skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've not been paying attention then. Journalists love doxxing their ideological enemies:

- Scott Alexander

- Richard Hanania

- LibsOfTikTok (can't remember her real name)

And that's just in, like, the last 18 months or so.

They also love to widely report on cases where allied organizations do it, thus pointing everyone to the dumps. For example the home addresses of the entire German AfD political party was dumped online by Hessen Antifa and this was widely reported in German media (who they got the info from wasn't).

There is absolutely no code of honor in news organizations or NGOs. Their goal is to silence anyone who opposes them and they use their positions to do that.
I think this [0] native approach is preferable

[0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163
> If you want to make a ton of money in a startup moving fast, how about don't setup a non-profit company spouting a bunch of humanitarian shit? It's even worse, because Altman very clearly did all this intentionally by playing the "I care about humanity card" just long enough while riding on the coattails of researchers where he could start up side processes to use his new AI profile to make the big bucks.

This is exactly it! Thanks for calling it out.

Sam Altman was just using the Researchers and their IP to enrich himself(and his select group of friends) while shafting everybody else including the researchers themselves.
Starting with their founders, Apple believed in quality and Microsoft believed in quantity. That's where control of hardware matters.

MS hacked in backwards compatibility with old apps and hardware, whereas Apple transitioned hardware from Motorola to PPC to Intel to Apple Silicon with incredible, seamless emulation layers as bridges.

Post-Jobs, Apple isn't really the same. For all the "simplicity" of iOS, way too much is hidden from sight like "pull down or swipe to reveal search boxes, scroll bars", etc, settings are hidden, redundant, or impossible to figure out, text is impossible to select without a mouse or trackpad, things happen after a delay (WTF) and items move around, so I am playing whack a mole. A simple "paste" key or screen button would save hours of poking and waiting around. Half my clicks are by mistake, trying to scroll. (Pages finally adopted a "lock text" toggle to fix this, a small miracle that was a few minutes work to create in HyperCard), Command C and V are adjacent on keyboards and I always hit the wrong one. (Same for the pop up copy/paste on iOS ) But mainly, the upgrade cycle is too short ( to support each year's new phones) to do sufficient testing. And it's still better than windows. My non geek brother got so fed up with windows updates repeatedly breaking his device drivers that he's now happy with Ubuntu, bought from and supported by Dell.

Microsoft seems suspended somewhere between the past, because their life depended on bespoke apps, and their "all cloud, all AI" future. No doubt, they are too large to have any kind of focus like Apple has shown. And Apple has killed off both good and bad software products. The good being HyperCard and the bad being iTunes, now part of Finder, their second worst software product behind iTunes.

When MacOS turns further into iOS, especially with lockouts, I'll go back to Linux, which I have used on and off for a long time.

Quality at Apple is the ghost of Steve Jobs. Fragility and ugliness are the ghost of the (still living) Bill Gates. The present at both seems to be a bit of scrambled eggs as they try to create an elusive future less real visionaries on board.

All IMO
That's the beauty of their method: If you can replace a 8192x8192 matrix multiplication with a 8192x256 decision tree and then a 256x8192 look up table, your memory requirements go from 67,108,864 down to about 2,162,688 parameters. (I assumed that their decision tree for encoding is perfectly balanced and only uses log(256) parameters per row)

EDIT: And given that this work is centered around energy-efficiency and was sponsored by Huawei, I would guess that LLMs on your phone are precisely the goal here.

EDIT2: The process node that they did their calculations with appears to match Google's TPUv3 which has 0.56 TOPS/W and the paper claims 161 TOPS/W which would be a 280x improvement in energy efficiency over the AI chips in Pixel phones.
> that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company

It's perfectly obvious that these weren't the actual reasons. However yes, they are still incompetent because they couldn't think of a better justification (amongst other reasons which led to this debacle).
What does it means to have enough speed for non-effective ramming? That it is not stationary? It seems a very low bar...
I agree they are playing different sports!

Ideally, unrendered markdown still provides a first-class reading experience.

I don't think Typst has that as a design goal.
For his prediction of society? Yes.

