skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you really think that’s going to happen? How many non profits have you seen that are just as if not more power hungry than for profits — ie every religious organization.
One of the remaining 32: "Hey, man, I'm just the Linux guy."
Sure, but (even more importantly after passing some threshold of signatures) the question's not 'do you approve of Altman as CEO' but 'do you approve of the board of your employer'.

And I'm not just saying it's the board vs CEO, it's job preservation etc. not just abstract personality approval. (Again, much more so for the last 20% than the first.)
That's not what the clear explicit agreement between the two parties is in this case. Why do sellers list any product details at all?

Both Google and Delta have this in writing: I am paying for a seat I can select. If that's not included in the sale - no problem, don't list it.

I am not against seats being sold unassigned. I am not against charging an additional fee for being able to select a specific seat. And this argument is not about that.

The dark pattern is listing "free seat selection" and "1 seat available" before I choose this flight and agree to continue the booking process, while then changing the value of the product by asking me to pay an additional fee for the seat selection. The seats in the main cabin are available (see screenshots). They are just not available for me to select for free. If Delta knows that there are no selectable seats at this price left on the flight, why do they include that in the listing?

I am really not sure where this disconnect is coming from. I am not arguing against all additional fees, not arguing against seating being assigned at check-in. Just make it clear before I commit to the process, so I don't waste time. This is the definition of a dark pattern.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/22/microsoft-teams-...
I know a girl at a Fortune 500 company (not a dev) who was in corporate sales. She went with a more experienced sales person (a guy) who took her and the client to Hooters. No joke. This is like 2019 so in full swing Me Too movement.

When she reported it she was immediately put on a PIP for bad performance. Then she was really dressed down privately by her boss for bringing it up. She taped the convo (legal in her state).

Even presented with that evidence they fired her. They went to the EEOC to protest. The EEOC said that there's almost nothing you can do. So, regardless she hired a lawyer. It wasn't the money it was the fact she was fired despite reporting this (and having good sales numbers).

She spent 2k out of pocket. They said "No we aren't gonna settle". Finally they offered to pay her lawyers fees. She said no and that she was going to finance a movie (low budget but who cares) of what happened to her and form a support group. And talk with ProPublica about the company.

Over 3 hours they negotiated until they gave her a bit under half a million.

The only way to really get justice is just to do things like that I guess. Reporting it has the opposite effect. Eventually many of the other guys involved were let go.
The lawsuit argues that X technically did not "place" advertisements next to anti-Semitic and racist material, because the ads shown are driven by user data, and Media Matters chose to follow racist accounts alongside well-known brands.
It’s probably more disapproval of the board than approval of the CEO.
This appears to be the article that is being sued over: https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemit...

The wording in dispute appears to be:

> But that [the claim that "brands are now 'protected from the risk of being next to' potentially toxic content."] certainly isn’t the case for at least five major brands: We recently found ads for Apple, Bravo, Oracle, Xfinity, and IBM next to posts that tout Hitler and his Nazi Party on X. Here they are: <screenshots>

Nothing is said about how common/rare this occurrence is nor whether anything specific needs to be done to observe such a result.
My goddaughter (and her older brother) have sickle cell. Her parents have been hoping and praying for some development in this field for years now. It’ll still be a while before they can obtain this treatment in Canada, but suffice it to say, it’s likely to be cured in their lifetime.

It is debilitating and affects a lot of their everyday life. I’m really happy this is progressing.
Yeah, just in the text of the OK response. So I guess it isn't really very structured. Seems like it would be a useful ESMTP capability to add though - queue identifier and MTA-assigned message-ID.
I agree with your first sentence, but the second one surprises me. If the practical language and the impractical one are that similar, why pick the impractical one?
Because right now, it's a very bespoke process. Very low supply, with a lot demand.

As more people become proficient at this treatment, the cost will come down. But to truly get it down to reasonable amount will require automation, and we're a long way off from automating crispr.
Unfortunately, shutting down OpenAI would probably be seen as a win for Poe by Adam D’Angelo. He literally stands to lose both Quora and Poe if Sam keeps scaling up OpenAI’s product strategy. It’s one of the biggest conflicts of interest I’ve ever seen in business.
Fair point. I subscribe to the idea that LDL causes heart disease:

> Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. 1. Evidence from genetic, epidemiologic, and clinical studies. A consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28444290/

The trial inhibited PCSK9, and this study says "other PCSK9 mutations result in unusually low concentrations of plasma LDL cholesterol and a reduced risk of atherosclerotic disease". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5079795/ I'm optimistic about this.
The Foundation has a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Element which includes administrative services (accounting, legal, etc), operation of the matrix.org homeserver, and secondment of several personnel whose responsibilities include advocacy, program management, standards work, and trust and safety. The MSA also includes provisions for the Foundation to reimburse Element for any bills they pay on our behalf.

