skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it doesn't have to be as good as GPT4. I've gotten a ton of use/power out of a local llama model. Even GPT3 was "good enough" for a lot of tasks. I mostly use ChatGPT because its the most convenient.

OpenAI has pretty much the "best" model and first mover advantage. They can lose the latter, and might struggle to keep the former.
Please expand on that. Details would be helpful.
Someone referring you (with a positive hire recommendation) from inside the company is always a good thing. Someone referring you for the referral 'bonus' is not worth as much because what makes the first one good is that the person referring can explain why you would be a good fit.

That said, reputations are a thing too. All through my career I've had a mix of people who thought I was great to people who thought I was terrible. It is often a function of how and when you interacted with them, at one place I worked I discovered that a person I had worked with before was had been actively "anti-recruiting" in that they didn't want me to come work there[1]. I was fortunate in that the hiring manager took the time to get a number of opinions and look past the drama and into what really was going on, but it certainly delayed things significantly and would have resulted in a decline had they not been willing to do that digging. This only gets worse the more senior you become because you have more opportunities to be perceived as having limited someone else's career/choices/etc.

So 'referrals' in all forms are a net positive, some can be more positive than others.

That said, one of the more interesting hires I did was a guy who offered to come work for me for free for two weeks on the promise that at the end of the two weeks we'd either hire him or not. Was a bit challenging to get that through HR/Legal (but we did) and he turned out to be great. But it wasn't obvious from his CV that he was as capable as he was and he did not have anyone locally that could be a reference.

[1] I did reconcile what had happened with this person but they were completely accurate when they described me as an "asshole". I really was annoying early in my career, but that didn't become clear to me until later.
The whole coup was very unprofessional. How can i trust such a leadership? It’s not clear if the path taken by sam will be discontinued regarding the GPT platform
The above short clip is from the following series:

"On Mathematical Maturity (1) Thomas Garrity":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHU1xH6Ogs4

"On Mathematical Maturity (2) Thomas Garrity":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HFyWC-YtIk

https://math.williams.edu/thomas-garrity/
yep, same here. It doesn't take away from the other games, chrono trigger is absolutely an amazing game, then and now.

But FFVI was special.
Thank you, that was impressive!
Could you elaborate on what you mean by that/why you think so?
A lot of engineers are interested in working on important things, not growing at all cost in hope of a large exit.
When the APA released their guidance on the use of social media by adolescents[0] earlier this year, they cited a study[1] that described the impacts of instructive[2] (a.k.a. active) versus restrictive[3] parental mediation in preventing cyber-bullying. This study found that the use of active mediation was associated with a decrease in victimisation, whereas restrictive parental mediation was not only unhelpful, it actually increased the risk of victimisation. In the discussion section, the authors reference several other studies that also suggest restrictive parental mediation is worse than doing nothing when it comes to stopping online victimisation.

The APA appear to go out of their way in the guidance to explain that what they mean by “adult monitoring” is open coaching and discussion, not spying and blocking, but this sort of distinction seems to be missed or deliberately ignored in many discussions about online safety.

As such, the source of the problem here doesn’t appear to be that the tools are inadequate at their jobs, but rather that they’re all fundamentally the wrong tools. In this case, no amount of engineering can solve it. Given this, perhaps the question should not be “What parental controls?”, but rather, “Should these kinds of restrictive parental controls even exist?”

[0] https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/health-advi...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104026

[2] Definition from the study: “Instructive mediation […] explicitly involves children in the process of online monitoring. For instance, a parent adopting an instructive approach might appraise their children of the potential harms of certain online material, the appropriateness of sharing personal information online, and the latent danger of interacting with strangers on social media platforms.”

[3] Also from the study: “Restrictive mediation does not directly include children in the intervention process. Rather, it involves the curtailing of cyber-routines through blocking software or parental monitoring of children's online habits and associations. Shielding children from the dangers of the Internet is given primacy over educating them about such hazards[.]”
The last chart suggests a linear growth in EV adoption even after 3-year-usage cost parity with ICE in 2025-2027 (2nd chart). This seems overly conservative. People care a lot about ongoing costs for gas and maintenance and will flip to EV as the default choice very soon after that. (This is particularly true in markets where long-distance car trips are less common.)

I predict more of an S-curve growth in EV sales. Probably >65% of new car sales by 2030, far more than the 47% in the ‘hyper adoption’ scenario in the article.
Greg Brockman sharing the timeline on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594?s=46&t=Nn...
Man, these tech layoffs are getting out of hand
Instead of writing an essay, just say concisely what you have in mind here
I read it as Ilya Sutskever thinking the move is good non-profit governance grounds and that does not match what coup often means, unlawful seizure of power or maybe unprincipled/unreasonable seizure of power.

