skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a small, relatively rural farming community in central Maine. Electric bikes would be great but I wouldn’t trust drivers on country roads to be aware of them. Otherwise, it’s been amazing and I could never go back to the sprawling suburbs or cities.
I don’t think this “YC of the art world” program is trying to target artists who sell their work at fairs and farmer markets. That’s a very different scene from career-oriented contemporary art.

It would be like applying to YC on the basis that you’re good at computers and a lot of people call you up to fix their Windows installations. That can be a profitable skill, but it’s not what YC is looking for.
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It's the nerd version of keeping up with the kardashians.
"According to the model's agreement, commercial use of this model is permitted.
As CEO and a board member, he was better positioned than literally anyone else to move changes to the governance structure of the nonprofit.
This is a solved problem, with different VAT rates. For instance in France there's a 2% rate for crucial things like medicine and some foods, 5% for other important things like electricity, 10% regular reduced rate and 20% for everything else. You can therefore easily target by saying this category of goods gets this VAT rate. E.g. jewelry being at 20% will only impact well off buyers.
I just can't get my head around the mentality of making that decision for all of the users, hard coding it, and forcing it on them, not allowing you to choose for every window, or change your mind at any time, and simply drag any tab to any edge you want, whenever you want.

What makes user interface designers so arrogant and sure of themselves and lazy that they think one particular side is the only side, and the best for everyone, no matter what your screen size, resolution, aspect ratio, layout, number of tabs, icon or label size, workflow, direction of text flow, handedness, visual acuity, physical dexterity, task, and preference?

And then when you inevitably run out of space for tabs along the one edge, instead of simply allowing you to put more tabs along the other edges, you either add more horizontal rows along the top, so you get this abomination [1], or you have tiny little hard to use scrolling arrows at each edge so you can't see all the tabs at once, so you get that abomination [2]:

Is it ever okay to have multiple rows of tabs?

[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15558/is-it-ever-okay...

Awesome Scrolling For Wide Tab-Interface Applications - ScrollTabs:

[2] https://www.jqueryscript.net/layout/Awesome-Scrolling-For-Wi...

It's like only putting only one arrow key on the keyboard.
Presumably there is some IP assignment agreement that would make it tricky for Sam to start an OpenAI competitor without a lot of legal exposure?
Question: how difficult is it to get that no retention waiver on prompts and responses?
How the same? Does it have the new Assistant API too?
The first one always requests / from the server when landed on/refreshed. The other one does not. This fact can be acted upon.
>> The band kids and the football kids never ask their teachers and coaches, “when will I ever use this”.

The author is missing what's actually going on.

The kids love being in a band: when you love doing something you don't ask yourself "why will I need this"?

When you love playing a video game you never ask yourself "Why will I need this" and yet you learn complex game mechanics because you "love doing it for the sake of it".

But people don't find most math useful. I use a lot of math every day due to my own job and yet 80% of math that I learned in high school and college is totaly useless to me and I don't need it and was bored to death when learning it.

If one doesn't find it applicable to something he loves he will hate it.
I'm assuming the original comment meant that the grifters would not be extended a new offer after their colleagues learned that they were not as good as their CV said at open AI.
Agreed, but having a door meant you could put the "do not disturb" sign up. Of course that's pretty specific to your companies culture, but if someone closed their door at my office, I'd stroll around later.

One of the biggest benefits of course is that you have a lot less sound travel. Doors open and you'll still be able to have a neighbor that has an open door meeting, phone call, etc and it won't interrupt you.

After moving from a private office with a door to a team space, I missed it severely. Now I'm WFH and when my kids aren't home generally my door stays open.
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If you want to test SMTP mail delivery, there's MailCatcher: https://mailcatcher.me/
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. Yes Microsoft uses OpenAI APIs. What is the point you're trying to make beyond that? It's still OpenAI software.
How much controlling this influence of a narrative impacts for decision to resign for workers as a protest in OpenAI? I hope that not too much…
And his qualifications to judge this?

Being a stereotypical California CxO is, if anything, an anti qualification.
People love to pick sides then retroactively rationalise that decision. None of us reading about it have the facts required to make a rational judgement. So it's Johnny vs Amber time.
Not difficult. I've not heard of anyone who asked and _didn't_ get the waiver. It's just a responsible stop-gap in case a user does something questionable or dangerous.
Well that's kind of my point. People opt for what is right rather what is maximum allowed
I don't think they need to pay 100 per year on Google play
There was a weird coordinated show of support for Altman by a lot of his employees, quote tweeting "i love the openai team so much"

I also found it weird and cultish. I guess it's not so different than signing a birthday card going around the office tho. "Sorry you got fired, see you at the next burning man"
So… which part of an anti-vax, anti-abortion access, climate denier is the rational part?
I sometimes go for walks during off camera meetings where I know I won't need to talk. It's amazing.
OTOH, not behavior from randal Monroe that would be surprising.
I don't really know if he was betrayed because the relationships and communication between Sam and the rest of the board that voted him out isn't exactly public. To use language feels like you are already taking despite lacking information.

