skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only experienced that in Sylvania Ohio (a suburb of Toledo). In Vicksburg MS, where I was living in the county...it was a real neighborhood (not the sticks) but we had no parks, well it was the deep south. In outside of Bothell Washington it was the same thing, but I could drive by then so whatever.

I guess I romanticized the big city as a kid, leading me to prefer urban over suburban living for my own kid. Maybe this will backlash and he will choose suburbia for his own kid(s).
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Let me know what you think of it! It works best on landscape images from my tests.
Hard to type though
He wasn't shutting down her academic freedom. However, if you're going to diss what your own company is doing and praise competitors, you probably shouldn't be on the board.

>During the call, Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, said the board was endangering the future of the company by pushing out Mr. Altman. This, he said, violated the members’ responsibilities.

>Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that could be consistent with its mission.

This person is too far gone. Life isn't a movie.
> You could even look at that as a unique and positive characteristic to leverage, if you weren't trying to prove that they're subsitute human thinkers.

This is the way I think about LLMs: Lovely Little Minds. But your comment points to the opposite. Can you expand the part that you talk about "fuzzy associative networks"? What sort of unique and positive characteristics can we leverage?
I think it's interesting and deserves a longer dive, particularly in car representation and crossover/mutation functions, as well as:

> The optimality of a particular candidate solution (the fitness function) is determined by how far it travels before a) a mass touches the ground or b) time runs out.

How do you sort among the millions of possible solutions that automatically die upon touching ground.
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Because if you want your kids’ peers in school to mostly be from households that earn a similar or higher income than your household, the best way to do that is to move to a school district with the biggest lots and homes you can afford, thereby ensuring the population of the school is made up only of people who can afford all the space and driving.

It is literally what makes “good” school districts “good”, the household incomes of the student population. And moving to a suburban place filters that nicely. Same reason why residents will often times oppose apartment developments, since they allow lower income residents to move into the district.
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Performance gains wouldn’t be that large as enterprise SSDs already have internal capacitors to flush pending writes to NAND.

During typical usage the flash controller is constantly journaling LBA to physical addresses in the background, so that the entire logical to physical table isn’t lost when the drive loses power. With a larger capacitor you could potentially remove this background process and instead flush the entire logical to physical table when the drive registers power loss. But as this area makes up ~2% of the total NAND, that’s at absolute best a 2% performance benefit we are potentially missing out on.
Netflix and Whatsapp can't be too wrong in their choice.

Most companies aren't Netflix, Whatsapp, Google, etc. Netflix can afford to run FreeBSD because they have staff that are intimately familiar with tuning it and hacking on the kernel. That's not most companies.

No one said anything about entrenched systems that already use Linux or other systems.

GNU/Linux is entrenched pretty much everywhere at this point. Think about your stack. Does anything you use depend on GNU userland tools? Yeah, you'll get real good at rooting out hardcoded paths and dependencies on GNU extensions. Are your coworkers used to GNU tools? Well, there's a learning curve. Do you use nodejs at your company? The node maintainers actively refused to merge trivial patches to get current versions to build on FreeBSD (and the port itself stagnated).

Evaluating something that's not-Linux is neat and cool, I get it. But the reality is switching will incur a heavy up front (and potentially long-term depending on the candidate pool) cost and lots of long-term paper cuts.
There is a difference between independent from an organization, and someone that takes a public stand against a company. Reading that paper, which I am not really impressed with, they are taking a stance that openai's current trajectory is not as good as a competitor. I bet that if a Microsoft board member wrote a paper how Google search is better than Bing / AWS Better than Azure / OSX better than Windows they would be reprimanded also.
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> models would somehow be trained on data from native speakers, so why the accent?

you wouldn't believe it, but models haven't been trained yet. as usual.
It all smacks of someone given the power to do something who then has to do that something, even if it is on a pretext. Power is best exercised by restraint, not by action, until there is no other way.
The board can't compel the CEO to do specific things, only replace them.
Or maybe doctors are happy prescribing pills to paper over mundane life issues.

It’s also a nasty feedback loop where all of this “mental health awareness” is blasted at kids all day and they start to assume there is a 50/50 chance they have anxiety and start to… get anxious about it.
Code review is not a "ritual". Our code is our output, and it is paid work. Most professions have some level of review. Go speak to a chartered accountant or an engineer and complain about the "ritual" of peer review and see how far you get.

We are professionals and it's about time we started acting like it.
I just got hired on for a greenfield project. It's a little different since it's in the contracting space. I contacted some colleagues from a previous company who were all working at the same company, told them what I wanted to do and basically wrote my own job description.

