skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of conflict of interest is usually not an issue when it comes to non-profits. Nonprofit boards are often filled with people who own businesses in the same field, especially if said nonprofit is meant to help promote or coordinate that field of business.

But OpenAI has a for-profit subsidiary. The more we focus on the business aspect of OpenAI, the more Adam's involvement in Poe looks like a conflict of interest. Perhaps this explains why Adam tried to form an alliance with board members who are inclined to focus more on OpenAI's original nonprofit mission. The more OpenAI positions itself as a nonprofit research group, the less problematic his conflict of interest will seem.
Just administrative tasks? Administrative tasks are what most of the people in the DoD do all day.
Then there is not such thing as "other cultural values" either. There is no such thing as morals or ethics. No abstract concept ever exist. And speaking of these, muslim countries are much more picky, demanding much more and mistreating people (especially women) in much higher numbers.

> For the most part, it’s aunties chiding you, which is only figurative rather than literal torture.

Sure, there is a lot of that too. And then, there is the rest of it, like, actual literal torture.
If what David Grusch is saying about UAP is true (and please don't let this thread turn into a debate about that), this feels like it's falling into a similar pattern. A potential world changing capability is being developed, the type of capability that whoever controls it, and masters it, can gain control of EVERYTHING.

So I think there's an internal divide, both sides have good intentions. They want the best for the people they think they're protecting. In the case of UAP, it was to protect US national security. In the case of OpenAI, I think it's to attempt a slow transition of the global economy. But on the opposite side, that has to be balanced with the potential widespread benefits of opening it up.

In the case of AI, we could open it up, but what if the Chinese, or a malevolent capitalist entity uses the technology to go full speed ahead, and accumulates the entire economy under their sole control.

This weekend, there was an event by a group called the SOL foundation for UAP. They revealed something called the "Slow Disclosure" [1], a process to avert what they call "Catastrophic Disclosure". I see AI falling into similar power dynamics. Keep it all to yourself because you trust yourself, and let it out only after you've fully mastered it... or take a risk of letting the world start mastering it with you, but start to realize the world changing benefits immediately.

Both sides have good points, nobody is wrong. People just have different risk tolerance. OpenAI looks a lot like our government today, internally divided, a few people with the power to choose which path we go in history. That's a lot of power, you better believe things are going to look weird on the outside.

[1] https://twitter.com/tinyklaus/status/1726061116730609692
I've never visited a brick and mortar store's website to check their opening hours and assumed it would be anything other than in their local timezone.
OpenAI already has the best models and traction.

So MSFT still needs to compete with OpenAI - which will likely have an extremely adversarial relationship with MSFT if MSFT poaches nearly everyone.

What if OpenAI decides to partner with Anthropic and Google?

Doesn't seem like a win for MSFT at all.
Not at the moment. In fact, with 650 employees signed onto the quit letter so far, there’s unlikely to be an OpenAI by the end of the week.

Microsoft is not going anywhere so it would be safe to rely on them.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is exactly why it failed. They switched to dollars without getting public spending under control. People were spending their money on imports, which means the central bank was bleeding money at a constant rate. It could have worked if they either implemented austerity policies or clamped down on imports, but they did neither. It was completely unsustainable long-term, and they knew it.
It sucks and it damages their brand.

To me fox is still a damaged brand and they cancelled Firefly before Netflix was a thing.
On UNIX there is no distinction between C standard library and OS APIs, hence POSIX as the UNIX bits missing from ISO C.

I feel you're mixing OS APIs, with the low level mechanism to enter into the kernel space.
It is. That station is _wildly_ over capacity already and cannot realistically absorb another venue.
Wait till "THEY" learn engineering and architecture ; )
I find this whole thing hilarious. Clearly the CEO was going ham doing AI things and becoming the face of this wave of AI, and events that occurred made the board react to save the ideology of the entity -- which is the way the entity was structured, also 49% is not ownership, it's close, but not exactly. The firing was meant try to dampen the ego and influence of the CEO as well. Now, there is a new CEO, great.

But yeah, morale is going to be pretty much in flux for a while. This has clearly disrupted OpenAI's ability to function and therefore contribute more to either research and/or productization. Sam and Greg going to M$FT only matter if their influence and leadership can bring the right people together. OpenAI had the right people to create GPT-3+, but now, seems like they won't. M$ST probably won't either.

