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Can't find the original thing I read with a more direct statement, I remember it being an anonymous source (on twitter maybe?) with inside info. I did more digging and found a few other things.

There's this [1], a NYT article saying that Microsoft is leading the pressure campaign to get Altman reinstated.

And there's this [2], a Forbes article which claims the playbook is a combination of mass internal revolt, withheld cloud computing credits from Microsoft, and a lawsuit from investors.

[1] https://archive.is/fEVTK#selection-517.0-521.120

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-in...
What are the odds that, if Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, it would remain a non-profit? From everything that the news has covered since his departure, it seems that the board is committed to the non-profit mission, but Sam runs OpenAI like a for-profit startup company. I imagine if he returns, the board will be replaced with people who share Sam's vision and OpenAI will drop the façade of public responsibility and non-profit mission and start optimizing for money.
AI doomers will say this is the beginning of the end.
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Why Russia / Ukraine? There is nothing particularly notable about this conflict compared to others. War has always been war.
He is one of the most well connected people in tech and probably responsible for all of their partnerships and fundraising success. His departure in this fashion would make it really hard for them to raise as much money as they will need and potentially put them on a blacklist of a lot of YC companies. To top it off he'd probably raise a few billion and poach half of the team.
> This calculation only works if you encode at constant bitrate.

This will need to be your average bitrate over the entire file, but the bitrate doesn’t have to be constant. It can (and ideally should) vary widely between static scenes and action sequences, for example.
For what it's worth, I doubt any negotiations will be taking place in the OpenAI office. They've been negotiating since yesterday.

The board doesn't work from the office (they're not employees), and there's absolutely no way they'd negotiate on Sam's home turf.

It's been noted that Satya is leading the negotiations on Sam's behalf, and he's certainly not in SF.

Rather, this is a show of solidarity from the OpenAI team. I bet the plan is to be together when Sam is reinstated.
I completely disagree, the local time is the only useful part of ISO 8601.

The big problem here is that it does not use timezones, but UTC offsets. Timezones can and do change their UTC offsets, completely breaking all future timestamps saved in ISO 8601-with-"timezones". "08:00 UTC-02" is ambiguous, "08:00 America/Nuuk" is not.
It seems clear that there weren’t specific reasons, just a kind of final straw in the product announcements that made the board realize how far from the original mission the company had drifted.

Turning it into an emergency and surprise coup with innuendo of wrongdoing looks to have been a huge mistake, and may result in total loss of control where a more measured course correction could have succeeded.
bad article. paywalled
That’s ok, thank you for having a look!
This is a bizarrely combative way to discuss this. Can you please instead tell me what you think I should be doing?
Windows Server Core.
But the candy stores are in some popular places that are otherwise interesting to visit. Same as Angus Steakhouses. The winning move is to look at the sights but bring a packed lunch.
Post-colonial practices continue to structure European security assistance
Can we please arrive at a more systemic root cause proclamation rather than "stop doing the destruction"? How about some 5 Whys analysis?
The only thing I could think of is automatic syncing between devices. I have tried various options for this on PC, but this simple looking problem is far from solved.
Don't need to cooperate with other board members when you can just start declining their Venmo requests
I'd further argue that while Citizen Kane might have been an important movie for moving the genre forward, it certainly does not fit the criteria of "a movie everyone should watch".
I prefer https://vidcoder.net/ on Windows, which is an alternative Handbrake UI
It’s not a really a “big lie” when they are upfront about RLHF. The H stands for human.
Altman has been the CEO of OpenAI since early 2019, so he has been there for the whole journey from GPT-2 to GPT-4/ChatGPT and the company's shift to mostly focusing on LLMs over RL/robotics/other stuff. I can't say I know much about the degree of his involvement, but my gut feeling is that he has been heavily involved in steering the company's direction and efforts.
Prat – slow, unscalable, centralised revision control system
Ah ok, thanks. I tried the other demo.
Wow, that’s really surprising to hear. I hope you have found a different font where this is super-clear.
Government is how we got into this mess by limiting the supply of housing through zoning.
Allow people to build up the unit in their backyard or in their garage and you'll unlock a whole new section of housing supply that will drive the bottom of the market down
I live in the Yukon, I’ve never felt better than when I go to bed with the sun, even in winter.

