skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all roads lead back Adam d'Angelo

Maybe someone thinks Sam was “not consistently candid” about mentioning one of the feature bullets in latest release was dropping d'Angelo's Poe directly into the ChatGPT app for no additional charge.

Given dev day timing and the update releasing these "GPTs" this is an entirely plausible timeline.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/10/poes-ai-chatbot-app-now-le...
> best outcome right now is for OpenAI to open source GPT-4 architecture and its training data, then release the weights. Would at least take LLM dominance away from Microsoft.

While undermining its safety argument. Better: open it to partners, subject to vetting and contractual terms regarding its use, in exchange for cash and/or compute.
The author of DDD has openly admitted in a podcast that his book is essentially a scam.

He wanted to write a book about Clojure, but the publisher said that there was too little interest. So he "tricked the readership into reading a book which is about Clojure without saying that it is about Clojure". I'm paraphrasing, but that is the genuine gist of what he said (much to the non-amusement of the interviewer who must have felt deceived as well).

Source: https://changelog.com/podcast/522

I even read this stupid book because there was a hype at work and it is so full of strawman arguments it made me furious.
In the same way that using a limited medium like some oil paints, paintbrushes, and canvas to create images = the art of painting, there will become the art of hacking / abusing / advanced prompt engineering / pushing AI to do things that are close to or at its limits of capabilities.

A: Oh so your LLM generated an image of a spaceship cockpit, so what?

B: So what? This LLM was trained on nothing but tax records from 1929!

A: :o amazing!

So AI artists do not necessarily equal 'creatives who render images using AI tooling', they may instead be 'creatives who tease out novel outputs from AIs' or something like that.

Then again, this is suspiciously close to a 'what is art' conversation, so i'll stop here.
…for you. Be careful when you state personal opinion as fact. I’m not claiming that they’re universally good, just that I like them (and so do lots of other people). Your claims are far from universal.
This is wrong. Microsoft has no such rights and its license comes with restrictions, per the cited primary source, meaning a fork would require a very careful approach.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-forge-awkw...
The Hofmann Wobble: Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
Show HN: BrowserBox as Onion Service, GitHub Action
If your compensation goes from 600k to 200k, you would care as well.

No idealistic vision can compensate for that.
Developing, training, and running AI models is not cheap, and it's very much an open question of whether the money users are willing to pay covers the cost.
Yes, original copilot, but not new copilot with expanded features. I'm a vim person and wold rather give up copilot than move to vs code, so I do hope they aren't going to leave vim behind and focus only on vs code moving forward.
Could be a way to get backdoor-acquihired by Microsoft without a diligence process or board approval. Open up what they have accomplished for public consumption; kick off a massive hype cycle; downplay the problems around hallucinations and abuse; negotiate fat new stock grants for everyone at Microsoft at the peak of the hype cycle; and now all the problems related to actually making this a sustainable, legal technology all become Microsoft's. Manufacture a big crisis, time pressure, and a big opportunity so that Microsoft doesn't dig too deeply into the whole business.

This whole weekend feels like a big pageeant to me, and a lot doesn't add up. Also remember that Altman doesn't hold equity in OpenAI, nor does Ilya, and so their way to get a big payout is to get hired rather than acquired.

Then again, both Hanlon's and Occam's razor suggest that pure human stupidity and chaos may be more at fault.
The most funny thing it's when one discover that Adan Smith was against "the invisible hand" and against rent lords (He calls rent lords as social parasites)
What are yours?

In the US, software is 10% of GDP. And with growing usefulness, that should increase.
It seems very suspect to base anything on what happened during the pandemic. Even though no time is normal, those times were more abnormal than most
Thoughts on the OpenAI Rollercoaster from a Fellow Founder
In regards to extensions: it is my understanding that WebExtensions were never sold as being capable of as much as XUL addons, because XUL addons could rewrite just about anything in the browser and cause just about unlimited breakage. The XUL API could not be flexibly improved, and critically held back some real security improvements like multi-process rendering. It was ultimately _necessary_ to redesign the API in order to make it feasible to evolve the browser without constantly breaking addons. Please read https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo... for a more in-depth explanation.
This was actually a pretty recent change from 2018. iirc it was actually Newman's Own that set the precedent for this:

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/newmans-philanthropic-excepti...
Every time that guy says "generational wealth" I throw up in my mouth a bit.
Comparing a non-profit org to Rome? That's quite the stretch.
"Ilya might have just saved this timeline" is more plausible than this article
As a sidenote, I guess spec could be useful for "verifying" the data.
> While undermining its safety argument.

For someone not knowledgeable in this, why is this the case?
Oxford Dictionaries is winding down all non-enterprise APIs
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> From 1st April 2024, all current non-enterprise API services will be wound down.

