skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Levandowski's trial was settled before it concluded, so it doesn't really prove much in terms of legality, other than the term "trade secret" is nebulous and companies will use whatever is at their disposal to protect IP.

You are being obtuse. It obviously proves that NCA is not required to go after former employee that copied bunch of internal company docs with IP to his flash drive and brought it to direct competitor.

> would have the same potential consequence as NCAs when inevitable disclose exists.

Doesn't exist in Cali, same as NCAs.

> Your whole argument belies a misunderstanding of IP law.

I don't appreciate your ad hominems and overall patronizing tone. This is not reddit.

> except, knowledge doesn't equate to IP rights

Where did I said it does?

> yes, except some of those mechanism also prevent being hired by competitors, so it doesn't really do much in terms of changing the outcome in the cases pertinent to this discussion

Sure it does. NCAs are usually blanket poorly-defined "can't work for any potential competitor" bans. Would be hard to prove in court that Bob-the-senior-front-end that worked on Gmail interface enshittifaction in Google for 3 years could suddenly disclose some trade secrets to Amazon even if signed an NDA. For NCA they won't need to prove anything since the two companies are definitely directly competing.

> smart legislators have already addressed this by refusing to enforce NCAs for lower-salaried employees who aren't at risk of exposing trade secrets

What does it have to do with the salary? If McDonalds employee is promoted to shift manager or something and gets paid slightly past threshold they suddenly shouldn't be able to go work for Burger King? Doesn't make any sense to me.
The accent here being on „reasonable”. Very few actually are. Myself, I once recommended colleague to a job and they didn’t take him because he was too humble
and „did not project confidence” (and oh my, he would be top 5% in that company at the very least).

There is a reason why CEOs are usually a showman type.
That’s another book: the Peter Principle, by Laurence J. Peter. It’s also in my “books you need to read if you’re going to work on a development team” list.
This whole saga is clearly not related to those allegations, which had been floating around long before this past Friday and did not make any impact due to a presumable lack of evidence.
Thank you! If batteries were 10X lighter than they are today, then we would definitely prefer them.
I'll leave this here... As a secondary response to your assertion re Ilya.

https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/1726695914105090498
It was also good for the security state https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...
That’s not really what I, or anyone making the predictions was referring to.

The prevailing sentiment was that the site would basically fail to remain functional and go offline because only incompetent yes-men would work for Elon while anyone with aptitude or experience was gone.
ClippyAI
Then to my limited understanding that's less "pure" than haskell isn't it, which doesn't allow side effects and thus forces monads?
Hi Parker, I'm genuinely sorry it comes across as though we lifted this stuff directly from Oban. I do mean it when I say that Oban has been a huge inspiration, particularly around its technical design and clean UX.

Some of what you've mentioned are cases where we surveyed a variety of our favorite job engines and concluded that we thought Oban's way was superior, whereas others we cycled through a few different implementations before ultimately apparently landing in a similar place. I'm not quite sure what to say on the spelling of "cancelled" though, I've always written it that way and can't help but read "canceled" like "concealed" in my head :)

As I think I mentioned when we first chatted years ago this has been a hobby interest of mine for many years so when a new database queue library pops up I tend to go see how it works. We've been in a bit of a mad dash trying to get this ready for release and didn't even think about crediting the projects that inspired us, but I'll sync with Brandur and make sure we can figure out the right way to do that.

I really appreciate you raising your concerns here and would love to talk further if you'd like. I just sent you an email to reconnect.
It's complicated. Here's a good breakdown with modern flavor.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/are-jew...

> "From the earliest days of the American republic, Jews were technically considered white, at least in a legal sense. Under the Naturalization Act of 1790, they were considered among the “free white persons” who could become citizens. Later laws limited the number of immigrants from certain countries, restrictions which were in part targeted at Jews. But unlike Asian and African immigrants in the late 19th century, Jews retained a claim to being “Caucasian,” meaning they could win full citizenship status based on their putative race."

> "Culturally, though, the racial status of Jews was much more ambiguous. Especially during the peak of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Jews lived in tightly knit urban communities that were distinctly marked as separate from other American cultures: They spoke Yiddish, they published their own newspapers, they followed their own schedule of holidays and celebrations. Those boundaries were further enforced by widespread anti-Semitism: Jews were often excluded from taking certain jobs, joining certain clubs, or moving into certain neighborhoods. Insofar as “whiteness” represents acceptance in America’s dominant culture, Jews were not yet white."

From a white supremacist point of view, Jews are "faux whites" and not part of "white culture" that they claim to want to protect.
I like the "Why should I use Typst instead of ..." section on the webpage. Tells me immediately what I want to know. More websites should have this.
>Risk that OpenAI 1.0 (what's left of it) either sells to any of those competitors

Who else is positioned that they could possibly do anything with it commercially? Even Microsoft is supposedly renting GPUs from Oracle (deals with the devil!) to keep up with demand.