Anyhow, I just was using the Caesar example because it was an memorable example that stuck out to me.
Basically, yes (there are some variations but same functionality, and much more).
This should be exhibit 1 why trying to make a business depending on developers as customers is probably a bad idea, given that online storage is cheap and easy.
My experience of academic research is that there's a lot of energy spent on laboratory politics.
> When does it stop existing in boxes that require a continuous source of electricity and can’t survive water or fire?

When someone runs a model in a reasonably durable housing with a battery?

(I'm not big on the AI as destroyer or saviour cult myself, but that particular question doesn't seem like all that big of a refutation of it.)
Or it simply means it’s not a priority right now.
> Cruise did the wrong thing by lying to government regulators.

This is exactly the core problem. It wasn't the crash. Regulators expect there to be problems with new technology, but they want to do deep investigations when they happen so everyone can learn from them. This could had been a great learning moment for Cruise, the regulators, the rest of the AV industry, and the general public.

But then Cruise lied to the regulators, which is a HUGE no no. They don't take kindly to industry trying to hide information like that.
Yes, the media and the general conversation seems very one sided; and I do not see any basis to take a side. Sam being an overachiever, might actually be acting with maleficence and deceit. Why is no-one even considering that?

Everyone is just reiterating that board is inept and trying to undermine them. This does not sit right with me.
If this were true they never would have had talks to bring him back. That's the opposite of steadfast commitment to principles. If Sam wronged them or the company in a significant way they never should have let him back in the building.

The board's decisions may or may not turn out to be correct in hindsight. But it's very difficult to say that this was a good example of leadership or decision making.
Where is my tuning machines?
> in a desirable neighborhood

land value =/=house price
I'm really happy about this. Hopefully this sets OpenAI back on a course toward positive and open uses for AI. Maybe even properly open sourcing things again.
Did they break stuff? One of the differences is that Python is versioned, so you should be capable of running your current version without issues and then update when you’re ready.

While JavaScript itself is backwards compatible, in a few cases beyond good reason, it’s not really backwards compatible for most of its modern use cases. Node isn’t backwards compatible and neither is TypeScript, and neither are many frameworks as you point out.

I do agree that making breaking changes shouldn’t become a thing, but at some points you also have to move things forward. That being said, I do think this particular case is a shift in philosophy more so than a step forward, since this is a far more opinionated change than what may have been the case previously in Python.
> Hasn't governments been especially interesting in dealing with encryption lately?

Fair enough :)

People have been talking about it, and it's a similarly bad idea.

> Encryption is predictable while AI is not.

Banking info vs child porn is pretty divergent.
> and spending 1h in traffic jam every day

I see mention of traffic a lot, but I work on the east coast in the defense industry where flexible schedules are the norm.

Traffic completely dies down out here by 10AM and 6PM, so I work 10-6, sometimes 10-7.

Is traffic just not as bad in Maryland or are flexible schedules not the norm outside of my industry?
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If I had a recorded phone call, emails and chats I thought it would be the better for the public to know about, how would I go ahead and share such in the best and most anonymous way?
Smart people like Ilya really are worried about extinction, not piddling near-term stuff like job loss or some chat app saying some stuff that will hurt someone's feelings.

The worry is not necessarily that the systems become "alive", though, we are already bad enough ourselves as a species in terms of motivation so machines don't need to supply the murderous intent: at any given moment there are at least thousands if not millions of people on the planet that would love nothing more than be able to push a button an murder millions of other people in some outgroup. That's very obvious if you pay even a little bit of attention to any of the Israel/Palestine hatred going back and forth lately. [There are probably at least hundreds to thousands that are insane enough to want to destroy all of humanity if they could, for that matter...] If AI becomes powerful enough to make it easy for a small group to kill large numbers of people that they hate, we are probably all going to end up dead, because almost all of us belong to a group that someone wants to exterminate.

Killing people isn't a super difficult problem, so I don't think you really even need AGI to get to that sort of an outcome, TBH, which is why I think a lot of the worry is misplaced. I think the sort of control systems that we could pretty easily build with the LLMs of today could very competently execute genocides if they were paired with suitably advanced robotics, it's the latter that is lacking. But in any case, the concern is that having even stronger AI, especially once it reliably surpasses us in every way, makes it even easier to imagine an effectively unstoppable extermination campaign that runs on its own and couldn't be stopped even by the people who started it up.

