skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People need to lay off the coffee and just chill.

Yes, something big and weird is happening in the corporate structure of some of the largest companies in the world.

No, it actually probably doesn't matter much to most of us. If you were using Microsoft's OpenAI-powered services, they will continue to work. If you were signed up for one of OpenAI's products, you may need to re-signup with a Microsoft one, or maybe not. If you're concerned that AI development will slow down, it probably won't, since the engineers and capital will end up at one company or the other at the end of the day. If you're concerned about AI-safety, well, honestly, you probably don't have much more reason to be concerned.

Yes, it is gripping and entertaining to watch. No, it is not some Assassin's Creed shadow war being waged by philosopher-kings playing 12D chess with the fate of humanity in the balance. In all likelihood it's a couple people making a big mistake, and the scope of their mistake will be limited by the combined interests of many powerful people who just want things to go back to the way they were last week.
Normally, people do business in order to just make money and buy stuff.

Exceptionally, people do business in order to push the envelope forward.

Observationally, people analyze those who have pushed the envelope forward and evaluate if it's worth it.

Anecdotally, they see a bunch of monodimensional weirdos who have lost all connection with reality, stare into emptiness, and seem like they have completely lost it.

Naturally, people circle back to doing business just to make money and buy stuff.
Fun fact: in Polish typography, you repeat the hyphen at the beginning of the next line in the latter case (hyphenation when there is a hyphen already).
I thought the decision was made that Sam, Greg, etc are going to Microsoft. Isn't that what was part of Satya Nadella's announcement.
I align with this. Data driven design is an easier way to say domain driven design. They mean the same thing but because of the former, it’s confusing. DDD ensures you know the domain you’re working with, in language that the business is familiar with. A banking DDD would have Accounts Deposits Withdraws Authorized Users Statements etc.
What's really depressing is that many of those companies are stuck in the trap of raising $X million dollars than raising $X million dollars and then another $X million dollars, and then yet another $X million dollars as opposed to the venture model where the company is growing and raising more with each round. The latter looks like it has the potential to go to the moon, the former is a company that is losing money and will keep losing money until it get acquired and put out of its misery.
>affiliate marketer

This is not a real profession. One possibility is that you have control of some asset you exploit to enrich yourself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex.com?useskin=vector). More commonly, it means you're a poléznyj idiót who takes on the capital risk for pushing some high margin garbage (gambling, adult, nutriceuticals).
No, it was just widely speculated that he was the ringleader. This seems to indicate he wasn't. We don't know.

Maybe to Quora guy, Maybe the RAND Corp lady? All speculation.
This is how I feel too. Sure, it was 5 years ago and things might have changed, but there are a ton of other technologies and languages to learn, so why not learn something without all of that previous drama? These things indeed might take a significant time inventment so I'll just focus on something I know might be more interesting or durable.
What is the evidence of this: just retweets with emojis?

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There is a mass exodus of the core OpenAI team leaving and joining Microsoft. This new organization within Microsoft will get hundreds of technical staff from OpenAI.

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Regardless of how much the employees were being paid, CEOs colluding with each other to not recruit employees from each other was a blatant violation of US anti-trust law.
/r/singularity has been having a field day with this.

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/
Stable Diffusion vs Midjourney
Stable Diffusion Vs Midjourney Which One is Better Whats Your Choice?
Have any manufacturers shipped a (modern) laptop with an integrated modem? This seems like a feature that would have an outsized positive impact on UX, given how simple it sounds.

Today, I can connect to a person hot-spot or coffee shop wifi, but that's Another Step and many wifi hotspots like to boot me if I close the lid, even for a short time. Having a laptop that's seamlessly connected at all times would be seriously cool. Harder to lose when always connected (Find My), too.
TL;DR: Iran is spoofing, from a site on the eastern edge of Teheran. Also, Israel started spoofing a week after the Hamas attack. The attacks are spoofing rather than just jamming; as a result, they're messing up the inertial navigation computers on airliners. It's worse than just "no GPS", because corrupted data is getting locked into the navigation computers, and over-riding where the airliner thought it was.

Israel makes some sense. They probably turned this on to mess up GPS-guided missiles and drones coming from Hamas and Hezbollah. I don't know what Iran's motivation is. Maybe they're expecting an attack coming from Israel, since they're Hamas's biggest backer? Or maybe they're just experimenting to see if they can do it?
Yeah, one of the biggest examples being the HTML 5 video push and Chrome’s claims around H.264: Google promised they were going all in on WebM and would remove support soon, but never did. That meant that Firefox users got more errors outright but also that for years even sites like YouTube would leave Firefox using 100% CPU with your laptop fans on high doing software WebM while Chrome users got hardware accelerated H.264. That became moot after Mozilla and Cisco struck that deal and video hardware acceleration for other formats shipped but there was a multi-year period where Firefox suffered badly in comparison to other browsers.
Altman and staff could start an open source LLM project.
I suspect it takes somewhat less time and process to hire somebody, when NOT hiring them by start-of-business on Monday will result in billions in lost stock value.
> The global economy is a dark forest.