I'm taking project-ware and extracting customer specific requirements and code and making things built for a specific contract more generalizable and configurable.

Using a lot of things experience from two decades of contract work building the baseline config systems, data quality tools and subsystems that will allow project teams to use our of the box components to do implementation work with what amounts to code Legos. This is a very specific domain which is what makes any of this possible but it's a lot of fun. We're basically turning our contract group into a branded solutions group.

It's a neat intersection of product and project that I have not found much literature or past work on and decided to build it myself.
But she was biased. She seemed so biased against her own company that her intended course of action seems to be to destroy it.
Perhaps these were previously scheduled, and posted by an assistant or social media manager?
What are the credentials for the entry-level paths to positions? A phd?
I've ran greenfield at FAANG, and smaller companies.

Greenfield at smaller companies has more technical decisions to be made, since as you say, FAANG already has strongly preferred frameworks.

It's a shame, since making technical decisions is an important source of professional growth.
This is a non-profit, not a for profit company. Nominally, she's on the board precisely to criticize.
Once you get past a certain level of wealth, the esteem of your fellow humans matters more than acquiring even more goods and services.
What is it that yogis were right about?
I walked across a street with a light I had to wait for starting in 1st grade. I was lucky it was less than a mile away. By 4th grade I had to walk most of a mile to a bus stop. By 6th grade I was riding 4 miles to junior high, then 5 miles to high school. The 80s had still had huge land barge Cadillac's, early SUVs

When did I stop going out? When there was dialup internet and MUDs.
If she has a justifiable reason for holding that position it isn't bias.
No, she replaced Holden Karnofsky, who was almost certainly the one to pick her.
I've heard it's a nice language. If you know English and French, you should be able to pick it up quickly.
ok that is .... im kind of dumbstruck. this product is absolutely incredible, its like Jarvis from Iron Man but its free?

Thank you
>Isn't the whole reason we have non-profit boards and charters is so that they can make just this kind of call?

Yes. From the board. That's why we typically don't see boards air their dirty laundry out in the open even when in retrospect, they obviously had a problem with leadership.
In a word: liability.
It's not a matter of what I think, it's a matter of fact. I quoted Wikipedia, and the paragraph that discussed this in your link looks essentially the same as my quote. Let's take a peek at the one from your link - the first sentence is...

>The group’s other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists: Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba.

That sentence explicitly lists who the founders are. Note that neither Musk nor Altman are listed before the period closes it out. The next sentence goes on to say...

>Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine, and Vishal Sikka are advisors to the group.

Alright, cool - we've moved on from the list of founders, I see. It's not until the next sentence that we find out that..

>OpenAI’s co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

So, OpenAI themselves made it a point to separate "founders" from "co-chairs" in their own announcement. I don't really know how it could be any clearer than that.
> The whole reductionist construct of "whiteness", beloved by so many contemporary scholars has little currency in the minds and hearts of many Americans educated before the wave of critical race theory

Whiteness and “white passing” is a bar that is literally centuries old. CRT is not the culprit for its current scrutiny or existence - it has been and continues to be a litmus test for who qualifies as the “in” and “out” groups.

As the old adage goes: “we know who we are by who we are not.” It’s an ugly side of humanity and not a recent issue.

Simply put, “whiteness” and “white passing” are the result of people who consider themselves white wanting to exclude and/or include certain groups because, generally speaking in the west, being white = wielding social, cultural, and political power.
>It's not reported as much as it should be, but at one point in 2021 the OpenAI board had 10 people on it. In the beginning of 2023 it had 9 people. 3 stepped down over the course of 2023 and were not replaced, leaving only 6 in place by the time of last week's fiasco.

Something bothered me when I read the board members' bios after Altman's firing but didn't figure out until today; it's not so much what they say, as much as what they don't say. There is no greybeard, some seasoned current/former C-level at another company (no, the CEO of Quora does not quality). There is no VC representative.

My question: Did the board ever have such people?

(I realize that OpenAI has this weird nonprofit/profit ownership arrangement which I still don't get, and that the VC board members/observers are presumably on the profit side, but that still doesn't answer the implied question!)
Llama 2 does, but Llama does not. Vicuna is based on Llama.
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Reminds of a pro-tip some wizard told me when I was a wee lad in year 1 of my career as a software dev:

Leave some glaringly misplaced or ugly in the UX, the boss/client will ask you to change that and won't nitpick other things that aren't worth the time. A kind of bait if you will for nitpick feedback.
It's intuitive to look at size (as in lines changed) as a complexity metric. What is interesting about this article is that they measured what effect the number of files changed in the PR had on review and time to merge. The more files changed, the slower the review... If there were too many files changed, then the reviewer would spend less time looking at the changes before approving.
I really don't know the full story here, but I will note that when women in power do their job, their actions are frequently interpreted in an ugly and uncharitable way that men are less likely to get.

