skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because, if they announced it and it seemed plausible or even possible that they were correct, then every media outlet, regulatory body, intelligence agency, and Fortune 500 C-suite would blanket OpenAI in the thickest veil of scrutiny to have ever existed in the modern era. Progress would grind to a halt and eventually, through some combination of legal, corporate, and legislative maneuvers, all decision making around the future of AGI would be pried away from Ilya and OpenAI in general - for better or worse.

But if there's one thing that seems very easy to discern about Ilya, it's that he fully believes that when it comes to AI safety and alignment, the buck must stop with him. Giving that control over to government bureaucracy/gerontocracy would be unacceptable. And who knows, maybe he's right.
I've only ever understood "organic" to refer to one of four things:

1. Chemistry

2. Farming/food (under one of various specifications)

3. An oddly-named composition technique in which phrases of music are built up using musical "Lego blocks", championed by Beethoven (and used by Sondheim, btw)[1]

4. I didn't do my research but I'd like to exhibit superiority to some other thing/group. (Otherwise, that other thing is more precisely described as "astroturfing," "fraud," "shills," etc.)

1: this used to be a bit superior, but it's old and obscure now so I grandfathered it in
Anyway, as far as I'm seeing it's perfectly possible to implement let* consistent with the above behavior as a macro without mutation as such:

(define-macro (let* bindings &rest body)
(if (null? bindings)
`(progn ,@body)
`(let (,(car bindings))
(let* ,(cdr bindings)
,@body))))
It's well-established that iPhones have longer average lives than Android phones.
It might not yield results, in the way you've correctly described. But the stock market is going to like this opportunity to "steal" the founders / stakeholders in OpenAI "For Free". The money Microsoft pays them is just petty cash compared to the perceived value of getting this talent on board.

Let's say that these folks leave in a year, as you suggest. So what? Microsoft gets to ride this wave even further. If there's a chance they get some meaningful benefit, even better.

And, I'm not sure, but the "new" Microsoft might be able to actually keep their newly acquired talent. Imagine if Microsoft is able to cater to them like a "startup" would, but then be backed with real money (e.g. not VC money) Companies that can support a "startup culture" inside of the traditional business, this really can create some powerful outcomes. Think of Apple on many occasions, for example.

So who knows. I doubt the old (cough Ballmer) Microsoft could pull this off. And maybe there's just too much Softy still in there, but I tend to think that maybe the Nadella Microsoft might have a chance and can benefit from this OpenAI shakeup.
Works fine for me. I never read ebooks in Calibre, but occasionally open one to take a glance.
IAAL - this is possibly the dumbest complaint i've read in a while.

Media matters claimed that advertisements were shown next to fringe content.

This complaint literally admits that happened, but claims it is somehow defamation because it only happened to media matters.

It doesn't matter if media matters did it in bad faith or not, the fact that it's true would still be a defense.

Even if you recast the complaint as "media matters claims we showed it like this to users", it would still be true because media matters was a user.

As an aside, they also point out it was in fact shown to some other user in the case of apple ;)

So the whole hullaboo X makes is totally self-defeating - they admit it was shown to a user, and in the case of Apple, a user besides media matters.

"They defamed me by claiming i murdered someone, and in fact, i only murdered one person - there are 7.99999 billion people i didn't murder!"

So, X spends pages in this complaint talking about how it's defamation, and then, because they know they don't have any leg to stand on there, they don't even make out a count of defamation. The closest they come is business disparagement.

Otherwise it's some weak interference claims.

The first inteference claim doesn't even state a claim - it doesn't claim any unlawful conduct, which is a required element. It also doesn't claim any intentional contract existed, and the defendant's actions would have to be intentionally targeted at such a contract.

The business disparagement rather than defamation is basically an attempt to avoid an Anti-SLAPP response (which will happen anyway), and a bad one at that.

The third interference claim is the closest to making out a real claim, but also misses pieces.

This reads like a rant in lawsuit form.
The PDFs of my recent books, Effective XGBoost, and Learning Python for Data were created using markdown and Pandoc (somewhere along the way).

I'm in the middle of doing the second edition of Effective Pandas, moving it from rst based tooling to markdown/Pandoc.
So at the end of the day at the highest levels it's still just about they were nice/mean to me.
What is the whole "consent" nonsense in the GDPR if not a huge gaping flaw slipped in by lobbyists?
> If you know that your language might be grossly misinterpreted, consider changing it, if only for your own image.

No, if only to make a point.

> That might be true for me, but I'm thinking of "Protestant Christian evangelicals and co." as one community, so...

Yup. What I expected. I'm positively full of bias, and happy to admit it.
The fact that Sam and the employees have waged this PR campaign suggests the board still sits on something of value. I guess we'll see who flinches first.

