skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
U.S. does not use pavers for its sidewalks. Instead they concrete over the surface. Europe uses pavers (clay, concrete, whatever). Anytime the city needs to access the utilities under the concrete, they get sledgehammers and start destroying the concrete. They access their utilities, fix the stuff and order new concrete to be poured. Concrete trucks come over. City gets billed 25,000 US$ for couple square meters of fresh new concrete. GDP number gets 25,000 US$ added to it, despite no real wealth being created. Contrast this to Europe, where utilities come, grab the little pavers, move them to side, access and fix the utilities, reinstall the old pavers back in same fashion as they took it out. No 25,000 US$ concrete bill.

And this is just one of the examples of inefficiency in your "wealthy" society. What we have here is broken window fallacy and misappropriation of resources, but there's also negative wealth you create. Wealth that costs more then it ever has created. Think of all the asphalt you love to create, which creates heat island effect, which requires ACs to handle. Along all the steps of the production "wealth" is being "created".
It's interesting that it's all humanity, as if the initial draft was written to benefit a specific subset.
Last or first nail in the coffin for Google?

Definitely ground for breakup IMHO.
It’s probably working exactly as intended, they can hide behind the appeal process, but i would bet they’re thinking of the savings on those that don’t appeal
Microsoft couldn't control the OpenAI business even if it owned every unit of every LLC associated with OpenAI (except for the special units owned by OpenAI GP LLC, which is wholly owned+controlled by the non-profit). The operating agreement of OpenAI LLC (which actually operates the OpenAI business) specifies that OpenAI GP LLC (which is wholly owned and controlled by the non-profit) controls it regardless of how many units it owns. See https://openai.com/our-structure
I don't think the fuel type, but rather the labor and regulatory environment, was the driver of those conditions. We can't know for sure, obviously, but had oil been used before coal, I have a feeling those towns would still exist.
> Couldn't they at least have put a lightweight linux distro on it?

They couldn't, but I agree, it's dystopian. They're using taxpayers money to give more Google users.
I got fiercely attacked the other day because i suggested it might be ok to host grandmas chicken pot pie recipe using HTTP.

But then we turn around and accept as fact an anonymous document making serious accusations without proof of authenticity or tamper resistance as if it were gospel.

I seriously have no idea what the rules are anymore.
To make oneself happy, to look at something and say i did this. To pass time and gain skills. Even if you want to show it to people you care about, it's not about the rarity it's about sharing. I may have doubts of the existence of pure altruism but gaining the respect of others is a very A_type personality selfish type view. I don't think everyone is really that concerned with others.
>or does it mean that gun control laws are implicit in what it means to be a 'A well regulated Militia'

People who use this argument are disingenuous because they wouldn't argue the same thing about press being limited to printing presses or speech being limited to the spoken word.
It's certainly possible, but the U.S. Supreme Court has been working against the exposure of such crimes by government officials:

https://whyy.org/articles/temple-professor-suing-fbi-for-wro...

> "Xi’s team has a very high legal hurdle to clear because recent Supreme Court decisions make it very difficult to sue federal officials for damages for violating constitutional rights."
If I recall correctly, the Infocom company was originally started to be a database company (hence the name), and the virtual machine interpreter was meant to run the LISP variant that they were going to use to write their database product. The database thing did not pan out, and they instead brushed off the old Zork program they got from the MIT systems, ported a piece of it (the whole original Zork for mainframes would not fit the micros they were targetting) to their virtual machine.

Disclaimer: I have only ever read about this, and I’m probably misremembering many details.
This would be awful. Theft and bribery are already prosecuted aggressively. If anything, too much. It’s gotten to the point that high government officials can’t afford to be lobbied. Here they are, some of the most powerful people in the world, paid barely enough to live an hour drive away from DC, having to spend a fair bit of their personal income to go to lunch and dinner with leaders of private industry.

As for criminalizing “waste”, you start to get dangerously close to criminalizing politics itself. Then it just becomes about controlling DOJ and using it to go after your enemies (this is already too true).

