skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A case for sympathy for companies like Kraken is they are the ones that do do the proper thing and are US based and regulated. If the SEC goes after them and shuts them down then the punters will move to non US companies like the Bahamas based FTX insead with the problems that we have seen there.
When I accessed via https://news.ycombinator.com , I'd see the same stories repeatedly, just in different places, each time I visited that page. Via newsboat, I see each story at most once.

Also the HN frontpage scrolls on my laptop —if barely— but I have newsboat configured so that when there are too many new HN stories, I view them by subsets of alphabetical order (currently a-g, h-q, r-z but I should probably chop at e or f instead) so they will fit on a screen (~70 stories).

Some weeks I am involved enough with my personal projects that I forget to read HN for several days; in that case I have channels set up that show only 1, 2, 3, and 4 day old content — which can then be broken down by subsets, or manually even finer, so I'm only ever picking from less than a screenful.

(when I'm that far behind, I mostly mark entire screenfuls as seen, without clicking through at all: maybe the greatest value of this system is realising that one can very easily not click on attractive things and one's life is still full of more interesting things than one truly has time for?)
One factor is that Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT were released within 3 months of each other – August 22, 2022 and November 3, 2022, respectively. That brought a lot of attention and excitement to the field. More excitement, more people, more work being done, more progress.

Of course those two releases didn't fall out of the sky.
Not available in EU, so...
My understanding is the OpenAI holding company, which is controlled by the board of directors, owns 51% of the capped-profit company, with Microsoft owning the other 49%. There doesn't seem to be a scenario where Microsoft can buy a controlling interest without the boards approval.
Its surprising Intel has taken this long to do this, when the Apple M1 was released 3 years ago now.
It depends upon the size of the individual email. In the early 2000's email attachments were less common and on average smaller in size. Today, 20 years later, it is common in my line of work to see email attachments in the 5-10MB range. Pass them back and forth a couple of dozen times for changes and approvals and it doesn't take long for it to balloon. Yesterday, I worked on an outlook email issue on a PST file that contained 40,000 emails and was over 10 GB in size. His PST was new less than two years ago.

It really depends upon how it is used, misused or abused.
> thousand Beatles out there. It still requires talent and effort

As well as marketing.
There’s been a strong backlash to releasing AI models in my community particularly driven by EA and VC rhetoric that the potential risks far outweigh the benefits

This pushback seems quite surprising to me, since the same claims could be made for the internet, social media, YouTube, etc - the very technologies that put this group into power/wealth

My friends/family in India are far more pro-AI than friends in Silicon Valley / EU. And my artist friends seem to be more excited about it than my VC friends

I think subconsciously, a lot of people currently in power seem to be fearful - perhaps because their power/wealth/way of life will be threatened by a faster rate of change. While those in India seem to see universal translation / accessibility of global knowledge as an equalizing force

These are broad generalizations ofc. But it reminds me of the backlash against nuclear power (despite human life cost of oil/gas being way higher than nuclear) or the CEQA/environmental driven opposition to building more housing in California

I don’t know think individuals are ill intentioned in their focus on AI safety, but they sit in an echo chamber where this technology has more potential to harm them (they have a lot to lose) than benefit them (they are already at the top). So it’s natural to feel threatened and galvanize to slow down the rate of change

I tend to be quite dissatisfied by the current state of the world. Lots of violence (humans/animals), oppression, and gatekeeping of knowledge driven by our colonialist history. So I bias towards faster rate of change that could shift balance of power from western military-industrial complex to global south. AI excitement in global south excites me!
So no evidence of wrongdoing then:

