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> Then both ATOM and RSS can leverage HTTP headers. If you include If-Modified-Since into your request the server can decide to only returns items that are newer.

That might work ... most of the time. But its a really ugly layer violation not to mention incompatible with any kind of caching proxy. Don't do this, please.
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Msft/Amazon/Google would light 13 billion on fire to acquire OpenAI in a heartbeat.

(but also a good chunk of the 13bn was pre-committed Azure compute credits, which kind of flow back to the company anyway).
I live in the US, mid-atlantic region. This moment its 44°F and a wind chill of 25°F. My commute was 39miles each way. Quite often I experience jams and slowdowns such as 10mph on a 65mph highway, with headlights and heater on, or max AC in the summer when its mid 90°F. E-bike on some of these roads are illegal. If they weren't, they be death magnets.

My town has many e-bikes and scooters, mostly rentals. They litter the sidewalks and streets, sometimes are left in the roads. More often than anyone admits, the local youths throw them into the harbor - Boston Tea Party-style. You might go directly to the store and back, but you aren't making multiple stops as the few-as-they-are miscreants would steal your store #1 goods while in store #2. Or just take your bike, leaving you to shop and then rent another bike, all before explaining to the e-bike vendor that it wasn't you who mysteriously lost the GPS signal when your bike vanished at waters edge.

I'm a fan of EVs. But I'm not giving up my ICE vehicle. The 7 day electrical blackout at my home years ago convinced me of that. And people in dead EVs sitting in a blizzard in Texas a few years ago. With giant wind generators offline due to ice on the right, and oilfield pumps stopped for political reasons on the left.
Banning all civilian air travel until the airplane meet the efficiency standards the trucks junked in Junker Clunker already met would be a start.
Microsoft is nothing without its people?
He could be an expert in some areas but in others… not so much.
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> OpenAI is a sinking ship as long as the board members go ahead with their new CEO and Sam, Greg are not returning

Far from certain. One, they still control a lot of money and cloud credits. Two, they can credibly threaten to license to a competitor or even open source everything, thereby destroying the unique value of the work.

> without all the regulatory headaches of a formal acquisition

This, too, is far from certain.
Knew it had to be Benny Hill before I clicked. Yackty-sax indeed.
It now seems inevitable that the first* AGI will fall into the hands of Microsoft rather than OpenAI.

OpenAI won't keep their favorable Azure cloud compute pricing now MS have their own in-house AI function. That will set OpenAI back considerably, aside from the potential loss of their CEO and up to 490 other employees.

All of this seems to have worked out remarkably well for Microsoft. Nadella could barely have engineered a better outcome...

If Bill Gates (of Borg - I miss SlashDot) was still at the helm, a lot of people would be frightened by what's about to come (MS AGI etc). How does Nadella's ethical record compare? Are Microsoft the good guys now? Or are they still the bad guys, but after being downtrodden by Apple and Google, bad guys without the means to be truly evil?

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*and last, if you believe the Doomers
Ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat.
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I couldn't reproduce the 5s wait in multiple scenarios in Firefox (various combinations of being logged in / not being logged in / without adblocker / with adblocker) and couldn't reproduce a 5s wait time in any of them, it played back immediately in each case (when without adblocker, using a second video to have one start without ad). I tested on Linux.

What exact combination of circumstances is required to trigger the multi second wait time?
Environment is considered an immutable space in all the systems I build. It's set before any program code / processes are even started.
A lot of people here seem to be forgetting [Hanlon's Razor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
And now we see who has the real power here.

Let this be a lesson to both private and non-profit companies. Boards, investors, executives... the structure of your entity doesn't matter if you wake any of the dragons:

1. Employees
2. Customers
3. Government
Didn’t that train already depart with the announcements from MS and Sam? Is there a way back?
It is not literally a sleep though, isn't setTimeout more like a creating a delayed event? (I am not a webdev)
There is a book called. "how to lie with statistics" by Huff that should probably be required reading for everyone. It's not very technical and a pretty quick read
Hold up.

>When we all unexpectedly learned of your decision

>12. Ilya Sutskever
> So happy for him.

Really? I get that if he can pull off dollarization that may be good news for Argentina, but the man is a complete maniac. This is like if Americans elected Tucker Carlson. The man is a complete wingnut.
Paywalled, unable to get an archive link so I'll comment on what is available.

How might this effect BRICS? Interesting that Argentina will align with the USD.
That is not what I’m implying. You can work in a similar industry without taking trade secrets, except in the case of inevitable disclosure. For example, if you quit writing for Coke you can still go work for Pepsi without disclosing the Coke recipe.
You lose the bet. I can name three off the top of my head.
I agree. Although the story is fascinating in the way that a car crash is fascinating, it's clear that it's going to be very difficult to get any kind of objective understanding in real-time.

