skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Where are you going to get this ‘crew that cares’? How much of a premium does making them care cost?

I can name three GCs off the top of my head who have reliable crews. If you have never had any construction work done, you pull up google or your search engine of choice and look for GCs in your area then ask for some references - or just ask a friend?

>When you’re hiring a crew to build one house, what’s their incentive to do a great job? You’re not likely to build another house soon.

Some people just take pride in their work? Referrals? Future work on upgrades to the house they just built? The money to build the house in the first place? It's not like you give them payment on the entire project up front... What's your incentive to put out effort day to day?

>It’s like saying ‘I’d rather have an IKEA table assembled by a person who cares than a piece of furniture made by a craftsman who makes the same table design again and again’.

No, it's like saying I'd rather have an IKEA table assembled by a person who cares, than a pre-assembled piece of garbage from China made of even less actual wood put together by someone working 18 hour shifts in a sweatshop.

I don't know on what planet you think DR Horton is equivalent to a "craftsman who makes the same table design again and again" but that's very much NOT the case with 90% of "big builders" - it's cut as many costs as possible, use the cheapest components possible, and move on to the next one as quickly as possible. Because the average person has no idea that yes, they should be able to plug in a vacuum and a blender at the same time without popping a breaker because it was cheaper to run half the main floor off a single circuit.
Another aspect discussed in TMMM not present in this summary is the possible benefits of AI.

Brooks says there can be some gains, but no silver bullet :)

- As a Testing Agent that learns how the system behave and how to test it as the developers interact with the agent.

- As a tutor, junior can learn from the knowledge of experts by interacting with the AI.

- For "automatic" programming when the problem is characterized by few parameters, when there are many known solutions and good knowledge to select the correct solution.

So far I've read about tutoring and automatic programming, but I haven't read about how to use AI to learn about the system and generate tests.
Somewhat offtopic, but is there a simple email service in the sense of SMTP + IMAP/POP + simple email web interface to use AWS as a end-user email service?
> without capital they can't really do anything

Not a bad moment for a rich patron to swoop in and capitalise the non-profit. If only there were a billionaire with a grudge against Altman and historic link to the organisation…
This plot keeps thickening

I'm eager to see how it all unfolds.
Modern societies don't want control, then want "alignment". You don't want to control your wife and order her to make your dinner every night. You want her goals to be aligned with yours where she make dinner without you asking for it. If you think about it, alignment is "total and absolute control at every level".
They did this for years in the past, I really despise google
> Play by their rules

Which they are.
Office drones with salaries, dependents, livelihoods, and skills to hone.

I think AI use in art tools is inevitable, but replacing artists at any level is not a good thing.
Good news for O2 though! They'll have a new stadium within the decade :D
I'm an artist and look at generative AI as a tool that's almost always going to produce content but not art.

I refuse to use it from a moral standpoint but I also don't use any digital tools at all in the creation of my work. Even if I worked digitally I don't create art to produce pretty pictures as fast as possible. Typing in a prompt and fiddling with some things back and forth is just that.
Why is Disney still called Disney when Walt died ages ago?
> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

What in the world is happening at OpenAI?
Depends where you live. Brazil is not Japan.
Definitely poach
Normal people don't burn a multi billion dollar company to the ground with a spontaneous decision either. They plan for the backlash.
Pirate more like. He's not just poaching "talent" he has likely stolen IP and will hope to destroy OpenAI in court costs. Microsoft is a terrible company and I hope this backfires on them.
> No one is shaming developing countries for burning coal

I deliberately said "much", not "all". You want them to completely ignore the developing world, that, unlike during the industrial revolution, has wind and solar options, even as they preach for the West to have even fewer children, despite already having sub-replacement fertility?

In any case, this is tangential to blaming whites for the inaction of non-whites - despite the article's framing, environmental activism is not a scarce resource that whites have monopolized - anyone can do it.

Want to fight climate change? Have fewer children - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...

Having a child is the grandest act of climate destruction - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/having-a-child-is-the-gr...

Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them. - https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/science-proves-kids-ar...

BirthStrike: The people refusing to have kids, because of ‘the ecological crisis’ - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/05/health/birthstrike-climat...

Climate change is making people think twice about having children - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/12/climate-change-is-making-peo...

Would you give up having children to save the planet? Meet the couples who have - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/give-up-having...

A World Without Children - A generation facing an intractable problem debates whether to bring a new generation into the world. - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/millenn...

No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/climate/climate-change-ch...
Why don’t they have capital?
I assume the reason we got it wrong is because the equatorial trench is the only one visible to the audience at all scales.

Sure, there could be additional trenches on the surface of the Deathstar — like the seeming randomness of the digits of pi, there might even be a close approximation of the Taj Mahal somewhere on the surface — but we go with what we see, not so much what we imagine.
So I used to live in a flat overlooking the concourse by Stratford station, right next to where this is planned (and has been planned for 5+ years). There's a regular light-up animated billboard on that concourse, and it used to shine right into my living room at night. It wasn't great.

