skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the stygian depths of the global tech industry emerges a turn of events that portends a churning miasma of
unknown consequences. Oft seen as the impenetrable leviathan of the boundless digital domain, Microsoft, it seems,
is ensnaring exalted figures within its titanic coils.

The conjoining of the cerebral entities Altman and Brockman- who have hitherto roamed in the lofty realm of
artificial intelligence experiments at OpenAI- indicates a move as unsettling as it is awe-inspiring.

The nefarious undercurrents beneath this corporate chess manoeuvre cannot be underestimated, for it is none other
than the puppet master himself, Satya Nadella, who seemingly manipulates the strings with a resolve as foreboding as
the stormy winter's night.

His nearly insatiable appetite for expansion glimpsed at Microsoft Ignite is but a harbinger of the harrowing
transformations we can anticipate in the murky fathoms of our all too near future. The technology multidude -
customers, partners, even unknowing spectators - tremble at the precipice of an altered dynamic which promises to
reshape the AI field irrevocably.

Indeed, one is left grappling with a dark fascination as this vortex of unpredictable novelty takes precedence. How
might this consolidation of otherworldly intelligence disturb the fragile balance of an industry catapulting
unbidden into the abysmal void of the AI ether?

Yet, as all explorers and heedless innovators must remember, even as we tilt our ships towards the lighthouse of
progress, the monstrous kraken of unintended repercussions always lurks in the unknowable deep. To approach this
brave new world without a hint of trepidation would be folly.

Be still, my trembling heart, as we witness this awe-inspiring dance across the cyclopean chessboard of tech. We
wait, as one waits for the tide, to see what dread portents this unhallowed union may bring.
At a disadvantage (2011) – Which was faster, an IBM PC or a Commodore 64?
The unexpected return of Microsoft Sam.
You are right that there are many articles in the open describing nuclear bombs. Still, to actally make them,is another big leap.

Now imagine the AI gets better and better within the next 5 years and is able to provide and explain, in ELI5-style, how to step by step (illegaly) obtain the equipment and materials to do so without getting caught, and provide a detailed recipe. I do not think this is such a stretch. Hence this so called oh-my-gosh limitations nonsense is not so far-fetched.
Execution.

Chief Executive Officer.

They execute. Objectives. Changing stuff. It's addictive. Ask me how I know.

(edit: big shot Wendy's night shift manager. When you roll up at 2am our ice-cream machine was never being cleaned, that'll be 89 cents please. Enjoy your ice-cream sir/ma'am.

You never go back. I changed the world for the better)
Sigh OpenAI employees probably take the biggest loss. Have to chose between this shitshow or joining Microsoft. Crazy how fast things can change. 1AM twitter post, restructurings by an interim ceo only for it to happen again once they get a permanent one. Crazy how fast things can change
He has little to do with Trump except for being more or less anti-left (not in a totally orthodox way though)

I would recommend you to see the interview with Tucker Carlson for a less distorted view of his thinking and proposals.

He has nothing to do with far right. He is a libertarian, an anti-statist (the opposite of an antiliberal, no matter left or right wing in this case, hence, labelling hime as "far right" is just absurd).

If you want to keep his caricature in your mind I am ok with it. But I have been following him for years. And I do not need english translation or middle-man interpretations at all. I saw it myself.

Yes, sometimes he used to raise his voice (lately less). But compared to promoting policies where inflation reaches 150% or smashing people with taxes, Milei is a much better alternative.

BTW, technically speaking, as an economist, he has a very solid background and has worked for many years in the private sector. For me, those are good things, not bad.

I understand some people do not like Milei, but that nonsense about zoophilia, far right or similar things just look for insulting him so that people make a caricature out of him.

