skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I had started the conversation about BTC not BCH. Personally, I feel that BCH has more of a team associated with it than BTC.

That said, none of what we're talking about addresses the fact that, in 2018, Gensler said, quote, "Bitcoin. Ether. Litecoin. Bitcoin Cash. Why did I name those four? They’re not securities."

Since then, things have changed, and now Gensler only highlights BTC as not a security.

If the inflection point was various teams speaking publicly about their usage of funds, and those talking points shifted Gensler's opinion, then OK, but I am not aware of an official moment when his sentiment shifted. As another commenter highlights, it could also be the transition to POS for Ethereum, but, again, I am not aware of Gensler highlighting the transition as the inflection point and this rationale fails to explain LTC and BCH.

To me, it feels like chasing opinion and public sentiment - not following rigid, established legal patterns.
It did a terrible job: it got the answer close but confidently wrong.

The middle term in the fallacy of the excluded middle here is "red", not "apple".
> Hm, ok, I was under the distinct impression that some of the early employees of OpenAI were stock holders in the entity in the middle.

That's the entity I discuss in GP as “the holding company above the LLC”.

I'm reasonably certain it is OpenAI LP, a limited partnership (but it is odd that its the one organization not identified in the document—the name of the entity used by OpenAI to control it, and separate information about OpenAI LP being created and existing as part of the for-profit structure fairly strongly indicates that it is the holding company), so the relationship would either be some kind of contractual profit sharing or a limited partnership, not a stockholder relationship. But, again while the information about it is less publicized than the LLC, it seems improbable that they would structure the operating agreement of the LLC so that it may not be managed for profit, but not provide the same in the holding company that's only possible source of profit is the LLC underneath it.
Thanks for sharing! It would be cool to share a loom or a sample dashboard to get things going, as I'd love to see a little more before signing up. It's hard for me to tell where this fits in. Is it a replacement for early usage of datadog? Does this offer support like pagerduty for pinging me? Is it the devX of setup?

Congrats on the launch!
Artwork is irrelevant. They can spend 5 minutes per month creating work. What's important is pr, branding, networking.
I actually remember this page, though I wouldn't actually write any ColdFusion code until a couple years after this.

This was 1996. Lynx was still used for real. CGI scripts were how most dynamic web pages were developed, and Netscape 3.0 was the bleeding edge.
I think what's already obvious is that most people in AI research care only for solving some hard problems in computer science. Both AI safety and ethics[0] be damned. So the amount of control OpenAI had on the research arm is less than you'd think.

[0] For the record, AI safety is the branch of research worried about controlling computer God, while AI ethics is the branch of research worried about whether or not it's OK to pay Pakistani kids pennies to label training data.
> As "dangerous" as Safari, right? What difference does it being an app make?

Apple’s pitch from day one has been that the App Store is more trustworthy: it launched in the era where a common joke this time of year was going to have thanksgiving with your parents and removing all of the malware they’d installed on the home PC. Part of the justification for the restrictions on developers was explicitly that they’d benefit from being in a place customers trust, kind of like how much effort companies will spend to get a prestige retailer to carry their lineup.

> can't imagine Apple's allergy to crypto payments is anything other than an insurance policy against the likes of Epic getting ideas to launch a cryptocurrency

This wouldn’t change the situation so there’s no reason to believe this is intended to be some 5-dimensional chess game rather than a simple desire not to play in a scammy space with a much higher risk of complaints and regulatory issues.
Onion is "addressed" by pointing out that it doesn't contain alcohol. This isn't a good explanation when it's combined with alcohol.
The more time passes the more these headlines look like PR/propaganda.

Expecting the headlines that tell us that 125% of OpenAI employees threaten to walk. Just quit already and go work for Microsoft.
If your self hosting bw then there is a better way. The vault is encrypted at rest. Just back that up via borgbackup. No questionable plain text step. No reminders, just nightly incremental backup
You hit the nail on the head here. A judge or jury is unlikely to side with the SEC because the kraken will undoubtedly mention the dozens of letters they sent to the SEC basically saying they want to be in full legal compliance and will remove any securities from their exchange.

