skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing permanent has been done that can't be undone fairly simply, if all parties agree to undo it.

Sam views this as a stab in back. He doesn't want to work with backstabbers.

The board has put down too many chips to back out now. Microsoft (and the public) already regards this as a kind of coup. Rehiring Sam won't change that and will make the optics worse: instead of traitors, they'll look like spineless traitors.
Not exactly related, but who is Mark Gurman, and how does he have access to all the information he leaks? High-level Apple exec, or assistant, or sysadmin? Or a puppet of Apple’s marketing department?
I was listening to a podcast with Jim Rutt and he said that he encouraged people to give "bad news" and to not shoot the messenger. He was also against office politics and fired people for it. I wish more companies had this culture.
There's no reason Sam and the board can't come to a mutual agreement that indemnifies the board from liability if they publicly exonerate Sam.
You don't actually need to do any of those things - you could sit in the seat assigned to you, travel with less baggage and buy your food on the ground.

All of those things used to be part of the ticket price but now the ticket is cheaper because it doesn't include them.
That went quickly to Godwin's law .
Wow. I remember using exiftool as part of a Perl program I used to organize my early digital photos.

That was a long time ago.
are there any open source solutions in this space? something that sits in front of your API as a proxy, and has an interface for managing access, rate limits, billing etc - with simple deployment to a cloud provider?
> The employees want to get their big payday

Many of them will have invested years of their life, during which they will have worked incredibly hard, and probably sacrificed life outside of work for their jobs in hopes of that payday to give them the freedom to do what they want to do next: you can hardly blame them.

True riches isn't money, but discretionary time. Unfortunately that discretionary time often costs quite a lot of money to realise.

If it were me I'd be seething with the board at their antics since Friday (and, obviously, for some time before that). They've gone from being one of the most successful and valuable startups in history to an absolute trash fire in the span of four days because of some ridiculous power struggle. They've snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Yeah, you bet I'd be pissed, and of course I'd follow the person who might help me redeem the future I'd hoped for.
> part of the justin.tv mafia

Side question, but why is that a "mafia". Is any tech entrepreneur starting a 2nd company after having one mildly successful exit now a "mafia" move?

Soon enough, I will probably read about the "skibidi toilet mafia" on this site..
Profits before ethics..
So in every possible scenario it’s wrong to have emotions and loyalty for a CEO, who’s also a human, and may have had a profound, even life-changing effect on you?
The markdown skill of roboco-op can do katex, I've not pushed it too hard but you can train it fairly quickly and because it lives in a JS observable notebook you can connect it reactively to normal coding and debugger and correct the LLM of any mistakes it makes (which it then jams from).

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/robocoop-skills#mark...

If you give me a problem I can see if it can solve it
People are jumping on this narrative that the openAI board is a force of good working against the evils of profit, but the truth is none of us really know why they fired him because they still refuse to say. There’s a non-trivial chance D’Angelo just fired him because of a conflict of interest with Poe or some nonsense like that.

Until a few hours ago, everybody was holding up Ilya as a noble idealist. But now even he has recanted this firing! People don’t seem to be Taking that new information on board to reevaluate how good a decision this was. I would say at best they had noble intentions but still went about this completely incompetently, and are now refusing to back down out of a mixture of stubborn pride and fear of legal liability.

If I was an openAI employee I would be frustrated too. It’s one thing to give up lucrative stock options etc. for a good, idealistic reason. But as of now they are still expected to give those things up for no stated reason at all.

Edit: just saw a plausible theory that D’Angelo led the charge on this because Sam scooped Poe on Dev day. I don’t know if this is true, but if it was it would explain why he still refuses to explain the reason to anybody, even san when he was fired: it would put him in serious legal jeopardy.

https://twitter.com/scottastevenson/status/17267310228620087...
There is room for intelligence in all three of wherever the original data came from, training on it, and inference on it. So just claiming the third step doesn't have any isn't good enough.

Especially since you have to explain how "just mimicking" works so well.
Hmm. I quickly made up an example of a logical fallacy and asked GPT-4 about it. Seemed to do a pretty good job, to me.

> All apples are red. All apples are fruit. My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit. Find the logical error

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The logical error in the statement "All apples are red. All apples are fruit. My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit." is a classic example of the fallacy of the undistributed middle. This fallacy occurs when a syllogism (a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions) is improperly formed because the middle term is not distributed at least once in the premises.

Here's a breakdown of the fallacy in your statement:

Major Premise: All apples are fruit.
Minor Premise: All apples are red.
Conclusion: My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit.
In this syllogism, "apples" is the middle term. However, it is not distributed correctly. The major premise talks about all apples being fruits, and the minor premise talks about all apples being red. However, there's no premise that states all things that are red are apples. Without this, you cannot logically conclude that other red things, like a car, are fruits.

