skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn’t realize CBT-I was also for bedtime procrastination (vs just insomnia). Would love to hear more about this.
> Starship launches are clarifying events. Pretty quickly after liftoff you find out who understands the rocket business, and who are the casual observers bereft of a clue.

I love it when opinion pieces open with the equivalent of "What follows now is the truth. If you disagree with the truth, as presented by me, the arbiter of the truth, you don't know shit."

Berger must have really good faith in his arguments, if he feels the need to begin an article this way. And, unfortunately, what follows sounds more like a letter by an angry SpaceX fan than a quality analysis weighing the successes and failures of the start.
Let's say the employees do the thing you consider to be ethical and demand an accounting, and Altman gets up and says "it's false, it never happened."

What then? Has anything really changed? I would expect him to say the same thing regardless of its truth, so it seems to me we have no additional information: she still says it happened, the rest of the family says she's delusional, and he (obviously) says he's innocent.

Are your hypothetical morally-concerned employees satisfied now? If so, why?

If they're not satisfied, how does this not create an environment where the only thing you have to do to destroy a company is pay a {sibling, cousin, neighbor, ex-lover, etc} to claim something damaging about its CEO?
Don’t think the former CEO of GitHub is going to be that alarmed about upsetting Sam Altman. You may be seeing their decision making through the lens of a no-name founder applying to YC for their first cheque.
Sadly, they aren't considered noxious enough to mandate their removal.
Having pretty blossoms seems to help avoid the classification.
IMO Apple needs to become a MVNO and offer a combined device plan that connects all your devices. $70 a month or something for unlimited voice, data across all device, and AppleOne for every device would be amazing deal and the lock in effects would be tremendous
He has said more than he said during his entire 5 years at Twitch
Pristine? You mean the same home directory that contains the 80 character NTUSER files? ;)
Quote, directly please, the sentences that you are criticizing.

Also, I have no idea what scholarly has got to do with it. She's an orthodox Jew, she's not going to encourage anti-semitism.
Absolutely wild to me that people are drawing a straight line between a text completion algorithm and AGI. The term "AI" has truly lost all meaning.
Nytimes mentioned that just a month back someone else was promoted to the same level as Ilya. Sounds like more than a coincidence.
Tesla suggests charging their new LFP type battery to 100% regularly. Why isn't this new type of battery more widely used?
It's worse than that. The linked article is about another article (https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20231120PD209/tesla-model-3-...) which is about a report.

The closest to a source that I can find (and read) is: https://www.tuvsud.com/en-us/press-and-media/2023/november/r...
And now we can have whitespace in url queries but we are still using %20 everywhere because "that's standard"...
> “calculated for maximum publicity and political impact.”

I'm not a fan of crypto currency, but a big part of my dislike for it is how difficult it is to actually use it. I don't mean technically though. I mean legally.

In Canada, all crypto transactions are considered taxable events. Did you sell a couch on Facebook Marketplace using Bitcoin? Time to calculate your capital gain or loss from a vaguely worded set of guidelines.

It's all political IMO. The real value in crypto is having a currency that isn't subjected to the whims of governments and the people that control monetary policy alongside the massive payment networks like Visa and MasterCard. Controlling the flow of money allows pseudo bans on things the people that control those systems don't like.

My hot take on the whole thing is that half the goal is to make it well known that all the remaining exchanges perform strict KYC and that crypto transactions are trivially easy to track while being extra complicated to report on your taxes (at least in Canada). Once that's done crypto currency doesn't have much value to anyone.
Bitcoin still rolls out upgrades occasionally.

At this point Ethereum doesn't really have "a dev team." There are about ten independent client teams, who have public meetings to come to agreement on upgrades, plus an open research community.

When you say that an ETH buyer is "expecting to profit from the efforts of the dev team" which wasn't the case in 2018, are you talking about proof of stake? Because it's not all that different from proof of work. You run a client, process transactions, and get rewarded for doing that. Instead of buying a server rack you stake some ETH, but what you get rewarded for is running the protocol.

You don't get rewarded for just holding ETH. Unless the value of ETH goes up, but that's the same with Bitcoin and with Ethereum in 2018.

The Howey test, incidentally, is also about an investment contract. That's why an equity is a security, but a bar of gold is not, even if you bought the gold as an investment. Lack of contract is why the SEC lost their case against Ripple recently.
I remove my laptop battery while using it at home. Its 12y old and still going strong.
An Apple part potentially brings down costs, but Apple Silicon wasn’t primarily about bringing down costs, and it’s unlikely to be the focus of this exercise either IMHO.

