skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It did go down, many times. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outage...
Microsoft is known for paying well below Meta and Google, and OpenAI was paying almost twice as much as the aforementioned tech giants.

So I assume it would be weird to have to make every OpenAI employee a VP or Fellow or something.
Please can anyone give their opinion on this.

There's a real chance OpenAI might die soon. imo if they are left with 10 people and no funding, they should just release their IP and datasets to the public.

I've built a petition around this - [link redacted]

The idea is that the leftover leadership sees and considers this as a viable option. Does this sound like a possible scenario or Am I dreaming too much?
Oh, that would be SpaceX Starship Launch :), same huge company, tons of smart people, super spicy gossips
This wasn’t a result of product genius in this case - OAI just didn’t have the regulatory and PR oversight that big tech has - I know for a fact Meta and Google had CGPT equivalent models ready but couldn’t launch them as they’d get rightfully berated for the model being racist or hallucinating. Things OpenAI avoided because it’s a startup non-profit.

And OAI delivered with enormous per-user cost that doesn’t scale - in an app that is a showcase and doesn’t really have latency requirements as people understand it’s a prototype.

And the vas majority of people play with CGPT, they don’t use it for anything useful. Incidental examples of friends and family of tech workers to the side.
A common example of a tooling problem I've run into with Rust macros is that if I use a string interpolation macro (e.g. in an argument to println!, format!, or dbg!) a lot of VS Code tooling that works outside of macros stops working.

For example, I can't use normal context menu things on an interpolated variable name, like Go To Definition or Refactor. Similarly, if I do a semantic rename of a variable used in interpolation, it doesn't get renamed. Things like this.

Maybe these are solvable problems, but we're talking about widely used macros that have been in the standard library for many years, and even those don't have basic support for normal operations that Just Work in a non-macro context, in one of the most popular Rust editors!
Rust has the "you must annotate your functions signatures, because there is no global type inference possible" approach.
By that logic, illicit food and drugs wouldn’t have a problem of being cut with fillers. A tragedy of the commons doesn’t really reign in the behavior of criminal organizations.
Hemisphere: Law Enforcement's Call Records Deal with AT&T (2018)
Trading privacy for safety.
I'm pretty sure, yes.
fwiw this specific subreddit has very "hacker news" like conversations, and is very technically focused.

So this is a link to a actual conversation about it.
Progressive Barbara Lee Bests Schiff at CA Democratic Convention
I wonder if there's an outcome where Microsoft just _buys_ the for-profit LLC and gives OpenAi an endowment that will last them for 100 years if they just want to do academic research.
"We are really excited to work with Sam, OpenAI 2.0, the team and the new board of directors who we strongly believe will achieve great things in partnership with Microsoft. We've already signed new deals to strengthen this relationship and more details will be coming soon."

- Satya (probably)
I'm no fan of rich people as a principle given they suck wealth from the poor and Smaug the money away like the narcissists they are, but this is the definition of that horrible cancel culture. She's accused him which isn't something the public should act upon. If proven, then it's appropriate to form that negative opinion.
For North Korea sure quite believable. Some links existing also sound likely for the Russian gangs.
“Lee won 41.5% of the delegates with Schiff coming in a close second 40.2%. Porter came in third with 16%.”
I think it was claims to the frequency.
505 OpenAI people signed that letter demanding that the board resign. Bet ya some of them were technical leaders.
AnCap ideology is flaky at best. Effectively there's little difference between different anarchist utopias.

In all cases it's explicitly community driven, because no claim on on property can withstand disagreement with the local community.

Take land ownership - it's de facto not enforceable without either government or communal support.
I assume ADL considers “white” an euphemism for “Aryans”, in this case.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4312813-elon-musk-facing-...

When your owner reads the tweet " “I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”"

and replies with, "You have said the actual truth." (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299)

then your company has a problem if they seek to be an attractive platform for advertising. Most people understand and recognize troll behavior, and the frantic excuse making trolls make when they're exposed. The people that engage in this sort of behavior hate facing accountability for it, and make ridiculous excuses for it when caught.

X has become what the owner wanted it to be, but that is just incompatible with what advertisers want to be associated with their brands. They have just made deliberate product decisions that appeal to a smaller - by dollar value, at least - target market.
Plot twist, anonymous donor donates $1B for OpenAI to continue progress.
Ask HN: What strategies and tools to hide reading and writing in plain sight?
From time to time it happens to me that I'm in public and I catch someone peeking at my laptop while I'm reading or writing, and, especially at libraries, even outright negative comments on what I'm doing. It doesn't help that the culture in my countries encourage this behaviour.

