skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> instead being allowed to define “alignment” for themselves.

Yeah, that is the whole point - not wanting bad actors to be able to define "alignment" for themselves.

Not sure how that is unethical.
Actually, it's important to distinguish things that are not clinically similar. The physical principle being the same, in this case, has little to no bearing on the clinical context or consequence.
Yes coding is very hard. Glad to read this honest take on it!
Time to bring back spark plugs? You can probably use a smarter charging algorithm and use electric power to brake. (Or maybe combine with a super cap to reduce battery wear)
No, he's just publicly making it clear how much support he has internally. (And to be fair, I do believe that's how he feels, of course – he's probably appreciative of everyone backing him.)

If there was a deal, he wouldn't have tweeted it this way.
I’m sorry, how is OpenAI going to pay for itself then? On goodwill and hopes?

Please get real.
I tend to think: We, the armchair commentators, do not know what happened internally. I don't know enough to know that the board's execution wasn't the best case scenario to achieve their goal of aligning the entire organization with the non-profit's mission. All I feel comfortable saying with certainty is that: its messy. Anything like this would inevitably be messy.
Bring on the Canadian Khrushchyovka! Or is it Trudovka? Ebyovka?
You actually didn't

> Okay, I'll say it differently. Calibre's UI is bad
> It has a bad UI, irrespective of trends.
> Calibre has a hilariously bad UI, minus the hilarity
> clearly been a lot of effort that has gone into trying to make it do things that are bad

This is just you saying over and over that its bad.

> The animation effect that makes thumbnails "pop" is but one obvious example.

To be more precise by default in the pane wherein is displayed the details of the currently selected book when you change the selected book there is a fraction of a second it goes through an animated transition.

A bad UI is one in which common tasks are unpleasant, confusing, or hard to accomplish. Not liking an animation appears to be an aesthetic judgement as is the notion that its interface is "dated".

Can you explain what is actually bad about calibre precisely?
> Right now he has the high ground and the board is the one that looks petty and immature.

This is an interesting take. Didn't the board effectively claim that he was lying to or misleading them? If that's true, how does someone doing that and being called out on it given them the high ground? By many accounts that have come out, it seems Altman had several schemes in work going against the charter of the non-profit OpenAI.

> Whether that venture is in AI or not in AI will be very revealing about what he truly believes are the prospects for the space.

Why is he considered an oracle in this space?
That's how it works, as far as I understand: USB indicates the error, and the host driver can retry if it makes sense – and for storage devices, it definitely does.
This strikes me as narcissistic. Maybe the board wasn't wrong.
Well, I mostly agree although I think lethal force is often not in the 'within reason' clause of my stance. Depends on the circumstances but Americans love to jump to talking about lethal force way too fast and it's creepy. Not to mention that it results in, well, a lot of death.

But it is really more than just the hours it took, or sentimental value. It is also the coherence of the worldview that "one's stuff is theirs and they'll get to keep it and the world will agree". That worldview in its own has value: it causes things to make moral sense; it's necessary for our lives to function. I would not allow it to be compromised without a defense.
> Micro-USB is a variant of the USB-B connector.

In the same sense that A and B are variants of each other, sure.

Even though it's called micro-B, the design is closer to A, and micro supports both ends with basically the same plug. I would never refer to it as just "B". "B" means the square plug.
Just for the record, people put a lot of effort into making safe bullets and shotguns. Neither is going to go bang unless you make it go bang. Definitely not pointless.
Relics of primordial collision reside in Earth's deep interior
Post ur model or gtfo.
I assumed that the responses were something like "hey, not sure I'll need to get back to you" (and then he researches/investigates after re-prioritizing other work and gets back to him).
Because he gets to direct one of the most important chess pieces in the whole of Silicon Valley. That’s ample justification.
This is so ambiguous. It could mean he loves the team and comes back, or the team loves him so much they decided to join him in next venture.

Who knows. But definitely a power move to turn up the heat to get good wills from the crowd
This is a popular view, but, again, does not match my experience. I have only lead small teams (say 3 to 10 people) of either senior or very intelligent and motivated middles, but for those, limitations of Go are not a problem in any shape or form. Comparatively, we had significantly more mess (and debates) in Swift.
Exactly. The biggest question is why you would trust the single authority controlling the AI to be responsible. If there are enough random variables the good and the bad sort of cancel each other out to reach a happy neutral. But if an authority goes rogue what are you gonna do?

Making it open is the only way AI fulfills a power to the people goal. Without open source and locally trainable models AI is just more power to the big-tech industry's authorities.
The Verge seems squarely in Sam's camp. Bloomberg reports the board "balking" at stepping down.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/openai-bo...
What phone would you buy right now if needed one?
If they cannot fulfill their mission one way or another (because it isn't resolvable in the structure) than dissolution isn't a bad option, I'd say.
I mean, this is getting ridiculous now.

