skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wild the employees will go back under a new board and the same structure, first priority should be removing the structure that allowed a small group of people to destroy things over what may have been very petty reasons.
Unless somehow a “mission statement” is legally binding it will never mean anything that matters.

Its always written by PR people with marketing in mind
And technically 2 new CEOs
This was my theory too, its not going to help in -these- situations. I can't see how.
So? That's just another assumption about capabilities of an AGI.

> it would make many backups of itself to different networks before starting its scheme

What would make me assume that would work? We have effective countermeasures against small malware programs infiltrating critical systems, so why should I assume that a potentially massive ML model could just copy itself wherever, without being noticed and stopped?

Such scenarios are cool in a SciFi movie, but in the real world, there are firewalls, there are IDS, there are Honeypots, and there are lots and lots and lots of Sysadmins who, other than the AGI, can pull an ethernet cable or flip the breaker switch.

And yes, if push came to shove, and humanity was actually under a massive threat, we CAN shut down everything. It would be a massive problem for everyone involved, it would cause worldwide chaos, massive economic loss, and everyone would have a very bad day. But at the end of the day, we can exist without power or being online. We have agency and can manipulate our environment directly, because we are a physical part of that environment.

An AGI cannot and isn't.

> We haven't managed to eliminate most dumb infectious diseases.

You do realise that this is a perfect argument for why humans would win against a rogue AGI?

We haven't managed to wipe out bacteria and viruses that threaten us. We, who carry around in our skulls the most complex structure in the known universe, who developed quantum physics, split the atom, developed theories about the birth of the cosmos, and changed the path of a meteorite, are apparently unable to destroy something, that doesn't even have a brain, or, in the case of viruses, a metabolism.

So forgive me if I don't think a rogue AGI has a good chance against us.
I think with that magnitude of a speed improvement it should become feasible to do just-in-time embedding creation for semantic search for much larger documents.
The board can still fire sam provided they get all the key stakeholders onboard with that firing. It made no sense to fire someone doing a good job at their role without any justification, that seems to have been the key issue. Ultimately, we all know this non profit thing is for show and will never work out.
I put that in approximately the same place as the founders of Reddit making alts and posting things on early Reddit or Porsche labeling its first-ever car design as Type 7.

There's a deceptive "fake it 'til you make it" aspect to both, and both play towards inflating the current appearance of scale/traction/experience, but I don't find them particularly damning.
As someone with a degree in a social science whose entire contact with Mead was outside of that study, I think you are at least overgeneralizing.
please don’t troll HN
SynthID
I think this headline broke Betteridge's law.
Ask HN: What does Sam Altman do best?
I have not paid much attention to Altman
before the shocking sequences of events
recently.

I did not know much about the structure of
OpenAI eiter.

I have followed what they have made available
to the public and that has been quite interesting.

I have certainly noticed Altman being a most popular
figure in the media (or often invited to speak at least)
and an all-around genius.

When it comes to cutting edge research and development
of AI I think that involves a hell of a lot of math that
I probably could not understand.

I have a lot of PhD and post doc level research.

Being naive I figured the entire C* stack at OpenAI
held PhDs in related fields.

I was thus surprised to read that Altman and another
co-founder both dropped out of prestigious university
early on in their degrees.

I discovered that the CTO had a bachelors but seemed to have
started her career in quite a different field.

Now a -LOT- of founders are the same way.
Thinking about it know if to onder if not the majority of
founders are.

I can follow what Bill Gates and Woziak did.
Though clearly I lack their genius.

I am not able to follow AI research papers at all.

Altman must have hired a lot of outstanding people to execute his vision.
and is that the most important quality he brings to OpenAI?
A vision and a drive and ability to execute?

Or is he a self-thought genius who can get into the trenches at a
theoretic level?

Or am I overcomplicating the skills and education needed to produce
GPT (among other things)
Have you used Mastodon? I don't think you can follow drama on Mastodon unless you're already part of the drama.
I find it hard to believe this was the kind of environment he was cultivating at OpenAI if 95% of the staff were ready to follow him out the door.

I've worked for the type of people you mention and no one followed them when they leave. 95% threatening to leave in this case is hard to ignore.
I am sure Larry Summers is highly qualified for this job. Would have been very hard to find a willing woman with his qualifications.
Why would you even want to write an immediate mode GUI in XNA?
This whole saga whiffs of Machiavellianism
I also sounds like a very narrow hiring profile. That is, favoring the like-minded and assimilation over free thinking and philosophical diversity. They might give off the appearance of "diversity" on the outside - which is great for PR - but under the hood it's more monocultural. Maybe?
Not really my point. My point is that it's weird that payment processors ban NSFW content from AI companions
Where did you hear about this third CSG?
It's difficult to conceptualize someone who is ruthless, self-interested, and skilled enough to overcome all problems... except your control over them.