-----> WHY DID THEY DO IT? <------

SERIOUSLY! They all just decided to wake up that day and say let's go fire Sam and blow up the company because "lack of candor" that they can't even give details on?? These are serious people doing serious stuff. These are not idiots. What the heck is going on? Can anyone explain?
This is most definitely a LARPER
I've been having fairly good success with Claude 2 via AWS Bedrock. So far I haven't needed to use the full context window of the existing model, but some of my future usecases may. I look forward to testing this model out if/when it becomes available in Bedrock as well.
Scene layouts, models and their attributes are a result of user input (ok and sometimes program output). One avenue to take there would be to train on input expecting an output. Like teaching a model to draw instead of generate images.. which in a sense we already did by broadly painting out silhouettes and then rendering details.
Thanks! this is exactly what I have been thinking, only you've expressed it much more eloquently than I would be able.
As of yesterday this situation has crossed into omnishambles territory.

Sunday you could still have reversed this and treated it as a blip. Now it's Tuesday—there's not really an option anymore that doesn't cause some kind of lasting damage.
Seattle seems to be more authentically Japanese than other places. I found a ramen booth place in Capital Hill like Ichiran where everyone eats inside a curtain.

SF Japantown feels old and rundown like nobody's moving there anymore.
JHotDraw's Architecture
Because at the moment ChatGPT is in the phase of advertising so you get rather cheap access to a pretty capable model.

As soon as competitors are eliminated,remember Altman's regulation push, and enough people depend on their service they switch to full profit mode including price hikes.
>NIST in the US

In the wake of the "Summer of Love", some ideologues at NIST decided to jump on the band wagon and created an internal memo about "inclusive language". They ironically did not define the new terms, did not include them in their definition documentation, and was for internal use only as a guide, not requirements.

>but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, a word in use.

but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, not a word.
The article gets some other major details wrong, like:

> Zork is not a PDP-10 executable, it’s actually a virtual machine executable, which is in turn run by an interpreter written for the PDP-10.

This summary confuses two or three different generations of Zork -- the original MDL and Fortran versions written at MIT (which did indeed run on the PDP-10) and the later ZIL reimplementation by Infocom (which used the Z-machine VM and was targeted at microcomputers). As far as I'm aware, there was never an interpreter for the PDP-10, only the -11, and even then only for internal use.
That must be why you can get Windows laptops that run fast, silent, cool with great battery life and integrates well with their phones, watches and tablets.

And let’s not talk about those great fast Android phones that are still getting security updates a decade later…
> The company notes that “data about your sleep activity is transferred from your Device to our servers” every time the Pod’s app syncs with the Pod. Certain features on the device also require location data “including GPS signals, device sensors, Wi-Fi access points, and cell tower IDs.”

Oh, they know where you live.
“Weeks” lol!?

Please take some time out of your busy life, go on holidays or something. We’ll get back to you eventually, we promise!

What happened to signing up and having access to an API instantly?
A gas storage facility is closer to a once-a-year battery medium.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_(facility)
> Contact

> We encourage former OpenAI employees to contact us at formerly_openai@mail2tor.com. We personally guarantee everyone's anonymity in any internal deliberations and public communications.

Sounds like they're just being intentionally protective of everyone's identities, which is understandable.

Also "shouldn't be on the HN homepage" is not really a pertinent comment, seeing as it is on the front page, meaning others (via the algorithm) do think it is a worthy submission.
Things That Aren't Doing The Thing
Even the article specifically points out the size of the train as an issue

> To fit air conditioning into the trains has been rather an interesting challenge, as air conditioning units are large and tube trains are small, and Siemens Mobility has taken several ideas and put them together to create the space needed.
> So rather than fealty to a person

Have you _seen_ the bizarre behaviour that's occurring on twitter? Retweeing heart emojis, making weird declarations of faith, acting in lockstep? They're 100% swearing fealty and it's incredibly weird.
Would you recommend dagger for small teams or something else?
According to Stratechery, Microsoft does not just have the rights to use the source code and model weights for GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, but a clause saying that Microsoft could not use the models as foundations for their own projects was recently removed.

> Investors have no reason to worry about their investment in the tech.

