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> The code is usually the same code I'd get a few web searches away

My impression is that people normally don't use Copilot as a substitute for finding solutions (ChatGPT is much better for that), but as a way to help with otherwise tedious tasks that are really specific to your codebase. Check out 6:05 and 6:25 in this Andreas Kling video for a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxubNQC5O8

Regarding your second point Copilot helps me when I least expects it. I think the video illustrates what I mean with that as well.
I've done DDD a few times, and every single time was a mistake. The solution fit me like a glove, but nobody else really understood it. Some of my best coworkers could modify it, but they still frequently did things "wrong" and overcomplicated things.

I've basically sworn to never do it again.

I didn't know that I was doing "DDD", though. I was just trying to make it easier to make changes that I knew were common.
The key line:

“Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAl employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join.”
It was a dark and stormy night off the coast of Maine. The winds were howling, the waves were monstrous, and there I was, stranded on my lobster fishing boat in the middle of a hurricane. The sea was a ferocious beast, tossing my vessel around like a toy. Just when all seemed lost, a figure appeared on the horizon. It was Sam Altman, riding a giant, neon-lit drone, battling the tempest with nothing but his bare hands and indomitable will.

As he approached, lightning crackled around him, as if he was commanding the elements themselves. With a deft flick of his wrist, he sent a bolt of lightning to scare away a school of flying sharks that were drawn by the storm. Landing on the deck of my boat with the grace of a superhero, he surveyed the chaos.

"Need a hand with those lobsters?" he quipped, as he single-handedly wrangled the crustaceans with an efficiency that would put any seasoned fisherman to shame. But Sam wasn't done yet. With a mere glance, he reprogrammed my malfunctioning GPS using his mind, charting a course to safety.

As the boat rocked violently, a massive wave loomed over us, threatening to engulf everything. Sam, unfazed, simply turned to the wave and whispered a few unintelligible words. Incredibly, the wave halted in its tracks, parting around us like the Red Sea. He then casually conjured a gourmet meal from the lobsters, serving it with a fine wine that materialized out of thin air.

Just as quickly as he had appeared, Sam mounted his drone once more. "Time to go innovate the weather," he said with a wink, before soaring off into the storm, leaving behind a trail of rainbows.

As the skies cleared and the sea calmed, I realized that in the world of Silicon Valley CEOs, having a "Sam Altman saved my butt" story was more than just a rite of passage; it was a testament to the boundless, almost mythical capabilities of a man who defied the very laws of nature and business. And I, a humble lobster fisherman, had just become part of that legend.
That's why Hitler was an American plant. Cui Bono? De facto US hegemony for almost a century. Obviously, Hitler was a way for the US to destroy Europe and put them under the boot. What an operation!

HN geniuses were talking up Ilya Sutskever, genius par exemplar and how the CEO man is nothing before the sheer engineering brilliance of this God as Man. I'm sure they'll come up with some theory of how Satya Nadella did this to unleash the GPT.
I suspect you meant something more independent, but technically yes, AWS provides this: https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/

While SES can handle both inbound and outbound mail, I think Workmail is the only way to get IMAP and actual hosting of email. I imagine you could set up https://mailinabox.email/ on the cheapest EC2 instance and use SES for outbound, though.
I think they specifically meant in the context of this site. When the title doesn’t have a date here, the assumption is more-or-less “fairly recent.”

It is an odd post though, it really is like just a couple comments, and then the real content is in a link in one of the comments

https://trixter.oldskool.org/2011/06/04/at-a-disadvantage/

So the actual content is a 2011 article talking about historical processors.
Hangover is supposedly also withdrawal.
Ilya signed it??? He's on the board... This whole thing is such an implosion of ambition.
This was handled so very, very poorly. Frankly it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone, especially if they end up getting almost 500 new AI staff out of it (staff that already function well as a team).

> In their letter, the OpenAI staff threaten to join Altman at Microsoft. “Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join," they write.
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What point are you trying to make? This person was literally telling the journalist how she NEEDS this subsidies to be able to live; what's she going to do when it goes away? Do you think she will magically become able to pay for the commute?

Argentina has a lot of problems, of course it does, but if people need help it's not because they're "living off the state" it's because even with the jobs they have they don't have enough to live. This is very much a different set of problems that's unrelated to subsidies to healthcare, education and public transportation. Of course there's a lot of unnecessary handouts in Argentina, for one, gasoline is way too cheap (for example). This money is effectively helping out the people that have the most money in the country (because the poor use the public transportation, they don't drive their own cars) and would be a good angle to start tackling the financial irresponsibility problem.

