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+1 for Software Unscripted! I know barely anything about compilers, but I really enjoy being a fly on the wall of these conversations :)
Options on Microsoft stock, a publicly-traded and stable company, are incomparable to those on OpenAI, which didn't even bother having proper equity to start with. The employees will get hosed. They never got equity, they got "equity." The senior ones will need liquidity, soon, to pay legal counsel; the rest will need to take what they can get.
It's been said over and over that these people compare themselves to the people on the next rung up and conclude that they're not wealthy. I think it says something about nature of the bubbles we live in that this delusion isn't dashed organically. Gig delivery takes me down a lot of roads I wouldn't normally go down, dropping off Taco Bell and Outback and ColdStone to apartments and townhouses and tract homes and McMansions. In a previous life, I likely welcomed some of their owners and renters to [big box retailer]. It's difficult (and bad for sales numbers) to try to determine who is who; they're all shopping at the same places, ordering many of the same products. The differences in circumstances and means show themselves in private arenas where wealthy people aren't likely to encounter how the other half lives. So, when the McMansion-dwellers see the townhome- and apartment-dwellers, it's on "equal" ground. But it's important to remember that this is by design - partly their design.

All of this to say, wealthy people are unreliable arbiters of their standing. Either they're blissfully unaware, or purposely crafted their situation (and implicitly must benefit from the surface-level seeming lack of awareness).
Interesting, this is one of those things where I was absolutely convinced that it's true and am having some cognitive dissonance reading the study.

I am not trying to move goalposts with the next statement, but I always assumed sugar has a similar effect to caffeine, in that you get a temporary boost that you pay for later. Study pointing to this quoted/linked below.

For me personally, energy drinks very much do seem to improve alertness, at the cost of crashing later. This is especially evident if drinking them two days in a row, where on the third day you absolutely have no energy left. And that's not even mentioning the absurd blood pressure spikes.

Anyway, this isn't an "argument" - I don't have one other than "that seems inconsistent with my experience." Though your own link seems to be pretty inconsistent as well*

* "Caffeine consistently improved marksman reaction time but did not improve marksmanship accuracy. However, there is some evidence that caffeine attenuates performance decrements in marksman accuracy caused by stress and fatigue if optimal dosing strategies are employed. Dosing strategies timed according to hours of wakefulness and time before testing could prevent performance deterioration. Doses of 100-200 mg every 2 hours may effectively improve accuracy during extended duty; however, further research is needed."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31045484/

* "The literature on CHO effects on cognition suggests that CHOs can improve cognitive functioning, particularly under circumstances where participants are asked to perform cognitively demanding rather than easy tasks (Mantantzis et al., 2017, Scholey et al., 2009, Sünram-Lea et al., 2002). In a similar manner, studies have found the protective effects of CHOs on mood to be more robust when participants perform demanding physical and cognitive tasks. In fact, whereas participants in control groups experience higher levels of tiredness after performing a cognitively demanding task, consumption of CHOs seems to protect subjective ratings of energy against a potential drop-off after high cognitive exertion (Benton and Owens, 1993, Owens et al., 1997). Additionally, exogenous energy supply in the form of CHOs has been shown to increase vigor and reduce fatigue under conditions of increased physical stress (Ali et al., 2017, Lieberman et al., 2002, Markus, 2007, Welsh et al., 2002) and cognitive demands (Owens et al., 1997, Smit et al., 2004). Therefore, it has been hypothesized that, similar to cognition, mood improvement following CHO administration is stronger when participants have to perform demanding cognitive or physical tasks (for a review, see Benton, 2002)."
How did they get 4 board to fire him because he tried to A B test a project?
This take misses a few big points

1. Microsoft is offering GPT APIs in Azure. They’re already taking accountability for the technology.

2. Much of their investment in OpenAI has been in the form of Azure credits and not all of it has been paid yet.

3. Microsoft wouldn’t bring the OpenAI team into the core company. They’d let them build a new company that Microsoft owns. That’s a big difference.
They’re fools, and thought they could oust Altman over petty grievances and that no one would care, and when it blew up, they struggled to find a solution that saves face and their careers and avoids adverse legal judgments against them individually, and they’re still frantically searching? I mean, they didn’t even have replacements in mind. They are not planners.
The problem with the current state of society is that we don't know whether this is normal or not. We never had a society, ever, that had something like the internet.

So I think it is very likely that applying all the old ideas to a new world will not get us far. But yeah, in the end having people that care enough to do something is always a precondition for keeping a society free.
If they follow Sam to Microsoft the team might be basically the same and able to work on the same projects. But yes, they would be quitting one company and going to another.
> an innovative (at that time) operating system

The UI paradigm involving Oberon's "system track" is still really interesting.

