skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now the count is at 700/770 (https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1726659403124994220).
Last I checked (over a year ago) I think Google Fi wasn’t fully supported with Apple devices? I can’t recall the details, but I distinctively remember being disappointed the service sort of had a “for best experience, use an android device” component to it.
The problem is that airlines have a financial interest in hiding that info from aggregators.
Finally!!

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817890

With that said five years seems like a hell of a long time.
Homomorphic Encryption for Dummies
I don't see how this comment section can recover from the confusion.

Most of the comments are either confusing data-driven development (which is possibly bad) for data-oriented design (which is good) and wondering what the author's issue is with the latter; asking or helping to define what data-driven development is; griping that "DDD" is a reserved term; or some combination of those!
This more or less sums up how I've seen finance people use desk-size Surface products.
Would you object to somebody looking at your images and imitating the style? How is AI different?
> but it's not full employment by any means.

I could be wrong/this is probably ignorant to say but I'm pretty sure we don't want "full employment".

The fuller employment, the more supply there is for jobs of all wage groups (low, medium, high, etc.)

Employers were having a hard time finding people who wanted to work during COVID for a variety of reasons. This lead to a good think for workers who did want to work: $12/hr jobs became $17/hr (rough example) due to low supply, high demand.

The fuller employment, the less need employers have to compete for workers on wages.

Just a thought...
> We should apparently read every function's specification carefully,

Yes.

You should.
NetNewsWire has a button to try to fetch the entire article, it works almost always. It is one of the best made Mac and iOS applications, in my opinion.
Based on what has come out so far, seems to me:

The board wanted to keep the company true to its mission - non profit, ai safety, etc. Nadella/MSFT left OpenAI alone as they worked out a solution, so it looks like even Nadella/MSFT understood that.

The board could explain their position and move on. Let whoever of the 600 that actually want to leave, leave. Especially the employees that want a company that will make them lots of money, should leave and find a company that has that objective too. OpenAI can rebuild their teams - it might take a bit of time but since they are a non profit that is fine. Most CS grads across USA would be happy to join OpenAI and work with Ilya and team.
I don't know if you are joking or not, but one of the board members is Joseph Gordon-Levitt Wife.
> Well, now we know. Sam Altman matters to the rank and file, and this was a blunder by OpenAI.

Not just the Rank and File, but he was really was the face of AI in general. My wife, who is not in the tech field at all, knows who Sam Altman is and has seen interviews of him on YouTube (Which I was playing and she found interesting).

I have not heavily followed the Altman Dismissal Drama but this strikes me as a Board Power Play gone wrong. Some group wanted control, thought Altman was not reporting to them enough and took it as an opportunity to dismiss him and take over. However, somewhere in their calculation, they did not figure out Sam is the face of modern AI.

My prediction is that he will be back and everything will go back to what it was before. The board can't be dismissed and neither can Sam Altman. Status quo is the goal at this point.
Torched retirements? Who is dumb enough to have his retirement portfolio that weighted to one company?
this website is great - should truthfully be 50% of the index.html of every language project ever.
The investors don't care who lead, they just want 10x, or 100x their bet.

If tomorrow it's Donald Trump or Sam Altman or anyone else, and it works out, the investors are going to be happy.
They played too much Avalon and now we are guessing who’s the paragon
> but lots and lots of people want to select their seats. . .and are willing to pay for it,

How did we ever get by before? I've been flying since 1984 and never paid to select seats until about a year or two ago.
Speaking about Europe. Wizzair virtually disabled search and reservations over the web with their paranoid "anti-robot" algorithms, and at some point they had this mysterious "service fee" appearing randomly but discriminating web browser. At Ryanair the reservation workflow is basically one massive dark pattern and upselling designed to make you fell bad. Then there is fucking booking.com, this site opens randomly and unpredictably at various moments while clicking through the search and reservation workflows.
I wish they would enforce the "hand luggage" size a bit on entry to the plane, last time I flew around 2017 it was a complete shit show in regards to the overhead storage compartments.
Given the conservative, punish the poor, attitude of your post, I really don't think you want to know why the poor are poor.

I'll give you a hint, look at wealth distribution graphs
Haskell programmers tend to love their monads, but the treatment of effects here ("Tasks"), looks to be - and this is highly subjective - more intuitive and straightforward.

ETA: Also if I'm reading this right Roc appears to natively support some kind of row polymorphism. That's a nice-to-have.
I didn't really see this feature, but I think another good one would be a way to schedule a future job that is not periodic. ie: "schedule job in 1 hr" to where it's either not enqueued or not available to be consumed until (at least) the schedule time.
Well, he did get a bunch of patsys to invest their life savings into his company based on the "full self driving is (eternally) 6 months aways and backwards portable to existing cars" hype, till his company was worth more than all other car companies combines, so well done him I guess.
Right, the job market has spoken and it now looks like nobody wants to be part of OAI and much rather be part of MSFT
The thing is there are now vast numbers of queue solutions.

