skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't disagree more. The more wealth is created out of thin air by technology, the better we all live, and the better our relations with one another. Scarcity creates conflict and pain. Prosperity makes good neighbours out of enemies.

I don't care if I have to pay megacorps for a right to my modern conveniences, if that means they extend to more and more people. Monsanto can take all my money if no one ever dies of starvation again. Microsoft can take all my data if we never have to do rote tasks again.
There is about zero real world benefit to Atom over RSS. It's just pure spec autism.
Shengjia Zhao's deleted tweet to Ilya: https://i.imgur.com/yrpXvt9.png
Maybe having a dictator or profit motive running the show is not a binary choice?
> OpenAI was guaranteed to be profitable, extremely so,

Was it though? I'd agree that it was almost guaranteed to have a very high valuation. However profitability is a slightly different matter.

Depending on their arrangements/licensing agreements/etc much of those potential profits could've just went to MS/Azure directly.
Just another wrapper trying to survive the OpenAI drama
He says he regrets his action, so he's not blameless. and it wouldn't have been possible for 3/6ths of the board to oust Brockman and Altman without his vote. My bet (entirely conjecture) is that Ilya now realizes the other three will refuse to leave their board seats even if it means the company melts to the ground.
That sounds amazing and wonderful and awesome and great for Argentina because the Argentinan peso is worthless.
It’s always depicted as traveling with the equator “level” relative to the camera’s arbitrary axis. The hyperdrive and sublights must enforce that. We actually never see any kind of exhaust like a star destroyer, no clue how it ominously hovers around. That adds to the menace.

At Yavin 4, it approaches gun-first since it is calibrating to fire. But the equator is still level with the center of the planet it’s orbiting, or perhaps the moons orbit plane.
I was just browsing through this code all night. In principle, Htmx is really showing how React or any frontend framework is just not needed for most applications. Htmx simplifies everything.. even component endpoint caching is as simple as just adding a good ol' header. No more "partial rendering" or related complexity needed.

I'm still unconvinced that Rust is a good idea for general web servers due to (overly) aggressive compiler checks and chaotic documentation related to web server concerns (many Rust web related libs cannot work together or not easily).

Today I'm mostly just using Hono+htmx+view transitions. Astro is a similar stack, but with more batteries included (and some additional complexity).
It's clear Google is only testing for chrome engine and safari: which comprise 97% of the browsers being used. Would you increase your testing by 50% to thoroughly test for 3% of the market?
The whole drama feels like the Shepard’s tone. You anticipate the climax, but it just keeps escalating.
Everyone of your comments have been combative, and have a totally different concept about what it means to lose a fight. You had multiple visits to a doctor after a confrontation, and still don’t think you lost, as your comments suggest. We clearly have differing ideas of what losing a fight means. You seem to not be able to accept that. It seems to me as you’re the one that has been poisoning the thread.
Better hope this isn't a Netflix show.
YouTube has things called "let's plays"/"longplays".

For DOS Star Wings: X-Wing, I scrubbed multiple videos and didn't see anything about the trenchrun:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL480EC9A01E8C50F7

There is no Attack on the Death Star PC videos that I could find. I did find Rebel Assault:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FX3B8yC38U

Which almost explicitly avoids the entire conversation by starting at the trench entry.

I found an x68000 version of "Attack on the Death Star" (maybe the same, maybe different) and it does the same as the previous, only showing the surface turret battle and then directly into the trench:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUzqbVRUxAE

It would appear that most games of the era were either unsure, or aware that it wasn't the hangar bay trench.
Apologies for the unproductive comment, but this is a clown show and the damage can’t be undone. Sam going to Microsoft is likely the end of open ai as an entity.
They're just human beings, a small number of them, with little time and very little to go on as far as precedent goes.

That's not a big deal for a small company, but this one has billions at stake and arguably critical consequences for humanity in general.
So they say. TFA has a different take. It remains to be seen which interpretation will hold legally.
If you know the company will implode and you'll be CEO of a shell, it is better to get board to reverse the course. It isn't like she was part of decision making process
>How might this effect BRICS? Interesting that Argentina will align with the USD.

Doesn't matter, as many, many people have noted BRICS doesn't exist, and to the extent that it does it's a joke. Two of the countries are actively at war with each other, 2 are falling apart, and the last one is slowly losing a brutal land war.

Better question is how this effects LatAm politics, and that's more interesting. Certainly there's been a drift to the left there, but wild swings in policy are an Argentine hallmark.
What's nifty about an e-bike is that they're cheap enough to co-exist with your car. I still have my trusty Honda, but I also do many trips by bike now. I fill up with gas way less often, don't have to deal with traffic and parking, and get a bit of exercise to boot.
> Because for USB-A, the part that wears down is in the port, while for USB-C it's in the plug.

