skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> which he - just as surprising - so far has not done

There were so many conflicts of interests at that firm, I'm not unsurprised by it, either.

> I don't see anything from the board that would suggest that they acted with the kind of forethought and diligence required of a board

We don't know the back-and-forth that led up to this. That's why I'm curious about how quiet one side has been, while the other seemingly launched a coast-to-coast PR campaign. If there had been ongoing negotiations between Altman and others, and then Altman sprung a surprise that went against that agreement entirely, decisive action isn't unreasonable. (Particularly when they literally don't have to consider shareholder value, seemingly by design.)

> they seem to believe they are beyond accountability

Does OpenAI still have donors? Trustees?

I suppose I'm having trouble getting outraged over this. Nobody was duped. The horrendous complexity of the organization was panned from the beginning. Employees and investors just sort of ignored that there was this magic committee at the top of every org chart that reported to "humanity" or whatever.
What kind of FCs will you be using?
I think with pandoc there's very little you can't do, but I never tested it to its limits. Nowadays I only use LaTeX if I really need the nitty gritty formatting capabilities, at which point adding an extra layer of indirection is pointless.
But Ilya was the one that started this whole mess... He was the one that lit the match that lit the fuse...
I’ve also taken a few economic classes during my engineering degree and the math was, most of the time, trivial. But they were proud of it and applying like physics, like you said. The basic hypothesis is "people will act rationally in their own interest".

Well, they just forgot one aspect: people are not rationales. They never are. The whole advertising business relies on people not being slightly rationale at all. There’s no even a point in making people rationales. And this is not always bad: people will sometimes act kindly despise their own interest.

The whole "people act rationally for their own selfish short-term interest" is what gave us most economical theology from Smith to this day (cheers to Ayn Rand for writing the fairy tales about it). It’s mostly as reliable as astrology: sounds mathematics applied on a completely false hypothesis.

And, yes, politicians have been using it exactly like astrology with similar results because one of the key principle is that it justifies the existence of rich people (those are who acted the more rationally and thus are rewarded. Did I say that everyone acts rationally? Well, yes, that’s the hypothesis. Don’t try to confuse me).

Just to highlight how far fetched mainstream economical "science" is, just consider that there is a new field called "behavioral economy". Behavioral economy introduces a whole new paradigm: "what if, instead of assuming that people are rational selfish, we actually observes and make theory from observations".

Which is, you know, what we call "science". And, unsurprizingly, every behavioral economist start to say thing like "hey, if we tax the rich, it works!" "hey, we can help the poor by handing them money". "hey, we should not let banks create money and then hand them the money they created and lost themselves".

It’s a bit like a few astrologists started to consider "what if really tried to look at the starts?" and invented astronomy. But every king, every government was laughing at them for being young and naives.
The Dell Latitude line has had them for at least 15 years now.
I think there is an argument that it would be beneficial for this to be common, despite the cognitive burden.

It forces you to remind yourself of the stochastic nature of the model and RILHF, maybe the data even helps to improve the latter.

I liked this trait of Bard from the start and hope they keep it.

It provides a sense of agency and reminds to not anthropomorphize the transformer chatbot too much.
Google Flights will allow you to select how many carry-ons and checked bags you have (depending on the route).

e.g., on an imaginary trip to Las Vegas, the cheapest carrier changed when I added a checked and carry on bag (and the price difference from a budget carrier to a mainline carrier shrunk considerably).
Microsoft can hire everyone from OpenAI at $1M an year and make no visible difference to its bottom line
> a savvy consumer needed to keep a whitelist of "real modem" make and model numbers with them going to the store.

I think I still have that (paper) list in my (physical) files somewhere...