Now each entity is actually weakened for a number of months I would presume. M$FT will try to push forward whatever productization of the current AI products it has access to. OpenAI will struggle to figure out if it's a pure research entity now or what.
Evidence for your claims?
Protein Allows Production of Norepinephrine Neurons from Stem Cells
Same deal with deferred prosecutions which is a bullshit designation because the company's legal is basically going to ensure that it becomes a nolle prosequi at that point
As new datapoints emerge (like Ilya's expression of regret), it's certainly starting to look like most folks got it wrong and Ilya was not the architect of this chaos but rather Adam. Let's hope that Ilya's genuine moral and ethical concerns were not taken advantage of over the last few months to pit him against Sam just because Adam didn't want to see both his ventures (Quora, Poe) crash and burn.
The original reason given was "lack of candor," just what continues to be questioned is whether or not that was the true reason. The lack of candor comment about their ex-CEO is actually what drew me into this in the first place since it's rare that a major organization publicly gives a reason for parting ways with their CEO unless it's after a long investigation conducted by an outside law firm into alleged misconduct.
What's Phishing Like in 2023?
Even Microsoft’s GitHub has all kinds of glitches unless you’re using a chromium browser.

The general push towards a single engine is just undeniable at this point. Whoever controls the browser, controls the web.
> Half of the recorded copulations lasted for less than 53.0 min, but the longest event extended to 12.7 hours. No intromission was observed at any point.

that will get more research funding. Who cares that bats don't get rabies? There's gonna be real money in extending the 4hr time limit on Viagra.
Pass the Expanding American Entrepreneurship Act
This legislation will increase the maximum number of permitted angel investors from 250 to 500 and raise the cap on angel funds from $10 million to $50 million.
>They didn’t even make Firefox, someone else did and they took it over, they had no foresight. They ignored people’s complaints about memory issues for years. They didnt keep one tab from crashing the whole thing for years, followed chrome to fix. Frankly Mozilla really is a dinosaur and seems to lack any real practical innovation.

HN has a serious revisionist history problem w/r/t Mozilla.

The memory problems, and the lack of multiprocessing, were both hamstrung by the Firefox extension model, which allowed nearly unlimited customization of the browser, at the expense of nearly unlimited ability to muck up the internals of the browser. It led to any poorly coded extension being able to cause all sorts of memory leaks, sluggishness, bugs and crashes.

And yet techie types were screaming bloody murder when they started talking about "innovation" via transitioning away from the XUL foundations. They didn't care about performance or security so long as their XUL extensions kept working, they said. I remember those threads well.

edit: oh look, there's one in this very thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38349686

Certainly they could have made more progress and faster, had they not had a huge existing community to transition, unlike Chrome who had a completely fresh start and far more resources.
The criteria aren’t usually that large so could be inline, or, as you say, could be a diff with a link to the full thing if the current version installed is too old.
Will Uber and Lyft ever make money?
I’m by no means an expert in Argentina nor its currency. However, don’t many Argentinians who work for US/European firms already get paid in USD?

A few years ago, I managed a team of developers and analysts. They were all paid in USD through a shell company, if you will. Everyone expected this. The first question new recruiting firms asked us was, “You will be paying in USD, correct?”

We had one guy who had to be paid 50% in ARS because he had child support obligations, and it was a headache. Not because of the split on our side, but for the shell company. He was actually the lone ARS exception employee to be paid in ARS
I don’t think his career is over, I’m sure he will take on another leadership role. Just not a Microsoft. It’s important that screwing people over has negative consequences or people will do it all the time.
>Best outcome for whom?

For the HN readers commenting on this.
When Google decided to fork Webkit we should have all seen this coming. Safari and Chrome being on the same engine was great, now we are seeing more divergence since we have 3 main engines and more and more are only testing on Chrome.
> selective indifference is still malicious

I don't think you can conclude that, at least not without playing with the definition of "malicious" which according to MW is "having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone."

If a typical engineer at Google, who is under the gun on schedule and needs to ship, prioritizes getting stuff working on Chrome which serves the vast majority of the market, and never ends up testing on FF (which may not even be installed on their machines), that's not the engineer "having a desire to cause harm to [mozilla]".

If you are arguing that the outcome is still the same, then I don't disagree, but even then still I think motivations matter for some things. Someone who accidentally hits a pedestrian and kills them is IMHO a different (and importantly different when it comes to meting out justice) situation vs a person intentionally aiming for and killing a pedestrian.
It also follows ordinary narrative convention more closely. We can tell from distant shots of the Death Star that there’s an equatorial trench, but not other trenches. If you’ve already introduced a trench, conventionally you’d just use that if you need a trench. The difference between a narrative and just a bunch of stuff happening is precisely that kind of re-use and tying-together of elements.
I've been having the same concerns. At the very least it seems prudent to build on the Azure GPT APIs rather than directly through OpenAI
GM's big bet on driverless cars turns sour
An organization bent on making progress is incompatible with governance by a board drawn from the professional worrier class.
Just because you don't get it doesn't mean it's boring. This is a small scale repeat of history. Unqualified political appointees unsurprisingly suck.
NDA. But stuff really does happen and it is much more frequent than you might think.

I've also seen a complete tech team walk out after a disagreement with management. Boom. 20 minutes from start to finish.