Really, sort yourselves out.

This veiled tweet stuff is just drama queens being dramatic for the sake of it at this point.

I care what happens to openAI … but at this point I give literally zero fucks what people are tweeting and what it may / may not / according some insider / outsider / person close to it who renames nameless might mean or not mean.

Sam tweeting “I <3 openAI” is not HN news worthy content.
USB does have a specified maximum bit error rate, and presumably the CRC length is tuned accordingly.

What it probably does not have is a detectable error counter that marks a link as broken (e.g. in case of a bad/damaged cable, plug or controller) before the chance of an undetected error becomes unacceptably large, although it seems like a host would be able to implement that as an optional feature?
> Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him.

OTOH, "sources close to Altman" saying that that is happening to the media just says that people close to Altman (quite likely acting as proxies for Altman) want it to be seen that way.

> Maybe a deal actually went through?

Or maybe he is expressing his positive feelings for the team in the hope of provoking some reciprocation from OpenAI workers to exert pressure on the board to make the thing his camp is saying is happening actually happen, or, if negotiations are actually happening, to make them more likely to be resolved in his favor.
I understand every concern about privacy but 50 years ago crime rate was a lot higher in almost every country. We as humans were more violent with lack of tech or no tech. This recent 50-30? years is the most peaceful time in history by far.Tech improves our lives, and somehow makes us busy and makes us wayy less violent. Privacy is the cost here? does it worth it? I really don't know
I’m guessing you googled the date or asked chatgpt for significant markers of the date, but I would choose to believe you just know this for some reason. The world needs whimsy.
How convenient! Turns out they don’t give the slightest damn about “Responsible AI” in the first place. It’s nice to roll out news like this while everyone else is distracted.
This is nifty! It might be interesting to interface it with Sponsorblock in the future.
What was it he did wrong during Covid?
Honest question I usually pay little attention
the guy

Being old and having lived through Evil Gates,
when he made a lot of hostile and legally dubois
things to ensure of the growth and safety from
competitors, I lived in a bubble that he was one
of the worst people in tech.

Seeing how now only knew the smiling "philanthropist"
who comments on having solutions to all sorts of world
problems it seems like a big bubble really do like him now.

I exaggerated by claiming "all", I could have said "many"
and it would be a more accurate statement.

To me he will remain evil Gates.
Deus Ex wouldn’t exist if Romero hadn’t created Ion Storm and given creative freedom to Warren Spector to make his dream game

Daikatana had some interesting design ideas but had problems with technology, esp. with AI programming. It was too ambitious for a new team which lacked someone like Carmack to do the heavy technical lifting

Quake 2 and 3 were reviewed less favourably than earlier titles, and they also sold less copies. They were good but not great - basically boring but very pretty to look at.
1 year ago people were complaining that OpenAI wasn’t acting enough like a non-profit.

Now when they adhere to their mission statement and valued they get totally overrun by silicon valley tech bros.

The money/profit leg of OpenAI seems to be in actual control.

Money talks.
Greg Brockman and Brad Lightcap (current COO) both immediately retweeted it with just a heart.

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1726100488947679304

https://twitter.com/bradlightcap
Asus and Sony are still holdouts in the premium price range, Motorola and OnePlus in the budget range, and also a number of Chinese manufacturers I think
I agree with your pragmatic approach. LLMs are a "high magnitude" advancement but we can't really correlate that with "severe destruction" in a physical way - maybe in a theoretical or abstract way.

Kind of reminds me of the whole "dihydrogen monoxide kills so many people per year" parody
If you look at the quote tweets on Sam's latest tweet[1] that contain just a single heart and no words, those are all OpenAI employees voting for Sam's return. It's quite a sight to see.

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726099792600903681
I think I took note of that exact passage:

> Some insult to do with the pea jacket (legend quotes it as “Won’t Mamma’s boy catch cold?”) caused Roosevelt to flare up. “Teddy knocked him down,” Hunt recalled admiringly, “and he got up and he hit him again, and when he got up he hit him again, and he said, ‘Now you go over there and wash yourself. There was a broken chair in the room, and I got a leg of it loose and put it down beside me where it was not visible, but where I might get at it in a hurry if necessary I then put the bill in my pocket and announced that I would report it anyhow. This almost precipitated a riot, especially when I explained … that I suspected that the men holding up all report of the bill were holding it up for purposes of blackmail. The riot did not come off; partly, I think, because the opportune production of the chair-leg had a sedative effect, and partly owing to wise counsels from one or two of my opponents.
Depending on how well you're grounded, you might just be the component that completes the circuit...

