skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. I think a significantly better approach would have been to vote for the elaboration of a "checks and balances" structure to OpenAI as it grew in capabilities and influence.

Internal to the entire OpenAI org, sounds like all we had was just the for-profit arm <-> board of directors. Externally, you can add investors and public opinion (basically defaults to siding with the for-profit arm).

I wish they worked towards something closer to a functional democracy (so not the US or UK), with a judicial system (presumably the board), a congress (non-existent), and something like a triumvirate (presumably the for-profit C-suite). Given their original mission, it would be important to keep the incentives for all 3 separate, except for "safe AI that benefits humanity".

The truly hard to solve (read: impossible?) part is keeping the investors (external) from having an outsize say over any specific branch. If a third internal branch could exist that was designed to offset the influence of investors, that might have resulted in closer to the right balance.
Containerisation for High Performance Computing Systems: Survey and Prospects
yeah!

and also:

let's all jump on a call, set kras so we stay on the ball, up our team work to get that perk, get our messaging right, so the kpi chart goes up and to the right.

go team! play ball!
https://youtu.be/9zxPozP4yoM
I want to find a model for the financing of "TV" show production that does NOT depend on a centralized "studio" making the funding and cancellation decisions.

That would probably look like raising funds to produce the first couple of episodes from investors, then funding the continuation of the show through episode-by-episode revenue (based on viewership) and/or donations from fans.
How’d that work out for them?
A trip to see Chicagoland Sears houses
The example is a "majority function" that ignores one of its operands.

That is, f(A,B,C,D) is true if at least 2 out of the 3 values B,C,D are true.
People are scared of change. Particularly where those changes require mass acceptance of uncomfortable truths.

Intellectually it’s obvious that society has to come to a reckoning over our current way of life if we’re going to get a handle on existential threats like climate change and endemic disease.

Emotionally it’s appealing to hear someone say that those hard truths don’t actually exist, and even if they do exist they don’t matter.

Societies are reactionary by nature. Until avoidance hurts more than denial we’ll opt for the latter every time. Argentina is by no means the first place where voters picked the guy peddling emotional comfort over the other candidates. The US may very well head in the same navel-gazing direction soon.
Have you looked into his policies at all?
A lot of software is business processes I.E Money.

You don't want money and ledgers going out of sync. That can be serious.
I have neatwork-level DNS Ad blocking and I'm fairly certain that's causing me to have the same issue. If I use my phone on wifi, I get blocked, if I switch to LTE then it works fine.

Edit: And I have too much going on in life to track down exactly which blocklist is causing the issue
I used a german tax calculator and put in a 200k Euro income and it told me my take-home would be 102k. I dunno if I screwed it up or anything -- I don't know a lot of German tax law.
You have a bad headache. Try trepanning! You never know!
This story was obviously seeded someone in Altman's faction, or at least sympathetic to him. Their bluff got called at 5pm and nothing has been heard since except crickets.
It’s private relay for me.
X2 had just come out, and AOL (among others) had been advertising the new connection speeds. Didn't do me much good with my external 9600 baud modem.

My mother has a friend who was an engineer at US Robotics at that time. I must've been 11 or 12. I told him how I loved going online, and he found out about my ancient modem, and said he was going to send me an upgrade.

I was expecting a used 28.8 or even 14.4, but a few weeks go by and package comes. I come home from school and a shrink wrapped 56k X2 Sportster is sitting on my counter.

The difference was incredible. Connecting at 5x the speeds I used to get was life changing. I used that modem for at least seven years before broadband came along.
Sam Altman has inside information on OpenAI's current and future hardware needs. Sam Altman as CEO, was in a position to direct OpenAI's current and future hardware purchases.

How can he separate those concerns from having his own hardware initiative put together precisely to serve OpenAI and its competitors hardware needs?

Without an agreement with the OpenAI board on how these conflicts of trade secret information and executive power can be settled (Significant shares in the new company for OpenAI?) no competent board would put up with this.

This situation smacks of the ethically questionable transition to a closed/profit organization, after receiving initial funding based on their being an open/non-profit organization. (Apparently the original funders didn't retain any veto power over such a transition, to the regret of at least one significant donor.)
Because these are candidates that rely on themselves as individuals instead of collective projects.
Uh … no? It’s practically impossible to win a suit with Microsoft to that degree inside a decade. And by then you’ll have lost anyways.
O(n) describes limiting behavior as n → ∞. In the process of getting to infinity, you will necessarily cross capacity limits.
> Although buying the hardware from the devil doesn't feel like the most comfortable thing

I mean, if you want to get religious about this, okay. But at $374 I doubt Google is making much money from the hardware itself. They're likely counting on the value of getting/keeping you in their ecosystem. By installing a privacy-focused ROM you're beating them at their own game, if that makes you feel any better.
> Presumably this code works for me if I'm using it.

