skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AGI is decades if not centuries away. Cranking a plausible sentence generator to be even more plausible will not get there. I do not understand how people suddenly completely lost their minds.
Emmett Shear on joining OpenAI as CEO
That’s my fear is that they will phase out Plus subscriptions and shut down APIs because the folks that will be left want nothing to do with product.
I think what the comment gets wrong is that even in the professor (PI) / grad student relationship, it's not defined as a purely managerial one. The one-on-one meetings between professor and graduate student are often about working out a new theory, even if the implementation and experimental work is left to the student. The amount of mind-share that goes on between is nontrivial, it is necessary for work that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge, and isn't at all like an executive asking for a report from an underling.
The new Open AI CEO Emmett Shear just released a long statement and he says one of his top 30-day plan is to `Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report`

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275

He adds even more drama lol
I think you sometimes need to be in the right frame of mind to tackle some books, especially the more "literary" or complicated novels. "Possession" was like that. It's one of the great books I've read and perhaps the first time I saw that some authors are on a higher literary level than almost all others. Byatt was like that. Beautiful book. I also enjoyed "Ragnarok" and "The Childrens Book" but "Possession" is one I will re-read at some point.
Also keep in mind govt are keeping an eye on this. If they are not careful they may get regulated like hell
A bit like that other Sam?
What you are missing is his record of success and making the people under him rich. That's the kind of person people to work for. They want to make money, not to work for someone who looks good on camera.
Can you share the tweet?
Perhaps. Could be tied up in court for 2-3 years before we find out.
Is he moving to Seattle?
> proud for Poland to be taking Ukranian war refugees, spot the difference

I have no dog in this fight, but integrating someone from a very similar culture is just so much more easier. Also, let’s not pretend that a huge percent of random people just joined the war refugees. I still think that taking in refugees was/is a good idea — but they should have done what Canada did, send a military plane directly to Syria, pack it full a few times, and that’t it. Every country should have done the same depending on their capabilities, put those people into some rural areas so they have to integrate with the locals (which also would have helped greatly as rural areas are dying out due to not enough children being born/younger people moving to bigger cities), and call it a day.
What makes you think you’re more competent than the type of people who were interested in joining OpenAI before?

What if the type of people who made the company successful are leaving and the type of people who have no track record become interested?
https://osm-boundaries.com/ might be an 'easy' way to get the boundaries already present in OpenStreetMap.
They don't, they know it very well. But people has being buying in this AGI bullshit (pardon the language) for a while, and they wanted a piece of the cake.
Satya probably offered the one resource they couldn’t buy at the scale/speed they need: OpenAI models & future work. Altman wouldn't have had (legal) access to these anywhere else, and Microsoft wouldn't have had Sam Altman controlling OpenAI tech in any other arrangement. This arrangement may be the best for all involved: Microsoft gets it's LLM geegaws based on OpenAI tech, Altman gets to build GPT marketplaces and engage whatever growth-hacking schemes he can dream of that may have been found distasteful by colleagues at OpenAI, and OpenAI can focus on the core mission and fulfilling contractual obligations to Microsoft

I foresee this new group building on top of (rather than completing with) OpenAI tech in the near-to-mid term, maybe competing in the long term of they manage to gather adequate talent, but it's going to be going against the cultural corporate headwinds.

I wonder if Microsoft will tolerate the hardware side-gig and if this internal-startup will succeed or if it will end up being a managed exit to paper over OpenAIs abrupt transition (by public company standards). I guess we'll know in a year if he'll transition to an advisory position
Love it. A small piece of feedback: On mobile, the page jumps after the electron cloud PNG loads. This causes the dreaded 'tapping something I didn't mean to tap' effect. Could you set the height of the space before the image loads to prevent the jumping, or something similar?
Guess who'll be running Microsoft after Satya, and what Microsoft's core offering / cash cow will be.
That’s definitely a possible outcome. I don’t think the universe enforces cosmic justice though, so it’s just as possible the west transitions into the post-state era with stronger institutions and more access to resources.
Maybe I'm missing something but although Atlantis seems great, you have to expose a webhook to the open internet that points to a service that has full admin access to your infra. If an attacker finds a security issue with Atlantis and decides to abuse it, you've basically given them admin access. For that exact reason Atlantis a prime target for vulnerability exploitation
Show HN: Internet.nl – test tool for modern internet standards
For the past months we've been working on making our open source tool Internet.nl easier to deploy and develop on. Last week we release version 1.8.0 (https://en.internet.nl/article/release-1.8/) which includes these changes.

