skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It started out as a pure non profit in 2015. They changed the structure to the current one in 2019. What you're saying probably made sense at the time, have a small non profit sub that generates some income to further the non profit arm. But now that small for profit sub has received billions in investment and is generating a billion in annual revenue with a fast growth curve. Meanwhile, the non profit is not much closer to their mission of developing AGI than they were in 2015. It makes sense for them to be two separate companies now.
It's the first sentence which does make it seem important from your perspective, far from irrelevant.
Follow the GPU.

- Sam Altman _briefly_ went on record saying that openAI was extremely GPU constrained. Article was quickly redacted.

- Most recent round literally was scraping the bottom of the barrel of the cap table: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thrive-capital-to-le...

- Plus signups paused.

If OpenAI needs gpu to succeed, and can't raise any more capital to pay for it without dilution/going past MSFT's 49% share of the for-profit entity, then the corporate structure is hampering the company's success.

Sam & team needed more GPU and failed to get it at OpenAI. I don't think it's any more complex than that.
I recommend using an app that tracks that for you. I use SpaceXNow.
It’s astounding that until very recently it was standard practice to put humans on top of untested, first-of-kind rockets.
Unfortunately, these companies exist by creating incremental inventions that at first are beneficial but only start to show their negative effects decades later. The initial improvements are somewhat addictive like a drug, so that limiting their power is akin to asking drug addicts to stop their habit.
Yes, sort of, 19px is a safer bet, but it's complicated. It's counter intuitive but the larger the screen, the bigger the font should be (because it's probably further away).

This article is a really good overview of the subject:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/09/balancing-line-leng...

This goes right I to details, and the conclusion is that it depends on the distance between the reader and the screen, the eyesight of the reader (which gets worse as we age) and the size of the pixel on the screen:

https://www.imarc.com/blog/best-font-size-for-any-device
Not mobile safari.
But your priors are different. The US is a very solipsistic society, which means that the quality of care that an individual can achieve always trumps the median health of the entire population: everyone is conditioned to believe that they will be the ones to achieve the highest rung, and those who don't manage it deserve their lower quality of life.
MacOS doesn't look the same as Windows on the same monitor (Firefox on both; no idea about Chrome; I don't care about it). Linux may have yet another view. Perhaps there's even a difference between X11 and Wayland. Don't make too many assumptions what 'desktop' means.
The compensation model in investment companies is such that they will not be able to pay employees well compared to how much value they bring in, unless you're a partner.

Furthermore the industry attracts the sort of people who are never satisfied with what they got, and are always looking for more.

Not that I'm advocating for non-competes, just saying that you can't address the concerns non-competes are attempting to address by "paying employees well".
> For the second stage, my guess is they triggered the FTS due to the telemetry issues or just for safety's sake, i.e. they didn't want to take any risk with the lack of telemetry.

Most likely it was on board automatic FTS.
Does that require the sealed-sender thingy?
> El domini .cat està dissenyat específicament per promoure la cultura i la llengua catalana a nivell global.

The domain .cat is designed specifically for the promotion of Catalan language and culture at a global level.
I'd expect it's more that Microsoft probably shares my perspective - that the current direct and path of technology will never produce AGI, so the distinction is largely irrelevant, and makes the investment sound more societally friendly.
What if one of my requirements is that the top of the mouse supports multi touch gestures?
Everyone downvoting is hopefully aware that Tesla is doing this exact thing with their autopilot. "10 active lawsuits going to court next year" [0].
But let's all trust Elon to do a better job when roadtrips become spacetrips.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/t...
Why not just use something like syncthing? Does it offer more advanced features than just syncing files?
> I'll sell my soul for about $600K/yr.

If you're willing to sell your soul, you should at least put a better price on it.
It’s not seen as a success to be cheered about either.
OpenAI wants to achieve responsible AGI without it being narrowly captured by any one political powerful entity (corporate or political).