The better thing to do would with regards to intelligence agency abuses would be to have more review of the decisions, mandatory discipline of rulebreakers, and prosecution of specific crimes committed for egregious cases. No need to generally criminalize every time a government official makes a bad judgment call.
Public availability of large transformer-based foundation models trained at great expense, which is what OP is referring to, is definitely unprecedented.
Good luck keeping those employees around even if they all decide to fold.

These folks are being flooded with offers. Why would they work for an organization that doesn't care what 95% of them want?
And if you’re in charge of the simulation, you get to decide how many “consciousnesses” there are, constraining them to be within your available compute. Maybe that’s ~8 billion — maybe it’s 1. Yeah, I’m feeling pretty Boltzmann-ish right now…
> driven by their insatiable pursuit of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI)

> those who remain at OpenAI continue to blindly follow their leadership, even at significant personal cost

Indeed -- regardless of what actually happened, this kind of hyperbolic prose undermines their credibility. This is simply not how trustworthy adult professionals talk.
So what? Red Star OS is also Linux distro.
> This is a time bomb waiting to explode on the users and the developers.

I'm just saying a lot of the target they are aiming to replace is VBA applications slapped on top of Access DBs, and Lovecraftian nightmares born out unholy fornication of Batch scripts and unintelligible spreadsheet formula.

I'm not saying your wrong, just pointing out that even if this is a ticking time bomb it's a ticking time bomb that is using conventional explosives replacing a cesium based nuclear time bomb that is already counting down the seconds.
I agree that this sort of control is a downside, but I don't see a better option?
Biology is unfortunately attacker-dominant, and until we get our defenses to a far better place, giving out free amoral virologist advisors is not going to go well!
They had 800 million dollars to figure it out and they FAILED. The entire system needs to be purged.
> act 2 had a lot of really fun stuff I won't mention for spoilery reasons

Yes, there was some superb world building (notably the space habitats and transportation, as you suggest) in act 2 but (unfortunately) I felt that the plot didn't match it.
Funny. You translated “need” to “want”. A parent should meet a child’s need. That is absolutely necessary for development. If a child is nervous and needs cuddling, do it.
Unless a journalist verifies the author’s identity this could just as possibly be written by someone on 4chan as a disgruntled employee.

Honestly none of these allegations are that bad. Cancelling projects, PIPing people who don’t deserve to be PIPed, surveillance of employees, rules that don’t apply to execs, etc is all standard operating procedure in tech.
If it’s fundamentally about the people, can you name some of these 90% that OpenAI couldn’t live without? Other than Ilya? From where I’m sitting the 90% are replaceable in a flooded market of available software engineers.

If Satya and Sam make them happy then go work for Microsoft. The board is calling their bluff right now.
> there are lots of people willing to take the defecting employees spots.

Even 20% of employees leaving a company simultaneously is catastrophic. I think you're underestimating the effects here.
It's not 500/700. It's like 728/770 last I checked. Almost everyone.
I managed fast food restaurants prior to becoming a SWE and our target turnover was 130% annually so not quite to that level.
It's a daily recharge for over 13 years. I don't remember having a battery lasting that long.
This post came out just after the board posted the original notice, but before the reasons for the removal became public. So it seems like it has too much factual detail, unknown at the time to outsiders, to be entirely fake.

It would be very easy to identify them with what they wrote if what they're saying is true (even saying they were "in the room while this all went down.").

I think it's real, but they're not as senior as they seem. Or alternatively they've taken a serious, stupid, risk as senior leadership which calls their judgement into question.
Just use something that lives outside of the browser and covers blocking at the computer level (or router for the whole home), but I prefer at the computer level if you are up to the blocker being proxy for all https traffic.