What do you mean by this?
That's just one view (as is mine), no one knows what's actually happening.

In my view Altman represents the 'lets get lots of money' side of things and not much else. The deals with MS, ME financiers, SoftBank, a Jony Ive colab makes that pretty clear.

Maybe it's not that simple, but I'd say it's broadly correct.
What category do you think this would best belong in? I watched the trailer but it wasn't super clear to me how the gameplay worked. Looks like you can move chests and keys around, but not the room itself? What's the logic/programming angle?
They were especially flavorful, though.
I'm happy that it worked out for you after all:)
Look at the pictures. It's very easy to replace a failed puck. There even seems to be a quick-release mechanism.
> the reading thread will now randomly return values in the wrong timezone instead, subsequent code will use it in whatever operation it is it wanted the time for, the end result will be garbage,

I really strongly disagree with how bad you seem to think this is. If you are designing your application to use the timezone and modify it at the same time, it is a totally natural consequence that you may see the previously set time zone in a timing dependent fashion. That's the nature of the beast. To "solve this" is seemingly to make that other thread capable of time travel or something. It read something before it was written, and acted on it. Reasonable!

The harmful data races are when you read intermediate results. If setting the timezone is a multi-step process, or involves manipulation on complex data structures with pointers that might be deallocated, then you are in grave danger. Seeing a previously valid result is ... I honestly don't know how you'd expect to solve it without threads being able to see the future, or some other unreasonable expectation.
That makes sense! My thoughts were just that there were two similar versions of that same story highlighting the 550 employees and their letter, and the board member's backtracking seemed a distinct conversation (employees not agreeing with the board vs board members themselves suggesting the decision was a mistake) but i can see how 3 posts on the same thing would be a bit much. Though for an hour there kind of felt like there was enough interest and chaos for every post on the front page to be an openai post lol
Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank by the moves they have done today.

One could speculate if Microsoft initiated this behind the scenes. Would love it if it came out that they had done some crazy espionage and lobbied the board. Tinfoil hat and all, but truth is crazier than you think.

I remember Bill Gates once said that whoever wins the race for a computerised digital personal assistant, wins it all.
My impression is that Greg and Ilya are both builders, and so one of the builders picked Sam.

Eg see this Twitter exchange between Greg and Ilya: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1359603222491451394?lang=en
Ok, devil's advocate, if you were trying to find evidence for the premise, that is probably how you would go about inducing that behavior. Given twitter's massive userbase, it would be expected that there are no new behaviors under the sun. I suppose that the point is that it can happen.

Twitter probably claim to advertisers that it can't, and now it is revealed that the nuance is that it's apparently extremely unlikely and you basically have to induce it to happen. Which, knowing Elon, may or may not be true.
Changing the Game for Black Hair
If I weren't so adverse to conspiracy theories, I would think that this is all a big "coup" by Microsoft: Ilya conspired with Microsoft and Altman to get him fired by the board, just to make it easy for Microsoft to hire him back without fear of retaliation, along with all the engineers that would join him in the process.

Then, Ilya would apologize publicly for "making a huge mistake" and, after some period, would join Microsoft as well, effectively robbing OpenAI from everything of value. The motive? Unlocking the full financial potential of ChatGPT, which was until then locked down by the non-profit nature of its owner.

Of course, in this context, the $10 billion deal between Microsoft and OpenAI is part of the scheme, especially the part where Microsoft has full rights over ChatGPT IP, so that they can just fork the whole codebase and take it from there, leaving OpenAI in the dust.

But no, that's not possible.
Mathematics at Göttingen under the Nazis [pdf]
An impressive text. I noticed two inaccuracies.

Oberstdorf is not in Tyrol.

And he didn't notice that catholics were often anti Nazi.

"If everywhere in Germany had voted like catholic western and southern Germany, Hitler would never have made it. He was shot to national prominence largely by votes from the rural east in 1930. In 1932, those same regions led the swing which made the Nazis the largest party. At this point, a right-wing nationalist scheme hatched in East Prussia got Hitler appointed Chancellor."

https://www.waterstones.com/blog/james-hawes-on-5-things-you...
I don't feel like I'm any closer to understanding why GP feels labor participation is down.
Like losing to Trump.
Yeah, this has bothered me for a while. Switching to alternative youtube interfaces solved that problem :)
My father and I fight about this a lot. His take is that if you give peiple money, they won't work, which will be bad. I understand his complaint, but the empirical evidence for it is that, when welfare was tied to having children, people apparently gamed the system by using less money on their kids than the welfare provided. This seems like it's probably most american's understanding of a welfare system, and my father is totally unwilling to consider that this problem of incentives can be remedied, though he is reasonably easy to convince of the value of giving employees negotiating power to quit their jobs and be able to survive.