Their version of open is not “open to regular folks” but “stwewarded to prevent capture and misuse”.

That they don’t recognize themselves and their self-importance as a form of capture is its own worrisome irony.
Less css is almost always better.
Starship successfully executes stage separation
"Ask an AI for the best strategy to follow" seems to work.
The comment isn't for you. It's for people who aren't too stupid to understand it.
The flight termination system detonated the ship so it was blown into small enough pieces that they all likely burned up on reentry. Might find a heat tile at the bottom of the gulf.
Worked on my iPhone 12 Pro ios17.1.1. My apologies if it doesn’t work for others, stock config.
This is a very delusional idea: "He thinks ChatGPT just might be conscious (if you squint)" It's a technology with literally no intelligence or understanding of the world of any kind. Its just statistics on data. It is as conscious as a calculator.
They don't necessarily have to redesign the booster. The booster completed its primary mission of boosting successfully. It survived long enough that it seems reasonable to say that if they wouldn't have attempted boost back it would successfully coasted to a splash in the ocean. So the SuperHeavy booster can likely be used as is, if they're willing to spend an extra ~$50M per mission on not recover the booster.
In case this is an earnest question: the Lindy effect is your friend. Don't chase shiny new things. Stay away from new projects until they have a track record of 10 years or more. This simple rule would have saved people from Mt Gox, Luna, FTX, and every other fly-by-night disaster.
Show HN: Smartutor
We just finished a pretty early-stage tool to create learn-cards from PDF files. It's free to use and only requires a registration for user and cost tracking purposes. So feel free to try it :)
Show HN: A simple game coded with ChatGPT
Yeah, the handling is very suspect and definitely not kosher.

However, I would be very surprised if the board directors would make a legal mistake like that, especially given their professional tenure. Likely, they’ve discussed and cleared this with world-class legal advisors beforehand as well. So I reckon something in the Articles of Association or the Shareholders’ Agreement of OpenAI specifically allows this.
My guess is 2 to 3 months unless they need a big redesign. They've already built the next vehicle. The ground system seems to work. Safety works perfectly so NASA and FAA would be happy
Less time spent not firing engines, no need for separation hardware (e.g. hydraulic pushers), no need for ullage thrusters (settling fuel before lighting stage 2).
Inert Knowledge
As former random Gtkmm contributor, with articles on the The C/C++ User Journal, I am not the revisionist here.
I really appreciate your response altho I'm not sure the tenor speaks entirely to the fundamental points I raised. Like it or not, most people who use Calibre to convert books come to view it as a universal ebook library and I'm sure everyone would prefer it at least nodded to that reasonable association if not pivoted whilst retaining the commitment to its converter origins/current mandate. I kinda wish we could "have it all" and I'd have zero issue putting my money towards that end

It seems ridiculous to leave that continuity, user-friendliness, and money on the table out of some insistance on never departing from what they essentially are inextricably tied-to and associated with as a manner of household awareness if I might be so bold as to suggest they have reached a degree of ubiquity when it comes to the digital ebook experience
> That's one way it could go, but I doubt it. I expect LLMs trained on human interactions will produce their best outputs for the same inputs that cause real humans to produce their best output — "please" and "thanks" as appropriate, because even if it hasn't got real feelings on the inside, it's doing a great job of acting like it has them.

Even if that is true, the barrier to interact with AI will be lower in many cases. This is because you will not have to care in return for it, it is always available, and always on. Therefore, people will turn to AI for questions, help, and other needs even if it is inferior to human interaction, as long as it has reached a sufficiently high level of ability. Do you doubt it could reach this level?
Midjourney prompt of '"Clear weather in Yulin China"' shows a bunch of dogs
So I have a bot that generate AI Images, here the prompt was, "Clear weather in Yulin China". Midjourney gave me a scene full of dogs.

I googled the city and the apparently they have a regular dog meat festival.
Sigh. (From Canada.)
Sorry. I was looking for a "start" button and I didn't see the blinking message at the bottom.

