skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was Bittrex Hacked?
I suspect that Bittrex was hacked.

My evidence is that I registered on Bittrex using a unique email address that I only used on that service. Now I am getting phishing emails to that email address.

When I contacted Bittrex's support they did not admit to a security incident. They merely claimed that I was getting phishing emails and that I shouldn't click on the link.

(Because I used a unique email address with Bittrex, anyone sending email to that address either has Bittrex's private data, or made a very lucky guess.)

I'm concerned because Bittrex had sensitive information, like bank account numbers and passport images.

Any suggestions about how to move forward?
Why wouldn't Airbus not look into it, Boeing has often acted agressive in getting US government to put tariffs on Airbus.
You have a point, but one could easily frame it differently.

- the openai board is the non-profit, meant to make "good" decisions, and not necessarily business sense decisions.

- altman was fired because that board doesn't feel it can rely on him (both in action and in communication), he'll do what he wants and he won't be obvious about the fact he's not listening to them.

- now altman and co. are essentially going to kill openai as a company, leaving it only with the existing IP, so the board figures that they should bring in people who are interested in working / researching on top of openai's previous work.

- anthropic is composed of people who left openai due to safety concerns, so they're good people to partner with.

The fact that it would be better safety-wise if there was competition (maybe?) is immaterial when facing the fact that 1) openai appears to be collapsing, and 2) microsoft anyway has rights to openai's work, and Microsoft appears to be preparing to cannibalize openai.
Isn't the point of salting to prevent dictionary attacks? That's still auth 101.
It would also get stuck saying the same thing over and over. "Developers developers developers" and so on.
Not Microsoft? Otherwise people would've jumped ship long ago. None of this letter writing and PR campaign.

The smaller OpenAI that signed the Microsoft agreement had plenty of sustenance. Compute remains fungible unlike LLMs.
You should only need the weights for the experts you want to run. The experts clock in at around 400 MB each (based on the 800 GB figure given elsewhere). A 24 GB GPU could fit around 60 experts, so it might be usable with a couple of old M40s.
Yea that's true ... Based on new reporting the firing was over nonsensical reasons... for dismissing a CEO who oversaw $90B in value creation.
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One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project.

The other was that Altman allegedly gave two board members different opinions about a member of personnel."
Managed to find myself a Sol Price biography signed by Jim Sinegal.
The Apple II was only two years ahead of the Atari 800 which came out in 1979 and was the most advanced until the Amiga in 1985.
Taking the current state of things at face value, Altman and Brockman are going to MSFT already and >90% of OpenAI staff are set to resign. If that happens they'll be forced to wind down operations. That will disintegrate their partnerships, which are their source of funding. They'll be left with IP but no staff and no resources to make any use of it.

They might decide that if that's going to happen anyway they should sell now so that at least they're left with some cash to pursue their charter.

Or perhaps they feel that selling the IP runs counter to their charter, in which case the whole thing goes down.
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Yep unfortunately it's been clear to me that the FT is unable to keep up with the breakneck speed at which things are unfolding while social media is less accurate but much faster
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More to a judge or jury than to you exactly, but yeah they'll have to do that. I don't personally have a lot of doubt in their abilities to do so, but I'm very much not a lawyer. Just the legal system tends to be unsympathetic to hacker technicalities that us techies like.
Are you serious? Paperclipped means the end of the human race. Why would you prefer that over anything?
If the original statement said that the board had removed him because it disagreed on for profit and Altman refused to change course then that makes a lot of sense and I think many people would at least be OK with their motives, even if it likely harmed OpenAI's progress.

Doesn't look like that is the reason given they are still holding onto Microsoft's $10 billion deal, the rejection/cancellation/notice of termination/notice it would be the last of that would have come along with the firing if this was the motive.

Whatever the real motives are I don't think we have heard them yet, which is a bad sign for them being with cause.
Hellen and Tasha and possibly Adam.
and the Apple (II etc) vs Mac teams warring with each other.
> MSFT don't have OpenAI's IP

Satya Nadella just did a podcast with Kara Swisher.

In it he specifically said, "we have all of the IP rights to continue the innovation".

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4i4lKsKevNSGEUnuu7Jzn6
For http(s) remote file, we can support glob pattern, for example:
https://<thehfurl>/resolve/main/data/0000[00-55].parquet'

Databend supports this pattern:
https://databend.rs/doc/load-data/load/http#loading-with-glo...
I find it easier to read if it's something like "22% with $5 minimum per month".
I tested it two months ago and I was really impressed: clear, fast and good rendering. I even managed to modify a module for message boxes in 15mn. I haven't used latex in 10 years, but I would have replaced it with typst everywhere I could. I still hope it could also replace markdown
Why in the hell, in light of all of this nonsense, would I ever trust a startup with my money?