Not even talking about the various tin-pot dictators paying nominal lip service to him, but Marx predicted that the working class would rise up against the bourgeoisie/upper class because of their mistreatment during the industrial revolution in well, a revolution and that would somehow create a classless society. (I'll note that Marx pretty much didn't state how to go from "revolution" to "classless society", so that's why you have so many communist dictators; that between step can be turned into a dictatorship to as long as they claim that the final bit of a classless society is a permanent WIP, which all of them did.)

Now unless you want to argue we're still in the industrial revolution, it's pretty clear that Marx was inaccurate in his prediction given... that didn't happen. Social democracy instead became a more prevailing stream of thought (in no small part because few people are willing to risk their lives for a revolution) and is what led to things like reasonable minimum wages, sick days, healthcare, elderly care, and so on and so forth being made accessible to everyone.

The quality of which varies greatly by the country (and you could probably consider the popularity of Marxist revolutionary thought today in a country as directly correlated to the state of workers rights in that country; people in stable situations will rarely pursue ideologies that include revolutions), but practically speaking - yeah Marx was inaccurate on the idea of a revolution across the world happening.

The lens through which Marx examined history is however just that - a lens to view it through. It'll work well in some cases, less so in others. Looking at it by class is a useful way to understand it, but it won't cover things being motivated for reasons outside of class.
Blyat.
If they didn't like board meetings they wouldn't be there in the first place. Their reputation is on the line. It's arguably more important to them than money.
I never questioned the competence of past engineers, I question the use of backwards compatibility.

Hardware has advanced, but software depends on standards and conventions formulated for far less capable hardware, and that's a problem.

The efficiency of string processing/generation is hugely important in terms of global energy consumption.

A simple and extremely common int->hex string conversion takes twice as many instructions as it would if ASCII was optimized for computability.

Bounds-checking for the English alphabet requires either an upfront normalization or twice the checking, so 50-100% more instructions for that.

There are also inconsistencies like front and back braces/(angle)brackets/parens not being convertible like the alphabet is.

[({< <-> >})] would have been just as or more useful than the alphabet being convertible and saved a few instructions in common parsing loops.
Are there any risks I miss to asking a model (in a separate context as to not muddy the waters) to rewrite the informal prompt into something more proper and then use that as a prompt?

Seems like a pretty simple task for an LLM as long as the initial prompt isn't too ambiguous. If it really does help with the recall it could be interesting to have this as an optional preprocessing layer in chat clients and such.
>Your take isn't uncommon, only are missing the main point of your interpretation - that the board is fully incompetent if it was truly that petty of a reason to ruin the company.

No, I totally agree. In fact what annoys me about all the speculation is that it seems like people are creating fanfiction to make the board seem much more competent than all available evidence suggests they actually are.
Being a solo founder is then completely impossible for you, right? Cause you need to throw in fund raising, accounting, marketing, sales and hiring
I think that the non-profit status of OpenAI was ultimately its demise as well: as the stakes get higher, people just cannot help themselves but to get (too) interested in more than just the original mission.

Being a non-profit doesn't mean that you cannot commercialise what you build, even at a hefty price. You just need to then re-invest everything into R&D and/or anything that advance your purpose (for which you're in principle exempted of taxes). _OF COURSE_, you are not supposed to divert a single dollar to someone that might look like a shareholder. OpenAI is (was?) a non-profit that payed some of their engineers north of a million dollars. I would argue that, at this point, you have vested interests in the success of the company beyond its original purpose. Not mentioning the fact that Microsoft poured billions into the company for purely interested reasons as well.

I can only imagine the massive tensions that arose in board's discussions around these topics. Especially if you project yourself a few years into the future, with the IRS knocking at the door to ask questions about these topics.
What do you think about mandatory DNA screening? I.e. analyse DNA of everyone who wants to have children and do not allow it if there are defective genes? This way we could save a lot on research and treating currently incurable diseases (there would be no children with such diseases and no need for treating them).
I have always used tass. Can someone ELI5 the different assemblers and their advantages?
Banning plastic bags at grocery store checkouts. But still allowing the store to sell their plastic kitchen garbage bags, and policy to only pickup recycling if it’s in a clear plastic bag instead of the old reusable blue bins.
> "Coinbase even had their IPO approved by the SEC."

The SEC reviews the disclosures being made by the company that's filing for public listing, not the legality of their business model.

