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It’s like how people can’t fathom large numbers.

People can’t understand large systems or how small changes can build up over time.

They probably know full well that the equator is tropical all year round. But “it’s -1 here!”
You're confusing semantics and subtext.

The clear subtext in your examples is "Jews" (not "some Jews"), "Muslims" (not "some Muslims"), "Christians" (not "some Christians"). A racist (or variant thereof) will not say "all Jews"/"all Muslims"/"all Gays"/... , they'll just casually namedrop "Jews" (or even a single Jewish personality), "Muslims" (or even a single Muslim personality), "Gays" (or even a single Gay personality), and use this as a dogwhistle.
I am surprised that they do not mention comparing against quantized matrix multiplication because their "encoding" appears to be something like a quantization step with unevenly sized buckets. And then their approximate multiplication step to me looks like multiplying a quantized input vector against a 1-bit quantized matrix.

But overall this is an extremely exciting development because it shows how one could convert a NN into an efficient hardware implementation. And due to them working only on quantized data with LUTs, one can also embed low-dimensional matrices directly into the silicon.

My prediction would be that this will develop in the way that we can soon buy $1 hardware accelerators for things like word embedding, grammar, and general language understanding. And then you need those expensive GPUs only for the last few layers of your LLM, thereby massively reducing deployment costs.

EDIT: Reading the actual paper, I saw that this work is also related to LORA because they convert high-dimensional input vectors to a quantized value based on a lower-dimensional embedding which they call "prototypes". So it's a bit like doing LORA with 1-bit quantization but instead of representing it as 8x 1bit flags you represent it as 1x 8bit integer.
Next level algorithm design with approximation of everything. I’m getting high from such proposed technology.
I think we are looking at things like this backwards.

It is not that people who have managed to own in most cases a fairly unremarkable house are rich. They can't easily do anything with that "wealth". They may have a fairly meager lifestyle. These are not things most people associate with the word "rich".

It seems to me instead that we have collectively become extremely poor. So poor that people who have managed to obtain what was fairly normal a generation ago are now called rich.

We should open our eyes to our poverty and wonder where all the economic expansion and productivity gains over the last decades have gone.
I think to a certain extent they knew how weak they were. They knew if it turned into a long drawn out protracted fight in public it would be bad for them. You can imagine it now - David Sacks going on a long rant about how they don't have skin in the game and they're woke etc. etc. What the board was there to do - act as a check on the for-profit part of the company, goes basically directly against what most people in silicon valley want. So I don't think it's unreasonable that they thought they needed to move before Sam shored up support from investors etc.
Ah, that does look to be the case. I didn't know about that one.

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I highly recommend the book “nothing to envy”. It is a series of first hand accounts from N. Korean defectors/escapees. Truly unimaginably bad.

In that theme, I’d also recommend D-Day Through German Eyes (short), as well as Second-Hand Time (long). Both are also a collection of first hand accounts. The former is the experiences of the German soldiers during the D-Day offensive and their beliefs in their actions at the time. The latter is experiences of the fall of the Soviet Union (a fascinating read, but also the most harrowing and emotional book I have ever read)
Some people just don’t enjoy front end work, and vice versa
> there's actually a pretty clear answer as to what would need to be done to be fully above-the-board and legal, it's just not what the cryptocurrency people want, so they want the SEC to make it easier for them.

Fighting the SEC isn't easy or cheap either, raising questions about the reluctance to pursue the pathway to compliance. If there truly exists a legal route for a company to become "above-the-board and legal", why hasn't this path been taken? My guess is that that route is just for show, it doesn't exist in practice.
I think it's important to keep track of which particular wealth we create and how it gets distributed. If eg GDP grows 2x, but instead of affording 2x more food everyone can now afford 10x more/better memes and better drones for their country military, I don't consider it a win.
In other words, "growing wealth" means better access of people (on average) to some resources, but whether it's a good thing depends on the exact resources the world gains.
My parents had the same problem. They divorced, sold the house, and the tree was subsequently cut down. I suspect they may have had other problems too.
Welcome to McBoeing, would you like fries with that?

I really wish I could find the McBoeing stickers I was given when I worked as an outside contractor during the time of the merger. The stickers weren't standard issue swag but rather made by a frustrated employee, that said they were a common sight on toolboxes at various plants.

