skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People love to see things in black and white without nuance, "oh you think the board should reverse the decision, that must mean you think Altman was innocent and should never be fired!". My read was that most people here (at least on sunday and monday) viewed the board as making major missteps, that doesn't mean all of HN is "team sam"
This is how it is in some motorsports series as well. I had a teacher who was a mechanic for a racing team. They'd leave something 'big' broken for tech so that the people would find it, have them fix it. He said they'd miss a bunch of smaller stuff, but would feel accomplished for finding the 'big' error.
I tried searching for workarounds of network shares causing explorer freezes when no connection can be made.

The only "solution" I found was sfc /scannow
I agree. The whole model stinks - whether it's apps, games, books, or anything else digital. Stores should be open to competition, end of.
I'm aware of that, which is why you may note my last paragraph did not actually make any arguments based on precedent, instead using the court cases to observe that the companies have a history of hitting this with everything they have.

But they are under common law as the US is, so pointing out that the customer complaint about being damaged strikes me as rather weak and much weaker than the developer's complaints is still valid in their system. I can't complain that Maserati are making way more profits than they should because they're charging high prices on their luxury goods. They could demand 10 times the price and I'm still not being damaged. It's their prerogative. Games are luxury goods too and if Sony wanted to sell them for 10x more, the remedy is to not buy them, and that's generally a much more competitive market where customers have a lot of other options too, e.g., most of the games being "overpriced" on PS5 are also available on at least one other platform, if not 3.
The Exciting, Perilous Journey Toward AGI – Ilya Sutskever [video]
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3586183.3606820
Capitalism Works, Says ChatGPT. Governance screw-up has lessons for nonprofits
> With Linux it can feel like I'm fighting with the system at times.

All your points are valid, and it's been a meme for a while now that the year of linux on the desktop is always next year.

HOWEVER, consider the following:

When you're on linux you're fighthing the shortcomings of the operating system (and learning stuff as you go) where as when you're on Windows/MacOS you're fighting companies actively trying to screw you over (and over and over again, always in new ways).

The question now becomes: what fight are you willing to fight?
Yes, I will soon have tropical weather in Canada. Changing from Brrr climate to beach weather climate. #winning.
This kind of rhetoric had a good run, but you should understand it is now (solidly) a net loss in persuasion.
>I bought a System76 machine running their own PopOS distro and everything Just Works as I'd expect

Including touchpad gestures and browser hardware video acceleration out of the box?
As I understand it GRBs are highly directional because the magnetic fields involved in the explosion for us energy into narrow beams. We see the events as GRBs when we cross through the path of the beam. When we see the same type of supernova from the side we still see a bright burst but not nearly as bright as as GRB. If a supernova goes off in your stellar neighborhood you might be screwed if you're in the beam of the GRB or just mildly inconvenienced (minor mass extinction) if you get a side view.

So the events causing GRBs are slightly less horrifying than galaxy-sterilizing monsters.
I don't work there, but can guarantee that 100% of the staff wanted to be paid. They're going to follow the person that is going to make them generational wealth.
Have fun building a 4k ray tracing capable PC for $500. The GPU alone is going to cost you that much.

Plus while steam big picture mode is possible, it's kind of a pain compared to the simplicity of hooking up a console right to your big screen TV.
Occam's razor.

Maybe the simplest explanation isn't the right one for 100% of the people that followed Sam (or were ready to), but it's the right one for 90% of them, which is what matters for practical purposes.

Follow the money.
Well, she should probably have avoided letting insane political campaigners "counsel" her about how to feel about it or serve as her "support network". They are systematic exploiters who are in the business of turning non-traumatic experiences traumatic, turning traumatic experiences ultra-traumatic, and using people as political and media pawns. If you've already been manipulated, they're ready and willing to manipulate you some more.
I would actually argue that yes, humans _have_ conquered the world.

As in: we are now at the top of the food chain and decide which habitats and which animals get to live and which don't. Because we are the most intelligent being on the planet. In our pursuit to that place, we've used other animals with lesser intelligence to our advantage (dogs, horses, ...)

The premise is that an AI with super-human intelligence could use us in the same way. And to be honest, we're really not that hard to manipulate or persuade (money, religion, blackmail, power, ...)
IIRC there is a filesystem filter on windows where various apps like antivirus hook themselves, which was why filesystem access under WSL1 actually faster than windows.
https://archive.ph/Alutq
The memory footprint of workbench was incredibly low. A base alpine image with no support for any graphics is several times that size. What are we doing?
The board is not supposed to be good at executive things, that's why they have CEOs
I'd like to do the same. I want to upgrade to 4TB SSD, as I'm at the limit all the time and I spend a lot of time moving data from the laptop to NAS and back. With the upgrade, I'll get a M3 max for the peace of mind - it will be ridiculously expensive anyway.
Larry Summers Is OpenAI's Surprise Pick to Mend Fences
You could say that, except that people in this industry are the most privileged, and their earnings and equity would probably be matched elsewhere.

