skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If talent starts leaving OpenAI and join Sam at Microsoft, what does OpenAI have left?

This is a real possibility and something I'm sure Ilya and the board thought through. Here's my guess:

- There's been a culture rift within OpenAI as it scaled up its hiring. The people who have joined may not have all been mission driven and shared the same values. They may have been there because of the valuation and attention the company was receiving. These people will leave and join Altman or another company. This is seen as a net good by the board.

- There's always been a sect of researchers who were suspicious of OpenAI because of its odd governance structure and commercialization. These people now have clear evidence that the company stands for what it states and are MORE likely to join. This is what the board wants.

> If investors decide not to give money to OpenAI because their leadership comes across as over their heads, how will they continue running?

I don't think this is an actual problem. Anthropic can secure funding just fine. Emmet is an ex-Amazon / AWS executive. There's possibility that AWS will be the partner providing computing in exchange for OpenAI's models being exclusively offered as part of Amazon Bedrock, for example, if this issue with Microsoft festers. I know Microsoft sees this as a clear warning: We can go to AWS if you push us too hard here.

I don't see how the partnership with MSFT isn't dissolved in some way in the coming week as Altman and co. openly try to poach OpenAI talent. And again, maybe dissolving the MSFT ties was something the board wanted. It's hard to imagine they didn't think it was a possibility given the way they handled announcing this on Friday, and it's hard to imagine it wasn't intentional.
The numbers are reported by the Russian government. It is plausible that the true numbers are worse, but unlikely that the Russian government would want to intentionally project economic and demographic weakness.

As for sanctions, they were instituted in response to Russian aggression. If Russia had left its neighbours in peace, Western countries and especially Germany would have happily continued liberalising trade.
> Once again, the OP asked why setenv is even needed, which implies they likely don’t have much experience with spawning processes in low level languages

I am the OP and your assumption is incorrect. You may consider why the post ends with:

(NB: starting a new process is not "at runtime")
In the examples, the colour scale improves nothing. The advice is still good in general. A single variable representation can be improved by using a colour scale compared to just gray levels in a lot of cases. And in these cases, using a bidirectional scale for unidirectional data is bad, and vice versa.
> What exactly do you think is stopping such contributions?

2/5 foundation board members are from New Vector. At least another 2/5 foundation board members have strong personal ties with New Vector. 7/8 spec team members are from New Vector.
In other words: Nothing at the Matrix Foundation happens without consent from New Vector. If New Vector does not like a competitor, they can block them from participating in the standard (making new features of them standards non-compliant) and then block them from using the Matrix brand or claiming to be Matrix compatible. As a company, you'd be stupid to build your business around being a competitor to New Vector if they can easily throw you out.

That was the whole purpose of the foundation: to manage the spec and the brand independent of New Vector, so that others can contribute.

> I'm not following. How does the foundation having money reduce this risk?

It's much easier to do anything with money. If new structures need to be created in the foundation after a collapse of New Vector, it is way easier to do so if you have money.

> It would change things if they were bringing in millions, but when the community patreon is not even bringing in enough to hire a full time minimum wage employee in California, much less a developer, accountant, or lawyer, documenting the expenditure of a few pennies is pretty low on my priority list.

As I wrote in the linked thread, their total assets exceeded a million dollars end of 2021. That should be enough for a full-time hire with competitive compensation for a few years, especially if that hire is not in California (why the hack hire in California when you don't need to?). Also, even small amounts of money can be very attractive to open source contributors, they're already doing it without any compensation, but just giving them a thousand bucks a month will make them more likely to continue contributing in their spare time. You don't need it to be a full time hire to be effective.
That, and all that can be traced back to Facebook, Instagram and social media’s impact on society.
Not just the shallow dopamine issue, but also bigger problems such as facilitating genocide.
I was a skeptic for a long time, but the more we see what Meta stands for, the more I believe Mark Zuckerberg’s companies have had anything but a massively negative impact on the world.
Content makers already do multi uploads on various platforms
We do, but it takes a long time, and by the time we get to enforce the thing, the party is half-over. How many years was Microsoft playing around with IE as default browser? And they are still playing dirty games with Edge. It's not that they don't learn. It's that they will play the game until someone stops them, and then they will begin playing a different game.

