skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree. Satya's Microsoft is more like Embrace-Extend-Share: he's running it more like an old-school conglomerate --not BillG's "one company to rule them all".

AFAICT, New Microsoft is a platform of platforms with profit flowing down to lower-level platforms (Windows, Azure) but being made in all levels (Office, Xbox, LinkedIn) and shared with others (employees / partners) at some levels.

Satya has basically taken the Bezos insight --use your scale to build platforms that you also sell to outsiders-- and inverted it: use as many platforms as possible to build and sustain scale. This is not new, this is exactly what a conglomerate would have done 100+ years ago. But he's doing it methodically and while breaking fewer rules than Amazon or Google. Mad respect.
That is solid advice. Fedora Cinnamon is a great choice for former Windows users! I haven't used Cinnamon a whole lot in the last few years, but last time I did it felt like the beauty of Gnome with the philosophy of a traditional desktop.

Fedora is also IMHO the most "just works" of the major distros these days, with the exception of if you need the Nvidia proprietary drivers.
How do you guarantee the database contents is in the right state for the given test? Dropping all tables and recreating them with the respective test data is the only sure way. And if you run tests in parallel, you need parallel database instances.
Thing is, I don't know what MSFT will do with all this, and whatever it aims to do, I can only imagine it will fuck it up.

I'm sure you can say many positive things about Microsoft, but they really are good creating and milking monopolies, and extinguishing competition. Will they make a better copilot? I mean mayybe... More likely not I think, suffocating the new team with internal politics. And anyway surely that's a small part of Microsofts offering.

Will they reinvent themselves as an innovative company in the ilk of OpenAI? I don't see that either.

My guess would be that after months of tortured development and much bad blood, they will make a new stab at a new Clippy. And somehow it will be incredibly wonky too.
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My main confusion is still what was the fireable offense ?
Paraphrasing the title of a classic on Latin American literature: "Chronicle of a Foretold Death".

Argentina did this before, in the 90's with disastrous consequences. Just google for Domingo Cavallo and Carlos Menem.

Milei wants to do what was done before and get different results.
This post is a bad analysis.

> While some will praise Satya Nadella and hero-worship Sam Altman, breaking OpenAI into two parts will slow down momentum for LLMs and research while handing even more power to the Cloud and Azure in its future

Except that Microsoft nor Sam is responsible for the breaking of OpenAI. It was the non-profit board. Instead now Sam and co will have access to the Microsoft war chest, funding for more compute, chip design, and datasets so if anything they’ll probably move even faster than before.

> Microsoft taking Sam Atman and his followers in, is like shutting down your best investment just for a short-term benefit. These stories don’t usually end well for big corporations.

Again this makes little sense and its very clearly obvious how this makes long term sense for Microsoft. Also they did not initiate this move by OAI

> It’s the job of Venture Capitalist to praise Microsoft, Satya Nadella, and Sam Altman to vilify OpenAI’s board in all of this.

No it isn’t

> Microsoft eating OpenAI and poaching their talent, is the worst possible scenario for the startup that was just beginning to get momentum.

No firing the beloved CEO of the fastest growing tech startup in a decade and ignoring warnings from 80% of employees that they would quit is the worst scenario for a startup regardless of what Microsoft does

This whole post seems like really bad pattern matching by someone who is anti capitalism and tries to frame every scenario they see in business through that lens
What a total crock of BS. Sounds like this author is emotionally invested in Elon = Bad Man narrative.
The best you can say about this drama is that it's possible the AGI models they've already created might be more competent at managing than they are.
"A plague on both your houses" feels a more fitting classical citation.
Yes, also the whole 500 is probably inflated and makes for a better narrative/better leverage in negotiations.
Those... are all things you can uninstall with a trivial bit of searching for how to do so, And with the upcoming changes forced by the EU, it'll be even easier.
I am somewhat reminded of Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk world where corporations effective own the nation state's that they are headquartered in.
She's also reporting that newly anointed interim CEO already wants to investigate the board fuck up that put him there

https://x.com/karaswisher/status/1726626239644078365?s=20
That's why we won't have legal tender for dollar either.
Adds up when you realize a chunk of the board were not qualified to be in a position like that.

Entity should have never been set up like that.
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The M$ thing just doesn’t have credibility.
C# isn't really my cup of tea, but from what I know about LINQ; I'd say that's code, not data. You couldn't put that expression in a database, read it back and interpret it without some serious hoop jumping.