Incidentally, that one I was allowed to write about because I negotiated that up front:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/saving-a-project-and-a-company/
I've successfully used this pattern (HTMX hypermedia style) to create an offline-first web app SPA[^1]. One of the pages is pretty dynamic and I wasn't sure if I would need a traditional front end library to work with it. But, nope, hypermedia to the win, it worked fine without a front end framework.

To build it I used my own library called HTMF[^2]. I started out using mpa-enhancer[^3] but found that that pattern is a little to janky sometimes. I think reloading a page every time on every interaction uses too many resources for a browser especially when you use a phone that doesn't have as much power as a laptop.

But overall I find the pattern very easy to use and keeps the complexity down.

I think some of the issues with traditional SPAs is that they have a lot of state and state is nonlinear in complexity. But using templating systems makes the complexity more linear in nature.

Also, I find libraries like React to be overly complex for what it does, see above. The way React works is just odd and counter intuitive. All for problems that are easy to solve. I do think there are places for a React-like library is needed but those are for websites that are inherently highly state-based. But most websites aren't state-based even ones that appear to be state-based at first.

The websites I work on are usually just forms and forms are pretty powerful and can get you a long ways before you need to go outside of that paradigm.

[^1]: https://github.com/jon49/Soccer

[^2]: https://github.com/jon49/htmf

[^3]: https://github.com/jon49/mpa-enhancer
Well, this was a bigger issue when this book was written and software was typically developed on disks that couldn't be updated after sale. In the SaaS world, I think deploying your MVP and then rewriting/improving while you have customers running into real world feedback and pain points, and also generating revenue to validate market demand, is strictly preferable to taking an extra cycle and not be in market.
Still a thing.

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/electric-bikes-in-ukraine-are-...
Development work on GPT5, curated input datasets, human feedback data, archives of all ChatGPT conversations, DALL-E, stats on which users are the big spenders, contracts with cheap labor to generate data and moderate abuse...
> I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely?

From the moment that the announcement of the deal with Microsoft happened, it was clear to me that it only ends one way: Microsoft is going to own everything of value that OpenAI has, in one way or another.

There never was any other way it could go down regardless of what ideals the OpenAI founders may or may not have had. You can't dance with the devil and say you're only kidding.
granted, now MSFT basically has another research arm like Google Brain/FAIR, but whether or not their "brain trust" can equal Yann Lecun's or whatnot who knows. Altman and Brockman are on the MBA side of things. The ML magic was Ilya's. If they can recruit a bunch of mini Ilya's over from Open AI, maybe they have a chance at regaining the momentum.
OIC, so because glibc doesn't hold the setenv lock during lookup a concurrent getenv can break, but once getenv has found an entry that entry is guaranteed to be valid (unless the application plays silly bugger) because setenv will not free the individual entries.
Shakespeare's Brutus speech is brilliant, turning "Brutus is an honorable man" from econium to deadly sarcasm.

"[Shakespeare's] version of Mark Antony's speech is probably the greatest written speech ever"

Let us not forget the Gettysburg Address, which is the pivot point not of a factional quarrel but a national repurposing to equality, and shorter to boot.

Quibbling can be fun!
Personally I upvoted because of HTMx
> They don't make large profits otherwise they wouldn't be nonprofits.

This is a common misunderstanding. Non-profits/501(c)(3) can and often do make profits. 7 of the 10 most profitable hospitals in the U.S. are non-profits[1]. Non-profits can't funnel profits directly back to owners, the way other corporations can (such as when dividends are distributed). But they still make profits.

But that's besides the point. Even in places that don't make profits, there are still plenty of personal interests at play.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/opinion/nonprofit-hospita...
If I met a genie in a magic lamp and had 3 wishes, I'd use all 3 of them up on disintegrating all the FAANGS into dust and making sure nothing like them can ever exist again.
Maybe a counter point here, but I've doubled down on Firefox only, even at work. Things like hangouts and many other Goog services seem to have started working more at parity compared to Chromium at least I've found, in the last year or so.
It is not just in the art community: check the currently top post and see how many devs are saying they would never use AI on their work. They hate and are alienated as much as any artist.
Thats what I thought ;)
Sam could have made hundreds of millions of dollars potentially, that's a big incentive to not continue.
Tracing is particularly unacceptable in professional settings. There’s been several cases, some even somewhat high profile, where manga and comic artists have found themselves in hot water as a result of engaging in the practice.
“Sam Altman crafts an elaborate non-profit structure but gets completely blindsided by the possibility of the board overthrowing them.”

Always surprises me that otherwise very smart people are shocked to learn that nonprofits aren’t infallible.

Tangentially, “non-profiting” organizations tend to be far more nefarious historically than profit seeking entities, and it’s not very close.
What a strange design. If a job is dependent on an extant transaction then perhaps the job should run in the same code that initiated the transaction instead of a outside job queue?

