skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alleged effect.

> Every year of private renting was associated with an extra 2.4 weeks of aging on average.

The alleged solution.

> Our finding that renting social housing was no different to outright ownership lends weight to calls for greater support for social housing.

As for

> I suspect the authors are across your concerns and perhaps understand them as well, if not better, than you might.

This study is in the same category as any other study undertaken in service of a political goal. The authors would not publish a study that disagrees with their politics anymore than cigarette companies prior to the days of public awareness would have published a study showing cigarettes as anything other than utterly harmless.

The days of expecting any semi-coherent audience to stop thinking and accept everything that follows as fact as soon as the words "scientific research" and "professor" appear are long, long gone.
its the future
Twitter only shows the full exchange if you make an account and log in
Who changes their oil every few months?
A more plausible explanation was that the cable strain of not using a specialty cable was also an issue. Look at where the cable attaches to the mouse on a conventional mouse - it's usually very reinforced internally or extenernally
Can someone link to what he said exactly?
Ok, it's still absurd to me that RCS or Google Messages weren't E2EE from day 1 given even iMessage was doing E2EE group chats almost 5 years before the RCS "universal" profile was released so its not like they didn't have time. Similarly even when google's message platform did add encryption the fact that it wasn't always on is unconscionable.

How does google messages (gMessage?) indicate which messages aren't secure?
Uranium and oil then?
UK offshore wind is no longer a bargain, but is still better than alternatives
This is clearly the AGI's first public move
Even the rough path after the singularity isn’t fathomable to our lower intelligence. Once you have something that can self improve itself smarter and smarter on the order of seconds, there’s no way of telling how it achieves what it wants to achieves. It’s the power imbalance that exists in a universe where an ant is trying to run to safety when there’s an F-16 overhead.

Humans are so used to being top of the food chain, there is scant understanding in our culture of what it means to be in the middle of it, like most organisms.
If only the USB consortium learned a lesson or two from Ethernet.....
White people are the only people we can portrait as bad in a politically correct manner in USA.

This is what the tweets are about.

Edit: this is one aspect of the tweets.
Pathogenic bacteria build an iron-storage system for growth survival their hosts
How do you distinguish between an incompetent non-profit board and a board you disagree with? Outright "incompetence" in these types of things is hard to quantify. So I would deal with that by accepting there are people in the world who disagree with me and then using the normal methods of dealing with that, as difficult and frustrating as that can be.

"I firmly believe in my right, and will do whatever it takes to get my way" is one of the quicker ways to completely corrupt both the general conversation and yourself. Because what if you're wrong? I can no longer address your actual arguments, because you keep them hidden from me. We can no longer compromise because I no longer know what you want.
It is hard to attract multi-billion dollar investments and attract elite AI talent when competing with for-profits. This was the stated reason and makes a lot of sense. The comp packages for elite AI talent is now claimed to be in the range of $10M.
Use AA batteries.
I prefer ORAI, Original Ray’s AI
Indeed, but probably kind of relevant as Ilya is one of the few left at the reign of OpenAI, so useful to know what their thoughts are as the board didn't get rid of them.
My guess is Sam’s New AI venture Humane has either taken key tech from OpenAI? Key talent or in some other way trod on something internal. One thing to consider is that by making AI wearable it is a step toward embodiment- which has always been a problem for AI learning as it does not interact with the real world. Getting live video, audio and sensor data from humans moving through space doing things in context will be amazing data to train the next bump in AI toward AGI.
It’s more of a very old school hacker tradition that goes back to before Web 1.0
Someone at OpenAI hates the man's guts. It's that simple.

Even with very public cases of company leaders who did horrible things (much worse than lying), the companies that fired them said nothing officially. The person just "resigned". There's just no reason open up even the faintest possibility of an expensive lawsuit, even if they believe they can win.