The lines get blurry in Lisp, since the code is explicitly encoded as a data structure (tree).
>So you hired coupers but you would never hire...coupers? Did you not know about their coups cuz that's the only way I can see that makes sense here. Could you clarify this, seems contradictory...

You might have missed this from GP's comment:

>>I’m not sure I can identify exactly who is liable to start a coup

In other words, at least once these people have pulled the wool over their eyes during the hiring process.
This all really only made sense to me in context of Ilya being a True Believer and really thinking that Sam was antithetical to the non-profit's charter.

Him changing sides really does bring us into 'This whole thing is nonsense' territory. I give up.
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That’s how you know it’s real. Too crazy for a book.
In this rare case it's not the internet... there simply is nothing worth coining "Data Driven Design". It's a mantra from within the Clojure community that has given rise to a questionable book named "Data Driven Design".
The term of the profit is of course a difficult matter of interpretation, but the charter is still profit, instead of e.g. ethics or benefits for mankind, on some time scale.

I'm not versed in US law, and common law is quite a thing to verse for a layman. But e.g. here's a non-layman's quite clear view: https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2012/04/our-continuing-s...

At least in Finnish law it's very plainly clear: "The purpose of a [limited liability] company is to make profit for shareholders, unless otherwise indicated in the bylaws."

("Yhtiön toiminnan tarkoituksena on tuottaa voittoa osakkeenomistajille, jollei yhtiöjärjestyksessä määrätä toisin." Osakeyhtiölaki, luku 1 pykälä 5)

Edit: For contrast, the purpose of universities (and thus, at least in theory, university researchers) is by law to "promote free research and scientific and cultural enlightenment, give highest education based on research and raise [their] students to serve the fatherland and mankind". [pardon for some awkward to translate phrases]
Well, you seem to have some weird definition for the word "exactly".

"8AM" is exactly time without a timezone. "8AM at local time (local defined by this procedure)" isn't exactly that.

Perhaps you mean something like homomorphic. It is almost perfectly homomorphic. But if you define your types that way, you'll push yourself into the most useless ones you can get quite quickly.
The only problem with this account is the idea that Ilya thought he could persuade the people of the evils of Sam. One of the most confusing parts of this whole debacle is that Sam was fired on Friday, multiple renegotiations have gone on, public statements from the new CEO, public statements from Microsoft and yet: Still no one has really said what Sam is meant to have done wrong that would cause him to get fired!

Sure, you can argue that they thought they could persuade people Sam had done something bad.... but they haven't even tried! They've said basically nothing specific about what he was doing wrong.

You would've thought they knew if they were going to do it they needed a bloody good reason yet we haven't even heard them try to justify it.
The good thing for Americans about coins is they are minted and issued without incurring debt. Notes are printed, sold to 'federal reserve' for pennies per sheet, then loaned into circulation which increases the debt which Americans then pay or will pay.

Notes as money is bizarre share-cropping, and USA people would be reasonable to advocate for coins in larger denominations like 10 50 and 500 to avoid borrowing notes into existence.

https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/how-coins-are-ma...

"Federal Reserve Banks buy coins from the Mint at face value."
Yes, naturally. But both you and I know exactly what I meant by this hyperbole.
The safety argument is bullshit, at least in terms of the model itself doing nasty things.

The risk with AI is monopolization by humans using it for nefarious purposes. This risk is reduced through openness and transparency.
There is a long history of governments choosing to use something as a national currency that is outside the control of the central bank -- the US Dollar, gold, silver, etc. It has been tried many times before, and sooner or later it has always led to panics, bank runs, financial instability, and brutally painful recessions.

In theory, panics "should not happen" if banks are properly run. In reality, people can and will panic from time to time, because the rational response to concerns that banks may fail is to withdraw everything from them.

If Milei is successful in getting Argentina to adopt the US Dollar as the national currency, I can confidently predict a future wave of bank runs: A majority of depositors will show up asking to get their dollars out of their banks, which will of course call the Argentine Central Bank to try and borrow dollars... but the Argentine Central Bank itself can run out of them.
If you need to set environment variables for child processes in a thread-safe manner, use execvpe or execle.
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> FOSS Software is good enough

2d CAD drafting is still lacking a bit
> While undermining its safety argument

Which is just political marketing for regulatory barriers to entry lobbying.
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550 Employees who want to get rich on a IPO, versus Scientist who worked for 20 years on AI and wanted a non profit...Who upsets most the Silicon Valley intelligentsia ?
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What on earth is a left leaning currency?
Indistinguishable from most doomsday cults in history, there are a bunch of people who fear that AGI is approaching and that it will pose an existential threat to humanity if the proper incantation isn't used during summoning.

