skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to wonder at this point how much of this is the current board members trying to somehow save face.

I can’t imagine their careers after this will be easy…
Comments like this don't see the forest for the trees. A good leader is a useful tool just like anyone else. 700 people threatening to quit isn't manufactured news.
> I reached out to their engineering management on LinkedIn, and got put in touch with the local NOC director.

I hate that this is a thing. I'm dealing with a similar potential issue on Charter Spectrum right now. Specifically it's an issue that's called out here https://blog.cloudflare.com/ip-fragmentation-is-broken/ (failing the IPv4 fragmentation test http://icmpcheck.popcount.org/ ).

How on earth is one supposed to get past the front-line tech support in 2023?
We're in a really privileged position in human civilization where most of the species is far removed from the banal violence of nature.

You're lucky if you only need weapons to defend yourself against predators.

You're far less lucky if you need weapons to defend yourself because the neighboring mountain village's crops failed and their herds died. You're less lucky if you don't speak the same language as them and they outnumber you three to one and are already 4 days starving. You're less lucky that they're already 4 days starving, wielding farm tools, running down the hills at you, crazed and screaming.
Ask HN: Who would represent OpenAI board in a lawsuit?
Curious about this, I had a few questions.

1. Do OpenAI lawyers work for the non-profit board or the for-profit arm (indirectly investors)?
2. If investors sued the OpenAI board and they hired outside counsel, would they be hired by the non-profit branch to defend the board?
3. Assuming OpenAI couldn't hire lawyers to defend the board, are each of the board members left to themselves to figure out their own legal defense?
From what I understand, Microsoft realizes this and gives them the equivalent of their OAI stock options in MSFT stock options if they join them now. For some employees, this may mean $10MM+
This isn't dark pattern stuff, revenue (or yield) management is forecasting variable future demand for an expiring asset (airline seat, hotel room) and trying to optimally set pricing in order to match your supply along various points on the demand curve. Nobody's trying to "trick" anyone, just setting different prices and incenting early and flexible bookings while raising prices at high-demand times.
Maybe they’re aiming to start mining cryptocurrency.
One thing pretty clear to me now, if even only half of these rumored reactions from the current OAI board are correct, then they have nobody or have consulted with nobody with legal and business experience regarding their actions.

Like come on, a merger talk at this point is so stupid. Nobody would want to touch something this hot and the attempt alone just made OAI situation worse. What are they thinking?
Why does `let*` need to have mutation? It can be nested `let`s.
Not being an OpenAI employee I have been given 1,000 such explanations
I like 12ft.io but it breaks Firefox reader mode for me.
wasnt over saftey though
OpenAI has no stock options.
If you are not using oauth, you are storing a hash of the password somewhere, right? Even with all the precautions, it is likely that if your password is a dictionary word, it can be broken. Given most people might be choosing a simple password and people tend to reuse the same password across sites, it is worthwhile asking people to change it.
Still better than BallmerGPT, whose cutoff date is February 2014.
You an see a (very quickly made) demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/5b38a328ded94f93a980f1ba28081329?...
I know. I was asking if it had been brought into the premade, mainline state.
Jaron Lanier thinks AI is not a threat to humans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24Nnd6ihFA
They didn't find whether it was actually the source of the headaches, but only proposed a new hypothesis. The linked paper is a review, which proposes a novel hypothesis on red wine's mechanism of causing headache, and suggests that an experiment should take place to test the hypothesis. Many papers have previously suggested alternative ideas on why red wine causes headaches. Other hypothesises that I'm aware of is that the headaches are likely caused by histamine or tannins in red wine.
>Have these people never worked at any other company before?

Half the board has not had a real job ever. I’m serious.
The FDA has no place in a free market. If people trust a company which poisons their food, they should be punished for misplacing their trust. Both the scammer and the scammed deserve a share of the punishment. Life naturally punishes the scammed already and teaches them a lesson at the same time... Without the help of the FDA... How good is that?!

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I'd much rather pool our money into a commission that does this for the population than spend every waking moment personally auditing companies for breaking the rules. Oh, and I have to set them too. No thanks.
With any luck this will happen sooner than later.
Let’s see how many actually quit. Saying “I will quit” is not nearly the same as actually handing in your notice. How many people who threatened to move to Canada after the 2016 election did?
For the brand, the IP, and the fact it would be pennies on the dollar.
The thing I can't understand is how Emmett Shear accepted the interim CEO position. I presume he must have known this reasoning (he tweeted that he did know the reasoning). Everything I've read online is that Shear is generally well respected and competent. Then how on Earth was he willing to get anywhere near this toxic dumpster fire? It's already been reported that the former GitHub CEO and the Scale AI CEO turned down the role - they at least had the good sense to see this radioactive inferno and stay far away.

