skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how will they survive if Microsoft/SamAi ends up building a competitor ?

Microsoft could run the entire business as a loss just to attract developers to Azure.
> by providing valuable services to society

If cigarette companies could cause 5% less cancer by selling 5% fewer packs of cigarettes (resulting in 5% lower profits) do you believe they would do it?

You might say that companies have strayed from the Platonic ideal of a corporation and that cigarette companies have strayed from their “purpose” but the reality is that purely prosocial companies have never been the norm.

You might also suggest that the very fact that people are purchasing cigarettes demonstrates that they are providing “valuable” goods/services but this is to water down the definition of value to the point of meaninglessness.

The truth is that a corporation is a sort of alien entity that almost entirely operates to maximize profits. I say “almost” entirely because it is possible in extreme cases for their leadership to face personal responsibility, but it’s pretty rare.
Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce
He's the CEO of six companies and still finds time to tweet throughout the day. I'm more inclined to believe that these companies are successful despite him, not because of him.
You can simultaneously accept that these organizations Musk, and others, built are remarkable while accepting that his current personal behavior is unacceptable and is not in his self interest.

History is littered with entrepreneurs and inventors who lost thier marbles.
> and have not yet had a false positive or false negative

How would you know if you have zero false negatives unless you watch the whole video stream everyday?
It’s called a web browser.

You are free to connect a PC to your TV now.
Even if this would be possible, it won't be idiomatic.
> I challenge the author to go find a wired keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB C plug..

I can confirm, it's a journey. It's the same kind of journey than finding a hair trimmer that charges on USB C.

I see it more as makers being complacent and not giving a fuck though. There's no technical reasons for those to be USB A, and the USB C ones work great.

So yes USB A will be there for a while, and more often than not it's a symbolic middle finger to the buyer, a signal that a product should probably be avoided.
> I think it’s ridiculous that everything thinks that Sam being outed means OpenAI is in trouble

Even if we assume that's true, wouldn't the somewhat incompetent and seemingly unnecessarily dramatic way they handled not be a concerning sign?
Same domain, won't work
I think I purchased one movie through YouTube a few years ago, but it's been a while. I received a YouTube notification a few weeks ago letting me know that AdBlock was not allowed, but there was no follow-up.

I feel that YouTube is very deeply entrenched in a streaming architecture which makes it challenging to serve ads that are indistinguishable from primary content. All of the pushback against adblocking extensions feels like an unwinnable arms race until Manifest v3 becomes mandatory.

Contrast this with Twitch - where uBlock doesn't impact ads at all. I feel Twitch engineered their service to defeat adblock from day 1. YouTube wants to be in the same position, but doesn't seem willing or able to mirror Twitch's architecture.
USB-C is the bees knees if it works right. Which does not seem to always happen.

Plus, "active cable" is close enough to an oxymoron to make me afraid we overreached.

(I do like that a small pocket kit with an USB C cable and a couple of adapters seems to cover most needs.)
It's hard to judge based on that, because a lot of times, CEOs are fired because they have done things that are putting the company on a bad trajectory or just because the company was on a bad trajectory for whatever reason. So firing the CEO is more of a signal than a cause.
Perhaps the AGI convinced the board to make a wild move like this as part of its first chess move
Well obviously Sutskever would get the axe, and you’d expect at least some (if not all) of the existing board to step down so that Altman's faction had a majority.

It would be a complete capitulation to bring him back at this point.

Unclear how many of the rank and file are loyal to either faction to the point of walking away.
> I don’t follow. You’re saying PPUs granted by the for-profit don’t carry a reasonably expected benefit?

Yes, a profit sharing claim in an LLC whose operating agreement explicitly says it will be operated for the charitable purpose of a controlling nonprofit and that profit will not be its guiding principle does not create a reasonable expectation that it will be managed for profit.

Either the employees have that information disclosed, and there is no expectation, or it is concealed by the subsidiary employing them, in which case there might be a reasonable expectation, but its due to fraud by the subsidiary, not interference by the parent.
Sorry, but you are just simply factually incorrect. That the board itself serves at the pleasure of other interests is clear (and even then, if they don't want to leave getting rid of them can be tricky depending on the details) but they do call the shots. The question is whether or not they can make it stick.

But until he is re-hired Sam Altman is to all intents and purposes fired. And it may well come to that (and that would almost certainly require all those board members who voted for his ouster to vacate their positions because their little coup plan backfired and nobody is going to take the risk of that happening again, especially not in this way).
Oh. Got it.

I don't want to "name names," because that doesn't often end well. It's a personal decision, on my part to use, or not use, software. Many of the more esoteric tools that I use are "nice to have" addons, as opposed to "critical path" stuff.