These days, I keep a similar list for routers that I can replace the OS on.
This is due to the RLHF alignment, only product-focused. It would be very annoying for users to fight back and forth with the LLM on the correctness of the answer, especially when it is so prone to hallucination.
EPIC hasn't been the same since they kicked out Marc Rotenberg. Sad to say.
The choice not to add Dart into Firefox and safari was made by the browser vendors. It had nothing to do with the JavaScript standards committee. But to your point I do think it would be great if typescript got first class support by V8 & friends. Type information could dramatically improve JavaScript execution speed. Meticulously deleting all the types before passing code to V8 seems like a very silly choice.

I’ve been working in rust the last few years. I wish rust were as open to change as JavaScript is! Generators (aka coroutines) have been sitting just out of reach in nightly the entire time I’ve used the language.
- cperciva (also submitter of this post) now head of the releng team
Google Flights does not show checked baggage or non-standard seat fees AFAIK

It only indirectly shows baggage fees with certain airlines once you select a specific flight when it offers you a range of ticket options (e.g. with BA, it shows Economy Basic / Economy Plus options).

Never seen seat fees on Google Flights
> No generic type

A good macroprocessor can provide a similar capability (and much more). My favorite example is to simply use an ASP-like syntax, where you could have the same language as your macro language, along with the "code inversion" brackets ("<%" in the case of ASP).
ahhh, I didn't realize steam only. I don't think you'd find many dosbox games that really fit the theme. Robot odyessy is coming up on 40 years old.

but this
```
I say keep it to just Steam games. That way if nothing else it has the focus to be an amazing utility and still has plenty of items to curate. Once the criteria becomes "everything under the sun" it becomes so huge that it's likely to have a low signal to noise ratio for usefulness.
```

seems like a pretty reasonable stance. Completely fair to say if people want old games, go look for old games.
Yeah - I don’t use food delivery apps because of the wage/tipping issue. My wife HATES that I go and collect food myself but I just feel too anxious navigating the exploitation in the sector.
>MSFT with the right team could build a better LLM

somehow everybody seems to assume that the disgruntled OpenAI people will rush to MSFT. Between MSFT and the shaken OpenAI, I suspect Google Brain and the likes would be much more preferable. I'd be surprised if Google isn't rolling out eye-popping offers to the OpenAI folks right now.
Hard to disagree with Apple here. Crypto "absolutists" fail to acknowledge how prevalent crypto scams are, so a blanket enablement of any and all apps to have crypto payment features would be highly dangerous.
> Wages have been slowly creeping up for the last 2 years.

Meanwhile inflation has been skyrocketing.

Maybe wages "slowly creeping up" is not remotely enough when the price of basic necessities is wildly out of control.
I imagine there are still ways naughty people could wreak havoc even if they only have access to items that appear benign on an x-ray.
Surely if you're working for 30 hours then the comparison ought to be with 30 hours at minimum wage, no?
So Google is employing the same tactics that Microsoft has used for the last 40 years. I'm shocked ... SHOCKED.
Yes. They added all sorts of proprietary extensions that didn’t go through a standards body. Thad’s how we got the “navigator” object in all browsers.
You can get quite far... but really if you're writing a big technical document with a Markdown style format you definitely want Asciidoc, not Markdown.
https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/#books
Nope, I've never been logged out of my Google account by mistake. Are you using Incognito mode, or an extension, or some sort of proxy setup?
If anything, GPT-4 has the opposite problem. Ask it to check your homework and it'll go "20/5 is not 4. The correct answer is 4"
Obviously we should all want our altruism to be effective. What is the other side of it? Wanting one's altruism to not really accomplish much?

But with everything that has gone on, I cannot imagine wanting to be an Effective Altruist! The movement by that name seems to do and think some really weird stuff.
This is unlikely. Amateur radio bands usage, for example, must very much not be encrypted, and my recollection is messages are supposed to be "of a personal or technical nature" according to ITU rules. i.e. there is regulation around not using radio for subverting states.

Within CB might be another story, but it would be highly likely to annoy other CB users.
Agreed, but journalists need a better way to communicate. Saying 45GB sounds like a lot of emails to a technical person and nothing to someone who bought a bargain-bin 64GB USB memory stick the other day and filled it with a single HD movie.