Sure, it all seems to work for now... and then a customer signs up from Tuvalu, and performs a billable action at 11:59PM on the last day of the month, and your whole billing system falls over because they now have a split invoice generated for next month while it's still this month.

> But what if I'm not the author, or even a Python programmer? Is attempting to make a naïve change, in a code base I don't understand, likely to add or remove bugs?

Anyone other than the developer of the code, shouldn't be attempting to re-pin the runtime the code depends on to one with a different major ABI version.

The problem, of course, is that most programming languages don't have a concept of "pinning the allowed runtime version like any other dependency"; or of the runtime exposing an ABI version that increases for every breaking change. (This second could and should just be the SemVer major-version of the runtime; but for some reason projects aren't fans of bumping their major versions for every little breaking change. Personally I think we should "let marketing win", and just allow projects to expose an ABI version independently.)
This is right. Cheap seats enable lower income people to travel.

Airfare is (generally) cheaper than when it was regulated.

That being said the US rule that requires airlines to give you 24hr window to cancel a flight after booking is great.
I think this assessment is a likely accurate story. But I disagree on the takeaway and predictions.

> The current structure of a non-profit board without much else in place should not be running a critically important company like OpenAI.

This seems insane, given the alternative of running it like your typical YC startup.

> I believe that the longer-term problem of safe AI is important, but you don’t do that with sudden shakeups of the founder and an exodus of half of the employees. OpenAI has been doing something special for a long time, beating the likes of better-funded research organizations like Google or Microsoft. It’s probably in everyone’s best interest to keep the team together.

I'm so curious about all these takes about everybody leaving if Altman is out. And it's weird to support it by talking about the long-time specialness that existed before Altman was so day-to-day involved, and that has been under tension for a long time too (see all the departures that lead to Anthropic existing). They didn't oust him out of nowhere. The schism is there and either side winning doesn't magically make for unity.

I have no idea which side I'd root for, but these takes that the board massively screwed up all look very one-sided, ignoring the disagreements over the massive pivot openai has undergone in recent years. I'd bet we see lots of people on the "losing" side leave openai over the next months regardless of the outcome.
Uh, GitHub link? This sounds awesome!
I assume he would support his claims with server logs and such.
Getting off the peso means a huge loan to buy all the existing money to get it on USD. It'll be real interesting to see if it can happen. Argentina has and can be great. I wish them luck.
Slicing the state to zero and instating hard right social policies is not going to fix anything. Argentina needs a steady hand at the wheel, not this nut job.
Good-quality cassettes on a reasonable cassette deck sounded "good enough", especially when played on the same equipment as they were recorded on. They may not have given 100% reproduction of the input signal and may have introduced some noise - although Dolby B/C noise reduction mostly dealt with that problem - but that did not matter. Cassettes made it possible to record what you heard - music from the radio, those LP records you borrowed from friends or the library, later even data - and reproduce it more or less as often as you wanted, when you wanted it.

To this day I remember which song came after some random song I hear played somewhere because I happened to tape that on my cassette deck when I was in my teens, fingers poised on the play + record buttons on my cassette deck, waiting for that song to start. I do not remember the less than 100% fidelity, tape hiss, wow and flutter or other similar defects because they mattered far less than the fact that I got to record 'my own music'. I still have those tapes in the barn somewhere as well as the cassette deck I used to record it, it'll need new rubber belts before it can play anything again but one day I'll get those and play those old tapes again. Not for the fantastic reproduction but because of the fact that these are my tapes. Cassettes made that possible.

Now pre-recorded cassettes, yes, those were less than optimal. They were not popular where I lived (the Netherlands) and I never got one, preferring to buy LP records which sounded better and came in nice sleeves etc.
> they won't integrate any copyleft code they can't relicense.

Right, that's exactly the controversy, people are scared of the code being relicensed.

Rather than a CLA, a limited license grant from contributors to allow dual licensing but not the transition away from AGPL might potentially be a way to provide that kind of funding and to close off companies building proprietary products on top of Element without contributing back, while simultaneously decreasing the danger of the code being relicensed entirely; which the company is claiming they have no plans to do anyway.

The inclusion of copyleft code into Element that isn't owned by the company is the safety measure, accepting contributor-owned GPL code is a way for companies to credibly signal that they will not move to a source available model in the future. Sure, a separate upstream could be maintained, but unless Element is planning to pull from that upstream repo then a separate upstream is indistinguishable from a hostile fork and an abandonment of Element as the primary contributor. It's not about the repository, it's about whether the flagship implementation of the Matrix server code has the possibility of being turned into a proprietary product.

