skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of their messaging, Ilya's especially, has always been that the forefront of AI development needs to be done by a company in order to benefit humanity. He's been very vocal about how important the gap between open source and OpenAI's abilities is, so that OpenAI can continue to align the AI with 'love for humanity'.
> When no smartphone, a tiny sim modem costs peanuts.

But it's also another device I need to keep charged, packed in my backpack etc.

I don't use one myself since I'm mostly using my laptop where there's Wi-Fi, so I only use my phone for tethering very rarely, but even then, the battery drain is somewhat annoying.
This is so wrong, yep chatgpt.
Dude I'm talking about it being worth 20 bucks a month (which NFTs are not), not the hype cycle nonsense. Just because you don't understand the scientific applications of protein folding, one of the most important problems in biology, doesn't mean that its mumbo jumbo. Ever heard of folding at home? Man is silicon valley ridiculous sometimes, but since apparently the accomplishments of coders don't count on this coding forum if they're in fields that web developers don't understand let's focus on consumer applications.

In terms of writing code, yeah it's pretty simple code. I'm paying 20 bucks a month not 200k a year. I've found it really useful to dive into open source code bases for papers (just upload the repo and associated paper) - academics write pretty garbage code and even worse documentation. It's able to easily and correcttly extend modules, explain weird uncommented and untyped code (what exactly is xyz data structure? Oh it's a tensor with shape blah where each dimension represents abc value. Great saved me 2 hours of work).

For the summaries - uhh yeah obviously the summaries are accurate and better than reading the first and last sections. Spend the 20 bucks and try it yourself or borrow someone else's account or something. Especially useful if you're dealing with nature papers and similar from journals that refuse to give proper respect for the methods section and shove all the information in a random way into supplementary info. Make a knowledgebase on both and ask it to connect the dots, saves plenty of time. I don't give a damn about the flowery abstract in the first part of the report and the tryhard conclusion in the last part of the report, I want the details.

It's comical that these useless hype bros can convince folks that a genuine computational breakthrough and a pretty solid 20 dollar a month consumer product with actual users must be bunk because the bros are shilling it, but luckily the baker lab doesn't seem to care. Can't wait to play around with all atom so I don't have to model a zinc atom with a guide potential and can just model the heteroatom directly in the functional motif instead! Not sure it'll work for the use case I have in mind until I try it out and print a gene or two of course but I'm glad folks are building these tools to make life easier and let me engineer proteins that were out of budget 3 years ago.
How many OAI are on Thanksgiving vacation someplace with poor internet access? Or took Friday as PTO and have been blissfully unaware of the news since before Altman was fired?
Well obviously MSFT can just ask ChapGPT to make a clone.
I can recommend reading about the "Chaebol", which is effectively this in South Korea. Five corporations got so huge that they control politics, and the C-staff of those companies is basically immune to no matter what the legal system throws at them because they always just threaten to fire so many of their workers that the politicians give in to them.
A few things come to mind:

* Emmett Shear should have put in a strong golden parachute in his contract, easy money if so

* Yesterday we had Satya the genius forcing the board to quit. This morning it was Satya the genius who acquired OpenAI for $0. Im sure there will be more if sama goes back. So if sama goes back - lets hear it, why is Satya a genius?
>Are you claiming that the only reason you have your current job is to avoid the remote possibility of being out on the streets?

Being "out on the streets" because you don't have a job is hardly a "remote possibility". It's a virtual certainly unless you have a massive cash hoard built up.
$80 billion in profit and a $4 billion fine! American justice at its finest.
Sure it doesn't stand for a bra size, and you're a bigot for continuing to use the acronym [0]?

[0] https://nitter.net/sarahmei/status/1073234104311734273#m
Nope.

High quality comprehensive summaries that contain more actual information than the last dozen "major media" stories that also got voted to the front page, tho are different.

When they come from authors with a history of exceedingly high quality work, specifically at the "summary" posts that distill large noisy conflicts into a great starting point for understanding, as this author does... Absolutely yes.
The sad part is, after removing Sam and Greg from the board, there are only four people left.

So no matter if Ilya wants to go back to before this happened, the other three members can sabotage and stall, and outvote him.
The very first paying Pro customer, as a matter of fact =)

You said back then that you planned on pursuing a Go client; now, four years later, here we are. River looks excellent, and the blog post does a fantastic job explaining all the benefits of job queues in Postgres.
No, I'm a software engineer.
Google really should have thought of the potential uses of a media empire years ago.
> My first CS bachelor's semester in Germany in 2017 taught functional programming using Haskell (as well as C and NASM assembly in another course on computer architecture).