Do you think Milei will get rid of the subsidies to gas? Well, he's not mentioned it.

I'm not making an assumption here on what she might be thinking, I'm saying she is effectively voting against her own interests by her own words. If you look at reasons why people are voting for Milei it's not because "Argentina needs to stop having a strong-state", it's because people are sick of the politicians that are offered by "the other side". They don't want traditional politicians from any side, and at this point, Milei is the one that presented himself as an alternative. It might very well be an extreme-leftist that rises to power; it just so happens that right now it's the right wing and the libertarians that have a much better understanding of these "outsider" dynamics; a lot of it spear-headed by Trump in 2016 and then Bolsonaro in 2019.

But I'm not going to be surprised when we start the actual extreme left raising up in a few years because it'll be the exact same phenomenon just with another sign.
500+ OpenAI employees ask the board to resign
Plenty of them can go to Google, Anthropic, Apple, Tesla, Amazon or any other attractive company to work for. By attractive I mean they'd be compensated well enough to have a nice life there.

There's not a lot to suggest everyone will jut join M$ by default.
If it weren’t so unbelievable, I’d almost accuse them of orchestrating all this to sell to Microsoft without the regulatory scrutiny.

It’s like they distressed the company to make an acquisition one of mercy instead of aggression, knowing they already had their buyer lined up.
It seems odd to have it described as “may resign.” Seems like the worst of all worlds.

That’s like trying to create MAD with the position you “may” launch nukes in retaliation.
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if AGI is as close as autonomous cars, I think we are going to be ok.
It's a surprisingly engaging movie even if you don't care about Go or AlphaGo. Which is kind of impressive if you ask me. A movie that's worth watching if you don't care about the subject matter.
He's still a genius when it comes to AI research, I wouldn't think twice about hiring him for that role.

That said, no one is going to put him on a corporate board again.
At this point, I think it’s absolutely clear no one has any idea what happened. Every speculation, no matter how sophisticated, has been wrong.

It’s time to take a breath, step back, and wait until someone from OpenAI says something substantial.
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Why would the Message-ID (that you assign) not work for this purpose?
Perhaps the SNS notification doesn't include the message-id?
setTimeout(function() {
c();
a.resolve(1)
}, 5E3);

The actual code. They went and actually hardcoded a 5 second delay.
"New knowledge" cannot be "found" from an existing teacher - any given teacher can only teach what they know

Ways of learning, methods of discovery, etc can be learned - but as to knowledge, you cannot exceed what any given teacher teaches from the teacher ... which is precisely how this post started :)
I think we really need to see that Ilya demonstrates those principles and it wasn’t just a power grab.

You could also look at this as a brilliant scientist feels he doesn’t get recognition. Always sees Sam’s name. Resents it. The more gregarious people always getting the glory. Thinks he doesn’t need them and wants to settle some score that only exists in his own head.
You are 100% missing something. You don’t see the current value nor potential of what these LLMs are capable of.

They are as “dumb” as they will ever be right now. To act like it’s just a chat bot is the silliest take.
Do you think newspapers and magazines haven’t been selling your data for decades?
Managing a large org requires a lot of mundane techniques, and probably a personal-brand manager and personal advisers.

It’s extremely boring and mundane and political and insulting to anyone’s humanity. People who haven’t dedicated their life to economics, such as researchers and idealists, will have a hard time.
I think Alastair Graham's work on Michael Jordan's outsize influence at the UN should be accounted for. You've failed to do that.
Alpha Centauri is simply a weird earth. I think that a game around long-lived creatures that colonize a galaxy and have to work with relativistic effects could be different and fun. At some level it builds on all these different ways of looking at time. Breathe some life via simulation into this tongue-in-cheek interstellar economics: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
> What gives me pause is that the goal is not an IPO, retiring to a yacht, and giving money to causes that do a better job of soothing the guilt of being fabulously rich than actually making the world a better place.

Ouch. Is that really the ideal vision of founding a SV startup?
I’m a Vim guy and I’m very impressed with VS Copilot, but:

- Not enough to switch (yet, at least)

- I would have to carefully review the generated code, which is not as fun writing

The license issue is something I expect will be solved in the next few years (a dropdown menu to choose from, maybe).
No way in hell.
GPT-4 Turbo took control of the startup and fcks around ...
Yeah, what the hell?

Do we know why Murati was replaced?
This is wild. They're going to have to respond to this, in no trivial way. Either they lose all of their employees, or they could lose their partnership with Microsoft. The board has very little wiggle room right now.
Why would you change the path just to call posix_spawnp()? If you want that control, that is an indication that you want to specify the path to the executable, not use PATH.
Do whatever you want but don't break the API or I will go homeless
Is there anything that would persuade you this isn’t some sneaky media frenzy orchestrated by Altman?
Normal ads are perfectly fine to show, so it's only the privacy violation that's in question.