Sometimes I think that really ambitious people have this blind spot about not seeing how accepting roles that are toxic can end up destroying your reputation. My favorite example is all the Trump White House staffers - regardless of what one thinks of Trump, he's made it abundantly clear that loyalty is a one way street, and I can't think of a single person that came out of the White House without a worse (or totally destroyed) reputation. But still people lined up, thinking "No way, I'll be the one to beat the odds!"
More to the point, you generally don't know a company is commingling (and/or trading using!) customer funds until it's already too late.
I can recommend NIZ keyboards if you are looking for something totally different. The switches are electro capacitive dome not mechanical. Very light and effortless to type and very quiet as well with a hint of tactileness.
They are expensive and need to be imported, but the feel is amazing. Good luck on your journey.

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Prior to terra-forming of Mars, i.e. creating a self-sustaining biosphere out in the open there, all settlements there will be underground or so very well sealed to keep oxygen in and radiation out to be faux-underground. Who in the world wants to go that far to spend the rest of their life in a hole in the ground?

If we can figure out how to put a sustainable society on Mars, why not Earth first? That would be 100x more economical and less risky.

The terra-forming project is the all-time ultimate hubristic engineering project waiting for funding that goes far beyond biblical proportions in both cost and odds against success.
Microsoft would likely match their PPUs at the tender offer valuation.
I think it's pretty clear by this point that the board consists of several people who are woefully ignorant about the way the world actually works.
I think you should ask these questions before you say yes.
If anyone's getting sued it would likely be in an individual capacity.
So altman is a big tree. What he brings to the table is the wood it's made of? I'll have a think on that.
Story time! They probably had different reasons but I had funny encounters with the TSA involving hoodies.

One time I missed a flight in Miami and the next flight was 6-8hrs later. I decided to hang around the airport. Eventually I became sleepy, put my bags next to me, sat down where there are no passengers, put headphones and covered myself with a large hoodie to keep it dark enough for a nap. A couple of hours later I take off my hoodie for a peek and this uniformed TSA guy is sitting in front of me and staring at me, I stared back for a few seconds, checked the time and went back to sleep. A while later I am rested so I get up, now there are 2-3 people around me but the TSA guy is still staring at me. We had a staring contest for like 5-10min the I got bored and started wasting time on my phone. A little later, I was hungry and my departure time was within 1h so I ignored the guy and went to my gate area and ate an expensive tuna sandwich before leaving miami.

Second story, same hoodie I think, I was similarly taking a nap (forgot the airport), I hear a small commotion and look up there are TSA people standing around one is trying to make it look like they are not trying to look at me, then another TSA worker brought a k-9 dog straight to me without saying a single word and had the dog take its time sniffing me and all my stuff. I didn't mind tbh. Then they had the dog sniff around a couple of nearby seats and took it away. Not a big deal, I just couldn't figure out what they were thinking? Did they think I was a terrorist but needed a nap before my attack?

Also, I don't know if facial recognition flags people but I can tell by their body language when I am standing line if they will do a chemical test, to the point I prepare my hands and volunteer them before the guy even asks (they comment on how I am too used to it lol).

People complain about this stuff but personally I care more about all the surveillance they buy that then gets paired with your facial/biometrics and sticks with you for life.

Also, had a rookie TSA agent follow procedure one time and tell me I can request a private pat-down if I so wish. I told him "sure" just to see what they do, they knew I was fooling around so they didn't pat me down properly but they took me to a private room for the pat down. Worth mentioning because it sounded like they are supposed to inform you of that for each pat down and if you are legitimately a person sensitive about being touched and fondled in public you have that option (they even leave the cash on the dresser before they leave /s ).

I say all this but I do understand that the TSA workers on the ground are well meaning folks keeping everyone safe. I have much respect for them even if I don't always agree with TSA/DHS policy, which ulitimately is a product of the american voter's will.
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I wasn't a macintosh user back in the day but for the file archives I frequented (apple II), sometimes files were in BINSCII which was a similar text encoding. The advantage being that they could be emailed inline, posted to usenet, didn't require an 8-bit connection (important back in the 80s), and could be transferred by screen scraping if there wasn't a better alternative.
I mean they interview you because you’re a nobody off the street. Everyone already knows what these CEOs have done and accomplished because they lead very high profile public lives. What sort of imbecile tier whataboutism is this.
It has "Profit Participation Units", which are another form of equity-like compensation.
I would argue that "mythically amazing, reality defying backwards compatibility" is Microsoft's forte.
Yeah you can get a whole genome sequence of yourself for about $300 now.
That’s too vague to say that. It could also mean “we aren’t sure exactly when the attacker could have intercepted traffic” or “not everything uses the strongest possible hashing algorithm”. At a time like this, do you want people who are incredibly busy trying to guess whether the attacker has the resources to effectively attack every combination of hash algorithm, salt, etc. used anywhere at a large organization?