Tests include: IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS/TLS, various security options like XSS, CSP headers, security.txt, RPKI, DMARC, DKIM, SPF, STARTTLS, DANE for web/email, and a browser connection test for IPv6 and DNSSEC. (see: https://en.internet.nl/faqs/)

Using Docker & Docker Compose it is now trivial to deploy your own instance of our test tool, including all dependencies required to run the tests, web frontend, metrics collection, integration test suite and more.

There are two deployment variants, one (the default) for single scan deployments with a web frontend (like on https://en.internet.nl) and one for batch scan where scan's can be submitted in batches via JSON API.

To try out the tool online visit: https://en.internet.nl/

To deploy your own instance follow this guide: https://github.com/internetstandards/Internet.nl/blob/main/d...

For development or other topics see:
https://github.com/internetstandards/Internet.nl/blob/main/d...
Does the “and then” protect you here?
That part was also clearly sarcastic...
The good thing about ints is that typically the stdlibs themselves deliver quite good tooling to work with Unix timestamps so in most cases you don't really use a library for the timestamps themselves.
That's definitely a shift from the "platform" thinking Microsoft had, thanks for the inside view.
I'm a Microsoft shareholder. So is basically everyone else who invests in broad index funds, even if indirectly, through a pension fund. That's "many" enough for me.
Imo sam altman and team believed more in the llm because it took the world by storm and they just couldn’t wait to milk it. Msft has also licensed these type of services from open ai on azure. The folks really motivated by values at open probably want to move on from the llm hype and continue their research and pushing the boundaries of AI further.
> PPS: Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.
As much as I dislike Microsoft: they played this exactly right. No boardseat: no culpability or conflict of interest, catch the falling pieces and reposition themselves stronger. What makes you say they didn't anticipate the problem? If they had anticipated it I don't see what else they could have done without making themselves part of the problem.
Probably the biggest story since the last one. And until the next one.
Yes, I did both (the lego mindstorm one and the cubotino).
Cubotino is an awesome project, it's perfect to introduce robotics to kids (assuming a good 3D printer is available)
As already pointed out I think the parent post was sarcastic.

But the tire dust problem isn’t inherent to EVs. There are EV fleet owners that report a very similar tire wear with their ICEVs and EVs. It depends on what model you have.

EVs can be the same weight as an ICE car if you don’t need long range. EVs can be gentler on the torque than ICE in eco mode. There’s no jerk in the torque from changing gears.

I think EVs are heavily biased towards heavy weight right now because car makers are pushing their expensive heavy SUVs that give them their highest margins first. And they’re slow to provide options for battery sizes, to streamline early production. Our family had a certain size and range requirements when getting a new car, because of kids and other things, and we ended up with a bigger car with a bigger battery than what we strictly needed because there was few to no options that perfectly matched what we needed.

For those of us that cares about the environment and reducing car dependence, you also gotta keep in mind that some of us are making an effort to drive less. I’m using an e-bike to work in the summer time. We got a bike trailer so we can take the kids on local trips with just bikes. Maybe our car gives off more tire dust than an ICE car per km driven, but then we don’t drive all that much anyway. (If we had a really good car sharing program in our neighbourhood maybe we wouldn’t even need a car)

Yeah, don’t think you save the planet because you drive an EV, you gotta push for other even more sustainable options too.
Show HN: Zap – Turn your smartphone into a motion controller for PC
Zap is an application programming library for building multi-device applications that enable communication with other devices. While mobile devices offer a wide range of data sources, such as motion sensors, biometric sensors, microphones, touchscreens and more, traditional PCs like laptops and desktops typically lack these resources.

The data sources available on mobile devices are valuable, but are often device-dependent, limiting their widespread use. Imagine if PCs could use the series of data from the accelerometer sensor on a mobile device. A simple example is using a smartphone as motion controller for PC.

To overcome the limitation that data sources are confined to a single mobile device, Zap provides its own network protocol and programming interface to access data sources on other devices.

The main goal of Zap is to support mobile-PC communication, but it also extends its capabilities to enable mobile-mobile and PC-PC communication. Furthermore, it's not limited to PCs; any devices capable of running Zap implementations(e.g., Kiosk device, Smart TV, etc.) can also participate in this communication.
I have never heard of epoch time "floating" any links?
Even if he had started a new company, there was no way a dozen employees were getting founder equity for showing loyalty
You saying "no one needs that" doesn't mean it doesn't do more than some arbitrary url parameter or path segment. It means you're choosing not to use it.
Formalizing the proof of PFR in Lean4 using Blueprint
Nobody calls "talent" these things. Talent always has to be some sort of magical ability that’s not visible from the outside.
> and talent of those two

You are aware that more than just 2 people departed?
Cars actually kill over a million of people per year. Not saying this is good, just that all technology has its tradeoffs.
Also Emmett Shear said on his statement

`Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.`

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275

Regardless it's a tragic for staff remaining in OpenAI...
He managed to make the whole open source world forget who enemy #1 is and got them to give him privileged access to all of their work product on his terms. That's no mean feat.
What are some examples of these crucial incidents?
The 90s were awesome: https://www.mixcloud.com/chromeclass/
Coming soon : Activision
Some shitty crypto bro got fired and it's the biggest weekend in tech ever? ffs...
How is Sam a serial startup founder?
Dive into a compelling case study of how we assisted a prominent legal service provider in the USA to transform their operations and achieve remarkable success.
That is still possible using the java.lang.ProcessBuilder API: you can launch a child process and give it a modified environment, but just at launch time. This side-steps the issue.
Pepe trading volume surged 88% in the past 24 hours.
9-day EMA below the trading price at $0.000001186; RSI at 56.
Pepe, the enigmatic memecoin, has surged by 7% in the past twenty-four hours, accompanied by a notable 88% spike in trading volume. The catalyst for this uptick appears to stem from significant developments within the community.

A recent tweet from the Pepe team announced a forthcoming transfer of 418 billion PEPE tokens, valued at $506K, from their wallet to Binance Earn. These tokens are earmarked for various upcoming campaigns, promising rewards for Binance users in the months ahead. It marked as an exciting step forward for the community.
At least it will be a broken paperclip maximizer.
It makes perfect sense for Satya, Sam, and Greg, but I doubt many of us thought deeply enough to have predicted it in advance.
Statement by Emmett Shear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345162
> They won’t be able to accomplish their mission without external funding, though (longterm anyway). Seemingly what they did significantly compromised their ability to obtain it in the future.

Their goals are mitigating what they see as an existential risk to human civilization, and also delivering social benefit from a properly aligned version of the same technology posing the risk.

From that perspective, actively compromising the first part of the mission in the short term potentially renders longer-term financial viability and the second part of the mission irrelevant concerns.
Reverse psychology? Look where you want to go and not at what you want to avoid? I think it is important where humanity collectively points its cognitive torch because that's where it is going to go.
For us maybe, but they have pulled off some high profile hires in the past… Brendan Burns (one of the main k8s guys) for example.
And the new CEO wants to slow down AI development and is a Yudkowsky fan which is another incentive to leave https://x.com/drtechlash/status/1726507930026139651?s=46&t=
Heat pumps will never be a viable replacement because they only work efficiently at low heating temperatures. The heat pump itself may cost you 5 to 10k but you may have to spend another 50-100k on insulation of walls, windows, roof, basement as well as floor heating (and thus completely new flooring) in every room to make it work. This is doubly true in the US where many buildings still have single-pane windows (though you have the advantage of not paying 40c/kWh like we peons in Germany).

And btw: heat pumps are loud, so good luck with that high density housing every climate advocate wants so much.
Shell scripts are not really prone to this problem because AFAIK no shells are multithreaded: subshells and the like are implemented with fork()
Is it a trend, already? I mean I can get behind ambition, but jesus, everything is new, people are cooking. Let's give it a few month.
I was often confused by the terms Atomic Design vs. Atomic CSS. I just realized they have nothing in common.
1. People concerned about them working for a profit-oriented business: there isn't a way to insist otherwise. Personally I'd rather it was Microsoft that Meta or Google or even Amazon.

2. I wonder what the AI teams at MSR think about this move? Looks like they'll be operating separately to the research division.

3. OAI could potentially make life difficult for Microsoft re the IP that those joining MS carry in their heads. I wonder if the future of OAI is just licencing their IP?
Still the aftermath leaves a bitter taste in my mouth about Sam and Greg joining MS. Regardless of whether the AI development in OpenAI was responsible, I think they succeeded in making a product and a culture I have not 'felt' since the early Google days.

Naively, I had really hoped for Sam and Greg to start their own and not join MS. I think a lot of the value was being coherent and to some extent independent.
I can't help to think that the same will happen to the 'new' OpenAI as what happend to DeepMind once they became Google DeepMind (again).
this is insane, I don't even know if adobe could replicate this easily with photoshop, too many missing features. Excited to see this going forward.
They assume they wont be around for when their legacy completely uproots society, be the king now, let everyone else deal with the consequences later. The hedge is to rebuild the world in their image from the New Zealand command center, should it all happen too soon.
What?

You think the guy is gonna be a regular c suite exec?

They are going to be a special group with special rules. This is so they can build off the existing code base. Only msft has that openai ip.

If they go to Google or start their own thing it's rewrite or work off someone else's painting. Not to mention building out compute infrastructure.

Big loss of time. Go to msft, get special status, maybe even an exit clause with IP included. Easy win. Was always gonna be msft if not openai negotiated return. I just didn't realize that till satya threw them the offer that worked.

These guys didn't sign up to be cogs. Satya respects them.
Sam helped bring a lot of talented people to OpenAI which is a huge accomplishment, even if we assume the worst and that he doesn’t do much day to day work with them.
Programs that need to set environment variables for child processes should use `execvpe` or `execle`.
Or programs that rely on libraries that for some unfathomable reason expose some functionality only via environment variables without an API.

looks at SDL
>We see from Tokyo that the current state of the west is neither permanent, nor inevitable. By simply legalizing housing and mixed-use (retail) development, we can have much better and cheaper urban areas. They also have a huge high speed rail network, which makes a huge amount of land available to commuters. Highways clog and get congested during rush hour, which reduces speeds drastically. Trains run the same speed all day, every day.

Slight nitpick from Tokyo: the commuter trains here aren't "high speed rail", they're just trains and subways, and are pretty slow since they usually stop at every stop. There is high-speed rail (called shinkansen), but it goes between cities, it's not something for commuting unless you're really rich; it's not cheap at all.

However, what you see here in Tokyo isn't really workable in America anytime soon. It's not just housing and mixed-use development: you need to get rid of cars too, or else you just won't have the density you need for all those trains/subways to work and be economical. To get density, you need to build everything very close together, and to do that you need to get rid of parking lots, as well as most automobile traffic. There's simply very little parking here, and what parking there is is usually expensive (and probably not all that convenient). So taxis are very common since they're usually faster than trains, and don't need to park and so can take you directly to your destination, but they're expensive too. Trains are cheap, but usually require some walking since lots of places aren't that close to train stations. A 15-minute walk to the station is pretty typical for many people's commute. Many people end up riding bikes to their nearest train station to save time; many stations have large bicycle parking garages for this (expect to pay 100Y/day for this).

The trains really do work like clockwork here, but it's really hard to imagine that ever being the reality in America, or most other places to be honest. It's not normal in Europe, even though there are lots of trains there.
Suppose I have a feed with a million items already on it which I've already handled. I'm about to poll the feed and there's a small number of new items on the feed I don't know about yet.

Am I going to have to download a file with references to all one million items again?

If the answer is to have a separate feed with only the most recent n items, I'm afraid that's not going to work unless there's additional details. There might have been n+1 items turn up since the last time I polled. Also, someone else might want to start handling those one million records from the start and we should be able to co-ordinate by having a common canonical URL.

(I'd also mention pull-vs-push, but that's a thread elsewhere in these comments.)
He was powerful enough to get put on the board of OpenAI. But I agree that he wants to be a "great" person, above Steve Jobs and Musk and the rest, and he sees AGI as the path to get there. He's not really altruistic, but he's also not purely money-oriented as the original comment seemed to suggest.
https://seppo.social/demo is a microblog server (I am building) combining ActivityPub and Atom.

I agree Atom is here to stay.
Changing any kind of global state is fundamentally not thread safe.

Sure you could use locks, stop the world, etc, but there is no way you can ensure that all the data and information you had derived from the old state is going to be valid.

A better solution is to not rely on global state like this.
Interesting details here. I too have always thought the trench run took place in the equatorial trench. I thought they were just going so fast it seemed narrower.
Maybe they want it that way and want to move on from all the LLM hype that was distracting them from their main charter of pushing the boundaries of AI research? If yes, then they succeeded handsomely
It's more than that, OpenAI had many people aligned with the decel agenda, MSFT managed to take the accel leadership and likely their supporters. Does anyone know any large AI competitors that don't have a big decel contingent? Also interesting that META took the opportunity to close one of their decel departments on Saturday.
What is the use case for a mutable environment past initialization?

It seems like a complicated and error prone thing to be using no matter if it is thread safe or not. You can set up your own environment before you launch threads, and you can launch child processes with a different environment from the current process without modifying your own. If you fork, you can modify the environment in the child without affecting the parent until you exec.

And even setenv() if it was reentrant and couldn't cause crashes, it wouldn't be thread safe, since threads share the environment and could get their environment changed under their feet.
HL1 is already quite performant though and does have native support for Linux and Mac on Steam without needing third-party engines.

Not disputing that engine replacements / source ports can be great (I work on one myself) but it's weird that there are three replies that sidestep the actual question: What does this particular engine replacement add over vanilla GoldSrc?