OpenAI gave up 49% equity because they thought Microsoft gave a fair valuation and terms, among other possible reasons. OpenAI wanted to scale up their LLM research so they signed the agreement. I don't think OpenAI negotiated from a position of weakness.
Gotta be honest. Anyone described as "thoughtful" has nothing to recommend them. It's like if you reviewed a restaurant as "bringing out all dishes correctly in order".
This is called “HR”…

And it’s why HR is a piece of useless shit.
This does require firmware support but it's pretty seamless in Plasma. It requires a root password which is slightly irritating. At one point I went through the PolicyKit contortions to allow normal users (me) to change it.
Modular Hardware Design with Timeline Types [pdf]
But he seems to be addressing the rift when he explains his velocity. Let me put it this way, does this sound like an independent CEO of OpenAi, or does this sound like Sataya Nadella saying “let’s stick this shit in Cortona, Xbox, the windows task bar, fucking everrrything”.

Yeah, sounds like the CEO of a totally different company.

I would not be shocked to see some kinda legal action against Altman for stealing trade secrets going forward.
Even better - for some models it's $69 from Apple, and around $50 from third-party providers.

Source: I replaced my iPhone battery last week.
I'd caution you from pulling examples from other operating systems. I started dicking around with writing an interactive pf shell earlier this year (which somehow got me to where I am today writing an xpath parser in rust) and quickly learned that a.) the documentation is often pretty sparse especially for the API and b.) pf is all over the place (Solaris, MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly, pfSense, etc.) but each version has some pretty significant differences.

Every single one (including pfSense) has their own variant. From what I can tell FreeBSD's taken bigger steps to sync up with OpenBSD than the rest, certainly bigger than pfSense.
There were four teams actually. They knew but couldn't talk to each other. There's a documentary about it. I highly suggest watching it, it also features late Stephen Hawking et al. working on black hole soft hair. Documentary is called Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, it's on pretty much all streaming platforms.
Updates are hardly mandatory. I heard advice on Mobileread a few years ago saying don't bother updating unless there's something you need, and I've often skipped several versions between updating mine.
It's also sv corporate boilerplate speak used to say "just blindly trust this person"
Despite whatever sarcasm I missed, thank you for replying more specifically to the tire dust article and your perspective as a EV owner.
Is pestering someone a theft of attention?
97% of OpenAI's employees? You can probably find dozens if not hundreds of active users on this site you are using, who have at some point crossed paths with Sam, given his involvement in building YC. Haven't there already been data points relating their positive views of Altman?

It is a datapoint. It's not the only datapoint.
This is a switch to “advertisers choosing not to advertise with Twitter is free speech”.

That is different than “activists engaging in collective action to threaten advertisers to compel them to boycott Twitter are merely criticizing Musk”

As to legality, that will depend on the specific wording they used to compel the advertisers.
I figured out how to fix this in Firefox

Settings | Privacy & Security | DNS over HTTPS | Increased Protection | Choose Provider | NextDNS
> You should be ashamed of yourself.

Please don't do this here. Besides breaking the site guidelines, you discredit your own position when you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I had an iPad that I bought 5? years ago and I could leave that thing in sleep mode for literal weeks at a time and I'd still have a mostly full charge.

I "upgraded" to a Pro 2 years back and the first thing I noticed was it'd go from a 100% charge to 60% to even 40% overnight. All apps closed, freshly rebooted and did nothing but charge it the previous night before unplugging it.

A lot of comments online say "This doesn't happen. You're doing something. And it's certainly not wifi and bluetooth because those don't use battery while idle so do NOT turn those off!" I tried everything that was recommended, turning off iCloud, uninstalling random apps, etc.

Then I got into a habit of turning bluetooth off every night and my battery would only drain about 4-6% a day while idle. Turning off wifi as well and I get about 2-3% drain per night. I have no clue what Apple is doing, but when putting my iPad to sleep at night with any sort of wireless on, the device connects to every fucking thing it can find but wouldn't do while awake. I never even synced my Airpods with my iPad and made sure to delete them when they did connect, but still, if I leave bluetooth on before going to bed, my iPad will connect to my airpods while they're in the case, drain them to 0% (even after fully charging the Airpods before sleeping. It's not even possible to drain the case's battery with actual usage that fast!), then drain 40% of its own battery.

I can't make sense of it.

In short, turn all wireless off when you're done for the day. iPads/iPhones are annoying in that you can't turn them off from the drop down menu though, so you need to go through settings or make a shortcut.
I guess they weren't involved in the day to day enough to know that about the contract
TOTP apps are good enough in most cases.
> there's no way I'm setting up a tether on a 8 minute Uber.

I swipe down my quick settings bar and tap the button labeled "Hotspot". I don't even have to unlock my phone. If I have time to get my laptop out I have time to do a single swipe and tap on my phone too.
Awesome GPTs for Creators
I haven't misunderstood anything. In a "public house" you can be kicked out of the owner doesn't like what you're saying, because it's private property. In places which are actually public, like a town square, this isn't the case.