When your body sleeps for 14+ hours, it’s telling you something
I'd chalk it up to good intentions and a lack of experience. But they definitely bungled it, at a level where you have to wonder if there weren't any adults in the room.
AI can already write scripts that match bottom of the barrel entertainment like the fast and the furious movies. The resultant content will absolutely be engaging for the majority of the population, and it can absolutely contain surprise and transformation while delivering a world view.
Also, not everything is a file. Tabs should apply to all edges of all windows, including top level windows, not just one edge of only windows with files in them. And you should be able to drag any window out to top level and it still has its tab attached, then move it around to any position along any edge, or hide it, and of course snap windows together along their tabbed edges, either tiling or overlapping.

How do you control all of that? That's where the pie menus on the tabs come in, of course. Thanks to the tabs, you can even pop up pie menus on windows that are completely covered up, and perform commands on them even though they're not visible, like bringing them to the top (stroke up) or down (stroke down), or closing them (diagonal stroke for confirmation submenu, then stroke up to confirm), or whatever (paste into terminal emulator, evaluate code in editor, etc).
Sentry releases a large variety of software. Some of it is licensed under OSS (which, yes, I will be pedantic about, because OSS is one less character than FOSS, and I do not believe in copyleft).

Several of our core services are licensed under the FSL (previously the BUSL). Some of that code was open source a _long_ time ago, some was never open source. Most of our projects are licensed under permissive licenses, including many projects which other companies rely on _to directly compete with us_. When I say "the majority of Sentry is open source" I mean that literally, both with many older versions of our software being more free than any copyleft license would make it, as well as many of our "hard" technologies being open by default.

None of my points are irrelevant beause you're all over this thread suggesting bad faith by Sentry, by our employees, by others in the community. You seem to have an awful lot to say about how harmful Sentry is, and how harmful some of our employees are who have been contributing in significant ways for their entire career. That is definitionally toxic, and exactly why HN has such a bad reputation.

Is the messaging on that URL you found misleading? Yes, and we will improve upon that, but that doesn't make you right. You just continue to look like someone with a grudge who is wildly misinformed, making demands as Anonymous Internet User #67.
FTA: "Altman is thinking about returning but has told investors that if he does return, he wants a new board and governance structure"
No self-hostable sync.
They have that, it’s Windows server core.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat...
On paper, yes. But good luck with that in the real world, as you can see from the unfolding mess.
https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTa...
So they just are the certain size category shops. Usually small as the retail spaces are not supermarket sized. Thus they don't get benefits from scale and end up being expensive.

The reality is that there is no big retail spaces near tourist attractions. Or those are much valuable when split up. Thus you end up with smaller stores that do not benefit as much from scale.

If you do not like the prices, just travel enough to find equivalent of Walmart...
I used to drink yerba mate almost daily (higher caffeine content than average coffee) because I thought it kept me in the game. At one point I had to go on very strict diet due to health issue so took one week break. I never felt urge to drink it again, my avg energy levels are higher, and anxiety levels lower since stopping (2 months so far)
looks like arc is changing the ui space quite well
I live in Mallorca and the amount of retailers and services that only take cash is significant, it includes:

- several Palma bus lines (if you don't have the bus card)

- the most traditional bakeries, tailors, dry cleaners and so on

- 95% of the traders in my local municipal fruit and veg market

- 95% of the traders in the largest antiques market

- many cleaners, gardeners, painters, physiotherapists, swim instructors, yoga teachers etc

In addition, many places will offer one price for cash, and another for paying with card, and we know what that's about.

I've had to relearn having cash on my person, otherwise you can't get what you need several times a week.
Hmm. How common is this. Like out of 100 people who get bitten and no medical treatment what happens if they don't get medical treatment?

I'm guessing less than one person dies. And less than 1 gets sick.
Paypal has this same scam going, but they charge up 6% plus and you'll still get the 3% FTF from your card company.
OpenAI is not a "thing", the workers are a thing. OpenAI is nothing if the engineers/scientists leave the company to work somewhere else if Altman leaves.
According to reports, the head of research and other senior staff have said that they will resign if Altman is not restored as CEO.
There’s no real evidence that the board is considering bringing him back. Team Altman is firmly in place as part of the global elite (that’s not an insinuation he literally attends Bohemian Grove) and has lots of connections and influence.

That’s pretty clearly where the stories are being sourced from. The narrative that the board was begging to get him back emerged all at once in an organized fashion.

Doesn’t prove it’s not true, maybe they are. Stranger things have happened. But definitely not something to take on faith without a clearer statement from those on the other side of the conflict.
It’s pretty good for 95% of the things. You will eventually hit walls where it breaks down sooner or later (ipv6 …) but otherwise, it is basically like working in a persisted docker container.
If I had to bet, I'd say it remains a non-profit but with significant structural changes (such as removing caps on returns and more experienced people joining the board).

