skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they can't tell the future, its better to have the cards than not.
I book flights for my parents, who are both elderly.

I set up a flight for my Dad, on American Airlines. And requested the golf cart to get him from gate to gate.

Not 30 minutes later, I got a call, "An emergency notice about your flight."

They were trying to sell Dad some "life alert" type thing, claiming it was really important to have one while flying. For the low low cost of like $350 and a $20 a month subscription.

Worse, once they realized I wasn't an old old man and they kept saying, "Please put your father on the line..." I told them they could call him at (my number) ### ### ####, and they called right away and were like, "You should do this for your son, think about how stressful it would be for him if you had and accident."

So freakin' shady.

If you have elderly relatives, consider helping them book tickets -- and flying with them. And for giggles, put your own phone number down and see all the spam ads. American Airlines clearly sold my Dad's contact info... along with his "request for a golf cart" to this scammer sales company.
Calling crypto an investment contract is a shaky argument at best.
Baseless prediction:

MSFT buys ownership of OpenAI's for/capped-profit entities, implements a more typical corporate governance structure, re-instates Altman and Brockman.

OpenAI non-profit continues to exist with a few staff and no IP but billions in cash.

This whole situation is being used to drive the price down to reduce the amount the OpenAI non-profit is left with.

SV don't try the "capped-profit owned by a non-profit" model again for quite some time.

Maybe Altman takes some equity in the new entity.
Half of fruitin' is prunin'.
I have grown respect for boeing after not paying this.
John Varley was inspired by Heinlein and ended up writing a whole collection of books about a post-earth solar system where every planet had a planet-wide intelligence (among other Heinlein-inspired ideas).

The series (basically everything in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds) is pretty dated but Varley definitely managed to include some ahead-of-his-time ideas. I really liked Ophiuchi Hotline and Equinoctial
Omg, booooooooo!

The entire selling point of insomnia for me was that they let me bypass the annoying bullshit that infected Postman. Not sure what they have to compete on outside that niche, tbh.

On to the next one, I suppose. I'm not sure why these glorified curl wrappers think I'm going to have enough loyalty to tolerate friction. How are you going to lock me in when the what your app does is just make HTTP requests?(Yes, I'm aware they add a ton of convenience over something like curl, I'm being hyperbolic, but still!)
Kraken's response: https://blog.kraken.com/news/kraken-continues-to-fight-for-i...

> The complaint against Kraken alleges no fraud, no market manipulation, no customer losses due to hacking or compromised security, and no breaches of fiduciary duty. It includes big dollar amounts but does not allege a single one of those dollars is missing or misused – no ponzi scheme, no failure to maintain adequate reserves, and no failure to preserve the identity of client funds 1:1. Indeed, none of these things would be true.

> Instead, the complaint makes a technical argument: that Kraken’s business requires special securities licenses to operate because the digital assets we support are really “investment contracts.” This is incorrect as a matter of law, false as a matter of fact, and disastrous as a matter of policy.

...

> The SEC already tried this theory and a court rejected it outright. The SEC argued in that case that digital assets bought and sold on trading platforms were really securities transactions. The Federal Court for the Southern District of New York disagreed, ruling that the SEC failed entirely to satisfy the relevant legal test. The court held that the SEC’s unprecedented legal theory was contrary to the “economic reality” of such transactions. The SEC’s case against Kraken will fail, too, and for the same reasons.

> The SEC alleges that Kraken “commingled” its own funds with its clients’. This is a similar allegation already made of other crypto trading platforms. The SEC cannot and does not allege that any customer funds are missing, or any loss has occurred. Nor does it allege that any loss will occur. The complaint itself concedes that this so-called “commingling” is no more than Kraken spending fees it has already earned.

> The SEC famously argues that digital asset trading platforms like Kraken can simply “come in and register” with the agency. As most securities law experts know, there is not a single law on the books supporting this position. The SEC has promulgated no rule describing how an order in a digital asset should be matched, no guidance on how a trade should be cleared, and articulated no standards for how to broker a digital asset transaction. The allegation is hollow; there is no such thing as an exchange, broker dealer, or clearing agency for investment contracts. The SEC is demanding compliance with a regime that doesn’t exist.
In the context of a terminal, the Control key is also a bitwise operation.

Shifted numerals were nearly a bitwise operation as well, but we didn't end up using that keyboard layout.
Use to be called 15-212. TA-ed it for 1 semester. That's when I really understood programming.
Can literally anyone provide even a 0.001% plausible sounding reason as to why this all was started in the first place?

