skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are so ubiquitous here I've had conversations with multiple people who think they are native. Apparently, seedlings were given to new parents from a maternity hospital in southern Sydney back in the day which helped their spread.

Sadly, their reputation seems to overshadow the native Illawarra Flame Tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachychiton_acerifolius) which itself is showing off vibrantly right now. I'm lucky enough to have a few in my street.
Well, they still haven’t accused him of anything yet despite repeatedly being asked to explain their reasoning, so it seems fair to give him the benefit of the doubt until they do.
That looks right up my alley, thanks for the pointer. Will have to check it out!
It's too bad yenc didn't take the place of base64 for email.
> You think his existential worries are less important than being liked by his coworkers??

Yes, actually. This is overwhelmingly true for most people. At the end of the day, we all fear being alone. I imagine that fear is, at least in part, what drives these kinds of long-term "existential worries," the fear of a universe without other people in it, but now Ilya is facing the much more immediate threat of social ostracism with significantly higher certainty and decidedly within his own lifetime. Emotionally, that must take precedence.
As a big-L Libertarian, I totally get where you're coming from. It's spot on - focusing on this government vs. corporation debate is missing the forest for the trees. What really matters is how much power any entity has to stomp on our liberties, whether it's the feds or big tech.

The richest guy can say whatever he wants; he's got the means to bypass the usual channels. But what about the average Joe? That's where our concern should be. It's not about agreeing with what's said, but making sure everyone can say it. We need to keep our eyes on the real issue: preventing anyone, government or corporate, from getting too much control over our free speech. It's all about that freedom, not getting bogged down in who's the bigger threat.
I can't help but think this whole cluster is the result of having technical people running a company.
Unlike my objection to the use of the concept of hullucination in relation to the output of LLMs, I concur here!
I find it absolutely fascinating that Emmett accepted this position. He can game all scenarios and there is no way that he can come out ahead on any of them. One would expect an experienced Silicon Valley CEO to make this calculus and realize it's a lost cause. The fact he accepted to me shows he's not a particularly good leader.
people will wise up to the idea that sufficiently coercive corporations are indistinguishable from government and vice-versa

I will 100% agree that large-corp is a threat to democracy, and specific freedoms. But indistinguishable? Come on.

A government can prevent you from speaking your mind, via legislation and the judicial branch. In terms of raw power, they have the capability to throw you in jail, they can detain you, they can prevent protest, pass laws to make your specific actions literally result in incarceration, they have armies, and police, and state spies, and on and on and on.

Corporations may sometimes avail themselves of some of that power, but it is still the state wielding it. Corporations by themselves have little direct power, compared to states themselves.

And yes, corporations will perform tasks for the state, and the state will sometimes perform tasks for corporations. But that's not my point.

My point is, having a large corporation does not immediately provide for a massive army at the direct control of a CEO. It's just not indistinguishable, at all.

So yes, looking at the specific powers of each entity is a good idea. Just.. keep it in perspective.
If you think people in oppressive regimes get due process in court then I have a bridge to sell you.

I think trivializing harm is bad but at the end of the day I think you will concede that there is a speech line which can be crossed beyond which you will be fired. Otherwise people could just be cruel and mean to everyone around them and face no consequences. Once you believe that then really all we are doing is haggling about where the line should be… which is something we’ve been doing for generations.

Even if we’re not talking about official action and are talking about group vigilantism, I think we’d agree that if someone had well documented nazi and racist activities outside of work that it would be ok for people to ostracize that person? That just leads back to haggling about boundaries and that’s very hard to sort out without being very specific.
Amazon’s intro to AI, taught using Amazon’s suite and only Amazon’s suite of vendor-lock AI products.
The lawsuit funded by Peter Thiel with the intention of bankrupting Gawker? That case was about invasion of privacy and emotional distress, and Gawker settled. The case said nothing about a supposed "journalistic malpractice"
I don't think I have heard of the automatic AoS/AoS before, do you have good links to study more?
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Everyone has biases, and you're not exempt. If you know that your language might be grossly misinterpreted, consider changing it, if only for your own image.

> If I say "Christian Communities hate gays", you'll probably think of one or two specific communities.

That might be true for me, but I'm thinking of "Protestant Christian evangelicals and co." as one community, so...
i'm hyped for federated social media if for no reason other than that it forces the free-speech people to confront the world in which they unambiguously have free speech, and find themselves ignored more than before.

but that only works for the everyday free-speech libertarian, not the actual egotistical. i watched the CTO of a prominent defense contractor cry "censorship" when they weren't allowed to present at an open source tech conference unless they removed all company branding from their slides. as if the arms dealers are the ones at the wrong end of the power struggle; as if Elon Musk with an audience of tens of millions is the victim of society. i don't know what to call that view toward individual liberties except for literal delusion.
The = does not appear if the base64 data is a multiple of 4 length. So you wouldn't know if aGVsbG8I is one or two streams. The = is not a separator, only padding to make the base64 stream a multiple of 4 length for some reason.

