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The primary motivation behind promising such an "investigation" is an attempt at employee retention by addressing one of OpenAI employee's key concerns, the abrupt, opaque and, frankly bizarre, behavior of the outside board members. We know it's a key employee concern because OpenAI's COO said so in his all-hands email to employees on Friday. This was confirmed in spades by the subsequent open letter to the board signed by over 600 (out of ~770) employees.

At this point we still have no idea what the outside board director's issue might have been but the fact that even their initial internal allies, co-founder/board member Ilya, CTO/interim CEO Mira and the COO, all stopped supporting the three outside directors after engaging directly with them over the weekend is pretty damning. Unfortunately, the scope, conduct and results of any such investigation are all entirely under the control of the three outside board members. The same outside directors that abruptly fired the last interim CEO and the CEO before her in a period of 48 hours. Unlike most boards, they aren't accountable to shareholders, investors, employees or anyone else.
I see a serious lack of street smarts. Of course the money will matter. Enough people would sell their grandmothers for that kind of cash the rules be damned. To believe that you have a few hundred altruistic people for whom the compensation is an afterthought is some next level wishful thinking.
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It seems like we're approaching this from opposite value systems. I think about it as a dad. The most important thing for me is to ensure a good life for my descendants (and by good life I don't mean sitting around playing video games.)

If you cap my ability to do that, that removes the main driver of my motivation.

Why allow kids to benefit from their parents at all? EG, why do immigrant kids get to benefit from their hardworking parens' ability to come to this country and build a life?
trivia fact: Gauss and Dedekind grow up in the same town and went to the same high school.
I feel like we should parse these complaints as "I flew the cheapest airline that unbundles everything, and paying to re-bundle the stuff I wanted made the price higher".
Yes, he prefaced it with 'It is so tempting, when writing about an artificial intelligence company, to imagine science fiction scenarios.' but I left it out for brevity. The rest of the newsletter is, at least to me, insightful and non-sensational.
You could if you were educated enough in DNA synthesis and customer service manipulation to do so, and were smart enough to figure out a novel rna sequence based in publicly available data. I'm not, you're not. A superintelligence would be. The base assumption is that any superintelligence is smarter than us, and can solve problems we can't. AI can already come up with novel chemical weapons thousands of times faster than us[1], and it's way dumber than we are.

And the roomba isn't running the model, it's just storing a portion of the model for backup. Or only running a fraction of it (very different from an iPhone trying to run the whole model). Instead, the proper model is running on the best computer from the Russian botnet it purchased using crypto it scammed from a discord NFT server.

Once again, the premise is that AI is smarter than you or anyone else, and way faster. It can solve any problem that a human like me can figure out a solution for in 30 seconds of spitballing, and it can be an expert in everything.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-...
Well, the public posting of some communications that may be obfuscation of what’s really being done and said.
> His take is that if you give peiple money, they won't work, which will be bad.

Even if I were to concede his first point (which I'm about 50% willing to do - I accept that there are actually "lazy" people in the world who will lack any intrinsic motivation to do stuff), that doesn't mean that his implication - it will be bad - follows.

When considering social policy, it is almost always going to have some good effects and some bad effects. So what we need to ask is not "is it good or bad that some people will not work if we give people money?" but rather "does the good from giving out the money outweigh the bad?"

I think that the answer is unequivocally yes. Your dad might disagree, but he'd have to explain why the bad is bigger/worse than the good.
I'm with you on that, but people get emotionally invested in travel for holidays, weddings, custody, funerals and vacations.

Never in my life have I been in a position of getting to the end of booking a flight and saying "meh, I don't really need to go there anyway."
Because everyone else is speculating, I'm gunna join the bandwagon too.
I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman.

Dustin Moskovitz was an early employee at FB, and the founder of Asana. He also created (along with plenty of MSFT bigwigs) a non-profit called Open Philanthropy, which was a early proponent of a form of Effective Altruism and also gave OpenAI their $30M grant. He is also one of the early investors in Anthropic.

Most of the OpenAI board members are related to Dustin Moskovitz this way.

- Adam D'Angelo is on the board of Asana and is a good friend to both Moskovitz and Altman

- Helen Toner worked for Dustin Moskovitz at Open Philanthropy and managed their grant to OpenAI. She was also a member of the Centre for the Governance of AI when McCauley was a board member there. Shortly after Toner left, the Centre for the Governance of AI got a $1M grant from Open Philanthropy

- Tasha McCauley represents the Centre for the Governance of AI, which Dustin Moskovitz gave a $1M grant to via Open Philanthropy

Over the past few months, Dustin Moskovitz has also been increasingly warning about AI Safety.

