skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crappy behavior but I think screaming fraud is taking things a bit far. If you buy a Blu-ray from a website you don't come back screaming fraud because the browser or computer you you used doesn't play Blu-rays due to the DRM requirements. A refund request fits the scenario much better and the company's response tells you whether they are worth doing business with, not whether you were the victim of fraud. Some responsibility still lies with the buyer that they will understand what it takes to use the thing they are buying and not expect to rely 100% on the seller to verify everything for them beforehand.

At the same time... I think the behavior is pretty shitty, just not illegal, in that it takes minor up front effort to resolve. An explicit message along the lines of "You won't be able to watch in higher quality on this browser/device combination. Do you still want to purchase the high quality version for use on another device? You'll still be able to watch either version on this device, just always in low quality" goes a long way.
ctrl-/ doesn't work in firefox for me (the shortcut for "Focus secondary search bar")

But all things considered that's pretty minor
Fun times for Adams friend Emmet Shear when he wakes up the next morning. Almost all his employees have signed a letter that means his own sacking in the company he was appointed CEO less than 24 hours ago. I can't think of a precedent case in business.
We still don't know what specific act the board in its initial statement refers to had triggered this, and to add fat to this theory, the interim CEO basically mentions that he had doubts but was convinced after learning what this trigger was.
Pretty positive reactions to the recent-ish Trying TinaCMS submission; 128 points, 28 days ago, 35 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37988585

So called headless cms, git-backed, with a robust set of apis, graphql support.
This is my complaint about approximately every sci-fi that has both "shield" and "warp" technology. Just warp a large mass into the bridge, or a bomb if you're feeling nasty. Add instantaneous "subspace" communication a la Star Trek, and you can call in the equivalent of an air strike from the nearest hub. Warp core goes boom.
His time will surely come and I hope he has some good professional liability insurance for his position at OpenAI. And if I was his insurer I'd be canceling his policy pronto.
If a function is safe only if everyone else you rely on never calls a particular function, it's not that safe. Certainly less safe than other functions guaranteed not to result in crashes if you use them right.
It would be hard for the FTC to do anything about it as there is no acquisition of companies or IP going on. All Microsoft is doing is making job offers to recently unemployed experts in their field after their business partner set themselves on fire starting at the executive/board level.
Slightly off-topic but what's a good forum to seek help on FP practices outside of the courses like this online?

Every winter break I get back into trying to learn more FP (in Haskell) and in the past several years I have been practicing algo problems (codeforces, advent of code, leetcode).

I always get stuck on more advanced graph algorithms where you traverse a and modify a graph, not a tree structure - it gets particularly tricky to work on circular data structures (I learned about "tying the knot" but it's incredibly challenging for me) and usually the runtime perf is sub-par both asymptotically and empirically.
The people responsible for calling for the sacking of the people who sacked the CEO, have just been sacked.
I guess they have YouTube, but it doesn’t really generate characters that are tied to their brand.

Maybe they can come up with a personification for the YouTube algorithm. Except he seems like a bit of a bad influence.
In general this can't work.

People are notoriously ruthless to people who admit their mistakes. For example, if you are in an argument and you lose (whether through poor debate or your argument is plain wrong), and you *admit it*, people don't look back at it as a point of humility - they look at it as a reason to dog pile on you and make sure everyone knows you were wrong.

In this case, it's not internet points - it's their jobs, and a lot of money, and massive reputation - on the line. If there is extreme risk and minimal, if any, reward for showing humility, why wouldn't you double down and at least try to win your fight?
Increasing number of corners not filled by the sphere, in the enclosing hypercube.
We're about two days into three ring circus territory and I'm having a hard time keeping up with the developments. You go to sleep, wake up and the whole thing has flipped and turned inside out.
Absolutely. What customer wants to stick around if all that is left is the board?
China loaning USD to Africa is even better for the US. They get to consume the equivalent of that amount of cash - it will not be redeemed for some time now.
If its proven to be dangerous, Congress with quickly regulate it. It's probably not that dangerous and all the attempts to picture it that way are likely fueled by greed, so that it's regulated out of small players' reach and subject it to export controls. The real threat is that big tech is going to control the most advanced AIs (already happening, MS is throwing billions at it) and everyone else will pay up to use the tech while also relinquishing control over their data and means of computation. It has happened with everything else becoming centralized: money, the Internet and basically most of your data.
Lost money. Same consequence either way, so there is no incentive for them to leave.
Media can thrive on negativity and the economy can be in rough shape with young people not being able to buy a home or start a family. Just look at American fertility, it's more dramatic if you exclude first and second generation immigrants out of the number and see how large the delta is between the number of kids people want to have and the number they actually do
typing some text and pressing 'generate', iterating, or doing layering and photobashing, just isn't gonna be 'painting', or 'drawing', like, ever. on a fundamental level. you'll need to get over yourself asap if you're "screaming" over this
They work with the team they do because they want to. If they wanted to jump ship for another opportunity they could probably get hired literally anywhere. It makes perfect sense to transition to MS
It's possible that Sam was given clear parameters for removal, there was a discussion with Microsoft about what would happen after removal, and then a decision was made to fulfill those parameters for removal to move things forward.
That sounds a lot like Koka. Is there any relationship?
The CPI is composed of a basket of goods, and there's always going to be items in that basket that's rising higher than average, so there's always going to be things you can cherry pick and complain about "the BLS not fully capturing inflation".