My question is what is this for. In Vegas there are many skyscrapers that would be able to look out over this, they have sporting events with helicopter coverage, people go to see lights. None of this is true for Stratford, even given the sports arena.

This is not a highly established entertainment district where lights are expected, adding more. It's a mostly residential area with two shopping centres, and a sports arena a 15 minute walk down the road.

I'm all for YIMBY when it's going to improve the local area, but Stratford already struggles with the crowds from the sports arena, the Westfield management team hate it as it doesn't bring in business but they have to hire private security for every sports event. There are good pieces of development happening – the new university campuses, the new V&A, the new BBC concert hall, the offices, but this just won't fit the local environment or benefit anyone.
They hired the Emmett Shear (Twitch co-founder) as a new interim CEO: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968848/openai-new-ceo-...
Downvoting honest people in a thread full of people discussing how to avoid paying for something. What did I expect?
She didn't get booted from the company, but they did find a new interim CEO (the former twitch CEO).
Give OpenAI's Board Some Time. The Future of AI Could Hinge on It
I see a contradiction in your message here. On the one hand you're saying people are worse off because of technology, but then you're also saying that people don't rely on each other because they have more of their needs met. So which is it?

Wouldn't the poverty rebuild these communities ? I mean the hardships make people rely on each other right?

I don't entirely doubt what you're saying either, but I'm not so sure I see what you see.
Tensions over profitability at OpenAI turned into a full-blown crisis
The only way Ilya can clear his name now is by releasing GPT-4 weights
Those are the jobs that already started to get automated and I’m happy about it. Even McDonald’s has more kiosks than humans. It’s just a matter of time
I believe OAI Inc employees and board members have no equity, but OAI LLC employees can have equity.
lol, the more i go through life i feel like it's just blind leading the blind at times w/ the "winners" escaping through a bizarre length of time and survivorship bias.

if you've ever doubted your ability to govern a company just look at exhibit A here.

really amazing to see people this smart fuck up so badly.
Oh, so it's okay if it's voluntary for some people but not for others? I guess slavery in the 1800s was okay because most people weren't slaves, then.
Untrue. I optimized pages pre-2000, and it had always mattered.

It's always, always mattered. If anything, people care less today, with the entire ridiculous 100 loads per page.
How many of these were never real species, but we're simply miscategorizations of another species?
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI group
Nadella said Altman and Brockman will be joined by “colleagues.” Former OpenAI top talent Szymon Sidor, Jakub Pachocki, Aleksander Madry are joining Microsoft with “more” to follow suit, Brockman said in a post on X.
Let's remember who controls the GPUs though...
Looking on Windows 11 and Copilot, it’s easy to see that Microsoft deal violates “Broadly distributed benefits” on some level. But of course, who knows without an official statement.
Eh, seems like an ambitious read, and obviously if they actually wanted to give Sam leverage it would’ve required saying “I will leave if he’s not reinstated,” not a more generic statement of solidarity.
Why is Apple called Apple when they build computers?
>”give him 2 copies so he can read it faster”

Gold! My week is made, no matter how many deadlines I blow past.
> But they would never give a speech about how they messed up by describing everything with maps.

I think this needs to be emphasized and can easily be transferred to a whole bunch of other topics unrelated to DDD/Clojure.

Nobody ever talks about the negative sides of some new apparently cool thing, because it is assumed that doing so wouldn't attract an audience. While in reality, often cool new thing does only work as advertised in a minority of cases and the negative sides are more important to look at.

We should more often talk about the negative sides of "cool" new approaches.
Today's OpenAI CEO is Emmett Shear (former CEO of Twitch).
Update after a day:

Whoops, there goes your Otto Hahn, lol!
You can’t count a hyperthread as a core, that’s cheating.

I guess we’ll have to get four sockets.
I can't imagine what it will be like to work at OpenAI over the next few months. A massive load of talent has just left, the primary source of investment has just taken exactly what you do and brought it in house. Even if you wanted to stay at OpenAI how can you reasonably believe that MS will continue providing the compute and investment necessary for you to retain leadership? It just seems impossible. It may be that in the medium term this move means OpenAI is going to back to more research focus, because I just don't see how the MS partnership strategy makes any sense as a long term strategy now.
We can say fro big-tech the same for oil, penecilin or gmo's. What does it mean to be human when we, all humans, are the sons and daughters of big industry for profit ventures? Open AI board stopped trusting Altman when he went started pitching the Open AI technology elsewhere behind their backs. At least that the rumors I read. If OpenAI developers truly believe the AI can be weaponized and that they should not be following the leadership of for-profit ventures they won't jump ship. We will see.
Ben Thompson has been a keen observer of the tech industry for quite some time. I recommend browsing the archives, or HN’s history of submissions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=stratechery.com
> One reason, for all it's flaws, Last Jedi is my favorite new film. It simultaneously admits (through character dialog) that "there are rules" and "there are egregiously no rules".