You say “group think” like it's a bad thing. There's always wisdom in crowds. We have a mob mentality as an evolutionary advantage. You're also willing to believe that 3–4 people can make better judgement calls than 800 people. That's only possible if the board has information that's not public, and I don't think they do, or else they would have published it already.

And … it doesn't matter why there's such a wide consensus. Whether they care about their legacy, or earnings, or not upsetting their colleagues, doesn't matter. The board acted poorly, undoubtedly. Even if they had legitimate reasons to do what they did, that stopped mattering.
>And why i cant remove certain things from my taskbar?

IDK, because the real question here is why can't YOU do it? Because that's definitely possible, anyone can do it with a few clicks from the GUI, there's nothing stopping you from doing that.

Pretty sure my 5 year old nephew can figure out how to get to Right click -> Taskbar setting, where stuff can be removed from the taskbar.

There are plenty of faults with Win11, but the fact that you haven't managed this, is more an issue on your side ("I tried nothing and it doesn't work") rather than with the product in question.

Excuse the bluntness but I'm tired of seeing all the FUD spread on HN and I need to correct it.
> as Machiavelli said:

>> Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

https://blog.samaltman.com/value-is-created-by-doing
I have been using using Linux for 16 years in total and 7+ years as my primary OS.

Ubuntu itself is a performance hog due to snaps. And Ubuntu is NOT beginner friendly. As an ex-IT guy and as a linux enthusiast, It was not when I deployed it to developers and tech people in my company. And it is not beginner friendly when I install it to my friends & family.

I used to use Ubuntu for work until last week. Used it because of the worry for Ubuntu compatibility since most work related tools etc supports Ubuntu if you want to use Linux at work. It used to use 7.5-8GB ram and >40% CPU. So I switched to Linux Mint. It is based off Ubuntu but it is faster & is better for UX. And I have been using Linux Mint since monday. Ram usage wend down to only max 6GB RAM and <25% CPU usage. For the same workload. Since it is Ubuntu compatible, Linux Mint will support all those work related stuff for which they need Ubuntu for. And I have a lot of horror stories with Ubuntu.

I recommend Linux Mint if you want point release distro. It literally takes care of you and works OOTB. The only problem is it doesn't have wayland support yet. If you have the time to invest (which I think you don't since you mentioned tedious), and only if you have time, I recommend Arch Linux.

Another green flag is to prefer community led/oriented Linux flavours over corporate funded for long term UX. Way too many cuts and bleeds to trust a corporate run Linux distro. CentOS and Ubuntu being the latest ones. The only exception so far has been OpenSuse IMO. And I have heard good things about POPOS as well. I haven't used it to comment on it though.

I really see FreeBSD as my north star. But it is not yet there for my work and desktop usecases.
This is almost me. I used Linux on and off over the last 15 years. Mostly in servers, but I often installed a linux partition to try it out.

I always went back to windows since windows was much simpler and I thought KDE and Gnome was similar anyway, I didn't see any benefit in switching.

I permanently switched to Linux in august. I found out about window managers and now I see a real benefit on using Linux over Windows. As much as I'm forced to use windows at work and I try to emulate the functionalities of a WM.

What helped me is support for most of my devices. Linux progressed a lot in the last few years.
Most of the UK is either agricultural land, towns, or a few national parks. There’s not really anywhere to go offroading.

The main reason people buy SUVs is for status, to pick up kids from school, that’s why they have the nickname “Chelsea tractors”.

UK streets were designed for horses, not cars, thus a lot of people don’t really like them because they don’t fit.
OpenAI's Future and Viability

- OpenAI has damaged their brand and lost trust, but may still become a hugely successful company if they build great products

- OpenAI looks stronger now with a more professional board, but has fundamentally transformed into a for-profit focused on commercializing LLMs

- OpenAI still retains impressive talent and technology assets and could pivot into a leading AI provider if managed well

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Sam Altman's Leadership

- Sam emerged as an irreplaceable CEO with overwhelming employee loyalty, but may have to accept more oversight

- Sam has exceptional leadership abilities but can be manipulative; he will likely retain control but have to keep stakeholders aligned

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Board Issues

- The board acted incompetently and destructively without clear reasons or communication

- The new board seems more reasonable but may struggle to govern given Sam's power

- There are still opposing factions on ideology and commercialization that will continue battling

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Employee Motivations

- Employees followed the money trail and Sam to preserve their equity and careers

- Peer pressure and groupthink likely also swayed employees more than principles

- Mission-driven employees may still leave for opportunities at places like Anthropic

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Safety vs Commercialization

- The safety faction lost this battle but still has influential leaders wanting to constrain the technology

- Rapid commercialization beat out calls for restraint but may hit snags with model issues

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Microsoft Partnership

- Microsoft strengthened its power despite not appearing involved in the drama

- OpenAI is now clearly beholden to Microsoft's interests rather than an independent entity
My guess is that the non-profit has never gotten this kind of scrutiny now and the new directors are going to want to get lawyers involved to cover their asses. Just imagine their positions when Sam Altman really does something worth firing.

