skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you believe is not free market about it?

-- You as a homeowner have the legal right to sell your home yourself without a lawyer, escrow officer, or real estate agent involved.

-- You as a buyer have the legal right to represent yourself in purchasing a home.

-- You, as buyer or seller, likely have multiple options either lawyers or real estate agents in the place you live who could facilitate a transaction.

-- If you choose to work with a brokerage / agent, you will likely find a range of commission price points as well as levels of service available to you. Want a "listing only" service? I've seen people in my community offer that for a nominal fixed price. Want the full monty or have a unique property? I've seen 10% commissions to both sides.

-- Think it is unfair that you can't list your property directly with an MLS? Become a licensed agent, pay your membership dues, and you too can have direct access to the MLS. Listing services are owned by (read: costs paid by) real estate brokerages, just like any other market, IE: Nasdaq, NYSE, etc.
Could this be somehow driven by Microsoft's stake in OpenAI?
"We're putting the Open back in OpenAI"?
It protects you from the mistakes of others. The problem for the single owner is that they do a lot themselves, and for that, you need insurance.

But when it works, it works. Imagine you dropship a faulty part to someone, so that there's no negligence by the sole owner. You'd much rather have the lawsuit go:

Plaintiff vs. Your LLC & Vendor Co.

than

Plaintiff vs. You & Vendor Co.
tldr nobody knows yet
Electric subways have been a thing for about 140 years now.
If modular batteries would work, we'd have them. If you recall Elon promised several years back that Tesla cars will have replaceable batteries. Go to a charging station, swap your battery and go. He didn't do it. Why?

Because batteries are HEAVY. A modular design means the batteries can't be structural, so you need more structure to support the car around the battery, and a solid structure holding the replaceable battery itself. Boxes in boxes in boxes in boxes. This makes the car heavier. Weight means less range. To increase the range you need more batteries. Which adds more weight. Which means less range.

Do you see what I mean? It's just physics. We can't fix this. Only some amazing battery breakthrough would fix this, but so far we have only sensationalist articles about something working in a lab supposedly and nothing out there in production.
Yes, very likely Altman has done something _very_ wrong, and the board wants to maintain plausible deniability.
They're still trying to eat into the PC market
Ubuntu has had OpenStack for years. It sucks. MicroCloud looks like a simpler, saner reboot.
candid - Not obscuring or omitting anything unpleasant, embarrassing, or negative.

IMHO, saying he hasn't been candid is extremely harsh in terms of corporate PR speak.
That's not truly how it works except in some very narrow, literal, sense.

The reality is that people in the developed world need to carry smart phones. It's expected in order to be a functioning member of society. My kid's school has an app that does messaging and notifications, my kid's after-school group has a different app that does likewise, etc. A few weeks ago, I was expected to "sign" a waiver for an activity by clicking a link in an email... while I was AT THE PLACE IN QUESTION. Since I didn't happen to bring a laptop to this activity, I pulled out my smart phone to do it.

So, when my phone breaks, I have no choice but to buy another one. It doesn't have to be a new model, of course. But, if they all collectively move toward removing features that I'd prefer to have (like removable batteries) or start adding things that I DON'T want, I'm still going to buy it because I more-or-less have to.

So, it's not that people don't care or actually prefer the way things are going. It's that they feel like they have no choice.

Again, I understand that they/we LITERALLY have a choice. We're not going to die if we don't buy a smart phone. But, it's not as simple as "they bought the thing, so they must approve of all of it."
I'm debt free except for my mortgage (and my CC but that's temporary and I never carry a balance) but I have a hard time seeing why I'd want to pay off my mortgage.

My mortgage is at 2.25% and my savings account gives me 5%. At this point (especially with the market not really doing awesome) why wouldn't I just dump any extra money I have into my savings? I mean that's not really a question and it's what I've been doing for a while now. Even before they raised interest rates I was getting 3% on my savings.

A part of me would love to throw money at my principal but oddly paying off that debt would be financially irresponsible in the long run.
It seems like people care more about internet drama than about actual exploitation and oppression…

The former seems to be something we can get involved in, but the latter seems insurmountable.
Well if you don't have enough VRAM to hold the whole model, you have to swap out to main RAM for every iteration, which for most home/local setups means once for every single token generated. So having enough is kind of a minimum.
I was wondering when the for profit pandering was going to clash with the not for profit parent. Well, here it is
Is the problem really related to COBOL, or is the fact that this institution is basically unaccountable to taxpayers?
Chat GPT, is that you?
Yes! Glad someone actually got it, it's hollow to do this without a mea culpa about running the logistics for the fucking Holocaust.
> you have to start at the beginning for now

add this comment to the course's page, as it may not be obvious that it is not locked due to the beta status
I thought Sam and Greg are like friends

>As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.
Well, maybe not?
I see this sort of thing crop up when people talk about 'home owners' as well. It's like the classification isn't narrow enough to be relevant. I want to know the percent of people living in homes who don't have a mortgage.

