skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On those little lifestyle perquisites, those can be good for morale, and can also mean a person spends more time and attention working.

Before dotcoms, I worked places that would pay for delivered dinner for anyone working late (otherwise, as soon as you leave the office, you call it a day, plus company is feeding you like parent, plus little social camaraderie break with other people working late), or would provide cab vouchers for people who worked late (no going home only because don't feel safe walking home after dark), etc.

I don't think anyone has illusions about the motives there, and there's some alignment.

The "make it harder to leave to another job" I dislike is things like stock options that must be exercised within 90 days of leaving, before the stock is liquid and before you know whether it'll be worth anything. Or health insurance situations for some people (improved since ACA). Or bonus or retirement contribution schedules that mean waiting until the end of the year (and with no guarantee there won't be layoffs shortly before, especially given that a sociopathic company has incentive not to pay). (One of the big reasons I didn't take a nice non-blockchain fintech job offer with FAANG-like TC level was because of all the complex structuring of the compensation, with several kinds of bonuses and shares and retirement contributions, which supposedly were all but guaranteed, but all on annual schedules, and the salary alone wasn't going to elevate my lifestyle from an early startup. Contrast with a company that routinely deposits so much money into your bank account that you don't much have to think about money -- that's a nice way to retain people and let them focus on the work.)
I use replit for coding interviews -- pair coding -- so I am interested in the "code" more than the "space". Can you use Codespaces for that?
SwiftFin seems to do the job, but this is also a good suggestion.
In this day and age, it's much easier to use DockerHub or similar to store an unlimited amount of data.
> I doubt any non-impaired person will seriously lose to a cat.

An unarmed, unprepared human will lose a fight with a mosquito. We carry no natural armour or weapons.

Give us a moment to prepare, and we become the most dangerous animal on earth. For a cat, a net and suitable clothing may do the trick.

How many people have you seen prepare for a fight with a cat? Come to that, how many cat's give people time to prepare?
Yeah, MS leaving is the absolute end of OpenAI (and for all practical purposes the end of Ilya's career). It's Satya's call now, he's not happy and wants @sama back.

Next week is going to be interesting!
DACH = Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Microsoft worried about market opening...
Thanks for the tag on the GitHub issue and for being a persistent advocate for transparency. Transparency is something we should expect from any open source foundation, and I am committed to delivering on that as the Foundation's first Managing Director.

That said, it is the weekend :-) I'm happy to address all of the concerns and questions, and you'll hear more from me tomorrow – both here and on GitHub.
I didn't make reference to the board's communication methods. They were also poor.
I love donating money to nonprofits and then exercising my rights as a shareholder to get my legal mandated influence over board seats. These board members must be sweating bullet given their fiduciary duty to these investors.
I used to use SWFMILL as well, also SWFCOMBINE.
The Hard Rock Cafe in Saigon, before it closed down, was actually kind of fun (where else would you hear a live Rock coverband in Vietnam?) and the food was decent.
Absolutely agreed. I've had some type of insomnia on and off most of my life, last year was particularly bad. Started taking melatonin, first day I fell asleep and rested like I couldn't for the past year. Asked my doctor about and he told me to keep taking it as long as I felt it worked, since anything he could give would be much much more addictive
Funny to see a fairly technical article on mechanical watches rank so high on HN.

Yes, quartz watches are simpler and more accurate yadayada, but there is an interesting engineering challenge in trying to improve accuracy (1 second/day = 10 ppm!) through purely mechanical means.

Constraints foster creativity.
I mean, obviously? Any distant, hypothetical, unlikely AI apocalypse is going to need a lot of willing human accomplices.
Yes! Or if you’re a masochist, lots of trial or error.
Whatever the case all involved look terrible.
In high-school, I got suspended a number of times for playing around with the school computers and stuff lol.

We didn’t grow up with a lot of money, so I didn’t get to play with fancy systems until school.

The things that I got in trouble for in school are now the same things that I make a living on; protecting apps from younger versions of me lol.

Some colleagues asked me before “but who would be dumb enough to try and log into a sensitive system?”.

My reply would be a naive 16 year old high schooler who doesn’t realize what they are doing, or the skill set that they may harness.
I think you're letting your personal feelings about Sam Altman cloud your judgment as to what facts you will accept and which you won't.

Whether Altman has a successful coup going or not is immaterial, but whether is a founder or not is what you asked and you got a pretty solid answer. You can like the answer, or you don't but it stands unopposed.
They dropped it right after ChatGPT came out. For a full year, they were luring top talent with promises of exorbitant equity, sold integrations left and right, played a role in writing the EO that makes it difficult for newcomers to compete with OpenAI, etc. Didn't we have a story about $10M comp packages at OpenAI just a week ago?

