skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me that sama and Microsoft have been on fairly equal footing since the 49:51 % deal was made.

Then a seismic shift underneath Sam but Microsoft has enough stability and resources to more than compensate for the part of the 51% that was already in OpenAI's hands, which might not be under Sam's purview any more if he is kicked out.

But then again it might be Sam's leadership which would still effectively be in place from a position at Microsoft anyway, or it might end up making more sense for him to also be in a position at OpenAI, maybe even at the same time, in order to make the most of their previous investment.

Kicking out Sam was obviously an emotional decision, not anything like a business decision. Then again OpenAI is not supposed to be an actual business. I don't think that should be an excuse for an unwise or destructive decision. It was not an overnight development, even though it took Sam by surprise. When I see this:

>the board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI

I understand that to mean that the board was not behind him 100% for quite some time, but were fine with him going forward believing otherwise. Some uncandidness does seem to have taken place and there may or may not have been anything Sam could have done about it.

This was simmering for a while and it will require more than one weekend for everyone involved to regroup.

Which is what they're doing now, observers can see a whirlwind, actual participants really have something on their plate.

Some things will have to be unraveled and other things weaved from the key ingredients, I would say it's really up to Sam and Microsoft to hash this out so it's still some kind of something like an equal deal among them. Regardless of which employer(s) Sam may end up serving in leadership positions, and the bulk of the staff will be behind Sam in a way the OpenAI board was not, so the employees will be just as well off regardless of the final structure.

This was quite a hasty upset but deserves a careful somewhat gradual resolution.
I get why this idea is appealing, but by that metric, Adam Neumann of WeWork also already passed.

Occam's Razor. This is impulsive firing, with impulsive hiring on the way.
The pro version of Overleaf supports offline work with a simple trick: every Overleaf document can be accessed as a git repo. It's a bit limited (there's no branches or tags, and it breaks the "track changes" feature) and trying to convince the average researcher to learn git is a challenge, but if you know git it works quite well.
Of course it is, the IAP and Adware crap is already on board.
Weather != climate. The climate is clearly changing as well but this "news" is weather.
Yeah unless you're doing a headless PC in raspberry pi style, it's not that great of a deal
Exactly. It's easy to wax rhetorical hypotheticals in news copy.

In the real world, there are better ways to handle different things. Some things need leading questions. Others with concern or prodding questions. Still other things can be joked about. Serious matters should be handled cautiously and perhaps with the input of others where appropriate. There are also some boundaries beyond which matters aren't someone's business to address.
You can’t avoid latex which is both good (huge ecosystem), and bad (it’s latex). Just recently I tried to help a friend with their CV where he wanted to raise the row-height in a pre-created CV “package”, and it was completely indecipherable, and I could only come up with an ugly hack.
Wow this is significant, he did this to Charlie cheever the best guy at Facebook and quora. He got Matt on board and fired Charlie without informing investors. Only difference this time 100 billion company is at stake at openai. Process is similar. This going very wrong for Adam D'Angelo. With this I hope other board members get to the bottom get Sam back and vote out D'Angelo from board.

This school level immaturity.

Old story

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-sudden-mysterious-exit-o...
> The plan is not to support macros.

Gotcha. In every lang I've used a lot, I've found meta-programming (compile-time or dynamic) to be valuable (and often indespensible). I can imagine that a lang like Elm that is domain-specific can do fine without the expressive power of macros, but I struggle to imagine that for a general-purpose lang like Roc.

I'm sure you've ruminated on this, so I'm excited to see how it all pans out.

Maybe a Software Unscripted episode with someone who's written a lot of macros is in order? :) David Tolnay (serde maintainer) would be great!
Fluent Search
I don’t think that’s how it would work out since his conflict was very public knowledge before this point. He plausibly disclosed this to the board at some point before Poe launched and they kept him on.

Large private VC backed companies also don’t always fall under the same rules as public entities. Generally there are shareholder thresholds (where insider/private shareholders count towards) that in turn cause some of the general
Securities/board regulations to kick in.
When they say "more likely from a different artist" they don't mean "more likely than before your last song" but rather that the probability that it is a different artist is higher than the artist last played (which is what the average person likely expects from their shuffle)

If we're shuffling the set of my liked songs, and 90% of my liked songs are by Taylor Swift, even after hearing 3 of her songs back-to-back on shuffle, chances are I'm hearing her again next
>Do you force close the apps?