What’s the goal for the project? Is it to be commercial? If so you face massive headwind because it’s so incredibly easy to implement a queue now.
> Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services.

This is a win from Microsoft's perspective. They don't have to have the best group messenger around, but having a significant office product being dominated by another company would be a massive risk to Microsoft, and Teams has prevented that.
Did YCombinator oust him? Would love to hear that story.
They're definitely there, just near the bottom: Under https://github.com/arcataroger/awesome-engineering-games#hac...

I think they were the first games I added while building the list, and a heavy inspiration for it to begin with :) I added a thank-you for them just now.
> hard to argue anti-trust

Makes me wonder if it's the wrong strategy and what an alternative might be. In context, one might assume that Google will use the Chromium monoculture to... ahem more assertively deliver advertisements, which would be "a real dick move" as it goes. I don't know how a concerned citizen might bring attention to or possibly prevent the actualization of such a strategy by Google.
> you announce a transition period

Aaah that just explained a lot of departures I've seen at the past at some of my partner companies. There's always a bit of fluffy talk around them leaving. That makes a lot more sense.
Yeah I agree. But that's consulting for you. There is a lot to not like about the evils of consulting, but wikipedia being free and doing pledge drives are on the more mild side of what's wrong.
I think it'll be a cold day in hell, full of flying pigs before my employer would issue me a cellular device that can't take calls.
> The boardroom coup at OpenAI really might have been, at least in part, about the board’s literal fears of AI apocalypse.

The AI doomers delivered OpenAI in Microsoft's lap for free all in the name of protecting us from the evils of AI. The ironing.

But it shows most of OpenAI doesn't really value safety first, if 500 of them are ready to jump ship. They are just as eager as anyone else to see AGI happening, with them being at the top of the wave, no matter the consequences. We can't expect MS to hire them under the same idealistic charter as OpenAI.
They are trying. Not surprisingly there is pushback from airlines (and other businesses..)

https://wapo.st/47cBuSJ
Tethering is a pain if you do it frequently. Apple tries some "it just works" magic to make tethering easier, but sometimes it doesn't "just" work.

If you frequently use it when out, it would be significantly more convenient to just have the cellular built in.
The belief in religion is called prosperity theology. I'm not sure this describes any philosophical definition of "survival of the fittest", as systemic issues rig "survival" towards people who already have the most resources, regardless of their fitness. This isn't a meritocracy.
But what does Ilya regret, and how does that counter the argument that Microsoft would likely be disinclined to take him on?

If what he regrets is realizing the divergence between the direction Sam was taking the firm and the safety orientation nominally central to the mission of the OpenAI nonprofit and which is one of Ilya's public core concerns too late, and taking action aimed at stopping it than instead exacerbated the problem by just putting Microsoft in a position to take poach key staff and drive full force in the same direction OpenAI Global LLC had been under Sam but without any control fromm the OpenAI board, well, that's not a regret that makes him more attractive to Microsoft, either based on his likely intentions or his judgement.

And any regret more aligned with Microsoft's interests as far as intentions is probably even a stronger negative signal on judgement.
The hiring could have been done over coffee in 15 minutes to agree on basic terms and then it would be announced half an hour later. Handshake deal. Paperwork can catch up later. This isn't the 'we're looking for a junior dev' pipeline.
MSFT just announced custom Azure chips too which likely also played into the "synergy" with Sam's desire to reduce reliance on Nvidia as computing capacity and demand scales with AI advancement.
Obama passed a law that forced airlines to show the final price (fees + taxes) in the list price, so it's been like that for many years now.

Before that it was much more like hotels where you're not shown the final price until the last step.
This is definitely the case for anything like Google or Adobe Analytics which are blocked by the default tracking protection. You can’t compare the results directly due to bots but on sites I’ve controlled our servers saw significant disparities between the server logs and the percentages commonly reported as global share.
> The question is: Is control of OpenAI indicated by the word “controls,” or by the word “MONEY”?

Matt Levine is a national treasure.
But they do include sources, so you can check out the original:

https://www.minutoar.com.ar/actualidad/2022/6/29/javier-mile...
Everyone that keeps repeating this should read the Finn newspapers of the time, regarding how Nokia board decided to get Elop, and then give him a contract with a bonus clause in case he managed to sell Nokia Mobile business unit.

Ex-Nokian here.
It's also interesting that he did not protest his innocence, against the unusually accusatory tone of the board's statement.
I think you don't know a lot of people in the art community if you think this. Good to see Krita standing with the people who actually use their tools.
>As others have already said, why ?

