feudal, serfdom mindset to accept that your employer doesn't owe you an explanation.

An employment is a contract which both parties enter into willingly. Termination of contract deserves some level of empathetic glad handling, however minimal. It's just game theory - if you plan to hire again, you have to be gracious while firing someone because word gets around.
hah. these people obviously have not worked for Microsoft. You need to remember why this tech emerged in a place like OpenAI and not MS or Google. The structure and the politics of a big corporation are not conducive to cutting edge tech. They may go to Microsoft, but they will not be able to innovate in the same way and will probably fall into irrelevance in the long run.
Microsoft has already done major layoffs over the last year of their own employees. Why wouldn’t they lay off OpenAI employees?
AMD's OpenCL implementation and tooling on Windows is terrible, even worse than NVIDIA's OpenCL tooling, and on Linux their ROCm stuff has been so unreliable in terms of its hardware support that it isn't worth the investment.
AFAIK, https://apisix.apache.org does not have a billing / monetization feature
I did my last resume in Typst and it was so much better than a Word/Google doc or Latex.
Going to MS doesn’t seem like the best outcome for Sam. His role would probably get marginalized once everything is under Satya’s roof. Good outcome for MS, though.
It's hard (impossible?) to justify narrow columns in a fashion which is pleasing to the eye if you don't hyphenate, unless you employ glyph squeezing/stretching techniques such as used by microtype.
Commingling doesn't imply gambling.

I could borrow $10 from Jim, and $20 from Sue, and deposit them both into the same Chase account which now has $30. As long as the balance stays above $30, everything is fine.
Isn't Sustkever on the board? Why is this phrased like he isn't and is just delivering a message?
> The ACM has a code of ethics required for membership.

The ACM has never taken action against an ACM member for an ethics violation that was not directly related to research misconduct in an ACM publication (edit: or inappropriate behavior at an ACM conference). Unlike a medical board or bar association, the ACM has no capacity, resources, or staff tasked to enforce even research ethics violations outside of ACM publications, much less ACM members day-to-day work they don't submit to a publication. And even then, it is up to the peer reviewers and editors of that publication. Otherwise, it remains just a list of suggestions.

At one time the ethics code said ACM members should respect terms of service, which means no bots or web scraping, but that was never enforced. You can find tons of research in ACM publications that uses web scraping of big sites that prohibit it in the ToS. The ACM certainly doesn't have capacity to police ethics violations by ACM members in industry. And if it started to do so, I suspect you'd see ACM membership plummet by those who fear they could be next.
There is no way this is true. If it is the board might be the dumbest people alive.

You fire the CEO and completely destroy a 90b company because of these two reasons?

No wonder everyone wants out. I would think I was going crazy if I sat in a meeting and heard these two reason.
Trump was never democratically elected.
Weak Power Gets Tested
I'm not sure how people reach this sentiment.

Humans strike me as being awesome, especially compared to other species.

I feel like there is a general sentiment that nature has it figured out and that humans are disrupting nature.

But I haven't been convinced that is true. Nature seems to be one big gladiatorial ring where everything is in a death match. Nature finds equilibrium through death, often massive amounts of death. And that equilibrium isn't some grand design, it's luck organized around which species can discover and make effective use of an energy source.

Humans aren't the first species to disrupt their environment. I don't believe we are even the first species to create a mass extinction. IIUC the great oxygenation event was a species-driven mass extinction event.

While most species consume all their resources in a boom cycle and subsequently starve to death in their bust cycle, often taking a portion of their ecosystem with them, humans are metaphorically eating all the corn but looking up and going "Hey, folks, we are eating all the corn - that's probably not going to go well. Maybe we should do something about that."

I find that level of species-level awareness both hope-inspiring and really awesome.

I haven't seen any proposals for a better first-place species when it comes to being responsible stewards of life and improving the chances of life surviving past this rock's relatively short window for supporting life. I'd go as far as saying whatever species we try to put in second place, humans have them beaten by a pretty wide margin.

If we create a fictitious "perfect human utopia" and compare ourselves to that, we fall short. But that's a tautology. Most critiques of humans I see read to me as goals, not shortcomings compared to nature's baseline.

When it comes to protecting ourselves against inorganic superintelligence, I haven't seen any reasonable proposals for how we are going to fail here. We are self-interested in not dying. Unless we develop a superintelligence without realizing it and fail to identify it getting ready to wipe us out, it seems like we would pull the plug on any of its shenanigans pretty early? And given the interest in building and detecting superintelligence, I don't see how we would miss it?