For me this is where the entire argument lies. A basic income (that does not depend on children) asserts the right to subsist without a job. Employment can offer you a better life, but it should not be able to offer you life itself. An employer that wields that carrot also wields that stick, and can exploit the difference to incredible social harm.
With another mandatory $30/mo data plan I'm sure. You can already tether to your iPhone from the Mac with a single click, so I won't be running to buy this just yet.
GNU convention is <funcname>_r for a reentrant version of a non reentrant function.

I'm in the process of working on a tool in C at the moment, so for once I actually have some context on what's being grumped about here!
The problem has always been that old cellular infrastructure isn't designed for having multiple devices on a single line. That is changing with the Apple Watch (which requires such technology) - but it's also why Apple Watch is not available on almost any MVNOs.
There's a current discussion about whether we should also make room for non-Steam games, especially older but great titles: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...

If that doesn't happen, there could very well be an sibling list of "Oldies but goodies DOS-era engineering games"?
The top 3 expenses of any modern contemporary state are:

1. Retirements funds
2. Health care
3. Education

No program that seriously contemplates cost reductions can do without cutting back with these. Guess who the beneficiaries of these expenses are.
Not advocating but just reflecting on reality of situation.
Most of those features are available in OSS tools as well. And for those that are not, there are alternative solutions that might take a bit of work to implement.

I'm not claiming that the OSS tools have feature parity with 1st party frontends, or that they won't require some sacrifices, or effort adjusting. I just think that the trade-off of losing some of the convenience in return for not being tracked and manipulated is well worth it to me, though I can see how it might not be worth it for others.

I do actually think that OSS tools provide a better UX. I can download the media and consume it offline, using any player of choice, on any device, at any time. I find YouTube's recommendations a nuisance, and I can turn those off in Invidious and Piped. Scrubbing in mpv is instantaneous for me for local files and even those served on the LAN, though there is a slight delay when playing directly from YT. There is also a solution for generating thumbnails[1], though I had some issues with it, and didn't end up using it.

At the end of the day, it's a personal choice depending on what you value most, and I'm not trying to convince anyone my choice is inherently better. Thanks for providing your perspective.

[1]: https://github.com/tomasklaen/uosc
> You see the exact same thing in the private sector. This isn't a bug in Government, it's a bug in human organizations.

Sure, but when the private sector wastes it only does so at the expense of its customers, as the waste leads to higher prices. It opens the door for that company to be out-competed.

There is no such mechanism for the waste in gov. It has no competition, and therefore the bloat keeps growing. Voters are the only recourse. There is no natural dynamic to keep operations efficient.

> I'm not even saying he's a bad guy (though he is) I'm saying we don't fucking need him, we need his money, which he only has because we've said he's allowed to keep it. So tax his ass...

This is called theft. We have plenty of money for public goods, such as national defense. You want to steal this man's money; plain and simple.
There’s a real chance that one thing AI will make better—not just cheaper—is original scores for movies. Get us out of this “just match the shitty generic placeholder music we already edited the movie to” norm we’ve been in for almost two decades (which itself came about due to changes in technology!)
This is my main observation as well watching this play out.

I’ve welcomed how a non-profit board finally “struck back” on the trend of the commercialization and rollout of an incomplete yet highly impactful technology. It might have been imperfectly done, but it was done.

We went though scaling at all costs with social media etc and lived through the last several years to pay for that choice. Watching AI the last year felt like that was all starting again.

OAI’s 700 employees not having as clear a route to fat RSU payouts as they did on Friday seems to be the least important concern here. This technology and its impacts are greater than any 1 company or founder. The idea of another Zuck situation sitting on it in control is not good. Zero lessons were learned from ‘07-2022.
they violated free market principles (years ago) that left their users captive. Not home users, every business in the country for the past 30+ years. They are profiting from doing many things wrong, anti-competitive, and illegal. In some alternative universe, there's an earth where you can switch just the OS (and keep all your apps, data, and functionality) and MSFT went bankrupt. Another far-away-galaxy has an earth where MSFT's board got decade prison sentences for breaking antitrust law, another where MSFT paid each victim of spyware $1000 in damages due to faulty product design. We don't live in those realities where bad guys pay.
Hence theorem :)
> Sutskever is a member of the board and backed the decision to fire Altman, before tweeting his 'regret' on Monday and adding his name to the letter. Employees who signed the letter said that if the board does not step down,

This reads like a disingenuous strategy to get rid of the other three members (one half) of the board. A real coup, not a fake one. I know nothing about any of these people, but it seems possible Sutskever convinced the board to make a decision that he knew would have an outcome that would end in them being fiduciarily obliged to resign so that he, Altman, and Brockman could come back as the entirety of the board. And if the hiring by MS is involved, then MS would then control the board of the non-profit.
> hybridish space

I'm sorry, but what do you mean by that? Roc is "as" pure as Haskell (or Koka), if that's your point.
Don't confuse trying to understand the incentives in a war for rooting for one of the warring parties.
US Seeks More Than $4B from Binance to End Criminal Case
does anyone have an ELI5 on this?
"In the second diagram, I have written the word “MONEY” in large green letters."

