skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> over the safe development of a potentially humanity-changing technology

May be people who are actually working on it and are also world best researchers have a better understanding of safety concerns?
They do, or at least when I last flew they were charging people who had carryon bags that would not go beneath the seat.

(I had a backpack that was slightly oversized, but they did not seem to care that much.)
France, Germany, Italy push for mandatory self-regulation for foundation models
That's because the US and Australia are run by brain dead individuals (and the voters who enable them) who let the train system they had crumble into disrepair. Even the famously corrupt Ukrainian government did a much better job at multi-modal transport option. The Ukraine refugee situation is the best example of how refugees should be evacuated in the event of a catastrophe. if they did it all by car, it would've been absolute chaos and lead to many more causalities.

Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/05/world/ukraine-railwa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/magazine/ukraine-trains.h...
I'd note that some airlines don't show up on the aggregators (like Southwest).
And people with money will want to make UBI happen because...?
You weren't selecting your seat in 1984. You'd show up at the airport, the agent at the counter would print your ticket, and you would realize with deep horror that you were in seat 37-E in the back of a DC10 with its 2-5-2 seating arrangement.
For one, you don't need to have a SIM tray, many carriers offer eSIM and the number is only going up. Also, smartphones having better reception makes little sense. They're smaller and hence have smaller antennas, if you design a laptop with similar design principles in mind it will have better reception no questions asked simply by virtue of having a bigger antenna.
>> You can make the case that Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0 and zero risk of an antitrust lawsuit

If I were MS, I'd be sending out a bunch more job offers today. "Show me an OpenAI W-2, we'll match, go work under Sam."
Yeah, I think it is just the start of another political problem created to protect a minority of extremely well-off people.
Pharmacists and all associated "medicine" staff.
They really don't like it when people take matters in their own hands and go take a small amount of risk to avoid the insane markup imposed by those gatekeepers (very often incompetent I might add).

I enjoy the opportunities and liberty brought by technology and open market, there are some risks but considering my own experience with France medicine apparatus I don't think they are any worse than the main road...
OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend
Look up the reason OpenAI was founded. The idea was exactly that someone would get there first, and it better be an entity with beneficial goals. So they set it up to advance the field - which they have been doing successfully - while having a strict charter that would ensure alignment with humanity (aka prevent it from becoming a profit-driven enterprise).
Chrome isn't really WebKit anymore, though—it's Chromium.
They call it "budget surplus" and often it gets allocated to overhead. This eventually results in layers of excess employees, often "administrators" that don't do much.
This is not a veiled insinuation against Apple. It's just a question/thought.

With the modem being integrated into the SoC, it's not something that can be easily removed. Many IoT vendors and automakers have been adding modems and such that keep your device "always connected" and in a way that bypasses your home internet (where people can filter, log, block ads, etc).

Is the possibility of future surveillance a concern for people?
I think you’re right about all of this, but this was doomed from the start. Everybody wants to invest in OpenAI because they see the rocket and want to ride, but the company is fundamentally structured to disallow typical frothy investment mentality.
No, that's completely different.
You could make your own and charge for access if you feel you can do better. Make a show post when you are done and we'll comment.
> It is especially cruel that in the US, so many benefits are tied to employment.

And so many taxes tied to employment. Not just US, but pretty much everywhere.

Why discourage the most the thing you want people to do?
A better link with the original comments - https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-m...
> The only problem with this account is the idea that Ilya thought he could persuade the people of the evils of Sam.
Did he? As far as I can tell, absolutely no one tried to make a case for firing Altman. There was some vague hand-wavey bullshit about their "mission", but absolutely nothing in the way of a press offensive or even telling Altman himself why he was getting the sack.
My best guess is that the board are comically stupid, and they figured that invoking their mission would cease all debate about whether this was a good idea. Maybe because there is some angst about the impact of AI on society in the press or something, and they figured they'd draft off of that.
Then of course it came out that they had basically no good reason to fire Altman. Then that they wanted him back. Then that Microsoft were fuming. Then that their own employees were threatening to resign en masse. Then Altman joining Microsoft, with what is almost certainly a blessing to poach whoever he wants from OpenAI.
This board basically just sold their enterprise to Microsoft for $0. What a total pack of clowns.
This is a great comment. Having an open eye towards what lessons you can learn from these events so that you don't have to re-learn them when they might apply to you is a very good way to ensure you don't pay avoidable tuition fees.
> The board destroyed the company in one fell swoop.

I'm just not familiar enough to understand, is it really destroyed or is this just a minor bump in OpenAI's reputation? They still have GPT 3.5/4 and ChatGPT which is very popular. They can still attract talent to work there. They should be good if they just proceed with business as usual?
Being able to have your car drop you at work, go back home and take your kids to school, then go back home and park could be a huge change to life as we know it.