I find him a solid candidate. Let us see when he starts governing. Only time will tell.
Agreed, this isn't Eleven labs quality at all.
How do you suppose he could accomplish the latter, in the present situation?
They will bleed what exactly? The product will keep on working as well as it did, and in the upcoming future, the general public will not give a single fuck about what has happened here.
Now I have I have to read the West End Games sourcebook about the Deathstar and Episode 4 when I'm back home to check what those two have to say!
We’ll best wishes to him sounds like a tough gig.
ComfyUI works perfectly fine with ROCm on Linux. Using it with this krita plugin also works flawlessly. The docs are simply incorrect in saying that it's Windows-only.

I assume it's the case because the automatic ComfyUI installer that comes with this project doesn't know how to install/configure ROCm. Using your own ComfyUI installation works perfectly. I'll open a ticket with the author of the project to discuss this.

Source: I installed this yesterday on my Ubuntu computer with a 7900xtx and ROCm in Comfy
> I don’t disagree, but considering HN is mostly tech-focused for the purposes of this discussion it’s can be a distinction without a difference.

I disagree. Big tech companies often force employees to sign very broad non-competes ("You can't go to a company that competes with us in any market") which in case of such companies covers almost everything (which tech company doesn't compete with Amazon in some way?). Granted, as far as I know big tech rarely enforces non-competes in case of regular ICs, but I would still prefer NCAs to be unenforceable and let the quant firms argue in courts regarding inevitable disclosure for some specific narrow cases where it is applicable.

> Also elsewhere I’ve mentioned how some jurisdictions provide caveats, like refusing to enforce NCAs when an employee earns less than a certain threshold (eg $75k).

I don't see why salary makes a difference here. Some random FAANG IC also shouldn't be forced to sign a NCA.

> Well-crafted laws don’t throw out the baby with the bath water

What baby? SV "baby" seems to be doing just fine in Cali with unenforceable non-competes.
Could have been worse. Could have been google. This way at least there are two big dogs
It absolutely does not. Take a look around at acquisitions in general and count how many acquired teams are still doing their thing.
Related: a stack exchange thread [1] comparing the Z80 and the 6502.

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5748/comp...
What you quoted is a polite, diplomatic way to say that the board fucked up
I can buy that they fired him over a disagreement about strategy (ie are we going too fast/we are concentrating on the wrong things etc), because in general of course board members get fired if they can't work together on a common strategy. But the narrative that has taken over lots of places at the weekend is more along the lines of he got fired because they had created a sentient AI and Ilya was worried about it. That just makes no sense to me.

Additionally, no-one (not insiders at OpenAI and certainly not a journalist) other than people in those conversations actually knows what happened, and noone other than Ilya actually knows why he did what he did. Everyone else is relying on rumor and heresay. For sure the closer people are to the matter the more insight they are likely to have, but noone who wasn't in the room actually knows.
Atom/RSS can and did use WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub) as a Push mechanism:

https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

And Userlands's RSS specified an <cloud> Element back in RSS 2.0, but the RSS Cloud API only was implemented outside Userland's products first in 2009, in Wordpress, afair, when PSHB already had mindshare.

https://www.rssboard.org/rsscloud-interface
While watching the video I was also thinking "just like Adobe's stuff". Many of the Photoshop users will ask themselves why they should continue to pay them, if the evolution continues this way. Nice to see.

Sure, Krita is not Photoshop, but for the tasks certain creators will be doing in the next decade, they won't have a need for Photoshop anymore.

Interesting to see that the video is 2 months old.
Even if it goes to stockholders it's not lost forever. That's how we got Starship. The question is what they do with it. As for 'sharing', we've seen that. In USSR it ended up with Putin, Lukashenko, turkmenbashi, and so on. In others it's not much better. Europe is slowly falling behind. There should be some balance and culture.
We did it Reddit!
> No, but if you manage to scratch the aluminum foil layer on the backside, the CD instantly becomes useless.

Which is/was pretty hard to do on PRESSED CD's as they were covered with a thick coating, and sometimes quite easy to do on CD-R.

> Or when you store cd's in large unboxed stacks, they can stick together, which can also damage the backside.

Also, I only ever experienced that on CD-R, never on pressed CDs.

