skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just used this to practice my Japanese and it was really helpful having a judgement free correction of my grammar. It definitely takes longer than English because it’s using more tokens but the feedback is very thorough. I wish I could make the pause before sending automatically a bit longer. (I know I can hold to do it manually but the automated send is nice.)
Interesting take.

By all accounts he paid about double what it was worth and the value has collapsed from there.

Probably not a great idea to say anything overtly political when you own a social media company, as due to politics being so polarised in the US, any opinion is going to divide your audience in half causing a usage collapse and driving support to competing platforms.

https://fortune.com/2023/09/06/elon-musk-x-what-is-twitter-w...
Sam lost his board representation as a result of all this (though maybe that's temporary).

I believe the goal of the opposing faction was mainly to avoid Sam dominating board and they achieved that, which is why they've accepted the results.

After more opinions come out, I'm guessing Sam's side won't look as strong, and he'll become "fireable" again.
Xeet is super funny, hopefully takes over.
I, for one, thought the entire weekend drama was hilarious
Spotify was like the 15th company in this field, they just benefited from all the ground work their predecessors had laid.
That’s just a buzzword of the week devoid of any real meaning. If he would have written this years ago, it would’ve been “leveraging synergies”.
firms this size may have plugins to mark the mails before sending them out. E.g. internal, external, sensitive labels and what not. Could make it easier to traverse.
wow that’s a really well presented talk! Best I’ve seen in a long while. I found myself getting excited about the subject matter like I was a child. She definitely knows how to engage her audience.

Thanks for sharing
So basically, the outcome of this drama is that Microsoft gets more power without having to invest anything?
Another nice thing about Scratch, well actually blocks, is that you can fairly easily adopt it to a new language. We used blocks to allow IoT customers to configure their device to react to events & push events to other devices and this all transformed into a JSON config that was uploaded.
They’ll all be filthy rich if they can keep doing this. Altman was already side-hussling to get funding for other AI companies.

Same with employees and their stock comp. Same with microsoft.
Disappointing outcome. The process has conclusively confirmed that OpenAI is in fact not open and that it is effectively controlled by Microsoft. Furthermore, the overwhelming groupthink shows there's clearly little critical thinking amongst OpenAI's employees either.

It might not seem like the case right now, but I think the real disruption is just about to begin. OpenAI does not have in its DNA to win, they're too short-sighted and reactive. Big techs will have incredible distribution power but a real disruptor must be brewing somewhere unnoticed, for now.
It sets a precedent that might be policed to future ads.
Something that's been fairly consistent here on HN throughout the debacle has been an almost fanatical defense of the board's actions as justified.

The board was incompetent. It will go down in the history books as one of the biggest blunders of a board in history.

If you want to take drastic action, you consult with your biggest partner keeping the lights on before you do so. Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley had no business being on this board. Even if you had safety concerns in mind, you don't bypass everyone else with a stake in the future of your business because you're feeling petulant.
Once again the house (the VCs) wins. I for one don’t trust openAI for one bit after this soap opera
I realize it's kind of the punchline of 2001: A Space Odyssey but have been wondering what happens if a GPT/AI is able to deny a request on a whim.
Thanks for giving some literature and verbiage into this concept
It was a clown board running an awesome company.

They fixed the glitch.
share it on Xitter
It started with news television causing cognitive distortions about the rate of kidnap and murder of children, which plays into parental instincts real bad. It was essentially the first mass media engagement bait, like we talk about with social media today. Then you get stranger danger and the entire cycle starts.
All commercialized R&D companies eventually become a hollowed out commercial shell. Why would this be any different?
Thank you for the impromtpu audit. I agree that localStorage is overkill for the discord use-case, but wanted a bit more leeway for async forum posts.

I might tweak the UI to let users explicitly opt into no-storage operation, though now I wonder whether opening it in incognito is the correct UX approach for that behavior?
Adding up all the salary hours spent by people browsing Twitter, they could have finished training GPT-5
> His influence significantly reduced the size of the stimulus bill

Well, he also caused the IRA to pass by telling Manchin that it wouldn't be inflationary.

But remember when he released this prediction in 2021?

> Larry Summers on U.S. economic outlook:

> 33% odds of stagflation

> 33% odds of recession

> 33% rapid growth, no surge in inflation

All that hedging and then none of those things happened!
It seems more like an edge-side processes and cache in many different parts of the body and organs than an off-site backup.
Does the audio go direct to chatgpt, or through a transcription model first?