I worked installing, qualifying, training on the use, and maintaining CNC machine tools in many shops spread across multiple plants. The folks in the shops where I worked were seriously displeased about the merger. Many of the people I had the pleasure working with had decades of service under their belts and were worried what would come of the combined company. It turns out their fears were entirely valid, though, I suppose most of them retired years ago and are enjoying their pensions.
I’m also a big fan of concept maps, very nice! Some feedback:

- site needs some work on mobile

- should probably emphasize how this is different from the “mind maps” with which most people are more familiar (eg ability to label edges)
A flat per gram CO2 tax would be a great idea, but universal international cooperation is required and this would hurt less developed countries a LOT.

At this point lots of warming is inevitable regardless of what (peaceful) things the US and EU do. Africa will get four billion people this century and they want things.
> Also notice that Ilya Sutskever is presenting the reasons for the firing as just something he was told.

You mean to tell me that the 3-member board told Sutskever that Sama was being bad and he was like "ok, I believe you".
> different alphabets

What does this have to do with conformity?

> Oh, give extra points if the countries have strong ties to the EU

Norway does not use a standard English alphabet. Are you for or against Norwegian immigrants?
Technically no it doesn't. I had thought that curing did mean fixing the problem, but I just googled and it does indeed also mean relieving of the symptoms.

But I think in this case they're right to clarify. I think the low level of common knowledge around gene editing could lead people to believe that this is mutating the sickle cells into healthy cells, which it isn't doing
FWIW, it's not specific to her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land_(disambiguation) lists it as a nickname for LA, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/La-La_Land#English gives a 1958 citation in TV Guide, and it's the reason the 2016 movie "La La Land" got its name.
Thanks - will definitely take a look.
Nebula is closer to a premium streaming service - I'm not really counting it in the same sense as YouTube/Peertubes free, unbridled goals of video sharing, since Nebula doesn't do that either. I'd say it's closer to something like Amazon Prime/Netflix/Disney+ but for a specific cadre of creators on YouTube.
I'm not an expert but the way I think of it generally is that words can be converted to vectors, i.e cat -> (1,8,23,34,32). They are much longer than this but just an example. For the corresponding word in Spanish/French/Other languages, the vector is actually quite similar. So when an LLM sees french, it can actually use the English training data to respond in french, because of this intermediary translation to vectors.
What kind of trees on what land with what climate? Why was that land without trees? Logging? Too much wind? Too little water?
From what I know, Sam supported the nonprofit structure. But let’s just say he hypothetically wanted to change the structure, e.g. to make the company a normal for-profit.

The question is, how would you get rid of the nonprofit board? It’s simply impossible. The only way I can imagine it, in retrospect, is to completely discredit them so you could take all employees with you… but no way anyone could orchestrate this, right? It’s too crazy and would require some superintelligence.

Still. The events will effectively “for-profitize” the assets of OpenAI completely — and some people definitely wanted that. Am I missing something?
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This makes sense, but why can I only find this opinion in a HN comment? Why isn't the board explicit and owning this position? Why the "research faction" was radio silent? It would shift the debate around 2 opposing views for the future of AI, not who's incompetent.
> that caused multiple Sev-1s

...did folks run out of tables?
Reading these comments its like everyone forgot who Sam Altman is, eyeball scanning orb that sells your biometrics for crypto Sam Altman? This guy is a literal fraud and its a shame they didnt get rid of him sooner, good riddance. All the employees and investors too, who knows what the board is really trying to achieve, but if their mission statement is truly the goal then the investors can get bent and Id take the employees up on their offer, let them quit! Easier on the books that way.
Haha, you are probably the first person to notice the meaning of the number :)
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360135https://news.yc...
As per https://github.com/qjcg/awesome-typst#graphics there is CeTZ. Of course it is not as full-fledged as TikZ, but it works pretty well.
You'd be surprised how far that takes you. I mean I was truly astonished when I saw that a GptNeoX LLM quantized down to 1.5 bits per value at 90% sparsity was still producing acceptable predictions. But the size went from multiple GBs to less than 1 MB of (compressed) parameters.
ehh since it's already happening might as well don't care
How is this different than ollama (https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama)? I would argue it's even simpler to run LLMs locally with ollama
> the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

This!
C. Perhaps not "favorite" but certainly best of the small languages that I know of. The newer alternatives seem intent on adding things, leading them to not be small.
Taking money from Saudi's alone should raise a big red flag.
that's warmer than it should be for you. Do you get it yet?
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> Through all of this, no one has cogently explained why Altman leaving is such a big deal.