The info says nothing, it conveys nothing. Even skipping the size and saying it leaked "emails" says more in the headline than the size.

A single video recording of an all-hands meeting could fill that size but it could also be emails containing the keys for accessing a large part of DOD.
The obvious answer to twitter. We need vanity metrics though if it's going to win the optics battle.

Some kind of push mechanisms would be great too.
Absolutely right. If you’re lucky, those are areas where you can capture the complexity in some sort of policy or calculator class and use property based testing to cover as much as possible - that’s a level of unit testing I’m definitely on board with. Sometimes it’s enough to just trust that your functional tests react appropriately to different _types_ of output from those classes (mocked) without having to drive every possible case (as you might have seen done in tabular test cases). For example I have an app that tests various ways of fetching and visualising data, and one output is via k-means clustering. I test that the right number of clusters gets displayed but I would never test the correctness of the actual clustering at that level. Treat complexity the same way you treat external dependencies, as something to be contained carefully.
> I think the difference here is that I am fine with your belief that this is what a competent board should have, but I don't think this opinion is the same as actually establishing a legal duty.

I don't think we'll be able to hash this out simply because too many of the pieces are missing. But if the board didn't have those items handy and they end up being incompetent then that by itself may end up as enough grounds to show they violated their duty of care. And this is not some nebulous concept, it actually has a legal definition:

https://www.tenenbaumlegal.com/articles/legal-duties-of-nonp...

I went down into this rabbit hole a few years ago when I was asked to become a board member (but not of a non-profit) and I decided that the compensation wasn't such that I felt that it offset the potential liability.

> The charitable mission is the legal basis for the existence of the corporation and its charity status, and the basis for legal duties and obligations on which both the government (in some cases), and other interested parties (donors, and, for orgs that have them, members) can sue.

Indeed. But that doesn't mean the board is free to act with abandon as long as they hold up the 'charitable mission' banner, they still have to act as good board members and that comes with a whole slew of luggage.

> Given the public information concerning the terms of the operating agreement (the legal basis for the existence and operation of the LLC), unless one of those parties has a non-public agreement with radically contradictory terms (which would be problematic for other reasons), I don't think there can be any case that the OpenAI, Inc., board has a legal duty to any of those parties to see to the profitability of OpenAI Global LLC.

It is very well possible that the construct as used by OpenAI is so well crafted that it insulates board members perfectly from the fall-out of whatever they decide, but I find that hard to imagine. Typically everything down stream from the thing you govern (note that they retain a 51% stake and that that alone may be enough to show that they are in control to the point that they can not disclaim anything) is subject to the duties and responsibilities that board members usually have.
Wouldn't stock buybacks be a sign the US is in recession, regardless what the media says?
Thanks for the kind words.
Yes, I'm thinking about something like that: I'm not sure if do that with off-the-shelf parts or create a custom board (Pico based) from scratch.
Being hired in software has nothing to do with "good". Here is the list of success criteria:

* Compatibility - If a given company is full of sucky developers they are going to look for new developers who perform at the same level in roughly the same technology. If you are too good, original, or whatever you aren't compatible. Consider whether the job is looking for super elite developers who engineer the best solutions ever just to put text on screen. If you don't drink that kool-aid you probably aren't a good fit for that team/employer.

* Surviving resume death - Many companies have been getting so many resumes this year they have started ignoring resumes submitted to their own job portals. You have to bypass this by knowing somebody on the inside, having a recruiter with a strong internal relationship, or something else like this.

* Tools - Some employers over invest in external third party tools. In this case you also need to be a tool loving monkey if you wish to be hired. Your resume should scream about this and you should be able to speak to your passion of using external solutions during an interview. All of this tool over compensation must be explicit and not some implicit hints. If instead your first inclination is to write code and solve the problem with code you may not be compatible with a tool obsessed employer.

