skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Binance does a lot of business in the US. Probably in exchange for paying fines etc they will be able to keep in operation. I assume CZ himself won't suffer much. The Bitmex guy pleaded guilty of not enforcing AML properly and ended up with 6 months house arrest at home.
> Uhmm, it upset 98% (not figuratively, but mathematically) of all 700 employees who signed a petition to quit unless he's reinstated and for the board to resign.

And they have yet to leave as far as I know. Seems like no one is in an actual hurry to quit.
Technology is not made out of thin air but it is made - and maintained - by people; and when 500 out of 700 people threaten to quit on the spot and leave for competitors, or for Microsoft, investors might not be happy at all.
It depends on the complexity of the program/problem being solved. I think it’s conceptually simpler, for example, to demonstrate how a function that can’t have side-effects works than one that doesn’t by pure “accident”. The real trouble is when you want the program to do anything actually useful, like interact with anything (input/output). And since that’s where the vast majority of programming is spent, I tend to agree that imperative first is a better approach.
The dirt in this screed is kind of besides the point.

Startups die by self-deception.

The lie that OpenAI has still been pursuing its original mission was extremely transparent to every informed person inside and outside the company. Their attempts to distort reality were weak and useless. The chickens have come to roost. The company has been blown up as a result. It was only a matter of time.
It's a first: Scientists find ethyl vanillin in a specially-bred strawberry
First thing I thought of, but I didn't want to be the first one to throw out accusations. That comment has the same unnatural writing patterns that ChatGPT uses. Something about the style makes me feel uneasy when reading it.
> He lives in the Middle East, which does not have any extradition treaties with America.

He lives in Dubai, within one of the US's closest allies in the region. I'd be worried.
The OG Xbox used to allow you to rip music locally to the device and then playback the music in games which supported it. It was a pretty nice feature for its day.
Flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, eggs, milk, and butter

The pancake stack

Never neglect the importance of a healthy breakfast for the startup grindset
The literal printing press has freedom? What? No, it's "the press" that has freedom, and in 1791 that was understood to be "people and organizations that operate printing presses". That a printing press was involved is just an accident of the stage of technological development at which the First Amendment was written. The courts have rightly extended that freedom to other technologies than the printing press.
I think one lesson we learned from Twitter is that you can cull a large amount of a tech workforce and the product will keep humming along, albeit at a reduced rate of change.

Also, unlike Twitter, OpenAI pays engineers very competitive salaries and can aggressively re-hire roles.
A friend of mine worked with Sam Altman and Emmett Shear and he gave me a letter to leadership to post on his behalf (he'd like to remain anonymous):

Pay me back for the lunch you ordered last week using my card. Also, you made a deal with me to pay me $1 million. Emmett, you promised to uphold this bargain. Everyone should put some pressure on them to give me the money. Also, stop pretending to not be from the Planet Zondar. We know you destroyed its sun by using concentrated Rutherfordium.

He also posted it on Pastebin anonymously: https://pastebin.com/UZ3Jd3Xi
https://stratechery.com/2023/openais-misalignment-and-micros...

"Microsoft’s original agreement with OpenAI also barred Microsoft from pursuing AGI based on OpenAI tech on its own; my understanding is that this clause was removed in the most recent agreement."

(It's hidden under a citation bubble you need to click after the third paragraph.)
Macintosh.js: A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron
Autodesk maybe, but Adobe? I don't see anything on their product portfolio like Blender. Substance Painter maybe? But when it comes to ease of use and feature completeness, texture painting in Blender is a very rudimentary tool.

At any rate, taking down the Blender website wouldn't help them I don't think.
You know that any of us here could put this up in a matter of minutes with the help of ChatGPT. There is zero authenticity to such writings. I’m sure some won’t realise this in the heat of debate
5% annualized on 4% inflation is a joke. I don't consider "high yield" savings to be any kind of strategy.
- The vlogger and his wife overheard a secret meeting between Chinese government officials and a Micronesian governor discussing help for China in an upcoming war over Taiwan.

- The meeting took place on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia.

- Recently, the president of Micronesia wrote a letter denouncing Chinese interference and recommending supporting Taiwan instead.

- Losing control of Micronesia would weaken US supply routes in Asia and force a bottleneck in supporting bases in countries like South Korea and Japan.

- The Chinese officials tried deflecting the conversation away from the recent anti-China letter.

- Local residents said China had been bribing politicians and threatening leaders who didn't cooperate.

- Other countries like Fiji and the Solomon Islands have been shifting towards China, making Micronesia's alignment more important for the US.

- The vlogger decided to share what he witnessed with Micronesian government contacts, though the outcome of that was unclear.