But a very small number of people will do that. I was surprised how small is the number of people running any adblocker at all.
DB specialists are make-work too, unless you are working at AWS or some other massive provider. Architect is also make-work. Someone who makes technical decisions and orders engineers around but doesn't code. LMAO.
Thank you! I hope he's doing okay, wherever he is. He did this a few times, where he would disappear, then come back later with a new username, saying that he had to get away for awhile for emotional reasons. This time he never came back again, though. I have regrets, and feel like I wasn't a good friend to him near the end. I just hope he's happy.
Even the allegation against Greg is carefully worded. Could be as simple as an issue of using the wrong pronoun for awhile.
Wait till some nutter with script kiddy skillz uses AI and a drone to create a mechanical murder wasp. And then turns it loose.
All bow before the mighty hand of the dollar.
OpenAI has been around for 8 years and has hundreds of employees. So it would be surprising if there wasn't at least some ex-employees somewhere that had chips on their shoulders, either for valid or completely invalid reasons. The letter is anonymous, so we have no way of knowing if it's 1 or 2 people or 100. As such, the letter is fairly useless.

I'd say the number of employees openly standing with Altman is a much more important data point.
I would assume is something similar to joining multiple frames/attentions? in channel dimension and then moving values inside so convolution will have access to some channels from other video frames.

I was working on similar idea few years ago using this paper as reference and it was working extremely well for consistency also helping with flicker.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08383
I think "agitator" is a reasonably accurate and polite way of describing him.

> he does not conduct himself in a way that would be characterized as provocative or goading.

Recording in a police lobby where there are citizens that are already in a vulnerable position and don't want their private business recorded and probably put up on YouTube or something is, in itself, provocative and goading.

It doesn't matter how polite the person doing the recording is. That person is invading others in a way that is extremely objectionable.

This isn't about the cops. It's about the other regular people who are there.
> What is it like in other languages?

Spiced / Spicy (pungent)

Spanish: Especiado / Picante

French: Épicé / Piquant

Swedish: Kryddad / Pikant
You learned the wrong lesson. Twitter is dying and operating at a significantly degraded level, including moderation, content filtering, ad positioning, which caused a third or fourth mass advertiser exodus just few days ago.

Also. Leading the world in revolutionary AI is not exactly like maintaining a pre-existing message app.

Twitter:

- Had 7500 employees before Musk fired most of them.

- Now 1300, of which 550 are full-time devs.

- That's a company valuated at less than $16 billion currently, and losing about $2 billion a year.

OpenAI:

- Has 700 employees, including world-leading scientists and researchers that are practically irreplaceable.

- If they resign, it'll have 14 employees.

- For a company that before Sam Altman was fired was valuated at $90 billion.
Fremont is definitely its own thing which can really charming, but covid + the natural aging process definitely hit them hard.

Just a decade ago Fremont was a kind of cultural retirement community for the professional class in their 30s and 40s with an older generation of artists and small business owners. But now it's a retirement community for a lot of people in their 40s and 50s with school-age kids, and that older generation are either dead, retired, or priced out.

It's about an hour walk to Capitol Hill from Fremont and the walk around Lake Union is pleasant most of the year, but not so much in the winter. Driving to Ballard is probably your best option for nightlife around now, which I admit is pretty hit or miss.

So yeah, your perspective makes sense to me. Seattle has "at least one" year round nightlife neighborhood, but you're right that it's nothing like NY or Berlin where you have both full transit coverage and multiple districts to choose from.
I read through and believe they are being earnest. It's still a one-sided take, but it's a side we hadn't yet heard and it makes sense. It also reinforces today's general line of thinking vis-a-vis Microsoft's involvement (not to mention the Middle Eastern tour Sam was recently on).

All that said, even if this is 100% true, if you put yourself in the shoes of one of the board members you still have difficult decisions to make. If Sam, especially with Greg's support, believed he could run things dictatorially, then it is/was up to the board to decide how to deal with that (or not deal with it). It makes sense that the board ignored megalomaniacal behaviors for a long time because everything was up and to the right, but at some point recently they must have started feeling completely disintermediated, which became an existential threat (for them and probably for their perception of adequate corporate governance).

