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> The board never received any formal communication about Q*

TheInformation has just published an article about this topic:

OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-made-an-ai-br...

Wired: 95 Percent of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door

>Some 738 out of its around 770 employees, about 95 percent of the company, are now listed on the letter released early this morning.

https://www.wired.com/story/95-percent-of-openai-employees-t...

Amir Efrati (TheInformation):

> More than 92% of OpenAI employees say they will join Altman at Microsoft if board doesnt capitulate. Signees include cofounders Karpathy, Schulman, Zaremba.

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1726680254029418972

Amir Efrati (TheInformation):

> Almost 700 of 770 OpenAI employees including Sutskever have signed letter demanding Sam and Greg back and reconstituted board with Sam allies on it.

https://twitter.com/amir/status/1726656427056668884

Ben Thompson: The most extraordinary weekend of my career

https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1726514608234746003

TheInformation: Dozens of Staffers Quit OpenAI After Sutskever Says Altman Won’t Return

>Dozens of OpenAI staffers internally announced they were quitting the company Sunday night, said a person with knowledge of the situation, after board director and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever told employees that fired CEO Sam Altman would not return.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dozens-of-staffers-q...

Latest report from TheInformation:

> OpenAI's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, told employees in a memo just now he was "optimistic" OpenAI could bring back Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and other key employees. There will likely be another update mid-morning tomorrow, Kwon said.

https://twitter.com/erinkwoo/status/1726125143267926499

Ron Conway:

>What happened at OpenAI today is a Board coup that we have not seen the likes of since 1985 when the then-Apple board pushed out Steve Jobs. It is shocking; it is irresponsible; and it does not do right by Sam & Greg or all the builders in OpenAI.

https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/1725759359748309381

Hetzner is using this setup (Desktop Ryzen Zen4 + ECC DDR5) for its AX102 server [1].

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102

Complete list of new features in macOS Sonoma:

https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/pdf/macOS_All_New_Feature...

> Feedback from JDK 21 suggested that String Templates should be finalized for JDK 22.

> This feature first previewed in JDK 21 via JEP 443, which was titled Unnamed Patterns and Variables. We here propose to finalize it without change.

Likely to be finalized in JDK 22.

As of summer 2023, Xbox Series X/S has sold 21M units [1], PS5 has sold 40M units [2].

[1] https://gamingbolt.com/xbox-series-x-s-has-sold-21-million-u...

[2] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/playstation-5-sales-surpass-40...

There were another JEP draft [1] recently that was proposing to introduce a lazy keyword for static fields. This new JEP looks like an alternative without any language change, and seems more likely to prevail.

[1] JEP draft: Lazy Static Final Fields - https://openjdk.org/jeps/8209964

Sequence in question starts at 4m40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLuerYx2IA&t=280s

The title of the draft JEP was "Move the JDK to C17 and C++17" at the time of posting but has been changed later to "Compile the JDK as C++17". Not able to edit the HN post anymore.

PR for this commit: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14224

> That should place the headset’s pixels per degree around 50 to 70 PPD.

> “The resolution of the fovea, the highest resolution portion of the eye, is considered to be 60 pixels per degree. And if you have a display like 60 pixels per degree, probably like 99.9 percent of people wouldn’t perceive the pixels”

As a comparison, Quest 2 has a resolution of 20 PPD and sitting in front of a 27" 4K monitor on a desk leads to about 70 PPD.

Latest Build available for download here: https://jdk.java.net/21/

Phoronix has a nice set of Linux benchmarks with this CPU. https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen9-7950x3d-linux

I've actually edited the title back to the original title after the "fixer" changed it. But it's been later "fixed" again. Looks like there's sometimes a second pass of fixing after which edits are no longer possible.

io_uring will indeed be a perfect fit for Java: no need to pay a supplemental JNI access cost for each IO as all you need is a memory barrier to read or write the shared queues which can be properly implemented in pure Java. We're not there yet but here is where you can look:

- For network I/O, Netty has an incubating transport that is promising [1].

- For disk I/O, JDK's Loom project [2] has mentioned its plan to rely on io_uring on Linux [3], but there's no ETA AFAIK.

[1] https://github.com/netty/netty-incubator-transport-io_uring

[2] https://openjdk.org/projects/loom/

[3] https://cr.openjdk.org/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.html

The timeline of its promotion from draft status along with several mentions of JDK 21 in the provided examples make it likely to ship with JDK 21 in September.

A good coverage of all the JEPs included in JDK 20: https://foojay.io/today/its-java-20-release-day-heres-whats-...

- AX52: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 / 64 GB / 2x1 TB NVMe - From 59€ [1]

- EX44: Intel Core i5-13500 / 64 GB / 2x512 GB NVMe - From 44€ [2]

- EX101: Intel Core i9-13900 / 64 GB / 2x1.92 TB NVMe - From 84€ [3]

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax52

[2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex44

[3] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex101

Phoronix has published some benchmarks of OpenSSL 3.1 vs 3.0: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-3.1-Released

> We’ll also have individual contributors report into almost every level — not just the bottom — so information flow between people doing the work and management will be faster.

> Some execs told CNBC that, by sending in their wire transfer early on Thursday, they were able to successfully move their money. Others who took action later in the day are still waiting — in some cases, for millions of dollars — and are uncertain if they’ll be able to meet their near-term obligations.

> Nokia CEO Lundmark said the 6G network would “act as one big large sensor” which could detect the size, speed and direction of a moving object. This feature could aid the creation of automated factories and even driverless vehicles.