This isn't fanfare. I put some serious hours into messing around with Oberon (re-implementing the compiler like you, working on a couple emulators, working out how to bootstrap the system and build a disk image). Still, I never particularly enjoyed using Oberon, though.

About a year or so ago, though, while fumbling around with Firefox's bookmarks, I was entertaining the idea of a "universal sidebar" that would from the perspective of any app or web page be entirely separate but would still be sufficiently powerful to control any one (or all) of them. I realized I was re-imagining Wirth's system track, jotted the idea down, and then moved on. I'm still occasionally reminded of it, of course, due to the same frustrations that led to my daydreaming in the first place.

I do most of my computing with browser windows and terminal emulators snapped to either the left or right sides of the screen, anyway, so my existing workflow is entirely amenable to the imposition of parallel tracks. It's an underexplored UI concept on modern desktops. Windows Vista did have a widget engine that it first called the Sidebar and then called Desktop Gadgets, but it it was basically a clone of Konfabulator and the Mac Dashboard and not so much a supercharged window manager/app coordinator in the vein of Oberon or Plan 9 Acme, and I don't use Windows anyhow. The Browser Company is doing something sort of interesting with Arc, but it's still just an application-sidebar and not nearly powerful enough for what I want. Plus it's on the wrong side of the screen.
> That axiom is a relic from the pre-social media days. Nowadays, bad PR going viral can sink a company overnight

You're saying we're in a less attention-seeking culture today than in pre-social media times?
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You mean when the advertising companies pulled their money from Twitter after its owner said Jews "pushing [...] hatred against whites" was "the actual truth"? Darn those woke hippies at... let's see... IBM!

Or maybe, just maybe, the simpler explanation is that they don't want their ads running alongside that trash.
True, this is why I've moved away from Apple personally (first from the iPhone and then also from the Mac). I want to own my stuff.
Looking at this article, the following theory would align with what I've seen so far:

* Ilya Sutskever is concerned about the company moving too fast (without taking safety into account) under Sam Altman.

* The others on the board that ended up supporting the firing are concerned about the same.

* Ilya supports the firing because he wants the company to move slower.

* The majority of the people working on AI don't want to slow down, either because they want to develop as fast as possible or because they're worried about missing out on profit.

* Sam rallies the "move fast" faction and says "this board will slow us down horribly, let's move fast under Microsoft"

* Ilya realizes that the practical outcome will be more speed/less safety, not more safety, as he hoped, leading to the regret tweet (https://nitter.net/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028)
You were right Ilya was naive , he regrets his decision on twitter. And he was taken advantage of by power hungry people behind.
One reason that uuencode lost out to Base64 was that uuencode used spaces in its encoding. It was fairly common for Internet protocols in those days to mess with whitespace, so it was often necessary to patch up corrupted uuencode files by hand.

Base64, on the other hand, was carefully designed to survive everything from whitespace corruption to being passed through non-ASCII character sets. And then it became widely used as part of MIME.
Is that even possible when serving 90B post impressions and 5B ad impressions per day where some of the fringe content is obfuscated or image-based? I guess if an advertiser's expectation is that one or few unwanted placements are unacceptable, maybe they should not be advertising on the internet, but regardless IMO, MMA should be forth coming on the prevalence and methodology it used.
If phones with easily replaceable batteries arrive due to legislation, it would be one major win, less waste and more peace of mind.
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Precariously rich is still rich. The article makes some good points, I don't feel your comment responds to any of them.
The board has a massive conflict of interest in that they are also controlling all of the other entities and that alone means that they can't hide behind the purported mission of the non-profit. And even then they may well have to explain to a judge why they thought this hastily taken decision was in line with that mission. I don't see it happening.

But all of that has already been covered upthread. Multiple times.
Emmett made a tweet noting accepting the role, which is not a statement.

The board has not given a statement besides the original firing of Sam Altman that kicked the whole thing off.
If you own an asset worth millions, you're rich regardless of your income.
>X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism

Title should be changed to "X sues Media Matters", to eliminate inaccurate editorialization.
LoRa is not nearly as much of a risk as BLE for the simple fact that you need a special radio for it. And the helium network isn't free.

Sidewalk over BLE is a huge issue though. No way to block devices calling home :(
The article specifically discusses people with investment properties for the most part. I swear nobody jn this comment sectuon wven read the article.
DAO insurance doesn't cover malice and purposeful destruction.

If the minutes exist I'm sure they'll be leaked, if they don't they're in trouble. ANd if you don't see any reason to assume they've failed their duty of care that is fine by me but I think the last few days alone pretty much confirm that they did not.
Honestly, I'm sitting at only $30k remaining on my mortgage, which we paid off in 19 years (sold first home, and upgraded in the middle of that) and frankly the rates now aren't really any higher than the first mortgage we got in 2005. So I'm sitting in a pretty good state and just hoping for a major downward drop in housing prices so that my kids (now teens) can afford rent and housing as adults. Or we'll all be living here on the farm. I feel privileged for my own personal situation but also just flabbergasted at the debt people have been willing to take on.