Also worth mentioning that since this was in Germany not only was it a great education, but there’s no crippling student debt either.
PDF is thirty years old, and this is like the Third or fourth post on Oberon in the past few weeks so just wondering why the love? I mean as a study in programming languages its nice, but you cannot program real-world programs like you can with other pascal based languages like free-pascal and Delphi and if its just for teaching then it seems no more developed than Turbo pascal which is also free.

Did my training on Turbo Pascal and it was a missed opportunity IMHO but come on somebody enlighten me here.
>Would you object to somebody looking at your images and imitating the style?

Yes. It's quite difficult to do so, however. The people capable usually have better things to do with their skills.
That s a great twist in the writer's storyline. Board quits, Altman + Brockman returns to openAI, shamed Sutskever defects to microsoft where he leads the AI division in a lifelong quest to take revenge for this humiliation.
There was a 2012 WSJ article about that [0].
I have both a Windows Surface and a MacBook. When looking for flights, I used both to check for prices in hopes to find better prices, but didn't really notice any discrepancy. I figured maybe they may be showing the same price due to both devices having the same IP address or something to that effect.

[0]https://archive.is/C0Hkb
It's not about moral dealings, it's about whether I can trust the creators to not mess up a second time if they had already messed up once. We were shipping Elm in production and we moved away because any issues that were brought up that we wanted to see solved were swept away. Eventually it wasn't worth keeping the Elm codebase around. So, why should I trust one of the same people again? We already learned an expensive lesson one time around.

> When it comes to Roc and It's community..ask yourself.

Sorry, but this kind of faux niceness is precisely what stopped people from asking about issues, as it was always argued that asking about such issues was not "useful," after some time. So yes, I do feel the need to bring up this topic if only for others to evaluate the creators themselves rather than only have "good" things to say that "really need" to be said.
Which makes it suspicious that they end up at MS 48 hours after being fired.
The top comment says a lot

> It's pretty much the rumored size of GPT-4. However, even when quantized to 4bits, one would need ~800GB of VRAM to run it.
I never use quora so I personally just found out from your comment[1] that you can bypass login. Helpful if I need Quora.

[0] Arrays start at 0

[1] It encouraged me to google it: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/213726/adding-share...
I would say you're cherry picking. HIV went from death sentence to a nuisance. So again, I ask, why haven't economists made similar progress? I guess they just like winning medals and appearing elite, without actually contributing anything?
It would be very interesting to have something like BakLLaVA's image description fed from a webcam used as a context for the LLM. "You can see: <description of scene, description of changes from last snapshot>" or something along those lines in the system prompt.
The media circus around this reminds me of Taylor Swift and her new boyfriend. There is more than one "AI" company. Very bizarre.
Parents> “Have you brushed your teeth?”

8yo> “Yes” (last week)
on the choice of language to teach the course
why sml

i think there are a lot of nicer choice

OCaml , its basically sml only more popular and used more in real life
Haskell , again more popular , and used more in real life
Idris , newer and said to be more progressive
F# , a more practical choice and similar to sml
a lisp , well if you want to focus on the functional part and less on the types part
I've seen someone asked to return to their original seat. The reason given was something along the lines of "identification in the event of an accident".
You linked to specifically to the Self-actualization section which, critically, includes this line: "To understand this level of need, a person must not only succeed in the previous needs but master them"

I would say it is more like a twisted perversion of the hierarchy of needs where all levels are broken down to a single abstraction: Net worth = Score
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That's only one piece of the puzzle, and perhaps openAI might be to file a cease and desist, but i have zero idea what contractual agreements are in place so I guess we will just wait and see how it plays out.
Yeah. Whole article feels a bit "Fastcompany makes $entireprofit from bullshit clickbait headlines". Some people would read the article with an accurate headline!

For people that don't want to be at the front of the queue, select their seats, eat airline food or use inflight wifi, the fact that some people pay a bit more to do it and subsidise their ticket costs is a bonus. And even some of the really customer hostile ancillary revenue streams like "Printing your boarding pass will be 50 dollars sir" has nothing to do with website dark patterns
Disagree. Consolidation is driving this behavior - smaller companies in a competitive market would not be able to offend customers to this degree. Certain routes are dominated by one "alliance" (cartel) that basically boils down to American, United or Delta. You have a few smaller brands like Alaska, Southwest (which has underinvested in their infrastructure), Jet Blue and Spirit (who are currently trying to merge), but it's not enough.

You need to break up the cartel model so that (e.g.) Delta has real competition for routes to Atlanta. If I look at nonstop flights from LAX to Atlanta for a random day (Apr 1, 2024) your options are: 1 American flight, 1 Alaska flight, 3 Spirit flights (way more expensive) or a Delta flight just about any time you want to travel. That's not "too much competition selling a commodity product" - it's what I would expect from cartel pricing. There is a thin veneer of competition, but Delta owns that route - 90%+ of traffic is going to fly Delta.
This is a link to a reddit post which is a link to a Twitter post which links to this... https://huggingface.co/google/switch-c-2048
Well, I'd argue that you're looking for a different term, but obviously there's no concrete definition here.