Easy. Business people, who travel a lot and need their laptop to always be synced and connected 100% of the time, and not waste time dicking around with hotspot tethering which nukes you phone's battery life or looking for some shabby public wifi hotspot.

Time is money and the zero friction and the confidence your machine is always online is a huge point to the suits (or other professions who need travel on-site like inspectors, engineers, architects, etc).
To whomever is saying it, or what they think is good or what they think that their audience thinks is good.
I find airline and concert ticket purchasing to be so exhausting, that I simply opt out more than I desire to. You have to wonder if airlines and other companies (like StubHub) ever calculate how much business they miss from these tactics. We are talking about discretionary purchases, after all.
It looks pretty unprofessional to have a watermark whenever you record your screen. Like I said, literally the only thing keeping Windows in my house (literally could be using MacOS not just Linux) is a specific software compatibility that the current Windows versions of the Office desktop apps have. The extensions I need to use do not work on even Macs. So the ability to either stream a Microsoft desktop to any device or have full feature compatibility with the web version of Office is something I am looking forward to.
So why would I pay extra to my cell phone provider when I can just tether to my existing phone?
I think it’s more likely that D’Angelo was there for his link to Meta, while Hoffman was rendered redundant after the big Microsoft deal (which occurred a month or two before he was asked to leave), but that’s just a guess.
You could say this about any component of the laptop. "I can connect a USB webcam. Why do I need a camera built-in." Convenience, compactness, cost, battery life, reliability, etc.
dotGPT
Let's not automatically assume that self-driving cars will be safer than the average driver in the foreseeable future.

Right now the best way to reduce car fatalities is reducing the number of cars by eliminating single family zoning mandates, building safe cycling infrastructure, improving public transit frequency, allowing mixed-use buildings and walkable neighborhoods.

Boring stuff, yes, but unlike self-driving cars, it is something we already know how to do.
I'm not criticizing these projects, their current legal structure.

What I mean is that these were created as public goods and functioned as such. Each had unique way of being open, spreading the value of their work as far as possible.

They were extraordinary. Incredible quality. Incredible power. Incredible ability to be built upon.. particularly the WWW.

All achieved things that simply could not have been achieved, by being a normal commercial venture.

Google,fb and co essentially stole them. They built closed platforms built a top open ones. Built bridges between users and the public domain, and monopolize them like bridge trolls.

Considering how part of the culture, a company like Google was 20 years ago this is the treason.
> ...exposing a “fundamental flaw in avionics design.” The spoofing corrupts the Inertial Reference System, a piece of equipment often described as the “brain” of an aircraft that uses gyroscopes, accelerometers, and other tech to help planes navigate. One expert Motherboard spoke to said this was “highly significant.”

> “This immediately sounds unthinkable,” OPSGROUP said in its public post about the incidents. “The IRS (Inertial Reference System) should be a standalone system, unable to be spoofed. The idea that we could lose all on-board nav capability, and have to ask [air traffic control] for our position and request a heading, makes little sense at first glance— especially for state of the art aircraft with the latest avionics. However, multiple reports confirm that this has happened.”

Ah! - so your supposedly-secure mission-critical system is happily updating itself with bad data, from a known-easily-corruptible source? Were there legal/regulatory reasons for your not bothering to correctly design & test things...or were you just distracted by "bad things don't happen in the real world" magical thinking?
> explaining to the e-bike vendor that it wasn't you

Perhaps things work differently where you live, but in my experience this is not really a problem, because the rental app asks you to take a picture after you've parked as evidence that you parked correctly. Whatever happens after that is not your responsibility.

You don't leave the meter running while you're in the store, unless it's a very short visit; the bike will automatically end your rental and lock itself. You just unlock it again when you're done shopping, and whatever happens in between is, again, not your responsibility.
GetEnvironmentVariable() also has a subtle problem from what I can see: You first check how big the buffer has to be and in the second call you actually fill out the buffer, which allows for the variable to change between those 2 calls (I guess it's a variant of the time-of-check time-of-use race condition).

There is getenv_s that doesn't have this problem to my knowledge, but it also doesn't exactly allow you to control the allocation of the memory (how important that is in cases like this is a different question)
The Rise of Wet AI: How generative AI is being used by scientists
So? What does it matter if China is blocked?
Of course. The only reason people work is because the expected value of their work maximizes their utility curve when compared to the opportunity costs. I go to work because I need money to live. I find employment by maximizing the pay I'm able to get conditional om my skillset and preferred job functions.

But I don't see why people with lower skillsets or utility curves that weigh leisure more highly than work activities should be allowed to leech off the productive capacities of others.
Your response is exactly what I had in mind when I referred to people who are "skeptical of politics and trust the big brains at OpenAI more".

You aren't wrong that government regulation is not a great solution, but I believe it is - like democracy, and for the same reasons - the worst solution, except for all the others.