In essense, it looks like a split between Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz
4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425745

There is a derivative of the Peter Principle at play here—your startup will rise to the level where it can no longer attract enough talented people. (This sometimes holds true for careers too—the limiting factor for many careers eventually becomes how many talented people you know and can get to work with you.)
Brazil had the same inflation problems and adopted a plan very similar to Cavallo's plan. Brazil also had a lot of corruption and trouble reducing public spending, but came out of it comparatively better. Ultimately, the crux of the 90's failure was the obsession with the dollar running top to bottom in society (caused mainly by the politicians misleading the people about the viability of the peg) and the refusal to de-peg when it was the obvious way ahead. And off we go again...
I'm well aware of the argument that left-wing anarchists make that anarcho-capitalism isn't real anarchism. As per usual, only left-wing anarchists care about this semantic argument. Anarcho-capitalists keep using that term, and 99.9% of the rest of world doesn't know, and wouldn't care even if you explained your point of view to them.

Also, is Murray Rothbard like Voldemort to you? You seem to refuse to even say his name.
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It has a meaning in a business context apart from a slang term
As an aside, it looks like they generated the visualization of the trench run with what looks like analog machinery? Interesting – I was always under the impression that they plotted on a vector display with a PDP-11, and then pointed a camera at that.
Why is spend going up while metrics staying the same? Adblockers? People spending less/less disposable income?
I assume their personal relationship played more of a role, given Sam led Quora's Series D round.
Haskell is a wonderful language, but I don’t think you can claim it’s baggage free. It’s certainly accumulated it’s fair share of technical debt (more in the standard library than the core language to be fair). The endless proliferation of often complex and hard to understand extensions also certainly raises the bar for beginners.
Dell isn't using Qualcomm's modems.

At the heart of the Apple-Qualcomm dispute was the no-license, no-chips policy where Qualcomm won't give you their chips if you don't agree to their license terms. If you want FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) license terms, you don't get Qualcomm's modems. Apple needs Qualcomm's modems for their phones. Dell doesn't have a phone business so they can just use the Intel modems. As an aside, it does look like the laptops which have the modem as an option are $2,000+ for a laptop inferior to what Apple sells for $1,800 (slower processor, less hard drive space, same RAM, garbage 250 nit display).

It's always hard to tease apart enterprise deals since everything is negotiable. Maybe Apple struck a deal with Qualcomm that they'd agree to no-license/no-chips for the iPhone and iPad, but it excluded other categories like laptops. We simply don't know.

LTE/5G laptops are a small segment and data plans are still very expensive. Maybe a few people have gotten a nice unlimited deal, but carriers generally don't want people using lots of data at this point in time. Consumers generally don't want to be spending another monthly fee on their laptop either. It's a bit of a niche market at present. Maybe Apple is hoping to grow it out of a niche if they're able to do it cheaply. Maybe carriers are telling Apple that they are feeling confident about their network capacity in 2028 so it makes the most sense to launch then.

If Apple is launching a 5G laptop, they are going to want to do it with carrier partners who have an easy plan ready for consumers. If that plan is "50GB for $50/mo and then you're throttled to an unusable speed," that isn't something that Apple is going to want to promote to their users. If we're talking about 2028, carriers might feel differently about their network capacity.

Companies like Dell often target niches that Apple doesn't target. Apple creates a select few high-volume configurations. Right now, few people want a cellular modem in their laptop.
My finance advisor said load up on index funds (eg:VOO) for a stable base-portfolio.

When angel investing you'll need 20 deals to finally get a big winner.
I'm a firm believer that greed triumphs over any other possible explanation about why things happen to be the way they are (not that I like it but true is true). So, I'm not surprised in the least that most OpenAI's (and everywhere else's) engineers follow the most profitable path.

It's a delusion to think that the creation of an AGI is something that could be prevented, or that it could be prevented so easily (by firing @sama, lol). The box is already open, and sooner or later somebody out in the world will witness the emergence of a superintelligence in front of its eyes. This is something that, for all practical purposes, needs to be accepted as a fact, so that appropriate measures to deal with it could come up as well.