If Stratechery is correct, this means that if Microsoft successfully poaches Sam Altman and friends, and vacuums OpenAI clean of talent, they will even be able to use the actual GPT-4 to build a Microsoft GPT-5. That should make investors sweat. If you lose the people and (possibly) the technology, what's left?
Companies aren’t valued for their current state, but future prospects.
Read about what happens to whistleblowers who aren't anonymous pretty much anywhere in any industry. Not pretty.
Yeah my place is falling to bits and it's only 10 years old.
I had no idea how dumb the whole thing is going to turn out to be. Big Dumb.
I wish more of them did that. She gave them the excuse they were looking for. She thought she was being smart, instead she self-owned herself in the most spectacular fashion.
You can tell the media and blogosphere are milking this debacle for everything it's worth.

The next article will be about how the employees pets feel about Sam Altman getting ousted. There will be a picture of an aquarium with a cute little goldfish and a caption "something fishy is going on with the OpenAI boards decision to fire Sam Altman".
Ok, I'll try to be more explicit with the caveat that it's possible I'm reading too much between the OP's lines.

"future energy systems" means, in this case, battery and EV tech. Had it said "legacy energy systems" I agree that it does not follow. However, as stated, they are saying "we just don't know what's going to be on the political horizon. Maybe a ultra-conservative will be in the white house and all of these subsidies that help foster future energy systems will go out the window." Again, it's about the volatility of less-entrenched, prospective industries that are more reliant on policies to make them viable.

Entrenched lobbyists, almost by definition, want to keep the status quo. So I don't think we can agree that they are likely to institute massive changes. Put differently, do you think it's more likely that fossil fuel subsidies or that renewable subsidies will be dramatically reduced if the WH changes parties in the next election?
I think you are preaching to the choir here, maybe I misread the intent of the OP above me.
It also doesn’t seem to factor in property taxes which can change the equation significantly for those looking to own rather than rent.
> But he's on the field in his position rightfully so, he's not even breaking any rules, he just has the ball and my son wants it.

Soccer includes rules about sportsmanship; bad behavior gets you a yellow/red card. Politics doesn't have a referee nor much about sportsmanship.

> The whole thing with democracy is, sometimes things don't go your way, and the rules for how to change it are all right there in front of you.

Sure; one of those things allowed by said rules is public protest against elected officials.
Domestic and international settlement speed
Personally I'm a fan of brutalist architecture, but maybe it's nostalgia for my university.
I can get real time air quality index above ground on multitude of places.

The most up-to date information on the tube I could found was this report[0], that only covered a number of stations. Even then, the information provided is not great, e.g. for Highbury & Islington:

> The results for particulate matter were between <0.02 and 2.16 mg/m3 for PM2.5.

Results cover the range from 4x of WHO recommended limit (5 μg/m3, i.e. 0.005 mg/m3) to 432x.

[0] https://content.tfl.gov.uk/dust-monitoring-lu-stations.pdf
Wouldn't this be a pretty obvious anti trust violation?
I have the same feeling, back in the iPhone 5 and 5S days I used to be able to type very fast with hardly any typos, now I type slower and make more typos. I weigh the same (I even lost some weight I had gained during the COVID era). The two things that have changed are the screen size and the version of iOS.

I have never had autocorrect on. My guess is that iOS is somehow trying to be more clever than me and slightly shifts the keys' hitboxes in a poor attempt to overcompensate for what it thinks is my fingers' clumsiness.
OpenAI’s value IS their employees.

In aggregate they are secret sauce why GPT4 only exists in OpenAI not anywhere else. Data/compute are hard too, but some competitors do have the capacity.
It's as valid as all the other articles with assumptions what is happening at OpenAI.

It a starting point for others for digging deeper and either prove or disprove the claims
That will last until Sam gives up and drops them all when he moves on to whatever he’s doing next. They may be dogmatic about it but it’s only because they think they have cards to play.
I’m not really sure I get the distinction but I guess this is just one of those occasions that I’m just going to struggle to relate to.