There’s a huge opportunity to differentiate in terms of a hardware + software system, where right now Apple can mostly only innovate in software. This becomes even more important in the context of HMDs.
Can he like...hack my HN account aha? That would be the extent of my concern or fear of him
>Kevin Roose: The theory that I heard attached to this was that you are secretly an accelerationist, a person who wants A.I. to go as fast as possible, and that all this careful diplomacy that you’re doing and asking for regulation — this is really just the sort of polite face that you put on for society. But deep down you just think we should go all gas, no brakes toward the future.

>Sam Altman: No, I certainly don’t think all gas, no brakes toward the future.

Oh great, what a relief :^)
Comrade, here is top of line RKG-3 anti-tank grenade. Pop out of fox hole and throw over tank! Who needs fancy top-attack Javalin when you have grenade with parachute eh?

I'd take the Vespa option any day of the week.
As an advertiser, I would not care - did you put my brand next to a post promoting nazis or not?
Yeah, but OpenAI was Microsoft’s ace the hole. Imagine if Nadella sat on his hands and waited while OpenAI burned down. In two weeks the narrative shifts from “Microsoft locked down the best AI people in the business” to “Nadella burned $10B for nothing”.

You don’t have to do a ton of diligence to know you want to keep the people you bet the farm on. If it turns out that Sam is actually a massive liability, Nadella will deal with that after this crisis passes.
Then they wouldn't be in control, which is what they really want.
My early FreeBSD moment was when I had a cable modem, and you were able to download one or two boot floppies. After you booted them up, you could install the entire OS from the network. No CD needed.

I assume it just downloaded everything straight from FTP servers.
When you say they aren't reliable, what do you mean? I've had a few things break, like a seat weight sensor and a side camera over a few years but I would call the core car itself very reliable.
I had the same issue I take a new migraine medicine and side effect no hangovers anymore either. Two new drugs came out in 2018 basically allergy medicine. Tells the immune system don’t worry about certain chemicals in the brain and all is good. I get one extra day a week and bonus drinking no hangover
Good read, just wanted to say I appreciate author's candor in publishing his full numbers, including total salary / compensation over his entire career. A lot of posts like this lack these details.
Why wouldn't Ilya come out and say this? Why wouldn't any of the other people who witnessed the software behave in an unexpected way say something?

I get that this is a "just for fun" hypothesis, which is why I have just for fun questions like what incentive does anyone have to keep clearly observed ai risk a secret during such a public situation?
> And given that we've seen exchange after exchange fail to perform basic tasks like "don't commingle customer funds," I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for cryptocurrency companies here.

There is nothing per se nefarious about co-mingling customer funds, provided that you are otherwise compliant with the law.

Banks, for instance, don't just co-mingle customer funds, they invest those funds on their own behalf and reap the profits for themselves. Sometimes a bank will share a portion of its profit with its customers, in the form of intest; more often, the bank pays little or no interest, and actually charges the customer fees. A bank will risk its customers' money, and its customers will pay for that privilege.

Kraken has been operating under the money transmitter licensing scheme for a decade, and like banks, money transmitters don't have any legal requirement to segregate customer funds—although they do have the responsibility to maintain sufficient cash balances or liquid investments to cover all of what they owe to customers.

Whether Kraken is breaking the law is something that will likely be decided by a court. The SEC asserts that Kraken has broken the law, but it is not up to the SEC to decide—it is up to the courts.

It is not illegal to operate a spot commodities exchange without approval from the SEC, unless those commodities are also the kinds of securities the trading of which require SEC approval. It is also not illegal to operate as an unlicensed broker-dealer of non-security commodities, or as an unlicensed custodian of non-security commodities. The SEC only has jurisdiction over securities.

It is not in the slightest bit clear yet that the crypto tokens for sale on Kraken are in fact securities of any kind. The SEC asserts that they are, but at this point it is just an assertion. The SEC will have to win in court.
Then why hasn't COMAC produced a viable jetliner?
It’s hard to tell from the outside what happened there. And if the article used a reliable source.
recorded Wednesday 11/15/23

Interesting but not necessarily relevant to the current situation directly.
Tesla puts a lot of effort into battery and powertrain reliability but relatively little effort into more visible things such as panel gaps, lights, interior trim, etc.
> I don’t see how the board gets out of this pickle

They just hold steady. Nothing to gain by backing down.

OpenAI employees were calling people at 1am and forcing them to sign the letter. Classic peer pressure, it doesn't mean support, it means keeping your options open, and they won't all leave. Nobody knows what's gonna happen but they might attract new talent which isn't aligned with Sam and would lose a lot by being public right now.

It's been less than 48 hours, Sam and allies are running wild with their playbook, but I will wait a bit longer to see if the board has anything to say.
I would be shocked to learn that claiming "casino" is enough to get the SEC off of your back and I would expect to see a lot more casino licenses if it did.
> She has quite a track record of short tenures and failures.

