skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What that gets laundered into:

[Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has\-a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which "white" people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one's body, in one's mind, and in one's world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts' appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness's infiltrated appetites-to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning ("never again") or as temptation ("great again"). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure.]

— psychoanalyst Donald Moss https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34039063/

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"Whites learn to be white. That suggestion by Thandeka is that whites are not born white. They have to become white. And her suggestion is that white children who were not white originally - they were born human. Little by little, they have to be abused into becoming white humans. And this abuse is sometimes physical - of being physically disciplined into whiteness, such as being bullied into whiteness. That's a phrase I like to use, whiteness as bullying, but it's also psychological and cultural, and it becomes with caretakers and guardians. Not the least of which - the more important caretakers are of course the white family, parents etc. but it extends to the white nationhood as a caretaker, the white social system, the white social welfare, the white governance system. They also discipline and abuse white humans into whiteness."

— Education professor Zeus Lombardo

as a couple more egregious examples. The extra fun part is that the terms are chosen that you can talk about white people and whiteness as horrible evils, or how Noel Ignatiev said we should "abolish the white race" and when people understandably get offended, you can say it's just a concept, why so angry. That wouldn't fly with any other ethnic group.
I'm not making an argument for or against thr free market, I'm making a an argument about human nature. If we want people not not do something that they see as beneficial for themselves (and the negative effects are not necessarily obvious or are spread enough that they're easy enough to rationalize away), we need to make it so it's not longer so easy to see as purely beneficial. In this case that's likely either policies or laws that prevent it.

The government is just a bunch of people much of the time, and emergent behavior is rampant, so I don't think it's useful to complain about the government doing things we expect them not to when those expectations haven't been clearly communicated through laws or policies. If they have been communicated, then we're looking at corruption, or at best incompetence, both of which we have ways to deal with.
You actually don't want to wait for your engine to warm up beforehand unless you are going to immediately punch it or go on the highway. Your engine warms up multiple times faster under a light load than it does idling.
The FCC says new rules will curb SIM swapping. I'm pessimistic
ublock origin works fine on YouTube, if not, couldnt this just be a filter rule?
The regular HN commenter says "ceos are bad useless and get paid too much" but now when someone suggests getting rid of one of them suddenly its the end of the world
because tvs used phosphors it isnt really on/off 50hz just a slight light dip.
You have to open the widget board on Windows to be shown the news widget that the OP was talking about. There's separate Start and widget board buttons in the taskbar.
Typically it would be framed amicably, without so much axe-grinding, particularly for public release. Even ChatGPT itself would have written a more balanced release, and advised against such shenanigans. I enjoy that irony.
Send a few bytes of data onto the SD card on lamp installation. If GPS can do it all in one then that is probably better given how cheap the units are these day.
hosts file won't work for the in-line ads present in YouTube. The ads are served from the same domain as the video you're watching.
1t would be the 100x times 10B. I guess in absence of public information, we could assume anything. Default terms of unlimited, 100x for 1T or some arbitrarily lower number
I think he needs the twitter hype and bots to boost his brands and stock value. I wouldn't be surprised if he were funding these bots to boost himself.
I dont: i think the person who wrote lol presumed it was, as i said.

Fwiw i had several years of Latin so the etymologies in this case are kinda fun.
> If, on the other hand, a military AI starts autonomously killing civilians, or fighting its "handlers", then I would call it "unsafe"

So is “unsafe” just another word for buggy then?
I am also hesitant about working (even free) third-party tools into my workflow.

What?
Cool! I recently wrote my own user script to do the same thing. It's going to be very hard to patch or detect this, as updating video element props don't trigger DOM updates. They would have to either do lots of JS prototype trickery or check for playback rate when doing adblock detection. One thing to keep in mind here though since you're doing DOM lookups every time anything on the page changes, is that there could be some small overhead in page render time, and also that using fixed CSS classes means any small change to page code could break the checks. In case it's a problem in the future, checking .innerText is a hacky way to workaround it.
The attention he got because of Twitter has always been overwhelmingly negative, by his own doing. Do you think the guy who founded Tesla and SpaceX needed any more media attention?
We are a board for a company whose stated mission is to develop AI tools to better serve the needs of humanity. The CEO has secretly piloted the company towards alternate goals of profit. We fired him on Friday but think it was a mistake. Who knows. Anyways, how can we rehire him?

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Rehiring a CEO whom you've recently fired is a delicate process, both from a legal and business standpoint. Here's a general approach you might consider:

1. *Board Meeting*: Convene a board meeting to discuss the decision to rehire the CEO. This should involve all key stakeholders to ensure transparency and agreement.

