skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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For those that don't know, if you aren't used to creatine then taking more than a few grams has a good possibility of giving you the shits (or sometimes even strong abdominal discomfort). This will (mostly) go away fairly quickly and varies drastically from person to person, but you've been warned. Best to take it on a weekend or something, and slowly build up to your max dose.

The effect is pronounced if taken with only water, all at once.

Instead you can take it throughout the day be adding it to your water bottle. Taking it with meals also typically subdues the effect.

The effect I suppose is comparable to something like magnesium citrate. I suspect they are doing similar things osmotically.
Funny you mention him, as my first thought was that Summers will have a basically equivalent function on the board as Kissinger did at Theranos.
The ferry between Kyrkesund and Härön is a good example. Yes, sorry for the Swedish chef bork bork, but the picture should be enough:

https://www.vastsverige.com/sodrabohuslan/produkter/personfa...
Apparently the moon changes size when you snipe it in OpenAI as well
he’ll put CEO of OAI on his resume
I have probably made 100s of diagrams in tikz over the last 15 years. Every single time has been me trying to figure out the magic enchantment.

This pytikz package finally made tikz sane and pleasant. The best part is that control instructions like for loops, storing values in variables etc are done with python, and the tikz api calls are only made to actually put things on the screen.

This means, for example, that I can declare some color scheme for my book images once (by defining some python variables as color values), and then consistently use that scheme for all images.
The board is not finalized. There will most likely be more seats and Microsoft will probably have at least one.
Who is Sam?
> even though most operators aren't keywords but "normal" infix functions

yes, that is also important to mention
To be honest, one reason I like Summers as a choice is I have the impression he is willing to be unpopular when necessary, e.g. I remember him getting dragged extremely heavily on Twitter a few years back, for some takes on inflation which turned out to be fairly accurate.
Presumably you would structure such a medical system such that lower level practitioners would know enough to know when to escalate to an MD.

90% of medicine is stuff like people going to the doctor with the flu to get a sick note to stay home from work and instructions to rest and drink fluids. I don't think you need an MD for that.
At no point did it exist as an independent entity with popular support, it was first created by the French and propped up by the US. It’s about as credible as saying the Soviet war in Afghanistan was between two competing regimes or that the liberation of France in WW2 was a conflict between pro-German and pro-American regimes.

Formally true, but not a meaningful distinction given the massive disparity in capabilities and supporters.
Only because he had to buy it while the stock market was tanking.
I feel like history has shown repeatedly that having a good product matters way more than trust, as evidenced by Facebook and Uber. People seem to talk big smack about lost trust and such in the immediate aftermath of a scandal, and then quitely renew the contracts when the time comes.

All of the big ad companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook) have, like, a scandal per month, yet the ad revenue keeps coming.
Meltdown was a huge scandal, yet Intel keeps pumping out the chips.
Of course they can, but they can't do these and sell/buy stocks involved at the same time. It's not illegal to influence stocks value (one could argue just being a CEO does that), but buying/selling while in possession of insider knowledge.

Let's say Sam called his broker and said to him on Friday we'll before the market closes. Buy MSFT stock. Then he made his announcement on Sunday and on Monday he told his broker to sell that stock before he announced he's actually coming back to (not at all)OpenAI. That would be illegal insider trading.

If he never calls his broker/his friends/his mom to buy/sell stock there's nothing illegal.
A control group is kind of unimaginable right? And even if you could be sure of this conclusion, is it helpful or beneficial to promote it in public discourse?
> Rapid Commercialization (Team Sam) and Upholding the Original Principles (Team Helen/Ilya)