I don't think a dark pattern requires any fraud or lying. I think the most obvious example is having users opt in to something (e.g. sharing private data) by default and only offering the option to opt out by navigating some convoluted series of menus. You aren't explicitly lying to users and telling them they can't opt out, but you're going out of your way to make sure the option isn't advertised or easily accessible.

In my opinion, there's a gap between that and what airlines and AirBnB do. I guess there's an element of deception with both, but airlines and AirBnB are just waving a nice number in front of your face to drive engagement. That doesn't personally meet my threshold, but I understand how it might meet yours.
The concept of "conceptual integrity" is one of the most useful things I've ever learned. The tension between conceptual integrity and things like group-based communication and requirements-gathering (what one might call "representativeness") seems to me to be a foundational issue not just in software development but in human civilization as a whole.
I'm very unclear on how board members can remove other board members. If Sam, Greg and Ilya are on the same "team" now that's 3.... vs. 3. What's the mechanism at use here for board removal and how quickly does it happen? And who elects the board members.

This is silly.
I think this is exactly what happened Thursday and Friday. Plus, Adam D'Angelo has a bit of a reputation[0] as being a backstabber.

Continuing the saga over the weekend, you would assume that Ilya regrets the coup and can vote to re-appoint Sam as CEO, BUT that leaves McCauley and/or Toner as wildcards.

In a Sam-returning scenario, all of the nobodies on the board have to resign. Presumably, D'Angelo offers an alternative solution that appoints Emmett Shear as CEO and gives McCauley and Toner a viable way to salvage (LOL) OpenAI and also allow them to keep their board seats.

I look forward to this Netflix series.

[0] https://twitter.com/justindross/status/1725670445163458744
[Company A] killed the [business], just as the [trend] was starting to take off. They could have been [Startup B].

Here are my values:

Google ... online news Reader ... social media ... Global Media Inc.

I don't know how to stress Google's dominance and ability in literally crushing the entire media world. Google News, Google Reader, Blogger, Read-it-Later, Google Books, Google Podcast, YouTube ... were all part of a big conglomerate of information extraction + information production.

Of course, the curse of antimonopolistic eyes, M+FAANG competition, and media envy would have followed.
Lamport on the troubles just within CS on agreeing upon axiomatisations: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf

> Biologists think they are Biochemists, Biochemists think they are Physical Chemists, Physical Chemists think they are Physicists, Physicists think they are Gods, and God thinks he is a Mathematician. — trad.
Just the other day I was looking at this website and it was the old one. Does this mean that Roc is out of alpha/beta?

As a big elm fan who does backend work, I’ve been looking Roc for a while with a lot of excitement.
No, not necessarily (that's just how some(?) of them are implemented in Haskell, and that's slow too). Since 9.6.1 GHC has primitives for delimited continuations, with which effects should be implementable in a more straightforward and performant way.

Alexis King, who added these primitives to GHC, on (delimited) continuations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE48LsgVlIU
Folks who do not have the wisdom to see the consequences of their actions 3 days out, are building AGI. God help us all.
I will be very sad if there isn’t a documentary someday explaining what in the world happened.

I’m not convinced even people smack in the middle of this even know what’s going on.
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> I think AI use in art tools is inevitable, but replacing artists at any level is not a good thing.

Everything in the computing space has been shifting labor from one skillset to another skillset and maximizing the output per hour worked so that fewer workers are needed for the same output (but also more tasks are worth doing, because the costs are lower for any given benefit.) Why is displacing people manually building the visual component of video games any worse than, say, displacing typists, secretaries, people delivering interoffice mail -- all of whom also had salaries, dependents, and livelihoods -- while increasing the value of work in the field automating all those things?
The problem with people who don't have context on Argentina talking about Argentina is that it really shows when they just use general theory to the specific case without acknowledging context.

Acknowledge the contact political printing and chaos, poverty and institutional collapse that being able to control the currency has, ans you'll come out with the conclusion that USD as the currency, which what has been used de facto and aggressively attempted to stop by the gov, would be the ideal solution if achievable.

If you don't mention peronism in your analysis or inflation or debt or the transition to democracy it's very hard to see how you're qualified to speak and be at the top of HN about this.

But I guess I have to thank that it's the typical "he's a crazy organ salesman!1!1!1"
MoE = Mixture of Experts

Not the anime kind. ;)
How does this separation help scientists at OpenAI if there is no money to fund the research? At the end of the day, you need funding to conduct research and I do not see if there is going to be any investors willing to put large sums of money just to make researchers happy.
> I also disagree that scarcity creates conflict and pain.

