skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A summer 2023 study finds 329,606 out of 1,004,632 discovered access points support IEEE 802.11ax. About 6% of discovered networks supported WPA-3.
Trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Having lived through the transition, I can say personally it comes down to "packaging" -if MIME had adopted UUENCODE format, I probably would have used it but as materials emerged to me which depended on base64 decode, it became compelling to use it. Once it was ubiquitously available in e.g ssl, it became trivial to decode a base64 encoded thing, no matter what. Not all systems had a functioning uudecode all the time. DOS for instance, you had to find one. If you're given base64 content, you install a base64 encode/decode package and then its what you have.

There was also an extended period of time where people did uux much as they did shar: both of which are inviting somebody else's hands into your execution state and filestore.

We were also obsessed with efficiency. base64 was "sold" as denser encoding. I can't say if it was true overall, but just as we discussed lempel-zif and gzip tuning on usenet news, we discussed uuencode/base64 and other text wrapping.

Ned Freed, Nathaniel Borenstein, Patrik Falstrom and Robert Elz amongst others come to mind as people who worked on the baseXX encoding and discussed this on the lists at the time. Other alphabets were discussed.

uu* was the product of Mike Lesk a decade before, who was a lot quieter on the lists: He'd moved into different circles, was doing other things and not really that interested in the chatter around line encoding issues.
The war in iraq and SOPA were pased with bipartisan support. So that point is moot.

Interestingly, the usual suspects (banks, VCs, accounting firms, and pretty much every moneyed group with influence and lobby power) carved themselves an exception to this rule.

SO this is a new burdensome rule, that is selectively applied to certain industries with no power.

As a small business owner, there are tons of regulations one needs to be concerned about at the local, state and federal level. This does not enhance value for businesses or surface any data the govt didn't have before. Instead this rule seems to to make money for lawyers, banks, and not much else except to steal money from hardworking small business owners
In my country, no one tips, yet rideshare and food delivery services still exist.

Instead of begging for tips, drivers join a national union and regularly go on strike when a delivery company fails to meet payment expectations. New delivery services typical negotiate a deal with the union first to get drivers, and thus new companies have one less needless marketing expense.

Just don't tip.

It makes no sense for couriers to receive tips based on the price of the package. As far as they should be concerned, a 5$ burger and a 100$ steak are the same thing.

Now that some companies like DoorDash are also branching out and delivering medicines, and it would be preferable if they didn't even know what was inside any package and just charged appropriate by weight, distance, congestion fees for delivery.
Poe's law; I can't tell if this is a joke. I was under the impression that Hurd is not going to be ready for usage any time soon (a while).
Why would the board endorse the sale?
Musk's incoherent stance aside, the author is afaik a lawyer, and has a habit of conflating the ideal of free speech, with the 1st amendment. Placing advertisers and billion-dollar corporations as arbiters of what may enter the public sphere is counter to the spirit of free speech, even if it complies with the 1st amendment.

There may be no simple legal means to prevent it (to get ahead of the usual "oh so you want government to force people to do business with X" replies), but that doesn't make the problem go away. I suspect even the author would realize this if, e.g., speaking up for LGBT rights got you fired from 90% of all jobs. Which, ironically, is illegal, but I won't hold my breath on the author complaining what an unconstitutional imposition on the 1st amendment rights of free speech and free association the Civil Rights act is.
No, it is standard journalism practice to verify sources and protect their identity. The comment is just clarifying that the sources are not completely anonymous.
the prompt made me laught, much love fellow nerd
Very healthy culture. I hope Altman will teach us all about that in the next Y Combinator batch.
Because they verified the person's identity. They are not announcing it publicly, but their journalists verified their employer. It's still a trust us scenario, but it makes explicit that they did verify.
For context, the article with screenshots of nazi posts alongside ads for major advertisers: https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemit...
AKA: caught X violating their explicit contract to never serve their ads next to that content?

"Your honor, the prosecution had to dig through thousands of transactions to find the one where I embezzled money!"
How many drugs had FDA approval that was later retracted after much harm was done?
You've sort of hit the nail on the head. At a job where you do not have psychological safety, unlimited PTO is going to go underutilized, and so you end up with a bad deal compared to accrued/spent PTO.

But the unlimited PTO isn't really the root cause: the safety is. If you're working in a job where you don't have psychological safety but you're banking a fixed rate of PTO, you'll take more vacation and your job will still be draining and stressful.

You're better off aiming for a role/company/etc that gives you that safety, and then using whatever PTO mechanism they have there.
I worked in a big media company and the department next to me had a manager that would get angry and throw stuff on the wall. Once he grabbed the desk IP phone and threw it at the white board, cord and all.