Also you pass the data a job needs to run as part of the job payload. Then you don't have the "data doesn't exist" issue.
+1, careful with this site, like most of the coverage, its maximalist horse race stuff very far from the tech and facts on the ground. It often wildly exaggerates its knowledge, for instance, it is the premier source of the mind-virus that GPT-4 is a MoE model with trillion parameters.

It always appears plausible at its face if you don't know much about the tech, and if you do know the tech, you still need to have inside sources to really know how far off it is. And even once you know the tech and have inside sources to confirm they make stuff up, people are very reluctant to believe it, so it continues its march unimpeded.
An Argentinian could probably explain this better than I can, but there's already a parallel dollar economy in Argentina. These "blue dollars" have a semi-official exhange rate and everything.

https://bluedollar.net/

https://es-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mercado_negro...
The goalposts were nowhere near where they will one day be widely accepted, and the goalposts were still moving erratically when the BOD dropped the ball.

In the mean time, looks like Microsoft picked up the ball and ran the other way with it, wherever that leads in the end, subject to change without notice.

Just like it was last week.
Those 3 board members can kick out Ilya Sutskever too!
Was about to note the same. Low single-digit shifts in the stock of a multi-trillion dollar company can be misleading!
I had the same Gmaps issue, I disabled LocalCDN for the site and panning etc worked again. Apparently the addon must be fixed to account for whatever they were doing.
It's incredible how Altman's ousting of Musk flies over the author's head. Guess it's easy to ignore when you are hell bent on making an overstretched analogy.
On this point, I will rather believe people who did studied the issue who literally said that rather then to your claims. You enjoying archaic text has zero to do with how Homer was composed. Also, it was composed to be passed orally and only later on written.

> perhaps the ease of access is paramount when the translation competes with infinitely more permanently accessible information and entertainment than there was in the 8th century BC.

This is kind of weird argument given there older translations you don't take issue with can be quite expansive over original. Given that this particular translation has the same length as original.
It will cost USD 16/month.

I am prioritizing developing core features over adding billing, etc. However, I can see how not knowing what it will cost can be a turn off. I will add a pricing page just to set the expectations.

> I'd also maybe mention something like save X hours vs doing this yourself.

I am not a fan of saying "this will save you X time" or "write article in 5 minutes". It cheapens the product in a way. After all, I don't know how much time it will save you... it depends on how good of a job you were doing before.

Maybe I could add a section that outlines what activities this will do for you?, e.g.

* Finding authoritative articles and quotes
* Writing an outline
* Writing most of the article itself
* Finding articles on your own website to reference (interlinking)

You will still need to do a fair bit of editing if you want high quality output... or you could just wing it.

Will work on these points. Thank you!

> I like the comic book design of the website. Looks very cool by the way.

Thank you!
Ok but even that is good when most companies are making record profits and telling their employees they can't afford their 0.000001% raise.
LINQ expression trees can be serialized with a custom serializer, but it's a mistake to do so for a different reason: deserializers which materialize code or substitutes for code are major vulnerability vectors. Anyone who has had to upgrade Jackson or remove naive pickling will be familiar.
Adam stands to gain the most from a weakened OpenAPI product. Not from OpenAPI outright stopping commercialization, but stopping it just enough to still have API but not products like GPT store and agents.

It's not about Quora, which is a shit show either way, but it's about his AI chat company, Poe. Poe started customizable AI agents and also started their own store for AI agents - they were the first to do this. And Poe uses OpenAI API for this, they are essentially a wrapper company.

When OpenAI announced custom agents and store on DevDay, it was a fundamental threat to Poe, and a very strong conflict of interest for Adam. You also hear from everyone that things started getting sour after DevDay. I'm pretty sure Adam played his part in the shit show with his own motives.
I used the earpiece that came with the Radio Shack kit which is the type you mentioned. If I can't find one, I'll keep that in mind.
I wouldn't rule that out. Normally you'd expect a bit more wisdom rather than only smarts on a board. And some of those really shouldn't be there at all (conflicts of interest, lack of experience).
Not to mention all the gov owned companies that were sold, but they sold them undervalued and they were sold debt free. So the state paid for the debt and didn’t get enough money to cover it.
The whole thing was corruption on top of corruption
Then why does setenv even exist? Maybe that's the issue and it should be deprecated and throw compilation warnings?
I'm not sure I follow. Mozilla killed Servo, much to my sorrow, because it didn't have enough money to fund it. Mozilla embedded Pocket because it was an attempt to not rely on Google's money to fund developments. The money they received from the Google contract was spent either developing Firefox or trying to find ways to make money without relying on Google.

So... pick one, but you can't both be angry at Mozilla because they use Google's money and be angry at Mozilla because they're trying to find a way to work without Google's money.