skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about what the majority wants - thinner waterproof phones instead of a removable battery.

You are not forced by the evil companies, you are forced by market pressure from the majority of consumers.

Not even Apple was able to resist consumer pressure, they famously yielded and made a big screen phone.
it's the most fickle thing

musk explained his comment below in that thread and i thought it was done acceptably, he wasn't antisemitic, he just continued a conversation that implied [correctly] that throughout the last ~10 years there has been a tail-wagging-the-dog relationship between what is currently the demographic with a large outcry of support for israel and the demographic with a large outcry of support for hamas. that the demographic in support of israel is usually the manipulator in this situation, and that this has usually been used against a lot of the people who actually are in support of israel in the current day.

he's not wrong, its not antisemitic, and taking this stance doesn't imply you're a nazi, and certainly doesn't imply who or what kind of solution you might suppport.

yet complexity is not allowed.

but what's interesting here is X's apparent rise in the status of its advertisement real estate[0]. I think this will turn out positive for twitter and elon no matter what, people seem to like twitter and want it to keep being what it is. I for one look forward to the day when we can have simple conversations in public without other people panicking in response.

0. https://twitter.com/xDaily/status/1724106350584648109
Ask HN: Are any companies working on robocalls for accessibility?
My fiancée is about to be fired from her federal job over her complaints for accessiblity [1], it looks like if her federal email address is disconnected (starts bouncing) the only way to reach her will be for me to call every household in her state until I reach her mom. (She'll obviously be the only special needs employee who was just fired from federal government and whose fiancé can't reach her, not a difficult needle to find in a haystack.)

This is about 5,000 hours of calls and it's a very simple script, the OpenAI interface can easily handle transcripts until I reach her, so I would like to automate it until I can connect with her mom.

But since we will lose half our family's paycheck after she is fired, I would like to see if I can get a job that can pay for both of us, so I would like to simultaneously transition to working for an AI company that does accessibility robocalls, since I have a personal motivation to work in this area, and I think it will make my task easier as well, and I think it will let me complete the task more easily.

- Are there any companies working on robocalls for accessibility that could be a good match for a hands-on engineering applicant with AI, coding, and project management experience?

Thanks for any tips of companies that might be hiring.

[1] Her boss: "One gs 5 employees is extremely problematic and I cannot speak, email or even walk by her office without her calling the union, making an EEO complaint, IG complaint, Office of Special Counsel complaint. If I give her any direction, work assignment or God forbid feedback she claims retaliation. As of now- she has not been successful in any of these complaints. " (the boss may have changed one or two small details to keep it anonymous.)
Worldcoin deserves a look: https://worldcoin.org/
Doesn't everyone at openai have "profit participation units"? https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
further edit: found this comment on reddit [0][1] which also seems to line up:

> I feel compelled as someone close to the situation to share additional context about Sam and company.

> Engineers raised concerns about rushing tech to market without adequate safety reviews in the race to capitalize on ChatGPT hype. But Sam charged ahead. That's just who he is. Wouldn't listen to us.

> His focus increasingly seemed to be fame and fortune, not upholding our principles as a responsible nonprofit. He made unilateral business decisions aimed at profits that diverged from our mission.

> When he proposed the GPT store and revenue sharing, it crossed a line. This signaled our core values were at risk, so the board made the tough decision to remove him as CEO.

> Greg also faced some accountability and stepped down from his role. He enabled much of Sam's troubling direction.

> Now our former CTO, Mira Murati, is stepping in as CEO. There is hope we can return to our engineering-driven mission of developing AI safely to benefit the world, and not shareholders.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/17xoact/sam_altman_...

[1] take it with a grain of salt
Through software. The Vehicle Control Unit can control the torque going to each motor independently, and can view the current speed of each motor. By looking at longitudinal acceleration vs motor speed, you can see if the wheels are slipping or not.

Alternatively, if you have a 2WD vehicle, you can just compare the motor speeds to the speeds of the undriven wheels to see if the wheels are slipping.

It's surprisingly nontrivial to detect how much the wheels are slipping, but once you can you vary the torque command based on the amount of wheelslip.
My bad: Ilya is indeed of Russian-Jewish origin.
I never used the word "immaterial"; I said it could be interpreted as a slight that they didn't wait. However, the OpenAI board has no legal responsibility to Microsoft. Not considering the impact this would have on Microsoft's stock, especially since its now 7pm and nothing new has come to light, was absolutely uncourteous.
Pretty much all of the evidence on survivors of CSA is that it’s entirely unreasonable to expect “stability” in someone who experienced sexualized trauma as a child, especially as that “stability” is relatively measured by someone without that particular lived experience.