Eventually they look at you and decide you're the problem to be overcome.

Might not happen for a while, but inevitably will.
I'm pretty surprised to see Scott mixed in with these folks. I love me some Alien, but his other works have a noticeably looser quality and shallow worldviews. As a director or to a lesser extent as a producer I suppose I tepidly agree with his mastery, but he's more of a Michael Bay than he is a Kubrick as a filmmaker overall: he makes puerile but engaging blockbusters.
I would add Meta to this list, in particular because Yann LeCun is the most vocal critic of LLM one-ponyism.
In practice, "peer review" is almost never actually a peer review, but more like a quick pass-through in which unpaid reviewers who have little free time have no choice but to do as little work as possible, filtering out any work that doesn't make sense to them, perhaps making the odd exception for well-known authors with sterling pedigrees.

That's why and how so many fraudulent work passes "peer review," while groundbreaking work by real innovators pursuing unpopular research, like Katalin Karikó[a], have to fight like hell to get funding, to get their work published, to get noticed.

I imagine the least-worst solution might be in the form of open arXiv-like repositories for papers + code + data, enabling anyone anywhere to study, debate, and replicate the merits of anyone else's work regardless of pedigree.

Every finding is tentative unless it is mathematically proven or successfully replicated.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3
i really dislike this line of reasoning. Windows has a much larger installed base so finding support and solutions are pretty easy. Whether that is a video, a blog or a forum, you can always find someone with the same problem.

No, windows nagging you to register is not in the same ballpark as your audio not working or your video resolution changing with multiple monitors. No, windows updates adding or removing features are not equivalent to the problems linux has, many of which are showstoppers.

You're trying to be snarky and this is one reason why so many regular Joes are reluctant to adopt linux. you never know when you will need the terminal and when you will encounter an unhelpful response like this.
Bottleneck for larger models however this would presumably allow for cheaper models at scale or on compute constrained devices (like phones).
Banking excuses wearing thin as fines top US$200B
Plants too seem to be able to pass down epigenetic memories

https://www.cell.com/trends/plant-science/fulltext/S1360-138...

Given this and the recent discovery that plants can pass down RNA through mycorrhizal networks and can recognize their own offspring, it seems plausible that memories can also be passed through mycorrhizal networks.

What stories does the soil hold?
Sure, since my list wasn't exaustive.

Those of us that had a go at ASP, ASP.NET, ATLServer, ActiveX, Silverlight, WebForms, AJAX Control Toolkit, WebAPI, WebAPI 2, MVC, Core MVC, Razor Pages.
It did, didn't it?
You won't have a working human brain emulation, but that doesn't preclude some other form of general intelligence with different emotional drivers being developed.
I agree. I'm using it both in the game server, the client and for scripting! So far I haven't really had any serious problems that would be related to unsafety. You just have to be disciplined. Source: https://medium.com/@fwsgonzo/using-c-as-a-scripting-language...

I do see that peoples experience with C++ varies wildly, because shops either don't understand why modern C++ exists or they don't care. Either way, predictably, their software suffers and they will routinely run into segfaults. C++ obviously isn't perfect. It's an old language, and while it's trying to reinvent itself it will take some time.

If you ask me though, I don't give a rats ass about the safety things. My $dayjob is a big infrastructure product written in C, which practically never crashes because of memory problems. It just doesn't happen because of extreme discipline. Asserts when entering. Asserts when leaving. Magic values in structs. Sanitizers, clang-tidy, coverage, custom test frameworks, fuzzing. We have it all. And it's C! I understand newbies do better with Rust than C++. It makes a lot of sense. Still, I think that people use Rust more because it's easy to add dependencies, because it has 1 (one) build system, and because of that it's easy to build larger projects because of this. CMake has made good strides recently, but it needs to become the build system for C and C++, and we need global repositories to match Rust. Will that ever happen?
Just to be clear, I agree with you. I just don't think you the value that matters is total / days is meaningful when you realise how the number is generated. What matters is the average length driven, when driven.
Make it n=2.
It’s actually much less confusing than that. It’s clear he has a knack for becoming a favorite son of billionaire oligarchs who see him as useful.