It would also massively increase traffic compared to taking the school bus or walking, and compared to parking at work.
Passengers aren't paying for an extra bag these days. They are paying for every bag, carry-on or checked. They care creating new classes even lower than economy. And this is causing problems with booking systems like Concur. I fly a few times a year for work and I'm obviously not sophisticated enough for these edge cases.

I've gone back to calling our travel agency because the online system can't distinguish between Economy, Economy Basic, and Economy Plus(tm).
That's not the expectation at all; a lot of work is being done to make it run on underpowered hardware. SD in particular runs on a 8-years-old potato, albeit slowly and with limitations, despite originally barely fitting into 10GB VRAM.

>A theoretical nice thing about Krita and art in these past decades was that you could be an 18 year old with some ok drawing skills, a thinkpad, a secondhand wacom tablet and a version of krita

You never needed a computer for that, just a pen/pencil and paper.

For digital painting in particular though, that only became possible in the recent years. Free digital painting software sucked until recently, so 20 years ago every 18 years old just pirated commercial software. And drawing tablets only became cheap and good after Wacom battery-less patents expired (alternatively, with the advent of iPads with pens that a lot of parents bought for their kids, and cheap drawing software in the App Store).

I'm not even starting on 3D, which always required beefy hardware. Tinkering with Maya/3DSMax/Lightwave in early 2000s required a really powerful gaming PC. These days you can at least rent a powerful GPU for peanuts to run the AI model.
I've always considered my phone getting charged while cable tethering to be a significant benefit.
Plenty easy, Midjourney.
As the article suggests, the issue is with political policy. Economists don't implement political policy. Politicians do.
I'm more of an artist than a hacker, and

> mad about models being trained on their work without informed prior consent

This is the "your mind has been poisoned by a corporate view of intellectual property" take. The idea that copyright should extend this far is horrifying, it is another step toward stifling and controlling creative expression. The problem is capital being rewarded way more by IP law than labor, something that isn't going to be fixed by giving people more and broader ways to own things.|

You'll be surprised how recent the idea of owning ideas is.
Perhaps listen to almost anything Sebastian Thrun has ever said about self-driving? He's very specific about eliminating human-caused driving fatalities. (He'll talk about other things but they're always framed as secondary benefits.)
Startups must navigate GDPR's complex requirements, such as managing user consents for data collection, which complicates both user interface and backend development. The focus on data minimization under GDPR requires careful system planning, limiting how data can be used. Furthermore, systems must accommodate user rights, including data access and deletion requests. Global operations face additional legal and technical hurdles due to international data transfer rules. GDPR compliance is a continuous process, demanding regular updates and documentation, diverting attention from other development areas. The need for thorough privacy compliance testing adds to the development lifecycle. These requirements make software development more costly and time-consuming, particularly compared to countries without such strict regulations. Of course, there are many other issues with GDPR, but delving into all of them would be akin to writing a book.
It’s worth noting that the machines we call computers weren’t built to replace secretaries, they were built to replace…computers. That word used to refer to actual human beans with pencils and slide rules.
That's just a part. You can also buy a USB-C modem for a MacBook.

And being cost-conscious is part of what makes it affordable to sell the integrated machine, since you're paying a % of the product cost. The total take for Qualcomm is smaller, and Dell can still make money selling device management solutions to its customers.
This sounds a lot like naysayers when Apple decided to ditch the audio port on iPhones. Why would I want bluetooth audio, I can connect my headphones to my phone already. Of course, there are people out there who still prefer that, but most people these days use bluetooth headphones/earbuds.
A half decent NAS, with Dockerised *rr is the gold standard of torrenting. I never knew it could be so painless.
You're assuming wrong, they are not talking about data-oriented programming.
Yeah, I'm sure he does regret it, now that it blew up in his face.
The board previously had people like Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman. Greg Brockman was part of the board until he was ousted as well.

The attrition of industry business leaders, the ouster of Greg Brockman, and the (temporary, apparently) flipping of Ilya combined to give the short list of remaining board members outsized influence. They took this opportunity to drop a nuclear bomb on the company's leadership, which so far has backfired spectacularly. Even their first interim CEO had to be replaced already.
I think lots of conservatives desperately want to help the poor, just not in ways that might seem kind & empathetic to you.

Don’t confuse tough love with no love - many people simply don’t think welfare is going to actually help.
Understandable: so much of this is so HN-adjacent that clearly this is the space to watch, for some kind of developments. I've repeatedly gone to Twitter to see if AI-related drama was trending, and Twitter is clearly out of the loop and busy acting like 4chan, but without the accompanying interest in Stable Diffusion.