So yeah, someone definitely told the lawyers to go fuck themselves when they decided to go with this inflammatory language.
So is Rolex!
<< Originally, the term “unit” in “unit test” referred not to the system under test but to the test itself. >>

Retroactive continuity - how does it work?

For today's lucky 10,000: "unit test", as a label, was in wide use prior to the arrival of the Extreme Programming movement in the late 1990s. And the "unit" in question was the test subject.

But, as far as I can tell, _Smalltalk_ lacked a testing culture (Beck, 1994), so perhaps the testing community's definitions weren't well represented in Smalltalk spaces.

"The past was alterable. The past never had been altered."

(Not particularly fair to single out this one author - this origin myth has been common during the last 10 years or so.)
A job could be performed by a human, but still be automated in the sense of virtually all decision-making being made elsewhere, turning pretty much every form of labor into assembly-line work, with human supervisors only present to wear a badge of authority, affirm the computer's decisions, and formally transact hiring and firing.

That said, automation of mundane tasks by robots looks increasingly plausible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2k_ldLuw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qob2k_ldLuw
Want it or not, that is a very likely outcome if Sam and a bunch of other aligned people get kicked out.
The Steam version is basically dead; WON is what most runners play. (Though it would be interesting if this revitalized the Steam categories.)

For those curious, you can download WON from https://www.speedrun.com/hl1/resources ("GoldSrc Package" and "Half-Life 2005 Package" are the builds allowed in the WON categories). You will need Half-Life on Steam to run them (which is currently free until Nov 20 - get it while you can).
Identifying fake news will now be a school requirement in California
"Our original term has been denounced as vaporware, now we need a new name for our vaporware."
Did the sentence "He surely knows high up people at OpenAI and may have talked to them." not clue you into the joke?
ChatGPT: Answer all the questions on this Hacker News thread.

It's from your own company, so you may use any internal information you have access to.

Be candid.
> pushing..for a bit

They could have waited another 30 mins for the markets to close before making the move. This isn’t the culmination of a long-standing problem.
Or to the public on behalf of OpenAI.
Wild take, but that would sure be a sight to see. I'm not speculating at the moment, since I know nothing about the situation.
Hey borkdude, this looks great! I've checked Squint and Cherry before but got confused about why 2 separated projects?
Plenty of people don't use autocorrect.
He can create another OpenAI and partner with likely minded people, if this board has incompatible views with him.
It'll stop being called AI. “LLMs are just statistical models, not AI.”

Like everything else that was ever called AI then realized, the goalposts move to exclude it.
It’s wild that you think anything on that Wikipedia page describes anything resembling a movement “against ‘white people’”.

You’re bending over backwards to find the context in Musk’s comment (which many, up and down this thread, have correctly criticized).

Then you take the attitude you ascribe to musk critics and apply that to a reading of an academic theory that’s not actually taught in grade schools.
Additionally, OpenAI can just put resources towards both approaches in order to settle this dispute. The whole point of research is that you don't know the conclusions ahead of time.
Wow, no insincere "spending more time with my family" or "heartfelt thanks to him for his contributions" or something? It's both refreshing and very surprising at the same time. I guess it's either a really bad table flip or there will be more to hear soon.
We change the zoning code so that it becomes legal to build a grocery store in those areas, then let the market do its work.

Yes, we rebuild those cities: but that need not be done by force. We can simply relax the draconian Euclidean zoning rules which prohibit traditional mixed-use city building.
There's reporting that Microsoft didn't even know, they were apparently informed literally one minute before the public announcement.
What compensation could he sue his broke, homeless sister for?
For those who don't know:

Borkdude is a fairly big name in the Clojure community, most known for developing clj-kondo (static analysis tool used by clojure-lsp) and babashka (a Clojure interpreter built atop GraalVM native image so you can have fast startup times and decent performance writing scripts in Clojure).