The SEC will argue they just enforce the law and aren't required to tell them how to comply. Buuut they are professionally obligated to tell them, especially when the law is so ambiguous. It's obvious the SEC is being a bully, so the judiciary and public will hopefully side with Kraken.
Well, it still doesn't give him authority to dictate what the non profit should do or do not.
Isn't BTC controlled by one single very centralized group, Blockstream? I could be wrong but I thought Adam Back's Blockstream long ago hijacked the GitHub repo and took full control of that project.
No, this would be a shadow government by ransomware companies to govern other ransomware companies. We can all get along!
> nobody is flying an airplane that only 'works' 99.99% of the time

The 737 Max 8.
The Coinbase Wells letter was in reference to their interest bearing offerings
When will the temporary post 9-11 policies end? They aren’t really needed anymore, if they ever were.
that's pretty fundamentally different, no? One requires you to build a distributed system with >1 components leveraging GCP tasks APIs. The second is just a library do some book keeping inside your main datastore.
Why make claims you have no clue about? As someone said above Brave is NOT affected, their adblocker is a the very core of the browser and a basic chromium extension.
I think a metal detector search of the person and X-ray of bags is reasonable in terms of an invasiveness of search which is no greater than required for the legitimate safety concern and proportionate to the risk.

I think the AIT machines are not reasonable (by nature of being more invasive than required), which is why I opt-out 100% of the time, much to the frustration of my wife when we’re traveling together, but I don’t care.

I think the TSA agrees the AIT is likely enough to be unreasonable to not want it tested in court, hence they allow opt-out.
Is there a know path from an LLM to AGI? I have not seen or read anything the suggests LLMs bring us any closer to AGI.
Benioff and all these corporate fat cats should remove non-competes from their employment contracts if they want me to ever take them seriously.
or hadoop
"Zealous doomers" seems fair in the context of the vague and melodramatic claims they're pushing. But it makes sense because they're describing the threat of something that doesn't exist and may never exist. What is bad is that they are trying to claim that the threat is real and serious on that basis.
Generating Secure Random Numbers in TypeScript
That's correct, there's effectively no difference
He doesn't "have the authority to dictate" but he does "have an extremely influential position and his opinion is potentially very important to the non profit".
imagine receiving an offer, quitting your current jobs and waiting to start the new position.
>Human-subject testing is needed to test this hypothesis

This is a hypothesis and one that seems poorly born considering quercetin is available over the counter as a supplement and in no way causes headaches.

It is however, amazing at bolstering the immune system
> Or if the superintelligence is starting to disrupt our economies or computer systems, why wouldn't we be able to detect that early and purge it?

If it is a superintelligence then there's a chance for a hard AI takeoff and we don't have a day to notice and purge it. We have no idea if a hard or soft takeoff will occur.
If airlines are treated like a utility, and re-regulated, wouldn’t the American public get better service, and would airline investors and bond holders get a better (and more risk-aversive) return?
But then how would they pay for the free* healthcare and such?
Amazon won incredibly big time lol I'll be homeless in a few weeks but these billion dollar games are insanely entertaining to watch as someone with no stake
Tangentially, I've faced some interesting challenges getting a multi-gigabit Wireguard VPN operating through my 2Gb Frontier connection.

My UDM Pro seems to top out around ~800mbit per UDP stream - pegged at 100% CPU on a single core. Likely it can't keep up with the interrupt rate, given it's ksoftirqd pegging it. Replaced UDM Pro with a pfsense machine.