I will say that I use Xcode, because I write native Swift apps, and it doesn't really make sense to use anything else. I try to limit extensions and whatnot. Most of the dependencies that I use in my projects were written by Yours Truly. I've written a boatload of them. I publish them as open source, but I don't think anyone else uses them; which is fine, by me.

I also use Git, because Linus writes code that I don't mind depending on. It has completely transformed the way that I do configuration management.

Back when I taught myself Android, I used Android Studio/Java (so you know that was a while ago), for the same reason that I use Xcode/Swift. It was the tool supported by the OS maker.
I think it's worth noting that it wasn't always the case - there was a hosts file repo used by pihole users that effectively blocked YouTube ads.
It runs on Azure.
Newspapers were funded by advertising, including clasified ads, which have mostly moved to Craigslist. https://drt.cmc.edu/2023/07/16/classified-ads-and-local-news...
"When faced with multiple options, the most important thing is to just pick one and stick with it."

"Disagree and commit."

- says every CEO these days
Ok so why doesn't Sam Altman and his buddies team up with John Carmack, who is fully invested in AGI now, and has a proven legacy for getting shit done?
As a fairly experienced engineer, I have to say that reading go code is what gives me the most pause. I find the amount of visual noise and lack of useful abstractions makes it so that to be efficient at reading code, I have to trust that the loop or the error handling code is doing what I expect. The issue with go is that the primitive operations are written `for i := 0; i < 10; i++` instead of `map` and `x, err := foo(); if err != nil {...}; bar(x)` instead of `y := bar(foo()?)`, which requires either presuming, or spending the mental energy ensuring the primitive was written correctly every time it is used.

I generally do the second, because doing the first is extremely tiring when reviewing code, but I dislike it immensely.
Because that satellite is emitting a heck of a lot more electromagnetic radiation than your phone…
People who joined OpenAI because the organizations they left were stuck self-sabotaging the way OpenAI's board just did (for the same reasons the board did it)
At this point I think it's the principle of the thing. I mean I have premium but I still want them to get smacked down for this because Google made one of the endgame moves to drink verification can.

Ads are supposed to incidental, you run ads and if too many people block them because they suck then congrats sucks for you. If no one sees them then sucks for you. Most people put up with TV ads when they're not even hard to skip. And for some reason IG ads are well liked. Forcing them harder I think has to make us confront what we're really doing here and what we're gaining by all this. Just pay for premium sounds nice when you don't think about it. If there's no universe where someone might actually prefer the ads if they were the same price then we're kinda admitting they have literally zero value to the viewer.

And that paints a very different picture of advertising than "the grease of the economic wheel" ya know? And clearly all advertising isn't like this, like I paid to see the Lego movie, Barbie was fantastic. I watched a YT video of a woman showing her design process for a product she's selling and it was fascinating but it was also just an ad. But if YT are there to suck just so you'll pay for it to suck less than that's not mutually beneficial trade that's extortion.
gpt-4 lead resigned with sam
There is no appeal to authority here. You asked:

> why is this even on HN

And I think that a news article about a paper that won an award at a top CS conference is pretty quintessential HN content.
Yes. And that's completely fine. By the way, we know Einstein's theory of relatively is not quite right, there has been enormous amount of work since the early 1900s, its all good. Einstein's work was foundational, but incomplete, lets keep going.
It certainly did not.
If this had been presented as a bad outcome or even an improbable one I would agree. And of course you can just complain and do whatever you want in general within the boundaries of the law, free speech, etc.

But if you sign an agreement saying you understand you should treat your investments more like donations and that everything is secondary to the goals of the non-profit and then are upset that your goals were not placed in higher priority than the charter of the non-profit, I'm going to reserve the right to think you're a hypocrite.
Yeah agreed, though the lol person obviously overlooked that!
Load Raw 6502 code into your [Web Based] Emulator [video]
Chris Torrence adds a new feature to load cross assembled 6502 binaries into his emulator and explores the feature in other web based Apple IIe emulators.
The Verge reporting 5 pm PT deadline passed
Suppose I wrote a blog post saying that the US government had invented a way to read your thoughts from a satellite — would you believe it merely because they would be a paying customer?
I would love to see a systems programming language with classes which were usable on bare metal, like with c++ and unlike e.g. D or free pascal where a runtime is required.

Any homepage of your project @OP to check for the alpha?
> Submitting information since paywalled links are not permitted.

This rule should be dropped. It's the reason that HN is dominated by low quality outlets. It's also in tension with another rule, which is that the original source of the article should be posted - the original source is usually an outlet that has the resources to do original research, thanks to a paywall.
> mechanical hard drive and a feeble 8 GB of RAM (is that even enough to run Windows by itself?)