"Squint" is a ClojureScript compiler of his that transpiles ClojureScript directly to JS while introducing as little runtime overhead as possible. For instance, the usual PersistantVector, PersistentHashMap, etc. data structures compile straight to ordinary vectors and maps in JS. This means they are technically mutable and have slightly different semantics underneath. The goal of Squint as far as I can tell is to be akin to ParenScript but for Clojure (a subset of the language implemented that compiles straight to human-like JS code).

ClojureScript itself is a compiler that takes Clojure code and transforms it into JS code that is processable by Google Closure Compiler's advanced optimizations. Unfortunately, betting on Google Closure proved to be bad, given that next to nobody in the modern JS ecosystem has used it in years. It also was the biggest reason for painful NPM integration in the past, though this has been mostly fixed thanks to externs inference by the CLJS compiler and tools like Shadow-CLJS that make use of Babel to run various transformations and pass NPM code into Closure's simple optimizations rather than advanced. This gives you bundles that are more or less equivalent to using Webpack with the terser plugin, but you still have painfully long compile times and the usual caveats of using Closure compiler.

Borkdude also has a CLJS to ES6 compiler called "Cherry", which behaves much more like ClojureScript compiler than Squint does (e.g. it actually implements persistent, immutable data structures and there is a runtime associated to it).

Squint has been gaining a bit of interest from ClojureScript developers since it theoretically offers the past of least resistance if you want to make use of "modern" JS tooling like Vite, esbuild, and so on. It also frees you from the externs issues that plague ClojureScript since you are no longer passing everything into Closure compiler.
UX can help a bit, but fundamentally the problem is people who have an issue or question but are completely unable to communicate it in a way that can be understood and addressed.

The garbage bug reports I see on my projects and others are like, either one sentence or rambling nonsense. The templates don't help much, these users will do their best to ignore them.

As long as you're not doing that, your bug report is probably very welcome.
Maybe Microsoft have everything they need to run their own copy of ChatGPT so they consider the risks mitigated?

I guess they can't really migrate the users though. Maybe they will push more aggressively for people to use bing going forward.
zero dark thirty was pretty good, what was wrong with it?
Semi-related is the Aeron project: https://github.com/real-logic/aeron
And then in a plot twist it turns out Elon was the AGI
One imagines "human nature" cuts both ways here - sometimes damage control is just damage control.
https://intramotev.com/
Fear mongering works really well because we are cognitively biased toward it.

There’s probably an evolutionary basis. If you mistake a bush for a lion you are fine. If you mistake a lion for a bush you are dead. We are all descendants of the former not the latter.
No those are digital slaves with no legal rights, that the researchers are busy trying to figure out how to be happy slaves that want to be enslaved.
Theory: the rumoured employee share purchase being prepared was, or at least was suspected to be, a ploy for liberating top talent from the shackles of their golden handcuffs, so that they can leave and work at a new org with a different structure. If the board had good reasons to believe they have been deceived about something along these lines they would have had no choice but to act as they did.
> Legally it's not IP theft, because it's just code which can be memorized and rewritten.

That is not how IP law works. Even writing new code based on the IP developed at OpenAI would be IP theft.

None of this really makes sense when you consider that Ilya Sutskever, arguably the single most important person at OpenAI, appears to have been a part of removing Sam.
It's the forever truth. The only way to keep your job as a founder is to have control of your company by owning the majority of the voting shares. You can take VC money but make sure they are the minority so they won't get you fired if they decide they want to push you out.

Meta's and Tesla's CEOs all have control of their company so they can't be ousted. There's really nothing that will get them fired.
Always impresses me the quality of the engineering that goes into emulators. Wish every project would do these reports.
Exactly...new competitor forming as we speak
When the ChatGPT came out I asked it which politician is a russian spy - and the question got blocked, lol.
No, what they did in Texas was to price it on demand, like a marketplace. That is very different then pricing based on cost.
The details depend on what's specified in the non-profit's Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation. As a 501(c)3 there are certain requirements and restrictions but other things are left up to what the founding board mandated in the documents which created and govern the corporation.