This breathless real-time speculation may be fun, but now that social media amplifies the tiniest fart such that it has global reach, I feel like it just reinforces the general zeitgeist of "Oh, what the hell NOW? Everything is on fire." It's not like there's anything that we peasants can do to either influence the outcome, or adjust our own lives to accomodate the eventual reality.
The thing about being really smart is that you can find incredible gambles.
Employees are for-profit entities, huge conflict of interest.
The screenwriters have to be on LSD.

Maybe D'Angelo was the driving force?
Buddhas know what they are doing
Absolutely mindboggling that Adam is on the board.

Poe has direct competition with the GPTs and the "revenue sharing" plan that Sam released on Dev day.

The Poe Platform has their "Creators" build your own bot and monetize it, including OpenAI and other models.
They run an expensive service! Ballpark their (hypothetical) “AWS costs” at the scale and latency at which they operate. Someone has to pay for it. If not the users, then the advertisers.

If the advertisers, Meta is going to be accountable to advertisers to an extent in terms of what they measure and report and that requires data. Is this even hard to understand??? If this were your service, you would have exactly the same two options to pay for it.

If you don’t like Meta or advertisers having data about you, don’t use Meta’s services!

Acting like there is some “human right to use Instagram on your own terms” is deeply mysterious to me. There isn’t. You know how the deal works. You get the service and they advertise to you.
I think it means that the Twitterverse got it wrong from the beginning. It wasn’t Ilya and his safety faction that did in OpenAI, it was Quora’s Adam D'Angelo and his competing Poe app. Ilya must have been successfully pressured and assured by Microsoft, but Adam must have held his ground.
Ok... so this is not the scenario any of us were imagining? Ilya S vs Altman isn't what went down?

JFC.
>If you did what you thought was right, stand by it and take the heat.

What if it turned out to totally wrong? standing by it would just make thing even worse.
> no uploader on the platform will risk splitting their audience to a platform nobody goes to

cough nebula cough
what about those who think they know but in truth they don't? "humans"?
That's a really great point. I was wondering the same thing as the comment root but this is enough for it to make sense. At the end of the day, having a wrapper email/notification class with an SMTP and moving to a specific SES implementation seems like it'll always be a safe dev path.
We should strive to be leaders who inspire such loyalty and devotion
And this is why I pay for journalism, including The Atlantic. Something people at Hacker News hate to do....
> Now its guaranteed to generate 0 profit

Literal fan fiction
At this stage the entire board needs to go anyway. This level of instigating and presiding over chaos is not how a governing body should act
not this week, trust me
I am not arguing otherwise. I’m not the one complaining, though.
So...Ilya signed the letter too?
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This may just be due to you only having had a week to learn the quirks of ChatGPT 4. Despite the natural language interface, there are still a bunch of nuances and efficiencies in effective prompting (i.e., getting it to do what you actually want). For example, instead of directly asking it to classify every row in a text file, you might be limited to asking it to inspect the first few rows (or a random sample) of data, then write Python code that would fit and evaluate a classification model.

If you're willing to share your prompt or conversation as a direct link, someone here might be able to jump in with tips.
Sears did have an internet store on Prodigy (an AOL competitor) in the early 90s it went nowhere... a lot of these megacompanies weren't going to turn it around even if they were first movers.
Speaking of Netflix, are they working on the movie yet? Perhaps ChatGPT can help with the script with just the right amount of hallucinating to make it interesting.

/tongue firmly in cheek
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No kidding, clearly they were being poached and were not being open about it in spite of their sensitive positions in OpenAI.
I will say, though, that there is going to be an absolute banger of a book for Kara Swisher to write, once the dust has settled.
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> This tweet is confirmation these people have no idea what they’re doing.

This is not an original point by me - I've seen multiple people make similar comments on here over the weekend - but these are the people who think they are best qualified to prevent an artificial superintelligence from destroying humanity, and they can't even coordinate the actions of a few intelligent humans.
If we're talking about global warming (as ppqqrr was), then it's surely some kind of objective physical notion of 'getting hotter' that we're interested in. The problem with global warming is not that we all feel subjectively hotter!

And I did say:

>substitute in a more precise physical definition of temperature
Perfect, send a picture with the cute foxes that would be displaced to the media.
It's not clear to me that bringing Sam back is even an option anymore given the more with Microsoft. Does Microsoft really takes it's boot off OpenAI's neck and hand back Sam? I guess maybe, but it still begs all sorts of questions about the corporate structure.
The signatories want Bret Taylor and Will Hurd running the new Board, apparently.