In simpler terms, just because all apples are red and fruits, it doesn't mean that all red things are fruits. The color of the apples (red) is not an exclusive property that defines the category of fruits. Your car shares the property of being red with apples, but it doesn't share the essential property of being a fruit.
> MS can likely offer 1 million guaranteed in the next 4 years

Sounds a bit low for these people, unless I am misunderstanding.
I had somehow missed the introduction of mamba, and have been using the default conda solver (which I think is the 'classic' one). Apparently conda now supports using the mamba solver: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/a-faster-conda-for-a-growing-c...

conda update -n base conda
conda install -n base conda-libmamba-solver
conda config --set solver libmamba
Unfortunately lawyers almost always tell you to be quiet, even when you should be talking. So in this case listening to legal advice might have screwed them over, ultimately.
Have you considered putting your conf on GitHub?

One of my most popular repos (which isn't saying a lot) is a single config file.
Arguably, as long as you don’t allow specifying arbitrary types in the serialized format, it should be safe as you can’t otherwise construct gadgets to produce unexpected side effects.
> I will admit, I had some scary drive times where it's that feeling like you're half asleep and have to keep chugging caffeine. Then a minor panic attack because you're worried about dozing off so your heart kicks overtime even though your brain is tired (and lack of oxygen means it wasn't as strong either). I used to get so tired I would write random numbers spawning from my brain in this half sleep state instead of the numbers I was supposed to be writing sometimes it would veer into nonsense words. So I can understand why this is an issue, but...

Yeah but it's important to realise everyone gets this when they don't get enough sleep. This is not really apnea related. The problem with apnea is that you never get any deep sleep. If it's treated well this is not the case.
Romeo and Juliet yes.

Also my go to thought when trying to parse the Israel / Palestine business.
I'm a back-end dev (inc. FP) and RDBMS guy and even I'd know not to do this; instead to pre-shrink images presented as decorative thumbnails. But let's be constructive, what form should my critical thinking have taken, how should I have done better (edit: or criticised more carefully)? Serious question. Thanks.
I don't know about Canon, but Nikon offers a SnapBridge app that connects the camera with a phone (bluetooth and wireless). I never bothered because it uses battery to do this. (I never measured)

Would a wireless SD card do what you want?

Beats the heck out of a lightning or usb-c SD card adapter (I do that, too, but mainly to the computer. Phone memory is expensive, fixed in size and requires cleanup when it fills. ) In fact, "system data" was using all of my free storage and after all other attempts, I ended up backing up the phone, erasing and restoring the phone to clear it.
Yes, that's a possibility. But: Sam may not be the only party that has standing and Sam can only negotiate for his own damage and board liability, not for other parties.
UK Covid inquiry: no countries political leaders understood exponential curves
Changing companies doesn't mean they go from a "former engineer" to a "never was engineer".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood#Color, straightforward and useful.
You'd think that's what I meant
> everyone I know at OpenAI (and outside) is a huge Sam fan

Everyone you know is a huge Sam fan? What?
> limiting my income was that the app just didn’t seem to give me many offers to deliver food.

I assume he was using a new account for deliveries and this was day 1 for him. Wouldn't the app put a new user in a test phase for the firs number of days and give priority to other established accounts with good ratings
Because someone else insisted in the idea that it is propaganda?

Politics is a highly manipulated topic.

The last thing I recommend is to see something through a middle-man. No matter who we are talking about or "ideology".
You might be interested in https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions. A combination of its vaft uBlock script and using a VPN connected to somewhere in Austria has kept me pretty much ad-free for years.
They leak this stuff on their Tor leak site. Downloading 45GB from LockBit's site takes something like a week. Then you have to review the contents to determine its value.

No news org is going to go through that effort.
in that case you were losing your immediate manager so your personal circumstances were about to change significantly.

however, in the case of sam altman getting fired, it's not clear that anything that OpenAI is doing is about to change and it's not clear that these devs would suddenly have to change course. Also, it's not like Sam / OpenAI has any integrity anyway - the idea that it's "open" is totally fraudulent.
I call this Mozilla being Google’s antitrust beard. However, just like Apple playing that role for Microsoft, and AMD playing that role for Intel (if I remember correctly), it could be possible for Mozilla to transition back into being a true competitor to Google.
Hyphenation should not be dependent on justification? Meaning, it should be there or gone regardless of justification.
I get AI hate. How many AI models out there created with clear consent from authors of source materials? Zero?
We stopped teaching cursive a decade or more ago…sign your name here…
Do you have sources for these beliefs of the board or is this something ascertained through the huffing and puffing the last few days? Because I do understand that perspective but to me it’s been one painted by the capitalists trying to gain the tech for themselves and we haven’t heard much from the board itself about safety.

