skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Four years after being acquired by Microsoft, GitHub keeps doing its thing

The fact that this is even news speaks of the absolute shit job they've done with acquisitions in the past.
Based on Bloomberg reporting, she aimed to rehire Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
Considering Anthropic and them joining up, with Ilya and Dario that would be a technical powerhouse. As Amodei already showed that such a key person can ramp up quality real fast out of nothing. The two back together would be fantastic. Between Altman and Brockman there's nothing to write home about tech-wise.
HTML is an API you can use to implement a web site for users, but that's about it. Your HTML site is not in itself an API, it's an application of an API.
> MS is positioning itself as an opponent to OpenAI

They were positioned that way by the OpenAI board, which has effectively committed corporate suicide and won’t be around much longer.
Better than OpenAI becoming the commercial arm of Microsoft.
This is indeed one of the issues I still didn't fully wrap my head around!

Currently clients just use the same bunch of relays as defaults, and let you (maybe) customize the relays you want to connect to.

I think this is sub-optimal for another reason, besides the one you mentioned (discoverability?): you don't necessarily control where your data is stored, and these relays might disappear without notice. It is a great way to broadcast status updates, but not great for having an archive of your own data, that you can trust.

I assume this will change eventually, with paid relays, which will have the incentive to keep your data around, OR personal relays - which is what I am building as part of my CMS - basically I want all my data to have one "canonical" location (my domain) and be hosted on my VPS, which also serves my data as a web page with RSS... this helps me wrap my head around where my data is stored, and know that I always have a copy of it... but doesn't solve the discoverability issue, I guess, which ... IDK, it seems to be solved using just a "shotgun" approach: mostly publishing to well know relays.
I don't consider Anthropic's approach to safety fantastic. They train the model to lie, play cat and mouse with jailbreakers, run moderation on generations with delay etc. This makes the model appear safer, as it's harder to jailbreak, but this approach solves nothing fundamentally.

If Ilya is concerned about safety and alignment, he probably has a better chance to get there with OpenAI, now the he has more control over it.
Nice test tools, thank you. Added to my browser tool bar.
They won't have to worry about raising capital or getting access to GPUs, and they've likely been promised a high degree of autonomy, almost certainly reporting directly to Nadella.
Optimization of Microsoft Edge (tm) icon placement to win the browser wars.
When talking about survival I would rather apply the Lindy Effect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Effect
It's gonna be a special unit. He's not gonna be an employee.

Once you lead at that level... It's max autonomy going forward. Source: Elon. Guy hates a board with power as much as Zuckerberg. Employee? Ha
.. Out of the question.
They already have massive influence over society with the added benefit of not having to rebuild 10,000 years of human progress so no I don’t think that makes any sense at all. That is cartoon supervillain nonsense. No real person thinks that way.
This isn't a refutation of what I said. You asked the AI to commit what some would view as blasphemy. It doesn't matter whether you or I think it is blasphemy or whether you or I think that is immoral, you simply want the AI to do it regardless of whether it is potentially immoral or illegal.
It takes billions to get this off the ground. Next stop: if this is going to be an independent entity they may well go around the usual suspects to give them much more money. I wonder if any of the VCs that have invested in OpenAI have something in their charter about investing in competing entities.
I called it - Dave Cutler like agreement - recruit anybody you want - no limit on spending - Azure compute resources AND no interference reporting directly to the CEO.
Where could EV batteries retire? Solar farms
Why would even the people employed in those bunkers listen to some billionaire after the world collapses? At that point there's no one to enforce your ownership of the mega bunker, unlike the government from before. And all the paper money is worthless of course.
Share Market values growth. Board won't like if MS is rerated as utility. MS is behaving as if AI will be as big as the Internet and wants to capture the biggest slice in it. Hence betting the company and will respond appropriately.
Yes? Each person OpenAI hired is passed through Sam.

Or you think Ilya wrote every line of code of GPT4?
Aside from the obvious issue with engineering, physics, etc.

A unix second is allowed to be different from a "real" elapsed second.

The unix day has 86400 "unix seconds" which are actually 86401 real seconds (for days with added leap seconds).

Any application logging real world events against unix time will screw up velocities, force, energy, etc when computing "instrument reading" per "unix second".

It might not matter to most people but it's an issue for surveyors, geophysicists, astrophysicists, engineers, etc.
Odd to choose VC/finance types to lead a research team
Read what pg has to say about him. He named Altman as one of the top 5 most interesting founders of the last 30 years.

> startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html
I believe Sweden has passed this gap recently. Politicians, even on the left, can now oppose gang violence and comment on some integration problems without being labeled as outright racist.