I've had a number of USB-C ports break, I've never has a USB-A port break.
When Hacker News liked an AI generated blog
It would make sense if they had more dollars in reserves. Apparently they don't. Where they are going to get them? Also, his other policies are quite questionable.
Not everyone is from the US... In Latam, whatsapp is ubiquitous.
That's not a terrible idea on principle.
But you are wrong the trained models are separate on Google Drive and have following Text that seems to be an additional License Agreement that also includes using the software and any trained Modell.

License Part 2 Text:
"Before using these pre-trained models, you agree to inform the listeners that the speech samples are synthesized by the pre-trained models, unless you have the permission to use the voice you synthesize. That is, you agree to only use voices whose speakers grant the permission to have their voice cloned, either directly or by license before making synthesized voices pubilc, or you have to publicly announce that these voices are synthesized if you do not have the permission to use these voices."
Indeed. I wonder how it came to become the anthem of incompetence.
That's assuming a degree of engineering competency at the product decision making level that is usually absent in companies that are structured as Google is, with pretty strong demarcations of competencies across teams.
In other words - it doesn’t have to be someone’s genius plan, it could have just been an unintelligent mistake
It's nothing like it. What common people use is ChatGPT, many of them never heard about OpenAI, not even mention who sits on the board etc. And their core offering is more popular than ever. With Twitter, Musk started to damage the product itself, step by step. As far as I can tell ChatGPT continues to work just fine, as opposed to X.
If the change in $MSFT pre-open market cap (which has given up its gains at the time of writing, but still) of hundreds of billions of dollars is anything to go by, shareholders probably see this as spending a dime to get a dollar.
Its early West coast time, dang has to wake up first.
>The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company

Unless their mission was making MS the biggest AI company , working for MS will make the problem worse and kill the their mission completly.

Or they are pretty naive.
Inspired by The Dark Knight Rises intro:

Satya: Was getting caught part of your plan?
Ilya: Of course...Sam Altman refused our offer in favour of yours, we had to find out what he told you.
Sam: Nothing! I said nothing!
Satya: Well, congratulations! You got yourself caught! Now what's the next step in your master plan?
Ilya: Crashing OpenAI...with no survivors!
Easiest layoff round ever in the US.
The more I learn about old-timey maritime navigation, the more I realize that (like a lot of skilled trades) it must have been nearly indistinguishable from literal magic to laypeople.

I wonder if that fact inspired the mysterious and bizarre Guild Navigators in Dune.
Probably trying to shift the blame to the other three board members. It could be true to some degree. No matter what, it's clear to the public that they don't have the competency to sit on any board.
Employees...and the Microsoft Corporation.
Just because hes not a political animal it doesn't mean he's inured from politics. I've seen 'irreplaceable' a-political technical leaders be reason for schisms in organizations thinking they can lever their technical knowledge over the rest of the company only to watch them get pushed aside and out.
Elon Musk Vows "Thermonuclear Lawsuit" as Advertisers Flee
You can apply CC-BY-NC to software, people have done it. And it's recognized as _not_ being an open license, it's at best an “open-access” or “source-visible” license, because of the usage restrictions.

The entire point of an open-source license is that you're _preventing_ people from restricting modification and derivative use. The whole point of the AGPL was to prevent a hack that companies found to abuse the software's license and prevent derivative use of their changes.

I'm not saying you're morally in the wrong for choosing a license that doesn't permit commercial use, but I _am_ saying that it's contrary to the spirit of the license you're claiming it's akin to.

Hope this helps.
Sure, but assuming we take it as face value that this is a straightforward attempt to force a UX-destroying delay, I don't see what makes this so terrible. It's meant to force a 5 second wait, and it does it. Problem solved.
Given how much the peso has declined, and the attitudes of Argentinian citizens, this will be painful but good.
Vore: A minimal, no-bullshit web-based RSS/atom feed reader
Ilya probably has an open-ended standing offer from every big tech company.
Wishes there was a git reset --hard

But did a rm -rf .git
Of course it has. Wikipedia is the first (and only) truly global source of knowledge, to a depth no other encyclopedia has ever covered before - and with an unmatched capability to react to current events.
"A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observe
Best response: "People building AGI unable to predict consequences of their actions 3 days in advance."
Sounds great for your banks to have no currency?
The real skinny of it is that it’s in the name: “Environment”.

If you’re calling setenv in the middle of your program, you fucked up.

There are those things in programming that should be extremely triggering to your “what the actual fuck?!” senses, and “setenv in the middle of runtime” is one of those things.
From what I read, its an independent subsidiary, so in theory keeps the freedom, but I think we all know how that goes over the long haul.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38347501
I'm going to take a leap of intuition and say all roads lead back Adam d'Angelo for the coup attempt.
They will never discover AGI with this approach because 1) they are brute forcing the results and 2) none of this is actually science.
But boy will I renew it when this gets dramatized as a limited series.

