skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's great that they're working to provide some sort of protection against spyware like Pegasus, and investing into cyber security and rewarding bug bounties more liberally. It makes me wonder if they'll spend time formally verifying the most critical components of their software for further security assurances.

The part about why Apple is against the EU making them allow users to sideload apps, I didn't quite understand. Could someone who understands what Krstić meant please reword it? These last two paragraphs I don't understand, and the first is just for context.

Krstić does not agree, and Apple has been explicit in its opposition to sideloading. The idea that people are being given an extra choice – including the choice of sticking with the App Store and keeping its protections – is a false one, he says with some frustration.

“That’s a great misunderstanding – and one we have tried to explain over and over. The reality of what the alternative distribution requirements enable is that software that users in Europe need to use – sometimes business software, other times personal software, social software, things that they want to use – may only be available outside of the store, alternatively distributed.

“In that case, those users don’t have a choice to get that software from a distribution mechanism that they trust. And so, in fact, it is simply not the case that users will retain the choice they have today to get all of their software from the App Store.”
It's not a dogma it's a breaking change to the language. Removing default zero-values is effectively a different language. Literally none of my code over the past several years (which otherwise all still works perfectly as-is) would work.

The Go team is very careful to avoid breaking changes (cue all the usual Well Actually comments regarding breaking changes that affected exactly zero code bases) and rightfully so. Their reputation as a stable foundation to build large projects upon has been key to the success and growth of the language and its ecosystem.

I have about a million and one other issues I'd like to see resolved first that don't involve breaking changes. It's a known pain point, the core maintainers acknowledge it, but suggestions to fundamentally derail the entire project are ludicrous.

Focusing on nils is fine. NilAway is fine. It's a perfectly reasonable approach and adds a lot of value. This solves a real problem in real code bases today. There is no universe wherein forking to create a new language creates remotely equivalent value.
It would be great if that was what was in their announcement.
Random question: do you have any connection to the Dragon speech-to-text software [0] that was first released in 1997? I've always found that to be an intriguing example of software that was "ahead of its time" (along with "the mother of all demos" [1]). And if so, it's funny to see you replying to the account named after (a typo of) ChatGPT.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
> Watermarking tools like SynthID are seen as an important safeguard against some of the harms of generative AI.

They are an important enabler of any potential harms for generative AI, because they provide a false sense of security, and the entities you should be most concerned about using generative AI to harm you will just use their own toolchains that don't put watermarks in, even if a regulatory regime is established effectively limiting public use to hosted systems which are compelled to use watermarks.
all you have to do is violate the content creators consent and you too can distribute information freely
The PATRIOT act extended the wartime powers act to apply in peacetime, and there are other more obscure authorizations that could be used. I used to work in the defense industry. It was absolutely common knowledge that the government could step in to nationalize control (though not the profits of) private industry when required. This has been done in particular when there are rare resources needed for supersonic then stealth technology during the Cold War, and uranium in the 40’s and 50’s.
It is also crazy that the "winning move" was to just do nothing and look like a genius and coast off that for the rest of their lives. Who in their right mind would consider them for a board position now.
Time dilation and length contraction are a feature of Lorentz Ether theory too. Even old-school Maxwell's equations predict it.
I think that would be me. I don't think I watch more than 2 videos a month on YouTube.
Are you saying that Sam has the ability to generate new contracts when you say take contracts with him, or do you think that somehow the existing contracts with Microsoft and other investors are tied to where he is?
The British Crown is barely a billionaire.

Augustus may have been independently wealthy, I'm just saying don't attribute the wealth of the state to him as well.
Do you work there? How do you know that the employees are 'extremely loyal' to Sam?
Ha ha ha it really is full of creeps.
Making no effort to obtain a grasp on the basic facts of the situation doesn’t seem to stop people here from posting embarrassing rants.

Altman was on the board. He was not “just another employee.” Brockman was also on the board, and was removed. It was a 4 on 2 power play and the 2 removed were ambushed.

You also don’t seem to realize that this is happening in the nonprofit entity and there are no shareholders to fire the board. I thought OpenAI’s weird structure was famous (infamous?) in tech, how did you miss it?
Time dilation is a function of your speed through the ether.
Hard disagree, please give one example of that so myslef and others have the opportunity to agree with you. Anyone saying something negative about "the jews" is an anti-semite, how do you feel about that? Not against the israeli government, or specific individuals or groups that happen to be jewish but in general a negative statement and stereotype against "the jews" is anti-semitism. If you can agree with that, please show me examples of the ADL dilluting that term.
That you don't think so is evidence itself
> These are absolutely signs of weakness in leadership.