After being laid for several months this year I got tired of the hiring game. As a long time JavaScript developer everything now feels like an industry focused on entertaining over paid entitled beginners who need massively huge applications to do the most trivial things. I gave up for awhile before doubling down on my strengths and ignoring the trend nonsense of open positions and recruiters trying to fill those positions. I dropped so much of this trend stupidity from my online resume and job portal profiles like frameworks, fullstack, and whatever. Instead I did a 180 and focused on my military background with my security clearance and security certifications. I went from no resume responses over several months to quickly receiving multiple interviews and several competing job offers.
Is it even possible to send crypto with 0 transaction fees? If yes, my knowledge is really outdated in this area.
Please use as source a reputable newspapers. The fake news campaign to attempt to destroy Milei's reputation was enormous. I wasn't able to watch a youtube video without seeing an anti-milei fear-mongering advertisement in the month before the election.
What Should Replace the Turing Test?
Only rich in stocks. Salaries are high for sure but probably not enough to be rich by Bay Area standards
I appreciate the insight. I looked into Maud, but it's very different from being a drop in html template engine like JSX, where most of the time vanilla html is a drop-in. I'll have to look more into leptos and understand its DX approach to Rust web apps and how it would mesh with Htmx.
By "independent" I don't mean "functions separately". Of course the CEO sits on the board. Sometimes the CFO is on the board too, although subordinate executives usually _should not be_ (they may _attend_ the board, but that's a different thing).

But fundamentally, the CEO _reports to_ the board. That's the relationship. And in a 501(c)3 specifically, the board have a clear requirement to ensure the company is running in alignment with its stated charter.

Whether or not this board got that task right, I don't know, it doesn't seem likely (at least, in hindsight). But this type of board specifically is there for oversight of the CEO, that's precisely their role.
> Curious where this (rather large, yet still seemingly arbitrary) limit comes from.

It is Good Enough for now, while keeping various pre-allocated, statically created structures with-in reasonable size limits:

> Global and allocated arrays sized by MAXCPU result in excessive bloat on systems with lower core counts. In addition, some code used u_char (8 bits) to hold a CPU index, which is not valid if MAXCPU is greater than 256.

> A number of recent commits addressed these sorts of issues, including at least: […]

* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=9051987e40c5

See:

> The SMP system now supports up to 1024 cores on amd64 and arm64. Many kernel CPU sets are now dynamically allocated to avoid consuming excessive memory. The kernel cpuset ABI has been updated to support the higher limit. 76887e84be97[1] d1639e43c589[2] 9051987e40c5[3] e0c6e8910898[4] (Sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation)

* https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/#kernel-gene...
Tangential prediction: Ryanair will lead the charge in making you pay for a bag under the seat. There will be no free "personal item" option.

Whenever they lower the bar, they look for ways to lower it even further.

(The bags-under-seat needs clamping down on. It's gone too far. I've seen people with bags so big they had to rest their feet on top of it. It's an obvious safety issue but obviously for profit reasons the staff are told to turn a blind eye. The cabin crew would have to be literally blind to truthfully claim they didn't notice it)
What about the thing that is in my iPhone and iPad, whatever that is, can’t they just use that?
Not everything has to be under a chrurch. It was just the classic example.

Plus it's not the reorganization of the same systems. I propose a completely voluntary system. It is more economically efficient than thr state run system.
Rogue One was great. The moment I saw Jyn being transported in Jaggurnought, I was sold. The Star Wars universe, from the original triology over the Clone Wars to the extended universe from the days of Westend Games, has so much stuff to work with. Stuff, that is now free to use since it is not canon anymore. The sequel triology did nothing of the sort, insetad it took the idea of a reborn Emperor, IMHO among the worst ideas of the Legebds EU, and made somehow even worse.

When the hinted at a fleet of hidden star destroyers in Rise of Skywalker, I so hoped they would steal some elements of the Katana-fleet story arch. But nope. Funny how all the series set after Endor do their utmost to ignore the sequel movies, at least it feels like that to me.