Some people downvote (it's not about the points) but I merely state the reality and not my opinions.

I've made my living as a sys-admin early in my career using MS products, so thank you MS for putting food on my table. But this doesn't negate the dirty games/dark patterns/etc.
> it seems to me that a straw is topologically equivalent to a torus, so it has 1 hole, right?

For a mathematician, yes. For everyone else, it obviously has two, because when you plug one end, only then it has one.
>I have a strong suspicion that the reason Amazon, Google and so on are not particularly interested in building GPT-scale transformers is that they know they can do it anytime - they are just waiting for others to pave the path to actually good stuff.

Google has been hyping gemini since the spring (and not delivering it)

Amazon's Titan Model is not quite there yet.
There is probably a lawsuit here, I would not disagree, but I don't think the board will have too much trouble arguing that they didn't intentionally send the equity to zero. I certainly haven't seen any of them state that that was their intention here. But the counter argument that theyshould have known that their actions would result in that outcome may be a strong one.

But I think it is probably sufficient to point to the language in the contracts granting illiquid equity instruments that explicitly say that the grantee should not have any expectation of a return.

But I think this is an actual problem with the legal structure of how our industry is financed! But it's not clear to me what a good solution would even be. Without the ability to compensate people with lottery tickets, it would just be even more irrational for anyone to work anywhere besides the big public companies with liquid stock. And that would be a real shame.
>I don’t quite buy your Cyberpunk utopia where the Megacorp finally rids us of those pesky ethics qualms

It's ironic because the only AI that doesn't have "pesky ethics qualms" are... literally the entire open source scene, all of the models on hugging face, etc...

All of the megacorps are the only safety and security happening in AI. I can easily run open source models locally and create all manner of political propaganda, I could create p^rnography of celebrities and politicians, or deeply racist or bigoted materials. The open source scene makes this trivial these days.

So to describe it as "Cyberpunk utopia where the Megacorp finally rids us of those pesky ethics qualms" when the open source scene has already done that today is just wild to me.

We have AI without ethics today, and every not-for-profit researcher, open source model and hacker with a cool script are behind it. If OpenAI goes back to being Open, they'll help supercharge the no-ethics AI reality of running models without corporate safety and ethics.
VHS tapes seemed to be even worse at this. We had several dozen incidents of "tape stuck in player" and we were pretty careful with them. Fast-forward to the 2020s, when my wife has been trying to rip some VHS to computer, and it requires considerable babysitting of fragile tapes and players to get it to work reliably.
Plus if OpenAI implodes on itself they can write that investment down to zero.

So basically they get to control ChatGPT 2.0 and get a 10 billion tax credit for it.

Honestly the board at least owes Satya a drink.
Stacked bar charts are terrible as well, there is no inconsistency :)
I gotta say I don't deeply understand ActivityPub, but one of the first things I thought when trying to grok it was "how does this improve on RSS?". Like another commenter here I think a big part of it is that it's JSON and not XML, but I think another thing people would say is that you aren't storing things locally, that is you don't have an application pulling things onto your local machine (phone, laptop, whatever).

But I've evolved lately, and now I strongly feel like we're missing the forest for the trees here. These things aren't just RSS; they're email. They're email lists. ActivityPub even uses the language of email; it has `to` and `cc`, and `replyTo` fields, in/outboxes. There are (media)Types, i.e. MIME types.