So, being a bit generous to the OpenAI people, if AGI is going to happen anyway, they might better profit off it while also trying to steer things towards what they think is good, after all, they're presumably "the good guys".
Did MS do anything with Linux before Sataya? At present I believe that the bulk of their Azure hosts are running Linux - their own distro. And AFAIK it is successful.
the pause on sign ups was actually announced last week:

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1724626002595471740
No, really. Those APIs are too low level to be useful for normal applications. Nothing in them is useful for games at all. I don't know why you think it's appropriate to put in these insults either. Cut it out.
I’ve taken uni level courses for all of that but it’s been… 15+ years and is entirely out of my brain. I appreciate the feedback. Sounds like I need to brush up and I appreciate your point about it being a mathematical concept at its foundation
Should post as Ask HN type
I've resigning myself to letting diagrams on the web be images. (1) Design the diagram in TikZ, or anything really, (2) screenshot/crop it, (3) make its background transparent with imagemagick, and (2) convert to .webp

If you're going to build something in JS, you'd have to decide how a wide diagram should adjust to render legibly on a narrower viewport (mobile), and that sounds rough.
> What surprised me in the breakup is the indication that there was apparently more than one person involved for whom it wasn't either cynical deception or empty affectation, but enough to actual make substantive, decisions based on.

Or, potentially, to use their presence on the board of OpenAI to harm OpenAI whilst at the same time increasing the standing of their own product. That conflict of interest is a very ugly one in my opinion and I would not be at all surprised if after all of the smoke has cleared that turns out to have been the driving factor all along. Ilya comes across as wanting to position himself as a useful idiot at this point (which may be true, false or a half truth, I just don't know).
We are looking right now to use a stable PG job queue built in Go.
We have found 2 already existing ones:

* neoq: https://github.com/acaloiaro/neoq

* gue: https://github.com/vgarvardt/gue

Neoq is new and we found it to have some features (like scheduling tasks) that were attractive. The maintainer has also been responsive to fixing our bug reports and addressing our concerns as we try it out.

Gue has been around for a while and is probably serving its users well.

Looking forward to trying out River now. I do wonder if neoq and river might be better off joining forces.
Can't speak to that as I don't buy in Germany, and I'm not buying hundreds of licenses.
Today we just passed 2C of warming. So possibly we very much do need AGI.
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Same, never found any glitch.
We don't have 1 day a week workweeks not because it isn't possible but because we don't live late 19th / early 20th century lifestyles anymore. We have modern cities, infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, power generation, diets, and recreation. I don't think many would want to go back to an agrarian lifestyle where you live in a one or two room brick cottage, walk everywhere, till a field with a very simple, small tractor, eat only what you grow seasonally, have two changes of clothes, and own basically nothing but the bare essentials to clean and feed yourself. If you did that then sure you could share the work between a little commune and maybe get by on a rotation of duties if you had enough up front capital to buy all the labor saving devices and could manage to keep everyone happy enough to share it all equally but I have a feeling it would still wind up being a hard life of poverty. There's also the question of how you keep all of the manufacturing and professional services going with so little demand for their outputs. There are very good reasons why the vast majority of the populace used to be stuck in subsistence farming for life and why that only changed with the advent of mass production and market economies.
My dream ever since I was maybe 10 years old was to be an architect. I loved unique building/structural design. I struggled with math and my passions changed, so I got a degree in history. That got me started in education. Five years later... I run an auto repair shop.

It wasn't my dream, but my work affords me time and money to do the things I want with the people I want. It's funny the turns life can take.
thats such a bummer. are we then doomed to only sample previous artists interpretation of an owl for the rest of time?
>It's not about need or comfort. All that matters is hitting a higher score.

so basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#...?
This looks valuable. And it is from the summer of 2023, so quite current.
This seems to be the most likely explanation of the events. People say how incredibly smart Adam is. That might be true. Nevertheless being smart doesn't mean he is a good fit for a board seat with such a backstabbing attitude. On the other side Helen, having a fancy title "Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology" without much substance if you look closely and Tash, both who got their seat as a donor exchange by organisations and people they are closely connected with are clinging to their seats like super glue when almost all employees signed a letter that they don't want to be governed by them anymore. This board is a masterpiece of fragile egos who accidentally got into the governance of a major company without the ability to contribute anything of substance back. Instead they are being remembered for one of the greatest board screw-ups in business history.
I'm quite sure the will be models specific for all kind of kinks.
Yep. Or, if you're running an immense, well-funded organization that is gauging the consequences of a plan that involves being kicked in the balls, you take a tiny sliver of those funds and get some advisors to appraise you of what to expect when being kicked in the balls, not just wing it/"fake it till you make it". (As it turns out, faking not being in severe pain is tricky.)
Given its strict purity and use of typeclasses over modules I would say roc is more like haskell than it is ocaml.
Google quietly open sourced a 1.6T parameter MOE model
>with a non-profit vestigial organ that will now be excised.

If this happens I'm not trusting any other non-profit org ever again.
it really isn't, and your transparent inauthenticity is tiresome, go be a "joke" writer for steven crowder or whatever people like you do.
I know this is how the US operates, still it's weird to trade cash for criminal allegations. Especially when Binance has been so vilified.