Like if we notice our superintelligence is building an army, why wouldn't we stop that before the army is able to compete with an existing nation-state military?

Or if the superintelligence is starting to disrupt our economies or computer systems, why wouldn't we be able to detect that early and purge it?
Should we start flagging these -what do people think? This is what, the 12th front page story today about the openAI drama?

Also wondering why the mods don't consolidate them
In theory yes fully agree. If you look at how corporations are behaving in today's market it's not even close. It's at will employment (At least in US in most places) - you are not owed an explanation and you don't owe an explanation.
Damn! Might be time to buy those last albums on my wishlist ...

If Bandcamp does go away, I hope the musicians and labels who sell there are able to find another outlet for their work.
“For the most part” is doing some extraordinarily heavy lifting.
I mean, Kraken is not a registered securities exchange.

They offer many cryptocurrencies.

The SEC has indicated that it considers most, probably all, cryptocurrencies to a be securities.

The writing has been on the wall for a while -- Coinbase got a Wells letter, basically a "lawsuit is coming" warning, months ago.
Have you met flight simmers? It absolutely isn't, it's pretty much the whole reason they're on Windows to begin with =D
Which one, Elon or Zuck?
You are the one talking about mean spiritedness, scorable games and battles, not me.

You can feel however you want about your previous opinion and your now new one.

But anyway I am glad that I got your answer to the question, which is that it seems like you no longer believe that this thing was beneficial to almost anyone involved, even those who believed in the mission.
And they just introduced their own AI chips at Ignite.
I don't see facial recognition going away anytime soon since (other than fingerprints) is being rolled out to answer "this document is a legit document, but is the holder of this document the person on the document".

Anyone's guess why facial recognition is being used in favor of fingerprints is anyone's guess since fingerprints are way more accurate.
Fair but in this case works well because it aptly demonstrates the futility of trying to change a system "from the inside" away from its core designation.
So Surdkever fires Altman, then signs a letter saying they’ll quit unless he’s reinstated.

There’s only 4 board members, right?

Who wanted him fired. Is this a situation where they all thought the others wanted him fired and were just stupid?

Have they been feeding motions into chatgpt and asking “should add I do this?”
> there don't seem to be any major changes to the package since 2021

It must be perfect!
Again with the ad hominems and strawman arguments in your shadowboxing diversion...

I knew you wouldn't answer. You fail to even acknowledge evidence, what do you know about it? Nothing. How do you think evidence comes about? Just shows up one day? It takes people researching it and events to happen. Your hypothesis is not even attempting to start to see evidence, never be an investigator with that vibe.

Our discussion on your diversion is done, I know where you stand.

- You like crypto consolidation, you won't even attempt to answer that one.

- You are diverting from the point so far it is laughable now.

- Nick Szabo thanks you.

Admit you are an absolutist not a probabalist. Absolutism to no change is more religious than probability. You sure do preach absolutism.
The "different opinions about a member of personnel" is certainly an odd reason to fire him. It seems reasonable to have multiple opinions about a person (perhaps appearing as conflicting), or to change an opinion based on new information.

It sounds like someone perhaps jumped to a very negative conclusion about Sam's intentions, and it would be interesting to find out which member of the board came to that conclusion. There's got to be someone in the driving seat of this train wreck, and I'm sure it will come out.
Someone said it, amen.

I would care what China would do if China was going around the world killing millions of people in the name of "national security".

Alas, so far that privilege went to Great Britain, France (Napoleon), Germany, US and recently Russia and Isreal.

Still no China on that radar.
Lol gotta get interviews to fail them
"Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board"

I'd like some corroboration for that statement because Sustkever has said very inconsistent things during this whole merry debacle.
> They appear to put a lot of effort into abiding by local regulations in all countries they operate.

Aside from registering as a securities exchange/broker/dealer in the U.S., which the SEC clearly believes they are.
Interesting thought that I had, that is probably not true but interesting anyway.

Is this a move by Google to boost Chrome usage numbers. Although it is a terrible way to do it, many organizations still count views by looking at User-Agent. Google makes Youtube work worse if you report a non-Chrome UA, but all you have to do is report a Chrome UA and then it works perfectly fine. Suddenly a lot of people who were using FF now look like they are using Chrome because the UA has changed.

They then use this as proof that no one should bother developing for anything other than Chrome because no one uses anything but Chrome, because all the FF users spoofed their UA to make it look like Chrome because Google purposefully cripples their site if you aren't using Chrome.

I doubt there was that much aforethought, but it is a nice win for Google regardless.