2. *Legal Considerations*: Consult with legal counsel to understand any legal implications or contractual issues arising from the initial termination and potential rehiring.

3. *Negotiation and Terms*: If the board agrees to proceed, you'll need to negotiate new terms with the CEO. This might include discussions about the future direction of the company, salary, and any conditions related to the rehire.

4. *Addressing the Underlying Issues*: It's important to address the reasons that led to the initial firing. This might involve setting clearer goals aligned with the company's mission, establishing better oversight, or implementing checks and balances.

5. *Communication*: Once an agreement is reached, communicate the decision to rehire the CEO to your employees, stakeholders, and possibly the public, depending on the nature of your company. This communication should be clear about the reasons for the reversal and the future direction of the company.

6. *Monitoring and Evaluation*: Finally, set up a system for regularly evaluating the CEO's performance against the company's mission and goals to prevent a recurrence of the previous issues.

Remember, the rehiring process should align with your company's bylaws and any relevant legal requirements. Transparency and clear communication throughout the process are crucial to maintain trust among your stakeholders.
Steve Jobs did take a bunch of Apple employees with him to NeXT. All of them, no, but enough to build something better than what Apple had built.
I think the larger issue here is that there's just not enough of that nvidia hardware out there if Microsoft decided to really play hardball, even if it hurts themselves in the short term. I don't know that any of the other cloud providers have the capacity to immediately shoulder OpenAI's workloads. JPMC or Apple have other clouds they can viably move to - OpenAI might not have anyone else that can meet their needs on short notice.

I think the situation is tough because I can't imagine there aren't legal agreements in place around what OpenAI has to do to access the funding tranches and compute power, but who knows if they are in a position to force the issue, or if I'm write in my supposition to begin with. Even if I am, a protracted legal battle where they don't have access to compute resources, particularly if they can't get an injunction, might be extremely deleterious to OpenAI.

Perhaps Microsoft even knows that they will take a bath on things if they follow this, but don't want to gain a reputation of allowing this sort of thing to happen - they are big enough to take a total bath on the OpenAI side of things and it not be anything close to a fatal blow.

I was more skeptical of this being the case last night, but less so now.
I have two usb-c ports on my desktop. I’ve never used them.

Almost everything that has a usb-c connection can easily be connected with a c to a connector.

My laptop, on the other end, everything I use is usb-c, and everything that’s not is usb-c though a multi-port adapter.
> I don’t think MS is willing to simply throw in the towel on OpenAI because Altman isn’t there there anymore.

Microsoft can exert massive pressure over OpenAI and it seems hilarious to think that OpenAI is the one in that relationship with the power.
calling USB A “legacy” and a “relic” is so misplaced. we all still own USB A devices. I challenge the author to go find a wired keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB C plug. it’s possible, but not easy.

the thing is, we could just have both! this isn’t some winner/loser scenario. the real question should be why these computers with enough bandwidth for 11+ connectors don’t at least split the difference with 6/5 of each. gives device manufacturers enough confidence that customers will be able to plug in the thing they bought, and gives consumers the ability to plug in anything and everything they need. then in 5 years when things have advanced we can start talking about entirely consolidating on USB C.
That analogy doesn't make sense here since all the employees at OpenAI are extremely loyal to Sam. It's just the board that wanted him out.

And regardless of what happens here, everyone on the board is 100% getting fired.
>house collapses in 15mph wind

Why didn’t they hire a competent builder?

You:

>how do you know they weren’t? It could be pure happenstance! All the nails could… could have been defective! Or something! waves hands
What if AI self improvement is not exponential?

We assume a self improving AI will lead to some runaway intelligence improvement but if it grows at 1% per year or even per month that’s something we can adapt to.
not A -> not B is not the converse. It's the contrapositive. But I understand what you meant.
I'm working on bringing it to more platforms via SwiftWASM but it'll probably be another year or two, sorry.
Or a huge cache of cheaply minable silver is found, or some fancy technology to extremely cheaply extract silver from the tailings of another resource, or a government decides to dump silver reserves onto the market to destabilize some economy somewhere.

I fully agree that the value of silver is very unlikely to crater but it's not exactly Star Trek unlikely.
The irony/sarcasm refers to an old spider man meme. But yeah I am with you!
Developing an AGI is not the same as developing an artificial human. The former is achievable, the latter is not. The problem is many of the gnostics today believe that giving the appearance of AGI (ie having all the utility that a general mechanical intelligence would have to a human being) somehow instills humanity into the system. It does not

Intelligence is not the defining characteristic of humanity, which is what you're getting at here. But it is something that can be automated.
That's not what "fire fast" means. Altman lead the company for years; he was not fired fast.
On the contrary, his online activities have always tanked the stock.
I agree I probably should have said strongly typed instead of safe, as yes, if you dereference a pointer to nil you are going to crash. That being said, I do think "possesses an untyped nil" is a pretty far cry from "not type checked at all". It's certainly much safer than languages like C or C++ which allow type punning, or Java, where both nullables and runtime exceptions associated with types are generally a more pernicious problem.
Regardless of accuracy, thanks for putting the effort in.