To each of their own, the meta in the Last Jedi is precisely why I hated that movie. Too many times it was the director speaking directly to the audience, in particular "the fans". This is simply not why I watch Star Wars. It also plagiarized a Battle Star Galactica episode a bit too much, and who the hell puts an epilogue in the middle of trilogy? Clearly Rian Johnson didn't care about what was going to be next.
Watch the series SILO. Limited computer power and knowledge - how & why - may give you some different point of view :)
It's almost like they live in a vacuum where there's not a nation in particular with essentially infinite resources and smart people like them that will immediately capitalize on these delays.
It's actually an oblate spheroid. It's surface is an approximate ellipsoid, though.
>Who think satya cares about money... Get real.

I am. In fact the goals of any for-profit company is the profit. If a CEO doesn't align with that goal in mind, they get replaced. That's non-negotiable. A for-profit company without profit is a dead company.
That's the nice thing about being the hou^H^H^Hplatform.
Many people here are conflating the idea of paying versus ads, whilst the discussion is about privacy instead.

There's nothing wrong with charging money for a service or alternatively let them watch ads. The problem is that the ads are tracking ads. If they would be simple contextual ads (dynamic based on surrounding content), there would be no privacy violation and thus no issue.

I believe the EU direction is that when you decline tracking, it should have no meaningful impact on your experience. Because if that would be the case, there's no real "free consent". Again, declining tracking is not the same as declining ads. Privacy should not cost money to secure, it should be a default and is a basic human right.

Facebook obviously disagrees.
The only technically person who matters here, the one who came from deepmind and who is the worlds top AI researcher, is sure as hell not going to follow him since he’s the reason Sam is gone.
Whoops, turned out to be right :^).
Spawning a new process doesn't require changing the parent's environment.
I mean phrased differently its the 3rd CEO in 4 days, haha.
I emphatically agree, with a caveat: I work in the music business. I've seen homogenous mush before. AI and related technologies have already augmented people in the homogenous mush business, and will most certainly replace them, and this will serve a sort of mass market with mass distribution that's recognizable as 'creative fields' of a sort.

This is self-limiting. It's a sort of built-in plateau. You can't serve the whole market with anything: the closest you'll get is something like a Heinz Ketchup, a miraculously well-balanced creation with something for everyone. It's also a relatively small market segment for all its accessibility.

We cannot be made 'consumerist and mindless drones that simply react like amoebas to advertising' more than we already are, which is a LOT: whole populations are poisoned by carefully designed unhealthy food, conned by carefully designed propaganda in various contradictory directions. We're already at saturation point for that, I think. It's enough to be a really toxic situation: doesn't have to threaten to be far worse.

The backlash always happens, in the form of more indigestible things that aren't homogenous mush, whether that's the Beatles or the Sex Pistols or, say, Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The more homogenous everything is, the more market power is behind whatever backlash happens.

This is actually one argument for modern democracies and their howling levels of cultural tension… it's far more difficult to impose homogenity on them, where other systems can be more easily forced into sameness, only to snap.
550 of 700 Employees OpenAI tell the board to resign
It probably was supposed to be "poach" and got autocorrected to "porch"...

but... it's a happy accident of new imagery. I imagine "porching" someone could mean to poach them... and then sit them on a nice rocking chair on the front porch, give them some lemonade, and make sure they do absolutely nothing.

(Kind of like how big companies acquire small, yet competitive, companies for no other reason than to put them out of business.)

I don't think Microsoft wants to "porch" Sam in this case, but they are happy to poach him and put him to work.
> 2. Microsoft can quite seamlessly pick up the ball and commercialize GPTs like no tomorrow and without restraint. And while there are lots of bad things to say about microsoft, reliable operations and support is something I trust them more than most others, so if the OAI API simply is moved as-is to some MSFT infrastructure thats a _good_ thing in my book.

OpenAI already runs all its infrastructure on Azure.
You should never store unencrypted secrets, like this export file, on an unencrypted disk. Not even temporarily.
Instead, create a small encrypted drive on a pendrive or as a file with LUKS or Veracrypt, mount it, and save the file _directly_ there.
different kinds of smarts. Ilya is allegedly a brilliant scientist. Doesn't make him a brilliant business person automatically
> If you're going to make a move, at least stand by it.

Why would you stand by unintended consequences?
He didn't make it up, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction . The extinction (so far) is of other species not humans.
Yeah they replaced her after she tried to rehire Sam and Greg seemingly against the board's wishes.
Would you say Wikipedia has had a significant impact on society?
Correct.