This is some Succession-level shenanigans going on here.

Jesse Eisenberg to play Altman this time around?
A program is written to do something, and you can only think so far about its data without thinking about what you want to do with it.
Absolutely agree about BRICS. How India and China will ever work together given the history is nuts.

Better question is how this effects LatAm politics, and that's more interesting.

How will it? The first that comes to mind is Brazil and trade between the two. Brazil has been moving away from America, as Argentina moves closer.
> can and should be used, and thus not be a footgun

It can and should be used in the cases where it makes sense, with the restrictions that are documented. It's an API that is fundamentally not thread-safe, you can not use it "safely" (in the modern sense of using it after a lobotomy, in any way that the compiler allows) in a multi-threaded context.

There are other such APIs, and if those APIs were removed it would hurt a lot of old software that is running perfectly fine.
given that 500 employees are saying "either give us sama and gdb back or we are going to msft", i say nadella won hard.
This is 1 in 200000 event
Does facebook actually sell data? I know you can run ads, but the suggested practice currently is to leave the ad interests open and let the algorithm figure out the best users for conversions.

Second, tracking likes and comments is required to offer the service you can't show likes and comments without it.

And I bet that most of actually ad data is just weights in a neural network not even readable by humans.
Why? To entertain bystanders like us?
Hah. I think you may be duped by history - the neat logical accounts are often fictions - they explain what was inexplicable with fabrications.

Studying revolutions is revealing - they are rarely the invevitable product of historical forces, executed to the plans of strategic minded players... instead they are often accidental and inexplicable. Those credited as their masterminds were trying to stop them. Rather than inevitible, there was often progress in the opposite direction making people feel the liklihood was decreasing. The confusing paradoxical mess of great events doesn't make for a good story to tell others though.
The web frontend just works. The other frontends tend to have issues, which even if they're not deal-breakers are annoying. I won't put ideology over using what works best. And clicking a link, then clicking play, beats copying the URL then pasting it into a command line.

Of course this only works because by default (since I have an ad blocker anyways) I don't get bombarded with ads on the web frontend, and so far I've seen the adblocker nag screen once (a failure which uBlock Origin seems to have swiftly corrected).
See here: https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-micros...
Doesn't Argentina have some kind of soft-peg to the USD? I suppose they could turn the Peso to a more conventional peg.
Altman can’t really go back to OpenAI ever because it would create an appearance of impropriety on the part of MS (that perhaps MS had intentionally interfered in OpenAI, rather than being a victim of it) and therefore expose MS to liability from the other investors in OpenAI.

Likewise, these workers that threatened to quit OpenAI out of loyalty to Altman now need to follow thru sooner rather than later, so their actions are clearly viewed in the context of Altman’s firing.

In the mean time, how can the public resume work on API integrations without knowing when the MS versions will come online or if they will be binary interoperable with the OpenAPI servers that could seemingly go down at any moment?
I think it means don't attribute to intelligence what could be easily explained as stupidity?
The more wealth is created, the more we abuse wild resources and the natural ecosystem as well. If there were only humans on the planet, I would not disagree. But it is immoral to live better if it comes to destroying out natural connection with the biosphere.

I also disagree that scarcity creates conflict and pain. Scarcity limits growth, which means it limits our expansion, which is good because other creatures have to live here too.
Maybe this is same effect as Trump - "crash and burn" opposition: most people know they are fucked whatever the government does, so they want everyone else to be fucked, too.
Wouldn’t be the first. See also Ecuador, El Salvador, Panama, and Bonaire (to name a few)
Some idealists, a few new people, some people on holiday or who don't check their email regularly.
A policy to defend nature is a good one... But the nature that gets defended shouldn't depend on which pissed off residents hire the right naturalist to go find some reason building can't happen.
The Most Valuable Plot of Land in America [video]
I bet he's up making sure the servers aren't crashing! Thanks dang! As the west coast wakes up .. HN is going to be busy...
I strongly agree on all counts. Overall, the bad outweighed the good for me; but at least it tried and I give it points for that. The other two sequels were just lazy.

The best modern Star Wars movie by far was Rogue One. In some ways Rogue One had an easier job because it was explicitly an exercise in elaborating on the original movies, rather than trying to expand in a brand new direction. But it did its job tremendously well. (And the TV show Andor is taking things in cool new directions.)
Except compared the Argentinian peso for the last 40 years and that the population uses electronics such as televisions as currency / savings as it is.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/ARS-USD?window=5Y
We want to be stuck with whatever the Fed does. You might think that's stupid because the Fed is not great, but what we have right now is way worse.