I can't imagine this was just Altman. I suspect that a large proportion of current OpenAI staff is in it for the money and couldn't care less about the non-profit goals of the pre-ChatGPT era. In fact, many probably oppose the idea because it stands in the way of a big payout down the line.

This coup was probably some sort of the last stand for the old-timers who still believe in the non-profit mission, but I doubt they can prevail in the long haul. Not without gutting the company, at the very least.
I'm not sure where Human Resource Machine would belong,

https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...

might be worth adding this and 7 Billion Humans

https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/
They’re complaining about the emotional rhetoric around employees working multiple jobs, not the actual mechanics behind why companies disallow it.

It sometimes seems that they aren’t as harsh with executives.

However, IMO, when companies dialog executives from working multiple jobs they use the same sort of rhetoric: “ceo is distracted, directionless, uncommunicative, unable to see past this conflict of interest, etc.” The board will paint the CEO as some dilettante fop.

Look at what happened to Altman, he’s been fired and they insinuated that he’s a lying, double dealing, dirtbag.
Ilya is the stereotypical genius mind that is extremely passionate yet disconnected from the real world. He got way too worked up about abstract issues, failed to see the bigger picture and had a meltdown that other board members took seriously because he's a cofounder. He is instrumental in the research but he shouldn't be running the business.
Yes that’s somewhat correct. If he really has the loyalty of a huge percentage of the staff and they leave to follow him you’re right.

But you might want to question why you’re so sure that’s the case. People talk about that a lot but it’s pretty rare to actually see that happen.

The usual way things like this go is most people go huh how about that and go back to work at their job the next day and think about their family and weekend plans.

In his case it’s especially odd given his oddly thin track record of actual success. He seems incredibly good at ingratiating himself with extremely powerful people, but there’s no evidence at all of him being a popular leader or particularly good at building and executing on anything.

Ask yourself how he got his last two jobs. He wasn’t exactly voted in due to widespread popular support.

In both cases however he departed abruptly amidst what looks like interpersonal conflict.
.. and MS takes a massive hit financially as they're hardpdroven as an unreliable cloud service.
Old enough to recall a time when parks and museums were free of admission costs as was the parking? Congress in all its wisdom slashed those budgets but good over the last 4 decades and these job postings are symptomatic of these Bureau of Land Management/National Park Service fiscal funding revisions as well.
Does that mean this "4D chess" I keep hearing about is just playing chess with a clique of four neurons?
Lol, Adam stays?
Quillpad should be pretty close, and has the option to sync with nextcloud https://github.com/quillpad/quillpad
What in your opinion is the difference between a video game and and a movie? Do you have an equally bad opinion of moviegoers?

According to the below link, the video game industry dwarfs Hollywood and the music industry. Do you acknowledge that video games are more culturally significant than say, the Beatles, for the current generation?

https://gamerhub.co.uk/gaming-industry-dominates-as-the-high...

According to a report by SuperData Research, the global gaming market was valued at $159.3 billion in 2020. This includes revenue from console games, PC games, mobile games, and esports. To put that in perspective, the music industry was valued at $19.1 billion in 2020, while the movie industry was valued at $41.7 billion. That means the gaming industry is making more than three times as much money as the music industry and almost four times as much as the movie industry.
My guess is the telecom vendor your school selected told your school’s IT and purchasing teams that their new phone lines cannot handle modem connections, so they would be obligated to buy a separate IP connectivity service from the same vendor.

Being the early 90s, technical expertise about Internet connectivity was sparse and they most likely entered into a contract with this vendor on the strength of their statement.

They were now surprised to find out the truth: that they could’ve kept using their existing paid-for modems instead of upgrading to a new, expensive, high-speed Internet, access circuit tied to a multi-year contract and all the requisite equipment that came along with that.
I had a similar revelation at work recently.

I've lead a team for the past several years. Our productivity and the quality of the work never was never questioned for the first ~4 years. We consistently met or exceeded expectations, and everyone was happy.

In the past year of belt tightening, my leadership and methods have come under scrutiny by our executives. I've spent many hours defending my decisions, especially team structure. The thing which finally got them (mostly) off my back was sharing the name of the methodology that most resembled what I had built. Suddenly my explanations check out.

While I'm happy to have a lot of that pressure relieved, it's also been a frustrating experience. My credibility relied on someone else giving a name to a methodology that I devised independently, and that was more important than any of the results of the previous 4 years.
The registry is not that different from a file system, actually. It even allows mounting other “file systems” (registry hives).
The basics. 1 semester course for each.
I'm surprised nobody's leaked the minutes. It all seems very amateurish. I had thought it was secret news of big misconduct, but instead it's sub-amongus plotting.
In every case I pick the private market over government.