They get characterized as "bossy", like it's an ugly personality trait, and not like they are the boss and it's their job to do something about a thing.
Vector Databases: The Engine Behind Today's AI Revolution
Funny, I thought elected officials held that role, but apparently I'm mistaken.
I am not exaggerating when I say that if I had the power to do so, if you gave me a 10,000 line PR I would fire you on the spot. As far as I'm concerned that is professional negligence.

(Obviously I make exceptions for things like large scale code generation or automated refractors).
i read through most of moldbug's blog, and also knew his name and rhetorical style from crooked timber comments. possibly he was less racist than his followers? or just more circumspect about it. in any case, he attempted to justify his anti-liberal philosophy, at quite extreme length, but never on the basis of racism; so if racism was a core belief of his neoreactionary thought, it was apparently at a subconscious level

i remained unpersuaded in any case, steadfastly liberal

also, much to my surprise, he and i were both members of the first coworking space at spiral muse house in san francisco in 02006. but i didn't go very often, so i don't know if i ever met him; in any case that was before he revealed his identity
My teenager has screens, and he is a total nerd. When we are in our sea of US suburbia, where there is absolutely nothing to do, and no neighbor kids that share much with him, he just chooses screens at all times.

But come summer, I take him to a small Spanish port town. It has beaches where teens can surf and spearfish. There's always an available pickup game of soccer or basketball, even at midnight. Bars and restaurants one can walk to, and complete independence, barring budgetary constraints. The area that in the US has a dozen teenagers, over there has about 300 or so. Suddenly it's not all screens, because there are competing alternatives. Want to go play DnD poolside with the nerdiest of the lot? No need to ask anyone.

Suburbs don't force kids into being alone in front of screens, any more than they force adults to be lonely and asocial. But they so do change the level of effort required to do anything else.
> he becomes more sympathetic as the days go by

PR in action!

He's had an excellent PR machine running since Friday and the opposing faction seems to have exactly none (which makes sense given their relative roles and backgrounds). So reporters and Twitter get carefully crafted leaks, tips, and comments from one side and nobody on the other side has the experience, connections, and confidence to push back with a different narrative. And so the story drifts in their favor.

This is why professional PR is a thing and earns people lots of money.
> This article implicitly assumes that a single PR corresponds to a single commit.

It doesn't?

As for the rest of your comment, this is why we have feature flags. What you're describing should be a single PR. I don't care how many commits it is.
Tell the AI to respond with "..." until you end your prompt with a certain phrase.
NRx views SSC as a useful blog to read in 2013-2017. Oh looks like you did too. Can't believe you're "sympathetic to NRx views."
If you're talking about a home lab or workstation environment I would 100% back everything up and start from a clean system. Go back to FreeBSD 9 or 10, in-place upgrades have consistently bit me in the ass. Installer getting wedged, problems upgrading the boot loader, disk labels, freebsd-update getting wedged, you name it.

If you're talking about a production environment, ideally your machines are more-or-less immutable anyways in which case you wouldn't be upgrading in place anyhow.
The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE
Nice doc
author https://github.com/hanwen
FWIW, I've had SK Hynix parts in my Dell laptops before.

I agree about Sabrent.
Because almost without exception these neighborhoods were built a long time ago, are closer to the city center and are the most expensive in the city. Until a few years ago it was possible for upper middle class like the dear readers of HN to afford these neighborhoods in middle tier cities like Boise, Austin, Denver, Nashville, etc. but now even those are out of reach unless you are wealthy or willing to pay most of your income in mortgage AND have two working parents.
Tension Between Helen Toner and Altman at OpenAI
I'm not reading that at all
You're forgetting about the `const` function ;) A martingale is a process whose next expected value is equal to the current value. Suddenly, it's all AI!
Where else can they participate in this possibly humanity-changing, history-making research? The list is very, very short.
> she does wield a fairly material form of power.

How? Being a board member is not enough. There were aready likely two against her in this case, while the rest is unknown.
I think you're taking the intuition from a for-profit company and wrongly applying it to a non-profit company. When a board member criticizes a for-profit company, that's bad because the goal of the company is make a profit, and bad PR is bad for profit. A board member criticizing a non-profit doesn't have the same direct connection to a result opposite of the goals of the company. And if you actually read the page, it's an extremely mild criticism of OpenAI's decisions.

