skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing no one’s talking about is how insanely great all of this has been for defense. For the better part of the year the US has been mulling over GPT-3.5 as a maybe/maybe not and only ever touching Azure endpoints.

Securing most of OpenAI’s talent and ramping that up internally means Microsoft, which is one of the biggest defense contractors and one of three with an IL6 rating is now free to ramp up AI for government with little left to encumber them. Also of note here is Palantir, a silent winner that has a strong partnership with Microsoft to use its secure endpoints to add to Palantir’s own AI suite, and will see a similar path of being able to utilize AI freely in foundry with less legislative scrutiny.

TLDR - will this cement Microsoft’s growing control of AI? Sure, but will be great for USG and the defense sector’s AI prospects.
You’re blaming the victim here.

Not being re-entrant makes the user-facing API unnecessarily complicated. It creates an avoidable foot gun. It trips people up for no good reason. And unlike stuff like signed integer overflow, there doesn’t even seem to be a (dubious) performance argument to justify this insanity.

The standard should be fixed and that’s the end of it.
The gating factor for Artemis 3 (not 2) appears to be the space suits, not Starship.
Wrong, export does not have to change the shell's environment at all. There are plenty of exec variants that accept a different environment pointer, same for posix_spawn.
You're most welcome. $2M in patent revenue, plus ~25 publications, is a solid foundation for an industry (non-academic) O-1 or EB-1A, which Peter specializes in. Proceed with confidence, and happy case-building!
It seems like the board wasn't comfortable with the direction of profit-OAI. They wanted a more safety focused R&D group. Unfortunately (?) that organization will likely be irrelevant going forward. All of the other stuff comes from speculation. It really could be that simple.

It's not clear if they thought they could have their cake--all the commercial investment, compute and money--while not pushing forward with commercial innovations. In any case, the previous narrative of "Ilya saw something and pulled the plug" seems to be completely wrong.
Totally not expert opinion on the Euro question: I had the same thought and as with USD there are countries that singlelateraly adopted the Euro. The Euro also seems similarly stable. The only differences I see are:

Pro-Euro: Euro already is controlled by a wider range of countries and there is some incentive to match monetary policy to accommodate those wider circumstances. So a policy is less likely to just support a single countries unique situation and conflict with Argentina's situation.

Pro-USD: USD is already more widespread in South America and actively being used in Argentina right now. This advantage is very practical and concrete right now and trump's all else
He is also a populist, who would not even allow a abortion, to a 10 year old rape victim. (that was a literal question and answer in an interview with him). Oh and he would allow the selling of children.

So I would question the consistency of his freedom ideology. If you use the state to enfore strict law on abortion, meaning deciding over other peoples bodies, how will you do so without a state? Or why do so, when you do not want a state at all?
You mean the GNU Linux Foundation?
When A.I. Comes for the Elites
Can this be possible per bylaws?

1. Board of 6 wants to vote out chairman. Chairman sits out. Needs a majority vote of 3/5. Ilya doesn't have to vote?

2. Remaining board of 5 wants to now get rid of CEO. Who has to sit the decision out. 3/4 can vote. Ilya doesn't have to vote?
> Who are the non-profit and for-profit sides?

The only part left of the non-profit was the board, all the employees and operations are in the for-profit entity. Since employees now demand the board should resign there will be nothing left of the non-profit after this. Puppets that are aligned with for-profit interests will be installed instead and the for-profit can act like a regular for-profit without being tied to the old ideals.
they make nothing open source, so I'm not sure why effective altruits would join it.

if they can't predict and contain the consequences of their own actions, how can they
predict and contain their so claimed future AGI.
Assuming this is all over safety vs non-safety is a large assumption. I'm wary of convenient narratives.

At most all we have is some rumours that some board members were unhappy with the pace of commercialization of ChatGPT. But even if they didn't make the ChatGPT store or do a bigo-friendly devday powerpoint, it's not like AI suddenly becomes 'safer' or AGI more controlled.