From my understanding was that the board wanted a company to safely develop the tech and define what safety means. This would materialize over the next decade once the dangers understood. Eventually Altman convinced them to go private instead of the original open source plans. This change is where the “safety by elites” comes from IMO. We to this day have no real provided definition of what is exactly so unsafe about GPT’s current very easy to identify offering, yet “safety” is thrown around a lot (again primarily by Altman/Microsoft supporters).
I'm pretty sure the move from coal to gas was way more effective at reducing emissions than the "move" from ICE to EV.
Why should we trust them to “align” their chatbots if they couldn’t even align themselves?
> Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO

Anyone would rather put up with their abusive work relationship than switch to a company that forces you to use Microsoft Teams lol
My understanding of stats is shaky at best, and in the UK we have been banging the "Boris was not up to it" drum a lot, but this slice just depressed me.
Not for basic fares
Seeing your CEO as a deified subject is a serious crisis in the tech industry
I'm not really familiar with data driven development, but in languages with row polymorphism it can be pretty useful to be able to do things like add/remove properties to objects as you go. Personally I wouldn't want to throw out type safety to try to do that in a language without the type system to handle it safely, but I guess I can see people choosing to do that?
This is absolutely awesome. I look forward to finding out if this has an effect on the germ line as well. Imagine, ending genetic illnesses like these for the rest of human history. I look forward to forgetting these diseases even exist, except in the archives of medical history.
In another of the series of threads about all of this, another user opined that the Anthropic AI would refuse to answer the question 'how many holes does a straw have'. Sounds more neutered than GPT-4.
Usage-context same stuff link-to-code: https://github.com/drbig/ricons/blob/master/symsquare.go#L61... (it's an example too, sorry).

The point is that my opinion is that `declarative` is pretty neat and powerful. Easy? Maybe, but not really.
Kraken has been trading crypto coins since 2011. Why did it take the SEC so long to bring this suit?
In trashing the company's value? No, I'm not entirely sure it's fair to blame that one on him. I don't know the guy or have an opinion on him but, based on what I've seen since Friday, I don't think he's done that much to contribute to this particular mess. The company was literally on cloud nine this time last week and, if Friday hadn't happened, it still would be.
It's pretty nice. Aside from the popups for Microsoft features and services, it has a bunch of features Chrome is missing.
How big of a deal would proper native OpenGL support actually be? My understanding is that OpenGL is more or less deprecated, and any performance heavy graphics applications have long since switched to Vulkan. I would think the performance overhead of a translation layer like Zink would go largely unnoticed when running software old enough to need it on a modern GPU.
i haven't read this. i did read his book on eiffel and oo programming, and actually tried using the eiffel programming environment on a quite powerful pc, way back when - complete failure, though the book wasn't bad.

anyone wanting a good general book on software development i would recommend "rapid development": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-S...
Already had it
This is such an honest and based take - a take not a lot of people are willing to put forward.

Can we please please stop this "for the good of mankind" thing?
This is not what airlines do though. The price on google flights is the exact price I pay to fly because I don't check bags or choose my seat. Just because other people do buy those things doesn't mean they have to or were tricked.
> Unfortunately that discretionary time often costs quite a lot of money to realise.

take a look at my cousin... he's broke and don't do shit
Nice argument, you used a limit to look like a projection :-).

75% of profits of a company controlled by a non profit whose goals are different to yours. By the way a normal company this cap would be ∞.
Apparently Hoffman was kicked out by Sam, not just Musk: https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/reid-hoffman-was-...

Maybe the remaining board members could see the writing on the wall and wanted to save their own seats (or maybe he did move to coup them first and they jumped faster).

Either way, they got outplayed.
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The regime changed, so now they're punishing everyone who played ball with disruptive elements of the previous regime's economic plan.
Please see from timecode 10minutes exactly - HN seems to have cut off the t=10m
There is some indication that models internally understand or at least can distinguish truth from falsehood.

That's not what I asked, however. What I mean by Truth with a capital T, is Fidelity to Truth as a fundamental value.

So when LLMs deceive, are they even aware of the effect the deception might have on the audience? Do they have any notion of manipulating the mental models of the audience? Do they have any notion of how the audience might evaluate them after being caught in a lie?

I think that answers to those questions are no and no.

My sense is that LLMs are just trying to "sound good" to the audience, and that they do not think of the consequences or implications of what they state very many steps ahead. 2 at most, and then only very rarely!
> "it was completely bloody unnecessary to waste enormous amounts of bandwidth"

Thats not enough. It was completely bloody unnecessary to waste enormous amounts of co2.