Made some of the employees pretty nervous in weekly meetings. One of them complained to the HR. The employee's contract was not renewed that quarter and nothing ever came of the manager.
In fact this is exactly how they set the price for these curative treatments. Gargantuan sums but hypothetically on average cheaper than the overall lifetime costs of living with the disease. Lots of recent debates on this in the world of Hepatitis C.
This might be too drawn out but you should not consider leaders as the tip of the tree but the roots & trunk.

You can have the best leaves and branches but without good roots & trunk, it's pointless.

From everything I can tell, Altman is essentially an uber-leader. He is great at consolidating & acting on internal information, he's great at externalizing information & bringing in resources, he's great at rallying & exciting his collegues towards a mission. If a leader can have one of those, they are a good leader but to have all of them in one makes them world class.

That's also discounting his reputation and connections as well. Altman is a very valuable person to have on staff if only as a figurehead to parade around and use for introductions. It's like if you had Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, or any other tech superstar on staff. They are valuable as contributors but additionally valuable as people magnets.
Does anyone know if Jabber clients such as JMP.Chat prevent stuff like this?
Two words. “Tech entrepreneur”
1. Lawyers work for whoever hires them. Any individual or corporate entity can hire lawyers. Lawyers are not allowed to simultaneously represent two or more clients on the same matter if those clients are in conflict.

2. It depends on which entity or individuals the investors name as defendants in any suit(s).

3. Corporations often pay for Directors and Officers Insurance on behalf of their board members. D&O insurance covers the costs of legal representation in the event a director or officer is sued in a personal capacity for actions taken as a director or officer.
for one, he doesn't randomly throw a hand grenade that blows up one of the fastest growing companies in history and ruin team morale, which is what the board did. Good management does matter, otherwise Google wouldn't be so far behind OpenAI despite having more researchers and compute resources

and employees are pissed because they were all looking forward to being millionaires in a few weeks when their financing round at a 90B valuation finalized. Now the board being morons is putting that in jeopardy
The problem is this argument is fairly nebulous. We could raise this about any new technology ("This electricity thing could change society in ways we don't anticipate. Now the streets are lit at all hours, who know what young people are going to get up to")
Friends close, enemies closer and all that.
Maybe all this craziness is to generate training material for GPT5.
NYPD is spending $390M on a new, encrypted radio system
Circadian Rhythm Superpowers of Bears
He plays the orchestra.
Agreed, here's a sentiment that basically sums it up for me: https://xkcd.com/1356/

And for anyone frustrated with the premature release of KSP 2, I recently discovered Juno New Origins which scratches a similar itch. It works on both Android and PC, and SyncThing or the like can transfer saves/crafts between.
The issue is not that talent will defect, but that it will spoil into an unproductive vortex.
Get the "Enhancer for Youtube" extension, among many adjustments, it does this clicking for you.

I also had this issue, videos would frequently wobble down to like 240p or whatever, on a stable, high speed wired connection.

It's not an internet problem since I never have to buffer when using this forced setting, so it's probably YT trying to save a few bandwidth bucks when they think people aren't looking.
This specific sentence was about the extensions of Firefox Desktop actually.

But still, it's good to know that they finally brought back the extensions on Android. I gave up after waiting one year and a half, and TBH I don't know if I should trust them again to go back to it.
Would you go so far as to say he was not consistently candid...?
Jup. If everybody is allowed to say whatever they want, the side with the sticks will use it to threaten those with slightly less sticks into silence.

Which ironically means that collectively speech will be more free if you prohibit certain types of it for all. A free society doesn't strictly have to tolerate anti-free-society positions like those of ISIS terrorists or neo-nazis — some (including Karl Popper) would say that a free society that wants to stay free, has a duty to be intolerant towards the intolerant.

Free speech, US-style was never about freedom, it was always about who wields the stick.
It didn't say that, it said: "A less discussed but faster-growing problem is inequality within countries.". The reports linked in the article show the growing inequality, please feel free to present your sources showing otherwise.
They will happily explain it to the judge with you in the room, I believe.
It shows nonprofit boards wield outsize power and need strict governance, e.g., conflicts of interest, empty board seats.
Not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s clearly sus.
Thank you for that comment. There are many people here who seem to believe that the OpenAI employees--and nearly everyone else involved in this drama--are motivated only by money. While of course money matters, people are also motivated by pride, vanity, idealism, loyalty, companionship,
interest in the work itself, and many other things. Explanations of this fascinating situation that don't reflect that complexity are not convincing to me.

I'm 66, in case that matters.
Don't Overuse List Comprehensions in Python
Could you explain to us what a 'social justice tool' is?
OpenAI – Spinning Up in Deep RL
Funny because today I find the install process for Mac much simpler. Most installs are "drag this .app file to your Applications folder", meanwhile on Windows you download an installer that downloads another installer that does who-knows-what to your system and leaves ambiguously-named files and registry modifications all over the place.
> ... some FreeBSD fanboi is hard at work porting ...