>The cost of a vehicle in 2019 vs today

BLS data says it's 30% higher. Does that seem about right?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETA

>cost of a house in 2019 vs today

Houses aren't directly in the CPI for complicated reasons, but the short version is that they're an investment. Americans buy 401ks too, but it would make little sense to factor in the S&P 500 into the CPI. Housing is factored in though, through imputed rents and rental prices.
GPUs run on cash, not goodwill. AI researchers also run on cash -- they have plenty of options and an organization needs to be able to reward them to keep them motivated and working.

OpenAI is only what it is because of its commercial wing. It's not too different from the Mozilla Foundation, which would be instantly dead without their commercial subsidiary.

I would much rather OpenAI survives this and continues to thrive -- rather than have Microsoft or Google own the AI future.
100%. Technical staff rarely have exceptional political awareness and that seems to be the case this weekend. To be fair we don't know what triggered everything so while the dust settles this position may change.
Of course, but both Toner and McCauley are on the same boards with the same handful of organizations (Centre for Governance of AI, Centre for Effective Altruism, OpenAI) and Toner (and her coworkers/managers like former OpenAI Board Member Holden Karnofsky) both managed grantmaking from OpenPhilanthropy to the organizations above. If you're working together in that many organizations you will end up having a working relationship.
It seems impossible to imagine OpenAI employees even considering standing in support of the decision to remove Sam given the opacity of the announcement. Whatever information the board might have ought to come to light.
Yes, thank you. I think sometimes we forget how fuzzy language is.

If you're response is "well actually..." you need to think if you're providing meaningful feedback that would make the original claim meaningfully different (i.e. you're adding nuance that would shift perspective). Otherwise it comes off as if you didn't hear anything the original person said because you're missing the meat. Technical corrections are fine, but they should come with some indication of hearing the thesis. Let's try

> Well technically they aren't lying to you. It's the number of seats left at that price and that price can vary. So it is misleading but not technically a lie.

But to counter that claim, simply clearing my cache and restarting the browser would result in both the price and number of seats left changing. Not monotonically. Sometimes it'd be a lower price with more seats. I saw all four permutations! Now I'm not someone with all the airline data, but when this happens over the course of a few minutes I'm pretty suspicious of the results. The likelihood of that happening without manipulation seems rather low.
How do we know the mission got thrown out a window? The board still, after days of intense controversy, have yet to clearly explain how Altman was betraying the mission.

Did he ignore safety? Did he defund important research? Did he push forward on projects against direct objections from the board?

If there’s a good reason, then let everybody know what that is. If there isn’t, then what was the point of all this?
If you can’t see that reducing her to being her husband’s wife is sexism then I can’t help you.
The outcome that is good for humanity, assuming Ilya is right to worry about AI safety, is already buried in the ground. You should care and shed a single tear for the difficulty of coordination.
This is a brilliant idea! I see you're also building a platform for people to share.

At first glance it looks I can only upload an image or feed text. Is there a way to make the input more flexible, at lease both image and text?
Cool passport collection. I'd love to see other such collections if you or others know of them. One of my favorite collections is blank vhs tape covers such as https://goughlui.com/the-vhs-corner/vhs-cassette-library/ and https://vaultofvhs.tumblr.com/archive .
I've seen it mentioned several times here, over the course of the weekend.
I can't imagine GM's legal department wanting to sell self-driving cars as they know that's going to open GM to all kinds of lawsuits. But, your honor, self-driving cars are better drivers isn't going to go over well with a jury hearing your case when your vehicle ran over and killed a 5 year old girl. Your company's name and reputation is going to be drug through the mud world-wide. Why are Tesla and GM pursuing this?
can't delete a screenshot, but 100% would be great to copy xeets easier
Programming runs along the back of mathematics. A field famous for spending centuries wasting time on silly games until those same silly games end up being the foundation on which modern society functions.

Even if LLMs completely remove the need for programming (a rather big IF), this is not time wasted.
My guess is they’re referring to the mini PCIe cards. I think Coral only comes in NVMe and mini PCIe (and technically you can buy just the chip itself I believe).