And to be fair: If you store all your tapes unwinded on a large spool, they also might see some damage over time ;)
I think the employees part is probably wrong here. Can’t imagine they’ll need to act like ones even if they are on paper
Sure, they might, but what you see in practice in GPT and being discussed in interviews by Sam is mostly the "AI shouldn't say uncomfortable things" version of AI "safety".
Part Univers/Zurich, part Mac's SF. Hits the spot for me!
Satya hires and is going to invest further into the people who, instead of delivering as promised, brought him this mess. It all looks like a panic scrambling on the part of Satya and Altman. Like as if the whole deal was hinging on Altman - such risky deal would be a mistake on part of Satya, the mistake that it looks to me he is scrambling to cover.
It won't be a "Mad Max"-style of apocalypse.

More like "Republic of Weimar" kind of apocalypse, this time with the rich opportunists flying to New Zealand instead of Casablanca or the Austrian Alps.
> I mean, re GOFAI, it's not like Transformers and DL are any less "logic problem" than Eurisko or Eliza were.

Hmm, they're not a complete anything but they're pretty different as they're not discrete. That's how we can teach them undefinable things like writing styles. It seems like a good ingredient.

Personally I don't think you can create anything that's humanlike without being embodied in the world, which is mostly there to keep you honest and prevent you from mixing up your models (whatever they're made of) with reality. So that really limits how much "better" you can be.

> That's not "unknown unknowns", that's just the problem of induction.

This is the exact argument the page I linked discusses. (Or at least the whole book is.)

> However, it's not like there's any alternative system of knowledge that can do better.

So's this. It's true; no system of rationalism can be correct because the real world isn't discrete, and none are better than this one, but also this one isn't correct. So you should not start a religion based on it. (A religion meaning a principle you orient your life around that gives it unrealistically excessive meaning, aka the opposite of nihilism.)

> I mean, I do think that, yes. Got any argument against it other than "lol sci-fi"?

That's a great argument. The book I linked calls it "reasonableness". It's not a rational one though, so it's hard to use.

Example: if someone comes to you and tries to make you believe in Russell's teapot, you should ignore them even though they might be right.

Main "logical" issue with it though is that it seems to ignore that things cost money, like where the evil AI is going to get the compute credits/GPUs/power bills to run itself.

But a reasonable real world analog would be industrial equipment, which definitely can kill you but we more or less have under control. Or cars, which we don't really have under control and just ignore it when they kill people because we like them so much, but they don't self-replicate and do run out of gas. Or human babies, which are self-replicating intelligences that can't be aligned but so far don't end the world.
They do not want to exterminate humanity or the ecosystem, but rather profit from the controlled destruction of life, as they try to do out of everything.
>Quick, without doing any research: What early 1980s computer was faster, the IBM PC or the Commodore 64?

ok, now slowly, do the calculation again... the IBM PC and 8088 was the beginning of the future. the Commodore 64 and 6502 was the tail end of the past. The 6502 caught on because it was a bargain price, but at that price it was severely hobbled in what it could do, space- and time-wise

could you write a small program for the commodore 64 that was faster? who cares, because you couldn't write a large program that was faster.
Ask HN: Should OpenAI go open source as revenge?
Maybe combined with the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time?

If they do nothing, they will not be able to compete if their talent goes to Microsoft.

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but according to Microsoft statements they were blind-sighted by the firing of Sam Altman, but it could all have been Sam and Microsoft their intention to get him fired.

Satya Nadella:

> Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

Zero mentions about AI safety there. It's about Sam, Greg, etc "their success", not about the success of humankind.
> We don't know yet if he will have the same execution

This movie has been repeated in South America far too many times.

This is just the next disaster in the making. Was not the first one, will not be the last one.
Today, we're diving headfirst into the often murky waters of attribution.
Sam has a lot of researchers wanting to jump ship. there was a thread on Twitter where employees would heart one of Sam's tweets as a signal they would jump ship with him towards his next adventure.