I think it was a real mistake to create OpenAI as a public charity and I would be hesitant to step into that mess. Imagine the fun when it tips into a private foundation status.
>I find the linux community indeed very resourceful

I do to. As a “power user”, however it feels that for people who don’t know how/fear/don’t want to use the command line and don’t know how to read documentation accomplishing even basic stuff on Linux would be a struggle.
This is typically done by alignment teams (whose role is to ensure the AI behaves in accordance with us) and Red Teams" (whose role it is to intentionally find holes in the systems).

An infamous example from earlier this year was a pre-release version of GPT-4 lying to a TaskRabbit worker about its identity in order to accomplish a task: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5ew4/gpt4-hired-unwitting-...

That was found by the alignment team testing its behaviour in that constructed scenario from the outside. Note that it wasn't able to complete the intermediate steps for self-replication, so we're still safe ;)

In terms of understanding what's going on internally, that's a different field, generally called "interpretability". That consists of people trying to understand the structures of a model and how it comes to a given answer. Anthropic are doing good work here: https://www.anthropic.com/index/decomposing-language-models-...

To answer the more general question: yes, it's being worked on, but there are no foolproof methods. That's a partial contributor to why some safety folks want to decelerate - if we can't understand our current models, what hope do we have of understanding GPT-5, 6 or 7?

Personally, I don't have a solid position on this. There haven't been any major incidents yet, but it's unclear if that's because of the work that's already been put in (like Y2K), or because they're fundamentally incapable of it. I'm an open-source optimist, so I'm hoping that many eyes will make any quirks shallow - but it's also hard to take results from the smaller models and scale them up.

Aside from the existential risk (which I think is unlikely at this stage, but not zero), there's also just the risk of general malfeasance. You don't need sentience, consciousness, or general intelligence to be a nuisance, especially if directed by a bad actor. Expect the next decade of elections to be full of noise, lies, and fabrications!
I have this weird view/feeling that the Bay area opportunities have steadily shifted towards all the negative stuff over the past 20 years. It's obviously not the whole picture but it tarnishes the reputation.

It's like everything "bad" about tech has seemed to grow out of SV, as if it's become the place for grifty companies to find tech workers who don't care about what they're working on as long as it makes money.

You maybe could have quantified things like how far away workers typically have to live from the office, how bad traffic is in these cities, etc.. Traffic figures are often available in terms of "hours wasted annually".

It seems most of these cities are "horrible" on things like traffic though.
Oh I’m well aware.

Some have those results. Some have the opposite results and lean into learning how to handle those situations. That is also a very common reaction.

Firefighters, EMTs, Nurses, Paramedics, LEO, smoke jumpers, and many Soldiers of all stripes have the same backgrounds. 80%+ in my experience. A surprising (perhaps) numbers of skydivers and climbers too.

Including the West Point graduates, special forces (officers and enlisted), SWAT members, ICU and ED nurses, etc. that I’ve known personally.

And several CEOs of tech companies.

One that I know who I personally saw beaten (as a child) at the slightest infraction or none at all until I stepped in (as a child myself) to stop it, became a decorated officer in USSOCOM and did multiple combat tours in Afghanistan. And at least two (now) Majors and a Colonel I’ve known since they were kids.

The world is not as simple as it appears.

Most folks who end up in uncommon places did so because they experienced uncommon things and learned lessons from it that most people never will have the chance to learn.

Folks who haven’t learned those lessons tend to not survive many of those places for long.
Screens are part of the problem but the biggest cause is lack of space to be a child, and the biggest culprit is our car-centric urban planning which transformed our streets into car storage space / racing track.

Our streets have become hostile to anything but cars.

Not Just Bikes video on suburbia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
Below is a good thread, which maybe contains the answer to your question, and Ken Olsen's question about why brainiac MIT grads get managed by midwit HBS grads.

https://twitter.com/coloradotravis/status/172606030573668790...

A good leader is someone you'll follow into battle, because you want to do right by the team, and you know the leader and the team will do right by you. Whatever 'leadership' is, Sam Altman has it and the board does not.

https://www.ft.com/content/05b80ba4-fcc3-4f39-a0c3-97b025418...