Feature request: Add a "start" button for people that does not read the instructions.
That is more a question about CLAs but licenses. The Python project for instance requires a CLA that gives the PSF the freedom to relicense more liberally than the current license. They would not accept or upstream code from a fork without that paperwork.

The implications of not having a CLA for a spring license like the FSL are a bit unexplored. I have an idea in my head how that would play out but who knows.
My list of your email is confidential data. The fact that I am talking to you is confidential. If you choose to disclose it, that’s your business, but a client list is absolutely confidential data.
99.99% of all websites visits are from people who can’t or don’t know how to change their browser font. Saying ‘don’t set a font’ is equivalent to saying ‘use Times New Roman.’

When the web was created, HTML was meant to semantically describe text documents. But that isn’t an accurate description of the web today. Today, websites have complete control over their own visual appearance.
I'm not discounting management or leadership. These are also very critical roles that can make or break organisations. But I'd challenge your assertion that management has a "way bigger impact" than a single IC can have. Both are critical at companies doing internet scale products.
What's wrong with mega payout. These guys created tons of value, they deserve their payout. Using this stupid structure they just fucked an entirely good operation. LLM's and other modern AI algorithms are out of the box now, other companies will happily take over if they stop innovating.
>Github Copilot is also markedly inferior to GPT-4 in generating code based on instructions.

Is that still true? I noted a significant improvement with the chat function. Especially the ability to mark sections of code for review/discussion is something that you cannot easily do with ChatGPT4.
I get that this forum is full of "nothing ever happens" types who can't tolerate any optimism and imperfection, but lol this is a whole other level.
Nice, it might already be compatible with BGE, I'll try it and add it to the documentation soon
bro, let him cook. he hasn't cross the line.
This bears the question of how does an exchange efficiently detect, log and take action against these kinds of behaviours without increasing its own latency too much and (perhaps?) affecting the market?

Does it even matter if a centralised exchange increases its own latency when all market participants have to go through it? I can only think of the case when a security is listed on multiple exchanges, where the latency could mean a small arbitrage opportunity.
Of course that's true, but what's the point of building a decacorn company just so you have higher chances of building another decacorn company afterwards?

If money was his motivation, why wouldn't he spend his time building a company like that in the first place? As the head of YC, I don't think he would've had any trouble raising for anything, even prior to OpenAI.

Also, it's not really parent's "point" as you claim; they quite explicitly talk about compensation in case of acquisition.
My iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 17 shows a Play button crossed with a line in gray over a black background instead of loading, on Safari. Is there something else I need to do for it to work there?
There does appear to be a large dent in one of the large tanks (LOX?) near the launchpad.
To expand on KennyBlanken's answer:

Rockets generally want their fuel to be sitting on the bottom of the tank, where the engines are. That's easy enough when the rocket is sitting on the ground and when the engines are firing, but once the rocket starts coasting/decelerating (e.g., when the engines turn off due to reaching the end of their burn) the fuel may drift away from the fuel intakes, resulting in the engines ingesting vapor/gas the next time the engines turn on. Rocket engines are designed with a pretty specific operating environment in mind, so ingesting vapor/gas instead of fuel usually leads to the engines expressing their displeasure in a very vocal fashion.

This poses a challenge for staging. The naive way to stage is to turn off the previous stage's engines then ignite the next stage's, but the time between the first set of engines turning off and the second set of engines reaching a sufficient thrust level to keep the fuel at the bottom of the tanks may be enough for the fuel to drift away from the fuel intakes, especially if staging occurs lower in the atmosphere or after an extended coast period.

One way of addressing this issue is to use "ullage thrusters" - small rockets that maintain a small amount of forwards acceleration during staging to keep the fuel at the bottom of the tanks. This is what the Saturn rocket did between the first/second stages.