If you’re suffering a catastrophic breach - I’ve heard at least a VMware host-level compromise – it’s likely that it’ll be hard to tell exactly how much or how long an attacker had access to, so giving conservative advice is better than having to later issue an update saying people who thought they were safe weren’t and your earlier advice means that the attacker had more time to try to compromise them. Changing passwords is much, much, much cheaper than recovering from a breach.
The employees haven't left yet. Business continuity is easier to achieve if the employment arrangements don't have to change.

MSFT don't have OpenAI's IP. They have an exclusive right to some of it, but there's presumably a bunch that's not accessible to them. Again, business continuity is easier if they can just grab all of that and keep everything running as normal.
I remember a few years ago when there was some research group that was able to take a picture of a black hole. It involved lots of complicated interpretation of data.

As an extra sanity check, they had two teams working in isolation interpreting this data and constructing the image. If the end result was more or less the same, it’s a good check that it was correct.

So yes, it’s absolutely a valid strategy.
Oh interesting, I'd not heard that. Thanks.
If they aren't quitting, they are moving to Microsoft with Sam I'd imagine.
Believe it’s more of an RSU product with a small few having ISOs. Probably best to just call it “stock comp” since it’s all illiquid anyways.
Emmett Shear, current CEO of OpenAI, is a YC alum and a YC "visiting group" partner: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-back-to-yc-emmett-s...
> Like: What if OpenAI has achieved artificial general intelligence, and it’s got some godlike superintelligence in some box somewhere, straining to get out? And the board was like “this is too dangerous, we gotta kill it,” and Altman was like “no we can charge like $59.95 per month for subscriptions,”

The story of Silicon Valley summed up nicely.
That's a whole lot of training and server infrastructure that would have to be rebuilt - and cloning the exact existing stuff would be one heck of a corporate espionage charge, which I expect Microsoft is very avoidant of.
At some point someone has to explain to you what law you broke and how you broke it. We'll see how this goes for the SEC. I'm not convinced they're going to end up on the winning side with these vague enforcement lawsuits substituting for policy/law from the legislative branch.
The issue was getting nobodies on the board who don’t have experience sitting on boards or working with startups. It’s very evident by how this was handled.
The fact it states that this was after firing Altman makes it seem like the phone call to Dario Amodei was just the board flailing "hey, do you want to come back to openai? no? or maybe you could just merge your company with ours? you still there?"
We already have nation states and wannabe nation states that take shots at us when they feel like the opportunity is there, despite us being the dominant military around the world. As does France, who has been a leading military power for longer than we have.

That's what having a funded and functional defense is all about -- making other entities not think that the opportunity is there.

I think the planet has relatively finite resources and that I'm god damned lucky to have been born into a nation with the ability to secure resources for itself. I enjoy my quality of life a great deal and would like to maintain it. At a minimum. Before helping others.

If you're the type of person who thinks we should just give up this position by not adequately defending it through military and technology investment, I would prefer that you just expatriate yourself now rather than let some other ascendant nation dictate our future and our quality of life.

If you're the kind of person who feels strongly for the plight of, for example, the Palestinians, you should recognize that the only way to deter those kinds of outcomes is to establish the means to establish and maintain sovereignty. That requires a combination of force and manpower.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Silent-7...
Those are out of sight out of mind companies
As long as those rare earth mines are in Africa and they are assembled in China it doesn't count as environmental damage. It's only if those mines or factories are in our country do we need to shut them down for the sake of the Earth
You have to gather and store the data. You have to design and experiment with the model architecture. You have to train the various experiments.

You have to now invent a way to serve this at scale.

You do care about safety by default, so you employ people for that.

You need a team to market and design the products.

You have an api and you’re working on additional things like API hooks to call into services, which actually involves more models.

Now you have all of the standard web app at massive scale issues. You need to design, implement, and serve a frontend as well as the api.

You need a sales team to build relationships with enterprises and startups etc etc. you need a billing team.

Don’t forget about whisper, TTS, dalle etc. you need to do this for all of those as well!

You’re also doing this faster and better than the rest of the industry.

You also need lawyers, office staff, support, etc.
A lot of people who are supposed to be held in high status are actually held in contempt. Republicans hating Fauci and Biden no matter how much of an expert high status they are. And Democrats calling Trump or Bush #notmypresident means they won't recognize his authority no matter how much education either of them got
Glad she got something for that awful treatment. But the thing is, this sort of thing doesn't really scale. A lot of (most?) people don't have the time/resources to attempt any of this and are too afraid to have a future job call the previous job and hear negative feedback because of the retaliation, thus hindering future employment prospects. The whole thing is extremely against the employee.

