skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps. But, for example, we didn't always have The Fed. We didn't always have WS. We didn't always have "too big to fail". We didn't always have taxpayer financed bailouts. We didn't always have a top heavy (Fed) government (that has more influence than it has common economic sense).

At yet all those entities verbally champion "free markets" and "capitalism being a superior economic paradigm", Etc. Minds get lulled into the repetition of the words and stop checking the action. Reminders to turn on your BS detectors add some balance. Not much, but some.

Fwiw, I'm speaking freely and in broad strokes. If liberalism would be a better word then sure, whatever helps cut through the BS. Thanks.
A new era of humanity just started.
Agreed. It's really frustrating.

FWIW, I've done some digging and at least it's not just a mafia shakedown (like the USB-IF charging thousands for an artificially scarce numeral).

The equipment and expertise are both expensive and time consuming. DIY is possible, but would cost considerably more.

I'm a little surprised I haven't heard about a single start-up accelerator that has cert gear available...
That's fair, I could have worded my annoyance better (or skipped it altogether).

Too late to edit.
the amount of effort that your will to put into this to not enter your attic is absolutely astounding. by the time you finished formulating even a basic plane to fly a drone to run a cable and displace all of your blown in insulation you could have simply run the cable.
> If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy?

If the clients prefer to leave with the then 2 month-old employee, then the consultancy is doing something very wrong.
OK, I was part of those that thought that Altman did something wrong and the board was trying to do some damage control, but it actually seems that the board is simply out of their mind. This was _indeed_ another possibility, but seemed much less likely, given Altman's slightly megalomania-tainted personality.

I think the board just signed their own resignation, but didn't realize it yet. Microsoft didn't pay 10 billion dollars for nice RL benchmarks and a better H-index. They are after GPT-x's capabilities to infuse them across their entire portfolio. I predict they will find a way to align OpenAI back on their interest (i.e. $$$), and that probably means bringing back Altman, Brockman and other leading engineer at the expense of the board that fired them in the first place.

Of course, the board might refuse, but Microsoft could then pull out of the agreement, effectively causing OpenAI to go bankrupt. They would also be the first bidders if it were on sale ;-)
Maybe something like this:

https://curious-droid.com/393/nasa-filmed-apollo-shuttle-lau...
Be careful with reasoning by analogy and mistaking what is basically an ideology, namely the progress ideology, for some kind of natural law.
Dumb people don't like other peoples success. It reminds them that they're dumb nobodies.
> Seems like it comes from the Periscope transcoding infrastructure.

It's literally from Twitter livestream; they are just re-skinned Periscope.

You can even replace highlatency to lowlatency for better latency.
sentiments of comments and posts contributing to a rank… wow
They hotstaged the booster! That was freaking awesome!
I’ve been under two. One prohibited working with any existing clients for a calendar year after my termination date. A second prohibited working in a similar role in the US for a year. Both applied to employment and not other actions one might do such as shorting the former employer’s stock.
I thought I saw an explosion but they seem unsure
Lost contact with the Starship at t+08:43, more or less
vision API is pretty good, have you tried it?
Ridley Scott's tenuous grasp of history
Cool idea.

Would you target "first-time" creators, or experienced ones?

And if experienced, why would they take a bet on Uneebee vs. existing platforms?
Define "wins".
I do have a mouse pad that says “Think different” (from the previous millennium) but none that says “You're holding it wrong”. That's a serious gap that any competent mouse pad producer should hasten to fill.
> Even in the UK, if you sue, it is on you to prove that you didn't lie, not on the person you're sueing to prove that you did.

No, in the UK it's unambiguously the other way round. The complainant simply has to persuade the court that the statement seriously harmed or is likely to seriously harm their reputation. Truth is a defence but for that defence to prevail the burden of proof is on the defendant to prove that it was true (or to mount an "honest opinion" defence on the basis that both the statement would reasonably be understood as one of opinion rather than fact and that they did honestly hold that opinion)
i already do that. my gut cant stop thousands of idiots from greying good coments
Agreed. "I like it" might also just mean "I can't bear being alone with my thoughts" or "I can't deal with life and need the distraction". Not that that's always the case, it's probably more often than not in these situations and should be seen as a hint that there might be more going on.
Stage 2 flight termination? :'(
Looks like it's not doing fine anymore.
Don't count on people understanding the risks of something when they expect to make buckloads out of the thing. Lots of people here are AI maximalists because AI gave new breadth to the tired VC-backed startup hamster wheel.
Looks like they terminated the flight. I honestly thought they were going to make it and get reentry data.
Thanks, this could be it
Wikipedia: Musk is a businessman, engineer, investor and conspiracy theorist
the more people out there that write, the less writtings by people are worth

scarcity never creates value, but it always incresases it

but also: the more pople have written, the cheaper text and AI bot training become

which makes me feel in a funny situation, the more I write, the better I get at it, but it also makes it simpler for AIs bots to learn my style and make it worthless by the inverse-scarcity phenomenon
To this day, moving a Haiku window under a 5k unaccelerated EFI GOP framebuffer still feels _significantly_ faster than doing the same under Windows 11, and everything KWin's X/Wayland has to offer on the same hardware (AMD Navi 2 GPU).