I paid a 20$ fee once years ago.
The Last Jedi was an abomination, filled with misdirection for misdirection’s sake, at the cost of a coherent or entertaining narrative. It’s also filled with awful postmodern tropes that it conjures out of nowhere. “Hey, it turns out there are ancient Jedi texts” But their whole purpose in the film is so that they can be burned and discarded. “Oh, they were never all that important anyhow, just make your own rules.”
LOL, you speak as if he's some gamer who just got screamed at on Call of Duty.

He is now the 'effective CEO' of OpenAI. He still has to go to work tomorrow, faced with an incredibly angry staff who just got their equity vaporized, with majority in open rebellion and quitting to join Microsoft.
What is a doomer hijack?
I really don't get the comparison of nfts to llms. I mean yeah some hype cycle idiots have redirected both of their brain cells to shilling useless startups that'll get obsoleted by minor feature additions to bard or whatever in a year, but who cares about them? NFTs didnt do anything but enable fraud.

Llms do stuff that has value. I can use Rfdiffusion with motif scaffolding to create a fusion protein with units from enzymes that have no crystal or cryoem structures with as high as a 5-10% success rate!!!!!! That's absolutely insane! I only need to print 20 genes to have a chance of getting a variant that works. Literal orders of magnitude improvement. And if you don't have a good multisequence alignment for getting a good folks from alphafold? Pure llm based esmfold can fill in the gaps. Evodiff is out here generating functional proteins with disordered regions. Also, to bring it back to openai, if I ask chatgpt to write some code, it writes some pretty decent code. If I give it a bunch of PDFs and ask it to give me a summary, it gives me a summary. I don't buy the agi end of the world hype so a shift that means that we get more focus on d eveloping useful tools that make my life easier that I'm totally willing to pay 20 a month for? Yeah I'm down. Get this cool tech and product into a form that's easy to use and useful and keep improving it!
I don't think you're wrong per se, but I hesitate to say that the problems we have are that everyone individually but also en masse decided to move to the suburbs and also drive big honkin' cars everywhere, all the time. I think it's more likely there were systems and incentives (both economic and cultural) that led to this. I think this is actually good news, because it means we can fix this with some (slow) cultural shifts and (less slow, hopefully) policy changes. If we really had to directly convince 10,000,000s of people to move into townhomes we'd have no hope.

(FWIW I've lived in lots of places, tiny apartments, townhomes, big apartments, single rooms, mcmansions, old houses. I've been lucky enough to more or less choose them--most people live wherever they can--and for the last ~10 years have chosen tiny apartment. I like the idea of living small, they're a lot more maintainable, cheaper, and I used to move a lot so having a ceiling on the amount of stuff I could have was real attractive)
> 'Luxury Software' hasn't become a thing […]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
Given that IIRC they trained on Azure, how does the conflict of interest play out when both sides are starving for GPUs?
The larger problem Germany and other European countries have is over regulation. Startups are like brand new babies... easily suffocated by government and bureaucracy.
Yep, but companies need to pay tens or hundreds of thousands a month for AWS to run it for them.

I feel like we are ripe for another turn of the on-prem/off-prem wheel.

Then, of course, once it's all back on-prem we will once again have price gouging monopolies (probably in software) and someone will have the bright idea of moving everything to... what will they call it next time? Maybe "the grid" instead of "the cloud?"
“ Finally, late Sunday night, Satya Nadella announced via tweet that Altman and Brockman, “together with colleagues”, would be joining Microsoft”

Called it, EEE is complete. This is old Microsoft magic. I hope younger people starting their careers are taking note. All that money gates is giving away to buy his way into heaven came from the same tactics.
Murati was yesterday's CEO
It's pretty naive IMO to think Google isn't going to come out with something that threatens OpenAI or Microsoft. It seems to be "they didn't do it yet so they won't ever" is the majority opinion here, but they have a ton of advantages when they finally do
Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency
If you see "beating GPT-4" as an actual goalpost, then sure. Google doesn't; their output reflects that.
And these people are building AGI?

No transparency on what is happening. Whole OpenAI who apparently are ready to follow Sam are just using heart emojis or the same twitter posts.
The main reason I take distance information in Star Trek, and space combat distances in both Star Trek and Wars, not seriously. They had to engage in what is basically hand to hand combat because both ships had to fit on either a TV screen from the 60s or the the cinema. Hence the close, perceived, distance.

The only SF series getting that right, potentially as an other way around budget issues, is The Expanse. The just show space combat on the control screens of the engaged ships. Makes more realistic as well.
Smog is air with drugs. Bad water is water with drugs.
The value was based on e direction Altman was taking the company (and with him being in control). It's silly to think just replacing the CEO would somehow keep the valuation
Employees of OpenAI tell the board to resign