Sam has always spoken favorably of the non-profit portion of the company, and he's very aware that the importance of what OpenAI is doing exceeds what a corporation can handle.
I completely agree that there are different types of expertise, but I'd expect experts to know their own expertise and not touch parts of a hypothetical "expert mode" outside their particular expertise.
WOAH! Did NOT expect to be here. I've been playing Zero-k for over a year and it is so. much. fun. I play BAR (Beyond All Reason) and Zero-k with some of my friends.
So if you wanted to remove non profit status from the equation, this is the best way to play it where at the end everybody is going to cheer "yey!", right?
Have you been to China? It's time zone make sense for Beijing and the coast but forces the "Chinese" of Xinjiang to do things at unnatural hours for the convenience of the ruling elite.

It's bizarre to suggest that someone in western Alaska should wake up at the same time as someone in Florida because that's what India does.
Well, now we know that once any putative superintelligence learns how to wave money around, we're doomed. All the preparatory "alignment" isn't going to save us from our own greed.
I think it would really be best overall if they can find a compromise. Both a full for-profit takeover and half of OpenAI’s employees leaving for a new startup would seem to be worse outcomes.
pulling investment would be a hard power. Imagine if Microsoft says the change in leadership and idiotic board means the contract is done, no more compute for openAI and then goes on to back Sam Altmans new company

openai will be writing papers and asking for donations within a weeks time at that point as the rest of openAI quits
> with income taxes you need a convoluted code to address the many types of income possible in a modern society.

Do you? You could tax all income the same way, but governments seem to like having the ability to use the tax code to incentivize certain ways of making money over others.
Altman is the commercial streak of OpenAI. Investors are nervous because that's the part that actually makes money. If it was left up to Ilya, it's unlikely that OpenAI is going to reach it's full earning potential in favor of things that are more research oriented.
Guido van Rossum dislikes map and filter:

> I value readability and usefulness for real code. There are some places where map() and filter() make sense, and for other places Python has list comprehensions. I ended up hating reduce() because it was almost exclusively used (a) to implement sum(), or (b) to write unreadable code.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/08/25/2115204/inter...

Also, comprehensions are inspired by set-builder notation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-builder_notation
> But if given the option, I'd prefer just me and my loved ones making medical decisions about me.

But, in a system with limited resources, it makes not sense to have individuals that need the resources (but don't pay them) making the decisions. Clearly, nearly _everyone_ would say to use every possible medical option on themselves and their loved ones; even if doing so cost other people (with more established and inexpensive treatments) their lives.

For any system where lots of people pay in, and everyone shares the resources, the decisions on how the resources are distributed _must_ be made by something other than individuals in the group that need them.
Surely a rounding error compared to OpenAI
>I think the relevant question is: if you were the pig, would you choose the experiment over being treated as in the food industry?

Any day. The pigs were anesthetized. A slaughter house is a positively horrific experience by contrast.
Easy, they own shares. For example, the nonprofit Mormon church owns 47 billion in equity in private companies including Amazon, Exxon, Tesla, and Nvidia[1].

Nothing stopping a non-profit from owning all the shares in a for-profit.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-10-holdings-mormon-church...
He made paul grahams list of 5 noteworthy start up founders in 2009: http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html

After that he was Pres of ycombinator for a while.

Lucky? Sure. But I'd guess he's responsible for a significant amount of OpenAI's success.
...I can see this use case.

However, if I look up the opening time of a Home Depot in another time zone, I expect the result to be in that store's local time! I'll do the conversion myself. If I get my local time instead, I'll still perform the conversion, and get the wrong result.

You could just decide that any time listed anywhere on the internet should include a timezone... but that would be nuts.
I can sympathize with the idea of a "scientific police force" looking for fraud, but the fact is that we already attempt the appearance of that through peer review.

The problem is that peer review right now only provides the appearance of oversight. Referees are not given the time, money, or resources to really dig into papers and look for issues. I have peer reviewed 4 papers this year, averaging around 3 hours per review. The onus is largely on the referees/editors/publishers to immediately find something wrong in the paper to reject it rather than on the authors to really prove their case. And I mean "immediately". One journal that I review for requires peer reviews within 2 weeks of accepting the assignment, and they will nag you if you do not have it done within a week. If the onus must be on the referees, they need to be given much more time and resources, and that might even include money, and also might include waiting for reproduction of the results before publishing.

"Publish or perish" also plays a big role here, because scientists need to get papers published to prove they are productive and worthy of funding and employment. Authors will just re-submit their manuscripts to different journals until they are published rather than re-evaluating the research in any fundamental manner (is my methodology flawed? etc.). So putting the onus on referees isn't going to work in the first place, since peer reviews are not always shared.
> and everyone gets cross and a few months later there's a similar debate like nobody learned anything.