Believe the victim, full stop, unless and until evidence actively contradicts their statements.
This is the head of AR software that's stepping down, as well, which doesn't even do SLAM or DFS afaik. They just chucked the custom silicon team out in September. I wonder if we'll ever see their mostly functional AR headset vs. Raybans with cameras.
> a site known for its detail-oriented minds

a site known for a commentariat that is, in aggregate, frequently wrong about details, particularly details that matter.

yes, it's great when people who really know what they are writing about show up here. But the great unwashed masses in the comment threads, for all of their fabled "detail-oriented minds" appear wrong at least as often as they are right.

"On the internet nobody knows you're an HN commenter with 3 years of JS experience".
Yes indeed, and i wasnt blaming them. I now just flag any articles that are stuck behind paywall.
Once we reach about 40% of vehicles being EVs a lot of petrol/gas stations in more expensive areas in cities will become non-vaiable economically - It'll probably happen quite quickly.

Gasoline vehicles will become more expensive to maintain and run, and more of a hassle to refuel, so even people like me who like to keep their cars for ages will be forced to switch a lot earlier than normal - especially if you live in the city.
More gas than coal over here, but we’re close to 50% renewable energy and growing fast. I use an exclusively solar/wind provider, and with a set of solar panels I could easily generate enough power for 10.000km/year charging at home. You might need to revise some of your concepts.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/eus-use-of-fossil-fuels-for-elec...
> Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Well this probably disproves the theory that it was a power grab by Microsoft. It didn’t make too much sense anyway since they already have access to tech behind GPT and Microsoft doesn’t necessarily need the clout behind the OpenAI brand.
Your blog post seems to focus on the “bolted on” aspects of the BUSL in negative terms, so I’m curious why this license (FSL), which removes the ability to add custom terms, would serve to cause more confusion.
Are you suggesting that ChatGPT is secretly backed by humans? That’s impossible, it is faster than the fastest humans in many areas.
During the me too movement, accusations was all that was needed. At a lot of universities, an accusation is all that is needed against another student. Corroborating evidence is indeed needed but American needs to have a reckoning with its history of accusations without evidence.
> OpenAI is two entities, one nonprofit and the other for-profit, that are owned by the same umbrella company.

According to their website, It's four entities:

1. OpenAI Global LLC (the for-profit firm that does most of the actual work), which Microsoft and #2 co-own.

2. A holding company, which #3 controls and #4 and other investors own.

3. OpenAI GP LLC, a management entity that #4 owns and which controls #3.

4. The OpenAI Nonprofit.

(There's a blog entry about OpenAI LP, a for-profit limited partnership, being founded in 2019, and I've seen information about them from earlier in 2023, but they aren't listed in the current structure. That might be the holding company, with the other investors as limited partners; its odd, if so, that its not named on the structure diagram and description.)

https://openai.com/our-structure
Thanks for explaining the basic structure. It seems quite opaque and probably designed to be. It would be nice if someone can determine which entities he currently still has a position or equity in.

Since this news managed to crush HN's servers it's definitely a topic of significant interest.
I mean GPT-4 is just so good. Have you compared GPT-4 vs. other models for coding? I'd pay more for GPT-4.
No, that is the reason why this was posted.
It's flawed, but have you tried the competition?
I think there are quite a few reasons ICE cars bought now or recently won't get to their normal lifespan, especially in urban areas which probably would have already restricted them if there were economy EVs to help politicians deflect claims of elitism. They also have the tank liability and space issues that already burden downtown gas station economics.

If the diesel transition takes time, I think the gas pumps will also stay along the major truck routes, but one might feel like a NG fuel user looking for an airport station in regions with a lot of urban density.

(Even without these pressures, an EV is already 1/3 the price to operate so that pushes ICEs toward infrequent users which accelerates the downward spiral of gas stations and gas consumers.)
Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory
Well, talk to him about it.

https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-16-producer-naoki-yo...
The will do to do so is frequently more easily accessed when the problems are recognized as more tractable than previously thought.
do you have reason to believe none of the two?
Plus, he succeeded in making HN the most boring forum ever.

8 out of 10 posts are about LLMs.
Don’t underestimate biographies and history books. Buffett and Munger say they spend most of their days reading those.
Oh .. Don Box? (remember reading his books on the Microsoft stack a lifetime ago) .. if this is the same person.
Something big and bad was going on at OpenAI, and if I were MSFT I would be very nervous about the money that you’ve invested in OpenAI right now.
Barefoot workers, bacteria found at factory that made big-brand eye drops
I sense a Netflix documentary is already in the works!