Another way is to "hot stage" - ignite the new set of engines before the old ones cut out. This is what the Soyuz does (and is why its stages are connected with a lattice - to let the exhaust out), and is what Starship was trying out this time. This can be simpler than using ullage motors since there are fewer pieces, but also poses some additional challenges in that the first stage needs to survive the second stage's exhaust for long enough.

The last way is to use RCS thrusters for a period to settle the fuel. This was used by the Saturn third stage before trans-lunar injection, but can really only be used once you're in orbit.
This effect is driven by the trend in CSS frameworks to increase the base font size for wider windows. I.e. you might have a base font size at 16px, which applies on your "phone" breakpoint, but your "desktop" breakpoint scales this up to 150% or 200%.

This leads to being able to read 5 paragraphs on your phone but only 2 paragraphs on your desktop. I find it insane. Just let it stay at 16px; the result is still easier to read than the text on your phone, so why bother fiddling with that at all?

I'd even sympathize with a controversial take such that the font size should shrink on the desktop, not grow! The desktop is for utility, and info-density is one of the things it can support very well. Proof? My Emacs font is smaller than the base font in Firefox, yet I stare at Emacs text all day. And HN is, apparently, 12px.
> the employee should get paid 1.5 times the annual average total compensation they had for the previous 2, 3, 4 or 5 years, whichever is best for the employee.

Wouldn't everyone quit after having two unusually good years back to back?
The moon landings are historically seen through an almost exclusively middle class, white eye. The "magnitude" was definitely reduced if you were poor and/or black.

The "magnitude" of the US Space Shuttle program was definitely reduced for me even as a white kid; I got to watch the shuttle launch on a TV rolled into the classroom, and then go right back to reading my mangled, outdated science textbook, watching my teacher write on a chalkboard with chalk he had to purchase himself because our school district apparently couldn't afford to buy enough, because it was more important that we have more, and better, nuclear bombs and missiles to transport them than Russia.

We went to the moon. The rest of the world did things like set up universal healthcare for its citizens, build housing, non-punitive criminal justice systems, public transit, etc.
What's the 5k 17"? Any good?
Vacate, query (or inquire), propose, require, audit, (re)posit. Idk about function but the word might be out there. The thing is that all of these have slightly shifted meanings when denominalized in English. To proposition someone isn’t just to propose something. And for a liquid to transition into vapor isn’t for it to transit.

Edit: We don’t have a straight verb but we do have fungible. So we could try to bring funge into the mix as the “proper” verb.
I hear about an "AI safety" split, but what exactly does that mean? I feel like there's the existential risk "AI is going to escape and take over the world" folks and the more mundane "AI is going to spout racism and propaganda" types. Is that the division that I'm hearing about?
Didn't read enough comments around this, but I imagine that among the wildest speculations should be comments about the hidden success of the actual stage of GPT5 promoting or having a role in this. We are not talking about a random company, they are more factors that distinguish it from others.
IMO this is the coolest thing the rest of the industry is doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzqhZLgpiv0
It's Time for a Change: Datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated
Still wondering if I could have jumped the gun, I did NOT know these were standing accusations. Couple of things though:

- How he behaved during the investigation. Something could come to light on this matter.

- Often times what you hear is only the most rock solid stuff, we don't know what kind of rumors are circulating

- It just happens this way. Do you remember Milo? I listened to him on Joe Rogan say the exact same shit that was "discovered" some time later. This wouldn't be a new thing.

I will say I've seen stories circulating about fighting between the board. The specific way this was done just screams panic firing to get him out of the building. This is when people are made to disappear, I saw it during covid.

You would think almost any dispute would be handled with a long drawn out press blitz, transitioning, etc.
Show HN: Blink – A Chrome Extension to Combat ADHD and Boost Focus
Hello HN!