OpenAI's board is largely a group of people who have zero skins on the wall. They got their positions by being related or married to people and being born with an entire fucking cupboard of silverware shoved in every orifice on their bodies.

Even Altman was born rich and managed to fail upwards until he didn't. All hail the guy with ten thousand shots at success, everybody.
The worst thing humanity can do is create a competitor for resources for itself. You do not want AI with survival instincts similar to ours. AI need to be programmed to be selfless saints or we will regret it.
This will go badly
no way even ChatGPT is this nuts.

Ok, well, maybe it is. but a magic 8-ball would have been better than this.
Happens all the time.

Teams of people at Google work on the same features, only to find out near launch that they lost to another team who had been working on the same thing without their knowledge.
Bitcoin was always an ideological gambit hoping “step 3: here a miracle happens” would make it viable - there was never a path to mainstream adoption without changes which would make it unrecognizable to improve security, privacy, and, above all, making it as fast and convenient as the competition.

In contrast, AI has plenty of hype but, similar to the dotcom-era internet, you can easily find a ton of people working on real things which actually work. Translation and copy-editing, for example, used to be expensive services, OCR and image search are now practical for problems which they previously weren’t, and I know people who have found LLMs helpful enough for things like learning or debugging code that they’re paying monthly subscriptions. That doesn’t mean it’ll print money or take over every job the way the big investors are claiming but there’s far more substance than there ever was in cryptocurrency.

Always look for what people spend their own money on, not what the VCs and analysts at big consulting companies are pitching as the second coming.
I think this was a unique situation due to timing. OpenAI had 9 board members at the beginning of the year, but 3 (Reid Hoffman, Shivon Zilis, and Will Hurd) had to leave for various reasons (e.g. conflict of interest, which IMO should have also taken D'Angelo off the board), and this would have never happened if they were still on the board. So you were left with a rare situation where the board was incredibly immature/inexperienced for the importance of OpenAI.

It has been reported that Altman was working on increasing the size of the board again, so it's reasonable to think that some of the board members saw this as their "now or never" moment, for whatever reason.
I work in game dev and I kinda witnessed how photobashing went from "cheating" to "ok if for very early concept or internal usage" to the standard process among 2D artists.

AI tools will be much more artist-oriented than they currently are. You will be able to control parameters like denoise strength with your stylus pressure. LoRAs and prompt templates will be listed in a gallery like PS's neural filters. You will be able to preview colored thumbnails that generated by control net as you sketch in near real-time.
it’s tough to hoe a row on the hill which they chose to cast their die
Zero chance OpenAI ends up seeing any more compute if they merge.
I just went and got my license renewed in my home state while I’m living overseas. The last time I had a license photo taken there, I was maybe 17. The clerk made sure to turn the screen around so we could both laugh at my old photo, so at least they keep them in one state.
Quoting Emmett Shear:

>The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that.

So why is this article titled "OpenAI's board had safety concerns"? It doesn't seem to provide any new evidence for that claim, only a link to a Bloomberg article from the 17th (which is basically ancient history in this bizarre saga).
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Clearly not consulted earlier, ChatGPT weighs in on these two reasons: https://chat.openai.com/share/7cd52d82-b36b-42c6-9d13-eb7172....
Edit: even following the basic steps it outlines would've resulted in a better outcome.
1) Where is Emmett? He's the CEO now. It's his job to be the public face of the company. The company is in an existential crisis and there have been no public statements after his 1AM tweet.

2) Where is the board? At a bare minimum, issue a public statement that you have full faith in the new CEO and the leadership team, are taking decisive action to stabilize the situation, and have a plan to move the company forward once stabilized.
Yeah, it may be so. Although I wonder if they are just afraid of the snakes that took over the company.
I'm sorry to say... But my analysis is either:

he was poorly informed by the board

Or

He agrees that they are off the rails with respect to safety.

See the Atlantic article, if you havn't read. Lots of context.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38341399

The new guy believes that there is a 5-50 percent chance of full AI Armageddon. I get the impression that the two women on the board may agree. The quora guy I don't have enough background on. Ilya obviously got extremely worried and communication with Altman and Brockman broke down. Now since repaired during negotiations it would appear.

The new ceo more or less stated that he took the role as a (paraphrase) 'responsibility for mankind'. That says a lot about that whole 5-50 percent risk number imo.
> At some point someone has to explain to you what law you broke and how you broke it

The link at the top of this page is 90 pages of the SEC telling Kraken what rules and regulations they have broken. It is certainly possible the court will disagree with the SEC, but I wouldnt bet on it.
Still don’t get it.
Being funded by Microsoft is one thing, but working for them might lead to some dissonance -- I think tech ppl are already wary of them owning GitHub... and then owning the team building AGI.