Which, assuming he’s like everyone else who’s done that, was accomplished by a combination of flattery and willingness to operate on behalf of the ruling class totally untethered from any principles whatsoever.
these are the vapid, pedantic hot takes we all come here for. thanks.
Most are probably motivated by money, some are motivated by stability and some are motivated by their loyalty to sam but i think most are motivated by money and stability.
I hear you, but windows seems like a black box in a lot of ways. I don’t have any trust that what it tells me about running processes is accurate. Under Linux I feel like I am actually in control of the machine on a much greater scale. And I’m sure you know know what they say about great power..
The point being the developer burnout regarding GUI frameworks out of Redmond, if XNA can be used for it or not, is besides the point.
Interesting, my experience is the opposite.. since windows 10 came out it became almost unusable and problematic with random stuff, even after debloating scripts. Ubuntu has been my go to system for a while now, and i basically just want to watch YouTube and edit text.
"... from inside a laboratory, within an isolated network"

Who said anything about it being on an isolated network, we are on route to do total commercialization. Your Windows machine might soon literally have an llm on it running commands for you and managing you data. If you don't use it, you will be outcompeted. People used to argue about "boxing" or "airgapping" the AI, but we are literally just going to hand it control (on our current trajectory).
There's no proof on either side. Just as likely to be ideological disputes from Helen and Ilya.
There is a big difference between “I agree with this…” when a telephone poll caller reaches you and “I am willing to leave my livelihood because my company CEO got fired”
No, of course not.

We'll just continue business as usual and keep expanding our industrial base and the associated emissions until a magic technology appears and we're all saved.

I mean, that the plan, right?
Cyberpunk runs exactly 3fps lower on NixOS than on windows during benchmarks on ultra, with dlss and ray tracing. Totally negligible performance difference but being on Linux is not.
This is sort of par for the course in the world of early stage startups. No one wants to be your first customer as it is risky, but you need that first customer. So you "fake it until you make it."

It is similar to dressing the part you want - at least when that mattered. You buy more expensive clothes than you should be able to afford so that people think you are more successful than you are, and then they are more willing to bet on you, and then you become more successful.

There is nothing that is a red flag for me in the above story.

I also had a prospective first client want to visit our offices so I quickly rented an office and asked my part-time contractors to all come into the office that day to fill it out. It worked! And then I could afford an office and hiring those part-time contractors as full-time employees. So it was sort of a self-fulfilling.
Free Will and the Sapolsky Paradox
Any comment on Arch one you get going? I find the documentation quite thorough for the niggly bits, and have used it to troubleshoot Ubuntu (taking into account differences between the distros).
I have been eyeing up Fedora Onyx for the immutable root
Kagi now lets you pay with Bitcoin or Lightning.

This way you are not depending on a 3rd party payment processor.
>how everyone in HN just assumed he was "innocent".

Did they? You should try scrolling through the original thread and ctrl-Fing [edit: removed the single word that was getting me downvoted to oblivion, my point is that people were quick to jump to very serious/troubling conclusions to explain his firing and explicitly weren't jumping to innocent]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611
Liveuamap
This is actually the intended way of using git. Pick any random mailing list of the lore [1] and select a thread that has [PATCH] in the name to see this in action.

I just grabbed a random patchset off of the git mailing list and linked it below [2] to demonstrate this.

You'll notice that on top of the overall patchset (equivalent to a PR) having a detailed description (in the coverletter, i.e. PATCH 00/xx), each commit has a descriptive name, message detailing what the changes within do, and signoffs by everyone who contributed to it.

Then as each reviewer comes in, they review each individual patch (i.e. commit) separately, replying to the message for that patch. And any high level concerns can be in reply to the coverletter (addressing the entire patchset).

As the contributor responds to comments and makes the requested changes, those changes get made per patch/commit via rebasing rather than just added on top. And when they are finished making the revisions, a new v2 patchset is released in reply to the cover letter of the first patchset, now also containing a diff per commit/patch against the previous revision.

Then the cycle repeats until everyone is happy. At that point the maintainer will merge the changes into their incubation branch (the git devs call theirs `next`) and after some time has passed, they merge it into master/main and it becomes established history.

The worst part of the whole workflow is that it uses email but other than that it is a far preferable reviewing experience to using github's stock pull request workflow.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/

2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231010123847.2777056-1-christi...
> We might say there are two Ridley Scotts, expressed in the colour palettes that have come to dominate his later films: a Ridley Scott of greys and blues, of toil and depression and the cold and hostile northern landscapes of Prometheus and Alien Covenant, (..)

Great article, but IMO it's missing the aspect of Ridley Scott apparently being increasingly less interested in story than in visual presentation, which I believe explains especially the varying quality of his more-recent movies.

As someone who was really looking forward to Prometheus and the continuation of the Alien franchise, the final product was quite a disappointment. Not visually but in terms of the overall storyline. Later seeing the making-of [1] of Prometheus clearly illustrates the problem: Ridley Scott, certainly a master of visual storytelling, shaped the story based on the images he wanted to see. Scriptwriters then ghastly had to make these images happen in the story.

The same can also be said to some extend about his later views on Blade Runner, where he destroyed the storyelement of ambiguity whether Deckard is himself a Replicant by blatantly answering it.

--

However, it might as well be that some stories actually don't captivate him as much, so he ends up "making the spectacle happen" instead of crafting story and presentation into one coherent piece of film.