I genuinely don't think you should have even the ability to give up your privacy, for the same reason we don't allow people to sell themselves into slavery, or give up the right to a fair trial, or give up your freedom of speech, even if it's clearly written out in a ToS that you are giving up those things.

I think there should be a bunch of fundamental rights that all humans have, and there should not be the possibility of selling or give those rights up.
At least can I have the movie rights?
You’re obviously right. Nobody has ever hired a general contractor and regretted it. Housing would be better if it was all sold flat pack by a mail order monopoly and assembled by local contractors.
I have refrained from commenting on this situation due to the persistent lack of outside transparency, not knowing enough to make a judgment on the specific motivations everyone involved in this had/has and will reserve making a full judgment for the time when we finally get a more clear picture.

However, I will say that seeing Ilya as one of the signatures on this letter has given me severe whiplash. I was fully aware that I knew very little about this situation beforehand, but now I feel like I know even less.
Yeah, I used to have black office sandals that I wore with my black socks. No one noticed that they were not black shoes. I stuffed them in my office locker overnight. Worked a treat, no longer sweatty office feet...

Though it was a toss if I changed them when going out for lunch, usually I did not even in winter time (London). Though as my last non-WFH gig the team had a habit of having "lunch" standing outside a pub it was sometimes a little chilly in January..

(I still have my last pair in black, which I am not sure they sell anymore https://www.crocs.co.uk/p/mens-swiftwater-mesh-deck-sandal/2... )
It’s strange that I got misread by one person as a fuzzy-headed hippie and by another person as a cold-hearted extractivist.
He didn't strike me as a type to brainlessly FA.
They're personal, but it's just a fun city to live in. Besides, I've spent too much time on that damn paperwork to give up!
what do you mean "nearly 500". According to wikipedia openAi has 500 employees
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Name a single instance or person who has all their physical needs met by an LLM?

Seriously, we're a long way off technological utopia. Even if we had some type of AGI/ASI that was self-aware like in movies ,there's little if any evidence to suggest it will just work for us and make sure you're ok.
Crazy that all of this was predicted on the actions of two (apparently inexperienced) board members who bit off way, way more than they could chew.

Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I think even the most greenhorn of finance majors would agree that axing the superstar CEO in a surprise coup isn’t traditionally good business.
"global average temperatures are a good example: where is the zero?"

I don't know.

"The average surface temperature on Earth is approximately 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius), according to NASA"

But I know if the average temperature increased 0.5 degree C and I show a graph with the scale 14 to 16 degrees over time and the headline "world average surface temperature exploding" then this is excellent clickbait and a nice graph, but it is misleading on the first look.
For people who appreciate some vintage British comedy:

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The whole thing is just ridiculous. How can you be senior leadership and not have a clear idea of what you want? And what the staff want?
I believe you could, but the one time I saw it done in practice it confused the heck out of most of the client devs and ended up being rewritten (this was an API talked to by multiple teams who were within the same megacorp but far enough away organisationally to be effectively 'just' users).

I might consider using it for an API whose primary purpose is to support a specific client app that I also control, so users running older versions of the client app still get the desired results, but I don't think the additional elegance is a suitable trade-off for a general-use-by-others API sadly.
I read the news, make a picture of what is likely happening in my head, and every few hours new news comes up that makes me go: "Wait, WTF?".
Makes it more possible the ouster was led by the Poe guy, and this has little to do with actual ideological differences, and more to do with him taking out a competitor from the inside.
In the old days you had to pay the phone company for them to not list your full name, home address and phone number in the phone book that every household had.
> We can say fro big-tech the same for oil, penecilin or gmo's. What does it mean to be human when we, all humans, are the sons and daughters of big industry for profit ventures?

That is why we should be cautious about technology instead of inviting it with open arms. It is a question we should continue to ask ourselves with more wisdom, instead of relying on our mass global capitalistic system to deliver easy answers for us from the depths of the profit motive.
The OpenAI board's messaging around this has been absolutely atrocious. The reporting had Ilya at the center of getting rid of Altman, and how he's signing a letter asking the board to resign? Maybe he was trying to do the right thing, but he's absolutely destroyed his credibility as a leader.
Not them but it’s not a good look to spend 10B in a bet for zero control. Also to spend months building up to an acquisition (there’s no way that wasn’t what Sam was trying for) only for it to result in the firing of the CEO who was trying to sell his company to you.