At best that's just an internal culture battle over product development and a clash of personalities. A lot of handwringing with little specifics.
I think the biggest problem is it should have never been called "unlimited PTO" from the get go since that is a massive misnomer. They should have called it something like "no preset PTO limit" or "use as you need" or something like that.
Have you tried faking your browser user agent to Google? I've seen it say "such and such doesn't work on any browser other than Google" and with one simple trick, managed to get things running on Firefox just fine. I wouldn't be surprised if any "degraded experience" is due to code that assumes Firefox is IE (like a very poorly written "else" code block) and just refuses to run optimal code that works fine on Firefox.

I'm not going to use Chrome outside of work (I hate to say it but their dev tools are just hard to walk away from - please Mozilla, invest in your dev tools more).
I don't know if this is what was meant, but my assumption is that it is quite brazen and crude.

But then I think of some alternative method where they send an ajax request to "sleep.google.com/?t=5" and get a response like "" after five seconds.
> Is it just some kind of accounting benefit to maintain the weird structure / partnership, versus doing everything themselves?

For starters it allows them to pretend that it's "underdog v. Google" and not "two tech giants at at each others' throats"
this definitions precision is not important in medical science. There are definitely lots of other times where precision is important.
I think the majority of talent will move to Microsoft and Microsoft will continue on its current strategy of stuffing better and better models into every product.

I think the Quora CEO will absorb the remainder of OpenAI and continue his own AI strategy around the Poe platform.

I doubt OpenAI will exist except for as a small AI safety research lab with low resources, no compute and a few AI Doomers.
Notes on the Mathematics of LLM Architectures
You missed the bypass filter. If you add that to your engine you can replace the yearly / 25000 oil change with oil analysis, if that comes out okay just change the filters (replacing only the oil in the filter), thus not doing a full oil change. . If you only use their oil then 25000 miles is 1000 miles short.

For most people oil analysis and their filters is more expensive than just changing the oil.
Isn't the issue underlying all of this, the following:

OpenAI -- and "the market" -- incorrectly feels like OpenAI has some huge insurmountable advantage in doing AI stuff; but at the end of the day pretty much all the models are or will be effectively open-source (or open-source-ish) meaning they don't necessarily have much advantage at all, and therefore all of this is just irrational exuberance playing out?
> First, we can make a thread-safe implementation, like Illumos/Solaris. This has some limitations: it leaks memory in setenv(), and is still unsafe if a program uses putenv() or the environ variable.

No, `putenv()` in Solaris/Illumos is thread-safe too. And the program should NOT write to `environ`, but as it happens Solaris/Illumos allows that too (but it can cause a lock to be taken in `getenv()`.
The Skype purchase was good for itself. It lead to Teams, which is dominating.
It's now been recommended too many times to me for me to not read it! I hear one needs their big kid math hat for this 9 on the Mohs hardness scale of hard sci-fi.
US Congress would never condone this, even if Argentina's did.
Classic “I’m not responsible”.
As a Googler, I find this hard to believe.

A more plausible explanation is that there's a very strong culture of using Chrome for work stuff at Google, and a general belief that automated tests can replace manual tests. These "oops"es are more likely the result of engineers doing most of their work in Chrome, and not noticing subtle changes in browsers they don't often use.
they make nothing open source, so I'm not sure why effective altruists would join it.

if they can't predict and contain the consequences of their own actions, how can they
predict and contain their so claimed future "AGI".
Altman is already gone, if they fired him without a good reason they are already toast
> Now the cat is out of the bag, and people no longer believe that a non-profit who can act at will is a trusted vehicle for the future.

And maybe it’s not. The big mistake people make is hearing non-profit and think it means there’s a greater amount of morality. It’s the same mistake as assuming everyone who is religious is therefore more moral (worth pointing out that religions are nonprofits as well).