I could see it being a bit inaccurate if the transcription silently corrects my error.
She told the board. Who else should she tell?
I think it is needed for easily moving the code up and down. Notice that the kids don’t have to write the code. So because everything is clickable, it helps to have the keywords there in the design.
The 700 employees also have significant financial incentive to want Altman to stay. If he moved to a competitor all the shine would follow. They want the pay-day (I don't blame them), but take with a grain of salt what the employees want in this case.
Office 365 subscription for one year and GitHub copilot using your own creation
Irrelevant compared to the reputation boost for helping the company get itself back on track.
I’m not sure, it’s hard to say unless you’re in OpenAI. Also it’s almost likely a team, not 1 person
"Hate adjacent" is a made up term apart of the witch hunt rhetoric toolkit. It's an evil method to label and dehumanize others simply for standing in the same area. AKA mcarthyism.
As mentioned by the other buy, something like whey powder or meat will have a very different amino acid profile compared to collagen. Like fatty acids and carbohydrates, amino acids get lumped together as a group, but they all have very different effects in the body (including competition).

Most people don't need to care, but amino acid balance can sometimes be a significant factor to health issues because of all the interactions involved, especially if intake has been tilted by a particular way of eating. It's reasonable to balance out whey protein with collagen.

Honestly the topic is so convoluted that with my current grasp of if, I can't currently make a useful or broadly applicable statement beyond "some people find collagen or glycine supplementation beneficial for their X". Individual trial and error basically, much like neurotransmitter affecting medication.
In a world where CPS can’t even take kids away from parents whose car catches on fire with their kids in it while they are shoplifting at a Walmart for a few hours, I don’t really see this as effectively chilling.
Do you even have LinkedIn scrapings to validate any of this or is it just a pile of insinuation? As the white engineers say the same thing about the non-white ones. You could substitute "white" wherever you have "non-white" and they would write a similar complaint.
I’m trying it out now based on your suggestion. It might be limited in allowed messages, which I think is 10 per 8 hours for free tier and twice for pro tier. It seems comparable to bard without the draft feature
Ask HN: Why is Bret Taylor so highly regarded as part of management?
Not every sci-fi movie turn to a reality
Honestly, I just don't believe that she didn't talk to Altman about her concerns. I'd believe that she didn't say "I'm publishing a paper about it now" but I can't believe she didn't talk to him about her concerns during the last 4+ years that it's been a core tension at the company.
Look, I am not your harshest critic here.

It is great for you that you work with famous artists. I don’t why you’re being secret about who they are. I have a feeling that these famous artists did not enlist in your program but are advisors in your program. My guess is one of them is Dmitri Cherniak who’s really good and also the nicest guy on the planet, and he happens to have been through YC twice before becoming a generative art guy. So of course he’s going to try to help other fellow artists.

My general point is that with that kind of language, you will be appealing to tech-oriented SV-friendly artists, which is somewhat niche. If that’s what you guys want, then it’s all good.

Also: you’re wrong about galleries upfronting the production money, it is very common for pricey projects.
No idea what these 700 employees were thinking. They probably had little knowledge of what truly went down other than “my CEO was fired unfairly” and rushed to the rescue.

I think the board should have been more transparent on why they made the decision to fire Sam.

Or perhaps these employees only cared about their AI work and money? The foundation would be perceived as the culprit against them.

Really sad there’s no clarity from the old board disclosed. Hope one day we will know.
What the general public thinks is irrelevant here. The deciding factor was the staff mutiny, without which the organization is an empty shell. And the staff sided with those who aim for rapid real world impact, with directly affects their career and stock options etc.

It's also naive to think it was a struggle for principles. The rapid commercialization vs. principles is what the actors claim to rally their respective troops, in reality it was probably a naked power grab, taking advantage of the weak and confuse org structure. Quite an ill prepared move, the "correct" way to oust Altman was to hamstring him in the board and enforce a more and more ceremonial role until he would have quit by himself.
They do agree to sell books. If I can write a commercial book after reading hers, using her book to train my creativity, it's legal.

The legality doesn't go away because I write software to train it's creativity. It's not copying. If you asked GPT to recite page 27, it couldn't.
I think people following Sam Altman is jumping to conclusions. I think it's just as likely that employees are simply following the money. They want to make $$$, and that's what a for-profit company does, which is what Altman wants. I think it's probably not really about Altman or his leadership.
The board not saying what the hell they were on about was the source of the whole drama in the first place. If they had just said exactly what their problem was up front there wouldn't have been as much to tweet about.
> You need aggressive internal competition to prepare your industries for aggressive external competition.

Korea used an alternate approach where the country was run by a dictator who put the CEOs in prison if they didn't export enough.

Now that's industrial policy!
After Microsoft just hired him?

And I thought Microsoft owned OpenAI anyway?

Pretty weird drama, and makes the board seem incompetent, but also this will all be forgotten pretty soon.
So this is really cool. I've been super interested in this one gene mutation called LRRK2 which has a really bizarre link to details in contentious debates over history (too long to include in this comment).