Or developers.
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is the book you’re looking for.

The TL;DR is here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...
Because there are applications that could benefit from it?
These scientists could not publicly and unambiguously condone this for the fear of being singled out and picked out as "playing god" extremists.So they have to say the platitudes about "being careful" and ethical concerns.

However, when you suffer all your life from a genetic disease such as, say, the sickle cell or diabetes type 1, it is very obvious that it is any delay or hinderance in this direction that is deeply unethical, not the practice. Your germ line gets hundreds of random mutations at every conception, and your gamets get tons more mutations and errors as you age. It's not a dynasty hairloom.
Right, this sounds like perfectly normal behavior when you want to check whether any ad appears next to any controversial content.

of course they would refresh and scroll a lot.
600 employees quitting would be burny. 600 employees signing a letter saying they’re going to quit isn’t quite there.

3 CEOs in 3 days, isn’t burny, either. There’s the guy they fired, the person they had take on the role so they have someone in the role, and then someone they hired to be CEO. I guess they could have gotten that down to 2 by jumping immediately to their intended replacement, but not having them ready to start immediately doesn’t seem odd.

And yeah, it’s just Monday afternoon. If in the next few days, a sizable chunk of those who threatened to quit do so, then that would be burny. But we ain’t there yet.
> that doesn't exist and may never exist

It doesn’t exist until suddenly it does. I think there are a lot of potential issues we really should be preparing for / trying to solve.

For example, what to do about unemployment. We can’t wait until massive number of people start losing their job before we start working on what to do.

I’m not for slowing down AI research but I do think we need to restrict or slow the deployment of AI if the effects on society are problematic.
No matter how bright they are, I am sure I read somewhere that the employees had all succumb to an addiction to food and shelter early in life and haven’t overcome that addiction.

Unless they are a gang of thieves, they are all exchanging labor for money to support their addiction. Who do you really think has the negotiating power in this relationship?
Hey now, there are great wines aged in stainless. And even more aged in concrete. And yet more aged in neutral oak, which has been used so many times it no longer imparts the oak character. If the quercetin -> oak link holds, I would expect it to also appear in lower levels from neutral barrels.

Would be super interesting to know.
It has never been about AI safety. They just threw their little mission statement on the end like an email signature.

Nothing could possibly weaken their position more than the last 72 hours
NASA wants to learn to live off the land on the moon
What could a "trust and safety" team even do when the site owner/CEO spends his time directly responding to racist diatribes with positive encouragement [0] ? Like you can't pass off the nastiness as just "some users" or otherwise exceptional when it's being directly nurtured by the forum admin. So the resulting question is more like when to stop advertising somewhere the admin seems intent on making into Stormfront Lite?

[0] https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299 . I'm including this link even though it's been referenced to death, because reading primary sources is important - especially with people people becoming desensitized to claims of racism from a media landscape that often takes things out of context and heavily paraphrases to blow them out of proportion, which is decidedly not what happened here.
It’s unreal how much open source remains the absolute foundation of essentially all media work, at every scale and tier.
I doubt that.

This is AAA talent. They can always land elsewhere.

I doubt there would even be hard feelings. The team seems super tight. Some folks aren't in a position to put themselves out there. That sort of thing would be totally understandable.

This is not a petty team. You should look more closely at their culture.
How would you compare CBT to IFS? I have philosophical issues+differences with CBT because of the what I would characterize as an overemphasis on logic+changing your thinking which subtly or explicitly teaches the lesson that the way you think but most particularly how you feel is invalid or fundamentally "incorrect".

Consequently, I would equate it to well-intentioned gaslighting which is one of the deadliest sins in my view. Gaslighting is one of the most destructive human dynamics to the extent I consider it emotional rape.

I think there's less of a nexus between thinking and feeling as opposed to your thinking being influenced by how you (allow yourself to and honor) feel. (Feel) -> think rather than (think) -> feel although I'm referring more to emphasis rather than negating or disputing the notion that how you think can't self-referentially influence how you feel (but thats more of a perspective thing in my view)

I really like IFS because it actually requires you to bring "everybody" or all the thinking(s) inside to the table and be heard and validated like in InsideOut (pixar). That seems like the best approach and its done amazing things
It's usually listed it on their website and not too hard to google. I have to do it for every new airline I use because I'm almost always flying with only carry-on and rules for carry-on can drastically differ between airlines.