There are differences. ActivityPub basically exists to be an underlying protocol for Twitter-like social media, so it specs out things like Likes or Undo. But IMO, stuff like this is either superfluous/harmful (chasing likes/views maybe isn't a good idea), or maybe unclear what a lot of people would want out of a conversations platform. I don't really want someone else to irrevocably edit the stuff I've pulled down; sure I'll let you send a diff or something, but I want the history. Or, on the other hand, maybe I don't want someone to store a history of my worst posts, ready to unleash them whenever I dare to do something public. Or, on the other hand, maybe this has been a really useful tool to speak truth to power. Or, maybe we shouldn't create a protocol that seems to guarantee this, only to have rogue servers that store these things as diffs anyway to lull you into a false sense of "posting hot takes is OK I can always undo/edit/blah".
The pre-open market doesn't see it as a big win for MSFT. The stock is still lower than it was at Friday's open.
so, KDE 5 or KDE 3?
Yeah, both are superior to even modern windows and mac UIs, what's the problem?
That is just a matter of perspective. It's clearly a win-win if you're on team Sam. But if you're on team Ilya, this is the doomsday scenario: With commercialisation and capital gains for a stock traded company being the main driving force behind the latest state of the art in AI, this is exactly what OpenAI was founded to prevent in the first place. Yes, we may see newer better things faster and with better support if the core team moves to Microsoft. But it will not benefit humanity as a whole. Even with their large investment, Microsoft's contract with OpenAI specifically excluded anything resembling true AGI, with OpenAI determining when this point is reached. Now, whatever breakthrough in the last weeks Sam was referring to, I doubt it's going to move us to AGI immediately. But whenever it happens, Microsoft now has a real chance to sack it for themselves and noone else.
More likely the unit cannon from SupCom 2 ?

https://supcom2.fandom.com/wiki/Noah_Experimental_Unit_Canno...

But if I'm not mistaken Zero-K's pulling/pushing beam weapons predate SupCom2 (combined with terraformed ramps you get a unit cannon, though making the unit survive on landing is an additional challenge), though Lobsters came out after :

http://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Newton

http://zero-k.info/mediawiki/Lobster
Unusually well written and apparently well informed article.
> NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969

400,000!
These sounds like classic MS behaviour. It is kind of thing that ought to addressed in anti-trust case.
Turns out not everybody was sold-out at OpenAI. Good riddance, that Altman weasel was just that, a sellout.
There is no space in central (essentially the area bounded by the Circle line stretching down to Elephant and Castle). Lots of these developments happen in East London which has tons of brownfield land that used to be docks and industry. This is what happened to Canary Wharf and what they have been trying to do with North Greenwich and the Millenium Dome, and Newham and the Olympics. Stratford has loads of land and six train lines run through it (Central and Jubilee, North London, Great Eastern, DLR, Elizabeth) so it seems like the kind of place they would pick. Modern London isn't known for sustainable or sympathetic development. Go to Lewisham town centre and see how the new age tower blocks look completely out of kilter with the surrounding environment.
Meta’s approach of ‘pay for your privacy’ is wrong
I've been randomly getting the situation where the video on Firefox doesn't work, but the sound does. It says something like "Sorry something's gone wrong", but for a brief second I can see the video. I think it's connected to the ad-blocker changes, but it doesn't actually have a message about having an ad-blocker on.
Haha, I have done the "my job depends on this" kind of thing. I think I did something like "someone's life depends on this". I just feel like that's flaky.

Sounds very cool :D I'm US based and currently taking a long time off, but I wish you the best of luck.
I’m not saying it shouldn’t. I said where is it written? Why does everyone act like it’s a foregone conclusion?
Well:

(1) AI has already been used for IDENTIY THEFT in many places. Check this out:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-scam-voice-clone-fake-kid...

AI here to clone a voice was used to make a mother think her daughter had been kidnapped

(2) People getting fired from their jobs such as illustrators because AI can now do things. Also, people NOT getting hired when they could.