Most hospitals are nonprofits, yet they still make substantial profits and overcharge customers. People are still people, and still have motives; they don't suddenly become more moral when they join a non-prof board. In many ways, removing a motive that has the most direct connection to quantifiable results (profit) can actually make things worse. Anyone who has seen how nonprofits work know how dysfunctional they can be.
True, but for every envvar a program reads, something called setenv on it originally. It’s not like no programs call setenv in the middle of runtime. Examples:

- Shells

- CI runner

- Container launchers

- IDEs
You come at the king, you best not miss. If you do, make sure to apologize on Twitter while you can.
eating your own dog food with BoardGPT, what could go wrong ?
Mozilla did more harm than google, like killing Servo and embedding Pocket, and let's not forget how they siphoned the money they made with their Google contract, they chose to fund their other questionable endeavors instead

When you choose to sell your user base to google, you are part of the problem
I don't think Microsoft is a loser and likely neither is Altman. I view this a final (and perhaps disparate) attempt from a sidelined chief scientist, Ilya, to prevent Microsoft from taking over the most prominent AI. The disagreement is whether OpenAI should belong to Microsoft or "humanity". I imagine this has been building up over months and as it often is, researchers and developers are often overlooked in strategic decisions leaving them with little choice but to escalate dramatically. Selling OpenAI to Microsoft and over-commercialising was against the statues.

In this case recognizing the need for a new board, that adheres to the founding principles, makes sense.
A warning worth taking to heart!

Even apart from Clojure and so-called "DDD," there was a kind-of-recent push toward making your application logic as "declarative" as possible. Following that strategy would enable some compelling benefits, mostly related to scaling, but also enabling "self-service" for savvy application users.
Yep, they started bullying me with Windows11. Forced/Autoopen Edge filled to the brim with ads. Forced OneDrive/hijacking local file system.

There were some other annoyances, like pretending Documents was C:/user/Docs, but really was ONEDRIVE/Documents. Then Some F up happens for some reason, you save, and now you have 2 different documents folder...

Join me with Linux's Fedora Cinnamon, its sooo fast and feature rich compared to Windows. I'm free from M$ thumb. No dual boot, cut the cord and find new programs.
Not a typical labor dispute. The billionaires at the other company guaranteed them jobs. More billionaires moving people around like chess pieces.
This Altman guy has a good reality distortion field, don't you think?
Seeing that a company is in trouble is not really the highest bar for a CEO candidate...
Not really for this one incident, but you don't really want to set a precedent if anything bigger ever happens. A spacefaring nation doesn't want to establish the idea it could owe financial liability for it to someone else.
I really hope there's a lawsuit against each and every member of that board. This whole thing is insane.
I am new to Clojure and I am struggling to understand what the point made of the author is.

I understood the Data Orientation of Clojure as building mostly map-shaped, atom-wrapped representation of application state, and then functions and procedures that operate and transact on that state.

The ref to the data being the "backbone" of the application (so data oriented). Is this incorrect?

It seems to me like he's actually criticising the "data programmable engine" (I just finished Joy of Clojure where they describe it) where you feed data to a function to change it's behaviour (as opposed to example passing in a function?)

I am genuinely asking.
Maybe not intentional.

Virtually everybody is using an engine based on Webkit or Blink these days. This is naturally what websites are optimized for.
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Even ignoring the fact that Krita is a digital painting piece of software, not general image editing

The fact that you think there's only one open source image editor out there is fascinating.
It's interesting for sure, but won't it mostly just be used for administrative tasks, like writing emails and summarizing documents? I can't think of anything directly relevant to warfare that LLM's would be well-suited for (spreading misinformation, maybe...)
Rubbish. Back when user agents were used you could change the agent and get access to Google things that were faster in Firefox.

It’s silly to assume they didn’t do it on purpose.
# sudo renice +19 openai_process

There's your "credit".
And for so-called tech influencers to rapidly blanket the field of discourse with their theories so they can say their theory was right later on, or making “emergency podcasts/blog posts/etc.” to get more attention and followers. It’s so exhausting.
Previous discussion from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669586

(I'm kind of surprised it's just the one previous submission.)
OpenAI's chaos does not add up
The value of OpenAI's own assets in the for-profit subsidiary, may drop in value due to recent events.