Ilya Sutskever seems to think this is a reasonable principled move to seize power that is in line with the non-profits goals and governance, but does not seem to care too much if you call it a coup.
You ever checked out Uncyclopedia? Nothing on that site is not like, hysterically funny and random. I'm glad Wikipedia has been such as inspiration to us all XD

Edit: check out https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Krispy_Kreme XD
> The connection is perhaps not so surprising considering that we experience pain – whether it’s the physical pain of stubbing our toe or the social pain of getting bulldozed in a political argument – in a similar part of the brain. We can also experience pain vicariously by witnessing other people’s distress or perceiving a social injustice.

My first thought when reading the headline was Stockholm Syndrome, the "fawn response", and the differential between male and female strength (literally just read a reddit post on this topic right before).

So the question is whether this sympathy is genuine sympathy for the other (over sympathy for the others on your side), a fawn response designed to avoid pain to oneself by allying with the other, or remotely possible some more complex response of agreeing with the other in order to eventually convince them to moderate?
Yeah I read that and it really came off like a salty engineer who was tired of being pushed by the exec team to crank out more business value. Sounds like this person’s position is that OpenAI should have been a cozy little research lab where the scientists got to play with their cool toys, not ruthlessly execute on a product vision. Billion dollar business are built out of ego. If you want to work in a lab that can’t ship, head over to Deep Mind (that’s a joke, even Deep Mind needs to ship now).
I have 15 years of experience working on boring tech stacks, no social media presence at all, and I’m doing okay.

I’d suggest hitting up some tech recruiters and downgrading your past job titles. As far as your job search is concerned, you weren’t a “lead architect” using “state-of-the-art tech”, you were a Staff DevOps Engineer with experience in <insert AWS buzzwords here>. Etc etc.
It sounds like she had a lot of experience with finite state machines and then using expert systems to tie neural network/fuzzy logic systems together. All those companies were really relevant to the robotics/sensor fusion/IoT crowd which oversaw the prelude to this AI renaissance.
I just said a random date, let's say 2010 then.
Seriously that charging spot is ridiculous!
We're at 5% adoption, that's already a lot of customers to lose for a low margin business.

And sadly, as older cars majority areas will reflect economic status and local crime, service deserts are more likely to develop.

I drive a 20 year old ice.
“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have carefully crafted contractual agreements in place and a huge and very experienced legal department ready at a moment's notice to enforce them.”

Ultimately, that amounts to the same thing you said anyway.
This comment is tone-deaf to the unique (and effective? TBD) arrangement of the board OpenAI 501(c)3 without compensation and the company they regulate. Your comment strikes me as not appreciating the unusually civic-minded arrangement, at least superficially, that is enabling the current power play. Maybe read the boards letter more carefully and provide your reaction. You castigate them as “non-techies” - meaning… what?
Maybe.

But Altman has a great track record as CEO.

Hard to imagine he suddenly became a bad CEO. Possible. But unlikely.
Am I misunderstanding his answer, or does he not essentially say it should be "descriptive"? In which case, I misunderstood what your comment is implying.
Nice :-D

Do you happen to know what happened to this thread?

(I recall reading a previous post of yours about tracking HN positions?)

I also asked as a top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304938
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism#Public_opini...
Do those nuclear costs include all real decommission costs (check the difference between budgeted and real costs thanks to the UK running case), real complete and sure waste disposal costs, provisions/insurance for accidents... ?
I’ve been wanting to write a Mastodon/Twitter twine compiler that would take an existing Twine story and compile it to a list of posts.

https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#twitter-adventure-maker

The primary difficulty is in flattening the state, which twine supports (apple=true, key=false in this story) but if it’s not too many variables might work out.
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Typically they try to work out something behind the scenes before making a public announcement. And usually major stakeholders like Microsoft are brought into the decision-making process.

The announcement affected Microsoft's stock price today.
I got my son a phone with an actual phone plan so blocking things at the router is sadly no longer an option.

iPhone parental controls are not sufficient. He's figured out he can just message himself videos so he can watch them when all other app access is disabled and the messages app can't be blocked.

There are so many obvious ways in which it could be improved and made easier for parents to control.
1) What

But seriously, what does this mean?
Dear god, how is that an advantage? Are we all here just rooting for techno-dictator supremacy?
What does it mean? Is he talking about starting a competitor?

I expected a better message from him tonight.
Freedom 0 is the most important one, otherwise the program is just old fashioned freeware/shareware. And yes, that means granting that freedom to AWS as well.