The signs of "weakness in leadership" by the board already happened. There is no turning back from that. The only decision is how much continued fuck-uppery they want to continue with.

Like others have said, regardless of what is the "right" direction for OpenAI, the board executed this so spectacularly poorly that even if you believe everything that has been reported about their intentions (i.e. that Altman was more concerned about commercializing and productization of AI, while Sutskever was worried about the developing AI responsibly with more safeguards), all they've done is fucked over OpenAI.

I mean, given the reports about who has already resigned (not just Altman and Brockman but also other many other folks in top engineering leadership), it's pretty clear that plenty of other people would follow Altman to whatever AI venture he wants to build. If another competitor leap frogs OpenAI, their concerns about "moving too fast" will be irrelevant.
Without hardware attestation/DRM, all detection methods served by the server can be rendered futile. It's an inherently lost game for YouTube.
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Note that these are keyboards and not mouses, and they have USB-C sockets rather than permanently attached cables with USB-C plugs. They are also very premium products.

When it comes to the entire ecosystem, a $5 bargain-bin noname OEM keyboard with permanently-attached cable is more representative - and those definitely don't come with USB-C yet. That would probably add a few cents to their BOM, so it simply isn't worth it yet.
Your reply wouldn't make any sense to Octavian (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus) whose lifetime was marked by frequent episodes of intercepting state funds and adding them to the already stupendous coffers of his family fortunes and using those to divert state armies to his own personal power plays.

As a time traveller you'd have little chance of making your case to Octavian, Divi filius (aka "son of a god") that he was bound by some modern rules applied to mere "heads of state".
This does look very nice!

Still, I often go back to what I know and what I got used to as the default on the OS.

So, as a macOS user, I work with Apple's SF Mono:

https://developer.apple.com/fonts/

I tried hard to get along with JetBrains Mono, but in the end I just didn't enjoy their ligatures!

Also, I never get bored of discussions on what dev monospace fonts people use! :-D
Exactly what happens on Twitch (that or a low quality version of the stream) if you use the few anti-ads that still work. And I don't mind that, if I do, I usually stop watching and move to something else... especially because their ads are even more annoying than YouTube, often multiple consecutive 30 seconds ads, unskippable. I do not know who watches these, especially when they cut something happening live.
> British Crown is barely a billionaire

I'm using the Crown to illustrate the difference between the personal assets of a head of state and the assets of their state.

> just saying don't attribute the wealth of the state to him as well

The SCMP article you're responding to makes it clear they aren't doing this.
From everything we can see Ilya appears to be a true believer.

A true believer is going to act along the axis of their beliefs even if it ultimately results in failure. That doesn't necessarily make them naive or fools - many times they will fully understand that their actions have little or no chance of success. They've just prioritized a different value of you.
To be fair, you wouldn't know they're hyper aggressive until they actually move to enforce part of the contract. Most of their "partners" probably never need to meet that side of their legal team.

If I measured the "aggressiveness" of every contract based on the potential litigation of all its clauses, I'd never sign anything.
Regular semantic search for codes is a good idea, wouldn't be too difficult to implement alongside the question answering. Ive found clarifying question quality to be pretty amazing or pretty bad (I blame GPT 4). Thanks for the feedback!
You'll get a lot of out systems thinking then! Essentially the formalization of thinking in parts ("theories") and their interactions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking?useskin=vecto...
Yes, let's see references, especially for the multiphoton processes in Compton.

> The only quantisation needed in the Casimir effect is boundary-induced quantisation, that EM waves should have, right?

No. You need to explain why there is attraction in the absence of EM waves.

fyi the various noise measurements from squeezed states might hold interest for you.
One of the most ridiculous comments I have read about LLMs here.

The ~100 layer deep neural networks infer many levels of features over the text, including the concept of true and false. That is trivial for an LLM.

Are you completely unaware these are based on deep neural networks?

Convolutional Neural Networks don't operate by "look up" of text data.
The vehicle would just use its traditional mechanical disc or drum brakes then, as it already does all the time for harder braking
Isn't GLSL already supported by WebGL?
USB C is easier to use.

Machines should have more C ports even if they have to share controller lanes--rarely would anyone be in a situation to saturate the system but being able to have multiple devices plugged in at once is useful.