One of Javier's main goals is to remove to the Argentine politician the capacity to emit more useless currency. I don't know if he's going to go ahead with that proposal or if it's going to sleep forever "soon to come", but we are just tired of our politicians, at the point that we prefer to depend on politicians of another country to dictate our monetary policy...
I assumed that was the case, not that a cat had amputated a leg :)
> have you heard of lead additives to gasoline? CFCs? Asbestos? Smoking? History is littered with complete failures of governments to appropriately regulate new technology

Most of those problems have been solved or at least been reduced by regulation. Regulators however aren't all knowing gods and one finds out about risks and problems only later, but except for smoking regulators have covered those aspects (and anti-smoking laws become stricter, generally, depending on country, regularly, but it's a cultural habit older than most states ...)
1) Is a real problem to the extent you want citizens to be able to exchange their old money to dollars.

2) Being stuck with what the Fed does isn't ideal, but VASTLY better than 130% inflation.
I think the dust is way more in the air than we think. But now that Satya has already publicly said Sam is joining Microsoft I would be surprised if "unity" in OpenAI is possible at this juncture.

But wow, if Satya is able to pull all that talent into Microsoft without paying a dime then chaos is surely a ladder and Satya is a grandmaster.
How likely is that the API will change (from specs, to pricing, to being broken)? I am about to finish some freelance work that uses GPT api and it will be a pain in the ass if we have to switch or find an alternative (even creating a custom endpoint on Azure...)
No lawyers were consulted before sending that tweet clearly. Such a sad situation all around.
3 board members (joined by Ilya Sutskever, who is publicly defecting now) found themselves in a position to take over what used to be a 9-member board, and took full control of OpenAI and the subsidiary previously worth $90 billion.

Speculation is just on motivation, the facts are easy to establish.
Hanlon's razor, basically.

The most plausible scenario here is that the board is comprised of people lacking in foresight who did something stupid. A lot of people are generating a 5D chess plot orchestrated by Microsoft in their heads.
Sounds like a CYA move after being under pressure from the team at large.
1200 London time, so 1100UTC with daylight saving yes.

Point remains, many events are linked to local civil time, which can change - and not just to daylight saving. The Line Islands in Kiribati shifted a whole day in 1994, same with Samoa in 2011. Have an event set for 0800 local on the first Monday of the year in Samoa which you stored as UTC, and your events would have broken. Unless you store the relevant data (it occurs on first monday according to the timezone that Samoa is in), then you will be wrong.

Now of course you can still get problems if a new timezone is created, as time is stored as Europe/London, if Scotland creates its own timezone in the future a meeting in Aberdeen would no longer be in Europe/London but in a new area Europe/Edinburgh, with different behaviour, but that’s far less common than DST changes or other date shifts.

All in all you should store the relevant datetime and zone, not just “normalise” it to UTC.
& the most drastic thing is that Ilya says he regrets what he has done and undersign the public statement.

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028
One birthday I was given a crystal radio kit because I was interested in electronics. I recall "Stuck in the Middle With You", "Rock On", and "D'yer Mak'er" were in heavy rotation at the time. I guess that pins it to be 1973, so I was 9. It was magic.

About five years ago I built an AM radio from a kit just for the fun of it. It worked but then I remembered there is nothing on AM radio I want to listen to these days (or the past 40 years).
> Want to know a dirty secret?
> Nobody knows what they're doing.

There is a famous quote from the 1600s:

"An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur"

"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

The context is that the son was preparing to participate in high level diplomacy and worried about being out of his league, and the quote is from his father, an elder statesman.
lol is that a real thing?
I'm assuming it's a combination of researchers, data scientists, mlops engineers, and developers. There are a lot of different areas of expertise that come into building these models.
Many developing countries are stuck with "whatever the Fed does" whether we like it or not. When the US raise interest rate we see large capital outflows wakening our currency.
The speed at which this is happening could be a masterful execution of getting out of under the non-profit status.
Put it another way. If at any given time you could be interested about 1 thing out of 100, if you are shown random ads, the value difference is 100x compared to if you were able to accurately identify the 1 out of 100.

So then consider that when you go to other websites, with FB code embedded within them, some of them e-commerce sites, they will be able to retarget those ads, which you already showed at least slight interest in. This is likely a huge difference.

You already showed interest in that gaming mouse, but for whatever reason you decided you would buy it later or not now, maybe forgetting all about it eventually, but then you see that ad to remind you. That's a huge difference.
didn't see the email that was posted over the weekend?
Not at all. This is an extremely unusual, one-of-a-kind situation and I think everybody realizes that.

And there's no evidence Microsoft was an indicator of the drama.
I remember them starting to do automatic lower-quality streams when this came out[0], but I'm not sure if this is still the cause for the situation. It could be a general "we see this ISP/ASN failing more often with x many concurrent 4k streams, let's throw some people on 720p and see if it helps".

0: https://www.pcworld.com/article/398929/youtube-defaults-to-l...