You can go look at the Coinbase IPO filing [1]. Under the heading "Summary of risk factors", it reads:

"A particular crypto asset’s status as a 'security' in any relevant jurisdiction is subject to a high degree of uncertainty and if we are unable to properly characterize a crypto asset, we may be subject to regulatory scrutiny, investigations, fines, and other penalties, and our business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected."

Nowhere does it say "the SEC has approved our operations, it's all good!" On the contrary, Coinbase is saying that the assets they offer on their exchange may be viewed as securities and it may eventually result in fines or penalties. That's disclosure.

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[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021...
The article (which basically says Blazor is a bit cumbersome and pointless) has plenty of truth (and a few half-truths) to it but it's assuming that you're using it in a context where pure js + html would just be much better for the end user (wait, isn't pure native better for the end user..).

What it doesn't really tackle is the productivity from the developer perspective, very little mental context switching, code re-use/sharing with backend models etc (api models, validation etc) and the surprisingly productive nature of the Razor templating language. It's a combination that makes sense for developers, less so for end users. Most end users for these apps will be corporate intranets (love that the article mentions SEO, yeah right). When these same corporate users were using monolithic WPF apps, did anyone care then? If you're replacing a shared spreadsheet cooked up by Tim on the data analytics team, how much does JS really matter.

Consider if the same Devs opted for react or angular etc, would the end users actually care?

Ultimately it's up to the businesses to decide if this makes sense and the technology is driven mainly by developer sentiment, which circles back. If this is an easy way to make corporate apps, then why not.
Perhaps the market would then be too small and/or the costs too high?
How does that fit in with the fact he's gay? That timeline better be tight and also that's kind of a not great thing for her. Like that's how they both discovered he was gay?
These same companies are noticeably silent over the outpouring of support for Hamas on TikTok and other platforms, or when #KillAllMen was trending on old Twitter.

> that trash

... is defined ideologically, it's the point being made here.
More detailed info about the processor and its architecture can be found here:

https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/11/20/chinas-newish-sw26010-...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10171536

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7965116
>This was not a fluke of striking gold, but a carefully planned business move

Then that execution and operationalization failure is even more profound.
> dishonest behavior from he did to openai, turned non-profit into for-profit and

Yes and it's perfectly obvious that he did this without the consent of the board and behind their backs. A bit absurd don't you think? How would that even work?

> will be built by AltmanS

Why are you so certain most other people on the OpenAI board or their upper management are that different? Or hold very different views?
The only reason cars are viable "outside large towns/cities" is because the large cities are subsidizing road construction in rural areas.

Those rural area voters, in turn, elect politicians who scream blue bloody murder about how high taxes are, and refuse to vote for funding for public transportation...something that would benefit the cities generating the wealth the rural areas.

Isn't it wild how the "fiscal conservatives" always come from states that consume far more federal spending than they contribute in federal tax revenue?

Further, we over-paved rural areas in the name of "progress" - dirt roads are much, much cheaper but people hate them because they think it's a sign of being poor.
When/where has this ever worked?
You can't get Google Voice if you're not a US Google user
We certainly could do something like that, but I thought a simple html form - which can be run by loading the file locally just as well as connecting to my webserver; once you download the html file (which contains the javascriot to manipulate the canvas and other dom stuff) - it runs completely locally. Using the browser as the UI makes it “native” to any os/hardware architecture that can run Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Brave, etc. I was thinking a simple html file that can be run anywhere would be a preferred platform, though I acknowledge a more popular diversion from natively compiled apps is containerized apps, but really there must be some sensible line we acknowledge where going packaged or containerized is overkill, no? (Probably no. AndI probably shouldn’t speak such heresy if I like earning a paycheck. . ;-)

I hope my rambling doesn’t come across as an assholish response; I’m just kinda thinking aloud.
> 'Not many kids have the patience to lose dozens of games in a row and never even get close to victory.'

When I was ~8 my dad was teaching me to play. Not a single time he let me win, we could play like 100 games an evening (literally), he had incredible patience (sometimes I was taking lots of time to make a move, yet he never gave up on me)... It would have been more challenging to him (at least a little bit) if we knew the rule described in this article...
It might clarify how it actually works, but he’s saying it’s not a cure, and if that’s not factually correct that’s not a good thing.
Canada follows Basel rules for banking, which are much more complicated than that.
I don't know why you would consider JS/TS backends to be niche - they are fairly mainstream by this time.