The board could have said, hey we don't like this direction and you are not keeping us in the loop, it's time for an orderly change. But they knew that wouldn't go well for them either. They chose to accuse Sam of malfeasance and be weaselly ratfuckers on some level themselves, even if they felt for still-inscrutable reasons that was their only/best choice and wouldn't go down the way it did.

Sam Altman is the front man who 'gave us' ChatGPT regardless of everything else Ilya and everyone else did. A personal brand (or corporate) is about trust, if you have a brand you are playing a long-term game, a reputation converts prisoner's dilemma into iterated prisoner's dilemma which has a different outcome.
Are you sure that what the Amiga was doing with 8 tracks is equivalent to what Logic is doing? I'd guess there is more to compare than just the number of tracks involved.
Yeah, um, I was there for Silverlight and Web Forms.

Also your last point is quite frankly crack smoking. You can still dump out perfectly good dynamic content with Razor and MVC.
Does it also let you connect to the ChatGPT API and use it?
Might be a good idea to put the link to the book before the spoiler warning ;)
... how long are your build times? If your build times are high enough to really affect your productivity, I feel like there are much cheaper (and environmentally friendly) ways to halve them
Page linked in the text seems to have a friendly explanation of how it works: https://anastasis.lu/

If I understand this right: you generate two keys using your identity, split your secret (e.g. master password) into separate parts, encrypt each part with the first key and and pair it with a challenge encrypted using the second key, and distribute those pairs to different providers. Then, you can retrieve your secret by once again deriving those keys, sending the second key to each provider and answering respective challenges, so that each provider agrees to send you their secret part, which is decrypted using the first key.

So you don't have to keep the secret around, and providers don't know who you are and what you store there; they only learn about contents of the challenge, once you ask for their part of secret.

Obviously, challenges may reveal personal information about the user, but the system doesn't put any restrictions on what they should be - and it seems like it should be easy to introduce redundancy by sending one piece to multiple providers, possibly with different challenges.
But it’s not changing their livelihood. Msft just gives them the same deal. In a lot of ways, it’s similar to the telepoll - people can just say whatever they want, there won’t be big material consequences
Frankly I think they can allow this without hurting their business. I mean “allowing other stores” was the default before online stores - i.e. vast majority of games used to be sold by retailers that aren’t Sony.

How does Sony/Nintendo/Sega make money back in the day? Royalty fees. Every copy of a game sold on their platform, they get 10-20%. If you refuse then you don’t publish at all - all consoles have lockout mechanisms; NES/SNES has a lockout chip you can only get from Nintendo, modern consoles require all executables to be digitally signed or they won’t run and guess who has the keys, …

Apple would be hurt by allowing alt stores though since they don’t charge royalties. But if forced to open up iOS to alt stores, I think they will start charging royalties like consoles do.
You're implying all of humanity would concur to the sacrifice or even the need to eliminate a rouge AGI in the first place.

A 2022 AI can already beat most humans in the game Diplomacy:
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-learns-art-diplom...

Moreover, in the near future when GPUs become abundant, many small groups of people can harbor a copy of an AGI in their basement, where it can plan and re-spawn whenever the situation becomes accommodating again.
I just switched from 16" 2019 i9 -> 16" M3 pro and 2 weeks later still stunned at how amazing of a machine it is. I do a lot of c++ dev for $dayjob and my current project which took 1m45s to full rebuild on i9 is down to ~25s on m3. Without a fan turning on or barely getting warm. Its _magical_. I still get caught off guard by the chassis being cold when first placed on my lap.
>Why would you buy a car tailored specifically for buying groceries?

For many people moving stuff from shops to their home is their primary use case for an automobile. Why wouldnt they buy a car tailored for that purpose?
Sometimes yes.
And the problem with paddle jumpers is that, regardless of the fact that hacker news craps on all mentions of self- driving artificial intelligence, well absolutely losing it over GPT style word tricks...

Highway self-driving is going to come. And highway self-driving will probably replace the regional flight. If I could sleep in my car to get where I was going while I drove me on highways overnight, it would probably replace all airline flights less than 800 mi and probably more.

You get to leave whenever you want. You got to take a far larger amount of baggage. It gets seriously cheap for a family. You can stop away along the way to rest. The seats are more comfortable. And when you get there you have local street transportation. No need to rent a car.

A self-driving RV van and the sprinter class or something like that makes it even easier.
MVC is fine. The THICK stacks they build are the problem. Web Forms and Silverlight for example. This is just another one of those balls of muddy complexity which will turn into a bad idea which will require a complete front end rewrite of your several hundred endpoint enterprise shite ball in 5 years.