I've been thinking about gathering as much strategies and tools I can to counteract this that would benefit me and, I know you are there, other people with the same concern. What I've come up for now is:

* Screen privacy film. Great, but people would come in my visual field and see everything anyway.

* Fonts designed for (supposed) better remembering like Open Dyslexic or Sans Forgetica. It's hard to read but I'm not sure people wouldn't guess what's written anyway.

* Alternative writing system. I don't know how much it's worth but it would deter casual passersby and compulsive peekers.

* Lower brightness. Did it for some time but it gives me nausea if ambient brightness doesn't at least match brightness on the screen.

What else could there be?
Because this isn't a dark pattern??? The alternative is you not being able to buy this product, which is much worse!

This fare comes with preselection over a limited set of seats. There are no more seats available for preselection in that set. If seats were available you would have been allowed to select them; otherwise, you will be assigned one at the gate.

It is very unlikely that you will be involuntarily denied boarding, and you can be denied boarding in the event of an oversale even if you have an assigned seat.

Note: your fare never indicates that you are buying a particular seat. Please read your contract of carriage closely. Maybe this part (not the offering of the ticket you're complaining about!) is a "dark pattern" (nobody reads the contract of carriage) but it's just literally how airline tickets have always worked.
The parent criticism was that non-profits cannot scale.
Ah interesting, I'll check it out. I figured this had to exist! It might be ideal --- I'm on a github-pages Jekyll site and I like how simple that is, but it means I can't do anything server-side at all, not even making custom Jekyll plugins.

How big does the resulting binary get?

edit: oh, looked at the demo on https://tikzjax-demo.glitch.me/ and it seems like it is just a couple MB. Not bad.
It seems based on Satya's messaging its as much MSFT as Mojang (Minecraft creator) is MSFT... I guess they are trying to set it up with its own culture, etc
> and there's always going to be items in that basket that's rising higher than average

This argument is so weak. Housing is unlike those other items in that it's both by far most households' largest expense, and difficult or impossible to substitute a cheaper version: you can move to a cheap area, but there are no decent-paying jobs there, leaving you in the same or worse boat.

And there are precious few cheaper areas left: even Vegas, long known for low cost of living, is approaching $500k for a just-ok home. At today's interest rates, that's like $3300-4100 per month all-in. Almost no one can reasonably afford that; even software development jobs barely crack $100k here.
It's easy to remember, exactly 100 degrees below the boiling point.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

This easier to interpret. Wages have not grown for almost 40 years since 1980.
Or, in simpler terms, there's one thing you can't roll back- everyone now knows the board essentially lost a power struggle. Thus, they would never again have the same clout.
Just tested this out myself. Firefox loads noticeably slower than chrome, even when loading same video side-by-side.
That sounds interesting. Do you have more info on how llama2 can process images?
> People forget that Media Matters is a political organization, created by a Clinton loyalist, that works closely with a number of super PACs also created by David Brock. They target their political enemies and that's it.

Can you complete that thought, I don't understand who the political enemies here are. Are you implying that Musk is basically "the other side", the "political enemy" here, i.e. Republican? Why is pointing out that literal Nazis do their thing on Twitter political in this case?
Oh yes, I lived through this and it was fascinating to see. Very rarely does the big boss get the support of the employees to the extent they are willing to strike. The issue was that Artie T. and his cousin Artie S. (confusingly they had the same first name) were both roughly 50% owners and at odds. Artie S. wanted to sell the grocery chain to some big public corporation, IIRC. Just before, Artie T had an outstanding 4% off on all purchases for many months, as some sort of very generous promo. It sounded like he really treated his employees and his customers (community) well. You can get all inspirational about it, but he described supplying food to New England communities as an important thing to do. Which it is.
There was a step in between #2 and #3 where web developers all used FF while non-technical users used IE6, so supporting both was unavoidable. Chrome didn't become dominant until a decade later.
Salesforce will match comp of any OpenAI researcher who resigns
It helps that their corporate structure [1] is better equipped for it than OpenAI’s.

[1] https://imgur.io/XLuaF0h
Do they allow open Nazism despite efforts to remove it, or as an explicit policy to allow it?

Does Zuck wade into such conversations to voice his approval?
I think folks need to take a step back from 'business model' and think about how one does large scale FOSS w/out existing on ramen for a decade or two. In the old days you could do FOSS via university gigs (IE, an institution effectively donating resources) or work for a corp that uses said FOSS as part of their products.

When the FOSS you're trying to build and share isn't covered by those- when you need to self fund so you can have an actual life- that's where it's always broken down. Patreon/gofundme type stuff can fly in single dev setups, but doesn't scale when it's a large team. There are exceptions to what I'm stating, but as a general rule, this is my experience across a couple decades of FOSS.