It may be good to have a failure perspective on a board as a counter-balance. I don't think this is a valid knock against her. She has relevant industry experience at least.
Can we not have articles on this site that amount to nothing more than political editorial? The only thing this has to do with tech news is that the individual the author is seething at happens to be a tech CEO.
The SEC saying it is very different from a court saying it. The executive branch can say anything it wants to, but it's the judicial branch's job to interpret the law.
In Germany all cars have to be checked by an independent authority for road safety every two years. TÜV is the best known one, but there are others like Dekra.

It's a standardized test. If your car fails you have a few weeks to get it fixed and present your car again.

So you have dozens of millions of cars being checked every year by standardized criteria. That gives extremely reliable statistics.
I am a former L7 SDM at Amazon. Just last year I had to contend with not one, but three teams doing the same thing. The faster one won with a half-baked solution that caused multiple Sev-1s. My original comment was half in jest; the actual way this works is that multiple teams discover the same issues at the same time and then compete for completing a solution first. This is usually across VPs so it’s difficult to curtail in time to avoid waste.

Speaking of waste, when I was at Alexa we had to do a summit (flying people from all over the country) because we got to a point where there were 12 CMSs competing for the right to answer queries. So yeah, not frugal. Frugality these days is mostly a “local” concept, definitely not company-wide or even org wide.
I would not expect HN to be a reliable source of facts on this subject.
The entire mechanism by which Twitter/X is able to convince advertisers to advertise on their site is by promising their ads will not appear next to vile content.

Because otherwise, you're right, no major brand would risk it.
Hmmm, somewhat different than an election voting.

With proof of stake, a staker eventually gets an opportunity to follow the validation rules and put some transactions in a block. If they don't properly follow the rules, they will get slashed. If they don't submit a block when it is their turn, they will get gently slashed.

In proof of work it is a free-for-all with whoever has the most hashing power winning block submission more frequently. If they submit a block that doesn't follow the validation rules they keep all of their (physical silicon) hashing power and the block is ignored.
"Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!"
Likewise, AT&T licensed the transistor to a small Japanese startup and told them it would probably only be useful for making a hearing aid. Fortunately, Sony had a knack for finding consumer applications of the device and humanity now makes quadrillions of transistors every year.
>90% support is more than "peer pressure."
If they’d wanted to sabotage OpenAI, they could have declared that building GPT5 is unsafe, pulled the plug and erased all the backups, no?
I meant by interacting with the world.
If you only get 5% of the power of the device why not simply use the CPUs?
The article of this post?
1. All batteries have an aging characteristic whether they are charged or not (around 6% loss per year). For example, a home solar array or EV should prioritize the largest practical capacity budgets allow. Thus, the performance remains more consistent throughout the entire service life. This also reduces the discharge load stress on the cells reducing wear, and exposing greater energy capacity through efficiency gains.

2. There are several types of Lithium batteries with unique charge cycle limits. A common 4.2v cell is ideally rated for 8000 cycles if shallow cycled, and slow charged. Accordingly, deep cycling a LiPol or LiIon below 60% into the dead pre-conditioning zone or in the Constant-Current mode will reduce the life to well below 4000 cycles.

3. 80% or 100% full is meaningless because accessible energy depends on temperature (outside 4'C to 50'C is bad), chemistry, and loading. Typically, even the cheapest Lithium charge management ICs have a hysteresis built into the cycle, and will let the cells stand-by after charging until the cell internal resistance self-drains a bit of power in time before charging again.

4. Li batteries do not like trickle-charging or rapid-changing, and in a way the "100%" indication icon often means just that. Over-boosted the cell into the 112% capacity range to provide a short-term capacity boost. This wears out the cell 15% faster, but many tends to do this... so who would know the difference. I'd wager the Apple team added the 80% mode to turn off this boost trick, at the cost of "boosted" capacity.

5. There are consumer chargers for Lithium cells with temperature and impedance monitoring while charging. These are highly recommended if you have 21700 or 18650 cell based equipment. Unlike other options these chargers will show you a rapid impedance change when the cell has an internal problem (dendrite fusing in polymers etc.)

Read the manufacturers app notes for your cells. They will often disclose the conditions their chemistry is stable (Samsung and Sony are usually the best). There are so many various types of cells out there... most of them are crap.

This text is just a starting point, and should be assumed as another ill-informed internet opinion until validated under your own efforts. YMMV

Best regards =)
Wouldn't it make sense that Ilya Sutskever presented the reasons the board had for firing Sam Altman, which were not his reasons.

My feeling is Ilya was upset about how Sam Altman was the face of OpenAI, and went along with the rest of the board for his own reasons.

That's often how this stuff works out. He wasn't particularly compelled by their reasons, but had his own which justified his decision in his mind.
OFAC has made paying many ransomware deploys illegal in the USA for several years.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20210921
Early access is different from firing board members or CEO! If Sam was always involved in furthering openai success as far the facts and actions he has taken show. It never showed his action is against openai.

