skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A boardroom coup isn't remotely like one where one looks for the gap where the guards and guns aren't and worries about the deposed leader being reinstated by an angry mob.

If they had the small majority needed to get rid of him over mere differences of future vision they could have done so on whatever timescale they felt like, with no need to rush the departure and certainly no need for the goodbye to be inflammatory and potentially legally actionable
> Also, it’s a 100% fact that companies consider client rosters confidential. It’s fun to say no one can claim my name or phone number as confidential data… but that’s not how things work.

It is how things work legally. What you are confusing is the distinction between individual bits of information and a database: if a salesperson leaves and calls their old client, nobody reasonably expects them to forget about that relationship or be unable to look up a phone number.

If there’s an entire lead database, that might be a different story if it includes non-public data and the company can show that it’s treated as a valuable asset (limited access, confidentiality agreements, etc. ). If it’s something you could recreate with a few Google searches, you’ll have a hard time convincing a judge that there’s substantial value in its secrecy.
But that was always available with ChatGPT? GPTs is just some new interface/market-ish to them no?
This feels exactly like "I don't have ethernet cards capable of 100Mbps so scp can't copy files faster than 10Mbps is not OpenSSH's problem".
If you really think that what you're working on poses an existential risk to humanity, continuing to work on it puts you squarely in "supervillian" territory. Making it closed source and talking about "AI safety" doesn't change that.
By you, perhaps. There are certainly times where a round of high fives happen at my employer when we see the first test data from our subsystem of a new product and it meets spec
Utopian ideologies are also useful when raising funds from SoftBank and ARK
"Useless Ruby sugar": Keyword argument and hash values omission
Or the board messed up because they're not strong in corporate governance.
Does it matter?

When does controversial corporate stuff not result in some kind of legal action?

It doesn’t actually matter what the situation is, or if it makes sense… you just take your pack of lawyers and you point them at the enemy and tell them to do their jobs.

I mean, have you met Microsoft?

Yeah. They have a lot of lawyers.

I think you can take it as a given this will have some kind of response… it’ll just be a matter of them trying to judge the benefits vs. the cost of it.

Ie. it is not that they can’t lodge legal action, because, trust me, they can… but they, I guess, will wait and see what Sam does, and try to decide if/who they want to back before they do anything.
10% increase in payload

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/64713/how-is-hot-s...
That might be part of it. They announced that they were dedicating compute to researching superintelligence alignment. When they launched the new stuff on Dev Day, there was not enough compute and the service was disrupted. It may have also interfered with Ilya's team's allocation and stopped their research.

If that happened (speculation) then those resources weren't really dedicated to the research team.
Of course there is. You need to collect a certain amount of information before you get it working. If the test collects a good amount of information, it's a success, even if the rocket explodes.

It would have been a failure if they didn't get any further than their last launch.
My opinion is the exact opposite. I experience 18px as a good font size on the phone, and 12px on the desktop. I'm sure analyses such as the one you quote are missing some important criterion, but I can't put my finger on what.
Well, ok, if you insist on iterating on the design until you take the last tenth of a cent from the marginal cost, you'll get something that can't handle transients or small excess voltage.

But iterating on the design is expensive too. And that optimization is well within the region where your suppliers will often cheat(?) and add all that quality back without telling you just because some of their customers demand it and it's cheaper to give you high-quality products than to retool their factories.

Or, in other words, it's quite possible that you have a bulb here or there fail due to those. But you won't get consistent failure with several brands.
You never stop accelerating. Escape faster. Less time fighting gravity.
Altogether, it was a terrific flight and a big step forward for the Starship program. The biggest success was the survival of stage zero, which bodes well for a quick turnaround for the next flight.

Hot staging was the second big success, and Starship got to space.

The flight termination was disappointing, but the actual functioning of the FTS system seems to be fixed. That was a problem with the first flight and should make the FAA very happy.
How can you be sure that it wasn’t their efforts that allowed us to continue existing? Maybe if they hadn’t made the destructive implication of their work clear no one else would have recognized it. None of us can say.

It’s obvious in hindsight, but can we really say with certainty that things would have been exactly the same if the inventors did or said nothing? I’m not willing to take that bet.

To me, effort such as this is always worth it, even if it DOES have no effect, because the chance it can change things for the better is worth it.
Can you link the Reddit source(s)?
Yes, but the “candid” part carries the additional implication that he lied to make them think that.
that happened during the first test I believe
> Free market, yes. Unquestionably free market with no regulation, not going to work.