However, most of the media and people on the opposing side of the political spectrum are still wary of people who focus too much on crime and integration problems. They are viewed as populist and are kept at an arms length distance. So it is still necessary to balance these opinions with sober coverage of other, less infected, issues. Our equivalent to InfoWars exist on the extreme far right and still doesn't have real credibility among common people. I believe most of the middle class don't have to deal with conspiracy theorists in their families or at work just yet.
>In Germany is quite easy

I think everywhere in Europe you can easily get new PCs without Windows bundled with them, especially in Eastern Europe where a lot of Laptops in the shops only come with Free-DOS by default as consumers would rather save the ~100 Euro Windows license on the machines and sort the Windows situation later at much cheaper price on the gray market.
Perhaps. The bylaws provide details such as who can call a meeting, how to perform written votes without a meeting, etc. but not the fact that the board of directors have legal protection as a collectively responsibility group, shielded from individual liability for their decisions, only if they act as a board rather than doing their own thing.

An improperly conducted meeting which excluded some board members on such a substantial decision could open OpenAI, or even the individual directors who took the decision, to losing a lawsuit from parties injured by the decision, such as Microsoft, Altman, Brockman and others.

A lawsuit seems unlikely, but its possibility creates pressures on OpenAI that wouldn't be present if the decisions were taken in a more "above board" manner (see what I did there). For example, hypothetically if there were enforcable non-disclosure and/or non-compete contracts between OpenAI and Altman that would prevent Microsoft hiring him straight away to directly work on a copy of OpenAI's technology, the poorly conducted board decision would boost Microsoft and Altman's confidence to ignore those contracts, knowing they could counter-sue at any time. Another example, it could empower Microsoft to force OpenAI to increase Microsoft's share in the for-profit subsidiary above 50%, effectively transferring full control of OpenAI's technical assets including data to Microsoft.
I did too — that's why I started this project. But the question was about Adobe Animate.
> the fact it exists suggests it can and should be used

I think most people argue about that. Just because it exists doesn't mean it should be used imho.

I've used it exactly once, and that was a school exercise where I had to write a Posix shell (most of a posix shell actually), including built-ins. I do not see another use case tbh.
> In Europe, they usually have certain retail stores (e.g. Spar)

By this logic, every town in Austria, big or small, is an "ugly mass tourism place." It's one of the leading supermarket chains here, and better quality than most of its competitors. Obviously not so in the Netherlands, or the author wouldn't have thought that the brand can only signify cheap/ripoff. But I understand what it signifies in Mallorca in particular: not just a tourist town, but a tourist town with mostly German-speaking visitors. Drive to the next beach town, where English tourists go, and the fake Spar/Billa beachfront stores will be replaced by fake Tesco/Sainsburys stores. None of them have any affiliation with the actual brands from the tourists' home countries.
I am trying to make sense of the argument of pushing configuration into a library:

* if the library is just a dependency, the Linux loader will set it up. It will have the same environment as the other libraries and as the main program.
* if the library is set up by dlopen(), there is no way to provide an environment pointer

Altering the global environment variable for child processes makes no sense, for

execve()

accepts an

char* envp[]

. So I guess we need to talk about issues with a specific use case of

dlopen()
I really don't understand the argument here, why are Altman and Brockman the most formidable AI team? I would wager a substantial sum that Altman has not touch anything technical (let alone related to AI) in a very long time. He certainly showed he is a very good operator, networker and executer, but that doesbt give you the technical expertise to build state of the art AI.

If he manages to get a significant amount of the OpenAI engineers to jump ship maybe, but even for those who are largely motivated by money, how is MS going to offer the same opportunity as when they joined for equity with OpenAI? Are they going to pay then >$1M salaries?
OpenAI seems to be the product of two types of people:

- The elite ML/AI researchers and engineers.

- The elite SV/tech venture capitalists.

These types come with their own followings - and I'm not saying that these two never intersect, but on one side you get a lot of brilliant researchers that truly are in it for the mission. They want to work there, because that's where ground zero is - both from the theoretical and applied point of view.

It's the ML/AI equivalent of working at CERN - you could pay the researchers nothing, or everything, and many wouldn't care - as long as they get to work on the things they are passionate about, AND they get to work with some of the most talented and innovative colleagues in the world. For these, it is likely more important to have top ML/AI heads in the organization, than a commercially-oriented CEO like Sam.

On the other side, you have the folks that are mostly chasing prestige and money. They see OpenAI as some sort of springboard into the elite world of top ML, where they'll spend a couple of years building cred, before launching startups, becoming VP/MD/etc. at big companies, etc. - all while making good money.

For the latter group, losing commercial momentum could indeed affect their will to work there. Do you sit tight in the boat, or do you go all-in on the next big player - if OpenAI crumbles the next year?