- The video argues that a "cold war" is happening in the Pacific as spheres of influence are reshaped.

- Micronesia's strategic location and political alignment will impact stability in the region.
> The board announced the removal of a CEO which they have the power to do.

They have the power to remove him momentarily, do they have the power to keep him out? we're still finding out.

> OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech.

OpenAI's valuation is nominally because of the tech. It's fundamentally because of the people. 90% of the staff is threatening to follow Sam to $MS so that's the whole ball game. They went to OpenAI to make themselves rich. The board fired the guy that was trying to do that for them.

> I was sad when my favorite pet died too, but then eventually you get a new pet that’s just as good as a Worldcoin guy, maybe better.

Doesn't matter if you or I am sad. It only matters if the talent at OpenAI is sad. The board made them sad. Sam and Sataya make them happy.
>From the outside-in, I'm having a hard time understanding how commercializing GPT-3 and GPT-4 doesn't "benefit of all humanity". I don't think these models are intelligent or world-changing, but offering an API for people to build on lit a fire under people's asses.

When it's controlled by the powerful, it stands to mainly benefit the powerful that control it. A current example is how they are filtering it. They can restrict answers to specific questions to the public that they themselves have access to.
Less of an ad and more of a "here, watch this instead"
"A warrant requirement would amount to a de facto ban, because query applications either would not meet the legal standard to win court approval"

I hope that we get that de facto ban. It would be good for society.
"If it bleeds, it leads", but applied to business journalism.
Sam Altman is currently talking to the board. You want them to spin up drama by quitting in the middle of the talks? You're trying too hard to copy paste your desired narrative on this and it fits so, so, so poorly.
This is not a structure that will actually work in the real world and everyone involved knows it.

Why? Because the profit half is why the non-profit would ever have power.

If the company is led to slow progress down or reduce profit motivations, other companies will fill that gap and the non-profit doesnt have power over AI anymore.

To be the source of AI, to control it, means to have the money to pay the best, to build the sort of place that AI dev can thrive. Only then can you control what gets out there. This will lead a rift between the pro-profit and non-profit halves and when the investors and clients get limited by the nonprofits, they will work to kill the non-profit. This is what reality, not dream company world, looks like.
Might I add, the board was stacked from the start. They have a competitor on the board regulating the profit half. Few if any of them are actually respectable or successful leaders.

This ends with the Board gone and replaced with one pro-profit for MS, or MS holding all the cards internally. No version of this actually will work long-term and it never would. People inventing it thought they could make a dream company of sorts with no downsides, just non-profit smarts running a profitable company...but it isn't a balanced system. The money wins out.
It does render the notion of "ethical collapse" and supposed comparisons to Enron a bit meaningless if we're also counting the sorts of ethical violation most companies are guilty of though. It's a bit like if a study of "criminality" makes a point of honing in on everyone who's broken a speed limit before...
Insurance companies have no issue adjusting car insurance rates based on the "safe driving monitor" that they provide you put in your car. Even if you drive safe they adjust by mileage. Not sure how this is any different...just another line in the TOS.

It isn't just health insurance you need to think about.
>>"benefit of all humanity"

because it is not an objective goal, but a subjective one. What I, a libertarian anti-government individualist believes will "benefit of all humanity" is very different from a SanFran based Social Democracy pro-government person, and is very different than Theological Authoritarian from one of the 3 big religions.

This is been one of by big issues with OpenAI from the start, their imposition that their view of what will "benefit of all humanity" was and is clearly politically slanted, and IMO is very dangerous.
Based on OpenAI's structure, I would expect his equity would be in the OpenAI holding company, and not OpenAI Global, LLC which Microsoft is a minority owner of and the holding company is a majority holder. The holding company is what employees and investors have equity in.

If Altman had equity directly in OpenAI Global that would be really odd and go against OpenAIs previous disclosures.

https://openai.com/our-structure
Ask HN: Should I chair a standards comittee working group
I got invited to chair a working group by a standards foundation (not w3c but they specs from them often end up getting into w3c after). And I am now debating if this is worth the time or if it is smarter to fully focus on building great software. Should i do it ?

On the one hand this area really needs some standards to help us get interoperable but on the other hand a spec is nothing without a great implementation. If I think of some recent new standards that succeeded it seems like they first start with great software like Mastodon->ActivityPub , RabbitMQ->AMQP, kNative/serverless -> CloudEvents (not thoroughly researched)… So I hope that it won’t subtract more dev time than its worth.

