skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately one important job of the board is to be able to replace the CEO.

This is true in the abstract but it is not common to see the narrowest possible majority on a six-person board oust the co-founder/CEO (also a board member) while excluding the board chair (who was also the company's President and co-founder) from the process.

> So it would be odd if it was structured in a way that this wasn’t possible.

You are wrong here. Boards are usually structured so that what just happened at OpenAI is not possible. The exclusion of the board chair from the process is especially egregious and the involvement of board chairs in decisions of this magnitude is often mandated in documents of incorporation.

Matt Levine is going to have a field day with this, LOL.
You could work for a much higher bonus and salary. The way gardening leave has been described here is for people who are not looking to take their highly valuable knowledge somewhere else for higher bonus / salary.
Ask HN: What about designing a subluminal warpdrive
Dear HNners, I am a bit sad about the current state of space exploration. I am thinking of an online Website that would help design with great details a warp-drive à la Alcubierre.

Recently Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire claimed that, in principle, a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes can be constructed based on physical principles, such as positive energy.

This website would be a cross thing between Kerbal Space Program and a CAD program dedicated to high-energy manufacturing, the kind they may have used to design the HLC.

The goal would be to design a subliminal warpdrive that could reach a speed of 1/100 of C speed. That would enable to reach Jupiter in 3 days.

This website would be a serious thing, destined to attract talented people and ultimately inspire them to attract funding and build such a warp drive.

Do you have any suggestions, particularly are there already some similar online efforts or efforts that could be modified and reused with not too much work (several man years?). I am thinking of online games without having anything specific in mind.

Thank you!
As someone who spent a lot of time sorting, collecting, and selecting typefaces in a print shop, as soon as I saw the details in Berekeley Mono it was a similar experience. (Take my money) It's homey while having the appropriate modernity for legibility.

I prefer the version with ligatures disabled, but it's nice to see them available.

I already expect Neil will earn a purchase from me for Houston Mono when it's available. I have a terminal based "game" experience I've been toying with and waiting to use it for.

Second your Gruvbox comment, although I recently decided to take TokyoNight for a spin, I'll loop back eventually, probably!
> Compression tends to discard high-frequency signals since they use the most bits.

Quite certain that’s not true. We drop everything pass 20khz simply because it’s outside the average person’s hearing range.

We drop everything under 20hz too - we also cannot hear below that.
> There is no evidence despite all the research evidence?

I am confused. Why are you talking about cell phones?
An OpenAI which allowed NSFW content literally could not exist. It would be shut down in under a week. Maybe possible under a different regulatory regime (France?) but even then I doubt it... any model developed by a company and offered as a product will have some censorship which gets baked in.
It's a great start into freelancing though. They have to pay you 60% of your former salary upto 110% of it.
I don't think I made the initial argument you claim is being moved. ChatGPT has got more politically neutral at least, but is still a long way from being actually so. There are many classes of conversation it's just useless for, not because the tech can't do it but because OpenAI don't want to allow it. And "modern LLMs" other than ChatGPT are much worse.

> You can sign up for the API right now and build a GPT4 based autonomous agent that communicates with outside APIs and makes decisions

I know, I've done it myself. The ethical implications of the use of a tool lie on those that use it. There is no AI safety problem for the same reasons that there is no web browser safety problem.

> Even the most pessimistic science fiction of the past assumed that the creators of the first AGIs would “lose control” of their creations

Did you mean to write optimistic? Otherwise this statement appears to be a tautology.

Science fiction generally avoids predicting the sort of AI we have now exactly because it's so boringly safe. Star Trek is maybe an exception, in that it shows an LLM-like computer that is highly predictable, polite, useful and completely safe (except when being taken over by aliens of course). But for other sci-fi works, of course they show AI going rogue. They wouldn't have a story otherwise. Yet we aren't concerned with stories but with reality and in this reality, LLMs have been used by hundreds of millions of people and integrated into many different apps with zero actual safety incidents, as far as anyone is aware. Nothing even close to physical harm has occurred to anyone as a result of LLMs.

Normally we'd try to structure safety protocols around actual threats and risks that had happened in the past. Our society is now sufficiently safe and maybe decadent that people aren't satisfied with that anymore and thus have to seek out non-existent non-problems to solve instead.
It's the nicest monospace font I've seen in a while, and I'd love to try it out, but $75 is a rather hefty price for development use. I don't mean to diminish the work that's been done, but more... I wonder if you could sell twice as much by cutting the price in half.