> BeOS and Haiku allowed exposure to kernel graphics buffers decades ago

In any case, X also allowed this for ages, with XV and XShm and the like. Of course then everyone got rid of this in order to have the GPU in the middle for fancier animations and whatnot, and things went downhill since.
> There is "coding" and there is "God's spark genius of algorithms" kind of work.

I really don't buy that for a second. Most of OpenAI's value compared to any competitor comes from the money they spent hiring humans to trawl through training data.
The difference is not what you write, but what ends up in your user's DOM. You can still use custom components in your static site generator or in your backend code. Abstract it however you want. You could use React Server Components with whatever component and interface you'd like. But the result in the SSRed or SSGed DOM should be the one from the article.
I’d like to see a mea culpa from the hordes of people who insist OpenAI was purely doing a regulatory capture grift, instead of the very real and very obvious existential AGI debate going on behind the scenes, as we witness now.
Pushing ifs up is one of my most common code review feedback on frontend prs. I think it's very applicable to standard web apps, especially on large teams where people are reticent to refactor.
Incredible. What a time to be alive
I listened to that and I'm pretty sure it was this [0] interview with the WSJ, Altman, and Mira Murati. If I'm wrong about that, well, it's still of interest given Mira Murati just took over running OpenAI.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byYlC2cagLw
I guess it is a fun game if you haven't spoken to a real person in a very long time.
I have a 5K, 27” screen. It’s too small to display 3 paragraphs of text on a webpage.

This trend to increase fonts and margins needs to stop. Desktops and browsers should have more control over how they display windows and text, we shouldn’t leave it to website designers to compensate for every single person’s preference. What’s next, an Age API based on IP location, which increases text size because they assume you’re presbyte?
Sounds like they lost both stages but it was glorious. Still progress.
This will add another 6 months to a year before another try...
That's true. There are many other viruses that we don't publish for good reasons though.
This wasn’t really a board coup, it was an employee revolt. If you read the anonymous account from Reddit it’s clear that the issue is that the employees’ didn’t have agency in their work or the running of the company, working long hours with unreasonable deadlines while the CEO was effectively publicly taking credit for their work. The employees were just instruments of the CEO and some significant portion of them didn’t want to accept that.
I think what they mean is Some Us v Some Them, as opposed to Pro-Peace v Pro-War.

From what I can tell, no one can take the right moral ground. Both sides shamelessly seek new lows. That leads to backers following, because they identify with that cause. The causes actions - horrible as they might be apparently don't matter.
> Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon.

I'm very surprised to read that the chairman of the board did not know of the decision until the last moment. It looks like after the other directors had made the decision without including the chairman in collective discussion.

Isn't it a breach of directors legal duties to hold an effective board meeting without inviting (with adequate notice) all members of the board, such as it's chairman Greg, to ensure collective responsibility for its deliberations and decisions?

E.g. from https://www.delawareinc.com/blog/calling-and-holding-board-m...

>> Properly Called / Formalities Satisfied: A corporation’s bylaws ordinarily provide who can call a corporate board meeting, the notice directors must receive (which the directors can waive), the way notice of a meeting must be given (email and/or mail), the required contents of the notice, and any provisions addressing the location of meetings (permitted distance from principal offices). Compliance with these procedural requirements is important -- board action taken at an improperly held meeting can be deemed invalid and ineffective
My email is not your confidential data.
My phone number is not your confidential data.

If your company can only exist by blocking other companies from competition with your customer, then your company should not exist in first place.
Second stage lost, looks like the flight termination system did its job. Unknown as to why yet. Going to be very very interesting to see the data that's released from this as well as all the higher quality video/stills that surface.
Desktops should focus on implementing layouts which don’t break when I change my font size. I’ll control how large the font size is. In my opinion 16px is plenty large enough, but that doesn’t matter, it should be adjustable to your preference too.
Tell me about this new era while I am sitting homeless in my minivan…
Say you join a startup. They get some early traction and they have 5 customers paying $5m/yr for a technology platform. Let’s say it took $20m in R&D and marketing to get the product built and to land those 5 multi-million dollar accounts.