I'm not defending Binance, rather, it feels like the SEC rhetoric went past the point where a fine is appropriate.

Unless they are only proposing it so they can't be accused of not giving them the same treatment that everyone else gets.
Is ocean iron fertilization back from the dead as a CO₂ removal tool?
> The point is that we all think it’s bad and that it should change and so we’re pointing it out

No, you think it's bad. I may despise Spirit and Frontier and refuse to fly them, but I also think it's a great thing they exist.

I despise them because the lack of comfort/nickle-and-diming is not worth my time, and I can easily afford to pay more for a better experience. But if I were back being 20 years old and broke, and my body could deal much better with being uncomfortable for a couple hours, I'd love the option to be able to fly on the cheap.
Commissions are professional work. If you need speed to get things done, you can pay to rent the GPU and the cost will be negligible to what you earn, even if you're just starting. This is really not that much of a barrier compared to the hoops hobbyist 3D artists had to jump through 20 years ago.

Regardless, you can run SD on a several years old laptop just fine, this is entirely within the reach of most; yes you won't be getting realtime updates but that's not really necessary.

And that's only the beginning. SD was trained using really poor data; everybody is doing that on semi-synthetic datasets with much higher quality labeling now; high quality data and new advancements (see the Beyond U paper [1], for example) allow fitting more into several times less weights with much faster inference. In a year or two, this will be available to practically everyone.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20092
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TIL: MySQL has (finally!) changed their release cadence to include an LTS/bugfixes branch. Before, you could accept the current bugs, or expect new ones introduced with the new features in the latest release that includes other bugfixes. But apparently they've changed that to have a stable branch that includes only bugfixes.

It only took, what, 7 years?
true but it takes a lot of money to run openai / chatgpt
I am not sure I understand your post. Have not head about TikZ but looks great. Should not be hard to integrate into a sever script that does eps output.

InkScape is a vector drawing program. Do you want to put interactive graphics on your site or just some SVG/PNGs? If you want to create just some graphics, Sagemath should do the job: https://sagecell.sagemath.org/

"Writing TikZ but ... having ChatGPT do it so I don't have to learn to antiquated syntax."

A software engineer should be able to use Latex and I see nothing antiquated about it. I am writing a (non scientific) book soon. I would consider nothing else.
No one knows what it means, but it's provocative.

It's mainly about who is allowed to control what other people can do, i.e. power.
Regularly put xx% of your earnings into a world index ETF, for money you won’t be needing for the next 10-15 years. Widespread advice. More here: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
Offhand, and a quick google search; I was unable to find the exact definition / specification for how time-zone data must be obtained rather than how it happens to conventionally be obtained.

It is entirely reasonable that any of the following _might_ be valid behavior.

* Simple but syscall heavy approach which re-reads the env, and possibly /etc/localtime each call and has no stability. (Results may mutate as other processes / threads change things.)

* Same as above, then caches the decision result for some application specific reasonable time; which may be until the application exits.

* The elsewhere mentioned stat / inotify approaches that only track updates to /etc/localtime (and ideally update the cached decision result when notified).

All approaches seem valid. It's sort of like the hostname or any other system level configuration where a reboot may be a reasonable expectation for a complete update.
The question from Xelbair was:

>>> why would I, an user, should care at all about anything that my service provider does internally?

I suggested, "morals".

In short, I responded to a question asked but you seemed mistakenly to think I was responding to the context in general.

In any case, let's go reductio ad absurdum, if your service provider employed child and/or slave labour then you may feel that enriching them with your custom was not appropriate.

There's a whole industry [0] devoted to choosing manufacturers according to their morals and socio-political positions; I thought the response was self-explanatory.

As far as paying a company that doesn't meet your needs any longer. I've done this when I approve of the company as a general source of good (benevolence). But only on a couple of occasions. I'm sure it's a very weak signal.

Yes, with large for profit companies I'm not going to do this. There is a situation where you might - to retain rights that are given to customers. Some people pay for the cheapest insurance to get access to discounts (UK) afforded to customers. There might be a situation where retaining customer rights was like having a company on retainer which probably comes into your trust/loyalty category.

[0] eg https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/
Agreed that trying to create artificial scarcity is not good (and isn't really compatible with any ethical system, least of all "neoliberal capitalism"), but it should be pointed out that natural scarcity is an a priori fact of nature that economics itself is our method of dealing with, and is not a normative contrivance of any "economic system".

I'm not entirely sure how any of this relates to artists agitating against AI, unless they are themselves seeking to create artificial scarcity to prop up the market value of their services, now that the supply of art ability is no longer as constrained as it previously was.