$75 prices out quite a lot of people.
"I have a Christian worldview"

We are quite OT here, but I would say christianity in general is a utopian ideology as well. All humans could be living in peace and harmony, if they would just believe in Jesus Christ. (I know there are differences, but this is the essence of what I was taught)

And well, how many were killed in the name of the Lord? Quite a lot I think. Now you can argue, those were not really christians. Maybe. But Marxists argue the same of the people responsible for the gulags. (I am not a marxist btw)

"Because humans are flawed, no economic system or communal living in itself can bring about the utopian ideal."

And it simply depends on the specific Utopian ideal. Because a good utopian concept/dream takes humans as they are - and still find ways to improve living conditions for everyone. Not every Utopia claims to be a eternal heaven for everyone, there are more realistic concepts out there.
I have a outdoor air quality sensor that spikes for five minutes each day at certain times. I know each day when my neighbour goes out for a cigarette. On a similar note Strava data once gave away locations of military bases.

If you aren't putting in any effort to obfuscate your data you are not doing enough. There is a reason why our VIPs and anti-censors both do it.
Encryption and other privacy tools alone aren't enough. The IETF and others are putting great effort into encryption but not enough here. Recently Google announced MLS support, hopefully as that is adopted you'll see more effort with Pluggable transports and making it easy to hide data over more than TLS.
The satellites were all too busy monitoring HN users.
Maybe there was much less of this in 2014?
Slightly off topic, but I couldn't get through Homer. It feels too long and drawn out. I felt guilty for not finishing Homer, but I was pulled into Virgil's Aeneid instead and couldn't put that down.
Pretty sophisticated surveillance technology - though it's worth remembering that you can't use it to look back in time and the footprint of each satellite is probably fairly small? I imagine that number is highly classified.

The info on the foreign buyers is pretty spicy, though it's generally known that UAE's high-level relationship with the USA is built upon recycling a good chunk of their oil money back into the military industrial complex (Wikileaks Cablegate said $19 billion/year as of 2010) - which is only one part of their overall Wall Street/London investment portfolio, but it does have a special significance.

> "HawkEye’s advisors have helped lead a large percentage of U.S. military and intelligence organizations — including the Central Intelligence Agency’s technical surveillance programs — and have included two former members of Congress who pivoted into lobbying, Norm Coleman and Lamar Smith. And so one can only conclude that HawkEye’s surveillance support for Gulf dictatorships is not an anomaly, but rather a corporate extension of official U.S. foreign policy."

UAE is also known for buying Israel's NSO Group (Pegasus etc.) surveillance tech:

https://gulfstateanalytics.com/pegasus-as-a-case-study-of-ev...
Not sure how people wanting some privacy means that someone

"should be able to personally launch intercontinental ballistic missiles without being detected"?!
From the various sources it appears that they’re being fired because they were trying to push the envelope TOO HARD, not the other way around.

And, outside of the Cynicism-Is-Intelligence hackernews crowd, basically everyone has been fawning over the breakneck speed of progress coming out of OpenAI, even at the recent OpenAI devdays.
I am sorry I didn't quite get your first sentence, could you elaborate, please?
They address this but I still don't really understand why I should care about pulsatility. Humans can live for a very long time without pulsatile flow (LVAD). (And sure, to pre-empt critics: the needle has turned back towards at least intermittent pulsatility, but this is largely for device thrombosis prevention.)

They seem to bring up theoretical concerns without addressing the practical (again, in human) successes of non-pulsatile flow.
How many camera feeds can one Orange Pi 5 realistically monitor?
The other problem with "project-based assessments" is that the grading is inherently subjective; I could see the graders being under pressure to "equalize" the results in the interest of "equity."
Are you sure this is the case? Tens of billions of dollars invested, yet a whole year later no one has a model that even comes close to GPT-3.5 - let alone GPT-4 Turbo.
What purpose does the highly elliptical orbits provide that a more circular orbit doesn't? Does it allow higher resolution when it swings in closer, and that the higher orbit is over parts of the globe of little interest?
Thank you for the advice and definitively agree with you - there is no communist country anywhere today.
Release notes: https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.3.1/Ink...
My take: in any world-class technology company, tech is above everything. You cannot succeed with tech alone, but you will never do without tech. Ilya was able to kick Sam out even with all his significant works and presences because Sam was fundamentally a business guy who lacks of tech ownership. You don't go against the real tech owner, this is a binary choice between either to build a strong tech ownership yourself or to delegate a significant amount of business controls to the tech owner.
Well, our brains don't exist in vats. A storm of information is flowing through our heads constantly. They're pro Palestine because of their exposure to that information, increasingly curated by these algorithms.