The gene mutation is connected to both Crohn's disease and Parkinson's.

So after seeing this article about how glial issues are connected to Crohn's, my immediate thought was - well, what about Parkinson's?

And indeed, it looks like the LRRK2 mutation contributes to Parkinson's by screwing up the glial cells:

Is Glial Dysfunction the Key Pathogenesis of LRRK2-Linked Parkinson’s Disease? (2023): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856048/

(I can't wait for LLMs to advance enough that parallel discoveries in subdomains are teased out as further cross discipline research candidates.)
I think language skills and nationality and maybe first-generation cultural differences are the confounding factor here, not race..
A default glitch effect in the video can make the distortions a "feature not a bug"
the team is mostly e/acc

so you could say they intentionally don't see safety as the end in itself, although I wouldn't quite say they don't care.
I realize that, but it’s still complicated and noisy from a reading perspective.
It's more often a signal to really reflect on whether you, individually as a Thanksgiving turkey, have really found yourself at the make-or-break nexus of turkey existence. The answer seems to be "no" most of the time.
I can guess the insinuation, but these norms were in place, culturally, across the spectrum.

Sure, some castes (like Brahmins) have had stricter rules, while some had laxer ones (for Kshatriyas, Vysyas & Sudras)

But I do know that eating out and eating only freshly cooked food was always the norm.

Also, Dhabas and Street Vendors, are a relatively newer thing, starting up in about 1800's.
Your comment perfectly justifies never worrying at all about the potential for existential or major risks; after all, one would be wrong most of the time and just engaging in zealotry.
It's fear driven as much as moral, which in an emotional humans brain tends to triggers personal ambition to solve it ASAP. A more rational one would realize you need more than just a couple board members to win a major ideological battle.

At a minimum something that doesn't immediately result in a backlash where 90% of the engineers most responsible for recent AI dev want you gone, when you're whole plan is to control what those people do.
He has had multiple successes. It isn't like Zuckerberg who has had one big win, but rather he has succeeded at a number of portfolios.
In a macbook pro build it certainly feels like this. I have an old 2015 mbp with A connectors serving for almost ten years now. When I plug something in it is tight and solid and feels right. On my latest mbp with C connectors, they are loose already after a year of service, I need to wiggle and shake the connector inside the port to get a nice contact and make peripherals work, of course, that breaks it even more over time.
how much of this is just corporate norms

Evil is the corporate norm, or at least psychopathy. It's even enshrined in law ever since Dodge v. Ford Motor Co.
There’s a free version that allows you to limit the charging to a specific level. I found this app useful over the years and I bought the lifetime license when it was on a sale. Otherwise I wouldn’t have paid for it since I don’t like the idea of subscriptions either.
Pretty much every brand uses phison controllers in at least some of their products, even wd/samsung/intel who design controllers in house use them for their cheapest offerings because phison is all about making the cheapest product possible.
>trashing the company

So pointing out risks is trashing the company.
why would he be
“And that moment was the final nail in the coffin of humankind from earth. They choose, yet again, for money and power. And they shaped AI in their image.

Another civilization perished in the great filter.”
a huge player in preventing derivatives regulation leading up to 2008 now helps steer the ship of AI oversight. I'm speechless.
The last update is from 2018. Did they give up?
In autocratic regimes justice is usually perverted from the top (comrade district secretary calls district judge to affect proceedings - in USSR it was informally known as "phone law"), in democracies you usually need to involve wider public pressure to achieve similar results. It's definitely makes democracy better, because to sway public opinion is costlier, more visible and at least partially deliberative endeavor. But legal justice is not moral justice in any political system, and there are always ways to at least nudge legal system in a way that is more convenient for some forces.
There is only one city in the USA, and it's called new york. Everything else are central business districts surrounded with suburbs, and if they are lucky, have some commuter rail to alleviate the traffic. Urban is a code word for 'poor' , 'too poor and can only afford multifamily housing', or 'lives in slightly more dense poor suburb'. And yes, if you compare the poor who live in 'urban' food desserts with parents who have no time to interact with their children working their 2 jobs, they will always, always, do worse in stats.

And even in new york, you can live 1 hour away by train and have your idyllic suburban lifestyle too.
Looking back, Altman's ace in hand was the tender offer from Thrive. Idk anyone at OpenAI, but all the early senior personnel backed him with vehemence. If the leaders hand't championed him strongly, I doubt you get 90% of the company to commit to leaving.

I'm sure some of those employees were easily going to make $10m+ in the sale. That's a pretty great motivation tool.