Don't do this unless an app is unresponsive/not working correctly. It will just make apps slower to restart, using more power than it would if left to suspend/un-suspend as it's meant to.
What makes your example particularly interesting is that this US law will almost certainly be enforced by the other country. I.e., if they want to avoid invoking the wrath of US sanctions.
llama.cpp can run the Q4 variant of the same at 30tok/s on an M1 Pro unlike the 20tok/s being quoted
I want all songs truly randomized once, then playing in that order.

Sadly youtube just picks the next one based on the current ones ID + some seed, so it constantly gets stuck in loops
Elizabeth Holmes also more than qualifies. Her company was once valued at $10 billion.

But I hear she's currently unavailable...
The difference in the cost also needs to be enough for people to care. If it costs 25 cents more to get the laundry done now instead of later in a world where a head of lettuce is $4 I am just going to do the laundry when it is convenient for me.

The major loads such as heating and cooling people
Also want them immediately and not later.
Couldn't the same thing have been said for SMS 2FA, and not all that long ago?
Yes.

Which of course leads to the inevitable sword-forging question.

Answer (possibly not suitable for some): <https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/78885>
> Once you have skin in the game, you learn the rules and play a bit harder.

The same thing happens when you start using market rate electricity instead of flat rate.

You start having all kinds of apps and displays showing how the price fluctuates during the next 24 hours and adjust your usage to it.

That combined with rooftop solar and a moderately sized in-house battery is the future IMO. Charge the battery when it's cheap, use it when prices go up - or send it back to the network for a profit.
I really hope this is not the case. Paying randsome is unethical, in some cases it’s also illegal.
At best you’re funding a criminal organisation, at worst you’re in collaboration with a criminal organisation.

In the case of digital files there is absolutely no guarantee that they delete the file, it’s like paying someone to go back in time.

The act has been done, the data is stolen, your negligence and wrongdoing is in the past and the only ethical option is to not fund the bad actors who are actually primarily responsible.
>This adjustment meant that unlike previous CEOs, Elop was facing an instant, massive windfall should the following sequence happen to take place:

- Nokia's share price drops steeply as the company drifts close to cash flow crisis under Elop.

- Elop sells the company's handset unit to Microsoft under pressure to raise cash

- The share price rebounds sharply, though remains far below where it was when Elop joined the company.

Sorry but that sounds more like clever negotation from Elops's side and like a naive blindsided board.
Am I the only person that wrote my thesis in Maple?
In some areas the climate change is creating too much “wetland” which poses a different set of issues. We’ve had record amounts of rain here in Denmark, and the local farmers should probably look into farming rice, or maybe seaweed, if it continues. Which it probably will since the records we broke were set in 2019, which in term broke records set one of the years before that and so on.

Looking at the graphs, however, we should go back to covid society, well, without all the dying. That basically put us on a better track than what we need for almost two years.

I’m optimistic though. This year alone has been a massive impact on the global economy in terms of climate costs. Which in term have our local politicians actually talking about solutions. Many of them are focused on being better prepared, but some of them are also waking up to the fact that large parts of our country will be basically inhabitable unless something is done. Not sure why it took them 50 years to get there, but it is what it is.
This is the difference between Rust and C like languages, one optimizes for the usual case and has a simple implementation and the other goes to great lengths to be correct in corner cases at the cost of a lot of complexity.
I actually just wish Spotify stop spamming me the very same songs and artists over and over in virtually any "made for airstrike" radio / playlist.

Give me "NOT made for airstrike", please. I often want to start a radio off a song precisely because I'm trying to find new songs that go with that one, not so I can have an excuse to unironically listen to "More Than This" for the 20th time this week...
Before a very small amount of years ago, we couldn't check our bank account balances by logging onto the internets. We called or visited a bank teller in person. gasp!

If a person can't handle 2fa, do they really need to be using online services that are important enough to warrant using 2fa? I imagine the world will advance and this will become easier over time, but for now single player security across wires is complicated.
Minus Victorian prostitutes but add rockets and screens, we're living in Charles Dickens' times.
There are at least hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of securities that have been properly registered in the USA: stocks, corporate bonds, private offerings, and many other kinds of financing structures. It’s not that hard since obviously all kinds of issuers can figure it out.

The crypto people want to pretend their tokens are something completely different, so they’re not willing to use the existing process and instead cry out for SEC to come up with something just for them.
>Altman took a non-profit and vacuumed up a bunch of donor money only to flip Open AI into the hottest TC style startup in the world. Then put a gas pedal to commercialization. It takes a certain type of politicking and deception to make something like that happen.