Thanks for sharing the anecdote though. :)
"It upset a bunch of employees. The tech is fine". Uhmm, it upset 98% (not figuratively, but mathematically) of all 700 employees who signed a petition to quit unless he's reinstated and for the board to resign. As for the tech... who... exactly do you think created, maintains and is developing future enhancement for the tech? Is it doing it by itself? Sorry, we're not there yet.
> Z-machine program files and PKZIP files share the .zip file extension

Modern Z-machine programs typically use extensions like .z3, .z5, and .z8 for Z-machine programs (with the digit depending on the version of the VM used). I've only seen .zip used within Infocom, before PKZIP was a thing.
This should have been a torrent.
I have faith that it'll happen eventually, in some form
You cannot equate sending a request and them sending back a response to "stealing". There is nothing illegal in not displaying ad.

What is the next step? I should be forced to LOOK at it as well? If not it is "stealing" as indirectly the companies advertising are not getting what they pay for?
Yes, which is why I also don't want my phone data to be hoovered up by data brokers and appearing in evidence exhibits.
> reddit

> claims

> work

Dude nobody on reddit works, c'mon. Probably some high school kid posting up drama while vaping in the can.
> and scant customization

The badge system is phenomenally customizable. Different kinds of attacks, defenses, ways to play.
Dagger fits very nice with small and large dev and devops teams. Similarly to other tools, the more you grow, the better you'll have to organize your projects to make the best use of it.
>>Their word choice however comes off as junior and not senior like using “dude” or “bs.”

Given the actions of the OpenAI board that seems to be fitting does it not? Regardless of the facts, the handling of this entire event comes off as "junior" to me
A better, better solution would be to stop using the service at all.
If Sam was reinstated as CEO, does that really solve anything?

Isn’t the underlining issue the conflict of their own nonprofit vs profit status & motives.
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Isn't Google still getting relevant ad data from me regardless? If I watch a video indicating I am interested in a topic, Google now has a hint to give me ads for that topic all across the internet. Even if I don't watch ads on Youtube, I'm giving them data they can monetize against my ad profile. That's not worth nothing. In fact, that data is the whole reason Google is currently in business.

So I'm expected to sell them my data and accept them using that data against me before I am allowed to watch a video, and while I watch a video, and after I watch a video, and anytime I go anywhere on the internet...Google might want Youtube to pay for itself, but Google is already being paid via my data. And has been for years.
>As you have now witnessed what happens when you dare stand up to Sam Altman,

Sorry, but was this written by 19 year olds?
I think he said all he needed to with "Soros" and "unclean".

Kind of proves the point about Elon enabling these people.
Debian had make-kpkg for a while.
The Anti-Portfolio (Bessemer Venture Partners)
> we witnessed a disturbing pattern of deceit and manipulation ...

Hard to know how authentic this comment is, but worth noting that none of these were mentioned or hinted in the recent explanation(s) presented to OpenAI employees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38356534 , which is at least not consistent (bad pun intended).

Having said that, the recommendations to expand the scope of the investigation and protect (but also verify) the identities sound very reasonable. Probably the first reasonable thing we heard since Friday.
But don’t they have to answer to the people who funded the nonprofit?

I am ignorant, but you seem to be knowledgeable about this topic.
Source? Ben didn't read his cited source in his article yesterday.
Is Sam Altman a future prospect of LLMs? It’s not like he holds the secret to GPT v5 or anything.
Imagine being on a PIP at OpenAI right now.

“Hey Microsoft - you for real about that offer?”
I've been getting deep into computer graphics recently, and having a handful of in-depth books on the subject has been immensely helpful. I don't have to spend time scouring terrible google results for answers when I don't even know the question

As an aside, ThriftBooks has been amazing for increasing my collection! I;ve gotten so many books for cheap
SBF decided to testify against CZ to try to save his own ass, giving justice dept and sec something to fine CZ with.