Lol.
Presenting a scenario and advocating aren't the same thing
The sticking point is paying Qualcomm for the modems, because their terms take a % of the total device sale for each device sold with one. When you're talking about $5000 laptops that's a huge amount of money.
The Euro is woke, don’tcha know /s
I agree completely. Any talk about higher wages is pure propaganda by the media and political establishments.
This joke is two CEOs old now.
That's true. However, as an adjacent point, I do want to highlight how the impact will be totally different in art than in development, because many seem to be equating them.

The main difference is that in development, more of the tedium gets removed-- e.g. interacting with some API or UI boilerplate-- and more of the more satisfying work-- how the program, generally, is going to solve a problem-- remains. In art, the more satisfying part-- conceptualization and forming those ideas into images-- is entirely removed but the tedium remains.

Commissioning a piece of art from an artist entails describing what you want, maybe supplying some inspo images, and then going through a few rounds of drafts or waypoint updates to course-correct before arriving at a final image. Sound familiar? Generative AI art isn't making art: it is commissioning art from a computer program that makes it from an amalgam of other people's art. It reduces the role of the "artist" to making up for the machine artist's shortcomings.

When you're making art, making the details are ingrained in that process-- a requisite step to forming your ideas into images. Details are critical in high-level commercial art, and despite the insistence of many developers who know far less than they realize, current generative AI isn't even close to sufficient.

Economic realities aside, when you're merely editing someone else's images, you've basically transitioned from "writer" to "spell checker" and I don't understand how so many refuse to see how a professional artist would be distraught about that.
those jobs look a lot less cushy now compared to a new microsoft division where everyone is aligned on the idea that making bank is good and fun
This is MSFT we're talking about. Aggressive legal maneuvers are right in their wheelhouse!
Plus, they were really arrogant. Figured it was a sure thing no matter what they did.
https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

Ilya just said he will do everything he can to reunite the company. If that’s the case the easiest way to do it is to resign and join MS
Visual Backend: Zapier for developers
Hey everyone! Before I get roasted, yes, I know, Zapier for developers sounds super counter intuitive, but the point I'm trying to make is that developers know code well, and if you need to build some automated workflow / backend service, you know how to code it. The only problem is that starting an entire project from scratch is a little tedious, so you turn to Zapier, and it's fast, but expensive. That's where https://visual-backend.com comes in.

I made this tool to allow devs to build backend microservices really quickly, by auto generating all the boilerplate & repetitive code like route config, setting up a client for external services, and even GPT generating code for well known APIs like Firebase, Stripe etc, allowing you to quickly write specific functions relevant to your service

I know what you might be thinking: a UI for backend dev, that sounds stupid af?? And I definitely agree, but by now I've used it to quickly churn out several small scale backends with such ease and speed that I really believe in its value, and so I hope you guys might be able to give it a chance, go create that todo app that we all know and love, and if you hate Visual Backend then, by all means haha

But all jokes aside, I'd really appreciate any feedback, especially on specific use cases / niches that you think might truly benefit from this (been racking my brain trying to figure this one out for weeks to no avail) Cheers :)
"Free market" is almost always a True Scotsman. It's "free market" whenever the outcome is good and "not-free-enough" or "not-market-enough" when the outcome is bad. Very rarely any proposals for an actual system where the good-outcome producing free market would manifest are laid out. (Extreme right-libertarians are an exception in this, but personally I see no way how their system wouldn't collapse into some private army plutocracy within days if not hours.)

Regulating the market is a really tricky business. And once regulatory reigns are lost, it becomes almost impossible, exactly due to the cronying up. To get the reigns on again things like total economic collapses (even 2008 apparently wasn't enough, 1930's was), major wars or violent revolutions sadly seem to be needed. I think we lost the reigns already in the 1970's or so.
Except that all of the investors are aligned with Microsoft in that they want sam to lead their investment
Paging Lina Khan - probably best not let Microsoft do a backdoor acquisition of the leader in LLMs.
Or maybe they have good reason to believe that all the talk about "safe development" doesn't contribute anything useful to safety, and simply slows down devlopment?