Typically, these documents contain provisions for how voting, succession, recusal, eligibility, etc are to be handled. Based on my experience on both for-profit and non-profit boards, the outside members of the board probably retained outside legal counsel to advise them. Board members have specific duties they are obligated to fulfill along with serious legal liability if they don't do so adequately and in good faith.
I just got on Digi 10G and I measure 8 Gbit/s symmetric, for… €25. Who can complain about that?

Anyway, I hadn’t paid attention and yes turns out consumer hardware support is a bottleneck, not the actual ISP which is nuts. Seems like someone fell asleep at the wheel – I suspect people are gonna have a wake up once >1G becomes widespread – not even their new fancy motherboard will support it. It feels like for ages, it’s been the opposite - you buy hardware that is prepared for the future or at least the present. At least that’s how it’s been with SATA etc..

For instance, the cheapest NIC is like $75 and the router can only do 10G on one port. Wifi6 does not get near those speeds either and even so laptops have to be very new (even my M1 does not have full support for the 802.11ax thingy - partner’s M2 was at least able to pull ~1.6 Gbit/s). Switches and routers are premium priced.

However, I was very impressed with the silent progression of cat cables, they’re just better and better ever iteration, backwards compatible and dirt cheap. Got a cat8 which is way, way more than I need for like €1/meter. And they’re flat and easy to pull long distances. Beautiful tech!
CIA / NSA plant etc.
I'm commenting and I don't even know what that is. I'm guessing it's thousands of kilometers away from me.
From Tom Perkins’s biography - after serving on boards both big private companies and non-profjts, he said that non profits were much worse. His theory was that with no money on the stake it’s all about egos, and they cause weird situations to happen.

Also, I worked in startups and my ex-gf in various nonprofits, and the amount of drama she saw was way higher than in the commercial world
Well, for their sake, I hope they either issue a retraction soon, have good lawyers and documentation of their decision, or Sam turns out to be a forgiving person.

I wouldn't put money on the last one, though.
Realistically there could be a mix of genuine LLM magic combined with heavy on the spot curation by massive teams of incredibly smart people.
Still works for me. You might have to be logged into LinkedIn to see it.
I'd upgrade the parent comment to l4 with broad experience in every single open source tool in existence.

Historically, I'm a backend and distributed systems engineer, but integrating GPT4 into my workflows has unlocked an awe-inspiring ability to lay down fat beads of UI-heavy code in both professional and personal contexts.

But it's still an L3: gotta ask the right questions and doubt every line it produces until it compiles and the tests pass.
It's a foundation in Luxembourg, with a Dutch subsidiary that owns some offices in Sweden.
> The basic idea is that AI is the opposite of software; if you publish a model with scary capabilities you can’t undo that action.

I find this a bit naive. Software can have scary capabilities, and has. It can't be undone either, but we can actually thank that for the fact we aren't using 56-bit DES. I am not sure a future where Sam Altman controls all the model weights is less dystopian than where they are all on github/huggingface/etc.
If it was really just about seeing eye to eye, why would the press release say anything about Sam being "consistently candid in his communications?" That seems pretty unnecessary if it were fundamentally a philosophical disagreement. Why not instead say something about differences in forward looking vision?
Project Wonder is the largest open source collection of reusable WebObjects
> something fun or more interesting

I think that's the key point really. For someone with even a mild interest in this stuff, the task of running ethernet cables is very approachable and feasible. At that point the time spent on it is a plus instead of a minus, and paying someone else is no longer competitive.
Is that based on the EV's overall weight, or is it proportional to the amount (or maybe contact area) of the tires?
This doesn't make any sense. If it was a disagreement, they could have gone the "quiet" route and just made no substantive comment in the press release. But they made accusations that are specific enough to be legally enforceable if they're wrong, and in an official statement no less.