In the meantime I'll still just be sitting here telling websites I use IE 6 or Netscape Navigator to mess with web admins.
I sure hope you are not.
This may be true technically, but it's also pretty irrelevant. You can step into any gym or what have you and regardless of whether they're on Android or iPhone, most everyone uses bluetooth audio.
"Credible" here means that they stick to their word.
My suggestion is to target areas of software where the demand greatly exceeds the available candidates. JavaScript and Java are not that. There are sub-areas of those language that are in demand and the available candidates are rare, but the problem is that such specific areas are niche and get lost in the noise of the more common scenarios of using enormous tools with too much unnecessary engineering just to put text on screen.
Thanks for sharing your workflow! I've long wanted to adapt something similar, but it is difficult to get away from Word - especially because the comment and revision functions in Word are more straightforward than git-based solutions
I'm not saying nobody's ever claimed to be one, I'm saying that it's a contradiction and doesn't make sense. Anarcho-capitalists don't reject the state, they just want to be the ones doing it.

Not only that, their definition of anarchy is limited to "opposition to the state". They're fine with all the other hierarchies anarchy also rejects. They have no problem with holding power over their employees, for example.
A lot has changed in 15 years.
Not sure it's been better, and not betting that it will get better.
And yet another piece of the puzzle revealed.
Sounds like quite a coup for Microsoft. They get the staff and the IP and they don’t even have to pay out the other 51% of investors.
My dad interviewed someone who was applying for a job. Standard question, why did you leave the last place?

"After six months, they realised our entire floor was duplicating the work of the one upstairs".
I'm not convinced by this argument. Plenty of ethnostates waging war on each other as well as stable multiethnic states.
How did Tasha McCauley know Dustin Moskovitz?
That’s not a valid analogy: everyone knows that the billboard is separate from the shop renting the space below and Coca Cola doesn’t pay the porn shop to drive traffic to their ad. Twitter has revenue sharing and also uses that revenue to provide free services so there’s no way for an advertiser to avoid their money benefitting the extremist groups who use the service. Coca Cola paying for the billboard on the roof doesn’t mean the porn shop isn’t paying rent.

The porn shop is also unlikely to have anything on the front of their shops which is even remotely comparable to the tweets causing advertisers to leave. For all that religious nuts go on about it, porn is mainstream even in conservative areas and the ads will talk about pleasing your wife, not harming anyone. If they put up ads talking about how mixed-race sex should be punished or saying that women should be assaulted, the comparison would hold up more - and so would the reaction as they lost their business permits and lease.
Disincentivizing it from saying mean things just strengthens it's agreeableness, and inadvertently incentivizes it to acquire social engineering skills.

It's potential to cause havoc doesn't go away, it just teaches AI how to interact with us without raising suspicions, while simultaneously limiting our ability to prompt/control it.
People were given two reasons, at least one of them must be wrong. Probably both.
> "a horse and a plane to both get to a destination, whats the difference"

That's actually a good analogy with autocomplete. A plane reactor still measures itself in "horse"-power. It's technically a very very powerful horse. Trying to get better and better horses got us here. Like GPT-4 is a very very powerful GMail-like autocomplete. :)
First question was if Sam was going to end up at Microsoft and Satya gave a complete non-answer to that. Gives credit that there was nothing substantive behind the Twitter announcement that Sam was going to CEO a Microsoft business; it was just to bolster investor confidence..

Incredible. Anyone with FTC knowledge know if making those sorts of announcements can run afoul of regulations?

Edit: Sorry, SEC.
Spicy blind thread on Databricks security- accusing unethical business practices
If the company is prepared to make up a BS reason to fire the CEO, do you really want to bet on them looking after you?

I would guess that most of the people working at openai could get a job anywhere.
That countries don’t want to handle the expense is one of the signs that they haven’t been commoditised.

The number I provided also includes both declared and undeclared nuclear powers.

It’s not just about the ability to make a bomb, it’s about being able to maintain a credible arsenal along with delivery platforms.
This doesn’t add up.

In order for someone to slow down the by browser they need someone to have coded the following:

- UA Detection

- Branching for when the flag is on or off

- a timeout that only runs when these two things are true

That takes an engineer to do the work. Marketing and product managers are not writing this code certainly.

If they’re abusing a differ t flag, then the real question I have is what the flags purpose is and why is it screening Firefox.

Either way there is an intention of UA checking and throttling based on the UA and that takes an engineer to do it
> childish behavior

“childish” is a poorly defined term mainly used to manipulate. You should specify what you actually mean.
The main mistake the board made was tactical, not philosophical. From the outside, it's seems likely that Altman was running OpenAI so as to maximize the value of the for-profit entity, rather than achieve the non-profit's goals, if only because that's what he's used to doing as a tech entrepreneur. Looking at OpenAI from the outside, can you honestly say that they are acting like a non-profit in the slightest? It's perfectly believable that Altman was not working to further the non-profit's mission.