I think they're probably right, in that it's not just their algorithm that has had this impact. It's all the algorithms, their social circle, the propagandistic media that's not fed by an algorithm but designed the old fashioned way such as TV, and of course their faculty of reason which is often discounted when we talk about this sort of thing.
Following this argument, perhaps the line about Sam being "not consistently candid" is an indirect reference to his preferring the closed approach...i.e. they wanted him to be more candid, not in his reports to the board, but with the public, regarding the research itself.
The benefit of the doubt is another thing that is in your constitution.

Jewish people have been driven from their homelands, have had their livelihoods shattered, and have been burned, shot, and starved to death.

Anybody who uses the term antisemitism lightly should take a minute or two to think about whether he is showing respect or disrespect to those people and families who are no longer with us.
Just use WhatsApp. It’s not a monopoly if there’s already an alternative.
What's your geography, and what'd it cost up front?
If you have a newer intel-based PC, you might not even need the Coral. Frigate added support for Intel's OpenVINO. They're also adding support for the RK3588's rockchip npu, but it's still newer so I wouldn't recommend unless you like tinkering.

For PoE, I'd just do whatever is convenient. I've done setups with 2 PoE switches before so I could just run one cable between the front/back and then branch out from there.
As you point out, all it takes to describe dynamically typed languages is describing a variable as a box that can contain an object. It can contain a fish now and a truck later. What is the problem? Assignments, l-values and such work just fine as far as I can tell.

The analogy works because it's not far removed from what is actually happening in memory. And while laypeople don't know what computer memory is, they have a good intuition about boxes.
> In a full-screen case AFAIK it's possible to skip the compositing step with X11, and maybe with Wayland too.

This is the trivial optimization all Wayland compositors do.

The neater trick is to do this for non-fullscreen content - and even just parts of windows - using overlay planes. Some compositors have their own logic for this, but libliftoff aims to generalize it.

Zero-copy is not really ambiguous, but to clarify: Wayland protocols are designed to maximize the cases where a buffer rendered by a client can be presented directly by the display hardware as-is (scanned out), without any intermediate operations on the content.

Note "maximize" - the content must be compatible with hardware capabilities. Wayland provides hints to stay within capabilities, but a client might pick a render buffer modifier/format that cannot be scanned out by the display hardware. GPUs have a lot of random limitations.
haha, gosh, someone loves these dog pooping pictures ?
People with zero experience in technology should simply not be allowed to make decisions about it.

This is how you get politicians that try to ban encryption to "save the children."
If you are not criminal you have nothing to hide. Right?
This just in, upon further research: Every orbital rocket launch in history has ended in an explosion or a crash

Oh the humanity! Why isn't some company trying to solve this?
I think it's usually the opposite. The satellite spends much more time observing interesting stuff in the higher part of the orbit and much less time zipping by uninteresting stuff in the lower part.
What I’d really like to understand is why the board felt like they had to this as a surprise coup, and not a slower more dignified firing.

If they gave Altman 1 weeks notice and let him save face in the media, what would they have lost? Is there a fear Altman would take all the best engineers on the way out?
Probably higher resolution over more desirable areas as well as more stable orbits.
If oil change places start to disappear the cost for an oil change is going to go way up. Just about any shop will give you an oil change today, see how much more expensive they'll charge for their master certified mechanic to change your oil versus the barely trained fresh out of highschool grad that still needs to always stop and say "lefty loosey..." every time they pick up a wrench.
Filming the "Finger of Death" [video]
TikTok is a cultural weapon aimed at the heart of Western civilization. There's a reason it's banned in China, even though China runs it.
Before the launch, on the stream, SpaceX were saying that getting through staging was their primary goal this time. Everything else was bonus. So clearly it was a success on the primary mission.