I personally think that stronger AI is also the solution and we're already too far down the cat-and-mouse rabbithole to pause the game (which some e/acc people believe as the main reason they want to push forward faster and make sure a good AI is the first one to really achieve full domination), but that's a different discussion.
I live in a suburb of a city in Australia but it is a rural inland city. I can walk to farmland from where I live.
The waiver still allows for logging of prompts for the specific purpose of abuse monitoring for some limited retention period, right? How difficult is it to have this waived as well?
The board demonstrated their incompetency in how they fired Sam without communicating this decision to their biggest stakeholder, Microsoft, or with any clear transition plan in place.
The two most important to OpenAI's mission - Alec Radford and Ilya Sutskever - did not respond with a heart.
I love the mandates to RTO to only get onto Zoom or Teams meetings with people in multiple timezones and offices all traveling to the office to fulfill the RTO mandate and yet...the only thing that changed was the blurred backdrop.
What? Being vocally anti-AI for the purposes of respecting artists is not being anti-AI period.

There is nuance to this point.
Ask HN: What happens to the "drinking water" devices that pop up daily on HN
It seems that (to exaggerate a bit) everyday there's a revolutionary invention of a cheap portable device that uses very little energy and generates enough drinking water for a family. What actually happens to those devices? Surely there's money to be made there? How do I not see a production version.

I guess my bigger question is, what are the logistics and economics of bringing unprofitable inventions that target poor people.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Not only, seccomp and other mechanisms actively killing use of non official APIs, or access to out of bounds system areas.
What about a monotonix function that has the keast duplicates when shown as a tree of thresholds? Or one that has the deepest tree? Or the least balanced tree? Those feel likely to have an alternative definition that is more elegant.
Enabling LLVM with m68k (and more) support on OpenBSD
Can microsoft buy IP from openAI? recruit their engineers? asking for a friend
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"it's just a series of ever warmer summers, nothing to see here" style suggests oil industry?

Regarding extinction, my suggestion is biome transplants. Take a endangered biome slice and transplant it where the temperatures and conditions for the biome will reemerge post climate change stabilization, preferably in an area where humanity has no economic interest.
That's technically true. Planetary Annihilation was a heroic effort lead by Jonathan Mavor (formerly of Gas Powered Games) that fused elements of TA, SC, and its own crazy ideas on what amounted to a shoestring budget.

Supreme Commander's budget was about $50M USD (circa the mid-2000s), and Mavor was lead engineer on the project.

Beyond All Reason is arguably more similar to Total Annihilation than Planetary Annihilation.

By that same token, Sanctuary is the closest thing to a complete remake of Supreme Commander. Granted, Forged Alliance Forever has had such incredible work put in by the community that it comes close, but it's ultimately stuck on the same engine.

Turns out Mavor has a new company now, and I'm elated to hear someone's finally combining Factorio with a decent RTS component:

https://industrialannihilation.com/
I for the life of me can not produce good graphs in Matlab... I use it so rarely that I forget all the syntax and when to us hold etc. So now I just export the data and plot it with python to annoyance of my pms...
I simply meant a company that's leading the rise of electric bikes and has a sizable chunk of the market.
Time zone changes are scheduled in advance (though rarely it's not far in advance) and there is only a single rule in effect at any point in time.

Half the world experiences a scheduled offset change every time summer time begins or ends. Computers can handle those fine.
Microsoft doesn't "use" the APIs, they host them on their own servers and have a license to do so and re-license to Azure users. If something goes wrong with OpenAI (given that it sounds like many key employees are leaving), Azure will stay up and you can keep using the APIs from MS.
This is what happens...

https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1725750082119811537
That is just current narrative, we don't know the details right? There was immense pressure from investors/Microsoft and board had to have that meeting. But the board probably already made their mind and did not balk under pressure.
Those researchers should be met with restraint.

One can ultimately still push the frontiers while also showing restraint - stop acting like it's either-or.
Millions of species even went extinct before modern man was ever here.
Mostly for professional purposes such as networking and promoting academic activities. Sometimes for their side startups.

I rarely see a professor or PhD student voicing a political viewpoint (which is what the Sam Altman vs Ilya Sutskever debate is) on their Twitter.
Maybe the executive management shouldn't have used "Profit Participation Units" to attract staff to join a non-profit organisation.

Seems like a way to put the incentives and motivations of the staff at odds with the charter of the organisation.
You're right. They're fired.
The current models would presumably be accessible for customers regardless of OpenAI’s state. If OpenAI were to hypothetically somehow vanish into thin air, products and features built on their products could still be supported by Azure’s offering.
The whole situation should make it clear that SV media is beholden to VCs and will print anything they tell them to.