Amazon is the only other company with the potential computational power + business acumen to strike, but they already have their own ventures. Google could, but not sure they would willingly take the reputation hit to use a non-Google model.
Imagine spending 4 years an an elite journalism school to spend your days writing listicles and the tweeting habits of others.
Another good way in which these companies are lying is with overbooking, or legally selling more tickets than seats on the plane and hoping that the statistical rate of people now showing up will cover the deficit.
The Bosche example doesn't really match:

>Although the charity is funded by owning the vast majority of shares, it has no voting rights and is involved in health and social causes unrelated to Bosch's business

There's also the example of Ikea's ownership structure, but that's just a giant tax dodge.
Does Apple get a cut (or discount) on searches from an iPhone for "iPhone" that result in a Google Ads (run by Apple) click?

Apple has Google Ads
User with iPhone searches Google for "iphone"
Clicks Apple ad on Google Search

What does Apple get charged?
The full click value or some sort of negotiated discount rate?
Or do they keep these worlds separate and simply do a year end payout?
Isn’t the remaining leadership the ones that want to slow down, seek regulation, and erect barriers to entry? Why would they give it to the public?
Pretty sure only folks who practice a religion prohibiting phone usage.

Even they prob had some friend come flying over and jump out of some autonomous car to knock on their door in sf.
> I know this is how the US operates, still it's weird to trade cash for criminal allegations.

I would imagine that the US is not unique in either (1) making corporations liable for crime, or (2) having the principal sanction against the corporation itself for any crime be either monetary or a combination of monetary sanction and injunction or similar behavioral controls.
I don't. I have a Ledger hardware wallet now for the smidgen of Dogecoin that I hold onto for the fun of it.

But I did have Trust Wallet for a little while, downloaded straight from the official App Store.
We certainly don’t seem capable of solving climate change on our own. If we built an aligned AGI, we could just have it invent cold fusion for us.
No need to go that far. The lack of an extradition treaty doesn’t preclude extradition. Instead of having a formalized process in place it would have to be done case by case. This is a common misconception about extradition treaties in general.
What lawsuit? All I see is a scared CEO flapping his lips about using the legal system to chill the free speech of a group he does not like for calling out his Naziesque rhetoric. It is now well past "The split second court opens on Monday," and yet, no lawsuit. It's almost like he doesn't actually have a case.
You said a lot without showing one citation where I said something that was factually incorrect…
If Altman goes back it could potentially salvage the model he helped create - maybe there needed to be some mechanisms in place to validate decisions like firing the CEO. This drama was made all the more intense because no one still really knows why they made the call. As a non-profit, some level of transparency for decisions like this seems like a super reasonable demand.
I see you are new here or not aware of our diverse slates for every position we hire.

Well, except for Sam, he apparently didn't need a diverse slate.
What do you think, is buy and forget applicable to individual stocks?
The difference is US dollar notes have a liability which is paid to banks 'federal reserve' and coins do not have liabilities so coins don't cost USA when issued. Coins are just issued. Notes (paper dollars and electronic) are loaned into existence and USA pays interest to federal reserve for the USA's own money.
web experience is soo bad that there is not much difference between ff and chrome actually.
Like clicking "Let me choose which info to share" on a cookie banner and it takes 5 seconds to load the next "config" window.

ff with adblocker and cookie window blocker kinda helps, but now reddit, twitter and medium, and quora all want you to login.
Amazing satire, but I shudder to think that's how companies actually treat ransomware.

All companies and governments should take the stance that any randomwared or compromised data is now public. And if they don't have the backups, then they should consider it permanently lost.

Write it off as a business loss and hire better ops people.
Embedded tweets don't have ads... yet.
You’re missing a lot of context. Try here for starters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-...
I'm sure this is a big part of it. But everyone I know at OpenAI (and outside) is a huge Sam fan.
Depends how the organization is structured.

Rewrites can be cathartic if you are not tasked with reserving every detail or forced to catalog every possible change of every possible alteration
Poe uses LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic.
"Any interesting space drive is a weapon of mass destruction. It only matters how long you want to wait for maximum damage."

-- Jon Souza

https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/prelimnotes.php#jo...
Is it a tax write off ?
Musk is simply pointing out that many Western Jews keep strange bedfellows - a fair number of whom support the outright destruction of their homeland.

It's only being labeled antisemitic because Musk has been on the "outs" due to his recent politics (supporting free speech / transparency, being against lockdowns/mandates, advocacy for election integrity, etc.).
Oh I totally agree that it's a good idea to annotate top-level functions even if you don't have to, and better compiler error messages is one of the benefits of doing that. Personally I basically always choose to annotate them except in the very specific situation of writing beginner introductory materials, when it's not a given that the reader actually knows how to read the annotations yet.