Like all bets are not correct I don't agree with sams worldcoin project at all in the first place.

Giving early access to worldcoin doesn't correlate to firing employees or board or CEO.
> You clearly didn't read the filing.

I in fact did read the filing. That's why I started with the actual causes of actions. And that's why I can also point out the cases where the lawsuit fails to actually plead necessary elements of their own claims, for example, never actually pleading that Media Matters induced a contract breach.

> They followed only Nazis and major advertisers, then hid this fact in their reporting and presented it as a normal, natural user interaction.

That doesn't matter. Media Matters said that Twitter would place ads next to extremist content, and Twitter admits--in this lawsuit no less--that it did! But then goes on to argue that it's actually Media Matters who placed those ads, not Twitter (¶25 if you don't believe me) which is kooks.

> If it goes through, a Texas jury will rule against MM.

>90% odds this suit gets transferred to CA. Why is Twitter filing a lawsuit against another company in a state where neither is incorporated, where none of the actions took place, and where Twitter's ToS doesn't say that lawsuits should be filed? (Well, because it's harder for MM to avail itself of anti-SLAPP in the 5th Circuit that's why). But even once it gets there, or should it not even reach there, it won't survive a motion to dismiss. It does nowhere near the amount of legwork it actually needs to do to substantiate the causes of action it alleges.

> You might find this acceptable, but only because you dislike Elon Musk.

No. I understand First Amendment jurisprudence and how hard it is for anyone to actually successfully win a lawsuit over disparagement. If the page count in your complaint is not in the triple digits, you probably didn't do sufficient work to actually clear those hurdles.

> What's to stop me from doing the same to Reddit, FB, TikTok, etc??

Absolutely nothing. You can thank the First Amendment for that.
A majority of bitcoin miners can also prevent transactions from entering the ledger at cost to themselves, just like Ethereum stakers. It's a misconception that Ethereum works via stakers voting the way people normally think of voting.
[ES: Speculation I have medium confidence in.]

Maybe "attention seeking" isn't the right way to look at this. Getting bad press always does reputational damage while giving you notoriety, and I think GP's suggestion that the balance between them has changed is compelling.

In an environment with limited connectivity, it's much more difficult for people to learn you even exist to do business with. So that notoriety component has much more value, and it often nets out in your favor.

In a highly connected environment, it's easier to reach potential customers, so the notoriety component has less value. Additionally, people have access to search engines, so the reputational damage becomes more lasting; potential customers who didn't even hear about the bad press at the time might search your name and find it. They may not have even been looking for it, they might've searched your name to find you website (whereas before they would have needed to intentionally visit a library and look through the catalog to come across an old story). So it becomes much less likely to net out in your favor.
> "___ is a lunatic and their message should not be permitted" is limiting speech

No. That advocates for limiting speech, but is not itself limiting speech. If I say meat should be banned, that doesn't actually prevent you from eating a burger. The distinction here is important.
> Not even the most repressive societies physically prevent people from speaking - they just impose distinctly unpleasant consequences on those who speak in undesirable things.

Help me understand what you mean by this. To me it sounds like saying somebody was not shot, he just didn't step out of the way of the bullet. Do you mean people are not prevented from speaking because their mouths aren't literally sewn shut?
This hasn’t happened since Apple’s board removed Steve Jobs after he double-submitted a receipt in Expensify.
It's possible, although contradicted by Brockman's statement, that Ilya voted merely to remove Brockman's board seat, and then was in the minority on the Altman vote.

I doubt this is what happened, but the reporting that Brockman was ousted from his board seat after Altman, and wasn't present in the board meeting that ousted Altman, doesn't make much sense either.
I think most people would sign when so many are doing it already. Lots to lose by not doing it.
Are they in any way serving as a bottleneck to the widespread access to LLMs/"AI" for use in a self-determined self-therapeutic context?

If they are they need to fück off
>the greed and hubris part is universal to all of human history.

Yes, but when you think about it that still does not mean that it's "human nature".

Just the opposite, it's really just inhuman nature still lingering since the dawn of man, who haven't quite made enough progress beyond the lower life forms. Yet.

Maybe a thinking machine will teach us a thing or two, back in 1969 this was dramatized in the movie 2001 where the computer was not as humane as it could have been since it was too much like some real people.
If they can get reuse going and it's cheaper than flying a falcon 9, I think there's a lot of commercial utility. If you can put a 110 ton satellite into orbit for the current price of an 8 ton satellite, then you really don't have to worry about weight as much, which means you can use cheaper parts to build your satellite.
It could be read either way, I suppose.

But the user which posted it, Karl Radl, is very much on the "Hitler was right" train of thought.