The purpose of the GPL and other copyleft FOSS licenses wasn't to make people “play nice”. That's nonsense. The purpose of copyleft licenses is to prevent the software from becoming proprietary.

The real issue at play is that FOSS doesn't make a good business model. But it's surely nice marketing. So companies like MongoDB first achieve popularity by advertising the project as FOSS, then change to proprietary, pulling a bait and switch. And it's all possible due to requiring copyright assignments from all contributors.

The article, like all others before it, mentions MariaDB. MariaDB is always mentioned. But MariaDB is still GPL, as the copyright of MySQL is still Oracle's. If MariaDB wouldn't be GPL, nobody would know about it. The fact that MariaDB, the company, is creating other software packages under BSL is of no consequence, as those packages did not exist before. Out of the pack, MariaDB is doing it right (probably due to them being forced to).

But I hope MongoDB and Elasticsearch slide into irrelevance for fooling people.

And before you claim that “BSL code will turn to FOSS in a couple of years”, consider this … it's the freedom to fork that keeps FOSS honest and thriving. Forking is about being able to take control. Forking can happen for many reasons, like disagreement with the project's direction. You can't really fork BSL/SSPL source code, and source code that's a couple of years old is already too old for many purposes, making competition with the main project difficult. BSL/SSPL strikes at the heart of what makes FOSS what it is. E.g., MariaDB couldn't have happened if MySQL wasn't developed under a FOSS license.

BSL and SSPL are just old-fashioned proprietary, “shared source” licenses.

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If you're building a company, only pick FOSS licenses if you can find a sustainable business model. Don't pick FOSS just for the market appeal. And don't lie to people that your product is Open Source when it isn't.

Proprietary licensing is most often better for growing a business. You can open source your complements [1] or pick an “open core” strategy, later. There are good examples of the “open core” in the wild, like Jetbrains.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Seriously...not saying Google had anything to do with this, but if they ever did it'd be the highest ROI ever
It happened to me recently on a list where I post under my real name, and yes, it's irritating, especially if it is someone you never met, and they are disagreeing with you.
Apple’s App Store rules prevents MDM for parental control apps.
They said it in the statement, they quoted to chapter of the company that they should focus on AI for the betterment of humanity.

I can't say if this will work, but I think the message is pretty clear. No more random product launches like the GPT store, but rather focus on the core: building the AI, testing it and launching when it's safe.

To be honest, I've also found them getting too diluted in offerings. Why not let other startups focus on those things? Let Openai focus on the core models and give tools to others to build/finetune things. They can be the infrastructure of the AI world, they don't need to create every product.

Again, we will only know in the future if this is the right decision. But there is a strong case to be made here, especially with the company's original mission and non-profit status.
Typically I would agree, but in the case of OpenAI, they were themselves blindsided when their free conversational LLM demo, ChatGPT, went viral less than a year ago now.

It is a rare counter case, where a tech-focused research demo, without any clear "product-market fit, suppliers, or customers" became a success almost overnight, to the surprise of it's own creators.

The early days were people playing around with ChatGPT just to see what it could do. All the market fit, fine tuning, and negotiation of deals came later.

Of course, OpenAI capitalized on that initial success very skillfully, but Ilya was the critical world renowned AI researcher who had a lot to do with enabling OpenAI's initial success.
That's what I'm saying. Outward appearances are that there's a directive from higher up to soften the blow when they kill things. They seem to be deliberately breaking their tendency for the "usual nothing" (which is absolutely a fair characterization pre-Stadia).
Amazon using AI to remove fake reviews, >200M suspects blocked in 2022
Phone/platform arguments are the worst, I do my best to avoid or extinguish them in whatever politik means is available. People can be such egotistical jerks about this foolishness.
I had a boss that did that.

"case doesn't actually matter, i'm not gonna waste my time hitting shift"
EV battery recycling is WIP right now. At the moment it's still cheaper to dig up new lithium and cobalt, but I guess a lot of that is there just aren't enough old batteries available to recycle to cover demand right now.

There are companies that take old EV batteries and break then down. The steel and plastic is recycled. The valuable metals end up in one big lump right now, but as I understand they are storing them for future use as that part is still being commercially developed and they expect it to be valuable.