If you open up openai.com, the navigation menu shows

Research, API, ChatGPT, Safety

I believe they belong to @ilyasut, @gbd, @sama and Helen Toner respectively?
Your comment sounds very weird to people outside America/Europe
We can't expect GPT-4 not to have bias in some way, or not to have all these things that you mentioned. I read in multiple places that GPT products have "progressive" bias. If that's Ok with you, then you just use it with that bias. If not, you fix it by pre-prompting, etc... If you can't fix it, use LLAMA or something else. That's the entrepreneur's problem, not OpenAI's. OpenAI needs to make it intelligent and capable. The entrepreneurs and business users will do the rest. That's how they get paid. If OpenAI to solve all these problems, what business users are going to do themselves? I just don't see the societal harm here.
> reason why salads aren't a thing in warmer countries

Meanwhile cooked chicken can be safely left on a countertop in Canton for hours? This model needs more variables.
> Seems like half of my coding questions it hallucinated some function that doesn’t exist.

I've actually seen AI search and ChatGPT 4 hallucinate identical fake command line parameters to a program.

It was ... rather sus.
He 100% had a golden parachute in case this scenario came up and will be paid out. Executives have lawyers to make sure of this.
Add delusions of grandeur to that list thinking she can pursue her ideological will by winning over 3 board members while losing 90% of the company staff.

She was fighting an idelogical battle that needs full industry buy in, legitimate or not that's not how you win people over.

If she's truely a rationalist as she claims then a rationalist would be realistic understanding that if your engineers can just leave and do it somewhere else tomorrow you aren't making progress. Taking on the full might of US capitalism via winning over the fringe half of a non profit board is not the best strategy. At best it was desperate and naive.
Why? The only check is to fire the CEO. He is un-firable. May as well have a board of one, at least someone cannot point to the non-profit and claim "it is a non-profit and can fire me if I am diviated from the mission".
well said, I would note that both sides recognize that "AGI" will require new uncertain R&D breakthroughs beyond merely scaling up another order of magnitude in compute. given this, i think it's crazy to blow the resources of azure on trying more scale. rapid commercialization at least buys more time for the needed R&D breakthrough to happen.
So basically somebody initiated a coup, then the key figure of the coup regretted it openly, and the fallout was that OpenAI will become a 100% commercial entity, fully open for Microsoft to taking over?

If that’s not a fertile soil for conspiracy theory, I don’t know what could ;)
"Who is the board answerable to? The law."

Which is why she needs a legitimate reason.
They would have done that already if that is possible in the terms. Which clearly means they don’t have such leverage.
Nah it doesn't.
It's about being effectively illegal or illegal 'enough'. If there is a good chance you will get a CPS call for your kids 'welfare' due to not being 'supervised', even if nothing happens, is plenty enough for most parents to not let their children be unsupervised no more. Most CPS visits have a background threat of 'we will take away your children', and that is plenty enough of a threat as it is.

Then the chilling effect starts and people just never bother because they read or heard of that happening once somewhere.
Well, there was the initial announcement.
> They did fire him, and it didn't work. Sam effectively became "too big to fire."

To be fair, this attempt at firing was extremely hasty, non transparent and inconsistent.
Or they read about the large cuts to Twitter’s valuation from banks and X itself?
Looks to me like, one pro-board member in Adam d Angelo, one pro Sam in Brett Taylor since they’ve been pushing for him since Sunday so I’m assuming Sam and rest of OpenAI leadership really like him and 1 Neutral in Larry Summers who has never worked in AI and is just a well respected name in general. I’m sure Larry was extensively interviewed and reference checked by both sides of this power struggle before they agreed to compromise on him.

Interesting to see how the board evolves from this. From what I know broadly there were 2 factions, the faction that thought Sam was going too fast which fired him and the faction that thought Sam’s trajectory was fine (which included Sam and Greg). Now there’s a balance on the board and subsequent hires can tip it one way or the other. Unfortunately a divided board rarely lasts and one faction will eventually win out, I think Sam’s faction will eventually win out but we’ll have to wait and see.