Windows 10 runs acceptably on a Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM - this was my son's gaming PC until a couple of months ago. (It did have an SSD, though - a mechanical hard drive would certainly have reduced the snappiness.)
I always found that my C to A erred on the side of letting the cable fall out. So no damage but fairly irritating.
If I'm confident in my competence and the candidate has a trustworthy and compelling narrative about how they undermined incompetent leadership to achieve a higher goal - yep, for sure.
> GPT is based on research Google published

Why didnt Google create ChatGpt then, why did the fall behind?
That all depends on how much one believes OpenAI tech is far enough ahead that it’s too painful to replace, and that there is no way things can’t be established to be mutually beneficial
To OP: if pride is the only thing stopping you from dropping programming then that's a personal character development milestone for you. It does not come easy for many of us to admit that we cannot win all the battles. Been there, can relate, at the same time I'd advise you (over a beer) to shift your perspective towards the limited time you have on this Earth and to pick your battles and fight only those where you feel strong and on your own turf. Super long discussion though, one reserved for your closest circle of relatives and friends.

But, if you do decide to keep at programming:

1. Pick a much stricter language, with a strong static typing system -- like Rust. It might be too difficult and frustrating though, and I'd understand if it's a bridge too far. It that's indeed the case then pick Golang, it's a good compromise between productivity and strictness.

2. Write more tests. And I mean much more tests. From your article, you seem to have the problem of rushing too much and never stopping and establishing a solid ground before proceeding. Writing tests guaranteeing that what you wrote before will keep working will keep you in check and help you stop and think harder on how to fix the current problem.

I might be misreading your post, but you seem to be impatient. One more thing I completely relate to but it won't ever get you anywhere, sadly. Work hard on breaking down your tasks into smaller chunks and crossing them out as you progress -- works wonders for motivation.

Good luck.
I remember there was a point where ads on YouTube were tolerable. It's wild how aggressive they are now. I don't even bother watching so many videos now that I have to sit through 2 mins of unskippable ads what feels like every minute. My partner recently subbed to Hulu and it's worse. You still pay monthly and they shove 2 - 3 minute ads every 5 minutes.
I use Homeassistant and Frigate on a $100 x86 noname micro-machine with five 4K cameras and it is awesome. CPU use does not go above 10%.
Would not claim zero false positives though. However, it is smart enough to filter out non-moving false positives which many cmmercial-grade systems can not, lol.

Can't say it saved my life, but I programmed my smart bulbs to go red if a bear was spotted in any frame in the past 30 min though.

Frigate is great and worth of praise.
What makes this apparent? I've not observed or heard this to be true yet, e.g. the same problem has occured to me in Firefox. I've found making sure the adblocker rulesets are updated faster than the normal update schedule was planning tends to fix it.
Except Tasha McCauley has far more claim to expertise in this space, however tenuous you may believe it to be, than her husband does. JGL is not relevant in the discussion, either. We're not talking about her in context of him. We are talking about her in context of her position.

If you don't understand how referring to someone solely based on their relationship with another person is denigrating, particularly when trying to highlight your perception of them being incompetent, I'm not sure what to say to you.
The big upgrade in USB-C for mobile devices is power delivery; a secondary benefit is video output for laptops, enabling docking using a single cable instead of an old-fashioned dock.

PCs aren't in the power delivery game and don't really need an extra video output.

Meanwhile, USB 3 over a USB A socket is still able to transfer 500 MB/sec of data - I just did this earlier today, copying from an old M2 SSD in an enclosure to my new upgraded installed SSD. That's pretty quick.

USB C could double it, but how often do you need 1 GB/sec? Not many flash drives can deliver that outside of SSDs in enclosures.
Power Delivery was an addendum to USB 2. It is specified for USB-A ports.
The built in port has DMA. USB to Ethernet adapters don’t and have to go through the CPU first. You’re stressing the CPU for bandwidth you aren’t actually using.
Generative AI's ubiquity has nothing to do with Sam Altman's noteriety. People can know what the former is without needing to know the latter. It's not as though he relishes in celebrity like other famous CEO's (Musk).
They appear to not have realized how this would be perceived and are now desperately in some kind of damage control mode.

“Ha ha just kidding don’t ruin our stock value!”
What empirical data does Lorentz ether theory seem to fit better than special relativity?
Three engineers isn’t a lot honestly after such a stunt. I’d assumed there would more loyal folks, but maybe most are really in for the mission.

The next couple of weeks will tell.
Sam needs to ink a deal with Netflix to tell the story of this saga.
Charismatic salesmen get the money needed to build the models. Computer scientists are a dime a dozen, universities churn them out every year.
What Elon Musk has said about Ilya Sutskever
> I mean, they're (allegedly) trying to get him to come back 24 hours later.

Could be a rumour spread by people close to Sam though.
Better yet, Sutskever’s version with AGI!
CEOs are largely irrelevant to the success of a company. Sam's a blowhard anyways, OpenAI is better off for this move.
> Since Go is a deterministic game there is always a best move

The rules of the game are deterministic, but you may be going a step too far with that claim.