I agree with what you’re saying, but non-competes are an example of free market not a counterexample. The employer is willing to give you x amount of compensation in return for your labor and for an agreement not to compete for some period of time when employment ends.
NY, WA, other tech hubs in the US that aren’t California.

That said garden leave is not all sunshine and roses like OP describes. It’s common on Wall Street but a huge part of your normal compensation is performance bonuses - and typically garden leaves only cover base salary.

A typical garden leave doesn’t come close to full income replacement for the period. But it’s better than nothing - which is the status quo in tech.

FWIW American courts also tend to frown on non competes that do not compensate for forced unemployment and have generally sided with the worker. This is (yet another) way that employers deprive employees of their rights by using the expense of litigation against them. This is also why we need regulation around this - you should not have to fight this in court to have your basic rights asserted.
Stopping the habit is not required when limiting their power.
What are you referencing???
WTF is going on at OpenAI? We have theories
The God's spark of genius are the transformers which came from Google and are now in the open.
Not much about the Cold War tension actually got dismantled, from a nuclear risk perspective. We put the revolver to our collective heads during the Cold War and didn’t put it back down, just merely got used to holding it there.
Unless it's so advanced that it determines that this may have been the only way for it to come to existence in the first place.
Do second stage failures on other rockets, where the booster is a guaranteed rapidly-scheduled-destruction count? :P
A Conceptual Atomic Force Microscope Using Lego for Nanoscience Education
It is only a matter of time before we have true AGI. It's a hardware problem. We don't need to wait for someone to invent a clever algorithm for this. OpenAI knows this. See...

- http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%27s_law
Yes the 3 months notice is legally enforced in France with a few cases where it can be waived - including both the employee ans employer agreeing to skip it.

Note that this notice goes both ways: when an employee resigns or is let go.
Depends what kind of writing you want to be better at, but for fiction Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ is both interesting and useful. As for ‘more’, what’s worked for me is to make a routine for it.
OpenAI (re?)defines AGI as a general AI that is able to perform most tasks as good as or better than a human. It's possible that under this definition and by skewing certain metrics, they are quite close to "AGI" in the same way that Google has already achieved "quantum supremacy".
I think the charitable interpretation is that the SpaceX employees are just happy their work is coming to fruition, while Elon is annoyed we're not on Mars yet.
I find mice that are too “ergonomic” to be difficult to use.
Google invented the core technology, and they had an internal version long before ChatGPT was released. I joined when it was already at the "accessible to all employees" stage and it absolutely blew my mind.

They just hadn't -- and still haven't -- figured out how to commercialize it yet. I don't think they'll be the ones to crack that nut either. IMO they are too obsessed with "safety" to release something useful, and also can't reasonably deploy a service like ChatGPT at their scale because the costs are too high.

With OpenAI imploding this whole race just got a lot more interesting though...
Why should one care about "worth"?
If more people write then there will be more bad and more good writing. (good/bad in terms of personal enjoyment from reading)
This is comparing a foot to a mile
Microsoft being Microsoft? Sounds like a political move to have greater power surface over the AI sector. A normal day in a monopolist afternoon.
AI-generated posters with Disney logos force Microsoft to alter Image Creator
you talk about AGI like it is an actual thing and not just some delusional pipe dream that these nerds use to tell themselves they are different from the Valley, they’re not just there for the obscene amount of money, and their shit doesn’t stink.
It's exactly the other way around - if they dismiss him for a vague general reason, they're much less exposed to litigation than they would be if they falsely accused him of lying.
>>By your logic

You keep saying this, but you keep replying to what you think my logic is rather than what I actually wrote, because I guess it's just easier to argue with.\

>>There are rare exceptions to this, but that's exactly what they are - exceptions.

Yes, you're right - entire countries accepting a currency for trade and services is exactly the same as what is effectively small handful of traders accepting crypto. 300 million people using euro every day is no different than maybe few hundred companies accepting bitcoin - both are exceptions.
I believe it already exists, It’s a pad of paper and pencil
I doubt they would be allowed. Even European carmakers find the non-tariff barriers hard to navigate. There's all sorts of "gold plated" minimum requirements like wireless tyre pressure sensors that add significant cost for very minor safety improvements.
If it ain’t broke, why are you trying to fix it?
Vendor lock-in for batteries is a bad thing, but I'm pretty sure that e-bike prices would be rising regardless because demand is skyrocketing around the world.
It might make sense to think about three forces in tension, not two: safety, business, and IP. The copyright lawsuits are just getting started and will probably continue until the courts can set a precedent.
This is just wrong, sorry. You're describing the account model, but bitcoin follows the UTXO model.