But seriously, this muddies the water even more. I assumed the Microsoft deal being based on some false pretense was the reason this was all happening. I guess that could still be true and the board is trying to protect themselves from whatever else is about to come out.
Government thinks that there are 580K homeless in the US. Also, most homeless don't sleep on the sidewalk. Most stay with friends and relatives. Lots sleep in shelters. The actual number is about 200K sleeping outside each night.

Plus, the people that make this argument don't actually want to help the homeless. They don't advocate giving the homeless money; $10k each would be $6 billion. Leaving plenty for Ukraine.
I completely agree with your assessment of Adam Neumann.

AND ... post the WeWork debacle, Neumann has once again succeeded in raising a massive investment.
If it was a simple disagreement in direction then (1) the transition wouldn't be so abrupt and (2) they wouldn't publicly call him a liar.
The key phrase that I don't trust is "download it any time you want". I wouldn't trust Google Takeout to work for a banned account, and I feel like accounts can get banned for arbitrary reasons and there is no mitigation for a false ban.
Anyone have stats on the overall audience of HN? I'd have guessed it to be very west coast heavy.
Volvo is awesome, and so is Van Damme!
I was an ArcNet fan.
Thanks. Can you be more specific?
I find a bit odd that MS didn't have a couple of people in the board of directors, who I assume accepted Sam Altman resignation (and signed the severance package).

Edit: I just read he was fired, but the point remains.
Why isn’t this using the actual title “OpenAI announces leadership transition” in line with HN standards?
what a bizarre pov about sam altman.

what accomplishment of his has impressed you so much? his entire career has been:

1. start a dumb startup that goes nowhere

2. get a job at YC handing out other people's money

3. a very dumb and creepy crypto currency project

4. be CEO of openai, which means having no direct influence on the product or engineering at all
Perhaps ' is pronounced as a small tongue click?
He's a California resident, though, so wouldn't any non-compete clause be unenforceable? Or does California allow such clauses for executives/founders, just not for "regular" employees?
It's possible to avoid creation of the bubbles in the first place though. Some tanks could use pistons, and some - flexible membranes between displacing gas and the liquid fuel. Or tanks could be flexible themselves, squeezing the fuel out when their volume decreases and when being fueled, increasing their volume.

If bubbles appear, it's possible to liquify them back. Increase of pressure with possible decrease in temperature (active cooling) could help.

This is an old problem, with quite a few ideas how to solve, some of those ideas even tried in practice.
That’s the rhetorical “our”.
The billions of platform taxes ought to be in the hands of consumers who, given fair competition for platforms on the hardware of their preference, would see far lower software costs.
Link to MS statement https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/17/a-statement-from...

In my opinion, I'd say the shortness and lack of details backs up the story that they had no idea. You'd see way more words if a marketing department had it's hands on something like this. This was 100% a get something out asap job.
I think they mean directly executing encrypted code/manipulating encrypted data without the need to decrypt first.
Too many layoffs.
This type of problem has been going on for weeks on multiple Linux distros. See for example the Github issue [0].

[0]: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/6560
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No better chemistry exists outside a lab. Vaporware as it is.
Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI's New CEO?
If anything this is a power grab by the board away from Microsoft. Optimistically, this could be an attempt to return OpenAI to its original status as a true non-profit company. OpenAI lost most of its openness under Sam.

They needed the Microsoft investment before GPT scaling was proven out. I imagine many entities would be willing to put money into a truly open research lab given OpenAI’s track record.
I couldn’t tell you.

Slow

blink.
Who says it was abrupt? They could have been planning this for weeks or months for all we know. In fact waiting till late on a Friday just before a holiday week to release the statement is more of a sign that this was deliberately timed.
That timeline would only be in play if it was data held by Microsoft that was compromised.
Her Twitter account has also been privated.
This is one cyberpunk-ass statement
OpenAI Switches to Prepaid Billing
Check out Microsoft’s stock price today. Looks like it dropped by almost $50B at one point.

EDIT Microsoft is such a huge company, so maybe this is not a big deal?
I can imagine parents not wanting to take the risk of being outside two-tonne metal boxes on the road with their children. Infrastructure matters a lot.
The equity explanation makes a lot more sense. If sama was "not candid" to the board about being the ultimate owner of OpenAI and his goal is to get unbelievably rich (he's already a billionaire and obsessed with money) they would have to fire him on the spot. Sam would immediately try to move against the board so they can't give him any window to make a counter-move. And if that means firing him on a Friday right before markets close, so be it.

If Sam made a deal with MSFT that required board approval they would be mad, but not this mad. The board feels betrayed, and Sam being the secret owner of OpenAI through the foundation checks all the boxes.
It's both, it's true that the german industry is the least transitioned but the grid is also using gas as power generation
CISA warns buggy Sophos, Oracle, Microsoft apps join Known Exploited Vulns
>If someone accused me like that, I would go after them in court immediately, sibling or not.