Only time I flew Spirit it cost me $40 to get from Orlando to LA and it's hard to beat that price. Compared to likes of RyanAir their personal item size is actually quite generous and my usual weekender backpack fit pretty well. I'm avoiding Spirit since that flight mostly because their operations are less reliable than other carriers but that have nothing to do with extra charges.
I am also glad the FDA protects us from chemicals and ingredients that would cause processed food to be unhealthy and harmful, if they didn’t do that we would probably end up with an overweight population and tons of food related health problems.
OpenAI's board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours
You are far more charitable than I. (I have no idea why I’m worked up. I don’t work at OAI.) They pulled the dumbest virtual corporate hostage crisis, for ostensibly flimsy reasons, and even has mainstream media wondering whether they’re just crazy. People are just begging to know why, and they seemingly have nothing. It’s incredible. Good lord, if there’s a lesson, it’s that these people should never have been nor should ever be in charge of anything of any importance. (Again, no idea why I’m worked up — I don’t actually care about Sam Altman.) Oh, no, sorry, that’s not the lesson. The lesson is picking board members is probably the most important thing you’ll do. Don’t be cavalier. It will bite you.
I have seen criminality being reported in written format and sometimes to as high as the Federal Police and nothing ever come of it.

Those with power are not going to roll over and accept their mistakes and change. They arm twist everyone and everything to get their way.
How does an LLM question it's priors and axioms?

People have to do this all the time. Bringing skepticism to that table "excel made for you" is a vital part of heading off bad reasoning. For an LLM its a given.
That's "sickle cell trait" which is when you are only carrier but do not have the disease. With the disease, malaria is even more deadly.
Go to lesswrong.com and do some searches about "goal," "reward," "agent," "alignment" etc. This has been addressed extensively. I don't like Yudkowsky's extreme framing about killing everyone instantly, nanotech, or very high probabilities of doom, so I'd avoid his stuff and read what others said.

One example: suppose you can use the open-source LLAMA 6, released in 2027, to create a bot that earns billions by trading obscure currencies. It's not even deceptive - it straightforwardly tells you that scaling up your account will eventually cause economic instabilities in a small African country with some probability (Soros's trading forced the British government to withdraw from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) and devalue its currency in 1992). Do you think nobody will do it? Would every single person care or even foresee that it could lead to widespread suffering (such as the inflation in Venezuela or Argentina)?
Are you familiar with Microsoft Research? It's literally a section of the company that is given basically free reign to do "stuff" in hopes that maybe, possibly, it might someday see the light of day or be impactful.

Here's an example of some of their work: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Microsoft+Research+four+color+theo...

Literally a random math problem, basically nothing to do with Microsoft on the surface ... except that the scientist working on it happened to prove the theorum using a very, very robust algorithm and then wrote a proof program on top of it to prove the program was correct. The underlying parts of that proof program eventually went on to become the thing that validates graphics drivers on Windows ... 7 and beyond? My memory is fuzzy about "how it ended up being useful at Microsoft" part.

But yeah, MSR does random stuff.
Trying to put the confetti back into the cannon.
I’ve found it pretty useful to _assist_ in my engineering work.
What a sh*t show. For someone who is building on top of OpenAI this is very unnerving.
My twitter is full of heart emojis and OpenAI is nothing without its employees.
It's not great at a lot of things that require genuine creativity for me, but it's AMAZING at providing d&d campaign ideas.
None for you!
I think this is a bit harsh, as a good leader is obviously of some value, but the real prize is obviously the researchers themselves, including Suskever.

I guess then that Altman's value is that he will attract the rest of the team.
Like trying to herd cats.

Spiritual death by Microsoft or work for the reincarnation of Howard Hughes at https://x.ai/ ?

..no wonder they are trying to keep on with their current routines! Even if somehow they stay at OpenAI, Microsoft will impose certain changes upon OpenAI to ensure this can never happen again.

Meanwhile, any comparable offering right now will be selected by the customer base due to “risk at 11” in basing systems on OpenAI’s current APIs (and uncertainty of when an MS equivalent might emerge).
> It's such a self report, you have no idea what is going on, you are quick to discount it without any understanding. We are still in the infancy of the space and people are fixated with these idiotic reductive arguments.
> I'm sure we will see it eventually

If your basis for your art is about the hot new tool, or a tool in the future then it's just novelty. Generative AI is incredible from a technological perspective, as was Photoshop before it, but neither of them are ushering in some profound new wave of art.

> fucking epic the set of possibilities that this opens up is

Most great art and great design is built on constraints. My suggestion in using these magical tools is to reduce your possibilities to find something that speaks true to yourself.
Unironically though to have 90+% of the employees want to follow the CEO says only good things about the ceos relationship with their employees
As XKCD memorably observed, putting toothpaste back in the tube is trivial.

However, it may not yield a result anyone's actually happy with:

https://xkcd.com/2521/
that doesn't matter. if an employee were to read it and perhaps glimpse some trade secret and include that, even inadvertently into a future product, that could open them up for litigation.
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"

Classic :-D