So if you want to build this thing full time and share it with others, and not subsist just on cardboard ramen and other folks coaches, what's your options here? Provide a paid service in parallel (we host it for you). What do you do when others take your development work- which has an inbuilt RD cost (development)- and try to compete with you via offering lower prices since they're just paying hosting rather than hosting + development?
The 700 other employees who've signed on have agency. They can refuse to go to Microsoft, and Microsoft wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Microsoft's money isn't some magical compelling force that makes everyone do what they want, otherwise they could have used it on the board in the first place.
It's not a lawsuit until he files it.

It's just random words from the Twitter king for now. I think that it will be a difficult case and that the Lawyers will shy away from trying to go through with that insanity.

Legal threats from a non-lawyer have very, very low risk. People only pay attention when an actual lawyer is involved.
Finished replacing the front wheel bearings in my 350Z.

Unloaded a hay trailer (150 small squares) and stacked hay.

Watched the second season of Six Feet Under.
You are dreaming. This was all clearly led by the Quora CEO. The most likely outcome is that he will agree to sell OpenAI to himself, not release valuable IP into the public domain.
The MGM ransomware supposedly cost them $100mil
If you actually read the article you'd know that unbundling is not not what it's about. It's about the dark patterns that trick or coerce people into purchasing "extras" that they don't want, or didn't know they had to pay extra for.
Are you able to use an "experimental" aircraft/designation to do flight tests in parallel waiting for approvals?
"Javascript appears to be disabled or not supported, this means that you will not be able to read or leave comments."

I'm not using Javascript however I can read some comments.
ChatGPT NT
I think some of the people involved see this as a great opportunity to switch from a non profit to a regular for profit company.
Exactly. These languages come up with more and more strategies and abstractions (from monads to modern effect systems) to help you manage your side effects well. It then raises the level of abstraction in your programs to become simpler and more concise.
Another excerpt:

> It is so tempting, when writing about an artificial intelligence company, to imagine science fiction scenarios. [...] OpenAI’s board stood firm as the last bulwark for humanity against the enslaving robots, the corporate formalities held up, and the board won and nailed the box shut permanently.

> Except that there is a post-credits scene in this sci-fi movie where Altman shows up for his first day of work at Microsoft with a box of his personal effects, and the box starts glowing and chuckles ominously.

> And in the sequel, six months later, he builds Microsoft God in Box, we are all enslaved by robots, the nonprofit board is like “we told you so,” and the godlike AI is like “ahahaha you fools, you trusted in the formalities of corporate governance, I outwitted you easily!”
The most damning part of all for the remaining board is that a week ago the thought of OpenAI dying would have been unthinkable but now people are genuinely worried it might happen and what the implications are. Even if safety was the genuine issue.. they should have planned this out a lot more carefully. I don't buy the whole "OpenAI destroying itself is in line with its charter" nonsense.. you can't help guide AI safety if you don't exist.
His problems were pretty damn influential. I did my PhD on something that traces back to his list, and the research on the topic is still active.

A funny anecdote: von Neumann was asked to deliver a similar address in the International Congress of Mathematics in 1950. He completely forgot, and ended up giving a talk on some if his results from the 1930s. The talk was highly anticipated, so after a while a disappointed audience member heckled von Neumann, who proceeded to wrap up his talk in embarrassment and promptly left the stage.
NYC: Robot-Run Vegetarian Restaurants from Chipotle's Founder
You can't really haggle with a computer system can you? And even if we'd accept that as haggling the company has way more power in the transaction. This just seems allowing the company to capture ever more of the consumer surplus.
One thing I had to hunt for was what the backslash means in the first examples. Especially as it seems to be used for both string interpolation and function definition.

But other than that great to have a quite good idea of the language in just a few seconds.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If the ad displays are worthwhile then advertisers will be drawn to use X regardless of the audience or what their ads are displayed next to. There is a porn shop in my city with a Coca-Cola billboard above it because it's on the most major thoroughfare.
All the employees threatening to leave depends on him actually becoming a Microsoft employee. That hasn't happened yet. So everyone is waiting for confirmation that he's indeed an employee because otherwise it just looks like a bluff.
If the board are concerned about safety, this will never happen.
> The coins are bought with newly created money which creates the necessary liability side of money creation.

Not in USA. US coins are fiat without a liability. This leads to people every few years thinking they discovered that coins are just fiat and then recycling the idea of minting some $1 trillion coins and paying off the federal debt. It is technically possible, there would be no debt for the coin issuance, and would likely lead to nobody willing to purchase future USA debt issuances.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trillion-dollar-coin.as...