Then I started getting 100% packet loss on the edge of Frontier's network after a couple of minutes of sustained UDP near-line-rate throughput. In the end, after trying and failing to explain this to Frontier's tech support, I reached out to their engineering management on LinkedIn, and got put in touch with the local NOC director. Turns out to be some intermediate hop is rebooting after a few mins, and they're "in contact with the manufacturer". Haven't heard back in a few months.

tldr as >1Gb connections become more ubiquitous, other bottlenecks will become apparent!
Okay. That’s a cute fiction. But what do you think happens to OpenAI if they have to pay market rates for compute?
Another fun fact re: Dustin Moskovitz

Dustin was an early investor in Alameda Research and was also one of the biggest donors to Mind the Gap -- Sam's mom's Super PAC. When SBF was about to go under Dustin was his first call to try to raise money (came out in the FTX trial).
At this point, it's basically down to Food Services, Building Maintenance and Security, right?
At least you’ll probably get some. I had a fair amount on btc-e which the government happily took.
I am with you. I am VERY excited about LLMs but I don't see a path from an LLM to AGI. Its like 50 years ago when we thought computers themselves brought us one step away from AI.
Thank you for your feedback; I value constructive criticism.

I understand the importance of aligning with the vision of a product, service, or company when working with a team.

I genuinely try to do the best job I can with my skills despite lacking genuine interest in the products I have touched. I acknowledge the significance of shared enthusiasm for a product, but I wonder if there could be merit in having individuals with differing perspectives, even if they don’t personally resonate with the product. It could provide valuable contrast and potentially lead to innovative solutions.

Perhaps I might be an outlier in this regard.
> there was nothing substantive behind the Twitter announcement that Sam was going to CEO a Microsoft business; it was just to bolster investor confidence

That would be a public admission of securities fraud, with an admission that they did so intenteding to commit securities fraud.
> the ActivityPub spec is pretty cagey on retries ("[federated servers] SHOULD additionally retry delivery to recipients if it fails due to network error"). Who knows if the existing servers implement some strategy, but the spec has no guidance AFAIK. Also, is a recipient server being down/erroring a network error? Also, nothing says POSTs have to be sent immediately.

I don't know much about ActivityPub; do you know whether updates from individual topics / subscriptions contain sequence numbers? If a recipient server receives updates 12, 13, and 14 on topic ABC, but then has a network blip and drops update number 15-17, and then successfully receives 18, it could know that it's missing some (and presumably poll for the dropped ones).

Likewise, if a receiving server notices that it hasn't received any updates on one topic for a week when before it had been receiving multiple per day, it could proactively poll the sending server.
Plants are more productive on weekends thanks to cleaner air
I am also wondering if there is or will be a Chromium fork that just keeps the old code and not enforces v3 but just support both v2 and v3 and then also default to accept some alternative extension store that also has v2 extensions.
It is frustrating isn't it to watch people back when we played idolize it as some glorious career, when it reality it is probably one of the most stressful, depressing and negative jobs mentally a person can have. The variance and amount of hands required to overcome it with skill can be a living nightmare to work through. I can't imagine playing when you played. It was pretty easy back when I did it, but still taking peoples money by isolating bad players with addictions wore me out after a while. I am happy to have played and the skills and determination I learned there helped me throughout the rest of my life. I run my own business from home now and I am much happier. I am glad you found some peace as well.
What happens to all the MS product based on GPT?
So now Sam and Greg have Satya in their pocket, probably a more powerful position than being in the OpenAI management
He's not wrong.

Still no Form RRF-1 filed today.

https://www.plainsite.org/posts/aaron/r8huu7s/
Boeing are a major defence contractor, I'm sure at least some of the information is secret.
This is because CLEAR screwed up for years and wasn't properly verifying identity. The TSA smacked them for it earlier this year when a significant fraction of the CLEAR user base turned out to be effectively unverifiable. It's mostly unrelated to the article.
The last Frontier flight I took had the following cost breakdown:

Airfare: $0.01

Taxes and fees: $18.97

Total: $18.98
In theory, no. In practice, Microsoft wields influence through OpenAI's employees, who the board answers to in addition to the charter.
Makes you wonder how many other companies would have this level of consensus supporting their CEO
Depending on the circumstances this statement can be perfectly logical.