Obviously mini PCIe is deprecated and it’s unlikely many people have a device with a mini PCIe slot AND they don’t need that slot for WiFi/BT. That’s probably why they’re looking to sell.
> But turning every car owner into an entrepreneur who rents out their car when they don't need it? You're letting your imagination run away!

I'm glad we agree on this, individuals renting out their own car is a wacky idea.

I picture it more as a subscription service. Pay x dollars per month for an on-demand vehicle, or just pay per use.
And then it's really hard to lose them, even for severe infractions.
>They're saying there's only that many seats left at that price point.

...which is a lie.
If the tickets stop selling the price will drop. If there's a signal indicating a future spike in demand they will jack up the price irrespective of sales.
Madness spreads.
Surprisingly, Ilya apparently has signed it too and just tweeted that he regrets it all.

What's even going on?
Seems pointless to learn to make singular highly detailed visual art pieces? Maybe. Maybe it always was pointless.

But most visual art is not just single pictures in a vacuum. Say you want to make a game with 2d still-art, or say a comic. You will need dozens or hundreds of images and they will have to be tied together by a common design — characters and style that look similar in the different images, and most of all you have to have a story to back it up. This is not something AIs can do well, not for a long while, but a human artist now may do significantly better than before with help of "dumb AI", such as the featured Krita plugin.

Finally, most artists don't think like you. It's not "pointless" to do something that can be technically repeated by other humans or AI. You do art because you want to express yourself.
Fact:

Argentina's peso ("left-leaning fact-based" currency) went from worth 0.35 US dollars to now 0.0029 US dollars in less than 5 years.
To play devil's advocate here, this law would literally make that illegal. What keeps me from taking the money then leaving anyway? A signed contract is the only way, and banning non-competes means making that contract unenforceable.
The $80B in profit is a random number the OP through out.

Most likely the exchange is making between $2-$4B in profit a year (With bull markets around $12-$14B a year). However, with such a small team and the team being paid is bUSD, i suspect most of their revenue is pure profit.

Also, Binance executives are tied to Tether ($87B market cap) with around $8-12B in profit per year, and BNB ($39B market cap) $600-$800M per year, makes it one of the most profitable companies in the world.

So although $80B came from no where (And the real number is closer to around $20B a year with a market cap of $110B, $4B is nothing for them.)
Wow... I won't be running anything like that locally anytime soon unfortunately...
Thanks! Appreciate the recommendation and tip!
Just let all your functions live in IO then. You'll still come out ahead.

Or do an unsafePerformIO.

Or use trace (where someone else has done the unsafePerformIO for you).

Or use a Writer.

Or introduce some logging capability (Logger m =>) onto your code.

Or take a look at all the man-hours that have been spent on trying to perfect logging: https://hackage.haskell.org/packages/tag/logging
Argentina has generally higher income and better standards of living than China during the 80s, India and Bangladesh later on. It cannot follow the same path of industrialization based off extremely cheap labor, nor it has the population to pull that trick.

And I really hope you are not using Chile under Pinochet as a good example of anything.
I disagree about Ryanair. Yeah, they try and upsell you like crazy, but there aren’t any tricks. They warn you to buy bags in advance because they will charge more at a later date - that’s not a trick, that’s how they subsidise the ticket price for people who plan ahead. And it’s not as if they advertise the price at £12 then it triples at checkout. Maybe there’s a CC processing fee and that’s it? Also if you come back to the site later, the price is the same unless those seats have been sold which they very clearly communicate at the very first step (x seats left at this price).
From what I’m reading, nobody ordered a plane out of the sky, but several countries (suddenly) excluded a plane from their sky.

Of course, if you’re flying over a landlocked country, and every neighbour blocks you from their airspace, you don’t have many options. (Not that this quite happened, but looked to be going in that trajectory).
The problem is you can’t erase memories. Rewind the clock, sure. But why would someone expect a different outcome from the same setup?
Poe: A ChatGPT Competitor from Quora (Posted by Adam D'Angelo)
I see, thanks.

On an entirely different note, this feels like an exclusively Delta fuck up (and they know, given that they built a whole pop up for it). I fly United and American extremely frequently and never seen this. I have even booked Alaska basic economy that doesn't give you a seat and been given a free seat selection. Delta has been rapidly going downhill in recent years -- those that nerd out on air travel know exactly what I'm talking about.
Getting a bunch of students in downtown spaces would be great for students, great for downtowns, great for universities.