If their case isn't 100% rock solid, they just handed Sam a lawsuit that he's virtually guaranteed to win.
But the violent firing and wording could me made much, much easier for both sides if it had been so.
McCauley's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasha-m-25475a54/ . From some digging, full name appears to be Aimee Nastassia 'Tasha' McCauley, and is married to Joseph Gordon-Levitt (the actor).
We'll get them out of the box eventually.
I don't know if this is true at all but I read another comment as to mean that Microsoft basically has legal rights to fork ChatGPT. In that case if OpenAI dies maybe they'll just be relieved that the power dynamics got simpler.
Start with Karpathy's videos on YouTube. He has some real talent for teaching.
Seemingly, OpenAIs priorities shifted after the public ChatGPT release, and seems to be more and more geared towards selling to consumers, rather than a research lab that it seemed they initially were aiming for.

I'm sure this was part of the disagreement as Sam is "capitalism incarnated" while Ilya gives of much different feelings.
Unusual weather may have helped Ukrainian military sink Russian warship
Truck drivers don't have to pay for the negative externalities of tire wear
The question has enormous implications for OpenAI because of the specifics of their nonprofit charter. If Altman left out facts to keep the board from deciding they were at the AGI phase of OpenAI, or even to prevent them from doing a fair evaluation, then he absolutely materially misled them and prevented them from doing their jobs.
> the wife of an actor

That's pretty sexist, among other things, is it not? She is a scientist and CEO of her own company, and even ignoring all that she is her own person.
"according to a person familiar with the situation."
My guess is that they have a rift between developing GPT-5 and those who are against the potential harm it might cause.
That’s an invalid argument. You’re switching from questioning one premise to comparing two premises.
"we don't use customer data, we process it and use the generated data"
A single 4-0 decision would imply the bylaws allow any group of members to oust all the other members by making a single proposal to oust everyone but their group, thus automatically forcing everyone else to recuse themselves :p
The wonderful thing about these predictions is nobody cares how many times you are wrong.
If there's a lot of smoke coming, people are running out of the building and you can see an ominous red glow in the windows, shouting "FIRE" is the right thing to do even if we are not going to be engulfed in flames this very second or the next. The potential costs given the evidence we all have are simply not comparable.
Exactly. They call it: The shit hitting the fan.
> as in every human being on earth

Not every human being on Earth knows what ChatGPT is, so that’s a non-starter.

> or everyone as in most reasonable people

That qualifier is doing some heavy lifting. It’s so vague it can be used to excuse anything¹. Not only reasonable people (however we’re going to define that) have access to the tool.

> ChatGPT tells you it can lie before you can even ask it anything.

And what you learn fast by doing user support of any tech tool is that most users don’t read instructions even if it’s shoved in their faces. I personally know people that think ChatGPT is the source of truth, despite that disclaimer.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
The End of Innocence: What Happened After Apple Fired Steve Jobs
Not really. It’s all so torrid. More interesting would be anything that points to a different reason or evidence the action was related to professional misconduct not personal. The problem is all the suggestions so far are too dissimilar from when LLMs “hallucinate”
Total speculation. Good for the clicks
Can you link to that YouTube video?
Higher tax is not a must, one can have amazing public transportation infrastructure like in Tokyo or Hong Kong, but most US cities can't do that with all the roads and highways in place.
WTF. I worked on some high exposure projects as a senior dev and never a final offer above $130k USD. Even after haggling hard at a company I had been at for 3 years and they told me I was their top, highest paid engineer and it led me to quit. Then I got approached by Facebook to work in London HQ and the offer they were dangling was £100GBP which was about $130k USD. Highest offer I ever got before I even got to the final round of interviews was $160k USD from a well known crypto company but for some reason the head of engineering didn't show up to the final interview at the last minute after I flew through all the tech tests as those devs who interviewed admitted. It was weird.

I always assumed the reported 250k plus salaries were fake news or only reserved for children of powerful people.