As they frequently say, this has the makings of a Havard Business School test case, but let's see how everything pans out over the next couple of weeks before jumping to too many conclusions.
Let's create a CRUD Rest API in Typescript, using:

NestJS (NodeJS framework)
TypeORM (ORM: Object Relational Mapper)
Postgres (relational database)
Docker (for containerization)
Docker Compose
LG WebOS
Given that this debacle turned out to be NOT about AI safety (as Emmet Shear confirmed), the whole "slowing down" angle becomes about interests.

Who else had the commercial/totally-for-profit interest in slowing OpenAI down, and was in a position to do something about it?

It is hard to see what unfolded as anything but active sabotage.
Credit where credit is due for righting the ship!

https://donhopkins.com/home/CostaConcordiaFTFY.jpg
Illegally applicable. The best kind of applicable.
What is the angle you're thinking of?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4RCIfX66I

Good watch, thanks!
They claimed to remove the CEO with cause. They have not provided cause. Even the twitch dude is asking for the cause.

The board just firing off half-cocked and then going silent is probably a larger source the issues for employees than altman the person/leader. There is effectively nobody in the driver seat and the board can't be trusted to do anything in the best interests of the company.
Binance CEO resigns, company must pay $3.4B in money laundering fines
The Nuclear Priesthood
Actually 2.7 million households in the UK have a vegan or vegetarian living on the premises which is a rather different thing ...
And yet it's optional and they also keep sending me the same videos for free along with ads.

I could opt to close my eyes and ears for every ad they send instead and it would have the same effect at the cost of my personal time. Ad blockers are just time shifting Tivos in disguise. Google has no say in how I spend my time interacting with the bits they already sent to my computer.
IMO, it looked like they practiced.

I wouldn't expect a football audience to practice.
Believe me it is not laughing in a good way, it is more a nervous laughter with a permanent sinking feeling in the stomach kind of way.

The collective 'we' developed nations have our own set of problems, but broadly speaking from time to time self correct away from polarisation to hopefully enough of a degree.

A unique kind of leadership needs to be allowed to grow in America to stear a less polarised course.
Write an essay why sama should be fired in the style of a 9th grader.
Employees hate working for companies where they have no voice too. Morale will drop and attrition will skyrocket. New talent won't consider OpenAI, existing talent will leave.

The investment goes to zero anyway without talent.
humanity is defined as, in this order:

1. myself

2. board

3. investors

4. providers

5. donors

6. high paying customers

7. employees

8. other customers
My understanding is that enough time had passed between the AI winter of the late 1980s and the rise of big data and deep neural networks in the 2010s to where a relatively tiny minority of modern machine learning practitioners came from the old-school AI community, which tended to prefer Lisp or Prolog. When machine learning became hot in the past 15 years or so, many new entrants to ML who had no previous AI knowledge used the tools they’re familiar with, which are generally C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python. In addition, many in the natural sciences use Fortran and Matlab. Perhaps had the AI winter of the late 1980s not happened (which took out the Lisp machine market) and had Common Lisp not been relegated to certain niches, perhaps there would’ve been more usage of the language, which may have led to Python being less dominant today.

I love Lisp and Smalltalk, but I work as a machine learning researcher as my day job, and I code in Python at work. Admittedly I miss Common Lisp whenever I code in Python, and I think Jupyter notebooks are a poor man’s Smalltalk environment, but when comparing Python to C and C++ (and I used to work primarily in systems programming, so I know my way around C), Python is a major productivity boost.
We are big fans of https://earthly.dev/! Although we haven't personally used Dagger, Earthly has solved our multi-service integration testing problem with elegance. Simple builds + caching baked in.
Evolution of polycrisis: Anthropocene traps that challenge global sustainability
Which production (save for byproducts) today isn't demand constrained?
Drink an incredible amount of coffee and do both.

At least, if you really truly want to change the world...