This sums up online discussions for 30+ years.

While some folks never learn, there's also a steady stream of new folks who weren't part of the previous conversations and _will_ learn if given the opportunity. (This is the positive side of the Eternal September.)
Who wants to own ~search~ gpts? (updated 2023)
Steve Jobs was also a schmoozer and hustler with very good product sense.
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> And, as I point out, physical objects have rounded corners for a reason. Computers GUIs do not share that reason.

I knew a guy who poked his eye out on a Windows 3.1 window corner. Super brutal, was running on only 16-colors too. It was the upper left corner, so there wasn't even a drop shadow to help.
Average bitrate would only be possible with a 2pass encoding though, I believe.
It's called the registry. A very long linked list data structure designed to scare experts into using another OS. This process takes time as despair finally wins against hope.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Termux is about bringing GNU and other apps to Android, no need to build against the NDK you linked.
Well that’s certainly in keeping with the tone of those who profess to care about AI safety.
From the employer’s perspective it’s not stupid at all. It ties people to a job, even when it sucks.
Most of us are doing alright, relatively speaking.
Technically, They can't negotiate their return if they have already returned.
I started working after school as soon as I was legally able, which was before the age of 15.

Completely foregoing school to make more than average might be the wrong decision for someone who is 15 or it might completely change that family’s life. Balance would be great.
Arc the browser? The idea of vertical tabs is way older. Firefox has had Tree Style Tabs or variants for a long time, for example.
The reason may be the cost. Four insane-speed ports, especially with DisplayPort routed to all of them, take more resources, more expensive chips, and trickier PCB routing.

My Thinkpad T14 has one USB-C port which works best for charging (also handles Ethernet and slow-speed stuff), and another that works best with an external 4K display. All else is USB-A. But I bought it for $500 used. A used Mac Pro 2019 is like $2500, to say nothing about a new one.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-19/openai-ne... (https://archive.vn/hLl2l)

A group of OpenAI executives and investors racing to get Sam Altman reinstated to his role as chief executive officer have reached an impasse over the makeup and role of the board, [...] Altman, who was fired Friday, is open to returning but wants to see governance changes — including the removal of existing board members, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private. After facing intense pressure following their decision to fire Altman Friday, the board agreed in principle to step down, but have so far refused to officially do so. As of midday Sunday, the board had not resigned out of concern over who could replace them, and were vetting candidates, one of the people said.
They have the GPUs and there's a GPU shortage already. What do you think is going to happen when they lose that access in $10bn compute? Given the shortage and other vendors being mostly locked up already, there's not much OpenAI can do. And that's not considering that the board is facing immense pressure internally starting from the very temporary CEO that they put in place two days ago to various members of senior leadership threatening to resign (with many employees being paid in options dependent on valuations that the board just destroyed). The board may have de jure power but that is nothing without the de facto power associated with it.
Ever visited a proper tourist trap? They’re awful places no sane adult would ever spend time in.

They exist for people who don’t want to actually experience anything unfamiliar when they travel.
The idea of "safety" by self-restraint was always ludicrous. It would disintegrate like a snowflake under a blowtorch in pursuit of profit.

Mind you, the risk of "AI" acting on its own is massively exaggerated. It's AI-wielding humans who are the real unalignable threat.
This reply about how in reality there's very little benefit to the community from the copyright being assigned to the foundation is a lot more perceptive than that comment, especially now that exactly what it foresaw has come to pass: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/571#issueco...
This is awesome, no, I was not. Excellent suggestion.
Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans are great on iOS.
Whole thing is proving what a monumental lie OpenAI is. Was founded by grifters by all available evidence.
Huh? It's the less wealthy in particular who benefit the most from choosing paths less traveled, finding places to eat where the food doesn't carry a 2x or 3x tourist markup and the ATMs are not rigged to scam you. Often these paths are literally a quarter hour away from the worst tourist traps.
All these new typefaces ... I think it is time for a new keyboard design to make use of those cool Unicode codepages. I see so many symbols that would be great to have in new programming languages but somehow we're stuck with ASCII and I think keyboards are the culprit.
Oh as a business or endeavor these cats will be sterile and used as tools. They won't be used to change the population of feral cats
Are you implying that no one ever changes their opinions in discussions on the Internet? :D
To the first point, they’re hugely well known at this point and could probably continue to raise money fine without him. But to your 2nd point, they wouldn’t be doing that in a vacuum. They’d be competing against him, and he could probably still out-raise them to do the poaching.