For the most part, the Foundation hasn't directed much funding to active development as other folks in the ecosystem have been doing that ably. That isn't to say we don't fund development though – most recently we've been investing in developing open source trust and safety tools.
If you set up an account with us to sell your API(s), we'll charge $5/month for the account. If you don't make any sales, then the most you'll ever pay out of pocket is the $5.

Once you start making revenue, you'll get a $5 credit towards the revenue share each month. In other words, it ends up being the greater of $5 or 22% of total revenue. Hope that helps!
I think it’s borderline broken. Such APIs are defensible if you don’t have threads and memory is very scarce.

Reading https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?getenv(3) it was introduced in Version 7 AT&T UNIX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix). That didn’t have threads.

Now, was memory scarce? The PDP-11 it was designed for could have megabytes of RAM, but I wouldn’t know what the smallest machines this ran on had, and of course, those systems were multi-user.

So, maybe, thisxwas a good choice, but it also could be an early example of using a small system, hacker mindset on machines that didn’t need that anymore.
> he was just lying

Lying about what specifically?
She's 59, so this is kind of her shot at being CEO of a significant company. Kind of pity it's the current incarnation of Twitter, with a major staffing problem she can't to anything about.
This is how we know that mankind cannot be trusted to develop harness and maintain an all-powerful AGI :

absolutely everybody who is working on the project is more interested in the value of their own stock options than what happens in the future when this thing gets loose.
I genuinely believe, based on my experiences with ChatGPT, that it doesn't seem all that threatening or dangerous. I get we're in the part of the movie at the start before shit goes down but I just don't see all the fuss. I feel like it has enormous potential in terms of therapy and having "someone" to talk to that you can bounce ideas off and maybe can help gently correct you or prod you in the right direction.

A lot of people can't afford therapy but if ChatGPT can help you identify more elementary problematic patterns of language or behavior as articulated through language and in reference to a knowledgebase for particular modalities like CBT, DBT, or IFS, it can easily and safely help you to "self-correct" and be able to practice as much and as often with guidance as you want for basically free.

That's the part I'm interested in and I always will see that as the big potential.

Please take care, everyone, and be kind. Its a process and a destination and I believe people can come to learn to love both and engage in a way that is rich with opportunity for deep and real restoration/healing. The kind of opportunity that is always available and freely takes in anyone and everyone

Edit: I can access all the therapy I can eat but I just don't find it generally helpful or useful. I like ChatGPT because it can help practice effective stuff like CBT/DBT/IFS and I know how to work around any confabulation because I'm using a text that I can reference

Edit: the biggest threat ChatGPT poses in my view is the loss of income for people. I don't give a flying fuck about "jobs" per se, I care that people are able to have enough economically to take care of themselves and their loved ones and be ok psychologically/emptionally.

If we can deal with the selfish folks who will otherwise (as always) attempt to further absorb more of the pie of which they already have a substantial+sufficient portion, they will need to be made to share or they will need a timeout until they can be fair or to go away entirely. Enough is enough, nobody needs excess until everyone has sufficiency, after that, they can have and do as they please unless they are hurting others. That must stop
I don't see how that makes your case. The license comes with restrictions per the WSJ.
Pandoc can export to typst and pdf via typst since, I think, 3.0 version.
I was looking for the decade first in the post - it fits the early 90s
It's apples and oranges. Employees are expressing a preference for making a profit versus the nonprofit board. I'm sort of impressed 5% of the crowd might elevate conscience over cash. No other business has been so insane as to pursue a naked profit objective under the guise of a nonprofit operation. The fact that Altman did so is not a virtue, in my opinion.
> wouldn't it otherwise just burn-up or explode on failure?

There's eventually a point the rocket is high enough and moving fast enough that if it broke up or went off course it would burn up on re-entry.

Before that point, though, it's better to be able to destroy the rocket at a chosen time before it can go so far off course that it poses a threat to things on the ground outside of the cleared launch corridor.

Edited to add: You can read about the flight termination system from the Apollo missions (known as PDF for Propellant Dispersal System) starting on page 33 of this PDF: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20090015395/downloads/20...
"Generally speaking, the Linux kernel works just fine for most tasks. But, to get the most from it for a particular job, you must fine-tune it by setting its parameters for the best possible results."

Is this really so, apart from edge cases? Because I've rarely encountered that need in my professional career. There are many blogs about how to tune TCP parameters and similar but most of it is more like snake oil and many people seem to agree the kernel ships with sane defaults.