And critical thinking should lead to the realization that not many people have to solve the - albeit small - mistake of an individual via Cloudflare or similar, but rather someone should do it correctly right away. And if he has no knowledge of frontend, he should not do things he has no knowledge of.
Uhh, what? I've always considered Kraken to be the most rules-abiding exchange - more so than Coinbase. They're quite shrewd in what they're willing to list.

I wonder if SEC is charging Coinbase soon, too?
ICYMI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38348287
> Wifi is in the same boat as the 3.5mm headphone jack

Right, it's an excellent technology that Apple wants to abandon without any valid reason.
As an opposite point - the airports I've been to have been pretty easy to opt-out, though they usually have snippy comments about "saying it up front".

That being said, did your airport not have signs talking about the pilot, and it being optional? I would of pointed to that if I was told no.
Oh, great. Right when we’re on the verge of receiving our Mt Gox payouts.

Ah well, I knew it was too good to be true. The way not to be disappointed is to not get your hopes up involving money.
I’m saying we don’t have first-hand sources for revenue, nor do we have first-hand sources for expenses, which we know to some degree have both declined.
Can you elaborate? Where is CLEAR mandatory?
nah not yet.
Hiring people on the spot is easy and a zero risk move for Satya, and imho is a political move not a talent move

What he does with those two assets and their previous 13B investment will be what to watch for.
This was honestly the best comment on self-driving cars i've read on HN. Except for the first paragraph, almost all your points i've never thought about. thank you (just upvoting wasn't enough, sorry)
Yeah the compressor load goes up with power - we have a 27 kW compressor for our 120kW PEM fuel cell here in the lab (this isn't what is going on the aircraft). This is one of the issues we are tackling with our unique system architecture for the aircraft.
read the room
... then they came for my doppelganger and there was no one to implicate me.
Yes, right now, until it gets a bit better and learns and integrates the expertise for that and every other field.
No, probably not, I just mean they have OpenAI on their resume which I think is pretty prestigious
Time for the ICP face paint while traveling
Right, why is the problem "changing memory in a shared memory execution model will cause corruption" and not "Why are we using such a fragile shared memory execution model in the first place."
> I wonder if SEC is charging Coinbase soon, too?

Already happened. [1][2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211820

[2] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102
The problem with arguing with people like that who cherry pick is even after you provide examples, they will generally respond by just cherry-picking your examples instead of acknowledging the actual point you made
Do you honestly think the line between giving bad news or reporting bad behaviour and office politics is so clear cut?
And a complete overhaul of the "Xen" area, which was the weakest part of the original game.
Airbus is not a person but a company. Of course some of the employees will look at this data. They will all pretend that they dont but companies pay for industry secrets why would they stay away from free ones.
If it was a website, their ToS can say anything, it's still legal to download everything there.
Weren't Chat-GPT and Bard also trained on pirated content and other content for which they never had explicit consent on the basis of "who cares, what are you gonna do about it?"
Of course it was. Which is why we shouldn't be advocating for purist idealistic moves, but practically what can we do to reduce emissions the most per $.
Not even close to "all" of us think it's bad. I'm happy to fly spirit on short flights since I don't check bags or upgrade my seat. If the budget airlines didn't exist travelling would be much more expensive for me.
Yeah, I’d say they expected it to actually work. They misjudged just how far to the sidelines they’d already been pushed. The body nominally held all the power (any four of them voting together, that is) but in fact one member held that power.
I wouldn't attribute to emotions and loyalty that which is sufficiently explained by greed.
Stop Reading the News
Ah, I see. Odd that they were allowed to be publicly traded for years while also not operating legally
It was a comment on the overall situation, and addressing the point that it's "greed all the way down". If OpenAI was a traditional C Corp, a highly successful CEO would not have been fired. It's precisely because OpenAI is governed by a non-profit board that they care about things other than profits.
Not really.

Kraken has… expanded enough to reach optics.

And the FTX case is done
Not as fast as with 90% of JS blocked. That's how the web was supposed to work, not downloading 50 MiB on every hyperlink.
Is that really true? Isn't Sony I&SS a pretty huge division, with over 10'000 employees?

From my understanding, sensor development is highly tied into process development, unless you do fairly minor implementation requests to Sony. But so far, neither Canon nor Nikon have been especially successful speccing out significantly better sensors from Sony than are available to anyone else (and Canon's in-house sensors are pretty much uniformly inferior).

But who knows, maybe Apple can pull off something neither Nikon, Canon nor Samsung have been able to.
I’m wondering if the same group of investors would have willingly invested in Sam’s next company (if he doesn’t stay at Microsoft)
>So when LLMs deceive, are they even aware of the effect the deception might have on the audience? Do they have any notion of manipulating the mental models of the audience?

So..theory of mind ?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01660
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams
Do you know how it costs? I can't find this information on the website.