> We greatly value your loyalty and would love to continue working with you on our Enterprise plan. If this is something you would like to discuss with a designated technical manager, then please let us know by emailing api@oxforddictionaries.com.
If you shove a bunch of $100 dollar bills on a thorn tree, it doesn't make it any less dangerous or change it's fundamental nature.
This was actually a pretty recent change from 2018. iirc it was actually Newman's Own that set the precedent for this:

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/newmans-philanthropic-excepti...

> Introduced in June of 2017, the act amends the Revenue Code to allow private foundations to take complete ownership of a for-profit corporation under certain circumstances:

The business must be owned by the private foundation through 100 percent ownership of the voting stock.
The business must be managed independently, meaning its board cannot be controlled by family members of the foundation’s founder or substantial donors to the foundation.
All profits of the business must be distributed to the foundation.
This is how you end up with bands of military and police extracting "road tax" as they see fit. Iraq circa 2004 is not a good model.
In that case create a work WhatsApp profile that’s separate from your personal info.
The question here is what choice does the board has now. Even if they comply, would Altman accept/be able to get back after signing for Microsoft? Would Nadella allow him to go back after he secured him inside MS's campus?
Is there any indication that the original policy was to stop after ten months? If the forced contraception is repeatedly administered over a long enough period of time that the women can no longer reproduce, there is no functional difference.
I'd add that the US is generally quite in favour of dollarization even though the Fed only cares about the US and the EU is only in favour of countries adopting the Euro via it's accession process and adopting its macroeconomic rules. Certainly the ECB has no incentive to consider Argentina's economy when making monetary policy decisions, and if anything might take the opposite stance that it's a competitive threat to Eurozone trade.
The benefit of having incentive-aligned board, founders, and execs.

Even the clown car isn't this bad.
The year of the Linux Microsoft.
You used Microsoft products, you allowed bundling of operating systems and hardware, office suite monopoly, trusted GitHub with your code. This is on you.
Something else disturbing is how much European governments trust Microsoft/Azure. They are normally allergic to US big tech but Microsoft has somehow convinced European governments to hand out their citizens data.
From Chrome's launch in 2008-2009 (depending on your OS) until Firefox's multi-process release in 2016, Chrome had a huge advantage: a bad page didn't crash or slow down your whole browser.

I switched during that time period and took my time switching back. Someone less interested in tech or less concerned with privacy issues probably wouldn't have been motivated to switch back at all. I can't comment on whether Google did use sabotage to win, but they didn't need to.
Also consider how a lot of companies that have leaned into Javascript are now Microsoft shops as they code Typescript in VS Code and push it up to their Github instance. Microsoft will eat as much as it can and give you as much as it can for free so that the mind share is the lock-in.
The child process's environment for these purposes is constructed without mutating its parent's environment - a copy is used - and before the child process actually runs the target code it was created to run. So there is no possibility of race between mutations to the environment and reads of the environment. If you are writing such a tool but doing something other than this, you are doing it wrong.
Since they throw me "Google recommends Chrome!" adverts in my face for various of their services, even when using a chrome-based browser it's not a case of only testing for Chrome/Safari. It's active work against others.
There's plenty of things it could do with a little training. Cyberwarfare being one of the most potent I can think of. Even just used as a planning partner for everything from skirmishes to strategic initiatives, it could be helpful.
Didn't they receive their original funding as donations? All those donations will now turn out to have been made to a for-profit entity.
It's definitely a spectrum though, you may choose to encode more or less of the program logic as data. Take a rule engine/expert system for example, the code is the least interesting part since all of the domain logic is encoded as data.
> They can burn down the whole company if they like.

That's well under way I would say.
Fair - hopefully an unintentional political move but big political miscalculation.
Hard Startups – Sam Altman
I don't understand all those rust hypes here. What indeed does rust bring to the table?
State-Dependent Memory
Thanks. So it seems like there were not even any individual flip-flops from the board (until Ilya Sutskever's more recent comments), so they were pretty "steadfast" after all.
It’s Amazing how fast Satya acted, but things are going so crazy that I wouldn’t be surprised if Sam Altman announces on twitter that he is not joining MSFT.
This seems really dangerous. What's to stop top talent from simply choosing a different suitor?
I believe it's dangerous to build this cult of personality around Sam. Sure, he's a great businessman but Musk also seemed like a smart guy in the beginning but it turns out all this idolatry corrupts and brings out the worst in people.
It doesn't matter if the firing was justified or not, the board fucked up.
Lookup what Microsoft has already announced under the Copilot brand. They have plans much larger than Bing.
Ah yes, 'practical innovation' like Manifest v3? Encrypted Media Extensions? Web Environment Integrity? Google couldn't innovate if it tried. Like any other big business, they care only for control in a market.
If it's that unsafe, it shouldn't be in the hands and control of a clearly incompetent private company.
The original article says:

> Despite this objection from locals, planning permission was granted last year.