Fo rTgrawn so, they could have skippes the zombie stormtrooper part. Star Wars zombies were a bad idea when introduced in that book about an infested star destroyer, written at the hight of the pop culture zombie craze, and are an element the new canon could have well lived without. After all, Thrawns thing in Timothy Zahns book triology was cloned soldiers. But we will see how that story goes, Thrawn is bavk, and I'm all for it!
Let me guess, Russia invaded Ukraine to eradicate the US biolabs breeding nazi GMO mosquitos.
Changing User-Agent to Google Chrome drastically improves YouTube load times
People tend to speak and act very differently in pseudonymous online forums, with no skin in the game, than they ever would in "the real world", where we are constantly reminded of real relationships which our behavior puts at risk.

The only venues where I've witnessed someone being attacked for apologizing or admitting an error have been online.
Nah, back in the old days A1 Locksmith or AAA Windshields were just competing for top placement in the (alphabetized) phone book.

Look to Amazon for new ideas on DGA-derived names for your fly-by-night business.
Either business data and job are committed or none of them. Then as you write, either polling or listening to an even worker, can pick it up.
Bonus stuff, from implementation perspective, is that if worker selects row FOR UPDATE (locking the job from others to pick up) and dies, Postgres will release the lock after some time, making the job available for other workers.
> I don’t think you can claim it’s baggage free.

Did I?
As of late I’ve been using restructuredtext and rst2latex.py and have been quite happy with it. I’m quite used to LaTeX for writing equations and RST handles most of the other boilerplate. If you do need to do fancy TeX things you can still just drop that inline and it generally works pretty good.
> - static reference counting (no GC, like in Rust, but with no borrowing and borrow problems);

Does this mean that it's somewhat equivalent to Rust with everything behind a `Rc` or `Arc`?
Can anyone explain why when I go to https://twitter.com/sama I don't see the linked tweet, but if I navigate to https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726594398098780570 I can? Is this a nuance of like tweets being privatable? Or deleted tweets remaining directly navigable? Sorry probably something basic about how twitter functions.
>I'd expect Boeing already had some idea of the scope of what was compromised

I've seen companies say this sort of thing with high confidence. But that seems hard to me, assuming some level of administrative access was breached.
Selecting seats used to be free for available seats. Now they artificially reserve empty seats such that you need to pay for them.

No extra value or improvement is introduced for customers here, quite the opposite.
Just 75%? A friend was working for one of those AI startups. They wanted him to download and effectively steal documents for training their LLM. When he pointed out that the TOS explicitly forbade mass downloading, they fired him immediately. Sleezy times.
ask gdb
https://archive.ph/m3FqT

I find there’s a straightforward method to thinking sideways - look at what everybody else is doing, and do the exact opposite, or at the very least, head off on a tangent. People talk about the wisdom of crowds, but in general, as a population increases, the net intelligence of decisions decreases. Buy when everybody is selling, sell when everyone is buying, and if people tell you your idea is crazy and terrible, it’s almost certainly a good one. Likewise, if people think your idea is good, it’s probably mundane at best.
Not only that, he's counting revenue as income. He has operating costs. Less than a car, but real.
Microsoft in particular is very good at handling immigration and visa issues.
Why is Yudkowsky's HPMOR a "warcrime"?
We need a wiki indeed.
> Instead I did a 180 and focused on my military background with my security clearance and security certifications.

How would this for those with no military background?
And with facial recognition, two people don't even have to be related. I knew a guy who looked so much like me that he grew a mustache purely so that our own friends could tell us apart (which is how I know I look terrible with a mustache). There's zero chance that facial recognition could distinguish us.

He and I weren't even remotely related.
Most public intellectuals are not petty enough to chastise people for misspelling or mispronouncing their names. (I've noticed this recently watching various interviews with on current events with people who have Hebrew and Arabic names.) Idk why Swartz would be any different.