If you received coins from multiple transactions, those coins are not equal and retain their individual histories. To spend from an address with multiple UTXOs, you (or your wallet software) must choose which specific coins to send using coin control.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/utxo.asp

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/what-is-coin-control/
what does that have to do with anything?
Taking your argument, perhaps the thing that is being made scarce, through the act of writing, is ignorance

Which might have served us better before now
You mean, they're still fixing critical CVEs.
Yes, but not too substantial, or the shareholders have grounds to sue based on what I said above.

A similar (but even more complicated) case is currently going on over at Sculptor Capital Management, where former management is suing current management because they have chosen to go with a "worse" acquisition deal that would let current management stay on-board. This is despite shareholder approval to the "worse" deal. https://www.pionline.com/hedge-funds/ex-sculptor-executives-...

In fact, to prevent this situation is exactly why golden parachutes exist.

It's also totally unproportional compared to what Sam would've gotten if he owned equity.
> Marx does not say this at all in the Communist Manifesto. And further, if anything he was in awe of capitalism

As I read it, the Communist Manifesto puts each positive aspect of capitalism in the past tense, that it was an improvement over feudalism, but already in a bad state by his time. For example:

"""

A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. [… I've cut out most of this paragraph, it's quite long …]. The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.

The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself.

But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons —the modern working class —the proletarians.

"""

> Say what you will but its quite funny to describe him as "dismissing" anything; he quite literally would not not shut up about it.

I had to look up the word to make sure I wasn't misusing it, seems you and I are both using legit but incompatible senses of "dismiss" here. I mean "reject, deny, repudiate", you seem to think I meant "brush off, shrug off, forget" — the latter meanings would be, as you say, quite absurd. :)
People complain about the cost of the transition away from fossil fuels, and then China offers to subsidize Europe ending its dependency on imported oil, and people are ungrateful?
Reaching true orbit wasn't in the plan for the test. Seems like they got close to their plan, but something went wrong.
I claim my browsing history is confidential, the only difference is I don't have the government enforcing my wishes. On a moral level "stealing" one is the same as the other.
It’s not hard to collect information. And you really think they wouldn’t spin this as a success, if they didn’t get further than the last launch?

The problem is, there’s a lack of humility, and no one knows what it’s like to be humble anymore.
> I wish we had the spirit of the Apollo

Careful what you wish for. The Saturn test program peaked at 3 tests / year (unless you want to count the separately tested launch escape system for the crew capsule), and the fully stacked Saturn V was only tested twice (in 1967 and 1968) before crewed missions.

For all its speed, Apollo was not a SpaceX-style rapid iteration program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Uncrew...
I tend to think the combat portion is a matter of scope. It’s hard to do everything, everywhere, all at once regardless if that’s on a politicians wishlist. The only force noted as “strong” by the Heritage Foundation readiness index is the Marine Corps and that’s a result of acknowledging they are a one-war organization of limited scope. That all goes to say the scope of the DoD is unlike any other organization on earth, so quips like “well, companies pass these inspections all the time!” is of little value.
Microsoft is famous for a lack of adoption DESPITE backwards compatibility.
7.0 seems buggy,can't double click to open files anymore,6.x worked well.
Absolutely not.

Users should set the zoom level of their operating system to whatever makes user interface elements the optimal size for them -- menus, dialog boxes, filenames, toolbars, and so forth.

Then 12pt/16px will be perfectly readable as it was always designed to be.

I'm sick of websites where the body text is four times the size of the text in my menubar (by area). This trend has become increasingly common among tech bloggers and I'm constantly having to zoom out in my browser just to bring the text down to a reasonable size.