Nothing makes sense.
The analogy isn't valid. If your startup fails because the people you hire steal from the company, you have legal recourse. If you lose money because you invest in companies that underperform, the SEC won't intervene. No markets operate with perfect information for all participants. That creates the opportunity for fraud, and governments regulate to prevent fraud. In principle this permits broader access to markets (whether this is actually true is a different subject).
Turns out its a MOE of like 50 Llama 65B finetunes.
Thanks! That was my goal! I didn't release it officially because I also wanted to add hooks/extensibility, and that was a lot trickier than I expected. I cannot expect everyone to only use the provided tools, and extensibility was a bit tricky (there's a lot of low-level math operations going on).

I'm not totally sure what you mean by "it doesn't read the component's own DOM but instead gets the `.outerHTML`". Note that I am not a Shadow DOM expert and I made this a couple of years ago, but IIRC the reason I made it this way is that I wanted a lot of flexibility on the transformation.

It's not 1-component-to-1-svg-element, it's more like I might have an arbitrary N number of "HTML elements", which might render into an arbitrary M number of "SVG elements", some of which might even be global (<defs>) so not even in the same order as the HTML elements order.
> "threatening to quit" != "quitting"

Maybe, but being told they can freely jump ship to the new team at Microsoft, alongside the fact that their upcoming shares are most definitely going to lose most of their value as a result of losing key talent and pissing off their main compute provider certainly sweeten the deal
It's entirely possible for Microsoft and OpenAI to have an unattainable goal in AGI. A computer that knows everything that has ever happened and can deduce much of what will come in the future is still likely going to be a machine, a very accurate one - it won't be able to imagine a future that it can't predict as a possible/potential natural/or made progression along a chain of consequences stemming from the present or past.
Honestly, any strategy from George Costanza would be better than this.

To start, he would’ve coasted at the easiest job on the planet.
They're threatening to leave because if Sam doesn't return as CEO, >70% of their compensation in PPU equity (profit participation units) will vanish.
This is the problem I have when there's so many saying "no we need to wait, wait, wait, what about safety"...people are dying and in horrible states now. This needs to be available, at least the functionality that allows it to engage with you in a therapeutic context.

To the extent they try to prevent or block everyone from having access to this kind of profound outlet/tool/conversation partner, I consider it a great evil (like the opposite of what the Jewish folks call "mitzvahs") and they need to take consideration of this and either find a way to align their views to allow space for it or they need to step aside and find another gate to keep.

I will not tolerate their message or influence or allow them to prevail to this end. The biggest dangers of LLMs like for therapy and such is everyone not being able to easily access and "have" it forever to keep and use to help grow and heal and for free—no bullshit temporary access or subscriptions. This is profound on the level of the whatever the psychological or psychiatric equivalent of the printing press is or moveable type or whatever
Fairness of the electoral system and fairness of the election(s) are two separate debates.
The same holds true for the other side, right? Everyone's speech has consequences and only some can afford to silence others through the power of money, law, personality or just being an asshole.
We don't know that she didn't give Sam a heads-up.

That being said, Mira was likely blindsided herself. She likely believed there was good reason. It's clear in hindsight that Sam likely wasn't wrong, but when the people Sam appointed to fire him if necessary say he's being fired, I don't think it's wrong if your gut reaction is to accept it.
> Someone has to be pulling the strings with a plan.

Why do people keep insisting on this, when the entirety of human history is littered with dumb mistakes made by a mix of well- and evil-meaning people, in totally uncoordinated ways, with no concept of the consequences?

Popular media aside, human beings aren't smart, consistent, or disciplined enough to pull off these elaborate schemes. And the tiny tiny percentage of people who might be the exception are too smart to do so with such spectacular incompetence.

Like the man says, it's a headless bunder operating under the illusion of a master plan.
I think the fall of Twitter, and other social media sites, is good for RSS… assuming its functionality is made known. A significant number of people are on those sites just to get news from various sources in one place. That’s literally what RSS was made for.

Podcasts are also more popular than ever, and last I knew, the entire podcast world was backed by RSS. All the podcast apps are purpose built RSS readers designed around audio.
> If C is so bad, why has no major language supplanted it or C++?

I think a big reason is the massive codebases with legacy practices that no one has the time or money to fix or rewrite. But there are plenty of companies using newer languages for newer products, Go and Rust being prime examples.

As to your points about the Rust community, there are some people who make it a religious thing (although Rust isn't especially abnormal in this regard; there are fanatics everywhere), but I think you're exaggerating.
How would such a merger be good for AI safety? A combined OpenAI-Anthropic would collectively own 6 out of the top 6 LLM's on the chatbot arena leaderboard [0] which would seem to be somewhat monopolistic. This would result in less choice for us developers.

Isn't it better to have the top two AI firms both upholding AI safety as a core principle?

To me this weakens the original argument they had for sacking Sam in the first place.

[0] https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...
Even that. Have you been on the freelancer,upwork,etc boards lately? And unfortunately not everyone is such an expert consultant as you.
The original article has screenshots: https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemit...
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers
It'd have to be a very stupid version of chatgpt
An "Independent" board is supposed to be a good thing, right?