If we're going to go with a different upstream, what we're saying is that Element is not going to be providing the flagship implementations -- and I don't think people are eager to make that kind of decision.
Exactly this. This incident has proven MSFT’s strong hands without a board seat and they don’t really need it if things do/did go off the rails.
Probably only a few decades until homo sapiens sapiens joins that list. We depend on biodiversity far more than we appreciate.
This is why I've started watching a lot of Asian entertainment. Kdramas and cdramas are nice in that they generally are planned to last for 1 season and one season only. it's nice to go into a show knowing you'll definitely get a resolution.
I’m struggling to understand this argument. The size of memory that you can address on any particular hardware is fixed, just like the word size for additions. Restricting yourself to a smaller part of that address space in software won’t change anything about how the address is decoded.
The public suffix list servers the purpose to only separate (sub)domains that are reasonably expected to be controlled by different owners.

Many systems - ex: rate limits, malware domain lists - would be very easily and cheaply gambled if domain owners could "disown" subdomains at-will, just with a change in DNS. There's a fairly long review process to get onto the public suffix list for exactly this reason.

There's also the historical aspect, that DNS is a much older technology than the need for the public suffix list. Mozilla at the time couldn't expect that all registries would adopt a new standard quickly or at all. Since there was a need for this information for browser security improvements, the list was born, and gradually become the de-facto standard source of such information.
It's always funny when the people of a democratic country get into trouble by electing bad people, then suddenly decide to fix everything by electing the very worst person they can find.

That ought to do the trick!
Hence the term "anthropocene" for the current era.
> What exactly is left to wreck?

Wikipedia says Argentina is currently 47th on the HDI scale and 66th on the GDP (PPP) Per Capita. Failed currency or not it can get a lot worse. Not saying it will or will not, just that objectively Argentina isn't that bad even with the semi-permanent crisis.
It was also nice for cars at the time. There were 8-track car head units, but those were very bulky and only held ~80 minutes of audio.
Friends don't let friends make bad graphs
Oh yeah, I agree completely with everything you're saying. There but for the grace of God go I and all that.

I really hope this works out well for Argentina. Everyone deserves to live in a healthy and thriving society. I'd just have more confidence if the candidate's scientific views aligned with mine, but that's implicit. :)
He should retain HN's favorite internet economist and Greek politician. I think Varoufakis would be pretty useful here.
ctrl+f in the list is still a lot easier to find something even if just file name, but most systems use id3 tags so artist/track/album are accessible.
what do you mean by "accepting"? To me accepting means being a night owl and not being bothered by it or its social repercussions. sorry, mixed with the note about the health event, it sounds like you sleep nights now, but that clashes in my mind with "living as myself" and "accepting". not trying to say it is contradicting, just that I did not fully understand it.
Human-driven climate change is a scientific consensus at this point. Denying it is like arguing the world is flat.
Following the stated logic the parent could be charged for child endangerment for not paying the extra $50.
This situation is no different than it was when Synapse was licensed under Apache, though.
Serious question...

Do Saudi/Middle Eastern sovereign money funds often invest in gay founders/executives?
Having those people quit could be a feature, rather than a bug.

If that "vision" is the thing that you're worried about, because you think rapid commercialization is actively dangerous, then you may very well have a reason to want to completely blow up the commercial side of OpenAI. Even if it gets reconstituted elsewhere, you've at least created a speed bump by forcing it to get reconstituted.

It's inconvenient that in the medium to long term that means you wind up with fewer GPUs for the True Cause(TM), but at least the people you have working on it believe in that cause, and at least you haven't actively accelerated some destructive outcome.
Tried it but it seems it only works with Cuda 11 and I have 12 installed. Not really willing to potentially screw up my Cuda environment to try it.
Obfuscating is an easy word to understand. Only 11 letters. You, sir, are phantasmagorical. (16)
Yeah even though I agree with the COI being a large concern and potentially a justifiable reason for firing him (especially if coupled with other instances of him withholding key information from the board), it's clear that the non-profit board might have emotional reasons aside from the common good.

Even just the "you keep lying to us, bro" emotional motivation might be enough (not necessarily rational) motivation to fire; despite the person being otherwise qualified for the job, loved by employees and investors, etc.
Stuff like this does the kind of damage that doesn’t show up on spreadsheets, which is the most sinister kind.

I also suspect that this is what distinguishes particularly remarkable companies: their ability to suss out the immeasurable details that matter.
What do you mean he shouldn't have bothered. Quick recap:

1. OpenAI was founded to study and create AI/AGI as a non-profit with Elon pledging half a billion, and other investors also pledging.

2. A fraction of the funds are wired. Elon waits until this "grant" is almost spent and places an ultimatum "make me CEO or you don't get a cent."