I'd be perfectly happy with an internal USB C hub--but I have never seen such a thing. (I *do* have an internal USB 3 hub. Same issue--the convenience of multiple ports, I don't need the bandwidth of them having their own controller lanes.)
Sure, but you have to be aware that it's still cold and it affects how you drive. It affects how the car feels. Is it a huge deal? Nope, not by itself. But it's just another one of those anachronistic things you do today that you will chuckle about in the future.
You can have vacuum fluctuations without photons.

EDIT: will try and find Compton paper later, going for walk now.
I would expect that Microsoft would have negotiated terms like a perpetual license to the IP, given that they were the main investor and were in a strong negotiating position.

Microsoft has a lot of experience interacting with small companies, including in situations like this one where the small company implodes. The people there know how to protect Microsoft's interests in such scenarios, and they definitely are aware that such things can happen.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Your feelings about the vague understanding you have of physics do not add to the conversation. Most of the technology you use every day depends on our understanding of quantum electrodynamics being correct.

For your education: one of the main sources for the development of the quantum theory of light was the ultraviolet catastrophe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
> if Einstein didn’t come up with relativity, likely no one would have for 30-40 years after.

This seems like a hyperbole to make a point about how smart Einstein was.

From what I've seen in past discussions like this, including one on HN [0], is that it would've been delayed by 1-5 years. And it wasn't just the Mercury's orbit. There were fundamental questions about electormagnetism that had unclear answers with the predominant theory of aether.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450827
it's a tiered rollout. I also had no issues until a few weeks ago. but I usually just need to update the unlock lists and do a hard refresh and I will be back in business for a few days.
SF Mono is my goto as well.

It doesn't try too hard and is legible, for me, at smaller sizes on macOS.
How will they sync the frequency onset of an entire city’s LEDs, so they all flicker on/off at the same moment? Or is the thinking here that it’ll average out and that will still be an improvement?
I have been overweight my entire life, and I am a boomer from a lower middle class family in the midwest.

The country used to be thinner on average, it's true. I remember. I was the oddball in my crowd of friends.

So what happened? I know from experience that the following things have happened over the past 50 years that may have contributed to our current situation:

1. Portion sizes used to be 1/2 to 1/4 the size that they are now. For example, a typical trip to McDonald's was a small hamburger (no cheese) and a very small bag of fries. Coke machines dispensed tiny 6-8 oz. bottles. A school lunch was a pbj sandwich, a cup of milk and an apple. People just didn't eat as much. It was the norm.

2. Smoking was HUGE. It was everywhere, and all of the time: workplaces, public transit, school lounges, shopping, etc. It was an appetite suppressant and a replacement for snacking.

3. Many more jobs required physical activity all day long. Even desk jobs required more activity: connectivity was minimal and you needed to stand up and walk around to different offices for communication, delivering documents, discussions, etc.

4. Foods were not as processed or flavor enhanced as they are now. Meals were cooked and eaten at home for the most part, and the ingredients were whole foods. And you knew what was in your meal--it wasn't a stick of butter because who could afford that?Also, it was rare for my family or any of my friends' families to go to a restaurant. That was saved for weekends or special days.

Our culture has shifted way too far in the direction of overconsumption in food and just about everything else. We could all survive and most likely thrive on a lot less of everything.
Courts don’t need to be automated. With enough laws and enough evidence, prosecutors will have sufficient leverage for plea bargains, which already make up the vast majority of criminal cases.

And the use of ML to assist bail / parole is aside from my point. Those are attempts to get a more accurate (potentially less biased) evaluation of already existing cases. I’m talking about the increase in cases.
I am just baffled for so many reasons.

Why is the board reversing course? They said they lost confidence in Altman - that’s true whether lots of people quit or not. So it was bullshit

Why did the board not foresee people quitting en masse? I’m sure some of it is loyalty to Sam and Greg but it’s also revolting at how they were suddenly fired

Why did the interim CEO not warn Ilya about the above? Sure it’s a promotion but her position is now jeopardized too. Methinks she’s not ready for the big leagues

Who picked this board anyway? I was surprised at how…young they all were. Older people have more life experience and tend not to do rash shit like this. Although the Quora CEO should’ve known better as well.
Thanks. It looks like they have it for the keyboards, too.
If we're being pedantic, it's USB Micro-B - more specifically the High-Speed variant. There's also USB Micro-A and USB Micro-AB, and all three have SuperSpeed variants which are twice the size.
They are pretty on the nose with explosive triggers. For example all windows license are free with office 10 year deal however if the deal is withdrawn all windows licenses are owned immediately upon cancellation. This is just the basic explosive stuff it gets worse from there.
>OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.

>non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.