I understand that it is conventional to speak of some places that are private property as being public, but they are not public in the sense that actually counts for the protection of free speech.
A lot of wine is moving to all stainless for tons of practical purposes such as cleaning and sanitizing, only dealing with 1 tank, barrel loss, storage space, etc. They then add sawdust for the wood flavor desired (obviously not your average wood shop leftovers). This has way more surface area as compared to a barrel, leading to a way shorter aging time. Then just hit it with some of the normal clarifiers and filter out the little bit left with the plate filter. Both higher end and lower end wineries do this.
When it comes to personnel reviews this all smells of "didn't know any of these people all that well," given the lack of detail.
You just described all tipping.

It is a horribly broken way of doing things that feels terribly dirty to someone that wasn’t indoctrinated since birth.

Every time I see tipping and the behaviour, I can’t help thinking it’s a bunch of people with money who waive it at people who don’t while saying “be at my beck and call and I’ll give you some. Or not. But still dance for me”

Obviously the people with the money like it because they have an entire class of society dancing for them whenever they please
> 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?

Not proof of stake qua proof of stake, but the fact that substantial changes to ethereum (like proof of stake) - things that change the usability of the network, and so could be reasonably expected to change the value of ethereum tokens - are still being worked on.

> The Howey test, incidentally, is also about an investment contract.

No, it's the definition of an investment contract. If it included whether something was an investment contract that would be circular.

> That's why an equity is a security, but a bar of gold is not, even if you bought the gold as an investment.

No, the reason gold isn't a security is there's no common enterprise and, more importantly, no efforts of others. You might buy it as an investment, but the investment isn't because you think the gold devs are going to add new features that make gold more useful.

> Lack of contract is why the SEC lost their case against Ripple recently.

Whatever you think about Ripple or cryptocurrency in general, that ruling was just utterly bizarre. You can make reasonable arguments for why these things aren't securities (even if I don't agree with you) but that judgement wasn't it. It's not a precedent for anything, it's just crazy.
Well he could have you shadowbanned on every platform except Onlyfans and Pornhub.
That seems kind of silly to say. He's not a good leader because he's taking on a challenge?
The claim that people don't copy art styles or even that it's rare is ridiculous. Opwm tumblr and you will immediately be presented with a counterexample.
Unrelated to the actual topic at hand, it’s mind blowing how much better nitter is in usability, speed, and user experience.
Can Argentina move from the peso to the dollar?
The private key of the bank's server isn't installed on every client's device just waiting for any of them to extract it.
> If I choose to add said side effect, now all my functions are marked with an io signature

You got the wrong idea. You're supposed to write FP in a way where the side effect is highly layered and segregated away from pure code. IO are singularities within your chains of pure function compositions. As soon as you hit a singularity you have to break out of it as soon as possible.

The main idea is the meat. Keep your bread tiny and keep it very very separate from the meat.

The pattern is called Imperative Shell, functional core. Think of your IO as two pieces of bread in a sandwich and your pure code is the meat that connects the read to the write.

The game you're playing with haskell is to avoid letting the IO monad pollute any of your logic as much as possible.

Anyway that being said in applications where IO is all over the place... this pattern becomes largely ineffective. You basically have more bread than meat.
Tbh, I'm more eagerly watching the development of rusticl on nvidia hardware. While I use graphics APIs more often, not needing nvidia's drivers for their CUDA support would be really nice.

Say what you will about openCL, but openCL is a WAY BETTER IDEA than ROCm. AMD are getting their asses handed to them in card support right now because ROCm requires you to compile your application all the way down to shader binaries. That makes applications supporting their cards VERY non-portable. Nvidia on the other hand supports PTX which is portable across a wide range of cards and drivers.

OpenCL mirrors this by allowing you to write compute kernels in normal shader languages to be compiled by the driver. It doesn't matter what card you want to run something on, with rusticl ALL cards can run the same code, including across vendors. AMD, nvidia, intel, raspi, apple AGX, doesn't matter. You can even run it on top of zink in case all you have is a proprietary vulkan driver.
Albeit little, installing SML still requires some anount of gymnastics, google searching, and copying stuff from SO, GH Gists, etc.

Yes, I agree broadly with the line of thinking that says- if you are learning FP, you must be willing to do these, but a beginner might be disheartened and turned away- especially as someone learning alone.
First camera with built-in content credentials verifies photos' authenticity
(You're probably going to have to get better at answering objections than merely asserting your contradiction of them.)
For me, I use Emacs org-mode's latex export. It works pretty well plus I use org-mode for other stuff anyway.
> Is that the same person who had kids with Elon.

Yes.

> Did Elon put her on the Open AI board as his proxy.