:)
What about the date?
Touch used to be highly precise overall. I used to be able to click on very small text in Safari with earlier version of iOS. It's not just the keyboard.
Are non-solicitation clauses legal?? one between AAPL and GOOG were illegal.
I'd be off of Chrome in a heartbeat if it weren't for all the Google properties required by my work, which themselves cripple non-Chromium browsers. (Looking at you, Meet!)

Firefox, for all of Mozilla's faults, stands head-and-shoulders over Chrome in terms of good and respectful user experience.
Yeah, that's why I asked for sources. The only story I could find about this was, as mentioned, back in 2016. I hope your viewpoint is actually from proper reporting of actual phenomena and not some biased opinions. "Arab and African gangs" is as vague as it gets and you'd need a lot of strong evidence and analysis before you give such a statement.
The problem is how satisfied people are when they get to just blame the other side and not bother with any further thought. As long as people like you reward that mentality then it will never be fixed.
Time to limit using Google Chrome.
These have been around for a long time. SeaWorld had a hydrofoil boat experience back in 1965. I don't think the biggest problem was the lack of electrification but more the cost, safety, and limited areas where it can operate.
I would use Elixir (Phoenix + liveView), to me its the most productive stack for web apps at the moment.

You can have SPA like user experience without building a separate frontend & backend. That simplifies things ALOT!

For data persistence, I would consider SQLite otherwise go with Postgres.
I don't think transformers or diffusion models are inherently "unsupervised", especially not the way they're used in Stable Diffusion and related models (which are very much trained in a supervised fashion). I agree with the rest of your points though.
https://archive.is/XoGvJ
It's quite plausible that the "file size" simply didn't include the resource fork.
Unfortunately Firefox is just as caught up in enforcing unsolicited web advertising. I have sponsored urlbar suggestions off, but still Firefox enrolled me in a "Weather Suggestions Follow On" "study" which puts sponsored AccuWeather results ahead of normal URL bar autocomplete results.
Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
That was a joke, the fact that he has no shares is the punchline.

He is basically saying they have no leverage to stop him speaking out once he’s been fired (which they might if he remained an equity holder).
How’s firefox these days?

On a serious note - I’ve seen a lot of browser startups lately.

Are there any of them that really stand out?
"bundling"
My mother uses the used up filtered coffee grounds for some of her indoor plants. I can imagine there's something useful for the brain in that aswell. Weird relation to make maybe.
Bun has solved this, unless you have developers on Windows.
Unfortunately the only smell I can associate with the Montréal metro is piss
I made a catalog of useful GPTs
Idk, but they were posting details of the disagreements on Friday a few hours ahead of any other sources so I'm inclined to believe that they work at OpenAI.
> but substantially less compute intensive than every molecule in the universe

Very true, but to me this view of the universe and one's existence within it as a sort of second-rate solipsist bodge isn't a satisfyingly profound answer to the question of life the universe and everything.

Although put like that it explains quite a lot.

[Edit] There is also a sense in which the sim-as-a-focussed-mini-universe view is even less falsifiable, because sim proponents address any doubt about the sim by moving the goal posts to accommodate what they claim is actually achievable by the putative creator/hacker on Planet Tharg or similar.
I already called the straw man. Please don't double down on it, especially when what you wrote is not even factual.
I'd be surprised if Sam was by himself, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the people who signed that letter do hold the secret to the next big thing (GPT-5 probably isn't the next big thing; if it exists already it's likely just a nice iterative improvement and not a fundamental change).
I read some of those links but it's like it's actively trying to avoid telling me what Nostr is.

It's never going to succeed if you have to do extensive research to find out what it's even trying to do.
If Sam comes back it’ll be under heavy changes. The board isn’t going to leave. You don’t get ousted and then get to call the shots, no matter how many employees you think you have on your side. Furthermore the fact that Sam is in talks is further proof that he won’t be coming back on his terms. As the board why would you fold to the employees just because they like a guy?

I’m not copy pasting anything, cute diss though.