Which amazes me. Why on earth would Newham approve this? Your article has a clue:

> Plans for the Stratford sphere were approved by the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) last year, despite fierce opposition from some locals.

I vaguely remember that as part of the olympics "redevelopment", planning powers in this area were transferred from the council to LLDC. Who, being a bunch of unelected quangocrats, don't give a shit about residents, and have signed this off.
> Go makes the assumption that the DNS lookups are thread-safe

DNS functions are thread-safe.

The thing people aren't understanding here is when you set loose nasal demons (such as by calling `setenv` in a multithreaded program), they can cause problems even in safe code.
It is disappointing that the outcome of this is that Altman and co are basically going to steal a nonprofit's IP and use it at a competitor. They took advantage of the goodwill of the public and favorable taxation in order to develop the technology; now that it's ready, they want to privatize the profit. It looks like this was the plan all along, and it's very strange to me that a nonprofit is allowed to have a for-profit subsidiary.

I would hope the California AG is all over this whole situation. There's a lot of fishy stuff going on already, and the idea that nonprofit IP / trade secrets are going to be stolen and privatized by Microsoft seems pretty messed up.
I bet all those corporations doing attrition-layoffs are making notes. The efficacy of this is so much higher than of returning to office...
AFAIK MSFT/Altman can't just fork GPT-N and continue uninterrupted. All MSFT has rights to is weights and source code - not the critical (and slow to recreate) human-created and curated training data, or any of the development software infrastructure that OpenAI has built.

The leaders may be motivated by retribution, but I'm sure none of leaders or researchers really want to be a division of MSFT rather than a cool start-up. Many developers may chose to stay in SF and create their own startups, or join others. Signing the letter isn't a commitment to go to MSFT - just a way to pressure for a return to status quo they were happy with.

Not everyone is going to stay with OpenAI or move to MSFT - some developers will move elsewhere and the knowledge of OpenAI's secret sauce will spread.
Okay they can force everyone to pay in the EU. Would that make the regulators happy? Would that make the users happy?
Their front page has been mostly increasingly abysmal for a while.

The technology sub (not that there's anything special about it other than being big) has had a post up since very early this morning, so there are likely others as well.
Java and the String Odyssey: Navigating Changes from JDK 1 to JDK 21
I was actually surprised by the results, but maybe not in the way that most people would think. I avoided the 4.77MHz PCs because my (self built) 4MHz Z80 machine consistently outperformed them. I used IBM PCs at work and they were fine. The extra memory was awesome, but the speed of running applications was never in question. My Z80 was always faster. The 16-bit instructions of the 8088 required two bus cycles to fetch, while the 8-bit instructions of the Z80 required only one. Memory bandwidth was comparable (4116 dynamic RAM) and caches did not yet exist, so the Z80 always won.

I did not "upgrade" my home computer until the 386(SX) could emulate the Z80 faster than the Z80 silicon could run.
After the Futurama future, we make it to the Idiocracy future.
>This is the fulfillment of Hayek dream of stripping control of the currency from the state.

Choosing the dollar isn't "stripping control" from the state, it's giving it to a sovereign state that doesn't have your interests in mind. Given the current situation it may be better, but lets stay in reality here.
Up from 216B now!

https://valustox.com/MSFT
This was not how I saw collective bargaining coming to Silicon Valley.
It's a lot easier to sign a petition than it is to quit your cushy job. It remains to be seen how many people jump ship to (supposedly) take a spot at Microsoft.
OpenAI employees start a trend: "OpenAI is nothing without its employees"
I really, really hope AGI ends up being created by hobbyists, not some SV company or, heaven help us, Microsoft.
Hype as in, why announce that it was made in Rust? Well to me, because i like to see the languages things are made in, and i especially like to see projects i would be interested in contributing to (read: also using my preferred language at the time).

It was the same for Go when i was using Go. Why is this always debated?
The idea that a bunch of tech bros with delusions of grandeur bear comparison to the transfer of power in Ancient Rome is laughable.

Ilya is a guy who is on the board and supported the board decision until it was clear that the mood of the company meant that the entire project was hosed as a result, then argues that the board he himself is 1/6th of, is incompetent.

This is less Ides of March, more Leopards Ate My Face.
That’s true for any internal transfer as far as I know, I re-interviewed for my current team and that was a transfer from within MS.
> There are absolutely people who know what they are doing.

I am sure there are. But few and far between. And rarely are they in positions of power in my experience.
>For someone not knowledgeable in this, why is this the case?