This looks terrible, and all of these “Sam is the real winner” posts are cope
See, the caching mechanism in HTTP/1.1 is actually quite nicely designed in the sense that you can completely ignore it: don't look at any caching-related fields, always pass the requests up and the responses down — and it will be correct behaviour. But when you start to implement caching, well, you have to implement it, even the inconvenient but mandatory parts.

Yes, I know (and personally experienced) that most clients forget to include "Vary" field, or don't know that it exists, or the problem that this header solves exists) but when they do include it, they actually mean it and rely on it being honoured, one way or another.

PS. By the way, 7230 is obsoleted, you're supposed to use 9112 now.
How has it been messed up for you ? Would going back to medieval times fix it?
I don’t know about OpenAI, but Ive been in a few similar business situations where everyone is in a good situation and greed leads to an almighty blowup. It’s really remarkable to see.
Same here on Firefox, for both my laptop running Windows 11 on Alder Lake, and my desktop running Ubuntu on Zen 2.
Lambda functions in Python cannot contain statements (you couldn’t do a try/except block, or a while loop); they cannot have assignments, or multiple expressions. They don’t feel syntactically as expressive as other functions in Python.

Your composition and curry are OK, and related tools exist in standard libraries. The lack of a first class support is a minor annoyance but not a showstopper, and the solutions are not as natural as genuine pipe notation (you can’t simply write left to right and generate text autoregressively). The lambda limit was more real in my mind and I hope Python eventually corrects it.
I heard it was because she tried to hire Sam and Greg back.
From outside, it looks like a Microsoft coup to take over the company all together.
Unless he thinks that all the LLMs and ChatGPT app store are unnecessary distractions, and others will overtake them on the bend while they are busy post-training ChatGPT to say nice things.
I wonder how many people are on a path for a $250K/year salary instead of $30M in the bank now.
Updated tweet by Swisher reads 505 employees. No less damning, but the title here should be updated. @Dang
> The most recent attempt to establish one was extremely unpopular and famously stopped in 1945.

that's one way to say it
I think the names listed are the recipients of the letter (the board), not the signers.
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Apparently she tried to rehire Sam and Greg.

I don't think she actually had anything to do with the coup, she was only slightly less blindsided than everyone else.
505/700 -some sources say 550
Sorry, but how has the market spoken? Not sure how that would be possible considering that OpenAI is a private company.

If anyone is speaking up it's the OpenAI team.
SES does not allow the caller to set the id of the message and instead assigns one when you make the call.

It is a bit painful for idempotency.
Are they not, or is it a money thing? Billboards are fairly ubiquitous.
What a mess this has become. Regardless of the outcome, this situation reflects badly (to say the least) on OpenAI.
Celebrity gossip dressed in big tech. And the people love it. I'm kinda sick of it :P
Even if you consider all externalities, trade is positive-sum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking
I have personally noticed this many times. I’d blink and wonder if it was just my eyes going bad but nope, soon as I select HD quality manually I can read text again.
I think this mainly means they dont pay out dividends to shareholders
It definitely was not
If only this much energy were placed in an outrage against what we are doing to the climate...shows where the prorities lie. Money.
So Ilya Sutskever first defends the board's decision and now it is 180 flip. Interesting ...
I was in Vegas a few months ago and sightlines to the Sphere are everywhere, whether you're coming in from the airport, in your hotel room, various parts on the strip and while you're flying in/out. Really not sure how they could replicate the success of the Sphere anywhere else.

The Sphere is kinda meant for Vegas because it's an insane conception and perfectly suited for a city like Vegas that's equally insane. IMO the only other place this would work is Dubai.
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> It doesn't cost anything to write a computer program, yet we still charge for that service.

We largely don't go "it'll be $5000 for your website, but $7000 if you want me to write it without XSS vulnerabilities" though.
> Personally, I think all three have merits - because otherwise, why didn't the Saudis and other financiers go and pull an Altman on Musk? It's not Musk's personal money he's burning on Twitter, it's to a large degrees other people's money.

Of the $46 Billion Twitter deal ($44 equity + $2 debt buyout), it was:

* $13 Billion Loans (bank funded)

* $33 Billion Equity -- of this, ~$9 Billion was estimated to be investors (including Musk, Saudis, Larry Ellison, etc. etc.)

So its about 30% other investors and 70% Elon Musk money.
What equity?
I woke up and the first thing on my mind was, "Any update on the drama?"

Did not expect to see this whole thing still escalating! WOW! What a power move by MSFT.

I'm not even sure OpenAI will exist by the end of the week at this rate. Holy moly.