Zero interest rate policies and poor regulation of the real estate market drove prices so high and it's amazing to watch people suddenly act as if it's higher rates now that are the cause of affordability problems. Absolutely short-termist thinking.

Governments (both fed and provincial) let ... no, encouraged ... this to happen.

If your workers can't afford to live where they work... you will stop producing anything at all.
No one is a free speech absolutist if you take absolutist in its literal sense.
Did the teams know that there was another team working on the same thing? I wonder how that affects working of both teams... On the other hand, not telling the teams would erode the trust that the teams have in management.
Not sure if you meant to compare to Sidekiq (which uses Redis). But delayed-job and que are both projects that stretch back much more than 4 years in the ruby ecosystem that leverage relational databases as well.
Haha that would be cute. This whole affair is so Sorkinist.
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Yeah I remember seeing that. I so would have bought it at the time if it had been an option. The antennas looked really good too.
I cannot say whether you deserve the downvotes, but an alternative and grounded perspective is appreciated in this maelstrom of news, speculation and drama.
Editorialized, deceptive headline.

The lawsuit clearly states they believe MM is maliciously trying to get advertisers to abandon platform with deceptive practices.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24172809-x-v-media-m...
This comment was written by ChatGPT ^
It's a good recommendation, thanks for elevating it out of the noise

Sometimes the best part about having a loud voice is elevating the stuff that falls into the noise. I moderate communities elsewhere, and I know how hard it is, and I appreciate the work you do to make HN a better place.
> Renewables (wind/solar) could be free and they wouldn't be able to support a modern economy - that's the problem. It's why wind/solar, today, do not even power a small city, much less a nation.

No energy source will support an entire modern economy, but like nuclear they can supply the majority of electricity for one.

Denmark share of electricity production from wind power 2022: 55%.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

France share of electricity production from nuclear power 2022: 63%.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...
Agreed. The headline misrepresents the lawsuit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathemat...
Apple had a skunk works team keeping each new version of their OS to compile on x86 long before the switch. I wonder if the Lotus situation was an influence, or if ensuring your software can be made to work on different hardware is just an obvious play?
That's not exactly what happened though https://x.com/billackman/status/1725898682438979972?s=46&t=K...
Honestly, there could be little greater evidence for the article's premise, than this comment section.
The failure to create anything resembling AGI can be easily explained away by concerns about the safety of AGI. This can be done in perpetuity. Google explains its AI failures along the same lines.
No, this treatment would not - it does not act by "fixing" hemoglobin S (which causes sickle cell disease), but rather increasing production of hemoglobin F (fetal hemoglobin).
I stuck velcro on my phone and my laptop to solve this problem.
> The “ideal” of free speech would uphold everyone being able to speak in whatever manner they choose. If you’re an economic loser as a result, that is not a failure of free speech, that is a failure of society to protect you from free speech.

Not even the most repressive societies physically prevent people from speaking - they just impose distinctly unpleasant consequences on those who speak in undesirable things. The fact that we impose negative consequences for undesirable speech via different mechanisms than the direct actions of government agents does not make what we're doing fundamentally different. In some ways it's worse - a Thai accused of slandering the King at least gets their day in court and can make their case for exhoneration and/or plead for forgiveness, while someone who is passed around on a list of "terrible human beings" gets no such chance.

"Economic loser" is excessively trivialising very real harm - potentially life threatening in a country that lacks public healthcare and similar basic social protections.
>I could not find any detractors

It's obvious and I don't mean to imply you aren't aware or even that you're wrong, but if I had the earning potential of an OpenAI employee, I probably wouldn't be looking to publicly shit on anyone that might affect that gravy train.
Well, you asked for the steel man. It’s not easy for me to give one because I fundamentally disagree with most of the underlying assumptions. Superintelligence is the standard work, and Tim does a decent summary of it.

Most of the AI existential risk concern comes down to whether a “singleton” will arise from AGI research, to use their terminology. A singleton is an entity that in a runaway increase of power ends up outwitting and outmaneuvering all other entities and becoming the single dominating, controlling force within the entire sphere of human existence.

There are so many reasons this is unlikely. It wouldn’t even be worth talking about if it weren’t for the sad fact so many otherwise smart people fall victim to this memeplex.

FYI timelines they are talking about are not so much 500 years as 5 months, or maybe 5 minutes.
Do most privacy-oriented here who fly a lot just not bother with Global Entry then?
I'm not the OP but I guess that if you buy an iPad with a modem you do actually want to use said modem otherwise you'd just buy the cheaper WiFi one. Hence the data plan.