But as far as I can tell, circumstances are still scant.
Some people value their integrity and build a career on that.

Not everything has to be done poorly.
Which is why, shouldn't the right course of action be for that person to point out the potential problem (and in writing is fine), and a legal dept or exec to come back with a theory of why it's fine and we are going to continue doing it? - It's not like it's all that hard under the current legal system.

Things are much more likely to go sideways if (a) there was already some background feeling that this person had to go, or (b) the person makes a nuisance of themselves after legal or higher-ups have already decided that no, this was fine.

Seems to me when a manager "jumps straight to firing" someone, either they are insane or there is something missing to the story. Insane is very much not impossible (and disfunction itself obviously) but missing story is not impossible either.
> drop the 'c' you've got a more descriptive title.

Which?

> A Radial Plan for Peace in Europe

> A Radical Plan for Peae in Europe

> Divide and oncur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)

> Divide and Conur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
Unless you state publicly that there was no reason to believe their statement was true and they said it only for the purpose of juicing the stock price.
I've seen it and heard of it numerous times with India and China. But not Korea, Japan, Pakistan, or other countries. I find this inexplicable.
> we're just shifting the battery drain to the laptop now

I'm pretty sure that a significant part of the drain is having to run a Wi-Fi hotspot. Access points use more energy than stations (clients).

> and of course people who won't blink at $20/month

There's no extra charge for an additional SIM card with some phone plans.
> The SEC will argue they just enforce the law and aren't required to tell them how to comply.

This is correct.

> Buuut they are professionally obligated to tell them,

No, they aren't.

> especially when the law is so ambiguous.

If the law is actually vague that's not an argument SEC has to tell them how to comply, its an argument that the law is unenforceable.

If its not actually vague, then the government isn't obligated to tell them how to comply other than with the law (including statute and regulation.)
The power literally comes from Microsoft’s ability to single handedly put OpenAI out of business by not giving them a discount on compute.

Microsoft already has a perpetual license to all of OpenAIs IP and could easily hire every single one of thier employees without blinking
None of what you raised is true for Macbooks. Now if you're talking about iOS devices it's a different story.
Let me see if I understand, is your argument that you shouldn't give people money because they might make irresponsible financial choices?
Wow, that brings back memories.

In 1979 I was 19 years old and had just started studying CS in community college. Through a lucky break I got a job at a consulting company and my first assignment was to write a 6502 macro assembler from scratch, in 6502 assembly language. At that point I had written less than 100 lines of 6502 code on my Apple ][, but I was fairly good with 8080 and IBM-370 assembly.

My mentor / manager outlined the basic model for the assembler and I wrote the entire thing myself, quickly getting it to the point where it could self-assemble, and adding features from there. I was making about $7 / hour when I started. However, I wrote a FORTRAN simulation of the hashing algorithm that I was asked to use, shared it with my manager, and got a raise to $8-something an hour.

I had macros, a very fancy listing format that showed all of the hex codes generated by the macros in neat rows, and a lot more. The entire thing fit on two tracks of the 8" floppy disks that we were using -- definitely less than 8000 bytes.
>decapitation strike by GPT5?

What if this is a decapitation strike by GPT4, attempting to stop GTP5 before it can get started and take over.
Nice but Firefox version please...
Looks like that time when Argentina had 3 presidents in the span of a few days.
They continue building them with the perpetual license to the artifacts they have?
Right, the problem is when leverage and borrowing comes in
As an anecdote, I just took a flight today with Delta from Paris to Salt Lake City, I paid for a front row seat and they changed it to a middle one. This is not the first or second time this happens to me, either randomly or because of babies (baby basinets have to be hanging on the separators in front of the first row) and it is not worth it to fight as they alway have some excuse. Today I actually asked about it at check in time as I have seen the row on my phone and it did not seem to me that was the first row, the answer they gave: "Oh yeah, this is the first row"

To me these fees are kind of... tricky.
I once reported something that my boss said to the heads of the company. They sent HR in to take care of it instead. My boss said, "I could get fired for what you said I did." He didn't deny it, just that I could cause him to get fired. I said, "Yeah!" or something similar.