From Forbes [1]

Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of answers site Quora, joined OpenAI’s board in April 2018. At the time, he wrote: “I continue to think that work toward general AI (with safety in mind) is both important and underappreciated.” In an interview with Forbes in January, D’Angelo argued that one of OpenAI’s strengths was its capped-profit business structure and nonprofit control. “There’s no outcome where this organization is one of the big five technology companies,” D’Angelo said. “This is something that’s fundamentally different, and my hope is that we can do a lot more good for the world than just become another corporation that gets that big.”

Tasha McCauley is an adjunct senior management scientist at RAND Corporation, a job she started earlier in 2023, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously cofounded Fellow Robots, a startup she launched with a colleague from Singularity University, where she’d served as a director of an innovation lab, and then cofounded GeoSim Systems, a geospatial technology startup where she served as CEO until last year. With her husband Joseph Gorden-Levitt, she was a signer of the Asilomar AI Principles, a set of 23 AI governance principles published in 2017. (Altman, OpenAI cofounder Iyla Sutskever and former board director Elon Musk also signed.)

McCauley currently sits on the advisory board of British-founded international Center for the Governance of AI alongside fellow OpenAI director Helen Toner. And she’s tied to the Effective Altruism movement through the Centre for Effective Altruism; McCauley sits on the U.K. board of the Effective Ventures Foundation, its parent organization.

Helen Toner, director of strategy and foundational research grants at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, joined OpenAI’s board of directors in September 2021. Her role: to think about safety in a world where OpenAI’s creation had global influence. “I greatly value Helen’s deep thinking around the long-term risks and effects of AI,” Brockman said in a statement at the time.

More recently, Toner has been making headlines as an expert on China’s AI landscape and the potential role of AI regulation in a geopolitical face-off with the Asian giant. Toner had lived in Beijing in between roles at Open Philanthropy and her current job at CSET, researching its AI ecosystem, per her corporate biography. In June, she co-authored an essay for Foreign Affairs on “The Illusion of China’s AI Prowess” that argued — in opposition to Altman’s cited U.S. Senate testimony — that regulation wouldn’t slow down the U.S. in a race between the two nations.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/17/these-are...
The timing makes me think the board inadvertently found something out during or as a result o dev day.
I had no idea I could just do useskin=vector to get the old look back. Thanks for that!
I think almost everyone at OpenAI would be ok if there were layoffs there though
Of course I am but only because I think developing safe AI is going to be such a monumental challenge (greater than manhattan project).

However honestly I think recent events give me more hope that things will go well. My impression from Sam's comments/interviews is he's closer to the techno-maximalist, move fast and break things mindset then someone who really takes AI risks seriously.

I think this fight was going to happen sooner or later and it's better that OpenAI split up into safety focused vs commercialize and move fast teams. These two viewpoints are probably irreconcilable
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Microsoft hasn't actually sent them all that money yet, and a lot of it seems to be in Azure credits that they can just pull. Then what are they going to do?
I've asked that question in the past and I've never gotten an answer. Some people sidestep the question by describing something or other that they're confident isn't understanding; others just decline to engage entirely, asserting that the idea is too ridiculous to take seriously. In my experience, people with a clear idea of what they mean by the word "understand" are comfortable saying that ML models understand things.
Configured a certain way, the game should respond by poking holes in the narrative that cheat credulity. Like the Kaiju transmitter will turn out to be a dud, told humorously and leading to the end of the story.
Just don't accidentally stick USB-C into a USB-A port. It will fit and it will short the port, causing the machine to crash. Speaking from experience...
Yeah, I agree with that. I think the board has to have been genuinely surprised by the sheer blowback they're getting, i.e. not just Brockman quitting but lots of their other top engineering leaders.

Regarding your last sentence, it's pretty obvious that if Altman comes back, the current board will effectively be neutered (it says as much in the article). So my guess is that they're more in "what do we do to save OpenAI as an organization" than saving their own roles.
Yeah, I agree that the whole legal structure is basically duplicitous, and any attempt to cite it as some evidence of virtue is more emblematic of the opposite...
That's not a fair comparison considering how compatible USB-C is with USB 3.0 A/B.
It’s the ultra processed food. https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(19)30248...
The great insight IMO was special theory; the General Theory was I suppose a bit more obvious generalization that just needed the math to be figured out..
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The board has to stick to the charter. unfortunately employees there wants to align with the profit part when they know they can damn lot of money.. obviously they will be with Altman size.
Suprise: i have done first year physics as well. And I am probably more familiar with light-atom interaction than you.
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