Though I always use prepay on them.. for a tenner you get a month's worth with 50GB here which is more than sufficient for a holiday.
> let* permits expressions on the right refer to arbitrary other symbols bound by the let*

In what language? I just checked Elisp, SBCL, and Guile, and they all error out if you refer to a variable not previously defined by a left-to-right traversal of the varlist:

(let* ((a (+ b 1)) (b 1)) a)

Edit: This doesn't work either:

(let* ((a (lambda () (+ b 1))) (b 1)) (funcall a)) ; (funcall a) -> (a) for Schemes
Owning a multimillion dollar home doesn't do anything for you if every other home is just as expensive. It's just a "housing token", and unless you can move out of the market and into something way cheaper, the value on the house means nothing. There aren't really any bargains in Canadian real estate anymore -- even remote and small cities on the prairies or in the Atlantic provinces where jobs are more scarce are carrying huge sticker prices.

Contrary to the article, I actually think the opposite has happened: when I still lived in Toronto it was nauseating how often people blathered about how wealthy their property had supposedly made them. Bragging about the value of your home, and thinking it makes you rich is the most annoying Toronto party conversation topic and social phenomenon of the last 20 years.
Public sphere as in the places and platforms hosting most public conversations these days. I am aware they are privately owned.
Not to mention the small mass you have on your side. A vespa is going to lose in a ramming fight against most any vehicle. The cited source doesn't say anything about ramming.
Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.
I do have to point out that this is also true of nearly everyone else who’s expressed a strong opinion on the topic, and it didn’t stop any of them …
Those are the seed nodes for finding peers in the network when you're starting Bitcoin for the first time, and there aren't other known peers. Sure, you could ask around for additional peers through other channels.

Btw, I couldn't find these on the newest version, so I'm not sure how they do it now.
It didn't fail. Sam was removed.
Check out the Privacy Badger extension. I believe it removes the tracking stuff from (some) links.
100 million baht in 2 years? So about $1.5m USD in a year.

That's not exactly "staggering" or significant in the context of the Bitcoin network. Unlikely that such operations have any meaningful control over the network or liquidity, even if it's just 1% of what's known.

You seem to think that these sorts of operations are somehow connected in a large coordinated cartel the controls the industry, but given that they're illegal, isn't it far more likely that these "black market" operators are fairly small by comparison to the legitimate players in the US?

The mining ban in China a couple of years back gave us a pretty good indication of the size of the legitimate industry in that country, and it absolutely DWARFS the biggest of the illegal examples you gave.

Interesting way to word it too, "illegal mining". They're just stealing electricity. If they used that stolen electricity for heating, you wouldn't call it "illegal heating", would you?
A huge amount of credit goes to the City of Sydney for maintaining an up-to-date dataset. The only other council which has publicly available tree data (as far as I can tell) is the City of Ryde[1], but it's from 2013, so not as recent.

1: https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/public-trees-2013
> wait so can't SA sue for wrongful termination if everything is as bogus as everyone is saying?

It is breach of contract if it violated his employment contract, but I don't have a copy of his contract. It is wrongful termination if it was for an illegal reason, but there doesn't seem to be any suggestion of that.

> same for MS

I doubt very much that the contract with Microsoft limits OpenAI's right to manage their own personnel, so probably not.
Why not in the nation’s forests? Plant some trees?
The government literally gave away mRNA vaccines.
Someone who will be paying much less than they would under market conditions
Many organizations in law enforcement have explicit programs to do exactly that. Here is one from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/determination-opinion-a...

Basically, the rules for whether a retirement plan meets the qualifications for favorable tax treatment are highly complex, so a plan sponsor can ask the IRS to determine if the structure of the plan fits the rules by asking for a "Favorable Determination Letter". This seems to me highly analogous to what crypto exchanges wanted from the SEC.
When your only business is the Lazy B, you’re going to cooperate.
This is what happens with a 5% interest rate. Apparently, you cannot sustain a money-losing venture (like Uber) for too long.
3G/2G is still needed to get coverage in many areas here. Especially 3G. 2G is so slow that it's hardly better than no data (all apps start pumping data and overload the connection).

2G won't be phased out here due to millions of electricity meters using it. In fact there's talk of phasing out 3G and keeping 2G :)
"Lead to"? We're in an unprecedented housing deficit right now.
It’s fitting to call it Naive Intelligent…
You seem to think there is a lot more alpha here than actually exists.
Nearly all US airlines except budget airlines allow fee-free credits up until day-of flight...
How do you personally define “burnout”?
> I feel pretty good about considering stable coins securities.

Take that further to airline points and Chipotle points. If the stablecoin does not provide returns to the holder, how is it an investment contract?
All Sam wanted to do was mine some worldcoin
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So do iPhones. Apple calls it DEP, Device Enrollment Plan.

Even Macs have it now actually.