Pretty similar to how a lot of NASA's missions have requirements like lasting 90 days on Mars. If that is reached, the mission was a success, even though they obviously don't just stop having objectives after that.
And complexity theory says we can't reach the information theoretical limits with generic algorithms.
When it comes to programming we are all self learners because no one teaches you how to write the software you might want to write… Getting taught merely means getting exposed to. The real teaching of something happens when you do it on your own… Taught my self to code in 6th grade and was able to drop out of college to work.. Started and sold my own company. I have to say the CS/CE curriculum is severely lacking and in all honesty not many benefit from it. Someone coming out of school with a bachelors doesn’t seem to be able to translate their “learned” skills into real working knowledge. That can only happen when you actually do what you want to do. Grab a bunch of CS and grads and ask them to write a simple FizzBuzz and you will be astonished at how many barely know where to start. It’s quite sad. Ironically I am now a researcher at MIT… I am in academia and didn’t even finish my degree…
I don't know gdb very well, but I did get to chat with him a bit about what he was working on around the time of this article, which was mostly infrastructure grunt work, removing obstacles and procedural rough edges—basically anything to make the researchers and engineers as happy and productive as possible. It is so, so easy to undervalue that kind of work done by a totally brilliant and capable technologist. For an early stage startup it's gold. For a later stage startup it's gold.
Why has no one on HN considered it has to do with sexually assaulting his sister when they were young?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

My other main guess is his push for government regulation being seen as stifling AI growth or even collusion with unaligned actors by the more scienc-y side and got him ousted by them.
Its possible not to be candid without even using lies of omission (and be on the losing side of a vicious factional battle) and get a nice note thanking you for all that you've done and allowing you to step down and spend more time with your family at the end of the year too. Or to carry on as before but with onerous reporting requirements. The board dumped him with unusual haste and an almost unprecedented attack on his integrity instead. A lot of people are reading the room rather than hyperliterally focusing on the exact words used.

If I take the time to accuse my boss of failing to be candid instead of thanking him in my resignation letter or exit interview, I'm not saying I think he could have communicated better, I'm saying he's a damned liar, and my letter isn't sent for the public to speculate on.

Whether the board were justified in concluding Sam was untrustworthy is another question, but they've been willing to burn quite a lot of reputation on signalling that.
These typefaces that give the illusion of not being monospace are fun! And this one was a good example of those. Very easy on the eye and even with a spark of timeless retro computing. They manage get a lot into a single typeface here.
How does this work? Don't regular Starlink dishes use like 100W or so? How does a phone have enough power to do that?

I can see text messages, maybe, like the iPhone... but real time voice too?
2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26551764
As an AI professional, I am very interested to hear about OpenAI's ideas, directions, safety programs, etc...

As a commercial customer, the only things I am interested in is the quality of the commercial product they provide to me. Will they have my interests in mind going forward? Will they devote all their energy in delivering the best, most advanced product to me? Will robust support and availability be there in the future? Given the board's publicly stated priorities (which I was not aware of before!), I am not so sure anymore.
Constantly scanning != Constantly recording and storing in perpetuity.
California Could Pave the Way for an Industry Standard EV Diagnostic System
Hey dang, this guy is out here bashing me and spreading false claims; all which have been proved to be false.

Can you remove this post or something please?
I dunno, it looks like a nominal shutdown to me. The speed readout shows rapidly decreasing acceleration just as the engine displays go out instead of the telemetry suddenly going stale as you'd expect if it just blew up during the burn. Then, after the acceleration has gone to zero, the telemetry goes stale, so my guess would be on something going wrong during shutdown (ullage collapse when the propellant sloshes forward as the engines shut down maybe, this was a problem during the first landing test.)

AFTS seems unlikely this late in the burn, I think they said it was in terminal guidance and it's very hard to laterally change the impact point in any meaningful way with that much velocity. But I agree, it definitely looked like something's venting near the end, too.
Yup.

OpenAI might just show the world how the naive ideal we are not driven by profit but spending billions every year is never a good idea.

Those board has no stake in the company, on the other side means their have no accountability either. It is like they remote controlling the titanic, and who cares it crashes, because they are not on it.

Regardless, they made very stupid decisions now sabotaging interests and the company itself, brutally beheaded itself.
Do you have citations for that? That’s interesting if true
> Exactly. The tricky part is that board started a second for profit company with VC investors who are co-owners. This has potential for messy conflicts of interest if there is disagreement about how to run the co-venture, and each party has contractual obligations to each other.

Anyone investing in or working for the for-profit LLC has to sign an operating agreement that states the LLC is not obligated to make a profit, all investments should be treated as donations, and that the charter and mission of the non-profit is the primary responsibility of the for-profit LLC as well.