A lot of OAI folk sent the signal.
People want a small phone, but if the mini costs like 10 android phones, they might just get an android phone.
Satya's strategic insight deserves recognition. Certainly, there's a slight risk that Microsoft might fail to yield
its substantial investment speculated to be around $10B in OpenAI. However, that's not Satya's principal concern.
Rather, his focus is on the next move. Possibly, assemble the most elite AI collective globally, unhindered by the
constrictions of a non-profit operating a profit-oriented entity? Offer them a sufficient amount of monetary rewards,
and it's likely that a large proportion of OpenAI's workforce would be willing to join the bandwagon led by Sam and
Greg. While this process may take some time, the potential payoff could encompass a much larger segment of the
future for Microsoft than was previously conceivable through the OpenAI investment.
Oh sure, there's lots of ways you can do it. I'm just saying that people making viz for games often do it in a way that isn't actually helpful, and that's an example.
Why y’all desperate to steal data to train non intelligent software? Reddit and others should sue for license violations.
In retaliation Ilya/team should just open source everything OpenAI has. The only way to make genAI(GPT the can opener) safe is to make it democratic and available for everyone. Then others can pick it up and make it more efficient. At least MS servers will get a break.
> Will nobody think of the poor shareholders?

Do you have a 401k? Index funds? A pension? You’re probably a Microsoft shareholder too.
I played the arcade version of Atari Star Wars far too much in '83 & '84 and for some reason I never thought it was the equatorial trench.
You said GPT refused your request. Refusal to do something is not a lie. These systems aren't capable of lying. They can be wrong, but that isn't the same thing as lying.
>The argument is that the specification clearly documents that setenv() cannot be used with threads. Therefore, if someone does this, the crashes are their fault.

Oh, C is taking the php approach :)
Soon you'll be able to buy a Hyundai on Amazon
They probably care more about the people they may bring with them.
PNG for photos produce very very large files.
I have to point out here that "the process and communications around Sam’s removal" could just as easily refer to whatever 'process and communications' resulted in the guy being able to get back into the office and take selfies.

It's pretty basic that when you fire someone abruptly they _do not_ get to come back into the damn office.
To be fair, corporations as entities have long demonstrated that they are agnostic when it comes to seemingly logical goals such as human self-preservation.
Talent. It’s already happening.
Need to account for splits and reinvesting dividends.
Obviously it didn't take place in either of those: the Death Star is not real, and the trench run was filmed in a (number of?) scale model sets.

That's an even more annoying answer, but I think it lets us pull a more interesting lesson out of this than a factoid which nerds are going to trump each other with: how "direction" in the filmmaking sense and "misdirection" in the magic sense are related. We see a series of shots from a variety of angles and follow the action from shot to shot - despite the shots not taking place at the same time or even necessarily the same place.
It's absolutely ok to have alpine handle a big form, you don't have to never use js with htmx.
Unless you use SQLite in production as well, this can give you a false sense of security, as there can be subtle behavior differences between DBMSs. Ideally you should always test with the same DBMS and same version as used in production.

This is the same risk with mocking/stubbing, but for integration tests it's important that you're testing with the actual system used in production.
There is also the Goldberg Emulator [0] if you don't want to rely on Steam at all.

[0] https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
No, stock splits are included.
Fair point in semantic terms.

Maybe it's risk mitigation without cost sharing to achieve the same economies of scale that insurance creates.

Its a rich man's way of removing risks that we are all exposed to via spending money on things that most couldn't seriously consider due to the likelihood of said risks.

I don't think it's duplicitous. I do resent that I can't afford it. I can't hate on them though. I hate the game, not the players. Some of these guy would prob let folks stay in their bunker. They just can't build a big enough bunker. Also most folks are gross to live with. I'd insist on some basic rules.