> We will take this step imminently, unless all current board members resign, and the board appoints two new lead independent directors, such as Bret Taylor and Will Hurd, and reinstates Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
researchers are paid 2x what engineers are paid at OAI, even if it's not the same job there's still one that is "higher level" than the other.
looks like found his twitter password
https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028?s=20
Everyone telling me to accept it, I wish I could. Unfortunately the kids gotta get up and go to school!
The challenge that they’re up against is, nobody wants to pay for “normal” non-targeted ads. The death of normal ads was called the “adpocalypse” and it took down some pretty major web properties who didn’t adapt. Dr Dobbs Journal was one of them.
Nice stuff, I was a Tech-Tel officer in the 60's(RCAF) and solid state was slowly penetrating the MIL-space, due to the huge waits for MIL part validation and approval - for want of a nail - a shoe was lost....
I can recall 10K 1/2W resistors in their own package with their own frame of a 16MM filmed x-ray enclosed as repair back stock.
Let’s say how would Ilya play along after this? Any similar incidents historically, like a failed coup but the participant got to stay?
> The license issue is something I expect will be solved in the next few years (a dropdown menu to choose from, maybe).

I'm not sure it will, as everyone who uses it don't appear to really care about other people's licences anyway. It's just a method of BSD washing GPL code.
I'd like to make up a rule that the person that posts the link is also allowed one low effort, non hn quality response in the comments. Here's mine:

wut
Is there SotA LLM research not at scale?

My understanding was that practical results were indicating your model has to be pretty large before you start getting "magic."
The law is what the courts say it is. Many German newspapers have gone with the "we're a paid service but we'll offer it for free if you consent to tracking" approach, which has so far held in the lower courts, but hasn't (last time I checked) been decided in the equivalent of the Supreme Court, neither in Germany nor EU-wide. Facebook would be a good test case for this.

That said, if you run facebook in a separate browser profile or container, or even have a good tracker-blocking list and extension running and don't let FB set third-party cookies, then it's a lot harder for them to track you off the platform. You then just need to decide how much of your life you put on FB itself.
> Is that really a thing?

Yes.

I'm a Vim user with 100 WPM typing speed, and I can say with confidence that Copilot isn't that useful to me. Typing boilerplate is not an issue - understanding what I wrote is most of the work. And having an AI spew code that I have to read is more work for me than just writing it myself.
By akin, I didn't mean it's functionally equivalent.

GPLv3 is one of the strongest copyleft licenses for software out there, forcing re-sharing of changes while preventing any source closing. CC-BY-NC is the strictest CC license which allows sharing, with credit, with no commercial use and no derivatives.

Hence I tried to aim for "I'm selecting the one of the most strict license for sharing my photos, as I do the same for my software, yet AI systems disregard my license every occasion and just rip what I put out without my consent or consideration of the license I use for these, hence I refuse to use, or support AI models which are fed like this".

Hope this helps.
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They acquired Activision for 69B recently.

While Activision makes much more money I imagine, acquiring a whole division of productive, _loyal_ staffers that work well together on something as important as AI is cheap for 13B.

Some background: https://sl.bing.net/dEMu3xBWZDE
Kyle Vogt has failed and Cruise is a catastrophe.

Fine, if you want to judge Vogt on a CEO-friendliness scale, how to scam a company into paying billions of dollars for a no return, or how to occasionally posts on Hacker News / Reddit like a "Real Human" TM then feel free to consider him/Cruise a huge success.

In the real world Cruise currently has 0 cars giving 0 people driverless rides. The game is over. The mask has been lifted. It's over. Cruise tried to expand too quickly without the technology, profitability or safety to match. And has now crashed and burned. Now, this may be controversial, but maybe the CEO of such a company bares some responsibility for that?

I know what the replies will be: shut up random poster! Vogt built a $1 Billion dollar company from his garage, that is success by anyone's standard. But by that same standard Theranos was a success, for a time... Now both are virtually worthless.

At some point we have to start judging the success of self-driving companies by their profitability not by their PR.
I got the impression that the most valuable models were not published. Would Microsoft have access to those too according to their contract?
Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign
In the end, Go is indeed effective at making engineers avoid arcane and difficult code, but doing the "difficult" stuff that's not available in Go is definitely not how the most productive engineers are productive.

IMO, someone making code that abuses special features to the point it is difficult for other members (including future members) of the team to read is the definition of a negative-X programmer. Unless they're working solo, of course.