No, or at least Elon was already off the board when Shivon was elevated to board member: https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
Warmer to read more hacker news.
Jacarandas were brought from South America. Reputedly the first Jacaranda tree grown in Australia is/was in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens.
There is no replacement for Excel in many cases. Otherwise I agree.
If it was last week, I’d still read between the lines. All this is news to us, but it wasn’t a secret to them last week.
That's the only thing that make sense with Ilya & Murati signing that letter.
A controversial ruling, especially given how prevalent exams are for employment: MD, JD for lawyers, heck even a bachelor's degree is a disparate impact. Notably, one of the lawyers who helped overturn Brown vs Board of Education (now a judge) ruled in favor of New York in a lower court: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-teach...
A recent paper along these lines you might be interested in was Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

It makes complete sense and has been a part of my own usage for well over a year now, but it's been cool seeing it demonstrated in research across multiple models.
It’s also weird that he’s not admitting to any of his own reasons, only describes some trivial reasons he seems to have coaxed out of the other board members?! Perhaps he still has his own reasons but realizing he’s destroying what he loves he’s trying to stay mum? The other board members seem more zealous for some reason, maybe not being employed by the LLC. Or maybe the others are doing it for the sake of Ilya or someone else that prefers to remain anonymous? Okay, clearly I have no idea.
Multi-factor authentication doesn't need a cellular phone. I personally use TOTP codes and security keys whenever I can, as I am very weary of giving away my phone number (I want to believe this is why I rarely get spam calls or texts). There is an obvious downside to security keys (cannot be backed up or transfer secrets), but passkeys are slowly becoming a viable alternative, which gives you almost the same level of security as security keys implementing FIDO2. Major services like GitHub already allow passkey authentication. Both iOS and Android have supported passkeys for a while now, and so have all of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari).

So overall, I think passkeys are a good alternative to SMS :)
Aside from 32-bit arm being used in more small embedded systems, I think it has 64-bit time_t. One of the reasons for killing of i386 is the Y2038 issue.
In a recent Capital Gains Tax case at the First Tier Tribunal, a property owner, Sunday Salokun, who failed to declare the sale of three properties and submitted inaccurate self-assessment tax returns, is now obligated to pay a substantial sum of £100,485 in tax and penalties.
Really cool. I'm working on .Net project that I've also adopted a "single dependency" stance on; that being Postgres. I'm pretty thrilled to see I'm not the only one lol!

I plan to use Orleans to handle a lot of the heavy HA/scale lifting. It can likely stand in for Redis in a lot of cache use cases(in some non-obvious ways), and am anticipating writing a Postgres stream provider for it when the time comes.. Will likely end up writing a Postres job queue as well so will definitely check out River for inspiration.

A lot of postgres drivers, including the .Net defacto Npgsql, support logical decode these days which unlocks a ton of exciting use cases and patterns via log processing.
That's really good data. Better than all the data from people who never met him or don't even know what's going on. I still can't answer the question why was he fired, but we have 400 pages of speculation on HN.

This twitter post is literally better information then anything I've seen for the past weekend.
I love Calibre. All I do is maintain my library on it, and a few extra Kobo things like backing up the database. There's more I could use it for, but don't really need to. Mostly I read books. Calibre helps tell me what I have or don't have. The UI is fine. Updating is fine. It's free, well-supported, and in my experience works fine on my M1 Mac (and it worked fine on Windows last time I used it as well. I've never installed or used it on a Linux machine).
You've still not responded in anything like a rational good-faith manner so I'm done.
Has Ilya left OpenAI? Not to my knowledge.

This is more like a guy apologizing for the holes and actively trying to fix the ship. Which is absolutely worth something, even if no holes would still be better.
I haven’t really thought about his much but in quite a few cases laws are attached to the nationality and not geographically bound. The US has an interesting instance of this where US citizens still have to pay taxes to the US government even if they live and earn money abroad.
I was a very different person at 34 than I was at 26. More mature in every way, with better judgment and critical thinking skills.
Tell HN: OpenAI saga – I cancelled my Poe subscription
I want to keep it short: As much as I liked Poe, I decided to cancel my subscription and I urge you to do it too.

At least until we hear word that Adam D'Angelo (Quora and Poe CEO) didn't exert his influence due to conflict of interest (with GPTs), I don't think it's okay to contribute to his companies. Quora was already dead, and Poe is just a wrapper around OpenAI's API. I only used Poe because OpenAI crippled ChatGPT-4 and made it dumber over the past few months. Poe was one of the few places where I could have access to the real GPT-4 (through API).
I'm an "almost nobody". I care about saving batteries. I get all the dead disposable vapes my friends will give me so I can recycle the batteries in them. Lithium is a limited resource and one day we're not going to have more to dig up out of the ground. There are others like me out there, I just need to find them.
OpenAI at least still has a valuable product.