Ah, here we go, according to Forbes [0], only 23% of home "owners" don't have a mortgage, as in they actually own their homes. This is among the lowest rate of actual ownership in the first world.

Conclusion from the Forbes article:

It seems U.S. policy maximizes mortgage-ownership, not home-ownership.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2023/03/31/us-has-3rd-...
We all know what. HN moderators are deleting all related comments.

Edit: dang is right, sorry y’all
My theory is that, if the real goal of the captcha is for AI training then you would want to get rid of the people that were close but not quite right (let them proceed) . If the user was 100% correct on the first test, you'd probably want to give them more tests.
First of all, no they aren't. I have showdead on, and there's just one removed thread, and it was killed for a good reason.

And is "motivation for his post" a code for "let's bash Jews, they had it coming"?

> Why can't this be topic even be discussed?

Yah, I've seen this kind of language before. "Why can't we discuss how Jews deserve their antisemitism?"
That sounds very similar to hiding behind sneaky talk in order to keep the practical effects in the background.

Almost no-one cares about the terms "Manifest v2 extensions" - because almost no one recognizes them for what they really are. Most people can understand it by its effect - that it will disable UBO. Only sneaky people will insist on using the technically correct, but obscure term in a PUBLIC announcement - clearly the aim is to make sure that the public overlooks the announcement.
Maybe Microsoft holds some sway? Sam made a snide tweet at them a few days ago. Running the whole Dev Day demo on Mac's might also be taken as some kind of statement.
I wish you could buy Chinese EVs in United States.
I guess U-boot, uclibc, and busybox is quite common starting point.

Of course, this varies immensely between different use cases, as ”embedded Linux” spans such a huge swath of different kinds of systems from very cheap and simple to complex and powerful.
Debunking the misconception that machine learning glory resides in one model.
Any kind of fire will spread "bad chemicals" around it. You just get to choose what variety of them you want.
I agree. Have not heard a single concern about ethics in business ever raised about him before.
OpenAI’s one of the most successful companies of this decade, if not the most, and its CEO just got fired for really unclear reasons. Insane, Steve Jobs shit
I'm GPU poor. Sick of buying hardware that is not only not fast enough after a year, but not even supported by software that just multiplies and adds numbers in fancy ways.

Debian runs like a champ on my 8 year old CPU. When will gpus last that long?
Great call out. They sell cars to capture future service revenue. This is why you can't sell EVs effectively with a dealership model. The product threatens their survival.
lol better than "leaving to spend time twiddling the ol' thumbs"
I came here to say this, but you said it way better. I don't think it is understood enough that the older population is getting and keeping wealth at an accelerated rate. The entire concept of 30 year treasury bonds transfers debt of the current generation onto the next and nobody seems to question it.

Younger generations just understand that the system is rigged and have looked for other methods (socialism) to even the playing field again. They aren't wrong in their goals, but current proposals are sadly ignorant.
FWIW, Meraki gives you this as well as part of their cloud management of their network. They might be able to do a lot more if they track wifi, wifi macs, and vision and tie it together.

Just letting you know of one of your potential competitors.
You mentioned there is a subset, but the subsets described is still a way to identify the group of people. You can try and twist language all you want, but there is no avoiding the fact that a corporation is just people. If people somehow magically disappeared, the corporate entity would disappear at the exact same time – it's the same thing.
also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309696
Ridership of public transit in Boston has slowly improved but it's still down something like 40% since pre-pandemic. I don't know how much is WFH--auto traffic seems and everyone I've talked to agrees as bad as ever or worse. But it certainly doesn't help on the funding site, especially to the degree that low ridership leads to service cuts which make for even lower ridership.
how do you know he's a good person if you don't know him well?
> More maintainers need to take the "no guarantee of fitness for purpose" part of their license more seriously.

I get this, as a very bottom line. But a lot of great projects are great because the developers consciously want people to use and depend on their work.

Their is a living changing informal social bargain, unique to each project, along with licensing, economic and other concerns.
Unless Musk sales Twitt...er, X, when do you think coversation will not be about him?
None of this implies that you have a 50% chance of your bike being stolen every time you take it out.
Steam is a perfectly fine experience and captchas are the universal standard these days. They lost someone who's 'not really a game person' and wasn't willing to fill in a captcha for a free game, I don't think they're too worried about lost revenue. I highly doubt tracking down and downloading a legit version of the updated Half-Life from a torrent site is an easier option, but you do you.
I dunno if its "best" when compared to just regular old Z_(2^32)
Wow! Sudden is an understatement. Did they check GPT hasn't gone sentient and capturing the power.
AFAIK there is a mouse/keyboard mod but it makes the game way too easy.
It is a shame. Altman always seemed like his heart was in the right place with this stuff.