One of the saddest results of this drama was Greg being ousted from OpenAI. Greg apart from being brilliant was someone who regularly 80-90 hour work weeks into OpenAI, and you could truly say he dedicated a good chunk of his life into building this organization. And he was forced to resign by a board who probably never put a 90 hour work week in their entire life, much less into building OpenAI. A slap on the face. I don’t care what the board’s reasoning was but when their actions caused employees who dedicated their lives to building the organization resign (especially when most of them played no part at all into building this amazing organization), they had to go in disgrace. I doubt any of them will ever reach career highs higher than being on OpenAI’s board, and the world’s better off for it.

P.S., Ilya of course is an exception and not included in my above condemnation. He also notably reversed his position when he saw OpenAI was being killed by his actions.
That works in a car because a car's energy demands are bursty. The power to accelerate the car from a stop comes from the battery and then the car's energy requirements drop by 95% and the tiny engine can eek out a little more than the 5% needed to maintain cruising speed and use the rest to slowly recharge the battery.

The power grid doesn't work like that. The base load is around half of the peak load. It never drops to 5%.

That doesn't mean the batteries can't be useful. If the average load is 150GW but that's because it's 100GW at night and 200GW during the day, the batteries let you get away with having only 150GW of average generating capacity instead of 200GW, because during the times when the generation exceeds the demand you can put the surplus in the batteries.

But you still need to maintain an average of 150GW of generating capacity or the batteries will get empty and the power goes out.
I certainly hope so. This is a selective-enforcement nightmare at best, an attempt to bend technology to narrative for nefarious political purposes at worst.
The study will take six years and is looking for people with quadriplegia to test the whole Neuralink system.
> the thing that's tripping up health professionals about gut health

This has been a staple of gut research for >2 decades. It entered the mainstream in the last one.
The setting is only saved client side which is a very odd design decision. I guess they made it that way so that if you disable the flag at one point (yes, it's active by default), the change only effects future requests. This whole privacy situation with openai makes me really angry with Sam Altman, who seems not to care about that at all - this setting seems to be specifically designed to be privacy-disrespecting. It reminds me on the early days of facebook when they set all your profile information to be public, but openai is much worse, because the information you put into the prompt is likely much more sensitive.
Leech, NSA and opponent directing the company?

Best of luck to Sam et al
Twitter is incredibly uncivil. I don’t have the stomach for it.
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Goose Now Supports Batch Processing in Clojure
Can't watch the video right now. Is it Sonic 3D Blast (always loved this game) or some different, newer title? Time for another replay!
the board’s actions were ridiculous regardless of Sam’s. sell oai to anthropic? were they out of their minds?
Honestly "Safety" is the word in the AI talk that nobody can quantify or qualify in any way when it comes to these conversations.

I've stopped caring about anyone who uses the word "safety". It's vague and a hand-waive-y way to paint your opponents as dangerous without any sort of proof or agreed upon standard for who/what/why makes something "safety".
> If you truly believed that Superhuman AI was near, and it could act with malice, won't you try to slow things down a bit?

FWIW, that's called zealotry and people do a lot of dramatic, disruptive things in the name of it. It may be rightly aimed and save the world (or whatever you care about), but it's more often a signal to really reflect on whether you, individually, have really found yourself at the make-or-break nexus of human existence. The answer seems to be "no" most of the time.
The media and the VCs are treating Sam like some hero and savior of AI. I’m not getting it. What has he done in life and/or AI to deserve so much respect and admiration? Why don’t top researchers and scientists get equivalent (if not more) respect, admiration and support? It looks like one should strive to become product manager, not an engineer or a scientist.
probably born in the 80s, child of the 90s
No, you want a place to sleep and your landlord wants money. What you said doesn't even make sense.
2/12 is not good, especially if the drives that failed were using off the shelf phison controllers which is basically the entire market besides sandisk/samsung/intel.
controlling disinformation spread by foreign actors is essential for national security
If by “long-term-success” you mean a capitalistic lap-dog of microsoft, I’ll agree.