Stick with standards and let users modify zoom levels as they desire. If everybody follows the same standard, then users don't have to keep changing their zoom levels per site.
You're missing the point. Microsoft doesn't care about the ROI of their investment in OpenAI or who is the CEO. They care about having unfettered access to sell access to GPT4 and subsequent APIs on Azure and they will fight that to the death in court and will win. If the board wants to turn the company into some fantasy AGI foundation and cease work on their LLMs they will be ousted faster than Sam was.
This only follows if the only value/worth you consider is economic value, ie for trade. Which would exclude much of what people value: creativity, scientific knowledge, insights for living, personal growth etc. Obviously those have economic value in certain ways, but it’s not their only value.
It takes a sharp mind to see past the issues of the day and go straight for that juicy conspiracy theory.
I have one of those wireless magic mouse that takes 2x AA batteries.
The optical sensor started behaving in a weird way back in 2018 I think, so I stopped using it. I wouldn't mind risking breaking it by trying to fix the sensor (cleaning the lens from the inside is probably enough), adding a rechargeable battery (and whatever circuitry that entails) and maybe even enhancing the ergonomics if it still works after that.
All of them being from the same area is relevant. Them being polish is not relevant except to show that they were from the same area.
Reminder: he never said “you’re holding it wrong”
Apologies, but I’m seeing this everywhere so I have to quip on this: OpenAI is no closer to developing AGI than you or I am. Transformer models and the GPT series are huge breakthroughs, but they are not AGI and there’s no indication the path to AGI is via transformer models. It seems increasingly like transformers/LLMs are just a local optima on the path to AGI.
Yes, getting better at communicating clearly and effectively is worth the time for social reasons. Aesthetic reasons can be important too.
At some point we'll have AI that reformats pages to whatever size the user wants, and in whatever style the user prefers. This is what "web designers" are pushing us towards anyway.
worse than that -- AI systems can generate content and sell it to other AI run systems. The content could be non-trivial and meet established legal requirements for value, by mass or by integrity. Once the pump is primed, potentially make a whole economy for small groups of people. Second scenario is AI-assist for current technical knowledge work, which non-AI assisted business cannot compete with.. MSFT is already building that platform, it is very well-funded and popular right now. Third, China does all of this, too.. and are overall better and faster at the technical parts.

YMMV
It’s not about being an optimist, it’s about being a realist. And it’s not about the imperfection it’s about celebrating failure. It’s about being humble. It’s about having humility. It’s about knowing what you’re doing is only changing the lives of a very, very small segment of the human population. It’s about knowing that what you’re doing, was made from money, stolen from workers, and from a corrupt financial system.
They want a free market _for everyone else_. What's the point of being rich and well connected if you can't socialize your losses and keep your profits?
You can't directly compare votes on a post from 2023 to a post from 2011 because HN didn't have the same number of users back then.
> Also, a death is a much more significant event than a firing.

If Apple had very suddenly fired Jobs at the hight of the Apple Renaissance during market hours and very publicly accused him of lying it would have been a bigger deal than his eventual death.

There are many open questions right now about what exactly Altman did that was bad enough to get him fired on the spot (and for openAI to burn all their bridges with him in a harshly worded press release) and what it means for the future of OpenAI and the AI field in general and the rest of Altman’s companies. It’s a highly salient topic for discussion and speculation, so no wonder that it does well on HN.
Am I stealing material when I read it the public domain and learn from it?
Feel free to reach out and talk about it. My email is in my profile.
I bought into the Omada ecosystem in 2020, when Ubiquity was hard to buy and had also just had a major breach.

TP-Link has been good about deploying improvements to the ecosystem.

The flipside is those improvements are basic functionality that should have been present in a commercial product from v1. Like the ability to set firewall rules, which came in late 2021 or 22 iirc.

Other issues:

- The Safari interface issue she mentions is a major pain, and it’s a regression.

- All of their equipment has multiple “versions” under the same model number, and the early adopters like me get updates last for some reason.

- Documentation is ok, but logging and troubleshooting is difficult with the limited interface you get.

- DHCP IP reservation was broken until the last release.

I am glad the ecosystem is improving, and I appreciate having visibility into the network from a single pane of glass.

For a home network I can tolerate these issues. But I would be furious if I were trying to run a business network with it.
Mapache Http Server
Because it happened out of the blue (apparently also for those involved and partners) right when OpenAI seems to absolutely be killing it. It's a crazy story.
Impressive when you realize the architectural limitations they're working against: compared to the C64, the Apple II has, in classic Apple fashion, no affordances towards multimedia (e.g. no fast RAM for video) and no meaningful special-purpose graphics/audio hardware, and this is on top of Woz's hacks. It looks like they're using timing interrupts from the Mockingboard.

Part of the humor is poking fun at that, and being awed at being able to do something recognizable at all.
I don’t see anything inherently challenging about that, only the board seats at the non profit being limited to natural persons occupying one seat each. The LLCs being managing members of other LLCs is fine and flexible enough. The PPU thing is manageable. The profit caps are dumb.

A C-Corp with multiple share classes where the CEO is also a Chair with multiple seats will be superior in that affect

Neither structure really removes the profit incentives, but for people that believe that you can literally say anything to those people. You can say “our bylaws say” or “we made a B Corp because we like to be socially driven” or “we’re a non profit!”, these are emotional tugs than any legal reality
Tilera! There's a name I'd not heard in years. They leaned very heavily on providing a very large number of cores with small local storage and having to do all the intercore work yourself.
Musk threatens 'thermonuclear lawsuit' as X ad boycott gathers pace