Downtowns need activity/active people, students affordable access to urban spaces, and universities could become hotspots by being situated nicely in the middle.
Let's say that you and I each buy an airline ticket. We're sitting in the same coffee shop and buying it at the same time from the same airline provider. We're both buying the cheapest ticket available. Let's make even another assumption! Suppose we can buy the same ticket! Would you find it deceitful if we were shown different prices?
Oh, people are talking about it, just not as loud. But I think you are dead on: that's the main burning issue at the moment and D'Angelo may well be reviewing his options with his lawyer by his side. Because admitting fault would open him up to liability immediately but there aren't that many ways to exit stage left without doing just that. He's in a world of trouble and I suspect that this is the only thing that has caused him to hold on to that board seat: to have at least a fig leaf of coverage to make it seem as if his acts are all in line with his conscience instead of his wallet.

If it turns out he was the instigator his goose is cooked.
AI tennis app SwingVision raises US$6M to expand into pickleball and padel
MS is destined to be substantially better than their previous owners. Your right in that it may be too early to predict the financial success, but I am very happy to see MS as the new owners of Activision, no matter what happens.
Apparently Sam isn't in the Microsoft employee directly yet, so he isn't technically hired at all. Seems like he loses a bit of leverage over the board if they think he & Microsoft are actually bluffing and the employment announcement was just a way to pressure the board into resigning.
RSS feeds can contain entries with content-type `message/rfc2822`, and it was simple enough to patch Thunderbird's RSS viewer to process those with the email viewer back in the day, so you could read your email with your feedreader. I don't know if the Thunderbird team upstreamed any of that or not, but the context at the time was rssemail [1], which comes up every few years, most recently ActivityPub.

[1] http://mengwong.com/rssemail/
Precisely. Breakthroughs are often cleverer than brute force, “throw more compute/tokens at it” approaches. Turning some crucial algorithm from O(n) to O(log(n)) could be an unlock worth trillions of compute time dollars.
If you use ChatGPT or find it to be a compelling technology, there’s good reason to root for a reversion to the status quo. This could set back the state of the art consumer AI product quite a few months as teams reinvent the wheel in a way that doesn’t get them sued when they relaunch.
Honestly beginning to wonder if this is all just a marketing stunt.
There are no shareholders in a non-profit. Who would remove boardmembers besides a majority decision by the board?
Thanks for the detailed info.

I’m aware the bar is low when it comes to the entry-level certs, and that’s why I’d hope AWS SAs (the free kind) have to pass one or two.
Deployment of capital is not the same thing as rent seeking.
> How do you know? My city does publish statistics and theirs do not match your opinion.

How do you know the sun shines during the day? Because I live here. I see what causes unsafe conditions on roads.

And yes, although cities are different, by-and-large, the statistics published by your city DO match my opinion.

> Not to mention the obvious fact that the car is the one physically doing the killing, as collisions between pedestrians are resolved with a "sorry" rather than a visit to the ER.

Not so for bicycles, and even less so for new-age electric devices going 20-30MPH depending on jurisdiction.

My city has a 25MPH speed limit for cars (although most cars break it). For new-age electric vehicles, the speed (and injuries) are similar. However, drivers are licensed. Most one-wheels, mopeds, ebikes, and similar are driven by idiots without licenses or clear law enforcement.
Some did!
Sites used to book travel, ie airfare, hotels, etc, are notorious for changing price based on your perceived interest. I've noticed this myself when I look at a hotel listing multiple times, the price tends to creep up.
that would be a credible reason to remove him from the board, not an excuse for why he doesn't agree with his own signature.
That's an issue, and going from kayak to delta for same flight leads to same issue.

I wonder if this is some bug/edge case for really close in flights? The example flight booking takes off 2 hours from now?

Last time I ever tried to book a flight so close the online sales funnel was closed due to post-9/11 security restrictions. I think 2 hours is about as close as is even legal right?

Can you replicate for a flight tomorrow / next week / next month?
Did you read my comment before you replied?
If OpenAI effectively disintegrates, Microsoft seems to be the beneficiary of this chaos as Microsoft is essentially acquiring OpenAI at almost zero cost. You have IP rights to OpenAI's work, and you will have almost all the brains from OpenAI (AFAIK, MSFT has access to OpenAI's work, but it does not seem to matter). And there is no regulatory scrutiny like Activision acquisition.
> I don't get it. Is your argument that because the homeless rate is 0.18% in the US, that if you had no income and drained your savings, that the probability of you ending up on the streets is minuscule? How do you think you'll acquire housing if you don't have any money?

My argument is simple:

1) Few people in the US have a massive cash hoard built up. "57% of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency expense" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/57-americans-t-afford-1-19584...

2) Lots of people lose their jobs every year, via firings, layoffs, quitting, companies going out of business, etc.

3) Nonetheless, the rate of homelessness is only 0.18%

4) Thus, homelessness is not a virtual certainty if you lose your job.

People almost always find a way to avoid homelessness, typically by finding a new job.

> Are we reading the same comment?

Yes, your quotation is accurate.
If you want to lay everyone off, maybe laying off HR first wasn’t the smartest move.