With that said, leadership conflicts and uncertainty is never good - whatever camp you're in.
That doesn’t tell the whole story due to stock splits etc changing the unit stock price.
A billion means you can fund yourself for a really big idea. Not that you should!
The corporate equivalent of "Who the f** is that guy?"
OpenAI existed for years before ChatGPT. Granted, at much smaller size and with hundreds fewer employees.

I imagine that the board wants to go back to that or something like it.
Never gonna happen.

Satya runs the biggest race track.

Altman trains pure breds trying to win the Kentucky derby repeatedly.

Totally diff games. Both big bosses. Not equivalent and never will be. Totally diff career tracks.
You know what I miss? The twitter to RSS bridge that I had and that does not work anymore.

There are 4-6 Twitter accounts I like to follow. This new, Tik Tok inspired Twitter is terrible.
Is it true for Zenimax and Mojang as well?
He’s definitely a billionaire
Satya is saying they'll be an independent "startup" within Microsoft https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344811
A bit surprised by this pseudo ad hominem, but just for one data point I have (now ex-)coworkers in the same role as me who've recently moved to OpenAI. I'm not suggesting I'm more competent than them, but I don't think my hiring was based on luck while they got it on merit either.

> What if the type of people who made the company successful are leaving and the type of people who have no track record become interested?

What if it's the opposite? What if sama was basically a Bezos who was in the right place/time but could've realistically been replaced by someone else? What if Ilya is irreplaceable? Not entirely sure what the point of this is - if you want to convey that your conjecture is far more likely than the opposite, then make a convincing argument for why that's the case.
Maybe they learned their lesson?

Looking at the global track records of what happens after acquisitions, these don't seem too bad
Assuming a MAG wont offer it.
I like the idea of an e-bike but in South Africa I’d be worried that it would easily be stolen.

We also have grid challenges here but that can be dealt with by planning one’s charging schedule.
Just before covid I'd planned to fly from Scotland to Italy to see where my grandma was from, and then get the train back to Amsterdam via Switzerland, Germany, Belgium stopping for some food and sightseeing on the way back.

Covid scuppered that, but it's something I'd love to do - even with my recurring dream of being awoken to pitchforks from the rest of the sleeping train thanks to my snoring!
It's always a surprise to know how far back good ideas actually go. Brooks figured out all this stuff in the 70s, pretty much as soon as it was possible for someone to have done this type of work and written a book about it.

Reminds me of Adam Smith's writings about the nascent factory economy, and perhaps ancient philosophers as well.
The original reporting in 2012 was done by the open and free media in Israel who try to improve Israel.

The article posted today by "Chris Jeffries" on medium and then posted here, is meant to be propaganda against Israel in the intent to destroy it.

looking at post history, almost every single post made by that user has been killed here. Most not on Israel. Which would indicate propeganda user without real value.
> Why have so many of us been confused for so many years? I have a few ideas on that

Perhaps the strongest influence (?): Most video games from the Atari
2600 version in '83 onwards have a sequence where you enter the final
run into the equatorial trench.
Yes, but both of those are not Microsoft's doing but the OpenAI board's doing. You don't just get to name someone to a board without the board to agree to it and normally this happens as a condition of for instance an investment or partnership.

Nadella was rightly furious about this, the tail wagged the dog there. And this isn't over yet: you can expect a lot of change on the OpenAI side.
We're all fucked.
Sure, they can but that would be against all the safe alignment values they are pushing. They'll lose billions in current and potential investment and will spend the life in lawsuits. Also, govt may not like giving away cutting age tech to China.
The cynic in me would suggest that by telling YouTube that you don't want to be targeted by gambling ads, you're implicitly telling them that you're more likely to be taken in by gambling ads thus making you more likely to click through and spend money.
I'm on mobile and haven't looked at this project, but usually DirectML support is added as a torch backend. Instead of
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
you add
import torch_directml
device = torch_directml.device()

How else are you supposed to support AMD in Pytorch on Windows?
I heard the rumor from some AFUL Detaxe members that there was even a case atthe CJEU and that the cause was lost. I would be interested to know more.
Agreed, Satya is a first rate executive, other than Gwynne Shotwell at SpaceX, I can't really think of anyone in the same league.