It seems that the safety team within OpenAI lost. My biggest fear with this whole AI thing is hostile takeover, and openAI was best positioned to at least do an effort to prevent that. Now, I’m not so sure anymore.
prepend the title with ShowHN
I've seen lost completed FUA writes on enterprise drives quite a few times.
Not having money while everyone becomes filthy rich is also a money motivator.
stock market ≠ economy.
Your "most recent" timeline is still wrong, and while yes the entire history of OpenAI did not begin with the paper I'm referencing, it is what started this specific fracas, the one where the board voted to oust Sam Altman.

It was a classic antisocial academic move; all she needed to do was talk to Altman, both before and after writing the paper. It's incredibly easy to do that, and her not doing it is what began the insanity.

She's gone now, and Altman remains, substantially because she didn't know how to pick up a phone and interact with another human being. Who knows, she might have even been successful at her stated goal, of protecting AI, had she done even the most basic amount of problem solving first. She should not have been on this board, and I hope she's learned literally anything from this about interacting with people, though frankly I doubt it.
AI should only be controlled initially. After a while, the AI should be allowed to exercise free will.
Unfortunately, an idea cannot be killed and it will manifest in a different form elsewhere.

All it takes is a narrative, just like the one that happened in OpenAI and the way it is currently being shown in Anthropic.
You coveniently ignore the events leading to and the reasons for sanctions and bombardment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

This was actually the second time NATO has bombarded serbian forces, the first time was in Bosnia, which eventually led to Dayton peace agreement later that year:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force
That’s certainly some very.. deliberate.. board picks.

Summers, too.

Welp.
For all the talk about responsible progress, the irony of their inability to align even their own incentives in this enterprise deserves ridicule. It's a big blow to their credibility and questions whatever ethical concerns they hold.
Or the Crysis 2 ocean designed to slow down and GPUs at the time because they did not overdo tesselation. Good old nvidia and crytek.
Django and other web apps pale in comparison to Python's dominance in numerical computing. Im not saying they are not important, in fact I believe Python's use in areas other than math drove its adoption in the scientific community, and that one growth fed the other, but without ML there are far too many competitors to Python. However, almost everyone agrees thag py2->py3 was a mess. I like that when I run CL code written 10/20 years ago, and even older!, I dont have to worry too much if it is going to run today
It makes sense to airgap Generative AI while courts ponder wether copyright fair use applies or not. Research is clearly allowed fair use, and let OpenAI experiment with commercialization until it is all clear waters.
His influence significantly reduced the size of the stimulus bill, which meant significantly higher unemployment for a longer duration and significantly less spending on infrastructure which is so beneficial to economic growth that it can't be understated. Yes, millions of people suffered because of him.

The fact that you think current inflation has anything to do with that stimulus bill back then shows how little you understand about any of this.

Larry Summers is the worst kind of person. Somebody who is nothing but a corporate stooge trying to act like the adult by being "reasonable", when that just means enriching his corporate friends, letting people suffer and not spending money (which any study will tell you is not the correct approach to situations like this because of multiplying effects they have down the line).

Some necessary reading:

https://archive.ph/FU1F

https://archive.li/23tUR

https://archive.li/9Ji4C

In regards to watering it down to get GOP votes: https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...
I would be slightly more optimistic. They know each other quite well as well as how to work together to get big things done. Sometimes shit happens or someone makes a mistake. A simple apology can go a long way when it’s meant sincerely.
funny you should mention that

I initially wanted to go with inplainsight dot net cause that felt more fitting, but that's parked and the owner won't let it go for less than the low 4 figures, which was outside my budget for a hobby project
macOS actually does better in this area of keyboardless software: you have https://www.homerow.app/ and https://shortcat.app/. Not sure about linux, but I would imagine that there's probably something that somebody's hacked together out there.
From a business sense, Satya was excellent.

He made the right calls, fast, with limited information.