That's a perfectly fair response. I don't know how I would handle it but IMO the problem is with accusations like that, the court of public opinion and law are very different.

>I brought it up because I believe it is by far the most comprehensive explanation of this otherwise very odd situation.

I would say if it dropped yesterday, I would agree with you... but in any case, its not good that (if he's innocent) this is about the only thing people have to speculate on.
Note I said "heroes", not "hero". I'm making a general statement about how the views people can have about others can evolve over time.
Typing numbers or passwords for people over 30, I bet is around half a second, and for people over 60 one finger per second sound about right.
Well, it's not a secret actually. They are pretty open about collecting & using user data, unless you're an enterprise or disable chat history.
Except the machine isn't.
Well the problem in this case is that there was an exchange of multiple tweets, but you can just pull a nitter link of the one offending tweet and taken in isolation it looks hateful. If you take the full exchange it doesn't read as hateful to me.

musk: "The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop."

whatsupfranks: "Yes, but this is not fair to say or truthful to say that ‘Jewish communities’ promote dialectical hatred towards white. Say what you want about the ADL, but don’t generalize the Jewish community."

musk: "You right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL"

musk: "And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind."
Could be surprising, but some kids of the day in the Soviet Union were more fearful (well... wrong word...) of Chinese nukes rather than American ones.
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> You misunderstand how these corporate situations work. He will fall upward to a better job someplace else if he chooses.

I have no doubt that Altman is deeply embedded in the techbro good old boys network to get another job, but that doesn't change the fact his (now previous) employer released a blog post saying he LIED TO THE BOARD about something severe enough that they had to insta-sack him.
I agree and live in an area where I only have to use my car a few times a week and walk/bike most of the time.

The problem is most people own homes in areas where it's not practical to create a 15 minute city.

Plus a lot of people are lazy. My neighbor drove his car 600 yards to pick up a pizza.
ive got some pcie corals if u want to buy one. lmk
Rising people in third world countries out of poverty? That's awesome.
use research and AI to analyze Sutskever's character. the way he talks, the way he writes, what he did in the past, where he studied, who he was and is "acquainted with" ... do the same with the rest of the board and with Altman as well.

someone hire some PIs so we can get a clear and full picture, please & thank you
He’s a power-broker in mil tech
Hmm.. I wonder if he made / was in the process of making a deal that violated the US/China trade policies.
Or could just be a coincidence
I Hacked the Magic Mouse
We don't use customers' data (eg data from your data sources) for training purposes. What we use is meta-data like objectives, behavioral data, preferences and feedback loop (was it helpful y/n) to personalize the insights.
So much for the "Microsoft wanted Sam Altman out because he wouldn't sell OpenAI to them" theory.
Actually I did mix up “hair on fire” and “pants down”. Fortunately, “pants on fire” still works in context.
Why? If something bad comes out about Sam Altman, no one is going to criticise Eric Schmidt for not having foresight of it.
FYI: Half-Life is currently free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/
Potential Game-Changing Wyoming Rare Earths Processing Plant Gets Federal OK
eh, military contracts would become public. it became public that Google was building a computer vision system for targeting drone strikes for the Pentagon, and a number of executives resigned over it. If Altman were in talks to build a version of GPT-4 for the NSA, even if it were a black project, they'd have to account for the revenue somehow.
Yes: a handful of organisations would do shameful things to get raw conversations for certain individuals outside of judicial review.
Everybody's a comedian on Friday.
From the article: "They followed IBM, which cut its spending with X on Thursday."

Let's *never forget* that the Holocaust wouldn't have been as effective if it weren't for *International Business Machines* punch cards and its ties to the Nazi party.[^1] I'm not surprised they split.

Remember kids: a crypto-fascist is still a fascist.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I did a similar analysis to you about how the board must have voted and initially concluded that Ilya likely voted against Sam. However, without seeing the actual governing documents for OpenAI, we can't rule out the possibility that personnel decisions are made solely by the independent directors.
That doesn't read like a "screed" to me. That's a pretty reasonable justification and it's probably not worth the effort to support a toolchain to target Metal for a platform that isn't often used for gaming in the first place.
Imagine Satya wasn't informed about this. The heart attack he must have gotten seeing the stock prices.
Is he? Loopy only sold for $40m and then he managed YC and then OpenAI on a salary? Where are the riches from?
Those Amazon delivery trucks are pretty light weight.

It's not like they are hauling sand, the boxes are mostly empty.
Externalities make everything cheaper than it should be.