It would and should give ppl pause. I suspect Sam is just inside Microsoft for the bluff. He couldn't operate in the way he wants -- "trust me, I have humanity's best interests at heart" -- while so close to them, I don't think
RapidApi should take notes.
Makes some sense.

It would be funny if they agreed to the merger and then mass resigned to join Microsoft also.

And then repeat with quora merger and another mass exodus.

Or they could just outsource keeping the lights on to a consulting company like ibm or Accenture or oracle.

Unfortunately there won’t be a happy ending. Just like there was no happy ending with Java.
Sounds interesting - feel free to reach out or discuss on the Braintrust discord :)!
This assumes it is possible to create such a bot. There is no indication that such a bot is possible. This is exactly my issue. All the disaster scenarios require some event that is not clear that an AGI could accomplish.
Or bad things about the board/company governance, or both.
Something to think about:

https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub
By the time this saga resolves, the number of threads linked here could suffice as chapters of a book
Kong... Kong...
Didn't this one Firebase clone use Kong API gateway?
Supabase, yeah that one.

This is all untrustworthy.

Reading this issue, I hope they go broke.
> I thought the ASCII upper-case <-> lower-case being a bit operation as being clever.

From "Things Every Hacker Once Knew" (2017), has an entire section on ASCII and the clever bit-fiddling that occurs:

* http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/...

* Discussion from ~2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701117
Seems to me that one can make an argument that the following people, named in bitcoin/src/kernel/chainparams.cpp, control BTC:

vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.sipa.be."); // Pieter Wuille, only supports x1, x5, x9, and xd
vSeeds.emplace_back("dnsseed.bluematt.me."); // Matt Corallo, only supports x9
vSeeds.emplace_back("dnsseed.bitcoin.dashjr.org."); // Luke Dashjr
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoinstats.com."); // Christian Decker, supports x1 - xf
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.jonasschnelli.ch."); // Jonas Schnelli, only supports x1, x5, x9, and xd
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.btc.petertodd.org."); // Peter Todd, only supports x1, x5, x9, and xd
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl."); // Sjors Provoost
vSeeds.emplace_back("dnsseed.emzy.de."); // Stephan Oeste
vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.wiz.biz."); // Jason Maurice
This looks awesome - thanks for sharing! Yeah I think it's just local vs. hosted models.
My favorite part is this:

> Meanwhile, groups of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have questioned what they call SEC’s “regulation via enforcement” approach. They have asked why the agency’s actions against crypto firms seem less focused on “compliance and customer protection,” but were instead “calculated for maximum publicity and political impact.” Others have observed that the SEC’s strategy “does not protect the public.” Indeed, this suit does nothing to protect the public. Like those in complaints that have come before, its allegations are factually incorrect, contrary to law, and the wrong way to create policy in the United States.

To me the SEC and Gary Gensler are going to get their arses handed to themselves once again.
So you enter a room via a chest, but can also move a chest around and even take it out of the current room. And the state of room is (mostly) reset once you enter the same room again, so you can duplicate a chest provided that it was once in some other chest. Crucially, some chest refers to the existing room---you can often infinitely recurse into the same room again and again (hence the name of the game). Each level of recursed room keeps its contents until the exit, and is distinct from other levels even though they all share the same room structure.

Scheme-stained glasses will translate these mechanics as follows: a chest is a function and a visible room is a scope formed by a function invocation. So it is obvious that entering the same chest again won't (mostly) keep existing objects and nested rooms have distinct states. As the game progresses, you will find various objects that interact with typical function scopes, and many of them have analogies in Scheme or similar languages. For example, I think there was an object that corresponds to an one-shot continuation!
I remember reading some ticket pages at the release, where they actually made promises about bringing the capabilities back in the future. But TBH I could not retrieve any link.

I know this story already, but as much as I can empathize with this since I am a developer myself, from a user point of view they destroyed the ecosystem that was their strength. When I said "bring back", I do not mean XUL as a technology, I mean the functionalities that the extensions could use.

I was on Firefox because it brought me something more, and because I appreciated it as it was. But now that they dumbed it down and made it like Google Chrome rather than focusing on their strengths, I do not have any good reason to use it. Because the many Chromium-based alternatives are better, more innovative, more reliable, and their UIs are stable and does not change every 6 months.
The contention is close, but not exactly that - it would be that when MM said 'Yaccarino was wrong, here's proof', this was defamatory because 'protected' was never meant to imply 100% perfect protection, and therefore claims that her statement was disproven - with their contrived method - are false and malicious.