I'm going to chalk that up as another metric of Twitter's slide to irrelevance: this should be registering there if it's melting the HN servers, but nada. AI? Isn't that a Spielberg movie? ;)
> Yeah I mean, who cares if ASI kills us all as long as a couple hundred of the most well-paid people on the planet get even more rich.

creating ASI for money seems particularly asinine as the machine overlords won't care terribly much about dollars
I dunno how you see it but I don’t see anything that Microsoft is doing wrong here. They’ve obviously been aligned with Sam all along and they’re not “poaching” employees - which isn’t illegal anyway.

They bought their IP rights from OpenAI.

I’m not a fan of MS being the big “winner” here but OpenAI shit their own bed on this one. The employees are 100% correct in one thing - that this board isn’t competent.
It's super rich to call artists being mad at a labor alienation machine, alienating for being mad at it.
> Cars are safer than they've ever been

Not if you are outside the car. Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities have increased steadily in the US over the past ten years [0] due to ever increasing car sizes and speeds [1].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal/trends.html

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...
Public transit isn't usable because we don't build housing dense enough.

For example, Seattle area just spent tens of billions on light rail expansion, then built the outlying stations next to the freeway. Half the walkable distance is wasted. Then they build parking garages and zero amenities. They're surrounded by dangerous parking lot and multi-lane roads. It's not designed to actually be used by enough volume to matter! And even if people did come (which they won't) it can't handle more than a small portion of the existing traffic because it's too slow and can't be expanded and can't have express routes.

This is the best we get, for tens of billions!
Let's please stop using mental health as an excuse for backstabbing.
Just because they aren't any faster than 80 hz doesn't mean they don't provide timing for compute. Like the GPS pulse per second doesn't provide the clock frequency, but it does provide the synchronization. Of course it's not digital precision, but how could it not contribute as an integral part of brain function?
> But I don't see why people with lower skillsets or utility curves that weigh leisure more highly than work activities should be allowed to leech off the productive capacities of others.

This is a good example of a "thought-terminating cliché"[0]. In this case, the statement assumes its own veracity, which makes it difficult to respond to in a discussion.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
Who is "we"?

I'm a UNIX/C programmer for decades and I don't care about this.

There is no such thing as beautiful API design. Every design is a compromise. If you think non-reentrant calls should be deprecated in POSIX take it to the committee.

There is a myriad of non-reentrant code both in POSIX spec and in libc implemenations. You need to RTFM, I'm sorry.

There is no "coherent API" as far as null termination goes too. Some library functions deal with it, some calls don't. You need to RTFM.

I also want to know OP's reason to even use setenv() in a multithreaded piece of software. It's like an oxymoron. setenv and vars are useful to pass on data from parent process to forked children because they inherit the environment. If you use the threading model you don't need it. If your application is a single process setenv() is useless.
I don't understand what you mean. The job is "created" as part of the transaction, so it only becomes visible (and hence eligible to be executed) when the transaction commits.
Rewind back to 2013-14 when AI was blowing all of our minds and it seemed like we just needed 5 years and a well trained AI would handle everything...

Just like developing a product, the first 80-90% of the functionality is easy and is done in 10-20% of the time. But that last 10-20%... oof. Sometimes that's when you discover that the problem may not even be fully solvable and you either cut back the requirements, give up, or slowly go insolvent.
Is software architect a common title in game dev ? It's been a decade since I've looked at the field but it kind of antithetical to the industry as I remember it.
If they lose all the employees and then voluntarily give up their Microsoft funding the only asset they'll have left are the movie rights. Which, to be fair, seem to be getting more valuable by the day!
> My supposition is that this hiring was in the pipeline a few weeks ago. The board of OpenAI found out on Thursday, and went ballistic, understandably (lack of candidness). My guess is there's more shenanigans to uncover - I suspect that Altman gave Microsoft an offer they couldn't refuse, and that OpenAI was already screwed by Thursday. So realizing that OpenAI was done for, they figured "we might as well blow it all up".

It takes time if you're a normal employee under standard operating procedure. If you really want to you can merge two of the largest financial institutions in the world in less than a week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Credit_Suisse_b...
For my last flights, all the fees WERE disclosed well in advance. These airlines WANTED to sell these options and were marketing them diligently to the point where you had to fight these unbundled options with a stick.

There may be some bad guys but the unbundling seems to result - at least for some airlines - in excellent disclosure. Granted now you have to read through a lot more, and you have to select or ignore all these offers. Including pick specific seats if you do want a lot more space.