3. Board (back then made of different people) says "scram". He resigns and takes his money.

4. OpenAI scrambles to find sources of funding. Microsoft is interested.

5. They create the for-profit branch owned by the not-for-profit company to deal with Microsoft's projects and investment.

So in that sequence of events, no one had a choice. Elon lied to them and tried to force their hand, they chose integrity and had to find a way to survive or cease to exist.
Ecuador and El Salvador both use the US Dollar as their official currency. It isn’t as if there is a lack of precedence when it comes to ditching your own currency for something more stable.
Their actions were reckless and irresponsible. They are currently picking their successors. The incompetence is staggering regardless of motive.
A suggestion under factory automation: Techtonica https://techtonicagame.com/

If you like Factorio or Satisfactory, this will scratch a similar itch.
> The US may very well head in the same navel-gazing direction soon.

The US train pulled into that station right around 2016.
Evidence isn't the only valid form of argument. Consider a mathematical proof or a thought experiment, for example.
Ah yeah that might be it. Thanks for the clue, I’m going to track it down.
Difference between "legally required" and "above clown car level professionalism".
Those people have kids and mortgages and car payments. And are very well compensated. They aren’t gone by this time next week. Is there any precedent for that? Nobody does that.

Yeah sure eventually he could poach people and it’s always possible that this is the beginning of a transition but there’s some seriously magical thinking going on here.
1899 was the final straw for me too. It’s a miracle they even renewed “Love, Death & Robots”.
meh this is not that good. Sounds quite boring.
The doomsday vaults storing seeds, data and DNA to protect our future
> Clearly several people felt strongly about him enough to threaten (and go through with!) resignations.

What fraction was it?
To be clear, I'm not trying to make their argument for them since we spent probably 1 day working around it. I'm just passing along an anecdote. One day, Vary header stopped working on one CDN and we had to fix it. When I spoke to our account rep (I literally had a weekly call with them due to our usage) he said they were phasing it out for performance reasons. Not long after we got notice from another CDN asking for similar consideration. I have no inside knowledge as to their infrastructure or systems that made this a requirement. I very much doubt it was the cost to hash, maybe more likely something to do with their network topology and how requests were routed from origin to regional tiers to PoPs? I'm totally speculating here.

If this had been a necessity then I would have probably dug into the request more deeply. It was a "pick your battles" kind of thing. Extremely low cost on our side to change, no reason to bother if they claimed it would decrease problems on their side.
If I have a million dollars to donate to a charity, is not a donation nor an act of charity because most people don't have a million dollars to donate?

It's near certain that every person on HN is in the top 20% of intelligence in the world, and probably in the top 20% in their country. Are our actions and achievements less meaningful because we are lucky enough to be smart?

If someone has the ability to donate months of their life volunteering, I see no reason to diminish or demean their actions simply because I or other people couldn't do it.
I personally agree with this, from my limited experience. I would push back slightly though, and say they're a magnet for people with personality disorders, like sociopathy or more often just narcisism. Their character gives these people incredible validation and a lot of social capital. They also create an environment in which they're able to more effectively manipulate, exploit, and bully people.

That said, I love working at nonprofits.

Edit: I don't have any position on how this applies to recent event though. From my limited understanding of those, it's simply a difference of opinion.
Accelerating Orchestration with In-Network Offloading
Decades of Peronism a headache? Analogies only go so far.
Sure but even then, what goes in the head of someone voting for the "take a wrecking ball to the establishment" candidate and then votes for a traditional party candidate for parliament? Why can't those populists point out they will need the legislative to actually do much?
Again, that's why you need the one-unit-that-loses-you-the-game-if-it-dies.

> there's not much you can do; is that fun?

since when is losing supposed to be fun? I don't want to give my opponent chances at a reversal. I want to win, reliably and assuredly.

I don't know what the 'indestructible' unit has to do with any of this, even the most impenetrable fortress has weaknesses. You have to declaw a turtle slowly and methodically, or just straight up overwhelm their defensive lines. A turtling player cannot be everywhere at once, they have weaknesses.
Hint: it’s not hard to figure out my approximate age from my user name…
His vicepresident has strong ties to the military (specifically to the sectors that made the last coup in the 70s). He has publicly opposed abortion rights, same-sex marriage, feminism in general, publicly denies climate change, is against gun control, and a large etc...
He is not only economically but also socially on the far right of the polítical spectrum here.
I think, though, that your argument depends very directly on hardware implementation concerns, which is exactly the kind of thing that big O notation is meant to abstract away.
I’m still sad that the society won’t get another season
I think Hardspace: Shipbreaker belongs somewhere on this list. (https://www.focus-entmt.com/en/games/hardspace-shipbreaker)