I suspect an upmarket villa rarely ended up in the hands of many who started out in the lowest ranks (save for a talented|lucky few grifters with good side earners going on while enlisted), connected sons from well off families who went straight to mid ranking | aide de officer roles and picked up "gifted lands" for service etc were perhaps more likely to get a swanky house on an estate.

That aside, the various Time Team and British digs that uncovered villas in the UK on estates found some very fancy, almost modern, housing with spas, plunge pools, stone ducted heated, etc.

The later Danes seem to have dropped the bar on quality of housing.
That's a great point: above some frequency, the inductance of the system starts to average the voltage like the output of a switching power supply.

I did think of that: I used a camera with a rolling shutter image sensor and manual exposure settings to prove to myself the LEDs were really still getting the full swing at higher frequencies. Also, to be clear, I'm talking about 12VDC COB LEDs with hard on/off PWM dimming, not A/C ripple.

I don't know, but I'd expect the cutoff frequency to be a lot higher. The self inductance of 30ft of 16awg wire is about 20uH. I should test it...
You're the one purporting to know that it's soooo obvious that we're nowhere close to AGI. IDK why you're asking me questions. All of this feels very unscientific, frankly. Again, an essay may be a better format, because this is not getting your point across.
I’m not sure you can call Manifest destiny neutral.
I put it on silent for shows. I turn it off off for weddings and funerals, I'm taking zero chance there.
This passive-agressive back-and-forth: a summary of what happened behind closed doors between Ilya and Sam
They could refuse to deliver the main video content until the minimum ad time has passed?
>Let's look at London. I picked it at random, but it just happens to have a land area around 1500km^2

Um am I really really tired and not reading correctly, or is this confusing linear area with square area? London doesn't stretch from New york to Florida.

186000 miles/second * pulse of .003 = 558 miles ~= 900 km
That's only because the key players have no reason to compete.

They don't want to run a developer/enterprise ChatGPT platform.

Google cares about Search, Apple about Siri, Meta about VR/Ads. But those three are interesting heavily in their own LLMs which at some point may better OpenAI.
SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, Boring Company, are you serious that because of some dumb tweets and a questionable personality or political views not everyone agrees with, you think history will overlook all of this? Not a chance, sorry.
> Measuring light bouncing off a window to hear conversations

Laser microphones are old too. Clear and Present Danger features the use of a laser mic and that was written in 1989.
One of my favorite thought nuggets from Douglas Adams
"Hesitant about" -not the same thing as "refuse to"

I use Xcode. Arguably, it's "free," if you ignore the fact that I run it on a $4,000 computer, but it is also the OS maker's tool of choice.

But each tool I add, each dependency in my workflow, is another rusty link in the chain.

I feel that we have gotten a bit too comfortable with adding ingredients to the stew.

A font isn't really that big a deal (unless you sell them). Things like documentation generators and linters, are more substantial (and I just had to remove both from my workflow, because they don't seem to have survived the shift to Xcode 15).
A space engineer confronts Earth's brutal realities in Gaza
Just buy Premium, no ads and creators actually get paid unlike when you block ads.
> It means we have diversity in media vendors, at the cost of a pretty high cognitive load to just watch something… which app is it on?

So do you have a YouTube, Spotify, and an apple music sub?

When it comes to music, I'm not sure I've once thought "which app?"

The only reason the consumer has to think about it is greed.

For something like this, I'm not sure I'll ever buy a streaming device with a JavaScript interface. Steam has one, and it's slower than the old one by far.

Who am I kidding, I'm not gonna buy it because I don't need Amazon "sidewalk"
> This discovery was always going to happen.

It’s not clearly obvious that’s the case. In retrospect things always seem obvious, but that another party would have created GPT-3/4 is not.
I don’t follow. You’re saying PPUs granted by the for-profit don’t carry a reasonably expected benefit? And that a parent can’t tortuously interfere with a subsidiary? Both are factually untrue. I don’t see the wiggle room here that you do.
>One AI-focused venture capitalist noted that following the departure of Hoffman, OpenAI’s non-profit board lacked much traditional governance. “These are not the business or operating leaders you would want governing the most important private company in the world,” they said.