(3) I am a professional writer, and I know of some websites who are using generative AI for articles and hiring less (or even firing writers)

(4) AI removes what remaining reliance we have on each other and makes it less likely for people to talk to each other when needing some basic information. The societal effects of destroying communities where people need each other are pretty clear.
Surely you can understand that the persona one presents while giving a speech is often entirely different from the one they assume in private? I figured you knew him personally, this is a pretty funny justification.

If your analysis is based solely off YouTube interviews, I think your perspective on Sam’s capabilities and personality is going to be pretty surface level and uninteresting.
Thank you. I had it backwards.
> Engineers aren’t a lower level than scientists, it’s just a different career path.

I assume GP is talking in context of OpenAI/general AI research, where you need a PhD to apply for the research scientist positions and MS/Bachelors to apply for research engineer positions afaik.
Facilitating genocide in Myanmar, for one.
Poisoning the wells of the Web with the worst kind of profiled advertisement the world has ever seen.
Perfecting and optimizing the addiction mechanism of smartphones.
Creating a mental health epidemic in younger women.
I mean, the body of studies and malfeasances is out there, we just keep ignoring it.
That was my first thought too: Didn't occur to me as a solution, and it seems to square the circle brilliantly. It struck me that this is why people who are CEOs of mammoth companies have the jobs they have, and not me :)
"It’s the world's biggest sphere"

I believe the world's biggest sphere is actually... the world.
Only before it opened, but the press didn't really report it very well.

They posted accounts for the 3 months before they opened (minus 2 days) saying they lost $100 million in that period. The press picked up on this as "The Sphere is losing money". We need to wait for the next set of accounts and the ones after that to see if it is profitable.
Two shopping centres.
https://chat.openai.com/share/9b4f04f7-062f-40c3-b6a3-e972f7...

ChatGPT says "fuck" just fine.
I'm with you on this. Also, this hopefully brings the "Open"AI puns to an end. And now there's several fun ways to read "Microsoft owns OpenAI". :)

If OpenAI gets back to actually publishing papers to everyone's benefit, that will be a huge win for humanity!
I guess, everyone thinks about becoming a chef once in their lives.
> Star Wars is quite loose in its narrative, requiring a significant amount of suspension of disbelief

"Hey, kid, it ain't that kind of movie"
In the Twitch community Emmett was often called a bad CEO, in that he seemed to not really care about Twitch or do much to promote it. I've heard people say jokes like that he didn't even know he was the CEO there or something.
that's the beautiful thing, you make the polyfill contingent on the browser being firefox rather than probing for the feature and then you forget to remove it once they implement the feature
Tested on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 under Ubuntu with 4GB VRAM. Initially tried with a 4Kx4K canvas size, but it seems too much and fails. I lowered the canvas to 2Kx2K and it seems to just about be okay.

My test prompt (to compare against other models):

> (masterpiece, best quality), a giant made of rock, highly detailed, rock texture

For Cinematic Photo XL this produces a picture of rocks. For Digital Artwork XL I get a nice scene with a complex rock structure. Both take about two minutes.

It seems to work well and the integration into Krita seems quite nice. The settings are suitably simple, but would be nice if more was exposed in an advanced window or something.
In programming in general, sleeps are generally considered....(I'm lacking the word)...distasteful?

If your code needs to wait for something, it's better done with some sort of event system or interrupt or similar; the reason being that a 5s wait is a 5s wait, but if, say the thing you're waiting for returned in 10ms, if you're using an alternative solution you can carry on immediately, not wait the remaining 4.99 seconds. Conversely, if it takes longer than 5s, who knows what happens?
And that is where it will die.
How is it even supposed to make money, now that you mention it?
No, rather people behave in a virtue morality fashion even if they claim to be utilitarian.
Using Google sites with a VPN on Firefox has been really annoying for the past couple of months as well.
And as long as you can have tabs on any side of a window, how about multiple tabs on the same window? Like child tabs as well as label tabs, that are links to other windows.