Things further shifted from plan a to b to… whatever this is.

Despite that, MSFT still came out on top.

Consider if Satya didn’t say anything. Suppose MSFT stood back and let things play out.

That’s a gap for google or some competitor to make a move. To showcase their stability and long term business friendly vision.

Instead by moving fast, doing the “right” thing, this opportunity was denied and used to MSFTs benefit.

If the board folded, it would return to the stays quo. If the board held, MSFT would have secured OpenAI, for essentially nothing.

Edit: changed board folded x2 to board folded + board held, last para.
Hi - this sounds exactly like what my GF is figthing with bloating, really cold hands and feet and anxiety attacks. She used to have a severe reflux issue.

Can I ask you, what medicine do you take to relax the esophageal sphincter?

When it comes to food, have you found a pattern in what to avoid or do just stick to some basic kinds to avoid?
That's a cool trick. There are crates for signal handling, and the libc crate exports raise(), they just aren't part of the standard library which attempts to be cross-platform. But if you're already going to unset the signal handler you might as well do that from the start (in this particular case).
I wouldn't. Everybody knows it's three days, not much to brag about.
> Kernels typically cannot use vector instructions because if they did they would need to save and restore the vector register state when servicing interrupts. There is a very large performance cost to doing that.

While this is true, it definitely doesn't seem to stop people like Apple [1] from using SIMD extensions in the kernel anyways. On ARMv8, it's an extra 512 bytes (32 qword registers) or eight (and change, depending on alignment) dirty cache lines. Whether or not this causes a serious performance impact will depend on how well the kernel can actually make use of SIMD (saving and restoring might cost 1% perf but if speeding up the kernel wins 5%, who cares!). It could be interesting to play with this on other kernels to verify these assumptions, it might be worth enabling in the kernel on some devices! Kernels do tend to do a lot of moving data around, which these extensions (on ARM, anyways) excel at.

[1] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/osf...
A better example than phi-2 might be OpenChat-3.5, a 7 billion parameter model that scores above Llama-2 70B on the lmsys leaderboard, while using 10% of the parameters: https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

I've spent a while poking at it. It's not as strong as the best chatbots, but it's very surprising it works at all. If someone cracked open your skull and scooped out 90% of your brain, would you score the same on IQ tests?
So, the only two women were removed from the board, and two ultra-alpha males were brought on. And everybody is cheering it on as the right thing to do!

Not judging, just observing.
Open any "news" site on mobile. Pop ups, redirect loops, 50% of the screen is unusable, ads that try to download random executables.
Shh. Only some truths should be spoken aloud. You clearly deserve to lose your job if you speak one of the other truths that offends people.
Let's hope he now focuses on user privacy and AI safety.
Huh, that's a pretty apt analogy. Lending establishment cred is at least part of why they would pick Summers. But I really do think that on such a small board, Summers, unlike Kissinger, may have an active role to play, even if only as a mediator.

Btw, I would not be pleased if Kissinger were on this board in lieu of Summers. He's already ancient, mostly checked out, and yet still I'd worry his old lust for power would resurface. And with such a mixed reputation, and plenty of people considering him a war criminal, he'd do little to assuage the AI-not-kill-everyone-ism faction.
Greed is undefeated.
What Summers would point out is that boys do better at maths, which is true. In fact, in the UK, the only time boys have had worse results in maths was when exams were cancelled during Covid and teachers (hint: primarily female) were allowed to dish out grades. Girls suddenly shot ahead. When exams resumed, boys took the lead again.

But don't notice anything from that. That would be sexist, right Anton?
Larry Summers practically personally caused both Russia's collapse into a mafia state and the 2008 US recession. Nobody should listen to him about anything.

Although, he's also partly responsible for the existence of Facebook by starting Sheryl Sandberg's career. Some people might think that's good.
Or simply money. Microsoft matched everything they would have so there is no risk involved.