Govt collects a big crypto fine, fine makes the big losers in FTX whole, problem solved.

CZ should have just bought FTX and closed the deal and made people whole, woulda saved himself some drama.
Yeah, no. This is not Starwars or samurai anime, commonly found red cedar or Doug firs go from one to many feet wide
Currently, the claim is unproven. However, if I were an investor, I'd be pounding on the doors demanding for clarification.
Upzoning New Zealand
standing committees are necessary parts of communism that always result in permanent authoritarian control of all people and all resources. humans don't have a way around that and that necessary phase is a prerequisite to the ideological phase. there is no evidence that it is worth pursuing given that irreconcilable implementation flaw.

consumers choosing mismanaged companies are consumer discernment problems that have nothing to do with the sector they're involved in. specifically with crypto, centralized exchanges and brokerage experiences are not necessary parts of the crypto ecosystem and exist in parallel to other ways of getting fiat in and out of crypto, and other ways of getting exposure to the crypto ecosystem. many proponents of the crypto asset ecosystem have always sounded the alarm on those kinds of companies and actively track how much crypto is held by the companies or in self custody.

analogies compare dissimilar things with common attributes, what is the common attribute between observers of these two concepts?
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> OpenAI's employee attrition rate between January 2018 and July 2020 was in the order of 50%.

and

> Those who questioned this practice were dismissed as "bad culture fits" and even terminated, some just before Thanksgiving 2019.

Would be pretty easy to verify, and could be concerning (mostly the 50% part)
"...for a few months."

Until this github repo dries up the same way similar attempts at this have.
> Altman's regulation pushed

Was "regulate us, don't bother regulating anyone catching up to us, and definitely don't regulate open source AI".
Meta has a 40% off sale on a lot of software for the Meta Quest headsets.
27% of their customers work at OpenAI? Other than a very small number of people directly involved, a handful of Reddit mods and Twitterati with a parasocial obsession with the company specifically, and people who can only sleep when they ask ChatGPT if it's time for bed, who's really going to be losing actual sleep over this?
Altman's ouster from OpenAI spooks secondary investors
I meant, can you link the claim that the clause in question got removed?
Absolutely not. If your brain is molded in a stressful environment, it’ll optimize for reaction to and preemption of threats, with all the anti-social behavior that entails, rather than creativity, cooperation, high-level learning, and constructive pro-social behaviors.
Torment Nexus?
Is it sponsored by Google?
> He lives in the Middle East, which does not have any extradition treaties with America.

Some Middle Eastern countries have extradition treaties with the US, but, more relevantly, a number of countries have legal extradition processes not dependent on treaties, including the UAE, the country where he lives.
Binance is also paying many billions in fines to the US and exiting the US completely. I also don't understand why - if they're presumably headquartered outside of US jurisdiction, what are they gaining by paying exorbitant fines?

They're also further inviting every country they've ever had a customer in to levy huge fines against Binance.
Lightning has grown beyond its two original creators and now has a healthy community behind it. Worth mentioning are Rusty Russel (iptables, netfilter, some network layers of the Linux kernel) and the fine folks at Acinq (acinq.co).

Yes, it still has some rough edges but it's now mostly usable.
https://medium.com/coinmonks/lightning-network-2018-to-2023-...

Besides, about 80% of transactions within exchanges are actually off-chain, so this is nothing new.
> Incredibly, Bessemer passed on Federal Express seven times.

> David Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine.” Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”

> In 2011 Jeremy Levine arrived at LAX three hours late, thanks to flight delays, with enough time for only one of the two meetings on his calendar. He literally tossed a quarter and phoned Evan Spiegel with his regrets. SNAP was the largest IPO in 2017.

I love how this is written haha
It's giving me real Jim Jones vibes, to be honest. It's incredibly weird behaviour.
Great point lol it's not like the carried load will be the same all the time and I didn't even consider that :)