Microsoft is a substantial shareholder (49%) in that for-profit subsidiary, so the value of Microsoft's asset has presumably reduced due to OpenAI's board decisions.

OpenAI's board decisions which resulted in these events appear to have been improperly conducted: Two of the board's members weren't aware of its deliberations, or the outcome until the last minute, notably the chair of the board. A board's decisions have legal weight because they are collective. It's allowed to patch them up after if the board agrees, for people to take breaks, etc. But if some directors intentionally excluded other directors from such a major decision (and formal deliberations), affecting the value and future of the company, that leaves the board's decision open to legal challenges.

Hypothetically Microsoft could sue and offer to settle. Then OpenAI might not have enough funds if it would lose, so might have sell shares in the for-profit subsidiary, or transfer them. Microsoft only needs about 2% more to become majority shareholder of the for-profit subsidiary, which runs ChatGPT sevices.
Lithium (an active substance) is a drug, Priadel (a brand version of lithium carbonate) is a medicine.

Drug and medicine is specifically distinguished in medical science. But again, in many contexts this distinction doesn't matter and most people don't even know the difference. It doesn't mean that we have no idea what is a drug or what is a medicine.
> just madness

In a sense, sure, but I think mostly not: The motives are still not quite clear but Ilya wanting to remove Altman from the board but not at any price – and the price is right now approach the destruction of OpenAI – are completely sane. Being able to react to new information is a good sign, even if that means complete reversal of previous action.

Unfortunately, we often interpret it as weakness. I have no clue who Ilya is, really, but I think this reversal is a sign of tremendous strength, considering how incredibly silly it makes you look in the publics eye.
A possibly good example to look at is Indian in 2016. In 2016, India abolished bank notes of certain denominations that formed the majority of value of bank notes in circulation.

Note, India has its own currency and was able to print alternative notes. However, because the government, against all the advice from its economists decided to do this in secret, it did not have enough of the new notes to replace the old notes for at least a few months after making this decision.

This simple act, which only involved replacing old notes with new ones, in a currency that the Indian government controlled, led conservatively to tens of thousands of deaths, arrested economic growth in a fast growing country immediately, destroyed hundreds of thousands of businesses, and set the economy back conservatively by 5-10 years, although the significantly reduced growth in the subsequent years since (at least until the pandemic...it's likely the pandemic where India enforced amongst the strictest lockdowns in the world would have reset the economies in both cases) probably has a continued compounding effect on economic growth.

Of course, a large part of the damage to India was a result of the massive size of the informal sector relative to most other countries in the world and Argentine may not be anything like that, but I think it's a very relative comparison as to how easily such a transition can go bad if not handled extremely carefully.
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This is pure speculation but I've said in another comment that Anthropic shouldn't be feeling safe. They could face similar challenges coming from Amazon.
I've worked with this type multiple times. Mathematical geniuses with very little grasp of reality, easily manipulated into doing all sorts of dumb mistakes. I don't know if that's the case, but it certainly smells like it.
Houston, too. Some of the historic neighborhoods (e.g. Woodland Heights, lower Heights for the most part) are resisting the 3 story box house paradigm and still have a bunch of amazing Craftsman bungalows.
> First, we can make a thread-safe implementation, like Illumos/Solaris. This has some limitations: it leaks memory in setenv(), and is still unsafe if a program uses putenv() or the environ variable.

No, `putenv()` in Solaris/Illumos is thread-safe too. And the program should NOT write to `environ`, but as it happens Solaris/Illumos allows that too (but it can cause a lock to be taken in `getenv()`.

> Add a function to copy one single environment variable to a user-specified buffer, similar to getenv_s().

Because Windows has one? Fine, but adding a version that allocates the copy would be more convenient.