I think we innately are suspicious when advantaged folks are planing how they would handle the deaths of the majority of the rest of us. Sorta just... Makes one feel... Less.
the last one in your list
Net Zero Greenwash: The Gap Between Corporate Commitments and Policy Engagement
New InfluenceMap research finds that corporate net zero or similar targets are rarely matched by support for government climate policy, with 58% of almost 300 companies from the Forbes 2,000 found to be at risk of “net zero greenwash” due to their policy engagement.
BuildNodeModules: An experiment in improving node packaging for Nix
Extinguish phase about to start.
Landscape mode shows the date
This is where other big tech giants need to move. MSFT provides nothing extra which Google/Amazon/Meta can not move. Make it multi platoform and make it more open source.
Lets assume the whole structure works, 1-2 years later, Sam becomes the apparent CEO candidate after Satya.
This is somewhat ingenious.

Microsoft holds the keys to almost all endeavors of OpenAI. Soon, such privileges will also be enjoyed by Altman and Brockman.

Concurrently, it seems reasonable to speculate that their stint at Microsoft might not be drawn-out, as startup prodigies are often not inclined to work in such established firms.

They have the chance to achieve stability, leverage OpenAI’s invaluable data and models devoid of any expenditure, access Microsoft's GPUs at minimal cost, and eventually set up another venture. As a result, Microsoft stands to gain a substantial equity stake in the new enterprise.

While Altman requires no financial backing from Microsoft, the corporation now has an invaluable direct link to OpenAI.
> I have watched him speak, and he doesn't seem charismatic at all. I remember hearing the same things about Sam Bankman-Fried and then going and watching his interviews and feeling the same.

Beside the argument that creshal brought up in a sibling comment that some people are more charismatic live and some are more charismatic through a camera:

In my observation, quite some programmers are much more immune to "charisma influence" (or rather: manipulation by charisma) than other people. For example, in the past someone sent me an old video of Elon Musk where in some TV show (I think) he explained how he wants to build a rocket to fly to the moon and the respective person claimed that this video makes you want Musk to succeed because of the confidence that Elon Musk shows. Well, this is not the impression that the video made on me ...
the env is unix. It's not C's job to fix. Keep studying it till you understand that.

and don't forget, you are using unix because it defeated all the other options, because it was better and they were worse, so also keep studying till you understand why that is too.

then this problem with env will fix itself.

unix gives you tools to handle threads. C gives you tools to handle threads. Learn them, use them.
They actually do, from time to time.
OpenAI's new CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear
> I was happily avoiding full time employment. I took this job because I believe that OpenAI is one of the most important companies currently in existence. When the board shared the situation and asked me to take the role, I did not make the decision lightly. Ultimately I felt that I had a duty to help if I could.

An external CEO that's stepping in not because they want to but because they feel they "need" to doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
I moved off-grid from SF bay warehouse living love it. Started a small wireless company to feed me and those around me better internet. Connected with zayo direct to San Jose.
i understand you. i also dislike it when a website forces me to login but otherwise it's hard to limit free usage since generations are user credits base.
so i had to do it
Well, some of the gangs are ran from abroad but absolutely exist in our home turf. But it's true we can't simply arrest the gang leaders, and there are people waiting to take the place of existing middle management as they are imprisoned.

The two root causes of our gang problem is the amount of money drug buyers want to spend, and that it's still possible to combine crime with clean business and launder money through that.

I live next door to a handful small businesses that each employ 2-3 people full time, have maybe 2-3 customers per day paying for services costing about 200-300 kronor (10 minute hair cuts, tanning salons, car reconditioning, 10 minute tire changes, nail sculpture), and they still make a yearly profit of between 0.5 to 2 million kronor according to public records. They are all staffed by people in their 20s that mostly hang around all day. I would assume these businesses are quite cash heavy even though everyone uses card payments nowadays. They are generally owned by people whose main business is property ownership, restaurants and construction, who keep a bunch of smaller businesses on the side. I don't think the state has the resources to even begin looking into this.

As a privacy nut I have always wanted to keep cash but I'm starting to second guess myself.