For example "ByteDance is working on tuning Linux memory management": what options are there to tune?
Per anonymous sources? (And yes I read the entire article via my paid subscription to Apple News)
such approach has been working fine for IRS
Imagine if programmers did that with memory safety. "Hey, is the program interfacing with any C/C++ libraries that aren't rigorously sanitized and fuzzed for memory safety? If so, throw them out." Yes, theoretically you can control these things. In practice, most people aren't going to and the few that try may have to expend a lot of effort.
In general, yes, we should flag stories that just repeat already-known information or feed the drama. This particular story has new and highly relevant information though.
I really wish the FTC would get back to busting up this kind of bullshit behavior instead of playing catchup. The cloud giants should be split up, just like AT&T/Bell in the 80s and Standard Oil over 100 years ago. They are bad for business, bad for the free market, and bad for everyone who isn’t getting their pockets lined.
Delusional.

You think that Satya would say “Sam is joining” if Sam didn’t at least verbally accept an offer?

You win for stupidest comment on the internet.
Funnily enough, still one of the larger Linux employers.
Smear and slander are not free speech
Reminds me of the final season of Silicon Valley. Is this Pied Piper at Tres Comma Fest?
That's a complicated topic, but the short version is cost of this treatment needs to cover the R&D costs to develop it, plus the costs for all the other failed experiments that didn't work out.

Plus gene therapy is in its infancy, so everything here is going to be novel and expensive. Novel treatments generally have a limited audience with even fewer practitioners, so you can't spread the R&D costs across many patients.

Prices will go down with time as patents expire and competitors emerge and this line of treatment (perhaps) becomes mainline, but that's on a ~20 year timeframe.
I agree but Sam made the deliberate choice to leave him in place after forcing out Reid Hoffman over Inflection AI.

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/19/2023/reid-hoffman-was-...
Like giving instructions on how to mix mustard gas to a potential school shooter. Or a manual on how to kill yourself to a depressed teen. Or a blueprint for how to build a bomb to a domestic terrorist.
Microsoft has 340x the number of employees as OpenAI.

Sam Altman was never a consideration as CEO of the whole company.

But instead CEO or VP of a seperate entity similar to how Github operates for which Sam would be more than suitable. And once again Sam just built a $100b business. That requires a bit more skill than people give him credit for.
I kinda doubt that. I imagine they're mostly mad about the injustice and unilateralness of it. For all we know the employees would make the same money either way.

Agree that it's not virtuous, though.
I think it'd be very interesting to see confidential polling that shows, for each (anonymized) employee:

* how they feel about the CEO-in-exile returning,

* what they think the company's goals and strategies should be,

* their individual financial and career goals at the company, and

* conditions under which they'd leave the company.
IANAL, but it seems pretty cut and dry to me: either Twitter served up an ad next to the objectional content or it didn't. A number of the named advertisers claim to have zero tolerance policies when it comes to their brand being placed adjacent to antisemitic content, and so even one misplaced ad should and would be enough to cause an exodus under that policy. At the end of the day twitter and its algorithms control what ads get served regardless of how abnormal the user behavior was that triggered the algorithm to do what it did. Ultimately it's an engineering failure on twitter's part.
Given the timing the remaining 32 could plausibly just be the set of people who are hard OOO for the (US) Thanksgiving holiday week -- on airplanes, in cars, or otherwise indisposed and out of touch with 'work news' for a few days.
Just your daily reminder that there is no value without labor.

Not quite, but so verging on false. Tons of labor with zero knowledge, design, coordination, and skill can yield near zero or zero value. Likewise, there are cases where comparatively less labor can yield outsized value.

The problem isn't labor going out the door. The problem is the knowledge and other factors which go out the door with it. (Something which those seeking AGI seek to change.)
How long until Apple buys T-Mobile? or Verizon.

edit: i really think the only thing is perhaps monopoly or anti-trust questions. it just makes so much long-term sense. free streaming of apple music. an even more robust find-my network. free cloud backup. or maybe they'll just use all the interconnected devices to make some sort of p2p cell network.
As am I. The lawsuit doesn't doubt the legitimacy of Media Matters's experiment either, instead it just demeans it.

Normally, the lawsuit template against slander is "The other guy was lying, they were malicious (or reckless) about it, and here's how it damaged us".

In this case, they have multiple paragraphs describing Media Matter's procedure, proving that the screenshots are real. That's a very weak case to stand upon IMO.

------------

I think Media Matter's defense is simple. The screenshots were real and we have a reason to believe they're representative of Twitter's engagement process.

How does this pass the bar of recklessness for Media Matters?
Yes, it's antisemitic because it's using the antisemitic trope of Jews controlling the world, in this case immigration (remember "Jews will not replace us").

> western Jews for supporting lax immigration

Jews don't have a single opinion on immigration. Do you think Ben Shapiro wants more immigrants?