If anything, I wanted to pay for some more options that were not offered.
Yeah, it would be far better if corporations were the only ones with that knowledge. /s
The job is queued as part of the transaction. It is executed by a worker outside the scope of the transaction.
The point about operating systems is that these are new technologies. Free markets require time to resolve. It's natural that an inventor (especially with IP protections) has an market advantage for a period of time. It's important, that at longer time scales, the market evolves towards decentralization.

It's true that there are a lot of natural centralizing forces, such as network effects. Not sure how to resolve those.

However, getting back to the original point, no matter how you think about it, capital efficiency requires that 'a few' manage the capital, because naturally there are 'a few' who manage capital better than the rest. The problem is selecting those few. I think it's a misconception to argue that capital shouldn't centralize in principle, or that it's a morally bad thing.

Also, efficiency in a free market is really about fulfilling the needs of people according to their free will in the most efficient way possible. There's no forcing function to produce more if people don't want to consume more. In Soviet Union, they were very efficient at producing some stuff, but they made stuff that no one needed (they made lots of cheap shoes in big factories, which no one wanted). I.e. there's a difference in being efficient in isolation, and efficient at fulfilling needs of the market.
Average global temperatures were 2 degrees Celsius above benchmark on Friday
The old, old Microsoft is still here, too. IBM is still there, a dinosaur in the mist.
> Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years

Yes, absolutely. The current release marks the productization of a long backlog of features that were previously developed only to the prototype stage--due to the project's origin as an academic research project.

With that now done, I'm hoping to (1) establish a sustainable business model, based on the current product, to fund future development, and then (2) start a big engineering effort to really develop Ultorg as an alternative to Excel and custom-made CRUD apps.

(You'll see a lot of VC-funded startups with similar goals. Inventing the "killer app" that lies in the space between Excel and a relational database is one of the software industry's holy grails. But there are some technological breakthroughs required that existing products didn't manage to crack, despite a lot of money poured into the problem.)
>pure propaganda
I'm not sure if it's 'pure'. Lots of people who studied economics actually believe CPI and PCE are good measures.
Well seat selection is just working out you can charge for something that some care about (will pay for) and others don't (won't, largely unharmed).

But luggage for example: having it was to some extent subsidised by people who didn't/you paid for it whether you wanted it or not, in the bundled price.

It's more a problem of advertising & comparison IMO, I don't mind (quite like) these things being separated out otherwise.
With fixturing.
ChatGPT Series 4
People often get this wrong. The goal of economics is not to fix economic systems, any more than the goal of psychology is to make the human mind perfect, or the goal of political science is to guarantee that your candidate wins every election.

What these all have in common is they are merely descriptive sciences, not engineered solutions to specific problems. Understanding how something works currently, is not the same as having the tools to make it work better.

To use a similar example to the one you gave - the common cold is one of the most common and well-studied illnesses known to man, but there is no vaccine for it. Lazy scientists? No, it's just that not every problem has an easy solution.
I haven't played that particular one, but I think many of the games in the category "Vehicle Builders" might be similar? https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games#veh...

My personal favorite was Robocraft, but it didn't make the list because its reviews were only "Mostly Positive":

https://store.steampowered.com/app/301520/Robocraft/
Denmark has a much higher bar for obtaining a drivers license, both in terms of the education and demonstrated skill required, and the cost of the license.

If US drivers had to meet the same standards as Danish drivers in order to get a license, our roads would be a lot safer.
The Thames in that area is extremely beautiful (having rowed on that stretch and a few neighbouring ones.)
> EITC was not initially designed as welfare, rather it was "supposed to be a temporary refundable tax credit for lower-income workers to offset the Social Security payroll tax and rising food and energy prices."[0]

Hah, that makes a lot of sense. The Social Security tax is suffocating for self-employed people at the bottom of the economic dogpile. 12.4% of your already-spent income is an impossible bill for low-income people to pay.

I, of course, diligently tracked my income and paid all taxes due. But... if your income is 'off the books', it's easier to just not pay Uncle Sam than to put a target on your back by filing possibly-indefensible returns.
It's only LTE, might be an old part.
I don't think the value of credits can be changed per tenant or customer that easily.

I've actually had a discussion with Microsoft on this subject as they were offering us an EA with a certain license subscription at $X.00 for Y,000 calls per month. When we asked if they couldn't just make the Azure resource that does the exact same thing match that price point in consumption rates in our tenant they said unfortunately no.
I just chalked this up to MSFT sales tactics, but I was told candidly by some others that worked on that Azure resource that they were getting 0 enterprise adoption of it because Microsoft couldn't adjust (specific?) consumption rates to match what they could offer on EA licensing.
Full employment means 100% of people eligible to work are working. (0% unemployment rate)

it does not mean employers filling all their open job requests.