I don't disagree that using a non-profit to enforce self-regulation was "worth a shot", but I thought it was very unlikely to succeed at that goal, and indeed has been failing to succeed at that goal for a very long time. But I'm not mad at them for trying.

(I do think too many people used this as an excuse to argue against any government oversight by saying, "we don't need that, we have a self-regulating non-profit structure!", I think mostly cynically.)

> But it at least gives a chance that a potentially dangerous technology will go in the right direction.

I know you wrote this comment a full five hours ago and stuff has been moving quickly, but I think this needs to be in the past tense. It appears to be clear now that something approaching >90% of the OpenAI staff did not believe in this mission, and thus it was never going to work.

If you care about this, I think you need to be thinking about what else to pursue to give us that chance. I personally think government regulation is the only plausible option to pursue here, but I won't begrudge folks who want to keep trying more novel ideas.

(And FWIW, I don't personally share the humanity-destroying concerns people have; but I think regulation is almost always appropriate for big new technologies to some degree, and that this is no exception.)
What about actually making public transit usable? That doesn't require years of R&D and solving several "unknown unknowns".

Instead we get companies doing R&D of unproven technologies on public roads because no one wants to build more rail.

For some eye-popping numbers, check out the automotive deaths/100,000 people for the US (12.9) vs. Denmark (3.4)[1]. Denmark doesn't have some magical AI that makes all their cars safe, just better infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
I feel like this is different than a hotel 'resort fee', which you have no way to decline.

I hate flying Spirit but I have flown places before where I only needed a backpack. It may only be 5% of flyers on any route, but there are a lot of airlines to it makes sense that an airline with the model "if you are the rare traveller who doesn't need luggage - we can give you a good price" should exist.
> but how can you ensure accountability

Right there is where you suggest that accountability MUST be 'ensured'. This is a very high accounting standard to set, much higher than normal for any federal programs that I'm aware of. I don't understand why you feel that a program that relieves a core ill of society (poverty) should waste no money. Anything that reduces poverty makes the rest of government services cheaper, as it so closely relates to crime. Is it that you don't trust the decision making of the individuals just because they're poor? If not, then what is it you expect?
But the general community did care about speed. Everyone worked towards small load times, optimized (for example) image size for optimal load time, everyone cared.

Whomever didn't care was weird.
GoogleFi provides data only sims for free that use the same pool of data from your "unlimited" plan.
This part seems conjecture:

> What’s more important to understand is if Microsoft has legal direct access to all the data and code used for pre-training and RL. It is obviously all stored on Azure, but if the new Sam-led internal team can freely access that, they can basically start exactly where they left off without much of a hiccup. If they cannot get it, then we estimate that it could possibly lead to only a 4-6 month delay vs prior.

Does anyone actually know if MSFT has access to OpenAI's training data ? Hard to imagine the human created/curated portion of it being redone in 4-6 months.

I've read there's some limitation in the OpenAI-MSFT agreement of it being limited to "AI" vs "AGI" technology, but no details of how that determination is made. Maybe time for OpenAI to play the AGI card.
I would pity the poor ghost of Kurt Vonnegut as I'm sure he would get absolutely no rest what with all his fans asking to be possessed or to have books dropped on their head.
Microsoft isn't going to give the employees in HR equivalent offers. There are a lot of people in the company that wouldn't provide much value to the new team at MS.
I’m taking about the ultimate end product that Microsoft and OpenAI want to create.

So I mean proper AGI.

Naming the product Clippy now is perfectly fine while it’s just an LLM and will be more excellent over the years when it eventually achieves AGI ness.

At least in this forum can we please stop misinterpreting things in a limited way to make pedantic points about how LLMs aren’t AGI (which I assume 98% of people here know). So I think it’s funny you assume I think chatgpt is an AGI.
I understand what you’re saying, but when I did the usual “What does the internet say about this?”, search interpreted it to mean “How can I draw mathematical diagrams online?” rather than “How can I draw mathematical diagrams to post online?”

For example, draw math diagrams, etc. online free with Mathcha https://www.mathcha.io/

I am interested in the results, as I have supported (and barely used) the eqn/grap/pic/troff package and LaTeX.
The board vote did it! They had a tender offer in the works that would have made employees millionaires. The board clearly signaled that they viewed the money-making aspects of the company as something to dial back, which in turn either severely lessens the value of that tender offer or prevents it from happening.

I mean, he didn't have a button on his desk that said, "torch the shares", but he ousted the CEO as a way to cut back on the things that might have meant profit. Did he think that everyone was going to continue to want to give them money after they signal a move away from profit motives? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to think that one through.

I think he was just preoccupied with AI safety, and didn't give a thought to the knock on effects for investors of any stripe. He's clearly smart enough to, he just didn't care enough to factor it into his plans.