You also need to distinguish between larger frameworks and compile-to-js/wasm languages here.

As for the rest, I think the bigger reason they don't get traction is that one one hand they don't work well for incremental adoption and on the other they introduction friction when integrating with the wider ecosystem. This hampers adoption for both new and established codebases.

If I am starting a greenfield project from scratch, I am likely working with uncertain/changing requirements and need to move fast. If I choose something like Blazor/Vaadin etc., I am not sure how much effort will be needed if I need to integrate a third party Gantt component, or a month calendar view, or a leaflet map etc. in future. Unless I am already super-sold on said language/tech, it is likely not the best use of my time to do a comprehensive evaluation right now because I don't entirely know the scope of the project - I'd rather want to spend that time building something minimal that I can push out and get some user feedback. But when the need arises I don't want to get locked into a scenario where suddenly I need to spend a few days dedicatedly writing a custom integration or manually declare types for a complex third party library. So I end up writing a TS SPA because every notable UI library at this point is known to work well with it.

In contrast, if I am evolving a brownfield project which already has quite a bit of legacy, I am constrained by the set of choices already made in past. Eg. I am likely not going to introduce a C# layer in a large java application to take advantage of blazor. It makes sense only if I have a C# app, and the frontend developers of said app (who may or may not be same as the backend developers) are equally enthusiastic about C#.

Even if I have multiple microservices and each of them can use whatever tech the maintainers of said service want, in order to use Blazor the team still has to be enthusiastic about adopting not just Blazor and C# but also the wider C# ecosystem including ORMs, caching, logging libraries etc. and all of that ends up being a substantial learning curve for a team with deadlines. Each of these constraints funnels down the developer subset likely to adopt this tech further down and down.

So all in all, adopting a large fullstack framework is not just a matter of willingness to learn - it is also about how much work I need to do for integrating third party libraries, how much does my write-compile-preview feedback time suffers, how may I have to adjust my dependency system, what other choices the said framework imposes upon me etc.

In contrast, if I want to try out a small self-contained reusable library/component it is much easier to incrementally adopt or experiment with in a new or old project.
I think ChatGPT has created some harms:

- It's been used unethically for psychological and medical purposes (with insufficient testing and insufficient consent, and possible psychological and physical harms).

- It has been used to distort educational attainment and undermine the current basis of some credentials as a result.

- It has been used to create synthetic content that has been released unmarked into the internet distorting and biasing future models trained on that content.

- It has been used to support criminal activity (scams).

- It has been used to create propaganda & fake news.

- It has devalued and replaced the work of people who relied on that work for their incomes.
Skunk Works is all about getting to the prototype stage (2018)
Perhaps. But if the board is really so responsive to Ilya's concerns, why have they not reversed the decision so that Ilya can get his wish?
And legal fees?
That clearly wasn't written by an European.
Then there is the Inference cost said to be as high as $0.30 per question asked based on compute cost infrastructure.
Don't forget IR. The night vision is very widely used in the Ukraine war, and ICE engine is much better/farther/brighter visible in IR.
Google's equivalent:

"Introduction to Generative AI Learning"

Pathhttps://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
anybody knows if there are builds for windows ? I didn't find anything recent...
He may have wanted Sam out, but not to destroy OpenAI.

His existential worries are less important than OpenAI existing, and him having something to work on and worry about.

In fact, Ilya may have worried more about the continued existence of OpenAI than Sam after he was fired, which looked instantly like a: "I am taking my ball and going home to Microsoft.". If Sam cared so much about OpenAI, he could have quietly accepted his resignation and help find a replacement.

Also, Anna Brockman had a meeting with Ilya where she cried and pleaded. Even though he stands by his decision, he may ultimately still regret it, and the hurt and damage it caused.
Coming from the other side, this compatibility is why NodeJS is still very popular on the back-end. It makes sense for companies to try and stick to one programming language and / or ecosystem, else you end up with two disciplines within your company.

http://boringtechnology.club/ 's slides show the problem pretty well. I'm not saying companies should stick to one technology, since the "golden hammer" is also not a good idea, but that the technology choices should be taken with care and consideration of things like hiring.
OpenAI's Ineffective Altruists vs. Sam Altman
Previous discussion of GNU Name System: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32222360