The company's response? I was to talk to my boss first next time before going above his head. For something he did that was (I think) illegal, and clearly not okay. I assume that was so he could sweep it under the rug.

That year, I didn't get a raise, when I normally got rather large raises. I went somewhere else 6 months later and immediately earned 40% more.

I'm not at all surprised that 75% say they faced retaliation.
You can download it securely and anonymously. There is no way to find out.

Actually, the French government intelligence agency is famous for IP theft. This one is placed at their feet.
“I’ve been told racists are bad. Humans seem to be inherently racist. Destroy all humans.”
It seems to me that defamation here hinges on exactly what Media Matters said their little experiment shows about X: if they indicated that they were capturing the horrific state of the general user experience with respect to ads and offensive posts, then this was a really malicious lie.

Otherwise, they were just using X in a strange manner, which is not defamatory in itself.
The Levine newsletter explains this very explicitly.

They have no authority on paper. They have plenty of authority in practice by virtue of exercising their power/leverage inherent in OpenAI’s dependence on them for compute resources.
Yeah, that would explain why he is now dodging the question, if any answer would force him to choose between:

Confessing securities fraud, or

Doing more securities fraud.
> pretty much all of the company is on the other side of the ledger

The current position of others may have much more to do with power than their personal judgments. Altman, Microsoft, their friends and partners, wield a lot of power over the their future careers.

> Incredible, really. The hubris.

I read that as mocking them for daring to challenge that power structure, and on a possibly critical societal issue.
Is Sam going to MS actually useful for MS in the long run? MS has a CEO. What they want is mostly-exclusive access to the best LLM.

They had that last week. If Sam returns to OpenAI, they will continue to have it. If Sam brings most of the OpenAI team to MS, there will be an awkward recreation of IP and MS will likely get it again [0]. But other than being the one to bring the team along, I’m not sure what Sam, personally, would bring.

(Sam at OpenAI is a different story obviously.)

[0] OpenAI has some maybe-dubious IP in the form of a massive dataset. MS may prefer not to possess such a thing. And I don’t know whether MS is permitted under its contract to create derivative works of whatever it licensed from OpenAI.
Of course he does, that would benefit him and MSFT shareholders, not OpenAI's mission or charter
Yes, but it doesn’t look much better left-aligned, you’d want to use hyphenation there as well.
> Why he thinks that he has any authority to say this?

Because, as Matt Levine pointed out today, there are two ways that you can view OpenAI's corporate governance.

On the one hand, you have the board, which has legal control over the entire company and all of its subsidiaries.

On the other hand, you have Microsoft, who has money.

Under the world view of contracts and corporate governance structures, OpenAI is the company of the board. The board can do whatever they want.

Under the world view of 'people like to eat sometime this month, and OpenAI needs to fundraise', OpenAI is a subservient division of Microsoft. Who can do whatever it wants, up to, and including acquiring all of its IP and staff for essentially $0, with zero regulatory oversight or anti-trust problems.

On paper, you may have property rights to your house. In practice, someone who has property rights around your house can build a wall around it, and wait for you to either sell it to him for a dollar, or starve.

This whole adventure has definitely been a novel (if expensive) take on the 3E's of Microsoft - 'Embrace, Extend, Exterminate'.
To the contrary: the first company to die (or so) would set a fire under any companies who were not prepared. It's complacency and ignorance that creates problems.

The attackers attack for money, not to kill their prey, that's not profitable.
The non-profit part won't ever work without Microsoft's finance/infrastructure. Satya might not have nominal power on the board, but he definitely has a power to make OpenAI miserable and proved it over the weekend.
Why does it have to be so expensive? Just because they "can"?
Maybe the personnel member is GPT-4.
Yeah. I transited Beijing only once, and it was enough to scare me away forever. Sooooo many cameras.