That belief underlies the OpenAI's prevailing nonprofit mission and is the reason for its existence.

Prematurely loosing AI amongst the lay people is their nightmare scenario. Only the technocrat elect can perform the ritual safely and only then if they work together and avoid earthly temptation for power and money.
Bold of us to assume competence. I think they just made a bad call based on poor judgement and don't know how to recover.
Yes - but I do have a feeling they didn't try too hard.
This is a brilliant take.
I guess Microsoft now has a new division. (https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/financial-re...)

Supposedly, they are rumored to compete with each other to the point they can actually provide a negative impact.
greg was also pushed out of the board. It wasn't even a hard decision for him.
Here's my proposal: Introduce a new threadsafe API (`tgetenv` or whatever) which takes _two_ `char *`s, one of which is a return buffer. This leaves allocation as a responsibility of the caller.

And then you can leave the existing syscalls as they are (thread unsafe) while having a separate thread safe version.
If Google or Elon manages to pick up Ilya and those still loyal to him, it's not obvious that this is good for Microsoft.
Ayn Rand heroes are all sophisticated, educated artists and artisans. This man is more like a psychotic Ron Paul (I say this with some affection). He's an anarchist and very Austrian in his economics affiliation. Definitely not an affiliation that Objectivists favored at all.
Probably far less than AdTech and FinTech are doing so.
How about decreasing taxes by a far margin? I used to work as a freelance contractor and I had to put aside 50 cent on the euro because I knew I would get taxed to hell next fiscal year.
Also helped make this - here's a GitHub repo link for an example of the auth and billing implementation: https://github.com/Engine-Labs/gpt-billing-template
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Allegiance to the Altman/Brockman brand. Showing your alligiance to your general when they defected/ were thrown is how you rank up.
A lot of software doesn't modify the environment when exec-ing.
Troubleshooting performance of a Cloud Run Go app
For simple image editing with an easy UI, I use Pinta. If I need more advanced features, I need GIMP. I've never really found a use case for Krita personally.
Clippy was truly ahead of its time… MSFT has been playing the long game all along.
One problem is that marking that function as unsafe would unfairly penalize platforms like Windows that don't have this issue. Even if it turns out to be the least-bad compromise solution, it sure would be nice if we could have nice things.
I've found the simplest option is to have the server respond with the markup for the flash message.

The server can include a couple response headers to override the placement of the message to not affect the existing page state

https://htmx.org/docs/#response-headers

This allows the error to either be added inline in the UI somewhere or (my preference) displayed as a toast by appending to the end of the <body>
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> can just traipse into a $1m/year role at Microsoft

Do you not trust Microsoft's public statement that jobs are waiting for anyone that decides to leave OpenAI? Considering their two decade adventure with Xbox and their $72bln in profits last year, on top of a $144bln in cash reserves, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is able (and willing) to match most comp packages considering what's at stake. Maybe not everyone, but most.
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Who are you talking about? Because the only entity that fits your use of "you" is the government, which is the only party with the power to disallow vertical integration, disallow monopolies, disallow mergers and acquisitions, etc.

And if you're blaming individuals: probably a good idea to reconsider whether victim blaming is the right way to go about things, since no one, not even "the voters as a whole", have the power to make the government do things when the government is one of two parties, clearly neither of which is interested in curbing this behaviour.
It doesn't seem to be, Microsoft is rather the beneficiary of an internal OpenAI split. TFA has a good summary of the events to date, as sibling mentioned.
The weight of the combined egos collapsed in on themselves creating the black hole that is now OpenAI.
If we’re trying to add things up:

6 previous board members.

3 seem ideological and aligned more to the non-profit aims.

2 seem more aligned to the commercial aims to support the non-profit.

That leaves:

1 (D’Angelo) who seems like he would have been commercially oriented but also seems to have a conflict in Poe.