From https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/17/these-are... (linked in OP)

I'd be interested in a discussion of the merits of "traditional governance" here. Traditional private companies are focused on making a profit, even if that has negative side effects like lung cancer or global warming. If OpenAI is supposed to shepherd AGI for all humanity, what's the strongest case for including "traditional governance" type people on the board? Can we be explicit about the benefits they bring to the table, if your objective is humanitarian?

Personally I would be concerned that people who serve on for-profit boards would have the wrong instinct, of prioritizing profit over collective benefit...
The deal with microsoft would not have been necessary, if they had thought about monetization and investments from the start.

OpenAI had a chance of becoming one of the big tech companies, a genuine alternative, which they threw away in pursuit of AGI and then a deal with Microsoft, when they realized that AGI wasn't coming soon enough.
I'm ready for it. My desktop has a half dozen usb-c adapters stuffed into various ports and hubs.

Usb-c cables are the most versatile. You can get all kinds of pigtails and adapters to turn them into anything else. Other connectors don't have that property of universality, because they don't have enough cables.
> must be evaluated extensively for safety before being released to the publIc

JFC someone somewhere define “safety”! Like wtf does it mean in the context of a large language model?
Personal archival isn't exempt anymore, that dropped some years ago. The only archival exemption now is for "qualifying institutions".
I don't even have any devices that use USB-C. Not a single one. The only USB-C cables I have are for charging phones.
It wouldn't be a good idea in a regular business, for sure.

But non-profits aren't a regular business and their ultimate obligation is to their charter. Depending on just what the level of misalignment was here, it's possible that the company becoming nonviable due to terminating Altman is serving the charter more closely than keeping him on board.

No one posting here has enough detail to really understand what is going on, but we do know the structure of OpenAI and the operating agreement for the for-profit LLC make it a mistake to view the company from the lens as we would a regular for-profit company.
Agreeing that the board has a right to do something does NOT waive one’s right to complain that it is a mistake to actually do it.

Never been a fan of the “you can’t complain about any bad outcome you agreed could happen” argument.
But why would Microsoft do anything to hurt their business in any way? They are almost certainly more furious for the way they found out than the actual action taken. Given how much Microsoft has bet their business on OpenAI (ask yourself who replaces bing chat? Why does anyone actually use azure in 2023?) being surprised by structural business decisions in their most important partner is shocking, and I think if I were the CEO of Microsoft I would be furious at being shocked more than pining in some weird Altman bromance.
One criticism of Apple back in the Ive days was the lack of practicality. I like the fact that Apple relented on the MacBook Pros and they have an HDMI port.

I don’t want to have to use dongles unnecessarily.

> Apple fanboys/fangirls/fanothers: even the Mac Pro includes two legacy USB-A ports (admittedly it also has four Thunderbolt ports). Why is this relic of old tech cluttering the clean design of an Apple product in 2021?

This is naive. The chip hardware support to have 2 extra USB A ports is nothing compared to having two extra USB C/Thunderbolt ports and USB C/Thunderbolt is overkill for many situations.
A person can be remembered for the companies they founded, professionally, and at the same time be remembered as, personally, "just another eccentric rich idiot".
> The entire specification fits comfortably on a single page

But to understand the specification and how it can be used to do a programming, you need to have at least a cursory understanding of turing machines and related theory, which isn't necessary to learn Java or python.

Under your definition, the conceptually simplest language is something like SUBLEQ, (the specification is only a single line!) but in this case, being able to implement the language, and learning the language aren't the same thing. Learning the language generally means, like, useful for given purposes.
>would head over to Sam’s startup

Why? I see a lot of hero-worship for Sam, but very little concrete facts about what he's done to make this a success.

And given his history, I'm inclined to believe he just got lucky.
you can also compare their traffic acquisition cost ($49B) with R&D ($39B), and decide they are traffic brocker and not tech product company.
Unfortunately not. The exemption dropped some years ago.
> You can't do that effectively and be distracted by your phone all time.

I think the differentiator is that some people can and do remain effective at a primary task while handling a multitude of distractions, and that this trait strongly indicates high ability overall.
All the necessary context for anyone capable of figuring it out is in the OP.

If you need more than that, you can stay poor with the rest of the people leaving comments as idiotic as the one I replied to.
50s, and even 60s era Rockets were smaller, with fewer engines and didn’t attempt crazy aerobatics while stopping and restarting engines.
If you have Problems in the chrome webstore than you could Build This for Firefox.
“I will tell you a secret: Dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby. Running anything is primarily an enormous amount of grubby detail work . . . dealmaking is romantic, sexy. That’s why you have deals that make no sense.” - Peter Drucker