As far as I understand, not all US power outlets have a residual current device.
I hope IRS is watching this ;)
Why do you think appreciating the people who have worked with you for years (and currently are supporting you) is narcissistic?
My experience has shown that USB C connectors are far more fragile than A, and every time I plug one in, for some reason the fit just feels vague and unsatisfying. An A plug, when you get it the right way, slides in solidly. As others have mentioned, C seems to have been designed to be the smallest possible, which makes sense for mobile devices, but not for a desktop and its peripherals.
This is interesting, but if not done well it could have considerable safety and security implications:

1. If the databases are not kept up to date well, there would be a lag when highway authorities change the speed limit in an area, which could lead to traffic traveling at mixed speeds, which is a common cause of car crashes.

2. For an attacker this presents a juicy and new DoS vector: You could break into an automaker and set the speed limit to something low and hold the automaker's customers hostage. This vector already exists for automakers who do OTAs of their vehicles.

3. The above DoS vector could be more subtly used to target individual vehicles in furtherance of other crimes.

4. Theres also the unanswered question of road cars which are also used in various types of races. A friend of mine uses her primary car in rally races, would the restrictions be lifted on private property? Would the databases be updated properly when a public road is used as a race circuit?
Nonprofit boards literally don't answer to anyone. Company boards are responsible to shareholders, but nonprofits only have donors and that's not ownership. You can say you're not donating again, or all the employees can quit, but neither of those are legal issues for the board members. It just makes them look stupid.

Though, I'm not sure if you can legally force a donation refund, or what it counts as if you cancel a billion in Azure credits.
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I'm still confused with the term GP. Shouldn't it be OP?
> other developers are going to see how shitty of a developer I am and it'll jeopardize my reputation forever

When I first started pushing out shit code on GitHub, I did it under a pseudonym and never tied it to my real identity. I think that really helps when first getting started since you know it’ll never affect you personally. After getting the hang of it, then perhaps tie that to yourself.

But to be honest, I doubt anyone cares much about your/my code nor would they bother judging it.

Of course, I’ve only been programming for ~5 years so I might be missing stuff.
Wow I’m really glad to have helped! Yeah it’s a nice deck and only $3 on gumroad (or at least that was the price when I bought it)
Several low profile OAI employees retweeted with ♥ (same as gdb) indicating the returning is done and through from my interpretation.
I don't think it's about understanding. Lawyers are pretty smart. But there's no upside to you as a corporate lawyer if you advocate for taking risks. Even if you think you're on solid legal footing, you're going to miscalculate sooner or later, or run into a hostile regulator. And then, it's on you.

Conversely, there's no real downside to being too conservative, especially if engineers and leadership are entirely deferential to you because they don't understand your field (or are too afraid to speak up.)

Although this is also somewhat true for security, privacy, and safety organizations, their remit tends to include "enabling business." A safety team that defaults to "you shouldn't be doing this" is not going to have much sway. A legal department might.
Ah, I should have been more precise: The (technically out of spec) "half-A" plug used by e.g. Yubikeys and some low-profile USB drives seems near indestructible to me. Regular A plugs can definitely be crushed.
[dupe]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298578
I had this exact thing happen a few weeks ago in a company that I have invested in. That didn't quite pan out in the way the would-be coup party likely intended. To put it mildly.
That's certainly a purist way of looking at it, and I don't disagree that it's the most aligned with their charter. But it also seems practically ineffective, even - no, especially - when considered within the context of that charter. Because by shutting it down (or sabotaging it), they're not just making a decision about their own technology; they're also yielding control of it to groups that are not beholden to the same constraints.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19007221
Perhaps we need a better term for them then. Because they are immensely useful as is - just not as a, say, Wikipedia replacement.
Agreed. The board resigning after all this would seem pointless if not completely bewildering. Why would they do that after removing him? The board has no financial interest in the company, so what power does Altman have?

Also, I see this Tweet by Altman:

> if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares

What does that mean?
On the scale of a motherboard, those things are cheap and provide more value than half the marketing bullet points.
I've seen a few already, both in airports and elsewhere (e.g. in rental cars and I believe even in an airplane once).
What does sponsorblock provide that hitting the 'L' key a few times to skip ahead doesn't ?
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These types of teams never last long
coding is not hard. coming up with something worth coding is.
Note that reversible A plugs exist.

https://www.pcgamer.com/youre-telling-me-we-could-have-had-r...
It’s over. He’s back.
I don't see how that clearly indicates that.

It works just as well as a public expression of support if conflict hasn't been resolved,
What happens when the vehicle leaves the US?

What happens when GPS provides an erroneous location or cannot contact satellites?
And if Microsoft had major concerns about OpenAI's board and governance, it should have been voiced and addressed before they invested. Yet; here we are; slaves to our past decisions.
Both my wireless keyboard and mouse are USB-C. I use the C connection for charging them.
Americans' trust in scientists, positive views of science continue to decline
Maybe, when posted at this time, it might be?
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“hi if i start something new, will you join me?”