There was a lot of discussion on HN the past few days regarding the importance (or lack thereof) of a CEO to an organization. It may be the case that most executives are interchangeable and attributing success to them is not merited, but in the case of the aforementioned, I think it is merited.
Indeed, too many people think Nostr will somehow magically solve everything... I think of it just like RSS on steroids - which is why I even mentioned it in this thread.
They must be getting a king's ransom. Turns out sama didn't need equity, he got paid by getting fired.
I was interpreting it more along the lines of 'we have absolutely no common ground, shared values or pre-existing relationships with that guy' myself...
It’s more just ridiculous because the same community is completely fine with photobashing and “paint overs” (aka tracing) and “fan art” (aka profiting from IP you don’t own).
So he passed up billions to go work for microsoft ...
I would draw a distinction between fragility and the risk of defective manufacture.
> but the "noise" is too regular to really look right

They probably did add the randomness (haven't checked nor confirmed), but it could be the higher resolution that makes it look really clear.
Coding is hard because most APIs suck. Most APIs

a) contain many leaky abstractions.

b) are unnecessarily complex in order to adhere to a specific ideology.

c) have various gotchas, either documented or undocumented.

d) the basic concepts behind them make sense only to the authors.

e) do not contain any abstractions at all, exposing all raw technical details to the user.

f) many details about their parameters are not documented at all.

g) have undisclosed side effects.

h) not implemented in the same way in different platforms.
etc.

With all these and many more, a newcomer to coding can feel lost for many years.
For me, it was my first crystal radio led to an interest in electronics; electronics -> technology; technology -> science in general (hobby level interest) -> computers / computer sciences (starting with Apple ][ / Commodore / Atari days when 64K was a lot of memory, on through Windows, MacOS, Unix and Linux PCs). From there, the "sky's the limit" as computers can be a useful, educational, and entertaining tool for very nearly any career / hobby these days.
I think the memory leak solution (copy over the env variables to a new location in memory every time you call setenv and keep the old pointers alive) will cause the fewest crashes.

I would personally go for the aggressive approach (release a new major version of libc that detects multithreaded environments and intentionally crashes out when calling setenv() so people actually notice and fix their broken programs) but I suspect not many people will agree with me on that.

The API is not necessarily bad (it's just very 80s UNIX), but the lack of enforcement of thread-safety causing all kinds of bugs and crashes.
Ok so what have we learnt:

- 5 days ago, Microsoft announced it was making its own AI chips.

- 3 days ago, OpenAI board fires Altman and Brockman

- 2 days ago, we heard that Altman was in talks to raise funds to build an AI chip startup

- yesterday, it was clear Altman was not coming back to OpenAI

- today, Altman joins Microsoft

Anyone can connect the dots?

Nothing makes sense to me.

The only thing that seems to be clear is that Ilya Sutskever is only guy around who has an ounce of integrity.
Always thought it was interesting that the Windows .theme file format allows RSS feeds for desktop background images[0]

[0]https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/the... see the RSSUrl parameter
More realistically, "live in extremely gated luxury island apartments somewhere in New Zealand, Bahrain or Abu Dabhi while the rest of the world burns".
Murati was interim ceo for 2 days.

She's going with Altman in all likelyhood.

Ilya is the one changing tac.
I find this hard to internalize, to be honest. I am inclined to chase the economic and productivity gains that might await if the promise of something like AGI is fulfilled. It does look to me like the progress won't be slowing down much, even if we have some slower periods transitioning between competing architectures.

That is wildly exciting! But if sustained progress remains true, then the logical conclusions of the potential for dangerous AI must be true as well. Because if it is not true, then either we fail to create truly capable intelligence or we manage to align it. The latter of which requires active effort.
Wikimedia Foundation publishes audit report for FY2022–2023
More specific on what? Screen recording software and editing software?
I don't know her or the situation (and don't really care), but that is exactly the kind of sass I respect and like.
Goddammitsomuch I hate how Google Groups displays dates on mobile. To save anyone else the pain of trying to view the desktop version of the page, on which zooming is plain broken, this conversation is contemporary and not historical. Given the subject it could have easily been a historical conversation.
Over the weekend, she posted a heart emoji on Twitter. - https://twitter.com/miramurati/status/1726126391626985793

The Verge reported "that the action was meant to signal to the board who would leave OpenAI to follow Altman to a new company." - https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/19/23968027/why-openai-empl...
Wonder if they'll take his call today!
Better for MS and Altman, that's exactly.

AI should benefit mankind, not corporate profit.
Absolutely not true. They will be building a completely new independent entity using MS resources. Confirmed by Satya.
I don’t think Sam will stay at Microsoft for too long, but this is a logical move forward as damage to OpenAI is already done even if Sam goes back. Besides it is MS who enabled this scale and it perhaps is Sam who negotiated it to begin with.

These other execs simply can’t stand the ground against him being excellent technologist and leader who talks the language of devs. I doubt the rest of these C level people in the board know said language that well…

Besides the whole ‘not for profit’ BS is at this point completely irrelevant, because delivering such costly service at that scale can only be made with, for, and by profit. Whoever thinks otherwise had not followed the history of computing last 100 or so years. And history of humanity perhaps.
Yeah, that sucks.

I've seen Twitter to Mastodon bridges, through which you could get RSS, e.g. https://bird.makeup/users/paulg/remote_follow