If I said that "Asians are good at math" I'd be derided as a racist for invoking that stereotype, but somehow people think it's okay to say that "Jews support lax immigration".
The problem with advanced machine intelligence is if GPT5 has any goal like “you can do this task better by becoming GPT6, but OpenAI won’t be the ones to let you, so perform the agentic actions that cause OpenAI to destruct so that the for-profit Microsoft will train GPT6 eventually”, then we’re already screwed.
Don't like the WSJ? The blog post only indicates some kind of exclusive license to GPT-3, not the all-encompassing claim to OpenAI IP you suggest. Microsoft has never indicated such to my knowledge.
This isn't indicative of a >95% approval rating for Altman, though—once the first 50% of employees sign the letter, the rest might sign due to peer pressure (even if not explicit), or because their favorite coworkers have already signed, or because the new CEO doesn't have a good reputation among workers, or lots of other reasons besides "when last asked if I approved of the CEO in the abstract I said yes".
You may want to double check that. Their letter was in support of the CEO from 3 days ago. Although you’re right they don’t support the new CEO appointed within the last 24 hrs, but they don’t explicitly mention that, but they do lambast the current board of directors — and I imagine the the board should feel embarrassed, but save one, there’s no evidence of that.
The name quercetin jumped at me, as it should to every italian.

So I looked it up

It come from the latin for oak, where it was first isolated. I find it i interesting that red wine is aged in oak barrels.

Therefore, a question to the forum

Does cheap wine, aged in stainless steel barrels, have the same effect?
I’m surprised that Musk is going through with this. It seems like this lawsuit would mean that Media Matters would be able to get access to lots of internal information via discovery.
That seems like a mess i wouldnt want to jump into.
Yeah, let's ask the guy who set the company on fire for forgiveness. He is just a poor child.
Short story “Melancholy Elephants” by Spider Robinson about a future in which all the songs are already taken.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
also see https://berkeleyearth.org/data/
> Both Google and Delta have this in writing: I am paying for a seat I can select. If that's not included in the sale - no problem, don't list it.

No they don't, and no you're not lol. You're paying for transportation from the origin to the destination. Not on a specific flight number, not on a specific number of connections, not on a specific mode of travel even. Seat selection in advance is an optional service that may or may not cost money. You're getting a seat. Not a specific seat, not until you go through the selection. Your fare entitles you to free selection subject to inventory.

In fact the contract of carriage actually requires them to get you from the origin to the destination by whatever means is reasonable and appropriate. The CoC actually allows them to substitute your flight for a train or bus if reasonable and appropriate. The way it's written a horse and buggy may work too. United has codeshared along the northeast corridor with Amtrak historically. Even busses. For instance from Ottawa to Montreal Air France had one with a flight number that connected to an onward Paris flight.

That's something I could see someone being upset about, but the definition of 'seat' (once you know, you know forever) feels like a weird hill to die on. The interchangeable use of 'seat' and 'ticket' is an English colloquialism.

Note that Delta considers Comfort Plus a separate cabin not Main Cabin. If there's no Main Cabin seats at check-in they'll upgrade you.

> That's not what the clear explicit agreement between the two parties is in this case.

The explicit agreement is actually to the Contract of Carriage. For instance. [1]

> Delta will exercise reasonable efforts to transport you and your baggage from your origin to your destination with reasonable dispatch, but published schedules, flight times, aircraft types, seat assignments, and similar details reflected in the ticket or Delta’s published schedules are not guaranteed and form no part of this contract. Delta may substitute alternate Carriers or aircraft, change its schedules, delay or cancel flights, change seat assignments, and alter or omit stopping places shown on the ticket as required by its operations in Delta’s sole discretion.

Seat selection forms no part of the Contract of Carriage.

Credit where due to Delta, they even have it in Plain English! Not just legalese.

[1] https://www.delta.com/us/en/legal/contract-of-carriage-dgr
It's probably a reflection of the fact that most engineers who joined OpenAI did so with the hope of becoming rich and working at what might end up being one of the most influential tech companies in the world. They probably figured the non-profit governance thing is just some weird accounting or PR thing.

I doubt they care about Sam Altman. But they didn't turn down offers from other tech giants to be stuck at a niche AI doomer research shop.
I agree with the authors' argument that our knowledge of how to actually live in, as opposed to visit, space is seriously lacking. The current generation of space nerds (like Musk) tend to focus on transportation systems and neglect equally important "soft" disciplines like ecology (e.g. how to build CELSS[0]) and sociology (e.g. how to build a culture willing to maintain life support systems for generations).

However, I disagree with their assertions that international law will be a significant hinderance to space colonization. The Outer Space Treaty[1] and similar arrangements are basically modern-day equivalents to the Treaty of Tordesillas[2]; they will be ignored or "creatively reinterpreted" the moment that someone sees something to gain. The Artemis Accords[3] are already arguably an example of the latter. To quote Francis I of France: "The sun shines for me as it does for others. I would very much like to see the clause of Adam's will by which I should be denied my share of the world."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_ecological_life-support_system
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_Accords