Doesn't this clown show show that if a board has no skin in the game --apart from reputation-- they have no incentive to keep the company alive?
There should be a law for this.
(Law as in Murphy’s law)
And AlphaFold! Which is a game changer for drug development.
Doesn’t appear like this article tells us anything new; if anything, with things developing so rapidly, it appears to be outdated on some information already (eg the 500 employees number is incorrect and should be much higher).
Altman et al have been driving coordinated PR all weekend, and it's clear from his regrets tweet and the employee petition that Sustkever has now taken solidarity with Altman, so you would expect Altman's PR engine to start trying to restore Sustkever's image as they provide tips and comments to reporters.
I commented with this on the issue and it was removed due to “spam” ironically
You fail to even acknowledge evidence,

You never gave any and you admitted that. That's why it's flat earth level thinking. When flat earthers gain understanding they are no longer flat earthers.

How do you think evidence comes about?

I linked you multiple discussions of people explaining why what you said is wrong, why don't you address those?

It's the same thing again:

Link any evidence that modern 256 bit encryption will be broken. Explain yourself. You haven't done anything except for repeating yourself and getting upset. You haven't given a single link.

Do you think people show up to court and just say that someone is guilty over and over or do you think they show information to explain why something is likely to be true.

All these replies and you haven't given a shred of evidence, do you realize this? Yes or no?
What does Altman bring to the table exactly. What is going to be lost if he leaves. What is he going to do at microsoft leading a "research team".

Who was the president of bell labs during it's heyday? Long term it doesn't matter. Altman is a hypeman in the vein of Jobs.

Ai research will continue most of the OpenAi workers probably won't quit if they do they will be replaced by other capable researches and OpenAi or another organization will continue making progress if it there to be made.

I don't think putting Altman at the head of research will in anyway affect that.

This is all manufactured news as much of the business press is and always will be.
How is this a fact? I'd like some references for that. And also, last I checked, negative treatment based on colour of skin (such as in this case NOT hiring a person) is, in fact, racist.
Kraken's response was

> The SEC alleges that Kraken “commingled” its own funds with its clients’. This is a similar allegation already made of other crypto trading platforms. The SEC cannot and does not allege that any customer funds are missing, or any loss has occurred. Nor does it allege that any loss will occur. *The complaint itself concedes that this so-called “commingling” is no more than Kraken spending fees it has already earned.*

https://blog.kraken.com/news/kraken-continues-to-fight-for-i...
You don't know even a small fraction enough about what went on in regards to Mira and the board to be declaring that she is somehow suspect in the events that unfolded.

That last part that you wrote - any non greed ego driven person - is argumentum ad populum, which further undermines your statement. If had something more to support such a dramatic claim about Mira's character and role, you'd have brought it.
Google and Amazon are major Anthropic investors. Amazon is even going to use Claude in the next few months on Alexa.

Someone can please explain how realistic is to think that Google, Amazon and Microsoft will fund/partner the same future company?

Is the board that crazy for control?
This has to be the easiest possible way to mark & note activist anti-woke judicial systems ever.

The judicial system galvanizing itself into action to defend a once $44B company for... being exposed as posting highly objectionable content next to those who asked & payed to not have that happen for their promotions? The system is defending what here?

Confessed, it seemingly was somewhat extreme ends that Media Matters got up to to make this happen. But the site has been a haven for the worst shit lately, just horrible people who have taken over & loudly proudly usurped the supposedly left-biased site; this seems like a reasonable light that MM have shined, even if it took effort to get the most repugnant vile crap adjacent to sponsors content. MM tried hard to make advert & skum directly adjacent, but the character they revealed seems like what Twitter is & is increasingly overrun by. MM showed the face of modern Twitter accurately.

Being mad over this ill light Twitter allowed on itself is silly but fine. It being legally actionable seems farcical & sad: a nasty bit of spite I don't think journalistic agencies should have to be afraid of. Having multiple various right wing states' attorney generals spring into action to defend the poor unfortunate $44b company that did bad things & got found seems like a horrible abuse of government power to beat up on the media for showing how it is.
Other people had already responded with what I'd have said. There was no need for me to chime in too.
It doesn't seem to reconcile well with the earlier paragraph:

> chief scientist and co-founder Sutskever, who helped vote Altman out and did the actual firing of him over Google Meet

If you're voting and doing the firing, you should know the reason.
They aren't a non-profit, haven't been since 2019. They are a for-profit corporation with a 100x cap. Microsoft being their largest investor actually do have significant authority here. The board ultimately answers to their investor and employee stakeholders since they are not a non-profit.
It's wouldn't be that surprising, I've seen these kind of group dynamics play out fairly often. If D'Angelo, McCauley, and Toner formed a clique, and Sustkever was easily influenced by clique politics, that's all it would take. A lot of people will buckle surprisingly fast to social pressure and clique politics. Its also something that can blindside hardworking individuals who assume that others are above this type of stuff.