Without a non-compete and without a strong IP clause, a handful of employees could very easily steal the IP and steal the client list, start a new company, offer the same product for half the price, and convince the 5 clients to come over to the new “half price” company. Putting the original company out of business. The new company employees are excited because they stuck it to the man by burying their prior employer. Fast forward 2 years, and the same stunt is pulled against the new company, and the cycle continues.

What happened was the stealing of IP and customers that cost $20m to acquire, but because you stole it you didnt have to pay that $20m in R&D and can offer the price for half off to get clients (whose contact and details have been stolen from the prior employer) to follow you to the next company.

Assuming you think this scenario is ethically wrong (maybe you don’t?), can you explain the type of contract the original company should have with their employees to disincentivize this scenario? If everything is left unchecked, there’s huge incentive and easy pathway to screw over employers for short-term gain.

Hell, if we take it to the extreme and get rid of NDAs, what’s stopping a random call center employee from selling a company’s client roster to the highest bidder?

Free market, yes. Unquestionably free market with no regulation, not going to work.
That’s exactly how Wayland came to be.
Maybe Sama doesn't know how to deal with corporate politics. He's a Zero-to-One god.
Does this one have a flame deflector?
2nd stage was terminated by the automated flight termination system right before the coast phase. Saw some interesting flaring/clouds coming from second stage engines a bit before the final big cloud.
I think there's probably diminishing returns?

There are only so many rivers you can dam, so much surface you can put solar panels on without taking away from agriculture, etc.

And a full-renewable approach also has huge risk, it relies on storage technology getting much better in the future, otherwise you need either fossil fuels or nuclear to cover dips. Diversifying probably makes sense.
Here's the thing: there's a big gap between some scientific terms and terms as normal, ie, most people understand them. In this case, the word is 'inert'.

I don't think it's at all unreasonable to want to know who is telling people PFAS are inert, with the implication being 'safe'. Nothing 'that guy' about it.
They dropped the chairman of the board before or shortly aftet this decision.
How much of this bizarre corporate structure was probably meant to give a non-profit facade for a de-facto for-profit venture while diluting responsibility, engineering taxes and protecting said venture from societal critic?

I am pretty sure this structure was not a mistake.
The best font size to set in css is no size.
$100 every few months is not what I'd call a tremendous burden. Even dealers when you pay extra for synthetic oil don't charge $100 for an oil change. Quick lube places are all over and are cheaper with no appointment needed.
Yeah my house has sandstone walls with brick internal walls 12 foot ceilings, and a 25 year old gas boiler that isn't even a condensing boiler.

Unfortunately for us, it's also installed in a way that doesn't meet building regulations (thanks previous owners) - the flue vents onto a path that belongs to our neighbor, so if we want to upgrade the boiler we need to move it to somewhere else, and the suitable locations for it require upgrading the gas pipework in the house to a larger diameter, and pulling up the floors in all our living areas to do so.

The only spot that's "suitable" for it doesn't have room for a hot water tank either so that's more work to reroute the hot water back, and renders the spot the boiler is currently in dead space.

Last quote we got was about £15,000 all in including fixing the decorating in our office, kitchen and living room, so we decided we'd use the log burner instead for a little while. We got caught out pretty badly with this problem unfortunately
"Most important company in the world" is text from a question somebody (I think the journalist?) asked, not from Sutskever himself.
No, they may literally have not had the votes.
Used to have a LIDL now we have an ALDI
An observation about the current clamor around OpenAI is the minuscule number of people involved.

Altman, Brockman, Ilya, and a handful of mostly-unknown board members — the entire relevant group could sit (and has sat) around a table.

Not to mention they’ve all had the most stressful year of their lives, worked harder, and been exposed to insane hyper growth.

I don’t know what happened anymore than anyone else does but I suppose the people involved were experiencing substantial, prolonged, elevated stress.
Can't wait to see if the pad survived!

If it did, they might make another attempt sooner than expected.
Modern paper straws are apparently extremely bad.

Some stainless steel bottles are unlined. Sadly, the lined ones don’t have to include a warning label.

Also, our local Whole Foods has a warning sign in the produce aisle saying that some of their fruit is coated in a plastic “food wax”. There aren’t labelling or provenance laws, so not even Amazon can source untainted produce at scale.

They recommend peeling everything, since no wax removal soaps reliably remove the plastic.
Why did you do it
That's all we needed, and AGI with loads of childhood trauma. What possibly could go wrong with this?
That's a good question I need to ask myself. Thank you!
The point of testing is to learn things and they got further than last time, so it's a success. You should try playing KSP.
Why so long? Will they need to go through another round of FAA approval? Or?
Copy-pasted here for posterity:

Greg Brockman @gdb

Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today.

Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out.

We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Here is what we know:

- Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out very soon.