Under that math, just the one vote flipping led from balance to chaos.
they are already doing this. even if you don't give this to them they will just make it themselves. keeping it hidden doesn't prevent china from doing bad things. this doesn't keep this power out of the hands of china it just keeps it out of the hands of the common person.
The scary thing is that these incompetents are supposedly the ones to look out for the interests of humanity. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Not that I had any illusions about this being a fig leaf in the first place.
I doubt it was necessary to write so many repeating statements. Additionally, I'm confused by what is written here.
Imagine being the other candidates who lost to this man.
I sincerely hope that this is the end of the AGI cult. The people who actually want to build useful tools are now at Microsoft, and the cultists are left behind at OpenAI, which is not long for this earth.
The 90s failed mostly because of corruption and failure to reduce public spending though.
> Cannibalizing your biggest investment doesn’t usually turn out very well

Am I missing something here? Altman was fired by the board, without a warning to MSFT. Antagonizing your biggest investor is likely a much, much worse idea - and see the result.
As with many things in life: Hanlon’s razor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Well clearly, the first thing to do is think very very hard about "what would I do if I were a world-renowned economist".
Hey i would also be mad if i were in the rank and file employee position. Perhaps the non profit thing needs to be thought out a bit more.
This is pedantic and unnecessary, but Caesar was undefeated militarily. His battle against Pompey was remarkable because of how much the odds were stacked against him. Most of the senate sided with Pompey because his victory seemed like a foregone conclusion.

Worth noting that Pompey's march was spurred at least in part by Caesar's ambition- Stalwarts of the Republic like Cato and Cicero supported Pompey as the lesser of two evils. In short there's a lot of nuance. (Caesar was also famous for being great to his soldiers, being apathetic about wealth, and inspiring incredible leadership)
https://www.palantir.com/platforms/aip/
It takes forever to load or times out.
Well let's see if their mysterious new CEO, Hugh Mann, can get a handle on things.
given the size and importance of GPT4 its safe to assume that microsoft would use any trick in the book...
Yishan (former Reddit CEO) agrees: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1726525983686287534
The 90s were great for Argentina. Cavallo managed to fix Alfonsin's hiperinflationary legacy.
It took Java long enough. The list of languages that already support string interpolation is... quite long:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interpolation#Examples
One would assume that MSFT, for its $9 billion investment, would have some kind protection against this from happening.

But seeing the shenanigans of the past few days and how MSFT failed to secure a board seat for their $$, it would not surprise me.
Unless there was a serious shadow conspiracy behind this all, it seems like this just kinda fell into Microsoft's lap.
For years, when searching "Firefox" on the Google Play store, the only way to install apps on most Android devices, the first result would be a Google ad for Chrome.
Microsoft could literally burn $10B and not even notice it. They just wrapped up spending $70B in a smaller division (gaming). I don't think this has anything to do with saving face for investors.
Progressive liberalism really doesn't work, does it..
I've posted this here on HN numerous times over the years, and it's been a while since I last posted it:

Google is the new "Microsoft", they embrace, they extend, then extinguish. Look at their email offering, messaging offerings, they built on top of XMPP, then they pulled the plug eventually. Android is Linux based, but insanely proprietary, the app store is not open by any means, you're fully at their whims to get your apps on there. Chrome is basically the IE of old, implementing proprietary things or APIs that are not yet standard for Google products, and pushing out competing browsers.
A new AI winter can explain the facts just as easily as MS covertly stealing OpenAI. We really don't have the information that differentiates those two.

I'm really not sure the MS's entrenched position is all that relevant.
First of all — way faster machine code.

Many other things are features or bugs depending of your preferences. For me, for example, eager evaluation is a big improvement, but YMMV.
Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody's happy
The article makes some statements that feel like conjectures rather than facts. For example “likely many to move to msft” and more significantly “PPUs will be refreshed with MSFT stock and 10mil salaries”.
Extreme progressive liberalism really doesn't work
Of we ignore the risks and threats of AI for a second [..] just hope this helps ro cool down the ML sold as AI hype

If it is just ML sold as AI hype, are you really worried about the threat of AI?
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Haha, agree, it would take longer for sure.

What I meant is, most likely assuming that you are using pytorch / jax you could code down the model pretty fast. Just compare it to llama, sure it is far behind, but the llama model is under 1000 lines of code and pretty good.

There is tons of work, for the training, infra, preparing the data and so on. That would result guess in millions lines of code. But the core ideas and the model are likely thin I would argue. So that is my point.
Sounds like Samsung.