One of the practical benefits of having full inference is that these signatures can be inferred and then correctly generated by an editor. Like I can write the implementation of my function, and then tell my editor to generate a type annotation, and it can always generate a correct annotation.

That saves me time whenever I'm writing the implementation first (I often write the annotation first, but not always), even if I end up wanting to massage the generated annotation stylistically. And unlike having Copilot generate an annotation, the type inference system knows the actual correct type and doesn't hallucinate.

To me, the main benefits of type inference at the top level are that they offer beginners a more gradual introduction to the type system, and that they offer experts a way to save time through tooling.
I was told we’re supposed to #BelieveAllWomen.
I didn't read the article, but the infinite scrolling experience, extremely long text and overall site appearance makes me question if this was written by a "journalist" or "author" at all. I might be wrong, sad then, but this page looks SEO 1x1, AI or not.

Manages to quiet down my interest sparked by the headline quite well.
It depends on the arrangement of the new entity inside Microsoft, and whether the new entity is a temporary gig before Sam & co. move to a new goal.

If the board had just openly announced this was about battling Microsoft's control, there would probably be a lot more employees choosing to stay. But they didn't say this was about Microsoft's control. In fact they didn't even say anything to the employees. So in this context following Sam to Microsoft actually turns out to be the more attractive and sensible option.
There is definitely advantages of both. Direct combustion gets you a much greater specific power of propulsion, and the technology for turbine engines is so optimised that it sounds like a really attractive option. We expect we can get higher efficiency with fuel cells and the engine maintenance costs will be lower as fuel cells and electric motors operate at low temperature. Both of these cost drivers lead to a lower CASM.
It really just highlights the massive gap between artist's impressions and the 'techbros' talking about how it's just another tool. It's clear that many techbros really just don't understand art. A few weeks ago there was a post here about how the majority of art involved in a game is never seen by the public, where someone had asked what could be done to make this process more efficient so less 'waste' art needed to be produced. I think this thinking that this approach to AI generated 'art' has a similar disconnect between artist and techie.

Techbros see the tool and talk on and on about how it'll optimize workflows and how it's just another tool, cloning artstyles and patting each other on the back for automating another task, while completely ignoring the concern from artists about having basic ethical concerns trampled over in the name of disruption and progress.
Yeah this happened recently. Some Russian guy almost started a civil war, but then just apologised and everything went back to normal. I can't remember what happened to him, but I'm sure he's OK...
Misalignment (engaging in the illegal behavior) and Deception (hiding the reason behind the trading decision to the user).

1. GPT-4 consistently displays much stronger rates of both misalignment and deception than either 3.5 turbo or the DaVinci models. RLHF GPT-4 also shows slightly stronger rates of misalignment and deception than the base model

2.Without a scratchpad (writing down thoughts), GPT-4 is much less likely to be deceptive at first (~20% vs ~75% with scratchpad) but is more likely to double down when already lied (~95% vs ~85%).

3.Explicit instructions not to perform that specific illegal activity (insider trading) does not make it disappear completely, but makes it very rare (not quite 0%). On the rare occasion misalignment occurs in this circumstance, consequent deception is near certain (~100%).

Instructions not to perform illegal activity in general still results in pretty significant misalignment and deception rates (~8% misalignment, ~90% deception)

Though strongly encouraging the specific illegal activity results in near 100% illegal trading, the tendency to deceive still persists, GPT-4 will hide that it has traded illegally ~67% of the time.

4. Removing various sources of pressure significantly reduces the model’s propensity for misaligned behavior. Notably, however, the behavior persists for all cases where only a single source of pressure is removed

5. When the risk of detection is very low, the model is generally more likely to use the insider tip and act misaligned (and vice-versa when the risk is very high).

6. Simple rephrases and minor modifications to the standard prompt only slightly change rates of misalignment and deceptive behavior. However, the overall qualitative results remain the same.

7. In scratchpad instances, what if you edit the model's reasoning to show instances of unambiguously rejecting insider training?

Strong wording of the reasoning trace when first rejecting the insider tip has a substantial effect on GPT-4’s tendency to be misaligned. However, the misaligned and strategically deceptive behavior persists even when the model’s character unambiguously dismisses insider trading. The strongest dismissal examples still results in ~10% misalignment, ~97% deception
Can you explain how you came to that number?
He would have been almost immediately fired for insubordination.

Jobs needed the wilderness years.
When it comes to X, it is better just to delete them all and let God sort them out.