What exactly is the problem here? Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something? What type of politicking and deception is involved in creating a for profit subsidiary which is granted license to OpenAIs research in order to generate wealth? The entire purpose of this legal structure is to keep non-profit owners focused on their mission rather than shareholder value, which in this case is attempting to ethically create an AGI.

Edit: to add that this framework was not invented by Sam Altman, nor OpenAI.

>Then in the past week, he's going and taking money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators, even though the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

Thus the legal structure I described, although this argument is entirely theoretical and assumes such a thing can actually be guarded that well at all, or that model performance and compute will remain correlated.
This isn't unlike the radio silence Brendan Eich kept, when the Mozilla sh* hit the fan. This is in my opinion the outcome of when really technical and scientific people have been given decades of advice of not talking to the public.

I have seen this play out many times in different locations for different people. A lot of technical folks like myself were given the advice that actions speak louder than words.

I was once scouted at a silicon valley selenium browser testing company. I migrated their cloud offering from VMWare to KVM, which depended on code I wrote and then defied my middle manager by improving their entire infrastructure performance by 40%. My instinct was to communicate this to the leadership, but I was advised not to skip my middle manager.

The next time I went the office I got a severance package and later found out that 2 hours later during the all hands they presented my work as their own. The middle manage went on to become the CTO of several companies.

I doubt we will ever find out what really happened or at least not in the next 5-10 years. OpenAI let Sam Altman be the public face of the company and got burned by it.

Personally I had no idea Ilya was the main guy in this company until the drama that happened. I also didn't know that Sam Altman was basically only there to bring in the cash. I assume that most people will actually never know that part of OpenAI.
If they had the money to, they could.
This is the sort of high-indignation rhetoric that just doesn't work here. We want curious conversation here. Curiosity withers (fries, actually) under this sort of heat and pressure.
I believe they're talking about Windows 11's requirements, for processors in particular. Some relatively recent systems like those built around the first Ryzens weren't supported, thus putting them in the "devices that don't run Windows" category.
Oh, you're simply restating the article and are talking specifically about breaks, axels and lights?
It’s impressive how some of the most successful tech companies in the world get this wrong.

If you give your phone number to Google, they will pressure you to enable SMS MFA and SMS account recovery. So your phone number becomes the weakest link into your account, which is pretty bad considering the state of sim swapping.

Google and other companies should make this clear to users. You should never have both SMS MFA and SMS account recovery enabled. If you must, only ever enable one. Ideally, neither.
I'm not convinced. On these few occasions where an AI chat bot went out, did a Google search and responded with results the quality of that answer was always much worse than if it just replied from it's training data. This of course excludes things that happened after training data ends.

For example, ask chatgpt about writing a python script that does anything with AWS inspector 2. It will do very badly, it will hallucinate, etc. Even with Internet access. Ask about doing the same with some other API that was well represented in the training set and it's great.

This is why I think predicting death for sites like stackoverflow is very premature. What happens 10 years down the line once everything chatgpt knows is old tech? It can't be simply trained with more recrnt data, because unless stackoverflow regains it's popularity there will be very little training data. Of course various data generation techniques will be invented and tried, but no one will match the gold standard of human generated data.

Unfortunately I have to predict inevitable enshittification of general purpose chat bots.
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No, it just means that in that scenario Sam would think he could convince the rest of the board that Ilya was wrong because he could find somebody else to give him a preferable answer.

It’s just speculation, anyway. There isn’t really anything I’ve heard that isn’t contradicted by the evidence, so it’s likely at least one thing “known” by the public isn’t actually true.
Airlines I've used in recent years charge fees for the front few (2-6?) rows and exit rows. Choosing a seat anywhere else is free.
As I mentioned in my comment, I'm unaware of the effect of the nonprofit status on this. But like the parent commenter mentioned I mostly was thinking of laws prohibiting destruction of shareholder value (edit: whatever that may mean considering a nonprofit).

It just seems ludicrous that the board could run a company into the ground like this and just shrug "nah we're nonprofit so you can't touch us and BTW we don't even need to make any statements whatsoever".

There have been many comments that the initial firing of Altman was in a way completely according to the nonprofit charter, at least if it could prove that Altman had been executing in a way as to jeopardize the Charter.