I only mentioned the concatenation because Wikipedia claims this use case requires padding while in reality it doesn't.
Why did Altman bring him onboard in the first place? What value does he provide? If there is a conflict of interest why didn’t Altman see it?

If this Quora guy is the cause of all this, Altman only has himself to blame since he is the reason the Quora guy is on the board.
If only .001% of the population of China bought a 747.
I'm not sure what scenario you have in mind, in which the thing they have been annoyed by would be useful as a defence.
Hence the need for strict governance. I can't think of another board with so many board seats empty, to say nothing about conflicts of interest.
The main benefit of something like River is simplicity. With River your application might consist of two components, a database, and a code server. Such an architecture is really easy to test, develop, debug and deploy.

Adding temporal.io means introducing a third component. More components usually means more complexity. More complexity means more difficult to test, develop, debug and deploy.

As with everything, it's all about tradeoffs.
Unfortunately, it's a scale. Where do you think criticism ends and censorship begins?:

1. Tweeting that someone is wrong.

2. Tweeting that someone is bad.

5. A corporate Twitter account saying someone is bad.

4. One hundred thousand people tweeting that someone is bad.

6. A company withdrawing advertising from a businessman whose tweets they disagree with.

8. A company withdrawing twitter service from a customer whose tweets they believe are bad.

9. A company withdrawing email service from a customer whose (public) emails they believe are bad.

10. A bank refusing to process donations for a person known to speak things the management of the bank does not want themselves to be associated with.

11. An online marketplace refusing to sell to a public speaker they do not want to be associated with.

12. Most banks and marketplaces refusing to serve an unpopular public speaker, in such a way that they cannot obtain the basic necessities of life.

13. The government imposing a $1 fine.

The constitution kicks in at #13, but most people would cry out at an earlier step.
Could you please elaborate on what a 'real job' is in this context?
> The fact that we impose negative consequences for undesirable speech via different mechanisms than the direct actions of government agents does not make what we're doing fundamentally different.

It absolutely does. There is a fundamental difference between "go to jail because of your speech" and "people don't want to do business with you because of your speech". The former is making speech illegal; the latter is the fundamental right of every person to decide who they associate with.
Thanks for the response! It should have occurred to me that there must have been even more threads than were showing.
Nouveau was already functional for desktop usage though, apart from certain bugs and limitations. If you just can't stand using the proprietary driver and don't need gaming or compute performance, go for it!
Yeah but then you have to buy an iPhone.

That's not snark. I want things from my phone that an iPhone can't give me.

The battery replacement ecosystem in Android land is pretty dismal.
I used to work there and while I don't have the best things to say about that part of my life, this is absolutely true.

SpaceX, whatever you think of its CEO, is chock full of people whose brilliance glows in the dark.
Hold up. Any AI that exists is an IO function (algorithm) perhaps with state. Including our brains. Being an “x completion” algorithm doesn’t say much about whether it is AI.

Your comment sounds like a rhetoric way to say that GPT is in the same class as autocomplete and that what autocomplete does sets some kind of ceiling to what IO functions that work a couple of bytes at a time
can do.

It is not evident to me that that is true.
> Everyone does this by putting /v1/ in the api url

URLs are opaque identifiers that only have meaning to the server that generated them. This makes any meaning implicit, where the accept header is an explicit and documented part of the interface. Maybe not much difference in practice for code you've interacted with, but that doesn't mean no difference at all.

If curl has trouble setting headers, that's a curl problem.
Interesting quote as it is the giant issue that practically everybody in the industry has been talking about since the beginning of the wholesale electricity markets.

Economics 101 assumes some demand elasticity, but the wholesale markets are generally fully inelastic (maybe a tiny percentage point of that is elastic in many regions, while it's finally growing in others). These markets have to use administrative solutions to approximate the value to demand as they don't have a true aggregate demand curve built out of thousands of customers that are fully responsive to price.

We're retiring our thermal fleet at a rapid pace and load curtailment will be the only option on a fully renewable grid once the renewables drop in output and the storage runs out. We are making strides in that direction.

Maybe when he says "nobody" he's referring to the general public? I know this is an extremely common topic at the utility, ISO, FERC, academic, and so on level. As the comment points out, flexibility in demand allows for all kinds of neat tricks like pre-heating things when prices are cheap and supply is plentiful. The grid is so cool.
The "White fragility" book by Robin DiAngelo brought this message to the main stream. It was carried very widely by ad networks.
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For clarity, I meant the two terms are not interchangeable.
Way too speculative and early to be saying this.
That checks out.