Overall, I do agree with you. The board could not justify their capricious decision making and refused to elaborate. They should've brought him back on Sunday instead of mucking around. OpenAI existing is a good thing.
How can you tell if ChatGPT is lying to you and what you're learning is total hogwash?
Grass is greener for me, but you have to choose the right big city, and those cities are expensive because lots of people make the same conclusions.

As a curiosity, I checked out the neighborhood I used to live in on google maps to see if they had put any parks or sidewalks since. Nope, exactly the same.
I can relate: I did a few years working for a local banking megacorp, it's a mature sector, many of the hard problems got solved decades ago and are wrapped inside vendor products. There's still an infinite amount of integration projects requiring software to be built, and an infinite amount of maintenance/rearchitecture/modernization projects, but e.g. you might go three projects shipping bespoke adaptor/integration things that sit between different vendor or cloud products and comply with all the NFRs and only write 1 line of business logic that's related to the problem domain.

I've had other software jobs where the work was 20% data formats, 80% business logic + algorithms related to the problem domain, and 0% APIs/integration projects. That wasn't working for a banking megacorp, that was working for a small software product/consulting shop in a weird niche.

Some ideas -- overfit from sample size of 1:

- trying searching for jobs in companies that are qualitatively different from the company where you've been working.

- if your current employer serves an industry that's relatively mature in its application of IT & software, you could try for a job in a company in an industry where use of computers and IT is much less widely adopted.

- if you've been working somewhere medium-sized, you could aim for some place smaller where you're more likely to be wearing multiple hats and having more customer or client contact and immersion in the industry's problem domain. maybe you get more chance to solve real world problems that way, not IT problems. You could look for roles where they need people to learn the domain and build a product containing some serious application-specific logic -- but I guess, not well-understood-by-academia-serious-logic, as you might be competing against a bunch of well-credentialled grads/grad students for those specialties.

There's potentially some career risk involved with these ideas -- you might find a job where work is much more interesting, but it might be in a smaller niche, or in smaller companies. In the extreme, if you end up specialized in a really interesting niche that's occupied by one employer, there's much less room to switch jobs if you end up with a difficult manager, or get a pay rise by switching jobs to somewhere else your expertise is valued, if negotiations with the current employer stall.
Yes, quite clearly.
Hynix's flash is just fine. It's the controller at fault for this.
I have checked View Source and also inspected DOM. Cannot find that.
This is a coherent narrative, but it doesn't explain the bizarre and aggressively worded initial press release.

Things perhaps could've been different if they'd pointed to the founding principles / charter and said the board had an intractable difference of opinion with Sam over their interpretation, but then proceeded to thank him profusely for all the work he'd done. Although a suitable replacement CEO out the gate and assurances that employees' PPUs would still see a liquidity event would doubtless have been even more important than a competent statement.

Initially I thought for sure Sam had done something criminal, that's how bad the statement was.
Twitter isn't dying, but it hasn't grown measurably since 2015. Still sitting at about 300m active users.
Here is the full speech for reference, but Abraham Lincoln was far from a Marxist given that he describes essentially the American dream of starting from nothing to build your own enterprise.

"Again, as has already been said, there is not of necessity any such thing as the free hired laborer being fixed to that condition for life. Many independent men everywhere in these States a few years back in their lives were hired laborers. The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all."

[1]:https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeche...
If we dig deeper into the norms, some foods were allowed to be taken even after 24 hours (Tamrind Rice, My grandmother always said Tamrind rice tastes better after a day, and it was ok to consume, but would raise a fit if I ate rice that was cooked in the morning).

Some foods were allowed to be taken upto 8-10 hours after cooking.
I wonder how much more transparent they can really be. I know that when firing a "regular" employee, you basically never tell everyone all the details for legal CYA reasons. When your firing someone worth half a billion dollars, I expect the legal fears are magnified.
I’d wager for 75% of vehicle owners the range and charge speed of the EVs on the market today meet their needs perfectly.

Remember, the average person in the US only drives 37 miles per day [1]

[1] https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/average-miles-driven-per-year...
Satya Nadella said they would make sure there would be "no more surprises".

(Sad day for popcorn sales.)
With Sam coming back as CEO, hasn't OpenAI board proven that it has lost its function? Regardless of who is in the board, they won't be able to exercise one of the most fundamental of their rights, firing the CEO, because Sam has proven that he is unfireable. Now, Sam can do however he pleases, whether it is lying, not reporting, etc. To be clear, I don't claim that Sam did, or will, lie, or misbehave.
> That is indeed quite the paper to write whilst on the board of OpenAI, to say the least.

It strikes me as exactly the sort of thing she should be writing given OpenAI's charter. Recognizing and rewarding work towards AI safety is good practice for an organization whose entire purpose is the promotion of AI safety.