And the companies know this. That 1 person a year that has the balls to retaliate and who the company has to eventually settle with is effectively just a cost of doing business, and so nothing changes.

I once worked for a crypto startup that turned out to build a ponzi scheme. I of course quit, and asked for my due money from paychecks not paid yet. No money to be seen. I reported the startup to the police, but the police didn't seem all too interested for doing anything about it. I then threatened the startup with going to the local business news outlet and reporting my story, to which they finally responded with and gave my missing money, but the thing is - I had talked to the business outlet, and they also didn't care about the story. I was bluffing and just got lucky. And as far as I know they continued with their business just fine.
The context here is somewhat different, given that Microsoft are essentially offering to roll out the red carpet for them.
Yeah even with today's batteries there is a business case for battery electric flight. Trainers, short hops across water and intracity + eVTOLs of course all make sense to tackle with battery. This is because the efficiency is good, the cost can be potentially very low and the infrastructure is manageable. But as a solution to decarbonising a large proportion of aviation - it doesn't work. We want to find a solution to serve the enormous number of passengers that fly up to 3000 km. If we can tackle that, we can cut more than 50% of aviation emissions.
I don’t understand. So they did get “controversial content”.

What’s the argument then?

Further, how is this not free speech anyways.
You are close - it isn’t that a good leader is the wood, a good leader is the table itself. Don’t know if Sam is or isn’t, but I’ve worked with good leaders like this before, and bad ones who aren’t capable of being this.
Scroll down for screenshots of the ads for the mentioned major brands alongside nazi content: https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemit...
> The people asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to share internal matters. Their identities are known to Business Insider.

why would you say that second sentence? what's it supposed to signal, except "our sources asked for anonymity, and we're respecting that for now"?
Could be a classic kickstarter campaign style thing.
That... is called quitting...
Would insurances cover it on the basis like that? I wonder if there is any similar medicine that is covered for a similar total treatment reason.
Only flag functionally duplicate posts (e.g. old news). Past that, don't interfere with community expression, I say.
Adam DAngelo, once one of the more level-headed Facebook alumni, and bar far the most experienced OpenAI Board member, is now nowhere to be found? Is he hiding out with Sam Trabucco somewhere?
The cynic in me says that it was probably priced to cost exactly the same as the expected lifetime expense of treating of the disease.
It helps confirm they're actually employees, rather than someone just pretending to be one.
Engineers are bourgeoisie.
Yeah I don't think advertisers want their ads shown if the user likes the bad content. It is just way less severe than if it was happening for all users. Also harder for Twitter to notice and fix if organic occurrence is extremely rare.
Which model do you have? Have you used it for work with lots of static windows, or just for movies/games?
let* permits expressions on the right refer to arbitrary other symbols bound by the let*. in particular it allows for construction of recursive lambdas that may not be linearlizable.
This guys career is over.
Why Shock Therapy Effectively Treats Depression
So it's time to have a PC card slot! It's cheap so Qualcomm may charge less for external modem.
> Drink red wine and get a headache because of drinking it? Switch to white wine

Pro-tip: sparkling white wine from the french region of Champagne. There's never headaches with this, even if you seriously abuse.
It's less about Altman himself and more about the board's actions.

Removing him shows (according to employees) that the board does not have good decision making skills, and does not share interests of the employees.
What would be the most efficient method if the goal was mining as much as possible on Microsoft's dime, as many miner instances as possible (burning through Azure credits quickly) or keeping a saner number of instances running longer?
lol yes, I just refreshed the timeline which was skewed in my memory.
If the company says it doesn't co-mingle funds, but does, why should I be punished as a retail investor?
Even one instance is sufficient, right? So, is it ok if one in 15 users see this kind of ad?

If I were to do a performance test, I do not run one request through and claim it is representational. I do a large test and test at 99th percentile. No one claims that since I ran many requests, my tests are invalid.

You are reaching out to find a bright spot.
Business Insider is simply saying they did their due diligence and aren't being hoaxed.
Doesn't necessarily mean they are employees, just not authorized to discuss internal OAI matters
There is not a single DMV. Every state has its own DMV with its own database.
I think a good comparison would be a website + hosting. Traditionally, many "agency" type business have designed a website and then hosted it. "Unbundling" would be turning over the source code and letting the customer find hosting at the right price. (At my last job, we did have an agency make our website, and then we hosted it along with the rest of our infrastructure. Incremental hosting cost for us? $0, since we just ran it alongside our internal admin tools, which we were already hosting.)
Maybe reddit does strange things too? For me this redirects to https://reddit.com/subreddits

Deleted? Moved? Who knows?

Edit: let's try this https://old.reddit.com/r/cuba/comments/17ynlrn/the_reality_o...
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