Pure f***g Greed. He is basically a front-man for a bunch of VCs/Angels/Influential Business Folks/Shady Investors/etc. who were betting on making big bucks through him.

Unfortunately, Ilya and his philosophical/ethical/moral stance has gotten in their way and hence they have let loose their dogs in the media to play up Sam Altman's "indispensability" to OpenAI.
This was cool, but the best thing was the dedicated transition guide from LaTeX to Typst[1].

The bottom section especially, which is a list of Typst's shortcomings compared to LaTeX. This helped a lot when actually choosing this over Overleaf for the last writing project I had.

[1] https://typst.app/docs/guides/guide-for-latex-users/
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Thanks for that. The discussion feels like a look into another world, which I guess is what history is.
You could try SmartOS for native ZFS support + virtualization built in (including linux containers) + pain free upgrades. Not a BSD but shares a decent amount of values (and code). It's a candidate for my home server and so far I love it.

FreeBSD was another candidate but just skimming through the docs, what's easy on other systems looks painful there. Want to start a VM ? Here is a set of commands, different for every guest OS, with a bunch of unexplained options...
I don't think that's true. I've seen at least one other person bring up the CIA in all the "theorycrafting" about this incident. If there's a mystery on HN, likelihood is high of someone bringing up intelligence agencies. By their nature they're paranoia-inducing and attract speculation, especially for this sort of community.
With my own conspiracy theorist hat on, I could see making deals with the Saudis regarding cutting edge AI tech potentially being a realpolitik issue they'd care about.
Frontend implies layout which I ain't good at. More less come up with design myself. The result isn't pretty, but functional.

However that doesn't mean I can't do JS/TS and manipulate DOM.
I think I get the idea, thanks. I am a bit ratty these days so it comes out a bit harsh.
There are many of us working at smaller companies who do all of the above.
Why stop there? Programmers are the ones most familiar with the software, they should be selling it. If they don’t have time they can hire more programmers, HR is easy… also they can automate the salary and procurement systems.
Yeah, the LaTeX ship has sailed, I'll never touch it again. I'm very happy that I can use Typst instead.
> "Stand with X."

Now that is just sad.
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I think this is a good time to mention the elephant-mounted machine gun: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/elephant-mounted-machine-gu...

That's a real WW1 thing, not an Age of Empires 2 cheat code.
Ask HN: Books about handling difficult people in your work environment?
Sooner or later, we all have to deal with difficult people in our working environment (colleagues, customers, bosses, etc.).

And there are a lot of books on how to deal with these people.

Which book would you recommend or has helped you to deal with these people?
They just need to ask the British Prime Minister. His father in law's company is where those jobs get outsourced to for cheap.
They wouldn’t let me activate a card with one. They wouldn’t even let me activate my card with a phone number that wasn’t the primary on a family plan.
Merely an observation: no tax thus far exacted by any government anywhere has had any measurable effect on the global climate, again, thus far. Taxes relating to emissions and the like relate to emissions etc., not global climate metrics. They have had a beneficial effect on atmospheric pollutants like sulfur dioxide, fluorocarbons and many others.
if you're not on the paid plan you have ads every now and then, right? how is that not more annoying than the non working shuffle?
> Jumping into bed with Musk and Altman and hoping for ethical non-profit "betterment of humanity" behaviour is laughable.

Now it's laughable, but OpenAI was founded in 2015. I don't know about Altman, but Musk was very respected at the time. He didn't start going off the deep end until 2017. "I'm motivated by... a desire to think about the future and not be sad," was something he said during a TED interview in 2017, and people mostly believed him.
>... or if that not helps maybe it is time to destroy some more Van Gogh paintings or something.

I wish that this kind of symbolic transgression could really be the most tragic consequences of the situation.

I could come with a digression of my own, but probably you’ll be better serve with a document like
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-climate-contributes-global-vio...
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Sony's CD players used to choose the next when the song finished, however it removed the ones it played from the candidate list, so it never looped.

As another neat trick, they have added a small animation while seeking to next track with some lower time bound, so it looked like thinking for a second or so. In reality, the decision was instant, seeking was not.
Wasn’t saying that. In fact, I was quite puzzled. Altman hasn’t started any SpaceX, NVIDIA or even Stripe.

However, pg has been working with many founders. And he has been working with Altman. I haven’t.

So while it may puzzle me, I do have to wonder what there is that I may be missing.
> My prediction would be that this will develop in the way that we can soon buy $1 hardware accelerators for things like word embedding, grammar, and general language understanding. And then you need those expensive GPUs only for the last few layers of your LLM, thereby massively reducing deployment costs.