Much prefer him to the deepmind people who seem almost psychopathic by comparison.
Context: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299
> Is recycling even economical today?

Very much so. I suggest watching the following video to see where we are at. [1]

> Won't it become less so as new batteries become cheaper?

Recycling will be the key to making batteries even cheaper. Getting already refined iron, nickel, and other chemicals will be far cheaper than trying to mine these materials fresh.

Very similar to how pretty much all lead acid batteries are recycled. Mining new lead is a lot more expensive than reusing old lead.

Recycling isn't always economical (see paper and plastic) but in the case of batteries, it absolutely is. The biggest problem battery recycle have is there's simply not enough batteries to recycles. Demand far outstrips supply at the moment.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xrarUWVRQ
Is it possible to play it off-line though? I remember that was an issue when I got The Orange Box with Half-Life 2.
ortlieb has some super sturdy ones, I grocery shop for 2 with this pair on a road bike.
https://www.ortlieb.com/en_us/back-roller-city+F5003
not OP, but I think this usually means it's simple to get something naïve working, but to get something production ready it can get tricky.

Eg stuff like quad/oct trees
If I read it correctly, he lied to the board about something material. That Brockman is also leaving the board is interesting. We'll see if the details leak out over time.
His sister would disagree with you.
nice try, but your username betrays your dastardly ambitions.
It could possibly have to do with his sister's allegations. It's one of the top autocomplete results when you google "sam altman", so people are definitely talking about it.
If we’re talking 2.5 sticks of TNT, wouldn’t drilling into the tire… release that energy? Explosively? Drilling a hole isn’t exactly a controlled deflation.
Well if that all it is, there's a simple solution. Make all the illegal immigrants legal. Then the budget for illegal immigrants goes to $0.
I don't know how to feel about this. On the one hand, Sam seemed like a voice of reason who at least cared about AI being safe, and was committed to creating semi-equitable products, innovate on safety at the sake of profit, etc. On the other hand, Worldcoin wasn't (and isn't) really a force of good.
Hopefully they don’t
It's useless to build a straight road, 4 wide lanes, then stick a sign on the side going "pls no speederino". The roads and the streets themselves need to be designed so that they do not allow unsafe use. Meaning any road/street shared by pedestrians needs to have narrow lanes, few lanes, sidewalks separated by e.g. a row of trees, speed bumps and raised crosswalks, bollards separating lanes, chicanes, etc.
I've lived in Tokyo for a decade now, and this is indeed a small benefit that I don't see talked about much. If you're the type who wants to get a hold of old games, it's much less prohibitive to do so. I recently bought Mother 2 with box and manual at a local shop for 4490円. DQ games are plentiful, too, and very cheap.
I have a feeling there’s going to be some “ceremony” now!
Ask HN: Exploring a "Rate My Manager" Platform for the Tech Industry
Hello HN community,

I'm considering developing a "Rate My Manager" website for the tech industry, akin to RateMyProfessors for academia. The goal is to provide insights into managerial behaviors and practices, especially those that impact employee well-being but often fly under the radar of HR investigations.

Context: In many tech companies, there's a gap in understanding how managers' actions, especially related to office politics or subtle toxic behaviors, affect team members. These issues, while not always qualifying for HR-level scrutiny, can significantly impact employee morale, mental health, and productivity. New employees, in particular, could greatly benefit from such insights before joining a team.

The site would allow tech professionals to anonymously review their managers on various aspects such as leadership, empathy, decision-making, and their approach to work-life balance. It aims to promote transparency and help potential employees set realistic expectations.

I'm seeking your input:

> Do you think such a platform is needed in the tech industry?

> What are the key signals or aspects that should be included in the reviews?

> Any concerns or suggestions for ensuring the platform remains fair and constructive?

Looking forward to your thoughts and insights. Let's discuss how we can make the tech workplace more transparent and supportive for everyone.
Sounds more like some strategic difference of opinion.

My guess is that either they’re financially super hosed. Or one group wants to build skynet and one doesn’t.

