skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean their little anti-adblock scripts? Plenty of "clever" websites have done that before. We'll block their blocker, it's that simple.

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

Nothing they can do about it. We own the computer their code is running on. We decide if it runs.
I have yet to see a bent usb c (not saying it couldn’t happen, but…

It’s have seen multiple crushed USB A connectors.
The same thing got said about Elon Musk and Twitter, and yet X is still somehow alive.
> continue talking to their employees to ameliorate legitimate concerns, and accept that some of Sam's hires will go to join him

This is wishful thinking. If an employee is inclined to follow the innovation, it's clear where they'll go.

But otherwise, the point you raise is a good one: this is about the charter of the board. Many of us are presuming a financial incentive, but the structure of the company means they might actually be incentivized to stop the continued development of the technology if they think it poses a risk to humanity. Now, I personally find this to be hogwash, but it is a legitimate argument for why the board might actually be right in acting apparently irrationally.
That may be so, but it also probably shouldn't let its flagship fundraising entity wither.
Nothing much to add but you have three options as suggested by others:-

1.) the subservient: Get a good sleeping mask and blinds for your son
2.) the cooperative: work with the utility to put on a light shield
3.) the libertarian: shoot it

Human nature, encompassed in one thread. Beautiful, I love this site.
If you've been following the news cycle for the past 2 hours, then it's obvious that his meaning with this tweet is that he's returned to OpenAI.

There was a hangup over a 5 pm deadline but looks like the board gave in.
SponsorBlock will help.
+1 to this.

That book has a few sections describing policy arguments on the floor of the New York Senate which are so well written that they are absolutely riveting! It sounds ridiculous to say that political arguments (from 100+ years ago) could keep you on the edge of your seat, but they do. It’s why this book the Pulitzer Prize.
I blame the culture. Fat shaming is wrong, but the culture has turned that around and made healthy living almost a de-facto "fat shaming by proxy" type weird thing. Anyone who does not agree that a fat person is healthy (but they call it "beauty"), is deemed to be automatically insulting that person.

And, corporates are happy to push around "any body is beautiful" because it rakes in the money.

Edit : The other side of the problem is eating processed and ultra-processed food. Its basically cans and pouches of chemical compounds that overwhelms the body.
My theory is that's why it's so hard to buy a "featureless" hub - consumers will demand refunds if feature X is not present.
> Of course no one knows for sure except the people directly involved here.

The IRS will know soon enough if they were indeed non-profit.
Normally speaking: right. Because the circuit boards are usually on the left. If they are not you're out of luck.
This applies equally to their detractors.
Less than an hour ago I set my backpack down on top of a usb-c cable plugged into the back seat usb-c port in my car. The cable broke at the plug, but the port is fine. I'm a little upset with myself because it was my only 5A rated usb-c cable.
It's crazy how fast OpenAI put up the blog post
> just don't use youtube

Nah. I think I'll keep using it. After all, it's free.
> All this knowledge merely from our single planet by tiny variations of measurements in finely calibrated instruments as if you were able to map out the city of Paris confined to the observations from a single window.

Indeed, but I like to wonder how much of it will turn out to be wrong when (if) we finally get to visit it in person.

I mean, do you really want to believe that everything about something as practically infinite as the UNIVERSE could be learned from just a single planet in a few hundred years?

Because that would be pretty boring. :)
> What we need is accountability and legitimacy and the only way we've found to produce on a mass society level is through democratic institutions.

The problem is that our democratic institutions are not doing a good job of producing accountability and legitimacy. Our politics and government bureaucracies are just as corrupted as our private corporations. Sure, in theory we can vote the politicians out of power, but in practice that never happens: Congress has incumbent reelection rates in the 90s.

The unfortunate truth is that nobody is really qualified to be making governance-of-humanity decisions. The real problem is that we have centralized power so much in governments and megacorporations that the few elites at the top end up making decisions that impact everyone even though they aren't qualified to do it. Historically, the only fix for that has been to decentralize power: to give no one the power to make decisions that impact large numbers of people.
> Pointing out the points raised is hardly "conceding" when the points are of very little relevance to the claim of "Americans are broke"

"Conceding" is when you stipulate that the points raised are true; it's especially egregious when they aren't.
"Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit."