If so, a big issue was Ilya being so out of touch with what an overwhelming majority of his company wanted.
Thanks, I used that Digital Ocean tutorial, but it doesn't get into the ICMP filtering enough, which you need for IPv6. And the pseudo code you shared is nice, but again, IPv6 will not work with that. ufw comes with a base ruleset with like 100ish lines of complex ICMP filtering. It's difficult/impossible to expect everyone to be able to write something like that from scratch in a syntax like pf. I just wish there was a complete, good template out there, but I haven't found anything.
Early in my career, I dealt with this garage.

Once, I reported the VP of engineering for instructing me to commit fraud. I got back "Just do what he says, he's got experience in these things.". Then they hired someone to take over my team.

Another time, I reported someone for sexual assault to HR. I shared the incident without names at first and HR told me "oh, that's awful. Who is it? They need to go.". When I shared the name, I got "oh. Well, they are too important to the company. I'll talk to them."

I put in my resignation shortly after that.

I won't work for people like that anymore.
It sounds wonderful when the biggest worry you have about money is how to file your taxes. If that were true for most people on this planet bitcoin would probably not be needed.
People who were wrong and change their minds should be punished less, not more, than those who persist in being wrong. The rest of the board is holding firm and preventing the problem from being resolved, so they are more culpable than Ilya.
Do you need some advanced features of Office? LibreOffice is pretty good, nobody amongst my clients know I use it as we exchange documents. It’s pretty seamless!
I think the board was surprised when nobody bought their claim of Sam’s vague wrongdoing.

Actually, I think every plot twist we’ve seen has been a surprise for them as they have consistently acted without 5 minutes of foresight.

And not just with the drama. For example, according to Stratechery, the clause in the contract saying Microsoft couldn’t use GPT-4 as a foundation for their own models was recently removed in a contract revision. If you don’t like your CEO, and Microsoft likes your CEO, and Microsoft has the rights to your models and code, it doesn’t take much to add up 2 + 2 + 2 = 6.
Because having the plans for something and having capability, materials and funding to do it are two different things.
Unless you're a member of a protected class, the numbered act violates a law, or the numbered act violates contractual terms: 13.
>You're supposed to do an actual investigation,

Holding trial in a court of law is that "investigation".

>not just ask one party's opinion and call it a day.

Except that's what you've been saying OpenAI employees should do.

>C'mon we're talking about his sister making this accusation not some rando gold digger I don't need to justify that some due diligence is in order.

Presuming guilt until proven innocent is the literal opposite of due dilligence.

It doesn't matter if the accuser is a sibling, a spouse, a (ex-)lover, a friend, a stranger, or a little green man from Mars. Due dilligence is considering the allegations put forth before the court and the evidence provided to either prove or disprove those allegations, with the burden of evidence primarily lying with the accuser.

>Innocent until proven guilty only works when allegations are investigated–otherwise everyone is always "innocent" because you have just chosen not to look.

You are correct that everyone is presumed innocent of any allegations until the case is brought to a trial and judgment is passed in a court of law with no chance for further appeals. If an accuser never files a lawsuit to bring their allegation to trial, the only way we can consider the accused is that he is innocent of any allegations.
The bleak reality is that OpenAI became that jerk company, and now in its effective demise, those reigns are handed over to Microsoft. Who have already demonstrated (with CoPilot) a similar lack of ... concern ... for IP rights / authorship, and various other ethical aspects.

And bleak because there doesn't seem to be an alternative where the people making these decisions are responsible to an electorate or public in some democratic fashion. Just a bunch of people with $$ and influence who set themselves up to be arbiters ... and

It's just might makes right.

And bleak because in this case the "mighty" are often the very people who made fun of arts students who took the philosophy and ethics classes in school that could at least offer some insight in these issues.
look, it is simple. Adam was not happy when poe AI was killed on dev day. He manipulated Ilya on his vulnerable ideology and then possibly secretly paid some good money to other board members to buy them in(they didn't get any shares from being on the board and it is a lot of money at stake). Now Adam is king.
It is fascinating considering that D'Angelo had a history with coup (in Quora he did the same, didn't he?)
Now I believe him :)
> Is that even possible

Apparently it is, because up until October of last year, advertisers felt Twitter's ad placements were acceptable and they were not stumbling over each other to abandon the platform.
See, that's what I'm talking about ;)
This is Boeing we're talking about. They stopped being any kind of competent a few decades ago. :(
This reads like the Board 4 are not allowed to say, or are under NDA, or do not dare say, or their lawyers told them not to say, the actual reason. Because this is obviously not the actual reason.
XML, JSON, Protobuf can all be used as object serialization formats. It's not nonsensical at all for an endpoint to offer choice as to what serialization format a client may want to use. It's not common, but that doesn't mean nonsensical.
OK: Keep in mind this predates basically ANY kind of source control in common usage in software engineering.
Don't dig through history, just respond to the current conversation. Advertisers didn't dig through history of posts to decide to leave, they had one final straw and dipped out in near real-time.
...silently replacing the CPO program with a used program and shipping out cars with toenail clippings, launching AP2 with less reliability than AP1 because Mobileye fired them as a customer, shipping non-automotive grade screens that started leaking in cars...