Other benefits of leading the working group : networking and getting lots of feedback on our implementation plans

The context is HR tech and we plan to raise money next year but are actively intentionally not yet building the final product because there are so many different architectures that we need to try to find the best one.
The investors have extremely deep pockets and good lawyers. I would not want to be on that board even with very good D&O insurance. It's not bulletproof, and a lawsuit by Altman, in particular, could be excluded from coverage and force them to defend themselves out of pocket.
This would be good, right up until it itself becomes as corrupted as the entities is prosecutes. The problem is that 'unconstitutional' is in the eye of the beholder. Take for example the classic "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.". Does this mean all gun control laws are unconstitutional or does it mean that gun control laws are implicit in what it means to be a 'A well regulated Militia'; the army for example has a ton of rules about guns. Good arguments can be made for either of these views (and others). Interpretation is everything.
Interesting, that's what I was wondering exactly, thanks for the context.

I think the main difference between our experiences is stemming from the "Play" garden.

when I was on android, I didn't care that the Play experience was being "deprecated" because all I would use it (and YTM) for was music.
And now with Apple, I just think it as my "music" app. And regardless of platform, I find it absolutely demolishes Spotify top to bottom in UI/UX, audio options, discovery, app health, etc.)

I've never had AA/Carplay, so not surprised this has never bothered me. Makes me realize i'm missing an entire feature suite.

Have you tried it recently? I'm interested if you'd find it to be more "normie polished" than it used to be.

Edit: not sure why I'm defending an evil mega-corp, trying to justify my years of purchases I guess :)
A 50% attrition rate is worse than fast food hourly work.
OpenAI went through at least one purge, Musk founded it but famously is no longer associated with it. There’s a huge amount of board turnover, it would be interesting to see the causes behind that
> The literal printing press has freedom? What? No, it's "the press" that has freedom.

No, the people have freedom to use the press, just like the same Amendment protects the freedom to use speech.
I see. Pursuing AGI sounds distinct from commercializing future versions of ChatGPT based on OpenAI IP. I imagine the exact legal wording in the contract makes all the difference.

The WSJ article from June he cited indicates the license still comes with restrictions.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-forge-awkw...
A median tenure of 2.5 years seems pretty good, compared to those employees likes other options; Amazon's average is only one year. https://amazonbound.medium.com/why-amazons-attrition-is-high...
Yeah okay Microsoft poaches them but they still have to restart building everything from scratch which wouldn’t benefit Microsoft. Microsoft doesn’t want to poach talent, they can always do that with or without this incident. Microsoft wants the whole bundle. Hence the media campaign Satya is doing.
This is product quantization (a vector is chopped up into sub-vectors where each sub-vector is quantized using vector quantization (VQ)), not scalar quantization (which is what you're comparing it to here).

Also most scalar quantization methods use uniform quantization (e.g., divide the range between the scalar lower bound L and scalar upper bound H into N different regions where N is usually 2^bit_width), whereas PQ (and VQ) is learned quantization via k-means on some training vector set, so they're not really directly comparable.
98% is meaningless. If Altman is reinstated then he will have the power to fire anyone who didn’t sign. You’d be an idiot not to sign it.
Yes, after using git for a few years I was introduced to Mercurial and it was like a breath of fresh air, although I'm also told hg added a number of things that made it much more usable, "right before I started using it".

Since I have limited brain capacity I focus my efforts on being able to use git, not hg, merely because it has so much marketshare.
If you squint a little, https://web.archive.org/web/20030629114010/http://www.venge.... is a fair approximation of some of the core ideas behind git (and Linus played with it and wrote a critique of its short-comings before starting git)
Off: Did you stop martial arts? If no, How did you cope/manage?

Just curious.
To limit the power of monopolies.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/index_en
> LLMs absolutely need some restrictions on their use.

Arguably the right kind of structure for deciding on what uses LLMs should be put to in its territory is a democratically elected government.
IMO as long as it's legal.
It's not about blocks. Post-war terraces and detached houses are totally bland as well.
> As an aside, the experiences of the marginalized people you describe don't seem to indicate that there is a net advantage to them. I think anyone who was adopting an identity in bad faith would quickly discover that it wasn't as helpful as they thought.

I doubt it's helpful enough to land a poor applicant a job but it's probably quite beneficial for a good applicant to be bisexual or queer and to find a way to bring that up in their DEI statement. There's little cost involved in claiming those identities. The linked article describes situations where candidates are selected for these reasons.

Also, I'm not alleging "bad faith" so much as people gravitating toward identites that confer advantages and street cred. People are capable of convincing themselves of all sorts of things, for example in the past many gay people convinced themselves they weren't gay and really believed it.
Developed nations laugh at our checks and balances, because we believe in them

bUt aT LeAst wE cAN tALK aBoUt It
Good, infrastructure matters: Birdseye, famous for fish, got freezers into supermarkets; Edison, famous for lights, constructed generators; Tesla (co), famous for cars, constructed charging stations.
Maybe it was revised using ChatGPT
> Also "shouldn't be on the HN homepage" is not really a pertinent comment, seeing as it is on the front page, meaning others (via the algorithm) do think it is a worthy submission.