The Board has the power to determine whether Sam is fulfilling his fiduciary duty and whether his conflicts of interest (WorldCoin, Humane AI, etc) compromise broad benefit.
+1 Greg. I agree with most of what you say. Also, it is so much more fun running everything locally.
It would be a reasonably long list of suspects, even so this isn't such a case.
You might be surprised how often the tail wags the dog in these situations. Lawyers shrug and defer to the policy doomers because they ultimately don’t understand the tech.
GNU/Linux is open source. Is it being used responsibly?

What is the "it" that no single entity has control over?

You have absolutely no control of what your next door neighbor is doing with open source.

Hey, if we want alcohol to be made responsibly, everyone should have their own still, made from freely redistributed blueprints. That way no single entity has control.
The way I excercise control is by blocking that ad, unconditionally, with extreme prejudice, no due process and no survivors.
Maybe yes, maybe no...you're reposting a tweet that does not say that at all.
Following your point, here's a video of their test of the water deluge system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOtw3ucIKng
god what a creep.
Going to go look for an audio book
One could argue that open source won’t change much with regard to China and Russia.

Both countries have access to LLMs already. And if they didn’t, they would have built their own or gotten access through corporate espionage.

What open source does is it helps us better understand & control the tech these countries use. And it helps level up our own homegrown tech. Both of these are good advantages to have.
No it isn’t. You could read this as him being back or him showing love for the team that pushed to get him back even though he is still leaving.
There has been no confirmation of him returning. This is an emoji response to a tweet that does not convey any information.
Spend 2 mins on Twitter and look at the accounts of every engineer at OpenAI. It's obvious that this is his way of saying he's back.

Lol hacker news is honestly so exhausting these days...
I tried reading this but the pop ups are so annoying that I couldn’t get past the first paragraph.
The “reaction” is a single heart emoji…
> One attempt involved a battleship “accidentally” firing onto another battleship where both Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping were visiting.

Hm. That really does qualify as an assassination attempt if it wasn't an actual accident. Enough such things happen by accident that it has a name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire
who is more important to Open AI's future

Ilya Sutskever

https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Sutskeve...

or

Sam Altman

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=sam+altman&searchtype=all&so...
Ok. Wait 15 minutes for the news article then. Or, you know, check the twitter accounts at employees at OpenAI.
Is there any particular reason you don't choose to eat vegetables and fruit? How about vitamins? Lots of cholesterol in purely meat?
I don't get why people don't get that part. What they mean by "Up to 1234 Mbps" on the box is "1234 Mbps shared". It's a giant wire occupying 1/4 mile around the AP, whereas, in wired Ethernet it's 1Gbps per link per direction.

A GbE switch with wire-rate transfer guarantee can handle 1Gbps traffic between arbitrary combination of ports. All the camera traffic coming from port 9 to 16 going to NVR on port 7 have no impact to traffic between upstream router on port 26 and your PCs on port 3 and 5. That cannot happen with Wi-Fi because everything is inherently on the same shared port 1(sometimes literally); each 4Mbps incoming is 4Mbps of download speed taken from your laptop. Double if destination is also on Wi-Fi.

This might be fine if there's just few cameras, but it's something to be aware of.
- the chief scientist and 3 non-employee board members decided to fire CEO without discussion with president.

- then called president to let him know this

interesting...
Good deal is uBlock Origin, paying Google any amount of money is just foolish. Subscribe to the patreons of your favorite creators in order to support them, it's a perfectly ethical way for creators to make money.
Roman leaders were often grifters, and Octavian was a particularly notable example. Cash for favours, absolutely massive embezzlement… he did pretty well for himself; it wasn’t the state’s wealth, at least not after he’d stolen it.
Zero Hydra Failures
I was not implying they were not a non-profit. I am saying that we do not know the exact reason why the board fired Altman.
I wasn't clear enough that I was talking about the real reasons for the dismissal; I think the lack of candour was probably a real event, but was functionally just an excuse. There has been heaps of reporting from inside OpenAI that this was a dispute over AI safety, the values of the Charter, etc. Here's what you can find in the press release itself:

"OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission. We are grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI. At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward. As the leader of the company’s research, product, and safety functions, Mira is exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO. We have the utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period."

"OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter."
The aux cord removal is still felt by many
There was a time when doctors didn't even wash their hands.
probably not, but i'm not a fly on the wall in those meetings either. things are gonna get pretty weird over the next year
That’s certainly not true in scientific computing. For us, dynamic is very much the exception rather than the rule.
I did not suggest it applies to this specific issue, I replied to a comment containing inflammatory remarks, but I'll bite: To answer that you need to first produce the minimum change to the language that provides this functionality.

A solution might be optionals, which might require sum types, which might require generics (which Go just learned), which most definitely requires a more complex type system, which almost certainly involves longer compiler times.

Is that all worth it? I don't know. The Go team certainly didn't think so.

Languages that I'm aware of that do solve this are Scala, Rust, Kotlin to some extent, Haskell... languages which do not have a reputation of being stable, easy to learn, easy to read and understand, compile quickly, etc.
I'm not saying that he hasn't. I'm saying the linked tweet does not offer evidence.
Microsoft terminating the agreement by which they supply compute to OpenAI and OpenAI licenses technology to them would be an existential risk to OpenAI (though other competing cloud providers might step in and fill the gap Microsoft created under similar terms), but -- whether or not OpenAI ended up somewhere else immediately (the tech eventually would, even if OpenAI failed completely and was dissolved) Microsoft would go from the best positioned enterprise AI cloud provider to very far behind overnight.

And while that might hurt OpenAI as an institution more than it hurts Microsoft as an institution, the effect on Microsoft's top decision-makers personally vs. OpenAI's top decisionmakers seems likely to be the other way around.
>Lol hacker news is honestly so exhausting these days...

aye, all the enterprise architects policing the comments for possible inconsistencies and "is this really new?" BS etc

literally unable to join the dots unless the lines are pre-drawn, some people
The objective functions might be different enough and then there is nothing the hard power can do to get what it wants from OpenAI. Non-profit might consider winddown more in line with mission than something else, for example.
I'm a weirdo here on hacker news because I've mainly worked with Microsoft SQL databases my entire career, but it absolutely blows my mind when I remember that postgres can't lock in a query plan.

It's so nice being able to sleep at night and not have to that an ultra important won't randomly shit the bed.

One of my buddies that works at a PostgreSQL powered place once bitched about how they had a maintenance job that truncated a big table, then another job refreshed statistics, then the table rapidly filled up again and ask the query plans were awful because the table is usually massive.

I get the religion behind the open source stuff: with SQL, you shouldn't have to tell the thing how to build the query plan, you should just tell it what you want and let it figure out how to do it.

But if humans are expected to perform maintenance on the database, setting up scheduled jobs, refreshing statistics, identifying missing indexes, etc., then those same humans should be able to specify a query plan and/or specific indexes to use in a query.
Exactly this.

There certainly needs to be regulation about use of AI to make decisions without sufficient human supervision (which has already proven a problem with prior systems), and someone will have to make a decision about copyright eventually, but closing the models off does absolutely nothing to protect anyone.
That's the archive.org mirror of the openly declared edited from raw logs version released by Malaysia .. so not "my source" which, back in the day, were the raw logs from ground stations.

The specific issue I have with hyper focused attention on these specific logs and hoorah about "weird data" is that I haven't seen much in the way of properly comparative analysis of a super set of broad fleet Inmarsat logs ... these in general are the trailing edge of quality data, riddled with nuls, semi handshakes, line noise, etc.

Transponders are for positioning, black boxes for logging important flight data, diagnostic interfaces for mechanics in hangers ... and component level Inmarsat .. pretty much not more than a curiousity of "because we can" that's occasionally useful when a properly formed messages truly indicates an inflight issue.

Ping routing and ping times were never meant to be consistent nor used for gross "half-LORAN" positioning .. this is all happenstance after event signal engineering hack work.
They are plenty weird enough for my taste already. Seriously. What an incredibly turbulent 15 years it has been. So far. And it may well get a lot more turbulent still.
Different industries move at a different pace.

Many common power plugs were standardized 50-100 years ago. Compared to them, even USB-A is still new. If all you need is power delivery, there is little reason to switch to yet another plug type, which only exists because of unrelated requirements in other industries.
ye, that’s a thing. don’t pluck your nose hairs.
Yeah this feels like a possible white collar crime. And with the US government out for blood right now about tech abuses, even a minor tax audit wouldn't be good for them.
What makes this a “masterpiece”? It’s old, and historically valuable, but it doesn’t look that great to me.
I probably spend $50 a year on replacing my worn out feiyues, so you're a step ahead of me!
The article said 3/10 carry it, so yeah likely the case.