You'd still need a lot of RAM for storing these weights, wouldn't you? I mean, obviously, a $1 accelerator is a great improvement of x,000$ GPUs, but it doesn't mean we all get LLMs working on our phone just yet.
That is a good idea. Years back, I had a very old phone that I used as an alarm clock and media player. It would have been nice to not worry about charging. I did disable the mobile and wifi radios, which saved a tons of battery.
Rude, unhelpful, condescending and pedantic. All too common on HN but not at all clever.
What physical side effects? I don’t have any that I am aware of.
You can act as if this was some philosophical debate, but that doesn’t change the fact that we’re talking about laws here. EU citizens have a right to privacy. You cannot offer customers to give up this right in exchange for your product, exactly the same way as you cannot offer customers to enslave themselves in exchange for something. That is plain and simply illegal.

The entire discussion ends at this point. If Meta isn’t able to offer the service on compatible conditions, they cannot offer that service in the EU.
Indeed. Splitting the “hosting” and “discovery” would be a much more market friendly way to do that.
I’ve worked with Blazor for about a year. It can be extremely productive for writing real internal business applications. “Backend” people can easily make interactive user interfaces and utilize their C# skills.

I think the threat to Blazor is that productivity in general in organizations is not enough prioritized in comparison to dogmas or current trends. For example that now a days you “should” have a separate front end team and that front end team “loves” technology X (for example React).
Agreed, court intrigue. But it is also the mundane story of a split between a board and a CEO. In normal cases the board simply swaps out the CEO if out of line, no big fuss. But if the CEO is bringing in all the money, having the full support of the rest of organization, and is a bright star in mass media heaven, then this is likely what you get: the CEO flaunts the needs of the board and runs his own show, and gets away with it, in the end.
For cult leaders, however, we are in familiar approval territories.
Very weak article. It really lowers my opinion of Chomsky.
I thought it was one of the fastest web frameworks but this article completely destroys that image. What gives
> only a handful of the company's employees attended, according to a person familiar with the company and the events of Sunday. The rest of the staff effectively staged a walk-out.

This paragraph is quite funny to me. It was a Sunday, maybe they were neither in attendance, nor staging a walk-out, maybe they were on their weekend? Realistically with the shake-up this gigantic, likely no OpenAI employees were _just_ enjoying their weekend, but it still gave me a chuckle.
Front is also very tedious. Lots of reinventing the wheel every time, obscure css bugs, etc.
And what would the 'normal' temp be there at this time of year?
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What a weird post. How is that not your actual attitude? All of these things are worthwhile to learn. (I'm assuming you're being sarcastic.)
> The NFL, Heritage Foundation and Scientology are all non-profits and none of them improve society; they all profit from it.

At least for Scientology, the government actually tried to pull the rug, but it didn't work out because they managed to achieve the unthinkable - they successfully extorted the US government to keep their tax-exempt status.
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There are already trees there, it's hard to add much more on the same terrain and you would need to expand the forests to already occupied lands. If you removed the land use, those forests would probably spread by themselves in only ~300 years.
Ilya says that AGI will enable infinitely stable dictatorships.

Perhaps you don't believe that dictatorships are possible in the West, so this isn't on your list of concerns.

But AGI could enable infinitely stable [terrible conditions] for most of Western society. And infinitely stable dictatorships for everyone else.

I'd imagine the starting conditions for how AGI is initially deployed could dictate the status quo for society for a potentially very long time.

I can't help but be reminded of the Psychohistorians in The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.
Well, of course he regrets it. That “reset params” button turned out to wipe the whole GitHub repo. :)
I agree with you. But that leads me to believe that they did not, in fact, have a good reason to fire their CEO. I'll change my mind about that if or when they provide better reasons.

Look at all the speculation on here. There are dozens of different theories about why they did what they did running so rampant people are starting to accept each of them as fact, when in fact probably all of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

People need to take a step back and look at the available evidence. This report is the clearest indication we have gotten of their reasons, and they come from a reliable source. Why are we not taking them at their word?
No, that'd never happen, but only because there's no such thing as a single pound note any more.
For interesting projects yes no doubt, but the biggest economic driver will always be search i.e. advertising
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Nadella's attitude is adding mystery to mystery. It's hard to think he doesn't know the truth. Or did Sam tell him a story, nice but fake, and he believed it? That would be spectacular.