Private markets are run by contract and have at least minimal check via the court system via lawsuits

Government actors are immune from all liability, and can not be sued unless the government gives you permission to sue them

So do i want insurance death panels.... no. But I would prefer them over government death panels
The point of tourist traps is that you’re not poor when you enter the trap, but you’re poor afterwards.
Yeah, I think you are right. But I didn't feel it before it hit me into the face. Me personally. Wars seemed too far away to feel real.
It’s funny how those who most decry cults end up sounding so cultish.

The opposite of cult worship is NOT cult antipathy.
I took it to mean “calm down, press. There’s no FTX or Theranos style financial crime/ fraud story here to be uncovered.”
Support of the staff for Sam Altman is impressive and well deserved. But legally, the board does not have to cave in. I am really curious what will happen this week!
Jobs are so influential, Sam has his own kind of charisma and persona, as same as Musk.
This makes little sense without saying what an "expert mode" is. What is "geek settings turned on?". You can already configure ~everything and more via the windows registry or gpedit.msc. There are thousands of "expert settings" apps and special iso-s for anyone wanting more user friendly tweaking. Any OS that is enterprise-ready does not need any "I'm geek" checkbox.
What changes to the incentive structure do you think would help here? Blacklisting seems appropriate for repeat offenders but I'd be more interested in changing the incentives for funding to prevent fraud in the first place. The problem with blacklisting in my view is that many fraudsters who get away with it will just continue anyway since they do not "learn their lesson" until long after the damage is already done.
What do you mean it has come to pass?
Sam Altman is at OpenAI (with a guest pass)
You may want to consider that you might have your own issues with listening to propaganda. The sanctions introduced between Russia’s invasion of Crimea (also Putin’s fault) and 2022 were fairly anaemic.

Like, it’s really hard to come up with a scenario where Russia’s current crisis is _not_ Putin’s fault. Putin was there in more or less everything that lead to it. Whose fault did you think the sanctions were, if not Vlad’s?
What? EEE is meant for competitors, OpenAI is very much not a competitor - they're effectively Microsoft's outsourced R&D.
Huh, I just had a fairly long and fruitless conversation with ChatGPT 4 trying to understand whether this was true. ChatGPT kept insisting that romance languages distinguish between the preterite ("he did," simple past tense) and the present perfect ("he has done"), but every time I asked it to give me specific examples it would start translating them, find that they were the same, and then say "well, in Italian [or French] it's actually more about context..."

Finally it was able to give me the Spanish "Él hizo esto" vs "Él ha hecho esto," but admitted that whether one used one vs the other was quite regional.
A lot of game developers, myself included, don't think scripted stories belong in games at all. A lot of they time they are bolted on because some players expect one.

All the best games have no story, Factorio, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors, Quake, Pacman.
Is there any source to this? I have heard lot of conflicting things just like in this thread.
oh I recognize Taylor, he was on the former Twitter, Inc. board.
Related ongoing thread:

OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38326834 - Nov 2023 (73 comments)
Per the article, the companies' rules are to only hire persons 18+, but folks under 18 can easily lie and get hired.

They may not be underage to work in construction, but they are technically "underage" for the company requirements.
I can imagine a much nicer power socket, symmetrical, more safe, always grounded, smaller than the Euro socket. But it has no chance to take over the world, which is dominated by either the Edison's or Siemens's (I suppose) early designs.
Related ongoing thread:

OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337568 - Nov 2023 (18 comments)
Is there any way he can even stay if Altman returns? Seems like one of them is out and making their own AI venture soon.
I don’t know. There is some spin that indicates that.
Not in a meaningful or non-misleading way.
If "bigger picture" means making more money with less safety concerns, then I think he is totally right to oppose that.
Orientation of a quartz watch also influences accuracy. Though a tuning fork watch crystal is probably not good enough to observe that.
Jimmy Carter, her husband and the former US president, just turned 99:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
UniPress Emacs for NeWS, with tabbed windows and pie menus: 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#/media/File:Hy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmU2B79EDU
This really does feel like Ilya is Woz, an idealist, doing the hard work and soon to be cast aside for Altman as their Jobs. Because idealism doesn’t make people billionaires.
There's a lot of speculation that Sam Altman will return to OpenAI. There are publicly disgruntled employees and high level employees resigning. The executives of the company are reportedly meeting with the board about reinstating Sam Altman. I definitely don't think that's ideal for the board.
To not be candid means to not be open (i.e. keeping things back, 'omission') or to not be honest (i.e. lie).

If he didn't lie, and didn't lie by omission then he was by definition being candid.

Give us an example then, of how you can be "not candid" while being honest and open.
>In 2000 there was ~6.1 billion and the world was just fine.

This entire comment is junk assertions based on nothing but this part is hilarious in particular.
> His departure in this fashion would make it really hard for them to raise as much money as they will need and potentially put them on a blacklist of a lot of YC companies.

How does this matter anymore? OpenAI is the most known company from the last year. You don’t need specific person anymore to market about your company. If it is up to single person whether company is worth investment, then everyone just hopes that eventually OpenAI will turn to full-profit mode.