Is the game deterministic when your opponent is non-deterministic?

Is there an optimal move for any board state given that various opponents have varying strategies? What may be the best move against one opponent may not be the best move against another opponent.
If running computations on encrypted data is enough to compromise the integrity of the encryption then that encryption algorithm is not even EAV secure, and EAV secure is a pretty low bar.
ARM's power efficiency is largely a business decision by the manufacturers.

If AMD and Intel wanted to burn die area and sacrifice clockspeed for efficiency... They would. But they don't. Making more aggressively clocked CPUs and GPUs makes more economic sense at the moment.
I pay them via Patreon. Google will never see any of my money.
I'm pretty sure the answer is #1. Gradual, per-account roll-outs of new "features" is very common on YouTube, and from the people I've talked to, the affected people seem to be fairly random.
Not many and even fewer if you consider folks that have a good grasp of themselves, their psychology, their emotions — and how they can mislead them, and their heart.

IME most folks at Anthropic, OpenAI or whatever that are freaking out about things never defined the problem well and typically were engaging with highly theoretical models as opposed to the real capabilities of a well-defined, accomplished (or clearly accomplishable) system. It was too triggering for me to consider roles there in the past given that these were typically the folks I knew working there.

Sam may have added a lot of groundedness, but idk ofc bc I wasn’t there.
PCs still come with half a dozen or more USB-A ports and only a single USB-C port (if you're lucky). Dongles, flash drives, webcams and the like are still prominently USB-A. Logitech's lineup is still mostly USB-A. I'm not sure that there will even be a full transition to USB-C, but if so, it will take quite a while.
Really weird phrasing in this tweet. The idea is that Altman and/or a bunch of employees were demanding the board reinstate Altman and then resign. And they’re calling it a “truce.” Oh, and there’s a deadline (5 pm), but since it’s already passed the board merely has to “reach” this “truce” “ASAP.”

Edit: an update to the verge article sheds some more light, but I still consider it very sus since it’s coming from the Altman camp and seems engineered to exert maximal pressure on the board. And the supposed deadline has passed and we haven’t heard any resignations announced

> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.
http://codekeyboards.com are currently USB C as are https://www.wasdkeyboards.com
> perhaps the reason that artists never lose that is because of a childhood trauma that "traps" them in this creative vice?

Thats an idea that I could get behind.
I wouldn't believe you if you told me you're subscribed to every Patreon of every content creator you consume the content of.

And again: avoiding paying the platform operators no matter the cost.
Hindsight bias is strong with this one.
Probably Facebook marketplace today, actually. I can’t find the same volume of decent stuff on CL any longer.
lawrencehook.com/rys does this too
I just refresh page when an ad pops. It may take a few before the ads go away but it's worked so far.
Co CEOs never works, these are people with very strong ambitions, they dont like to share and it ultimately leads to conflicts.
Muscles actually require brainpower. Any serious weightlifter can tell you about the benefits of mind-muscle connection, and how neurologically taxing lifting heavy weights is.
The Chrome Web Store already blocks any extension with the ability to download videos from Youtube with the excuse of it "enabling piracy." Ironic considering that they allow downloaders for any other site. Only Youtube.com is banned. It smells like anti-competitive behavior to me.
If you're using a processor that was manufactured in the last decade, it was built using machines that the entire world depends upon that are only designed and produced in the EU.
Just to raise awareness, you can absolutely disable all of this nonsense, they just make it a dark pattern to do so. Find the settings gear or however they disguise it and you can disable all news presentation. It’ll still show up if you scroll down, but uh… for your own sake just never do that
lol yeah come between Microsoft, their money, and an opportunity to knee cap google. What could go wrong?

Maybe the board is too young to realize who they sold their souls to. Heh I think they’re quickly finding out.
Open AI is not publicly traded though.
> Now they are trying to get him back.

OpenAI has never claimed they want Sam back. The article claims OpenAI's investors want him back.

I will agree that OpenAI could have done a better job of letting him go if there truly were irreconcilable differences.
My first thoughts yesterday were: Some really bad scandal happened at OpenAI (massive data leak, massive fraud, or huge embezzlement), or the board is really incompetent and doesn't know what they're doing. But an organization as big as OpenAI, with the backing of Microsoft and other big players would never make such a big decision without a really good reason.

Seems like Hanlon's razor won once again.
I don't think it has to be unfettered progress that Ilya is slowing down for. I could imagine there is a push to hook more commercial capabilities up to the output of the models, and it could be that Ilya doesn't think they are competent/safe enough for that.

I think danger from AGI often presumes the AI has become malicious, but the AI making mistakes while in control of say, industrial machinery, or weapons, is probably the more realistic present concern.

Early adoption of these models as controllers of real world outcomes is where I could see such a disagreement becoming suddenly urgent also.