This situation is simultaneously "reckless board makes ill-considered mistake to suddenly fire CEO with insufficient justification" and "non-profit CEO slowly changes the culture of a non-profit to turn it into profit-seeking enterprise that he has a large amount of control over".
This is the quality content i come to HN for. Less gossipp about openai please.
idkfa
Nice idea, where is the execution?
Given that the alternative has typically wound up as tofu-dreg towers or khrushchevkas, I think capitalist suburbs are the lesser evil.
A quick search suggests he's worth $500 million. He will keep eating and paying his rent or mortgage even if he is nominally unemployed for a time.

People who get titles like CEO are supposed to be someone whose word you can trust and who makes firm decisions they stand by, not a flake looking for any shelter in the storm like a working stiff with no savings.
Anyone using Vivaldi? It supports Chrome extensions and has built in ad blocking. Just started playing around with it, has some interesting features like tabs tiling and a built in rss reader, and fast performance.
Only con so far I’ve found is the ui is a bit cluttered.
I believe Martin Shkrelli would disagree

I think that (sadly) the key distinction in the American justice system has to do with how easily it is to justify your prosecution to the public. If you're wildly popular, you're probably able to get away with quite a lot. If you're wildly unpopular, it's probably pretty easy to get a conviction on any number of things.
that would be true for a for-profit company where her fiduciary duty was to shareholders, but in this case, given the charter in question, not publicly criticizing the company would be more likely to be a breach of her fiduciary duty
Left-handed people have a slight advantage in badminton
I've been using Bard since it came out. Its trajectory, in my opinion, has been "pretty shitty" → "pretty good" → "completely shitty".
So he criticized her and threatened her board position, and then she orchestrated a coup to oust him? Masterful. Moves and countermoves. You have to applaud her strategic acumen, and execution capability, perhaps surprising given her extensive background in policy/academia. Tho maybe it's as Thiel says (about academia: "The battles are so fierce because the stakes are so small") and that's where she developed her Machiavellian skills?

Of course, it could also be that whatever interest groups she represents could not bare to lose a seat.

Whether initiated by her or her backers (or other board forces), I can't see any of the board stepping down if these are the kind of palace intrigues that have been occurring. They are all clearly so desperate for power they will cling to the positions on this rocketship for dear life. Even if it means blowing up the rocketship so they can keep their seat.

Microsoft can't spend good will erasing the entire board and replacing it, even tho it's near major shareholder because too much values the optics around its relationship to AI right now.

A strong, effective leader in the first place would have prevented this kind of situation. I think the board should be reset and replaced with more level headed, less ideological, more experienced veterans...tho picking a good board is no easy task.
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Hello [UserName], my name is Doctor Sbaitso.

I am here to help you. Say whatever is in your mind freely,
our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. Memory contents will be wiped off after you leave,

So, tell me about your problems.
"Thank you! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I'm here to help!"

- the author of the summary, probably
A bit disappointing that not everyone falls for ai fud.
So if I make an app using any type of predictive ML I have to go thru this?
Being a co-author of that publication was not her performing her role as an OpenAI board member, it was her day job.
Just tried it, and yeah — it's pretty bad. It first told me that OpenAI's latest model is GPT-3 and only budged to 3.5 after follow-up questions.

I mean, isn't retrieving up-to-date and accurate information from the internet the whole Google's thing?
It's probably not going to become interesting until their Gemini model debuts and Bard is transitioned over to it.
So, at least the outline of something that is consistent begins to form:

- board is reduced in size

- Altman has a collision with Toner

- Toner proposes they get rid of Sam and offer the company to Anthropic thinking they won't refuse

- They pull the trigger on Altmans's ouster, Ilya goes along for /reasons/, D'Angelo goes along because it nicely dovetails with his own interests and #4 is still a mystery

- Mira gets named interim CEO

- Anthropic is approached, but, surprise refuses, possibly on account of the size of the shitstorm that was already developing

- Mira sees no way out without simply trying to backtrack to Thursday last week

- Gets fired for that because it is the last thing the cabal wants

- They approach Shear to be their new CEO

- Who has now apparently announced that if the board doesn't come clean he will resign

- <= you are here.

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I did indeed miss this - thanks so much for the link! Will definitely be digging in here, and hopefully it's helpful to many on this thread!
I had a conversation with ChatGPT about this announcement to help me understand it better. I found it helpful (seriously,) so I'm posting a link to the chat here. Apologies if this sort of thing is inappropriate for a comment thread on HN. Let me know if it's uncool and I won't do it again:

https://chat.openai.com/share/635b8198-166b-4c53-abb5-7d4050...