Every war in human history (and there have been a lot of them) was fought over control of scarce resources. Sure looks like scarcity creates conflict and pain to me.
On macOS, I can activate tethering pretty much instantaneously directly from my laptop, but the battery drain is still a concern.
You may be right. Sidewalk is one of the most dystopian things I can think of in the past few years.
Quora went from being pretty interesting early on to still having some gems in a sea of mostly dross to just meh.
> Documenting the behavior does not automatically excuse the behavior.

It's a standard, and I'm citing the standard. The non-reentrant behavior doesn't need to be "excused", it is correct!

If a microcontroller used a different bit than you expected it to for something, would the documentation need to be "excused" for "disagreeing" with you? That's how absurd what you're saying here sounds.

> What people are arguing is that the specification should be improved

That would be more reasonable, but that's not the argument. They're saying the standard is wrong. Standards can't be wrong, they're tautological. All that can be wrong is the programmer's understanding of them.
Same here. Had Scala in my first year. Clojure and Racket later. On top of that I had C, ASM, Java, Python and R (had a focus on machine learning). So I got plenty of education in that department.
> If you have poor people money and they still had problems, then what? More money? There lies the problem.

Even if it doesn't solve the problem for all, it solves the problem for many. Which makes the rest of us better of.
It's misrepresentation
sama would be going back to a sama aligned board, which would make openai even more aligned with satya, esp since satya was willing to go big to have sama's back.

and i'd bet closer openai & microsoft ties/investments would come with that.
This might have been a reasonable and workable solution for all parties involved.

Context:

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1.1/ ILya Sukhar and Board do not agree with Sam Altman vision of a) too fast commercialization of Open AI AND/OR b) too fast progression to GPT-5 level

1.2/ Sam Altman thinks fast iteration and Commercialization is needed in-order to make Open AI financially viable as it is burning too much cash and stay ahead of competition.

1.3/ Microsoft, after investing $10+ Billions do not want this fight enable slow progress of AI Commercialization and fall behind Google AI etc..

a workable solution:

--------------------

2.1/ @sama @gdb form a new AI company, let us call it e/acc Inc.

2.2/ e/acc Inc. raises $3 Billions as SAFE instrument from VCs who believed in Sam Altman's vision.

2.3/ Open AI and e/acc Inc. reach an agreement such that:

a) GPT-4 IP transferred to e/acc Inc., this IP transfer is valued as $8 Billion SAFE instrument investment from Open AI into e/acc Inc.

b) existing Microsoft's 49% share in Open AI is transferred to e/acc Inc., such that Microsoft owns 49% of e/acc Inc.

c) the resulted "Lean and pure non-profit Open AI" with Ilya Sukhar and Board can steer AI progress as they wish, their stake in e/acc Inc. will act as funding source to cover their future Research Costs.

d) employees can join from Open AI to e/acc Inc. as they wish with no antipoaching lawsuits from OpenAI
Yet another Reddit link. Yeah I'm not sure about this trend
It pays to be skeptical but this was a super unique situation with cofounders with different goals and a very unique (absurd?) structure. Wikipedia and Wikimedia worked. Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Here from the Forbes,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/09/24/nokia-...

"According to changes implemented in 2010, Elop was entitled to immediate share price performance bonus in case of a "change of control" situation"

And then a couple of related articles,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanlappin/2013/09/25/anger-at-...

"Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop is catching heat today in Finland after the country’s biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, reported that Elop was guaranteed a $25 million payment if he was able to sell Nokia’s cellphone business."

https://venturebeat.com/mobile/finns-are-in-an-uproar-over-e...
Just getting asked such nonsense is indicative of a media trying to paint a narrative.

The next level of such nonsense would be framing it like, “Do you think both parents should have a say in the sale of children?” or “Would your universal flat tax on the sale of livestock apply to the sale of children?”.
Both suggestions would net me in the best case way less than I stand to lose in the worst case.
There was so little drama around Continua and Mistral AI - which had actual researches and not product managers create a new company
Where did I imply I have any "say"? I very explicitly said the exact opposite. I also clearly said that risk taking is a good strategy that is clearly working for them. This is just one case where they got it wrong, and the thing they got wrong was 1000% predictable. That literally all I'm saying...
Even if the warring factions agreed that the outcome of the E-sport competition would be binding… do we really want major conflicts to be determined by whoever is best at Counterstrike? That doesn’t sound ideal.
I was not including IE in those browsers TBH, it was never a good browser anyway. I have been an Opera/Firefox user before chrome came in. Both had native RSS support. Even showing RSS symbol in URL when its available and being able to actually read it humanly is way better than chrome's nothing.
But it's the same thing every time. Turn autocommit off, run the SELECT, commit, repeat? Or am I missing something?