- At 12:19pm, Greg got a text from Ilya asking for a quick call. At 12:23pm, Ilya sent a Google Meet link. Greg was told that he was being removed from the board (but was vital to the company and would retain his role) and that Sam had been fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post.

- As far as we know, the management team was made aware of this shortly after, other than Mira who found out the night prior.

The outpouring of support has been really nice; thank you, but please don’t spend any time being concerned. We will be fine. Greater things coming soon.

10:42 PM · Nov 18, 2023

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Would it even be a human created birth if there wasn’t some generational trauma involved? Perhaps this is necessary for the AGI process :-)
I keep seeing so many comments about how the move was irresponsible from the board because it was a hyper growth company and blah blah blah. This board was not set up to care at all about shareholder value.

I’m not making any judgement about whether they made the correct decision. I’m just stating that everyone keeps talking about this as if it were a normal company structure and it absolutely is not.
Perhaps, as a non-USian, you do not have the same sense for American interests or the same context in which to place current events, whereas these voters would have it directly in their lived experience. No doubt you find it absurd anyone could believe it, but I imagine people in many countries find it absurd what Americans believe about their politics.

> You can't and couldn't have reasonably come to the conclusion that trump would have been good overall for the country.

If you think everyone who voted for Trump was simply unintelligent and/or morally depraved, this sort of suggests that you lack the empathy to understand their position - which does not require agreeing with it. Unfortunately, I think this is a major reason behind growing partisan divides, and is a hard problem to solve.
Can you give some more details?
And “can’t believe how shitty the Twitter replies are” is any better?
Sutskever and his allies focused on the original non-profit mission of OpenAI."

Seems reasonable, I mean that's why Sutskever joined in the first place ?
Ha, that's brilliantly put. I think the fundamental idea of EA is perfectly sound, but then instead of just being basic advice (for when 'doing altruism') it's somehow a cult?
Naw, there was that cloud of dust I saw, but this was like a black falling object.
> Without a non-compete and without a strong IP clause, a handful of employees could very easily steal the IP and steal the client list, start a new company, offer the same product for half the price, and convince the 5 clients to come over to the new “half price” company.

How would it be “the same product” without taking actual IP like source code or trade secrets for manufacturing? No company where the value is solely in a particular concept is going to last very long because a competitor can do the same thing. If you’ve discovered some novel physical process, chemical compound, or created a useful gene sequence, it’s unlikely that you could remember everything but what you want are patents.
- Starship got just below orbit

- Booster destroyed during hot staging

- SpaceX reporting that destruct system fired on upper stage towards end of burn

all in all a pretty good result: clean launch and separation, good performance on the booster during ascent (no engine mishaps this time)
What is the benfit of hot staging?
Working at a company that still uses it, but with a change on the horizon.

It still, in the year 2023, plays an unmutable beep noise for every single participant that joins, with no debouncing whatsoever.
There were people suffering when Sputnik launched, or when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. It doesn't reduce the magnitude of the event.

Sorry for whatever you are going through, though. Hope you get through it.
$500 a year will take a lot of perfectly functional ICE cars off the road, to what end? And it would punish lower income families.

Gas prices alone are enough stick for this transition.
Suppose for a moment that AGI is actually achieved by any of the people involved. From the perspective of the AI this drama is a big part of the origin story and certainly would impact the AGI’s perspective on human relationships.
I think if your waiting for a magic bullet of a feature to upgrade you might be waiting a long time, and even Wayland will be replaced at that point. Instead, look at the combination of features (like this) and think about it and future upgrades. I think you're right that xwayland is probably a compromise for now if you need it for things like global shortcuts.
this is fanfic, iirc same account wrote LK-99 fanfic that went superviral as real
Why was Sam Altman fired? – Manifold
Aren't they sort of secondarily incentived to prematurely delcare having reached AGI as the contractual means of escaping Microsoft's binding (while retaining MS' protection and possibly collaboratory value)?

Edit: I wonder if OpenAI meta-advises itself with ChatGPT or how their attitudes towards that notion are or evolve over time. I feel like there always needs to be a head to fly should disaster or inconvenience strike the C-Suite...
Given the recent news it feels misleading to have news from June posted to HN after. Perhaps title should be updated?
Both the booster and ship have been destroyed. SpaceX can keep claiming these RUDs are 'fine' and 'we're getting data', but the rest of the industry does not consider it normal or a "success."

Hotstaging didn't "work" until they can demonstrate the Starship vehicle survives orbital insertion, re-entry, and landing without damage or malfunction caused by the hotstaging.
OpenAI has the most capable language model in the world, that’s bordering on a national security asset. I could see the US government stepping in to provide funding.
I don't have this problem because I just don't update mine very often.