I don’t get it. This whole thing says single writer does not scale, so we stopped writing as much and removed reads away from it, so it works ok and we decided that’s enough. I guess thats great.
Readit Newsdbuser99 commented on Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users openai.com/index/scaling-... · Posted by u/mustaphah
Sometimes it is convenient that there are no backups. Just saying…
dbuser99 commented on The Real Story Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI wsj.com/tech/ai/the-real-... · Posted by u/Philpax
So sam was getting paid - possibly in egregious amounts while lying to congress?
AI has to be the solution to everything to justify the kind of investments going into it right now.
Sam’s a savvy businessman so he obviously understands that and goes few steps further. He promises exponential returns and addresses any regulatory and societal concerns. This piece is strategically crafted, not for us, but for investors.
dbuser99 commented on Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission openai.com/index/why-our-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Don’t think you will become as rich as musk, sam
I'm not surprised this theme would be popular with founding CEOs but not really sure what the promised "Ground-breaking Management Mode you Won't Believe!" actually is. Is it take your favourite employees on a retreat, don't worry about the message this sends? Stop hiring mediocre middle managers and do... something else? Run a giant public company like a 20-person start-up, only don't? Delegate yet stay in control of everything?
Sharing how impactful the event/talk/whatever was, without the actual content, lots of name-dropping to build credibility, selective repackaging of conventional, well-known wisdom and a conclusion that fits nicely with exactly what SV executives want to hear == every Paul Graham post in the past 5+ years.
100% agreed. If you read this piece from the lens of a SV executive or VC it makes perfect sense and serves the interests of all parties. Content? Who cares
dbuser99 commented on New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google decrypt.co/238730/new-ai-... · Posted by u/moondistance
Nice. Google scientists come up with ground breaking idea, then Google's PM bungles the chance to bring it to the market and productize it and someone like OpenAI or Anthropic will swoop in to reap the rewards. And the cycle repeats.
Deep Mind people invent transformers and then they watch people laugh at Bard or what it's called nowadays because product and engineering lost the plot. Kodak is paging you some message from the grave, read it Google.
What are you on about? They publish their research advancing the field. And gemini has caught up with openai and anybody else.
Now I'm curious as to the reasoning Sam got back in. The board is there for a purpose and has legal duties. Did they have some duty to cave in when the company was threatened, overriding their oversight duties that caused them to sack Sam in the first place? Did they decide they just got it wrong? It seems pretty wobbly, and makes me question if boards are useful at all for many companies in today's world (and what other structure could protect shareholder interests, when the majority shareholders are passive investment funds?)
Financial rewards. Money.
Investors could not take the risk of disturbing the value of their investment.
It is that simple
dbuser99 commented on OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk? vox.com/future-perfect/20... · Posted by u/fnbr
Man. No wonder openai is nothing without its people
dbuser99 commented on Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL? medium.com/@magda7817/why... · Posted by u/magden
I can buy your comment as an interesting and even credible hypothesis, but the absolutes which you deal in (“doesn’t pass even the most basic sniff test”) are damning. You are clearly lacking huge amounts of information and context and are passing your own assumptions as hard facts.
Also, I’m assuming Amazon or Google will sometimes roll their own solutions on problems of a scale in the same ballpark as Figma’s.
But anyhow, what’s the scale at which this becomes acceptable, exactly? Is there a magical number which serves as a universal threshold? Or is there - like in all engineering decisions - a very concrete economic case for which you and I both lack a lot of the requisite context and inputs?
In this particular case of sharding a postgresql solution, in my opinion, the parent is right. Any major cloud provider would give companies of their scale assistance. This is their bread and butter. The posts likely hide the requirement of stay on aws, but we don’t know they did not talk about that. Likewise cockroach or yugabyte were also available options.