Really bizarre are the gift shops at the US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing where they have tours to watch the printing presses. They sell to tourists uncut sheets of dollars that they print. But they first buy the sheets at face value plus the printing costs from 'federal reserve' who bought the sheets at pennies per _sheet_ that Treasury just printed.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/chapter-5-federal...

"When purchasing the notes, the BEP authorizes the Reserve Banks to charge Treasury's general account for the face value of the notes plus the cost of printing."

> money is always a liability to its issuer

No, though prove me wrong and show us the coin liabilities on USA balance sheet somewhere.
I didn't even consider Media Matter's interests here, Twitter generally would be a threat to their power and this is just fuel for their fire.
termux-sms-list command allows to get access to SMS.
Ahhh, so I guess this really was just a shakedown after all, like some banana republic despot. Color me stupid for thinking that the US cared about law and order and not about making money through the justice system.
Giving out AirTags is their solution.
Why hydrogen electric and not hydrogen combustion directly?
And he has a very strong case it seems.
Why bother? They seem to be getting it all mostly for “free” at this point. Yeah, they are issuing shares in a non-MSFT sub entity to create on-paper replacement for people’s torched equity, but even that isn’t going to be nearly as expensive or dilutive as an outright acquisition at this point.
A lot has happened since 4kBC. Not sure if you noticed.
Google Maps Gets a Refreshing Makeover in UI with New Color Palette
GH200 would like a word ;-)
So, in the USA, you can do wrongs and then buy your way out of it, such that doing wrong and the resulting fines are just a cost of doing business however you see fit?
The case here is not about admitting mistakes and showing humility. Admitting your mistake does not immediately mean that you get a free pass to go back to the way things were without any consequence. You made a mistake, something was done or said. There are consequences to that. Even if you admit your mistake, you have to act with the present facts.

Here, the consequences are very public, very clear. If the board wanted Altman back for example, they would have to give something in return. Altman has seemingly said he wants them gone. That is absolutely reasonable of him to ask that, and absolutely reasonable of the board to deny him that.
I don't, they'd probably rather sell what is left.
Michael Cera should play all the roles in the movie, like Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor.
Fiduciary obligations need not be profit-seeking. They often - perhaps especially - involve keeping the lights on for the chartered company.
Maybe this is a big-city perspective, but I've understood that the main constraint driving aircraft size is runway capacity during peak hours. Airports already require a lot of land for handling a relatively small number of passengers. As building additional runways is often not feasible, the only way to increase passenger capacity is using bigger aircraft.

I fly between Helsinki and London often enough. On that route, the aircraft is typically either an A320 or an A350.
I hope those cards are deactivated… so many IDs and bar codes.
Power amplifiers account for up to 60% iPhone 5 total power consumption (2012)
Have those been substantiated in any manner? I was interested in the details, and all I discovered were a few articles from non mainstream outlets (may still be valid) and a message from the larger family that the sister was having severe mental health issues.

I am not saying this didn’t happen, but I would like to understand if there has been follow up confirmation one way or another.
5 star would hostage again

Superhost for my datas
Exactly! We will be flying "Bonnie" our Beechcraft Bonanza on an experimental ticket next year. We will then do the same for each of other programs. This helps us get the hours and data to support our certification process.
Look at the number of tweets from Altman, Brockman and Nadella. I also think they are bluffing. They have launched a media campaign in order to (re)gain control of OpenAI.
Completely manufactured by the media.
An aim to make it the fastest managed compiled lang around (faster than golang).

I find this an interesting perspective: That Golang is a compiled managed language. This is certainly correct. I don't see this being expressed to often, however.
Typst – Compose Papers Faster
> For me, YouTube works equally well across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Other team members also could not replicate this delayed behavior across browsers.

"Reportedly" also known as: "unable to confirm but we saw it on reddit so it must be true"
Yeah but people reserve all the window and aisle seats because sitting in the middle seat is miserable so all the empty seats will be middle seats well before the plane is full.
9 engines times 3 cores. Unlike Superheavy which is 33 x 1
Sounds like freedom to me :D
ClipGPT
This non-profit structure means that 4 people can decide to do whatever they want, with no consequences, putting 100s of jobs in danger, 1000s of companies futures on the line and disrupting millions of people who rely on the service.

Because they had a difference in opinion about a devday presentation...?

Just confusing to me why so many people are thinking the board is so altruistic here. That kind of unchecked power is insane to me.
Just say kidnapping. It's not like it's North America's first time.
Makes sense given their deal with the DoD a year or so ago

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/pentagon-splits-giant-cloud-co...
In favour of the CEO who was about to make them fabulously wealthy. FTFY.