I'm not saying that's how it played out. But I've often seen social bullies - even ones who are mostly hated - have more success than hard working individuals who get targeted. Even if someone is a competent individual, a lot of their colleagues will abandon then if they're convinced the individual is a target.
mRNA isn't necessarily. The custom made cancer ones are, but that's different.
One thing we have learned on this journey is how much low noise is to our customers and the wider community - we have yet to really put this under test and try and get a cost number against it i.e. how much more would you pay for a quieter engine?
What we do have is an opportunity to be much quieter, but there is always a penalty to pay in terms of size. For example, unlike a battery aircraft, we still have to provide the fuel cells with air and we can do that with large quiet ducts or small noisy ones - but larger ones take up valuable real estate and ultimately add weight to the system.
What I can say is we will design it to be quieter than current jet engines, but where we draw the line is tbd.
I'm with you. Git with one sentence per line is generally my preferred workflow for markdown, asciidoc, etc.
Or, you're like "WTF is going on, I gotta figure this shit out"

...two days later...

"Oh I see now, you're all morons."
The link you sent shows a 1.5 year old snapshot. So much for twice a year.
What will happen to employee’s stock options if they all mass quit and moved to Microsoft?

The options will be worth $0, right?
I wasn't disagreeing, just adding the little context I had.
I think it more shows that the blend of profit/nonprofit was a failure.
Why would MSFT buy the for-profit entity when they already have the employees and IP?
Yup. Because installing (or doing anything with) Latex sucks. Packaging sucks, settings things sucks, every package inventing its own syntax sucks. Overleaf solves some of those problems. It still doesn't help you a lot with nonsense error messages but at least you can see them in roughly correct places half the time.
What I don’t understand is how everyone at OpenAI other than the board just resigns and applies to Microsoft and now Microsoft has a new group that not only preserves a competitor but also one that serves the employees by getting them better compensation and no possible limbo of what is in store.

I have built a product around the APIs and I rather go through whatever Microsoft will make me go through than accepting OpenAIs bad management:
> A better solution would be for nobody to tip

Would you rather not tip or not use the service?
unfortunately when the richest person in the world destroys himself, he can take a lot out with him, and it might take a while.
One of my computerr runs macOS. I easly I turned off the option to automatic'ly keep tke Mac updated, and received occasional notices about updates available for apps or the system. This allowed me to hold onto 11.x until the end of this month, by letting me selectively install updates instead of getting macOS 'major version' upgrades (meaning, no features I need, and minor downgrades and rearrangements I could avoid).

If only I had done kept a copy of 10.whateverMojaveWas so I could, by means of a simple network disconnect and reboot, sidestep the removal of 32-bit support. (-:
Given that Sickle Cell Disease only affects ~20 million people in the entire world [1], and beta-thalassemia affects even fewer (maybe ~200,000 people) [2], and that this treatment currently costs millions of dollars per person, I think shareholders will be just fine.

[1] https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sickle-cell-disease

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893117/
> OpenAI’s president tweeted that the tool [ChatGPT] hit 1 million within the first five days.

Perhaps the reason why ChatGPT has become so popular is because it provides entertainment. So it is not a great leap forward in AI or a path to AGI, but instead a incredibly convoluted way of keeping reasonable intelligent people occupied and amused. You enter a prompt, and it returns a result - what a fun game!

Maybe that is it's primary contribution to society.
> If people trust a company which co-mingles funds, they should be punished for misplacing their trust.

Most people can't do that, and even if they could, most people don't have the time nor the patience to do that
Are we reading the same thread? I'm not seeing any comments defending the practice, or calling it effective, or accusing people of "demonizing" a technology.
LLMs might already be good enough to degrade the benefit of freedom of speech via signal-to-noise ratio

Soon (1-2 years) LLMs will be good enough to improve the general SNR of the web. In fact I think GPT-4 might already be.
> If you want to deter military action involving your country, contributing to its defense is probably the best thing that you can do.

Given that Google is an American company, do you believe contributing to the American Department of "Defense" increases, or decreases, the amount of military action involving the USA?

The American military isn't called "world police" for nothing, and just like the cops they're sticking their noses where they don't belong and making things worse. I can understand why people would want no part in furthering global violence and destitution.

> If you believe that your country offers value (compared to the rest of the world), you should take any opportunities you can to serve.

Really? There's an obligation to further the American global ambition through contributing militarily? You can't think of any other way to spread American culture and values? To share the bounty of American wealth?
if you told me 4 days ago that it'd be "doing someone a favor" to take the ceo job at openai... i'd have said you are hallucinating very badly