So you open this to the world - what's the stop the Chinese government from weaponizing it to both suppress their own citizens and attack foreign adversaries?
when 550 of 700 employees back Sam its hard to argue with
Django 5.0 release candidate 1 released
I think the very defense you're using is the problem though. It's fine if nobody uses the competing browser for work at Google. It is, however, pretty standard to have automatic tests for performance and functionality, and these need to be cross-platform. Having insufficient automated testing for Firefox to catch these sorts of issues is a structural, anti-competitive bias. Especially when these things clearly don't happen with Chrome.

Couple that with the article's documented case of using a deprecated API from Chrome that's unsupported in FF. That's bias in the design, and that's something that leadership is either not catching, or making a conscious decision on. I'm sure it's couched in some statstic about which monetizable users are impacted or something. But at the end of the day it's an organizational, structural bias.

And that's not to say this is necessarily illegal. I honestly wouldn't know. But I think you made a straw man to attack. The allegation isn't necessarily that there's an organization wide conspiracy of evil Googlers. Just that the organization and culture is designed to benefit Chrome and disadvantage Firefox, and that's happening regularly with user-harming effects.
While I suspect there are already many procedures in place for automatically flagging wrongthink, I could see LLMs being tuned to first pass intelligence sifting/summarization.
Short term. However many of them could become middle class if the government didn't keep screwing their efforts to get ahead. Switching to a stable currency will cause pain short term, but that is a.one time pain, but once the pain is paid they get a stable currency unlike now where inflation has been destroying the poor for nearly 100 years.

Of course they are betting the us dollar remains stable. Nobody can know this for sure, but history says it is a better bet than the status quo.
I’m a bit surprised of how antagonistic HN is against the builders, Sam was/is a Seller, it’s a needed function to pair with Builders, but no one can reasonably say that Sam built anything, Ilya and the safety contingent are the builders, but somehow the mob is angry at them for protecting what they made from the Sellers, kind of hard to see us becoming so profit motivated that we choose IBM over Woz
Perhaps we can stop pretending that some of these people who are top-level managers or who sit on boards are prodigies. Dig deeper and there is very little there - just someone who can afford to fail until they drive the clown car into that gold mine. Most of us who have to put food on the table and pay rent have much less room for error.
You don't actually think all these articles are "organic sentiment" do you? Biggest money always wins this kind of game. And the circle of people who really know what went down is pretty small atm. I'll wait for more info before jumping on bandwagons
Of course it always mattered. But at the time lots of people argued it didn't matter, which is why the headline is "Speed matters". You thinking it did matter at the time doesn't mean the general community thought so.
550 job openings at openai.
Your argument has no merit. I have already stated “Aside from a small investment through a YCombinator fund (sama was formerly its president), he doesn't have any equity in the company.”

Until you have some kind of proof he’s lying, I’m not going to assume he is.
A Note to OpenAI Developers
It is likely gonna be that way.

Eshear is the new CEO. This implosion is not his fault. His reputation is not destroyed.

He can rebuild the non-profit part, which is hard to determine success or failure anyway. Then, he will leave in a few years.

He doesn't seem to have much to lose by just focusing on rebuilding OpenAI.
Even stranger, they're flexing on behalf of a CEO's ego, and not on behalf of his wellbeing or their own. It's a very strange case of cross-class solidarity.
Altman and co. will continue in Microsoft making Office etc better. OpenAI will just go to Elon Musk and he will pull the strings there.
Here is what I use RSS for beside tracking blogs, news sites, review sites, and so on:

- Notifications from Bandcamp artists/labels -- These come as emails as bandcamp doesn't have personalized RSS feeds, but I use imapfilter to generate an RSS feed [1]

- Tracking release of various software projects I run in my homelab (nextcloud, home assistant, vaultwarden, ...)

- Following creators on youtube -- I HATE HATE HATE youtube's interface. I'd rather just subscribe to a specific creator and be able to clearly see all their videos IN ORDER.

- Home Lab -- All my cron jobs in my homelab send their output to RSS feeds hosted locally. Much better than email reports.

- Sub-reddits -- There are a few subreddits that only Mods can create topics in (like r/Keep_Track). Reading through RSS is great.

[1] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...
No, even this is just a darkly comforting illusion.

We like to feel that we as a species are still in control. That yes, we are gutting and destroying natural earth, complicit with modern slavery and war, and that's all terrible and we should do our best to stop it. BUT - at the very least, those bastards at the top know what they're doing when it comes to making money, so at least we'll have a stellar economy and rapid technological advancement, despite all that.

The painful truth here being that no, there's no cunning. There's no brutal optimization. Any value created and technological progress made is mostly incidental, mostly down to people at the bottom working hard just to survive, and a few good ideas here and there. The ones at the top are mostly just lucky and along for the ride, just as bumbling and lost as the rest of us when it comes to global happenings or even just successfully interacting with others.