Where the board messed up is that the underestimated the need to propagandize and prepare before acting against Altman. The focus is not on how Altman did or did not turn the company away from its non-profit mission but instead on how the board was unfair and capricious towards Altman. Though this was somewhat predictable, the extent of Altman's support and personality cult is surprising to me, and is perhaps emblematic on how badly the board screwed up from an optics perspective. There were seemingly few attempts to put pressure on Altman's priorities or to emphasize the non-profit nature of the company, and the justification afterwards was unprepared and insufficient.

From the outside though, I don't understand why so many are clamoring to leave their highly paid jobs working at a non-profit who's goal is to serve humanity and to become a cog in a machine aimed at maximizing Microsoft shareholders' wealth, in defense of a singular CEO with little technical AI background who's motivations are unclear.
> An employer does not owe you an explanation.

If the entire workforce of the company is credibly threatening to quit, and a competitor is publicly and credibly offering them jobs, then what the employer “owes” them in some cosmic sense no longer matters. I think the OpenAI employees are likely to get an explanation and/or a resignation from the board, whether you think the board “owes” them that or not.
They might have the weights, but for some reason the responses from the microsoft chat is much worse quality for me than gpt-4. Even the local 180B falcon I run locally seems to be better in most cases.

If openai goes under, I personally hope they release all the weights, source code and training data to public domain.
Nothing's iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in 24 hours
From the paper:

"Alcohol is known to induce headaches when consumed in large quantities."

[Citation needed]
I think because OpenAI and LLMs are the most interesting piece of technology news at this point in time? Plus add all the drama right now.

I'm not saying its right or not, but this is probably why people are upvoting anything new about what is going on there. Personally, I'm very interested in seeing how things play out.
The horseshoe crab blood thing is always so interesting to me every time it comes up. Our society really has some very weak points.
The mass database with everyone's pictures in it is called the DMV. It was created decades ago; we don't need to engage in speculation about what it "would" do.
I tether my iPhone to my macBook several times a day (going to and from work on the bus). I don't know if anyone else has this experience, but my laptop will instantaneously find 30+ WiFi access points I don't care about and never use, but can take up-to a minute to find my iPhone, sometimes even with repeated 'prodding'.
You're not wrong (and I upvoted you because your comment doesn't deserve to be so negative), but I don't think the previous regime was all that friendly toward crypto either...

Remember the IRS crackdowns all started under n-1
https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-expl...
Hear hear. It would've been one thing if, when they invented Basic Economy, it was "you can get cheaper flights now but you lose all these things you're used to." Instead, as I recall, it was "welcome to Basic Economy, where you still pay the same amount you used to, but we've taken away a bunch of stuff you now have to pay extra fees for."
> We fine-tuned a PaLM 2-XS-Otter model based on our available data for 20k steps and choose the checkpoint with the best validation results.

What is the "available data for 20k steps"?
Thanks!

vLLM for quick set up, TRT-LLM for best performance. Both available on https://baseten.co/.
I like Mathcha for a WYSIWYG option.

https://www.mathcha.io/
In this situation the most powerful people on the board should have been Altman, Brockman and Sutskever. The others were sort of nice to haves who were there just to fill it out. For them to run this coup is just insane. There has to be more to it. Someone has to be pulling the strings with a plan.
this was announced last week. The major changes are memory capacity and bandwidth. That means smaller batch sizes (i.e. inference) will be faster (1.4-1.7x) and larger batch sizes (i.e. training) will be possible. Current large batch sizes, however, won't be faster.
I mean by that logic we should still be using FORTRAN for our research code and there’s no point developing new languages because the space is explored at this point.

Really I think the main thing holding it back are the lack of templates supported by journals and conferences and some known rendering bugs / limitations that are being worked on.
Best robot movie ever, both of them
> You completely destroy a 90b company because of these two reasons?

Hanlon's razor aside, maybe that was the intention.
Thanks, looks like HN truncated the hash fragment when I submitted it.
Seems most likely Sustkever wanted him fired and then realized his mistake. Ultimately the board was probably quietly seething about the direction the company was headed, got mad enough to retake the reigns with that stunt and then realized what that actually meant.

Now they are trying to unring the bell but cannot.
I can imagine this complicating any supplier contract negotiations. "you pay X $50/unit more for the same device, etc."
We should try this out:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot