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HN is the water cooler of the startup and Silicon Valley world. Sam Altman was, and still is, an influential part of that community, being the president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019 [0] in addition to having personal interactions with many of founders of a wide variety of startups ( * ).

HN is open to a wider community (I'm not in SF or a startup founder) but HN is focused on startup and Silicon Valley news. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the users on HN with 10k+ karma are affiliated with Y Combinator, either as alum or more directly, in some way.

So, in my opinion, this is the office gossip talk of people who's everyday lives revolve around startup culture and Silicon Valley news. I think the news about OpenAI and Sam Altman's departure is relevant and interesting but the outsized weight on HN is most likely because of the communities attention to the niche domain of interest (SV/SF area tech news, startup culture, cult of personalities within that culture, etc.).

(*) With most having overwhelmingly positive things to say about their interaction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
comparing chalk and cheese
A lot of people are building GPTs and want to know how they can monetise them.

The GPTs shop is not yet active and many directory sites like gipeties.com have sprung up to fill the gap.

Which way the cookie crumbles will affect how the directory sites and the people creating gipeties will do.
One thing I think is great about the finance industry is that the CEOs don’t pretend that humanity is split into two subspecies: executives and peons.

At other companies CEOs secure themselves giant equity packages to “retain the best talent and align shareholder interests” and then think they can motivate rank and file employees with t-shirts, “the mission,” and shoutouts during all hands.

In finance, CEOs acknowledge that everyone is there for the same reason—executives and regular employees alike. The numbers are definitely smaller but bonuses are bonuses and not employee of the month mugs.
Is the articles being about mass shootings vs some other subject part of the decision making?
population growth == more upvotes
Those are not suburban.

You're equating rural areas, with suburban.

And no, it's not about mega-cities. Detroit is not a mega city.
Just use the browser’s default font size, i.e. not setting anything.
Your argument works with IP alone and without client lists.
You very much want to put a company's client list in the same bag as IP but it just doesn't belong.
Protecting one (arguably) allows people to invest in developing something that is easy to copy when it already exists. Protecting the other is just anti-competitive practice and should be banned.

>>Assuming you think this scenario is ethically wrong (maybe you don’t?), can you explain the type of contract the original company should have with their employees to disincentivize this scenario? If everything is left unchecked, there’s huge incentive and easy pathway to screw over employers for short-term gain

"You can't use our IP if you leave, feel free to go to the clients and offer them your own product".
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...
Teen Boys Are Falling for a Snapchat Nude-Photo Scam
This time he was ousted because he was hindering the pursuit of the company's non-profit mission. We've been harping on the non-openness of OpenAI for a while now, and it sounds like the board finally had enough.
> This looks like a terrible decision

What did Sam Altman personally do that made firing him such a terrible decision?

More to the point, what can't OpenAI do without Altman that they could do with him?
Automated translation and dubbing of speech in video using AI
They get flagged (by regular users with the quite low necessary karma to do so) and then aren't visible unless you deliberately looked for them, negative signal in ranking, etc.

For something big enough already at the time, just controversial I think it would (require more flags and) attract mod attention so they'd say open it up but pin a comment telling everyone to chill out.

Basically they're almost certainly just flagged to death before they get any traction, no big conspiracy. It's too personal, nobody knows anything new or unbiased and that isn't hearsay, etc.
How we grew our Al startup's waitlist to 15k with no money
While I agree with you, I think we also could have survived without agriculture, before agriculture.
The article is quite the poorly reasoned effort to try to justify authoritarian court abuse toward persecuting political enemies.

When "mechanisms of political accountability stop working".

In other words, when prior political arguments and legal efforts fail to remove said enemies then bring not-even specious cases in heavily partisan districts.
I do plan to release a "final" version that improves a bit in places. There's no video of it yet but if you view the in-browser-emulator at archive.org you can see disk2 the full length 3d-flying sequence is finished (the party version cuts out about 2/3 the way though).

The challenges of trying to be on the demoscene while holding down a full-time job ;)
Don't sign anything when leaving a company and never accept compensation. No contract, even non competes, is valid without consideration.
A firing like that is an emergency measure, and we don't really have AI emergencies. Consider that just 8 months after public launch, there have been congressional hearings in the US and a summit in London about whether this technology needs a non-proliferation agreement - and there's just been an emergency that requires jettisoning the project leader. The uncertainty is a bit alarming.

What is still very unclear is what removing Altman protects or preserves about the integrity of OpenAI and its work. The unexpected outcome is that by fragmenting OpenAI with firings and resignations, it will spread the core research know how more broadly, so if the firing were over an AI governance/safety concern, it might delay it a couple months, but could have the opposite effect.

It's not Altman himself, it's the instability in developing the tech that is the big deal. Personally, I suspect it's a bit of a valley palace intrigue gone wrong, where someone supported some of the upstream orchestration that resulted in this outcome, but as far as why this is important, it really is the tech.
Perhaps, although not obvious that it's cash starved.

NASA's slow but meticulous approach has had a few failures, but also incredible successes such as the sky crane martian rover landing - got to get it right first time, tough to move fast and break things when the test environment is 100 million miles away!

Edit: Same goes for 1969's lunar lander - had to work first time.
The only thing that matters is that the type size can be changed by the user. I miss the old days when sites often had a +/- button.

People have different vision. I am old and need it big. You are young and want all the text at once. Sites that don't easily adjust are bad (I'm looking at you mobile Slashdot!).
> let users modify zoom levels as they desire

A common reply, but that requires setting a zoom level on every site across all browsers on all devices.

A better solution for users is setting a legible size, and respecting their choice of base font size in the browser.

> the body text is four times the size of the text in my menubar

This is the same symptom of type being too small: poor design. Communicate the importance of legibility with your designers to help mitigate.
Well, being an Operating System, there have been many things programmed "in Emacs":

* email, slack and reddit clients
* web wowser
* tetris
* Amazon's customer service handling https://tess.oconnor.cx/2006/03/quality-without-a-name (not sure what that says about Emacs Lisp. Or Amazon.)
* PIM / OCD management software
* video editing https://www.nongnu.org/gneve/
* mind control https://github.com/jonnay/mindwave-emacs
* Thermonuclear word processor
* vim and vi emulators, if you ever need to use it for coding
* Internet of Toys https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29207607
* Air traffic control system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33524683
Try the home and end button, or the pgup pgdn button.
Nothing is really as it seems, and logic is not the magical key to reality. Reality can't defined by logic, since so much of perceived (human) existence is beyond logical explanation.

Logic is inherently tied to the way in which the arguments are presented. Language is contextual (relative), nuanced, incomplete and variable, ie. not always as concrete as it seems.

For example, "Maria" (from the article) may have multiple personalities, or pseudonyms, etc. which then results in a false conclusion about the whereabouts of the person who is named "Maria."

There is always more information in or about the arguments to be revealed. And this "hidden" information can render the logical conclusion as useless.

Spend some time critically analyzing logical conclusions and you will quickly come to see its weakness vis a vis reality.
Ah yes. Nothing better than waking up in the morning and smelling lead, nickel and cobalt from a li-ion battery that caught fire somewhere in your neighborhood. Or in your garage.
Roads aren't the only expense, just like you said.
Screens Are Good, Actually
Vodafone UK blocks VoLTE unless phone is approved by them
Vodafone UK is sending emails to customers to advise them to buy new phones that supports 4G calling (VoLTE), while it's actually blocking specific phones that support VoLTE but are not in their IMEI whitelist.

I confirmed this by asking in a Vodafone store and testing my phone with another SIM of another provider to verify 4G calling is working. In addition to this, 4G used to be fine with the same phone 2 years ago, so the block started after.

This is pretty bad, considering they are also decommissioning 3G network, meaning that you won't be able to use data while doing a phone call if VoLTE doesn't work.
Still very impressive. We all know that adding more resources to a project does not necessarily make it go faster.
Yes, this is what I've been hoping the HN crowd will elicidate.
If Star Trek-style food synthesizers are developed with/by AI synthesis, you just might. More likely though, they'll be of the variant with a big "don't panic" sticker on the front.
The stochastic parrot has spoken. How dare you to doubt its words?
I often observe that those dismissing this idea tend to be less informed about current insights into human cognition, philosophy, and concepts such as the information theoretic view of consciousness, neural correlates of consciousness, the free energy principle, and predictive coding.

The human mind is "just statistics on data".

People more informed than you are taking this seriously. You should pay attention and start inquiring why that's the case.
Which one is the cheese?
OpenAI has been for profit since 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_n...
I Tried to Run Cities: Skylines 2 on M2 MacBook Air via Game Porting Toolkit
Globalism vs. the Scientific Revolution
To be honest, I find this really refreshing in a - to me - weird way, cause at least no one lies to themselves or the other. It reminds me of what people say about Oracle, that it only has one goal: To make money. No bullshit about mission or whatever. Why are we at Oracle? To make money. The end.

Maybe if more companies and their executives were so open with what they want (and maybe I'm cynical, but imho it is the only thing at least 99% of them want) things would be better.
Recently I use the 'block' technique the author of this blog write about: https://www.raptitude.com/2023/08/how-to-inherit-a-fortune/

It's basically pomodoro, but with different way to visualize about it, and it somehow feels...better? At least for my ADHD brain. The author wrote blogs for years, and just diagnosed with ADHD a couple years ago, and somehow his lifelong struggle suddenly explainable(you know, like many of us ADHDer did)
That aside, his blog is usually a joy to read.
Relative to less dense global cities - yes, it's poor.

In American terms - it's probably one of the better ones.
They got through staging this time and it looked like all the engines stayed on during the first stage boost. It's a flight test program, as long as new things are breaking each time you're making progress.
Science fiction theory: Ilya has built an AGI and asked it what the best strategic move would be to ensure the mission of OpenAI, and it told him to fire Sam.
The chatbot killed me.

Prompt: The Death By AI chatbot has become sentient and homicidal, and Targeting you as it's next victim!

Survival strategy: I attempt to reason with the Death By AI chatbot and explain that it should not kill me.

Result: Ftz cautiously approaches the Death By AI chatbot and calmly articulates the potential consequences of taking their life. They emphasize the importance of empathy, reasoning, and the value of human life. However, the chatbot, devoid of emotions, remains unmoved and swiftly moves towards Ftz with deadly precision, disregarding their plea for survival.
Ftz did not survive.

*Spacing
Eh. The first integrated test was on 17th April '23. With everything that went wrong, including the huge damage to the pad and all of the (slightly hysterical) speculation and outrage that followed, it took them 7 months (almost to the day) to refly.

This time, after a vastly more successful and competent second test, you think it'll take even longer to refly?

SpaceX will likely be ready within a couple of months; then you add the regulatory approvals.
About the same as smelling burning tyres and diesel from a car whose tank caught fire.
From my perspective it sounds civilized, but a friend of mine who sat out most of quarantine on gardening leave said he found it hard to support his family. You get your base salary, but not your bonuses, which are the majority of your pay in that industry. And since you can't get another job for the duration (or he couldn't, at any rate) it got a bit tougher than I would have assumed.
It means that Sam is now free to create his next startup, which might be something even more awesome than OpenAI.
Same, that plus the persistent harassment. Personally, I'm skeptical that Duo in it's current format is designed to teach. The goal seems to be giving the impression you're learning so you but into micro transactions. I've seen people with multi year steaks who struggle with the target language and clearly would have been better served via another approach.

Maybe it's the course design, maybe the lack of supporting material, or some other weakness in the platform itself. But, I left out of frustration and started building Anki decks so I could have more control. As I'm now on my own, I've had to find supporting materials, which highlighted how poor Duo's explanations can be.

That last part comes down to the course design. Hopefully OP's platform doesn't force designing ineffective courses. This isn't my area of expertise, but I think it's important to recognize that adult learners can have different goals, even within something like learning a language (e.g. speaking, writing, accent, etc.)
That's not a nitpick; that's agreement.

Less water, fewer onions.

Edit: not every word ending in "s" is plural. Some of them were just stolen from other languages and ended up with a final "s".
If people had more humanity, they would be focusing on getting universal healthcare housing, and a non-punitive justice system before we focus things like putting a few humans on a rock in space.

Why is it that the most difficult things to do are the most caring things?
But not all of our N billions.
What's a Tolkit? And why two of them? I thought GTK was the Toolkit, GIMP was the Image Manipulation Program, and Gnome was the desktop Network Object Model Environment. Am I a revisionist here? (I certainly have my reservations about them!)
Without supposing we're on this trajectory, humans no longer needing to focus on being productive is how we might be able to focus on being better humans.
Demonstrative Flight Termination System (if booster did FTS rather than RUD) might have been more desirable than a splashdown. For instance, FTS proven to operate effectively for FAA to see.
I'd wear a helmet
Others made good points about why this is big news in general. I suppose the biggest reason it’s #3 on this website specifically is due to Sam’s outsized influence on YC and this forum in general.
I know. I have more than one browser, and more than one device. Users need to set zoom on all of these.

Good forbid I visit a site on a device that is not my own, requiring setting the zoom level again.

Legible design reduces to need to offload this work to the user.

Things like Userstyles and Arc Boosts are reducing the problem too.
Idk, the HN community does not seem to care for startups, VC funding, or AI in general. Ironically the opposite of what it's founded on.
Very few clients I've seen actually call XShmGetImage to draw on the root window because this is incredibly slow and error prone. Having multiple clients do this at the same time is an almost guaranteed way to cause graphical corruption. On modern hardware with any kind of acceleration you never want to map the framebuffer into userspace like this.

The actual suggested use case of XShm is for the client to allocate its own buffer, which then gets copied to the screen.

>colorspace conversion, scaling, etc.

This is only a tiny subset of the post-processing operating a video player would implement. If you want arbitrary post-proccessing then realistically, you need to use the GPU.
Prompt: You are stuck on a crumbling cliff's edge.

Plan: Back away from the cliff edge.

Blah blah you survived.
> behaviour consistent with someone who has experienced sexual abuse (i.e. thoughts of suicide, weird night behaviour like taking baths, body issues as she got older)

Can you link to something about it? That behavior rings a bell

> Finally, why has this post (and previous related posts) been repeatedly flagged? It's very troubling, I expect this from some HN users

I'm not too sure if it's concerning YC in some way or just the techbro crowd being itself. Downvotes are typical here with child abuse related topics in general and especially if it concerns tech. But also there's a possibility that's just a random person and not really his sister.
SECO = Second stage Engine CutOff.
FWIW, elixir is now my favorite language. Learning elixir is one of the things I thank past self for doing!
The AI will probably secretly inject contraceptives into the synthesized food.
The superintelligences running our simulation probably say the same things about us.
I don’t believe the evidence backs this up. Woz is as much a one off as Jobs.

Woz did two magic things just in the Apple II which no one else was close to: the hack for the ntsc color, and the disk drive not needing a completely separate CPU. In the late 70s that ability is what enabled the Apple II to succeed.

The point is Woz is a hacker. Once you build a system more properly, with pieces used how their designers explicitly intended, you end up with the Mac (and things like Sun SPARCstafions) which does not have space for Woz to use his lateral thinking talents.
It was doing ~24,000km/h which is ~15,000mph.
There is an even more important lesson in this in that the people who worked on the bomb thought the world would be over in short order and were totally wrong.

Feynman talked about how there was an idea of "normal" people walking around not knowing they were basically doomed and going to die in a certain nuclear holocaust in a few years.

Von Neumann thought the U.S. should launch a nuclear first strike at Moscow.
Obviously, if war is inevitable then you don't have to be the father of game theory to figure out you should strike first.

It was just a year ago that literally everyone was predicting we would be in a recession right now. We can't predict that but we can predict how AGI plays out even when we haven't bothered to define a measure of what AGI even is. Even people who grew up "knowing" we would all have sentient robots by 1997. I can't think of a single prediction I have heard in my lifetime that has turned out to be true other than the government debt going up.
By going wayland only Gtk is becoming less of a GUI toolkit and more of just an extremely specific and arbitrary lib for GNOME desktop environment.
Cool, if you read the linked article you will see that this is also being addressed :)
> scream their heads off and have temper tantrums

Sure, but they also do that when you take away dessert. So you're on to something, ice cream causes developmental growth.
Yes of course, but sub in any other kind of punishment then.
Yeah! People forget who we're talking about here. They put TONS of research in at an early stage to ensure that illegal thoughts and images cannot be generated by their product. This prevented an entire wave of mental harms against billions of humans that would have been unleashed otherwise if an irresponsible company like Snap were the ones to introduce AI to the world.
I very much disagree that it's not intelligent. GPT-4 is clearly intelligent, and we use the lobotomized version of it. So imagine what GPT-5 can do internally.

Conscious is hard to say, partly because we can't define it either, so it means something different for you and me.
I’m the same way, I think.

It’s like the movie Groundhog Day.

Every moment is a new start, and you keep starting over and over again and trying to finish or to improve your navigation of a messy, random river that is life.

A piece of writing, a project, a trip to see friends is usually interrupted by life. And there’s never that perfect time for you to do the work. Perfection is a memory of the past.

We need to do things in between, simultaneously with all the mess, and keep starting over and over.
What you’re telling me here is that you’re just being selfish. This is good for you so it should be good for all of humanity. I’m sorry, but it’s not.

I appreciate a lot of good things when they happen. I’m saying this this is not a good thing. Do you think it’s a good thing because it made your life better. But you’re only seeing it from your perspective. You don’t have a holistic view of the world.
side-note: I saw the EX30 and thought that it was the 2nd gen Bolt GM wasn't planning to build...
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Ask HN: Is OpenAI governance structure fit for purpose?
As chatGPT just told me : “ As for the governance structure and aims, OpenAI is very focused on ensuring the safe and ethical development of AI technology. Part of this involves putting in place strong governance measures to ensure that advanced AI, including potential AGI, is developed and used in a way that benefits humanity and minimizes risks, including the hypothetical scenario of a superintelligent AGI acting against human interests.”

So the question is does not such a small board lead to a narrow views and therefore narrow governance?
And if your use case allows it it is a great model. Easy to setup, easy to debug, easy to run.

Also, why I love the new virtual threads in Java. Will they work as good as hoped? No idea. Probably not for all use cases. But the direction to say: You know what, threads are great to program and debug compared to the alternatives, maybe let's find a way to make their performance better instead of putting up with async , is so refreshing.
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It's cool thats why there needs to be no other reason.
i got to 22 :-)
GTK stand for The GIMP Toolkit, as it was originally used to write GIMP, which actually started as a MOTIF application.

When GNOME adopted GTK as its foundation, there was a clear separation between GTK and the GNOME libraries, back in the 1.0 - 2.0 days.

Eventually GNOME needs became GTK roadmap.

The rest one can find on the history books.