This is good to know -- if I have a future planned surgery I'm going to make sure I get tested/treated if positive. It seems like simple preventative care.
I suppose there is a concept of sentience from outside and a different concept from internal sentience. The movie "Johny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo discusses a situation where a badly injured soldier in WW1 is considered brain dead by outsiders while he's fully conscious and sentient internally.

I haven't studied neuroscience so I don't know how you define consciousness. I have read Julian Jaynes's "The Origin of Consciousness..." which in my untrained opinion makes a compelling case that consciousness is a hard term to define.
In Ireland, Kilkenny is legally not a city, but there is actual legislation saying that it is _allowed to call itself a city_. This seems a similar principle, and it’s rather silly; ‘founder’ has a commonly-understood meaning.
My mouse and keyboard are both usb-c and I wasn't specifically looking for usb-c when I ordered either of them. Logitech MX Master 3 and Keychron Q1. They are both relatively high end devices, but I don't think it's hard to find usb-c devices.

That said I do own lots of usb-a devices and will continue to own them for the foreseeable future. I would not purchase a laptop that was usb-c only today.
I can guarantee "simple" comes at the cost of (probably) multiple tens of thousands of pages of thrown away scratch paper (or equivalent) over many years and lives.
There is a bunch of independent reporting citing sources inside OpenAI that the central dispute is over the principles of the Charter, and while no one is clear on the lack of candour thing my view is that it's just an excuse, there was probably a real incident(s) but it wouldn't have been fireable if not for the core dispute about the Charter. They did explicitly re-affirm the Charter in their announcement of Sam's dismissal:

"OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter."
You have to start somewhere. Since Twitter was so deep in the red for so long anyway they have a mountain to climb
GapingAI: wide open

(This was briefly on the table for Eleuther’s name, but sadly no one but me seemed willing to march under the gaping banner.)
Auto Racing Is an Actual Real Sport
When someone asks me for advice for their racing or for one of their kids my advice is always the same...

"My best advice to every racer is this:

Work on your balance--driving a race car at the limit requires balance.

Strength train--race cars are not like street cars they require strength to drive.

Work on your aerobic fitness--racing takes Extreme concentration, and when you become tired, the 1st thing that happens is brain fade.

Work on your hand eye coordination--shoot baskets, throw a tennis ball against a wall and catch it. Archery... ect.

Work on your concentration--look at a brick wall and gaze at every brick in a row from the bottom to the top, and back down.

And drive street cars--but make it hard. Don't use the whole lane, for example, use as little of it as possible. And work on what your Bad At.

And if you can find a sports psychologist that specializes in racers... its priceless.

I did all that and more. And I still do..."
You can't restrict what any for-profit entity does with your source code. You have to give it away for free to be in compliance with the license.
I can't imagine he would be interested in a C-office role at this point. Board member? Sure.
Not only that, the founder of the technique was outcasted, ended up having a nervous breakdown, and was committed to an asylum where he was beaten and died from his wounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

Progress is slow and painful.
Most of Singapore land is on a 99-year lease. There is some freehold and 999-year leases left over from the British, but no new land will be created with that type of ownership.

When you buy land with a 99-year lease in Singapore, it will be turned over to the government at the expiration of the term, with $0 in compensation. There have been a lucky few who get en bloc development where the land is sold before expiration and a new 99-year is provided - so current residents get bought out at values higher than otherwise.

A few 60 year leases expired recently. The government assisted in finding new homes, but it was pretty much "get your belonging and leave".

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/lorong-3-geylang-e...
Oh no! :) Yes, I use all lowercase on Twitter and Eksi Sozluk mostly. I don't write in all lowercase on Reddit, HN, or Quora, or forums, etc where different type of capitalizations mix up. I find non-uniformity less pleasing to the eye than proper capitalization.

I also write my emails with proper capitalization too, for similar reasons.
These days it's common for the wire to not be fixed in. So it's just a usb-c port on the keyboard and you can use whatever cable you want.
Same way all the ancient Egyptian stuff ends up that way.