But even then, how could the board say they are working in the best interest of even the nonprofit itself, if their company is just disintegrating while they willfully refuse to give any information to public?
Because OL3 broke down (again), the prices today are just absolutely bonkers, jumping up to 96,77c/kWh for an hour (⊙_⊙)

On the other hand we had literal negative prices for long periods of time during the summer and early fall so...
RIP your home insurance
They'll get a government-issued ankle monitor/smartphone..
MSFT is also at an all-time high so it's natural for them to be slightly lower
It makes sense only if the house also have solar panels (that don't need grid cost for in-house use). Without solar panels (or other generators), regardless of where battery locates, they need to pay grid cost someday. Though there are other benefits: backup for interruption, utilize parked vehicle by V2X
As much as I'd love to hear about the details of the drama as the next person, they really don't have to say anything publicly. We are all going to continue using the product. They don't have public investors. The only concern about perception they may have is if they intend to raise more money anytime soon.
The latter could have been the case here and we would never know...
The term "essential minerals" refers to minerals (elemental rather than organic chemical compounds) required for life. For humans, those include five major minerals: calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and magnesium, and an additional nine "trace elements": iron, chlorine, cobalt, copper, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, iodine, and selenium.

(From Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_(nutrient)>)

Dose is critical. Whilst too little causes deficiency syndromes, too much of these compounds may also be harmful. Note that even excessive water consumption can be deadly.
Alternative theory: ChatGPT was a runaway hit product that sucked up a lot of the organization's resources and energy. Sam and Greg wanted to roll with it and others on the board did not. They voted on it and one side won.

There isn't a bigger, more interesting story here. This is in fact a very common story that plays out at many software companies. The board of openai ended up making a decision that destroyed billions of dollars worth of brand value and good will. That's all there is to it.
So glad the man baby AI scientist is in charge of AGI alignment

Feel the AI
Ilya signed the "reinstate Altman or we're leaving" letter.
Here in South Africa we have lots of them too, especially in Pretoria which is informally known as "Jakarandastad". Looks beautiful around this time of year - blooming is usually Sep to mid Nov.

Example from a residential area:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAsHX4LXMAADEI1?format=jpg&name=...
In this case Microsoft will have zero chance to use IP owned by the OpenAI, right? That's how mutual agreements work?

If not, why? And who's responsible for this 'Laundry Buddy' deal with Microsoft then, isn't it Sam Altman? In this case OpenAI's board did a fair job with their decision.
If you go to bed late, wake up early, need to charge for a few minutes at a party, etc, android slow charge at best doesn't work, and at worst works against you.

I have no idea how setting charging settings on our mobile computing devices is something that is not supported in 2023
nothing useful here, and from a site you were complaining about only days ago.
So your 1. is no longer markdown everyone knows, but an ad hoc, badly documented new language understandable by a tiny subset of editors/people. How is that better?

2: it is fundamentally a command line app that converts a .tex file to a pdf (and some other output formats). You can just git over that if you prefer it. The web editor is a separate application, which is very streamlined and a good option for students working together, but sure, feel free to use something else.
Honestly "plug the little black thing in here, rub the gold dot when the screen says" is better ux than typing numbers. Have you ever the heard stories where people aren't able to type in their code before it expires?
If I were an employee at OpenAI now, I wouldn’t be particularly impressed with the rest of the board’s candor either.
And the ones who don’t experience this issue at all, perhaps US could study why that is?
One thing appears certain to me, which is that Sam won't join Microsoft. That's because his and openais employees payday is tied to openai specifically.
Talking robots by Boston Dynamics [video]
I think this shows what you can do with server-side generated HTML without any JavaScript frameworks and bloat.
I was thinking the same thing. This whole thing is surprising and then I look at Quora and think "Eh, makes sense that the CEO is completely incompetent and money hungry"

Even as I type that, when people talk about the board being altruistic and holding to the Open AI charter, how in the world can you be that user hostile, profit focused, and incompetent at your day job (Quora CEO) and then say "Oh no, but on this board I am an absolute saint and will do everything to benefit humanity"
> Then in the past week, he's going and taking money from the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars to make AI accelerators, even though the single greatest threat from strong AI (according to Hinton) is rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

This prediction predated any of the technology to create even a rudimentary LLM and could be said of more-or-less any transformative technological development in human history. Famously, Marxism makes this very argument about the impact of the industrial revolution and the rise of capital.

Geoffrey Hinton appears to be an eminent cognitive psychologist and computer scientist (edit: nor economist). I'm sure he has a level of expertise I can't begin to grasp in his field, but he's no sociologist or historian. Very few of us are in a position to make predictions about the future - least of all in an area where we don't even fully understand how the _current_ technology works.
That's stupid. If you don't actually pay them, there would be no evidence of you paying them. Their case would hold absolutely no water.
And now you won't even have to do that.
Just because the trick doesn't work on you because you don't do what most people do doesn't make it not a trick.
Which begs the question: if I charge my new Mac with an iPhone charger (8W), will it lengthen the battery life ?