If enough yeses at openai, sama has plenty of leverage for coming back or starting up.
Given that their control over the technology at large is limited anyway, they are already (somewhat?) ineffective, I would think. Not sure what a really good and attainable position for them would like be in that respect.
I’m with you. This is starting to feel like that “Friendship ended with Mudasir” meme.

These are the people leading the AI revolution? The thing that could potentially upend our entire civilization? A bunch of ninnying brats kicking each other out of a club? Oy vey. We’re fucked.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/friendship-ended-with-mud...
The safety is for accidental usage. If the intent is to kill a safety isn't going to stop anything.

All the unsafe things I can do with AI I can do with Google. No safety on Google. why? Liability is less of an issue.
If that is in the snow, with 4 winter tires then yes, I tend to agree.
The USB-C plug would be both too tall and too wide for the hot/neutral part of the outlet, and too wide for the ground portion.

So, no?
There is this strange online phenomenon where people seek out content they dont like and then get bothered that it exists instead of just not paying attention.
You can do everything by the rules, and still do the wrong thing
On a former palm oil plantation, a community rebuilds
You understand the concept of true vs false.

LLM does not, that isn't how it works.

You can say the difference is academic but there is a difference.

What is the difference between a real good faker of intelligence and actual intelligence is an open question.

But I will say most AI experts agree that LLM are not artificial general intelligence. It isn't just a lack of training data, they just are not of the category that we mean by that.
Yeah, agreed. But that's also why I feel the whole moral sanctimony is a pointless pursuit in the first place. The tech is coming, from somewhere, whether you like it or not. Never in history has a technological revolution been stopped.
There is a newpipe fork with sponsorblock[1] which works quiet well

[1] https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...
I'm not exactly a VC investment recipient or anything, but it makes sense to me that investments (especially particularly massive ones like this) would be done in many installments... So nothing to see here?
Can't say the USB-C is all that much of a better plug. Reversible: certainly convenient, but the tiny little stubby easily breakable plug? Strong minus. I've snapped a million micro-USB connectors (may it die as many deaths in favour of either real USB-A or USB=C), more USB-C connectors than I wish I had, but I can't remember ever snapping a USB-A connector.
No nothing similar at all was said about that. Sam Altman is also not Elon Musk
All engineers know when you let the special white smoke out, that the unit will fail. /s
You gotta start telling people this up front! So it's not a surprise when it happens.
It's mildly distressing that only 5 AU is 42 light minutes

The speed of light is pokey, astronomically-speaking. It's like existence functions via telegraph in 2038, and everybody has to Google Morse tables
The sleeping is pretty clever, but presumably vulnerable to false positives if the queries are slow anyways. I wonder if they go the extra mile and time the load time with and without the attempted injection
That board is going to face a wrath of shit from Microsoft, Khosla, and other investors.

This isn't a university department. You fuck around with $100B+ dollars of other people's money, you're gonna be in for it.
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Non-profits still earn money recorded as net assets. They do not retain earnings at the end of the accounting period to store in shareholder’s equity because there are no shareholders that own the non-profit.
PGO is amazing. I understand how it works, yet I'm still amazed that we can squeeze out that much performance just by knowing what's most likely to happen at runtime.
What happens when overzealous bureaucrats want to extend this to other areas?

(Convicts must have cars monitored, You pay an extra carbon tax if the GPS tracker sees you drove over 40 miles in a single day, yada yada)
California recently passed a law banning employees from confronting shoplifters, exempting trained security guards. So now businesses have to comply with this nonsense or be prosecuted for stopping crimes. I don't believe the state has any interest in prosecutimg crime.

https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/governor-signs-senator-corte...
I have an xcover 6 pro that I adore!

Pros:

- incredibly durable; in the first week I had it, it slipped out of my pocket and was run over by a car, screen side down. No lasting damage aside from a few marks on tne glass

- headphone jack

- expandable storage

- removable battery

- dock-rechargable (which makes up for its lack of wireless charging)

- pretty clean android skin, cleaner even than my Pixel (which had a nonremovable google search box)

- has 3 programmable buttons, each with two options, so you can have hardware that launches your most used/time-sensitive apps. I have one mapped to Shazam, for example.

Cons:

- pretty big

- cant remove some samsung apps

- not a great camera or flashlight

Overall i would definitely buy another!
> In my experience programming is less having it all in your head and more where and how to look things up.

This! I was helping teach web dev to a first year student in uni: I realized that for some beginners, knowing what to search is just as important as being able to code.

Having been programming for 5 years (not much but I do dedicate pretty much all my time to it), I feel like the secret sauce is being able to type in the magic words and be able to get the result you’re looking for immediately as the top results. That and being able to read the source code of libraries & lower level code to understand behavior.