A scandal would probably be something along the lines of either “we love him and wish him the best” (hidden) or “he doesn’t represent the values of our org and we love XYz” (embraced)
They describe large-scale changes that usually also lead to changes of implementation details. But their biggest disadvantage is that they are not kept up to date when things change due to later PEPs or smaller-scale changes interfering. After landing, they are of historical value only.
We got here by upscaling compute. To me it feels like we need another 100x or 1000x upscale to get to the stage where AI can actually begin to think about making actionable plans. To get there we need to address the efficiency problem.

Nvidia's take on Minecraft remains the most interesting exploration of the capabilities of LLMs. In that research they had an LLM build a skill library of code which let it get achievements.
He would have been asked to step out and not had a vote in situations like these.
Yeah, I wondered if that might have something to do with it, though afaik those allegations were made in 2021.
Who the heck is Tasha McCauley?
Panera Bread co-founder writes his own obituary annually
Nothing. But that's the answer to "what can do in $X that can't be done in $Y" for most values of $X and $Y.

The point isn't about Perl or Python, it's about that if there's a working solution that works well then embarking on a project to "modernize" it for no reason other than the choice of language perceived to be "old-fashioned" (a completely subjective assessment) is almost always bad thing.
Why use the leaked code, when there is an open source reimplementation: https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs
> Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
As a complete outsider, I don't really see how OpenAI develops any kind of moat here without Sam Altman. It honestly feels like a win for open source AI that he's out.
One of the frequently raised concerns is that soon we will be drowning in AI generated blog posts, articles, presentations and emails, and most of this AI generated content will be meaningless noise.

I wonder if the opposite may be true. With the advent of AI, will there actually be _less_ meaningless noise?

When I was in finance, we would regularly produce 100 page decks for client meetings. Usually only 2 or 3 pages of the 100 page deck would really matter. The rest was what I call "proof of work". _Look at how much work we did for you. Isn't it impressive_? With AI, that kind of proof of work no longer makes any sense, so maybe all those 100 page decks, marketing blog posts, investment memos, and white papers will slim down to only the salient points and in many cases vanish altogether.
Ongoing mega discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611
Microsoft has no board seat
Sam Altman isn't the brains in OpenAI, it is the research scientists and engineers. Just take care of the rest of the company and let these geniuses do what they do, thats the role for the ceo.
Musk posted follow-up responses to his own response to someone who is Jewish. There is nuance in the discussion that is being completely lost.

Here is one of his responses further down: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724934935943979269
> At best, that only covers bug fixes. And, as I said, bug fixes are usually implied to be available in future releases

Can you explain how you got to that interpretation from that phrasing?

> SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

And how is future development and / or support not covered under servicing of that clause?
I just purchased the film rights. Michael Cera's playing Altman.
Mods, nitpicky feedback but please correct title- It's Sam Altman
There is a strong racist ideological movement against "white people" in modern academia and society in general, and the ADL is fully aligned with this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory

This is the issue that Elon Musk is concerned with.
It's amazing how someone who led the company to such an exalted status, with such a definite plan for world-changing success, is ousted so unceremoniously. Is it really just a matter of a "lack of being consistently candid?". Is something happening behind the scenes we're not aware of?
Trip is reasonable but for most ppl imo it's still a stretch. At this point, if good tram/bus alternative exists, ppl will prefer it bc of convenience
"he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board".

I find it $EMOTION that the board is also not candid in its communications on why they fired him.
I was at OpenAI Dev Day. I chatted with Sam, Mira, and Greg in-person. Everything seemed totally fine?? I am shocked.
Tax in America boggles me. In my mind it is all low tax, and we brits pay more.

Council tax, which is the sort of local tax most similar to the one you mention is about £2k a year on a large 4 bed house - and council tax is pretty flat - the least you can pay is about £1k - the most expensive houses you still only pay about £3k or less.
> Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

Whoa, rarely are these announcements so transparent that they directly say something like this. I’m guessing there was some project or direction Altman wanted to pursue, but he was not being upfront with the board about it and they disagreed with that direction? Or it could just be something very scandalous, who knows.
Wow, imagine leading a company during such a successful and industry-leading product (in arguably the hottest industry at the moment) and still be pushed out so unceremoniously.
You still need to deal with style and script encapsulation, but it's a start :)
Somehow they never seem to have 500 years of payroll though
I think I would do it if it guaranteed a gender. It would give you that fall in love feeling potentially.
And discourage EVs since they are heavier than ICVs.
I’m betting there’s gonna be a scandal coming out and they’re preemptively breaking ties to not get affected
My cables are all stapled to the studs, so pulling doesn't work that well :(
The Mac thing would have nothing to do with it. Microsoft's own employees use Macs during demos
I wonder if this is a staged controversy to draw attention away from the CyberTruck's recent failings. Many on HN believe that Musk operates at a higher plane of existence, so maybe it's related?