Also, like wavesbelow mentioned in his great comment, the "10x" doesn't come from coding prowess alone: it starts long before that, with the process and planning.
I wonder if AGI took over the humans and guided their actions.
Maybe got played by the quora guy? Though at this point maybe none of them fired altman and it was the AGI in the basement
Just create an OpenAPI endpoint on azure. Pretty sure not run by OpenAI itself.
When you watch Survivor (yes, the tv show), sometimes a player does a bad play, gets publicly caught, and has to go on a "I'm sorry" tour the next days. Came to mind after reading this tweet.
He is not sorry for what he's done. He is sorry for getting caught.
> sell to Microsoft without the regulatory scrutiny

I keep hearing this, principally from Silicon Valley. It’s based on nothing. Of course this will receive both Congressional and regulatory scrutiny. (Microsoft is also likely to be sued by OpenAI’s corporate entity, on behalf of its outside investors, as are Altman and anyone who jumps ship.)
It's easier to get the support of 500 educated people at a moments notice by using sane words like 'may'. This is rational given the lack of public information as well as a board that seems to be having seizures. Using the word 'may' may seem empty-handed; but it ensures a longer list of names attached to the message -- allowing the board a better glimpse of how many dominoes are lined up to fall.

The board is being given a sanity-check; I would expect the signers intentionally left themselves a bit of room for escalation/negotiation.

How often do you win arguments by leading off with an immutable ultimatum?
I suspect they’ll quit, and the “top” N percent will be picked up by Microsoft with healthy comp packages. Microsoft will have effectively purchased the company for $10 billion. The net upside of this coup business may just flow to Microsoft shareholders.
Microsoft can easily afford to offer them $30M of options each if they continue to ship such important products. That's only $15B for 500 staff.

Microsoft has a $2.75T market value and over $140B of cash.
Personally, I call BS.

The report itself is fine, but the article is misleading, sort of implying that it's those billionaire's lifestyles that are ruining the climate for everyone else. But only in the end, it outlines, _how_ they do it, arguably with less attention than it deserves.

Having read the report, the overwhelming proportion of CO2 is generated with so-called "Polluting shares", basically, stock in polluting companies.

Guess what, that means we need to adress those companies' CO2 output, not private jets and yachts.
That makes solving said problem a whole lot more complicated than eating the rich, though.
> Convince me LLMs aren't just autocomplete with lookahead

Nope. You can have your uninformed opinion all to yourself. The less you use it, the more free resources the rest of us will have and you can focus on things that you believe more.
And to re-iterate my point from another thread on setenv, no, "just don't call setenv() after creating threads" is not a solution because even if the code you wrote may be single-threaded, your application as a whole is not composed entirely of code written by you: the moment you link against any 3rd-party library, you program can have arbitrarily many threads before it even reaches main().
It says more than that:

"The returned string pointer might be invalidated or the string content might be overwritten by a subsequent call to getenv()"

You don't even need threads for this to be unsafe; another call to the same function may invalidate earlier-gotten pointers. I don't see how to interpret this as anything but broken.
Clearly this started with the board asking ChatGPT what to do about Sam Altman.
If its a kid who already takes their toys apart, a kit might be good. something like this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/19520

Otherwise i'd suggest something more towards "programmable R/C", maybe a mini drone and find a software suite that can run it through programmed courses. No idea what that world is now, personally.
I don’t trust any of this. Every one of these wired articles has been totally wrong. Altman clearly has major media connections and also seems to have no problem telling total lies.
The screenwriters are overdoing it at this point.
But they referred to behaviour that was present pretty much from the start. It's just that Mozilla folks were extremely tolerant and assumed good faith for a very long time.

Google have been disgustingly anticompetitive for a very, very long time at this point.
It's quite a risky plan when 1) you don't really have any dollars right now, 2) your country has more people than California, its economy is very different from any American state, and after this move you'll be stuck with whatever the Fed does.
Strange.. A vote was taken, the result incurred public consternation, and now a board member is contrite. This seems like ineffectual leadership at best. Board members should stand by their votes and the process, otherwise leave the board.
> so if there's anything wearing out, it's usually that.

And yet, very nearly all of the USB-C connector breakage that I've experienced has been the socket-side, not on the cable.
Now all we need is reserve currency status.
Sam already signed up with Microsoft.
A move that surprised me, I figured he would just create OpenAI².

Joining a corporate behemoth like Microsoft and all the complications
it brings with it will mean a massive reduction in the freedom and
innovation that Sam is used to from OpenAI (prior to this mess).

Or is Microsoft saying:
Here is OpenAI², a Microsoft subsidiary created juste for you guys.
You can run it and do whatever you want.
No giant bureaucracy for you guys.

Btw: we run all of OpenAi²s compute,(?) so we know what you guys need
from us there.

we won it but you can run it and do whatever it is you
want to do and we dont bug you about it.
Surely OpenAI has assets that Microsoft wouldn't be able to touch.
As illustrated in Breaking Bad when they carry a barrel instead of rolling it.

Book smarts versus street smarts.