I would argue that, as in a lot of cases with articles that appear on the FP, this one may be getting upvoted as folks are around for the discussion, not necessarily the featured article, as it's just "another clue" as to what the heck is going on with this circus show.
Ethereum running “solely” on AWS is a myth. If AWS were shut down, the chain would continue as usual.
Yeah there has been plenty of explanation. Sam Altman has competing interests and was looking to leverage OpenAI’s tech in those interests.
Your comment reminded me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ktyr1/unreal_yes_th...

Many more examples, of course.
Just because a government doesn't have an extradition treaty doesn't mean they won't extradite. Most countries with non-extradition policies only apply them to native-born nationals and sometimes citizens in general. For some random foreigner, it depends entirely on the geopolitical situation.
Let's say it's the 17th century and you've stumbled across a cadre of intimidatingly clever and charming aristocrats who believe that they're on the verge of summoning an ancient Egyptian demon who will either be the salvatation or doom of humanity. It's critical that the ritual be fully understood and correctly performed if salvation is to be acheived and doom is avoided.

These gentlemen then tell you that other groups are almost as near to the summoning as themselves, but that any approach other than their own is reckless and ultimately apocolyptic.

That's the headspace or the serious AI Safety people. Like the 17th century occultists and their work, it's fanatical and zealous and not easily disprovable because it relies on secret, mystified knowledge that outsiders can't possibly conprehend. To them, skepticism only reflects ignorance.

And yeah, it easily looks totally nutso and delusional from the outside, whether they're ultimately right or wrong.

When AI Safety talks go beyond brand protection (don't let Bing play Nazi roleplay) and into existential melodrama, you need to interpret it through this kind of lens.
He hasn’t. Why would he prematurely?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23970100/sam-altman-micr...
Study: In the UK, 2.7M households are vegan or vegetarian
It can also be used in friendly games, where everyone is aware of it.
What are you talking about? The OpenAI board isn't made up of investors.
You stretching my words in so many directions... Relax, its just a comment, no need to feel vindicated.
The illustrations here could probably also be so modeled: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369731

Newer waveguide approaches for example with dual or additional beams could also be so visualized.

Three.js interactive webgl particle wave simulator:
https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_points_waves.html

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38028794 re: a new ultrasound wave medical procedure:

> "Quantum light sees quantum sound: phonon/photon correlations" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793765 ; the photonic channel actually embeds the phononic field

Phonon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon :

> Phonons can be thought of as quantized sound waves, similar to photons as quantized light waves.[2] However, photons are fundamental particles that can be individually detected, whereas phonons, being quasiparticles, are an emergent phenomenon. [3]

> The study of phonons is an important part of condensed matter physics. They play a major role in many of the physical properties of condensed matter systems, such as thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity, as well as in models of neutron scattering and related effects.

Electron behavior is also fluidic in Superfluids (e.g. Bose-Einstein Condensates).

SQS Superfluid Quantum Space

"Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?" (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31383784 :

> "Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2017) :

> [...] Vorticity is interpreted as spin (a particle's internal motion). Due to non-zero, positive viscosity of the SQS, and to Bernoulli pressure, these vortices attract the surrounding quanta, pressure decreases and the consequent incoming flow of quanta lets arise a gravitational potential. This is called superfluid quantum gravity.

And it's n-body and fluidic.

Curl, Spin, and Vorticity;

Vorticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticity

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31049970 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-31049970 ... CFD, jax-cfd, :

> Thus our best descriptions of emergent behavior in fluids (and chemicals and fields) must presumably be composed at least in part from quantum wave functions that e.g. Navier-Stokes also fit for; with a fitness function.

From "Light and gravitational waves don't arrive simultaneously"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38056295 :

> TLDR; In SQS (Superfluid Quantum Space), Quantum gravity has fluid vortices with Gross-Pitaevskii, Bernoulli's, and IIUC so also Navier-Stokes; so Quantum CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics).
> OpenAI’s valuation isn’t because Sam Altman is worth $90B it’s the tech. The tech is fine. Investors have no reason to worry about their investment in the tech.

The following story is only about an hour old, but the investors are reportedly considering legal action against the board:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-investors-consider...
Have you tried making a mobile music player as a web page? Does it work in the background, does it remain playing when the phone is locked?
I've been consistently on the side of OpenAI's board since this started, to give them the benefit of the doubt as is reasonable to do in a time of turmoil, especially since we're just hearing one side.

But after the news about trying to merge with Anthropic, and then this? Seems like total amateur hour on the boards part.