Yeah there's a laundry list but in my experience the people who comment like what I replied to will have excuses for all that

The only technique that ever gets some semblance of acceptance is using Tesla's own claims as proof (since everything else is an anti-Elon conspiracy theory)
Thanks CNN for informing us about the largest known online disinformation operation harassing Americans
Next up, China and Saudi Arabia chairing the United Nations Human Rights Council informing us about how the rights of humans are being trampled
First, I meant people would've already jumped ship to Microsoft en masse without bothering with the OpenAI board fiasco if Microsoft truly held all the cards. I suspect they do not.

Second, I meant the OpenAI that signed the initial agreement with Microsoft years ago already had ample resources and funding. In those negotiations, OpenAI would have had little incentive to hand over all their IP regardless of the offer on hand.
Proposition 22 in California means that app-based limo drivers and delivery workers receive guaranteed minimum earnings for the time and distance they're on a job:

- 120% of minimum wage, plus

- 30 cents per mile

This doesn't cover the time between jobs, which makes some sense because a worker can be available for multiple services at once.

Importantly, tips don't count towards the minimum earnings guarantee.
In Sweden, like other developing nations, we had our soldiers cycling with their anti tank weapons (first picture):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_infantry
I'm not an assembly programmer and not very familiar with how that world works, but even then, if the two OSs were for the same architecture (x86), couldn't you still have a cross OS main part and then specific parts that deal with operating system things? I normally think of compiled languages like c being an abstraction over cpu architecture, not operating system api.
This is what I suspect; that their silence is possibly not simply evidence of no underlying reason, but that the underlying reason is so sensitive that it cannot be revealed without doing further damage. Also the hastiness of it makes me suspect that whatever it was happened very recently (e.g. conversations or agreements made at APEC).

Ilya backtracking puts a wrench in this wild speculation, so like everyone else, I’m left thinking “????????”.
Irving on Helen, Ilya, and Sam
Some stories don't have a hero.
I think you've touched on a certain power dynamic. Advertisers, for the most part, are not compelled to continue to advertise their product on a particular platform and would often rather pull advertising than deal with an angry mob. This tends to hold true even if the angry mob is wrong!

It's easy for advertisers to resume spending once the dust has settled than stand by the accused.

Some groups are keenly aware of this power dynamic and will exploit it to their own ends.
I agree. For years the effort was destined to only ever achieve 10% max of its potential performance. Also, there were architectural changes which probably rendered previous optimizations ineffectual.
Everyone involved here is a doomer by the strict definition ("misaligned agi could kill us all and alignment is hard") .
Under civil rights legislation, we are all members of protected classes. A protected class is defined as a property that you aren't allowed to use when making decisions about how to treat people, not a literal class of protected individuals.
Base64 doesn't have a concept of "stream". Conceptually base64-encoded string with padding is a concatenation of fragments that are always 4 bytes long but can encode one to three bytes. Concatenating two base64-encoded strings with padding therefore don't destroy fragment structures and can be decoded into a byte sequence that is a concatenation of two original input sequences. Without padding, fragments can be also 2 or 3 bytes and short fragments are not distinguishable from long fragments, so the concatenation will destroy fragment structures.
Telco CEO quits after admitting to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch
I have not seen a single model X where the wing door trim aligns with other panels when closed.
It's been forever since I really played with firewalls, but I remember pf being much more thought-out than iptables.
To be fair, nasa has had more than half a century to accumulate ‘splosions. It’s part of the job. I’m certain spacex will have a catastrophe at some point because literally every nation with a space program has had them, and they are far more safety conscious then the VC move fast and break things curse that has taken over modern tech.
So if 10% sign it’s meaningless, and if 90% sign it’s meaningless?
...are you still been unable to realize that it was really just a politically motivated firing?

The example of "lack of candor" that Ilya provided was "Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project."

Hilarious how Hacker News is unable to understand that Ilya was just trying to grab power.
Kind of! Here is the rub. When someone borrows $1m to buy a house, new money is created. Therefore the economy relies somewhat on borrowing to keep money flowing around.
I think to a large extent this is correct but, being the devils advocate, perhaps if the GIS tool were better then your friend wouldn’t have had quite as big a gain in free time?

Answering my own question somewhat, I think that LLMs are becoming a kind UI layer over many applications/tools for many users. Which is interesting. And in some ways they show signs of fulfilling the promise of AI.