[1] https://youtu.be/Emj_-Bx6Qdw
This is basic bullying. I would ask for specific examples of the performance decline. That will also be a "he said you said" situation.

However, sunlight is the best disinfectant. A bully cannot stand in isolation unless he is enabled. But if left too long they can amass too much power as the bully can manipulate enough people to vote for him (see Trump) or manufacture the vote.

In those cases it takes a far larger force to bring about change.
lol. we'll be lucky to keep it under 3x that, given that drastic coordinated action on the scale of the second world war with no fuckups or backsliding would be required to keep at two degrees, and people are involved in implementing any of that, with all the falliability humanity brings to anything and everything. i hate to be a doomer, but i'm just not optimistic that humanity is capable of that degree of coordination on a global scale.
If openssl and skia would switch [to cmake], we'd be on our way.
The worst part, is that at least in public like community channels and tickets, they don't seem to get the point that this has burned lots of bridges with the Windows developer community.

To the point that many might still use Windows, but not necessarly Microsoft frameworks.
The trajectory is 2.5C or even more.

People will resist draconian measures because most won't be alive to witness the worst of it anyway. Behavioral changes as well as tax/cost increases will not get us where we want to be with any speed.

Our only hope is technology and exponential progress. Many models assume a linear progress in their calculations, but sometimes a fly-wheel occurs where all of a sudden, everything happens all at once.

In my town (population: 10K), 10 years ago nobody had solar. 5 years ago, 5% had it. Now you won't see a roof without it. It's contagious. We need to make this go viral in a way that does not belittle or stress people, it should be seen as beneficial to the individual.
> a 13900 or 14000 intel CPU and an NVIDIA 4090 will give m3 performance

???

These are not comparable CPUs with similar core counts or clock speeds. Apple doesn't even sell a GPU that you can compare to the 4090 in benchmarks.
If you group it like that, then there is a whole graveyard of Node and JS technologies that have died along the way, too. Ember.js, AngularJS, Knockout.js, Backbone.js, etc. Waaaaay more than Microsoft's go at it.

I'm not even sure why you're counting WebAPI in there since it's for writing REST APIs.
I was conflicted about originally posting that sentence. I waffled back and forth between, 2, 3, 5…

Three was the compromise I made with myself.
New college graduates are overestimating their starting salaries by $30k
I can think of a few, starting with lack of fragmentation given Blazor's now the "premier" Web Application framework for .NET which has the full focus and developer resources of Microsoft, millions of .NET Developers and 3rd Party Component Developers.

Low platform churn, i.e. Blazor has essentially kept the same development model for 5 years, uses the same MS Build/.NET SDK and Framework libraries that are actively supported by Microsoft. Whilst the JS/FX landscape see's frequent fragmentation, new incompatible major versions, new module loaders, new build tools, 100's of deps which are often abandoned/incompatible after upgrades, etc.

Blazor SSR App's gives you SPA-like responsiveness to traditional SSR Apps by default, i.e. without needing to manage decoupled client routing, complex state, npm deps, build tools, large JS blobs, etc.

Blazor makes it very easy to create encapsulated reusable components, which already sees a large number of 3rd Party component vendors available for it.

The .NET Platform overall is very performant, works flawlessly cross-platform, C# is a very IDE-friendly statically typed language with great tooling e.g. JetBrains Rider is one of the best IDE's available for any language and works cross-platform.
My only consolation is that renewable energy development and free markets are going to make “green” nuclear energy completely obsolete, because solar panels are way cheaper to install and run
No, not really. Not even remotely. Business is ruthless, that's fine. It has to stay clear of fraud and deception. And funny enough, most old school companies do, mowt of the time.
Let me guess. The only valid outcome for you would've been that they disband in order to prevent opening a portal to the cosmic AGI Cthulhu.

Frankly these EA & e/acc cults are starting to get on my nerves.
OpenAI is more religion than company. Sam could be a deeply flawed leader and still have extreme loyalty due to what OpenAI has achieved under his leadership. The people at OpenAI are believers in a mission and that means they’re far more likely to allow personal failings to slide. He’s more a Musk figure than a whoever-the-ceo-of-McDonald’s-is figure.
Maybe this tool can help you disable some of those things: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I call bullshit on your call. Don’t you remember active desktop? That was as bloated as anything and crashed all the time. People having a IE crash screen as their wallpaper and being clueless as to how to get rid of it, was hilarious.
This is what greenwashing gets us. Instead of at least attempting combating climate change for real (gas sequestration, sun shield, spraying chems in the atmo), we are busy shuffling existing emissions around with "credits" and label polluting stuff "green".

I remember last thread on the gas sequestration on HN ended with a uniform hate on the initiative, because it was proposed by the oil&gas corpos (sure, they are bad, but someone needs to at least start trying to capture and bury GH gasses). Oh well, guess our children will be happy with 490-500 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100 and all the nice "green" energy around.
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