If we take a look at lead acid batteries, the majority of the lead that is used in the manufacturing of new batteries comes from old batteries that are recycled.
I'm virtually 100% sure he did it after just looking into it today so I can see exactly what you're saying about people backflipping out of cars and stuff to get away from it.
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Not at all, got my current job that I love via a referral from a friend from my previous job who moved to this company. They were inundated with applicants and the referral absolutely helped me stand out and ultimately get an offer.
good problem to tackle and I'm sure companies are willing to pay for something remotely close to "good enough".
There were rumours apparently, but they were suppressed intentionally and very effectively it appears.
https://nitter.net/sama/status/1725748751367852439#m
Or there was a disagreement about whether the dishonesty was over the line? Dishonesty happens all the time and people have different perspectives on what constitutes being dishonest and on whether a specific action was dishonest or not. The existence of a disagreement does not mean that it has nothing to do with dishonesty.
Using that stat is interesting; how many gas stations will close in 4 years, 30% of addressable market is a dark outlook for investors, 50% cut in 6 years will reshape many localities.
He has no shares (or has at least publicly claimed not to).
Truth is subjective and if there is anything that could suggest other motive, as I said earlier, it would be open to interpretation by a jury.

Really they should have just said something to the effect of, "The board has voted to end Sam Altman's tenure as CEO at OpenAI. We wish him the best in his future endeavors."
I got so sick of people uploading screenshots of the in-app log console that I spent significant effort to make that control not render during a screenshot.

Taking and cropping a screenshot takes more time than just uploading the plaintext log file conveniently and lovingly placed right next to the executable. Please, just upload the file. Please.

The project was a Big Deal in the circles I was in. Hundreds of thousands of people knew of it, we had hundreds to thousands of active users each with dozens of clients. It was so stressful and I caught so much abuse that I exited software altogether. We did get some money, but my cut worked out to $60 a month.

I still write and publish code, but I don't work on anything that anyone wants to use. I don't get involved in communities and I don't interact with users.

And you know what? I am much happier now.
VR is not mixed reality and their metaverse stuff is a massive failure in usage and in tech
Or Germans protect their biggest export.
That worked out well for you, but there are kids who discover horrible or inappropriate content.

It’s not natural for a 9 year old to see that and can be harmful.
I think he means "if I start going off" in the slang sense like "if I start angrily venting in a tell-all about all the ways they are stupid and wrong". But who knows really.
Can someone translate this to explicit terms? My layman (non-MBA) brain thinks this is a blackmail threat, which seems like a very unexpected place to take all this
Happy. I never heard him say anything even remotely interesting about ai. He seemed a glib opportunist just not dumb enough to know how to sell a product he didn’t understand who eventually would have alienated or pushed out all the smart people who made the company’s and his success.
I heard he has no shares. If correct this is a message to the board they have limited leverage over Sam.
Ah, I edited my comment right as you were writing yours.

> Serious revenue streams like having Google for a patron yes? I feel like the context is important here because […]

For that specific example, Mozilla did also go with Yahoo for as-good revenue for a couple of years IIRC, and they are also able to (at least try to) branch out with their VPN, Pocket, etc. The Google situation is more a product of simply existing as an Internet-dependent company in the modern age, combined with some bad business decisions by the Mozilla Corpo, that would have been the case regardless of their ownership structure.

> Which is great and possible in theory, but […] is ultimately only sustainable because of a patron who doesn't share in exemplifying that same idealism.

The for-profit-owned-by-nonprofit model works, but as with most things it tends to work better if you're in a market that isn't dominated by a small handful of monopolies which actively punish prosocial behaviour:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_IKEA_Foundation

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/

> people are trying to defend OpenAI's structure as somehow well considered and definitely not naively idealistic.

Ultimately I'm not sure what the point you're trying to argue is.

The structure's obviously not perfect, but the most probable alternatives are to either (1) have a single for-profit that just straight-up doesn't care about anything other than greed, or (2) have a single non-profit that has to rely entirely on donations without any serious commercial power, both of which would obviously be worse scenarios.

They're still beholden to market forces like everybody else, but a couple hundred million dollars in charity every year, plus a couple billion-dollar companies that at least try to do the right thing within the limits of their power, is obviously still better than not.
He’s talking about complaining about the board and other individuals involved.
> Of course, OpenAI capitalized on that initial success very skillfully

That’s the key point there. Without leadership talent to capitalize on success, technical advances are for naught.

But also, GPT had been around for some years before ChatGPT. The model used in ChatGPT was an improvement in many ways and I don’t mean to diminish Ilya’s contribution to that, but it is the packaging of the LLM into a product that made ChatGPT a success. I see more of Sam’s fingerprints on that than Ilya’s.
Or they would get more money from other donors to build open source models.
Idealism isn't exact. It could be idealism under the framework of

closed commercial models => money => growth => faster to AGI in the right hands (theirs)

If they believe they are the best to control AGI
So they didn't even give Altman a chance to defend himself for supposedly lying (inconsistent candour as they put it.) Wow.