It may well be a weak case. MM are certainly slimy political operators, but they seem to have mostly avoided any direct statements which are easily, unambiguously provably false.
I'm just guessing, but they probably have a restricted license to some IP,
not ownership of all title and rights to all IP.

Yep, those lawyers can be just as crafty as developers believe it or not.

*edit: just saw it claimed below Nadella said "we have all of the IP rights to continue the innovation"*

I don't know!
In the case you're serious: yes, we've had issues with developers changing code inside of GitHub and then committing, which obviously increases nose in future diffs that are done with a formatter installed. We fixed this by enforcing a formatter at the CI level.

In the case you're wondering if formatting code is important: it's a hill I'm willing to die on. It costs nothing but it removes an insane amount of discussion and noise when doing reviews.
We're commenting, not stating something as fact.

And if that's the closest we'll get to a fact, then what if it's not? .. it's actually worse than no fact at all.
Neither too full nor too empty seems to be the sweet spot, but of course those who'd rather you buy a new one once in a while will optimise for other things than total cycle life energy.

The newish "high voltage" (>4.2V/cell) cells are an excellent example of this; they've come up with better material chemistries that resist degradation and would let cells last many times longer for the same capacity, but instead they just push the cells harder so they end up lasting roughly the same amount of time for a few tens of % increase in capacity.
If your prompt-input is high quality it is more likely to match high-quality training inputs
is that a "The Algorithm is bad" excuse? Because if that's part of Elon Musk's position, this whole thing becomes even more laughable (considering his complaints about the algorithm were supposedly part of the reason he bought Twitter in the first place.)
Is it Altman's culture if he was first kicked out and then most of the employees are willing to follow him to the new place?
Honestly, you're better off reading "A City on Mars", https://www.acityonmars.com/

The book explores the science of living in space. The authors are very frank in their opening: When they started writing the book, they thought space colonization would happen "very soon," but as they reviewed the science, they realized:

It will take a very, very long time to learn to live on the moon, mars, or anywhere else off planet.

One thing they mentioned is that, yes, you can grow plants in moon regolith. But, the plants are very stressed, and they suspect that hydroponics would work better.
Link to latest numbers that say 95%? Last I saw was ~91% (700-of-770):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/20/microso...
> This could well be, but I still struggle to grasp it. He seemed so much smarter

This isn't about intelligence but about business experience.
Frankly, if the society is so fragmented that the court of public opinion doesn't get genuine neo-Nazis laughed out of town, I don't think the primary issue is whether Xitter (I like that term LOL) or other platforms strictly uphold free speech. I think we'd better fix the people first, either the neo-Nazis or everyone else, so that they don't have a foothold on the Internet or in ways that matter.
Oh interesting, I was looking into this recently but the license perturbed me a bit. I ended up going with PayloadCMS, which is a YC-backed project.
Regulators keep big fish from engaging in predatory behavior. Is the SEC flawed? Absolutely.

But the SEC makes markets more free, not less.
The board likely thinks the IP gives them leverage to attract talent after the drama subsides. Otherwise, they may very well go for broke.
The world may be on track for tripling renewables, and that's what we need
Can you be more specific? Existing update "infrastructure" as I understand it consists of updating a file so that when you hit its URL you get the contents of the new filter list instead of the old one. RSS is the same mechanism—you rewrite the contents of /feed.xml, for example—but for no net benefit—it just adds a layer of indirection, plus you deal with "XML" containers. That is, the format looks like XML and even pretends to be XML but very well may not be, due to the legacy of RSS.
And Brain-Computer Interfaces.
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Who is Helen Toner, the 30yo Aussie OpenAI board member who voted out Sama?
I think Ilya got very worried that his concerns were not being heard.

I think the rest had possible reasons ranging from 'I'm sure Altman is dangerous' to 'I'm sure Altman shouldn't be running this company'.

Ofc there's big conflict of interest talk surrounding the Quora guy. Can't speak to that other than it looks bad on the surface.
There is no I there let alone AGI.
It's obvious what you're doing. You probably think you're being subtle, but you're not.

The discussion is not about what % of people know about this (well-documented if you simply do a google search) conspiracy theory, nor is it about criticizing Israel.

The point is about Elon Musk agreeing with a known white supremacist conspiracy theory.
This is not original reporting, it’s just summarizing others (now seemingly outdated) reporting and speculation of twitter users with no first hand knowledge, although I guess it provides a coherent narrative of the twitter speculation, but presents it as fact. :/