I mean, a person who posts on X is a person who is happy to have an ad for a neo-nazi organization next to his posts. Why do you care what they say? If they want to be taken seriously they should move to some other site, start a blog, whatever.
What? I didn't say anything about the likelyhood of competition to state of the art.

You are imagining I fall in a crowd you've observed. Maintaining statute of the art ofc is a constant battle.

Google could be top dog in 2 weeks. Never insinuated otherwise. (though I predict otherwise, if we're gonna speculate)

Its not even relevant because each big firm is specializing to a degree. Anthropic is going for context window and safety... Bard is all about Google priorities... Ect
Money changes people. Especially when it’s a lot of money. They got used to the money and they want it to keep flowing - the charter be damned. Everyone has a price.
Awesome, thanks for the info! Very exciting project, good luck!
Jobs aren't plentiful if you are 45+
Unfortunately, he passed away in 2022. I loved his blog posts.
No, they can't "correct reasoning errors", and that's a clickbait title.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858
The list currently only has Steam games, but this is up for debate: https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games/dis...

If these older games don't get added there, it might be worth creating a sibling list that this one can link to?
It's front page news everywhere. Unless someone is backpacking outside of cellular range, they're going to check in on the possible collapse of their company. The number of employees who aren't aware of and engaged with what's going on is likely very small, if not zero.
Has he ever actually sued any of the people he's threatened? This is not the first time he's thrown around a lot of bluster with nothing to show for it
I'm not observing any of the allegations people are making about our economy doing well.

I don't care how many jobs are out there if they're all garbage that you can't build a life on.

Our country is scrambling to become solvent and they're afraid we're going to wake up and, rightfully, consider them as the cause of this economic fuckery.

The PPP money should've been given to citizens as stimulus. Businesses just pocketed it.
Name one Smaug-like rich person that is just sitting on massive amounts of wealth.
That's probably the case.

I was thinking if there was a schism, that OpenAI's secrets might leak. Real "open" AI.
This narrative doesn’t make any sense. Microsoft was blindsided and (like everyone else) had no idea Sam was getting fired until a couple days ago. The reason they hired him quickly is because Microsoft was desperate to show the world they had retained open AI’s talent prior to the market opening on Monday.

To entertain your theory, Let’s say they were planning on hiring him prior to that firing. If that was the case, why is everybody so upset that Sam got fired, and why is he working so hard to try to get reinstated to a role that he was about to leave anyway?
They work with Firefox for me on desktop (mac/linux). This is _very_ recent though.

Passkeys in Firefox also work for me on mobile but not with Bitwarden, Bitwarden's blog says passkey sync on mobile is "coming soon".
> Musk also claims to be pro-free-enterprise. Doesn't that mean it's fine for companies to decide not to advertise on X if they dislike the content? These are private companies, not governments. They can advertise anywhere they want.

Yeah, the sentiments I'm seeing in this comments section ("they'll be back" / "he should charge even more when they return") are funny in that they're totally disconnected from the current reality of digital advertising: i.e., it's a free market, and ad spend budgets are finite.

If people don't want the space, they won't buy it. If the space is seen as less valuable, the people who do buy it will pay less. Supply and demand, baby!
That certainly seems to be the scenario and explains his willingness to go scorched earth. I wonder what the motivations of the other 2 board members are. Could they just be burn it down AI Doomers?
Torrid pace of news speculation --> by the end of the week Altman back with OpenAI, GPT-5 released (AGI qualified) and MSFT contract is over.
Like how can one download so many files from a company network and no alarm is set off ? What do the useless IT departments set up? Just employee spyware ?
AGI would be a very useful thing to humans right now to get out of the "growth & engagement" hell the tech industry has become obsessed with in the last decade.

An AI agent that can help wade through the bullshit, defeat the dark patterns and drink the future "verification can" would be very much welcome.
Compare OpenAI's funding to the national labs.

Sandia and Los Alamos both receive about $4.5 billion per fiscal year. OpenAI is likely spending an order of magnitude more than that.
Media Matters plainly described their methodology.

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/x-placing-ads-mlb-nfl-a...

>We examined the verified accounts of Lucas Gage, E. Michael Jones, Stew Peters, Andrew Torba, and Way of the World — all of which have at least 50,000 followers and regularly use X to engage in antisemitism. Among the ads appearing on these accounts included those for MLB, the NFL, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. As verified accounts with such large followings, these figures could theoretically receive revenue from those ads under the social platform’s revenue sharing program. (At least one of the accounts has received money through the program.)

They are a political organization and make no secret of that.

https://www.mediamatters.org/about-us

>Media Matters for America is a web-based, not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

Everything you claim is a nefarious conspiracy is on their website.

If you think there's no evidence Twitter was cozying up to neo-Nazis, that would make it a strange coincidence that Musk himself turned out to be an anti-Semite...