Bloomberg, the verge and the information all went to bat for Altman in a big way on this.
But OpenAI is a non for profit that was exploring a goal that it saw financial incentives as misaligned.

It's what kind of got it achieved. Because every other company didn't really see the benefit of going straight to AGI, instead working on incremental addition and small iteration.

I don't know why the board decided to do what it did, but maybe it sees that OpenAI was moving away from R&D and too much into operations and selling a product.

So my point is that, OpenAI started as a charity and literally was setup in a way to protect that model, by having the for-profit arm be governed by the non-for-profit wing.

The funny thing is, Sam Altman himself was part of the people who wanted it that way, along with Elon Musk, Illya and others.

And I kind of agree, what kind of future is there here? OoenAI becomes another billion dollar startup that what? Eventually sells out with a big exit?

It's possible to see the whole venture as taking away from the goal set out by the non for profit.
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First of all know that California is a two party consent state. You’d be putting yourself in grave legal danger if your identity could be inferred from a leaked recorded phone call.
Every time I hear "Chicagoland", I think of the douchebag television exec from Wayne's World played by Rob Lowe.
> (2022) Dwarf Fortress

I feel a little attacked by the 2022.

Nevertheless this list is awesome.
So what? Humans only practice the arts? Humans go back to flinging poop? This meadow sounds awful, it seems like it’s asking for the end of thought and to be fed nutrient gel from a machine. Richard Brautigan has a terrible dream.
Why did base64 win against uuencode?
That depends on what "talks" consisted of. If it was Altman throwing arguments at them, and them just replying "no thank you", I don't see a problem.
I had your same idea about social media's. I never liked Mastodon, it's cheaply made and insecure. The decentralized part is interesting to me and I feel all social media should be made that way. The rules change all the time when it comes to government and some are for good measure, but it makes social media moderation very complicated to run. Companies get lazy and have lazy employee's. They hire Bots which isn't acceptable for some matters.
theverge and theinformation have tip lines/e-mails, and you can message them, or write to one of the reporters writing about that directly. I would trust them to keep the confidentiality
You don’t need timezones until you did need them.

Good change this avoids a whole class of subtle bugs. We can’t change Python 3.3 now.
I work in academia and with somewhat protected data so YMMV but it wasn't hard for me at all (I just filled out the form and MS approved it).
like it.
rss is so simple and cool.
problems:

* how to make it easier for users to start using feed readers

* how to make it easier to subscribe to feeds

* how to help users discover new content
But doesn't << /fred.md >> beat the heck out of something like << /fred?format=md >>?
GPT on Azure has become incredibly slow for us in the past few weeks.
yes, still it boils down to the question of 'how well is the output of the chat bot aligned with reality' ? if you want to automate this, then you will likely need some system that is kind of censoring the output of the LLM, and that system should have a better model of what is real.
Yes, the model weights were developed by OpenAI. They are licensed exclusively and irrevocably to Microsoft, and operated by Microsoft, not OpenAI. If you are building with these APIs and concerned that consuming them from OpenAI (which also runs them on Azure, but managed by OpenAI staff) because of the drama there, you can de-risk by consuming from Azure directly.
The board governs a mission-driven nonprofit, not a profit-focused enterprise where Microsoft has board-level influence as investor. This tension (operating as if it is a startup when it is not) is why Altman was fired.
The tech is wasted on cars though, auto steering bikes, that's were the future is.
burnout and sleep deprivation can lead to some pretty bad choices; thats why you want to surround yourself with people that will stand up to you when your ideas and plans suffer from too much tunnel vision. sounds like the other 3 board members were yes-men/women; the house of cards was there for a while, it seems.
> hard to believe (on gut instinct, nothing empirical) that AGI has been achieved before we have a general playbook for domain-specific SotA models

Ilya is pretty serious about alignment (precisely?) due to his gut instinct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0gTO2K85A (2 Nov 2023)
Isn't this expected? Nearly everyone who joined post ChatGPT was primarily financially motivated. What is more interesting is how many of the core research team stays.
Maybe for a company of 12-50 there would be more candid discussion internally, but over 100 and especially at OpenAI size (and with Microsoft involved) liability control is at the max. Moreover, if the Board thought the decision would help improve retention, then they would comment, but that's clearly not the case.

OpenAI is not a typical LLC or S/C-corp though, so the Board also has to overcome that conceptual hurdle.
If I had to guess, they had the talks to bring him back as a favor to somebody, or as a sign of good faith, but neither party had changed their position so there was no compromise to be had.
The problem is that "gang homicide" is not a statistic that is generally recorded, and is difficult and error prone to record.
Real link: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/3.1
You could say the same thing if they were rooting for the board instead..
?? I guess you can walk into the frontier a little slower if you don't mind someone else settling it before you.