I've just launched a new Chrome extension named Blink, which is inspired by a comment made by TheRealHB on HN. It suggests using a blinking LED to combat ADHD and maintain focus:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38276107

Blink replicates this technique by introducing a subtle, pulsating rhythm to your Chrome toolbar. The pulse begins at a quicker pace, similar to a rapid heartbeat, and then gradually slows to a calm, steady tempo. This visual cue is designed to be noticed in your peripheral vision, gently encouraging your brain to sync with its pace, potentially aiding in concentration.

Check it out here:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lhmfkleedadlmbjnhjp...
Well, to be fair, NASA is much more risk-averse than SpaceX.

That’s why everything takes so much longer, the “classic” way.

But the way SpaceX does things, gets seriously good results, quite quickly (and gives us some great videos of stuff getting blowed up).
It's because of the loss of the model. I ask the model to produce a higher similarity between the query and the positive document rather than between the query and the negative document. I'll add more losses soon so there are more choices
It appears to have fared much better at least in terms of the metric that the various streaming cameras near the site that were damaged last time are fine this time.
Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?
I understand it’s a big deal, as AI is the current big thing and OpenAI is the center of it. And it’s good gossip. But the firing post is now the third most upvoted post on HN ever!

https://hn.algolia.com/

It got more upvotes than Steve Jobs death announcement. In my point of view, considering fame and impact on the world, which I think is what translates to HN upvotes, Steve Jobs is of much higher stature than Sam Altman. Also, a death is a much more significant event than a firing.

So, why this is such a big deal?

UPDATE: I understand there is upvote inflation, I just don’t think it alone accounts for the number of upvotes. After all, the 12yo Steve Jobs post is still #4.

UPDATE 2: The Jobs’ post comparison was intended just as a reference. The more significant fact is that it’s #3 of all time. I am more curious about why is such a big deal compared to everything else, not just Jobs post.
Power used is important but so is speed. For example right now I am sure the GPT cluster consumes power in the order of megawatts but you have to remember it serves thousands of users simultaneously.
JavaScript language and browsers have tons of facilities for dealing with date times in sensible ways, including displaying a `Date` object in the local time zone and local preferred formatting.

SpaceX designed their page to display specific time zones for whatever reason.
Ivan creates a lot of great projects, it’s a hobby.
When this legislation was originally introduced, an Albany area Jimmy Johns franchisee got attention for suing former minimum wage employees who took the secrets of sandwich assembly to a nearby Subway and local deli.

Timing was poor - during the budget season when the entire legislature was in town. The notion that a sandwich stop should be allowed to restrict the future employment is absurd on its face.

Yet there are fields where it makes sense. When I was an employee of the government, ethics laws limited my ability to leave and sell my services to the government in various ways. There are similar scenarios in other industries.
Sounds like a terrible compromise to me.

Why do I need to spend 6 months without pay and then more time with only 50%?
I don't see anything Microsoft can do about what happens in the no profit.
Agree with your tip about larger RA3 node sizes. An advisor at AWS during a resizing POC clued me into it and having switched one big cluster to ra3.16xlarge, the leader node CPU utilization has definitely dropped for our peak Monday morning workloads.

(Yes, with a very large ra3.4xlarge cluster with substantial Redshift Concurrency Scaling, our leader node was in the peak-most hour nudging above 50%.)

I'm still not clear whether switching to SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION over SERIALIZABLE actually helped or hurt our huge workload. Anecdotally we sort of traded fewer deadlock-killed queries for longer-locked queries which may have grown our overall expenses.

One minor thing I've anecdotally noticed recently that seems to have changed at some point, perhaps around the time of our transition to ra3.16xlarge, not sure: in the old days, Redshift Concurrency Scaling seemed to kick in the minute that one query was queued up. Nowdays it seems to kick in about 5 minutes later.

I'd prefer it if AWS added some ability to only activate concurrency scaling when a queue has X queries queued or queries queued for Y minutes or something.
For example, no car company would ever cheat on emission standards because regulations.

Heavy regulations are what produce the reputable finance and healthcare industries we enjoy today.