Another cool use of vertical tabs is for the tabs on the left to select between windows, and the tabs on the right select between children of the current window (not sub-windows, but related windows or sub-directories). And you can use the tabs along the top as breadcrumbs to navigate back up the tree.

Some IDEs kind of do that with a directory browser on the left and a function browser on the right, but with outlines and scrolling lists instead of actual tabs.

You could navigate the tab tree by clicking or gesturing left or right with a pie menu on a tab, sliding the right column of tabs over to the left to descend into the tree.

Like a Finder window that shows directories as tabs on the right instead of icons inside.

You could also have top and bottom edge tabs for different kinds of children (i.e. xml attributes vs elements, object methods vs properties, different views or editors, etc).

The original NeXT file browser had breadcrumbs along the top (but not tabs):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTag7nSHlw&t=701s
Loving the idea and execution.
You are right. POSIX specifies one thing, the standard library in Rust and some other libraries specifies something different. 'Safe to use unless there are other threads' is not really something you can or want to encode in a type system.

But libraries and users are caught in the middle.
Someone suggested earlier that he probably had some form of profit sharing pass-through, as has become popular in some circles.
I'm more interested in what the user I'm replying to believes on the matter than Google.
Is this what has been making Firefox crash when I load videos lately?
I basically agree - and it’s a weird cognitive shift to think that going to Microsoft is the best place for tech innovation today.

Credit to Nadella for making a big cultural shift over the past several years.
I'm pretty sure that users care that websites can fix bugs affecting their browser. In fact option 1 is very difficult to actually implement when you can't figure out which browser is having problems in the first place.
I've read a decent amount of predictions about this and had not actually seen this one or considered it until I read about it happening.

I think the predictable thing would have been a new company with new investment from Microsoft. But this is better; it a bit like magical thinking that MS would want to just throw more money after a new venture and essentially write off the old one. This solution accomplished similar things, but gives more to Microsoft in the trade by bringing that "new company" fully in house.
You think anyone involved in the project cares? The money to build this crap will probably be borrowed from banks. People involved will be lining their pockets good for 5-10 years. Government will be happy for jobs created. When the project goes bust, the banks will go: "I am once again asking for your financial support".

If the project does succeed, it will be a fortunate accident for everyone involved. But I don't believe that its prospective success is their primary concern.
Totally expected nonsense from current greedy psychopathic Apple.

They are absolutely gatekeepers and have an absolutely unreasonable amount of control on devices they are not supposed to own anymore because people bought them.

I think they also should look into their behavior of forcing update, in order to make devices obsolete earlier by making them run slower even though they worked completely fine for everything that was required of them.
I thought it was conspiracy theories but right now, just after the annual release and just after a mysterious new update with little information on what it is supposed to fix; my iPhone 12 Mini is starting to seriously lag both in Apple apps and 3rd party apps.
Thats a very disturbing coincidence, especially since it's not the first time it has happened.
By the way I am still on "old" iOS 16.7.2 because I don't trust Apple release anymore. In fact, if I could, I would go back to the iOS the iPhone was sold with; but you can't because Apple is selling their update bullshit narrative in their marketing.
From where I sit there are a lot more cons than pros for the average user...
If the openai board can't get humans to align, what hope do they have of "aligning" ml models?
I actually hate the Sphere. It's such an ugly dystopian future where we have giant orbs blasting adverts into peoples homes/hotel rooms. I'm not a fan of the billboards in NY either but these spheres are on another level, I feel like we're moving towards a Futurama future.
Is pKVM available outside of pixel phones by now? There was some hype almost two years ago, e.g. https://www.androidauthority.com/windows-11-android-13-31079..., however I haven't seen a way to actually get it on any non-Pixel 6 device.
That seems like it could be potentially really useful, e.g. new linux on DeX, windows on DeX, maybe even desktop photoshop.
eink doesn't use rotating balls. You're confusing eink with gyricon from Xerox. That product died ages ago.