It is pretty clear, that if board wants to run company for greater good, for-profit-only CEO must leave.
What a wild idea. You actually think of the most esteemed AI researchers will have trouble finding funding after this? Someone somewhere will give him money.

We’re in an arms race. Ilya is Otto Hahn.
I can assure you if given the choice employers would stop offering health insurance to employee's, it is one of the larges increased in employment costs, and has a HUGE unpredictable factor given more and more companies are opting for direct payment (meaning they pay the costs of all health expenses directly)
Salesforce is part of the microsoft borg now too?
Fired on a Friday just to be back in the office Monday with a new boss lol
This might be the case now but shouldn’t be a particularly useful distinction for very long— on the grand scale of intelligence, the difference between the smartest human and the average human is tiny.
I wasn't sure if I wanted to throw my two cents into this comment section, but here goes...

I'm absolutely astounded that anyone is framing the concept of taking advantage of the vulnerable and exposing them to this kind of material for such meager pay as an opportunity for them.

This is slave labor and exploitation, regardless of whether or not the person in question is or is not a child by legal classification and whether or not the pay is above average for someone in their situation.

It makes me sick to my stomach that we are once again achieving "progress" at the expense of vulnerable people.
If you're going to post a link to a map, make it a vector map, this is horribly low res.
Of which the entire point of the conversation is "When consciousness/sentience happen it's too late". We don't want to arrive to it on accident in a piece of software that has encoded a vast amount of the worlds knowledge.

The 'if they ever happen' part is just a thought terminating cliche. Of course I do have to say that is "In my opinion", neither of us have the revelation of hindsight in this case. But, I don't believe humans are magical in any way. By the random walk of evolution a self perpetuating creature and is also intelligent was formed. It certainly seems it should be possible without a trillion^trillion tries to make it happen in another substrate. And I also find it odd by this random walk evolution found the only means to reach intelligence, and in doing so the most optimal form. Life has to self perpetuate within the confines of its own machinery. Raw intelligence isn't a carbon based lifeform and shouldn't have the same limits.
I think Arc is the first browser I’ve seen to not offer it as a toggle, but instead make it the default and only option and to design the rest of the UI around it. Wouldn’t be surprised if for many people Arc is the first time they’ve encountered vertical tabs as a feature.
> wages and don’t suffer from problem tips in the US solve (AKA, insanely low minimum wages in some states for tipped servers).

Well many waiters earn considerably more than the minimum wage in the US. In large part because of this system. I'm not sure why does the society value their work that much (in relation to most other service workers which is of course unfair). However, essentially what you're advocating is lower wages for some service workers just because the rest are possibly overpaid?
Storing UTC for past events is totally fine because it is unambiguous.

However, if you are writing something like a calendar app and storing timestamps for future events, you run into the issue that time zones have the annoying habit of changing.

Let's say you have a user in Berlin, and they want to schedule an event for 2025-06-01 08:00 local time. According to the current timezone definition Berlin will be on CEST at that moment, which is UTC+2, so you store it as 06:00 UTC. Then Europe abandons summer time, and on 2025-06-01 Berlin will now be on CET, or UTC+1. Your app server obviously gets this new definition via its regular OS upgrades.

Your user opens the app, 06:00 UTC gets converted back to local time, and is displayed as 07:00 local time. This is obviously wrong, as they entered it as 08:00 local time!

Storing it as TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE miiiight save you, but if and only if the database stores the timezone as "Europe/Berlin". In practice there's a decent chance it is going to save it as a UTC offset anyways...
Why would I not believe that Meta or Google or anyone really come in or replace Microsoft?

You don’t think they’re kicking themselves that Microsoft got the deal?
A few more that come to mind: Life is Strange, GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, Dishonored, Mass Effect, The Witcher 3.
What you describe does not match my personal experience providing technical support, both professionally and socially. At all.
from a android user's perspective i used to use google keep all the time before i got privacy concerned and I still see a whole lot of people from my friends and family using google keep. I can assume it's true for a large quantity. I don't think a company like google would stop this type of service where they can get a large amount of personal data users just leave opened.
> Because you can't train and operate models at scale with ideology. Costs money and compute. Without funding and compute, OpenAI is a bunch of smart folks with laptops talking AI safety in an office until the cashflow dries up.

Without its exclusive relationship to Microsoft, there are other people with access to money and compute that would like a leg up in the enterprise AI space that Microsoft would be taking a major, even if (optimistically) temporary, step back from its leading position in by terminating its relationship with OpenAI.
In this imaginary hypothesis you don’t think some other giant will fund them?
Why I tend not to use content negotiation
It’s mostly just this site and the SV delusion it’s connected with. I’d bet if you ask random Americans, they would have no idea who Altman even is.