BTW, HN is having problems that are leading to dup comments. I get "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!", but the action happens anyways.
If I was one of the 700 people that worked at the vanguard what could potentially be the most profitable, culture-changing technology in the past 50 years, I wouldn't want to miss out on becoming a billionaire by working for a non-profit. My conspiracy for the day: an unspoken profit motive. And it seems to be playing out, Sam just went to MS, and if those 500 also go there, then I think that's the motivation.
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In OpenAI, la recente serie di eventi ha gettato l'azienda nell'occhio del ciclone. Dopo il licenziamento di Sam Altman, seguito dalle voci sulla sua possibile riassunzione e la sorprendente notizia del suo ingresso in Microsoft, la situazione è diventata ancor più tumultuosa.

La storia ha avuto inizio con l'inaspettato licenziamento di Altman dal suo ruolo di CEO da parte del consiglio di amministrazione di OpenAI. Voci insistenti indicavano trattative in corso per il suo ritorno, affermando che un gruppo di dipendenti minacciava di dimettersi a meno che Altman non venisse reintegrato insieme all'ex presidente di ChatGPT, Greg Brockman.

Tuttavia, la situazione ha preso una svolta imprevista quando Microsoft ha annunciato l'assunzione di Altman, oltre ad altri ex membri di OpenAI, per guidare un nuovo e avanzato team di intelligenza artificiale all'interno dell'azienda di Redmond.

Questa notizia ha scatenato una reazione da parte del CEO attuale di OpenAI, Emmett Sheer, il quale ha criticato aspramente la decisione di licenziare Altman, ammettendo che è stata una mossa sbagliata. Sheer ha dichiarato pubblicamente il suo dispiacere per quanto accaduto, sottolineando l'importanza di Altman e dei suoi contributi all'azienda.

La situazione si è ulteriormente intensificata con la diffusione di una lettera firmata da un vasto numero di dipendenti di OpenAI, chiedendo le dimissioni del consiglio e il ritorno di Altman come CEO. Questa missiva sottolineava l'insoddisfazione dei dipendenti nei confronti della gestione del consiglio, affermando che la sua condotta aveva compromesso la stabilità e la missione stessa di OpenAI.

La vicenda è culminata con la dichiarazione del capo scienziato di OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, che ha ammesso il suo rimpianto per aver votato a favore del licenziamento di Altman, affermando di non aver mai voluto danneggiare l'azienda e promettendo di lavorare per riconciliare il team.

In questo scenario turbolento, il nuovo CEO, Emmett Sheer, ha annunciato piani per una revisione interna dell'azienda, inclusa un'indagine indipendente e potenziali cambiamenti nella leadership e nella governance, nell'ottica di recuperare la fiducia e la stabilità all'interno di OpenAI.
> Many people will choose the dollar.

Do you know any argentines who wouldn't choose the dollar as the currency of choice?
> And we’re about to see a massive amount of growth from a lot of countries in the next century

Probably a lot of such previously projected growth will be stunted by said resource shortages. We're going to see many "peak X" events in relatively short time.

There can still be growth. But one way or the other, it will have to be growth within roughly-constant or declining resource limits. Lower carbon intensity per unit economic output, more recycling as source of raw materials, more 'green' / bio-based products, etc.
By someone on the board, with the approval and participation of the rest of the board. So, the board did it to themselves.

Or do you think MS fabricated evidence to falsely convince the board Sam Altman was lying to them?
Everyone got what they wanted. Microsoft has the talent they've wanted. And Ilya and his board now get a company that can only move slowly and incredibly cautiously, which is exactly what they wanted.

I'm not joking.
Yeah. The money is there to ensure that there's an independent browser option to point at, if there's ever any question about lack of competition. But the products are all designed to behave worse on Firefox, to help keep usage in the single digit %s.

Reminds me of Microsoft saving Apple back in the day. It's cheaper to prop up your competitors to avoid becoming a monopoly, than it is to become a monopoly and get broken up. Of course ideally, you don't want to support your competitor to the point of them actually becoming competitive, just enough to have deniability.