skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This logic is why the SEC is losing in court

The SEC’s first strategy was to go after the companies creating the crypto. Most that are targeted settled and exchanges delisted those crypto assets that were ruled to be securities - registered or not - then the SEC went after well funded, more professional and less risk averse ones and have been losing in court.

So this is a war of attrition so the SEC then just went with blanket statements and goes after the exchanges, without telling them which ones are securities. The SEC also has not been winning at this second strategy.

All anybody has been asking is for the SEC to tell them the difference between the assets. How can a crypto asset be issued compliantly as only a product, and when does it transition into not being a security if so?

The SEC has fumbled over its words as if trained on 10 years of HN crypto comments, and the courts say its arbitrary and capracious.
Former GitHub CEO Friedman and Scale AI CEO Wang Declined OpenAI CEO Role
I think the situation is changing every five minutes. Sam going to Microsoft is surely an offer that exists, but it may or may not actually happen.
Been meaning to build similar. Specifically with a view towards mixing local LLMs and openAI. Locals are cheaper and more interesting but less powerful. eg some tasks will need gbnf grammar some won’t. Some can get away with 3.5 others need 4

Suspect I’ll end up duplicating OPs efforts though because hosted doesn’t really work for that.
Buy a beer on the other side of security, it's served in a glass. Take it to the bathroom, wrap in towel, break. You now have many shivs. Distribute to your compatriots.

Get compatriot hired to Benny's Shrimp Shack and Burger Emporium. Have him pass a knife roll over the counter from the kitchen.

Get a compatriot hired as a cleaner. Have her pass you a bag of bleach and a bag of ammonia.

Security theater is wonderful.
He spoke on Bloomberg too https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-11-20/microsoft-w...
The most chilling line in the open letter is this one, which I haven't heard anyone talking about:

> You also informed the leadership team that allowing the company to be destroyed “would be consistent with the mission.”
ChatGPT Performs Better on Julia Than Python for LLM Code Generation. Why?
Were these board members brought in under the pretense that they'd benefit by being able to build companies on top of this AI and it would remain more of an R&D center without commercializing directly? Perhaps they were watching DevDay with Sam commercializing in a way that directly competes with their other ventures, and perhaps having even used the data of their other ventures for OpenAI, and on top of it as a board they're losing control to the for-profit entity. One can see the threads of a motivation. That being said, in every scenario I think incompetence is the primary factor.

To your point, no normal, competent board would even think this is enough of an excuse to fire the CEO of a superstar company.

It's hard to believe somehow Ilya went along with it, apparently.
> anyone going to work for a sub of a non-profit would probably be aware that the potential there was capped compared to traditional for profit corps

I think this is where this all went off the rails. It's very clear that a huge percentage of the staff (I think the last numbers I saw was that over 85% of the staff had signed the letter urging the board to resign) were hired with incredibly big compensation packages, predicated on the giant equity valuation. It is not surprising that those people did not turn out to be there due to being big believers in the mission of the non-profit, or that they expected those compensation packages to be real.
Your guess is about as good as anyone else's at this point. The best we can do is attempt to put safety mechanisms in place under the hood, but even that would just be speculative, because we can't actually tell what's going on in these LLM black boxes.
The SEC may think that but so far they haven't done well proving it in court.
In the long run everything reverts to the mean. In the timescale of normal software developer tenure, they could all join MS, then get 300% turnover, and still have nearly the same culture.
It's not clear if a TOS can be used to de facto limit fair use, or if use for LLM training is fair use or not.
No matter the outcome, one thing that is for certain is that this governance scheme is dead in VC circles.
Unless you never compare it anywhere. Whereas it fails immediately if you try to do `datetime.utcnow` and that method doesn't exist.
Bit odd form factor. Like do you prop it against something?

Like a tablet except thicker
I feel like I'm still facing retaliation for quitting a company 3 years ago. I'm more experienced and more efficient than I've ever been as a software engineer but I can't keep a job and nobody answers my job applications anymore even after changing countries (I have multiple citizenships). I apply for hundreds and get literally 0 calls back. Even my sister who works in HR can't believe it so we started applying together. I constantly hear stories of junior devs straight out of no-name universities getting jobs easily with huge salaries. I don't know what the heck is going on. Is there some algorithm systematically filtering me out based on my name or seniority?
You don't need to be a physician to tell when someone is clearly mentally ill and/or making stuff up.
Basically what you're getting at is that it doesn't matter if "The Economy" is booming if you as an individual are struggling.

In theory "The Economy" being booming means it should be easier for individuals to find good work so they aren't struggling, but that's not really the reality we're seeing right now outside of some bubbles.
They should just chill. The issue is that they think that people care. People don't care what ads are shown and where. Ads are targeted to people based on their interests.
> murderous tendencies lurking beneath the surface

…Where is that "beneath the surface"? Do you imagine a transformer has "thoughts" not dedicated to producing outputs? What is with all these illiterate anthropomorphic speculations where an LLM is construed as a human who is being taught to talk in some manner but otherwise has full internal freedom?
> I think it’s the same senior engineer who used the time machine to learn C++ in 20 days

In case anyone is missing the reference: https://abstrusegoose.com/249
The sound in that clip was doctored. One of the comments mentions from which other part of the film the word Luke is clipped from.
Honestly I think there was an offer and Sam verbally accepted.. maybe even signed. That doesn't mean it will happen and if all this is the case.. then it should be fine by SEC because there wasn't technically a lie.
There Once Was an Empire
If you’re interested in reading about historic periods on the edge, times when people had to suddenly start over, then you may like this essay.

It's about the collapse of Austria-Hungary how and a generation of writers came to terms with having their whole world melt away.
Henry Ford has been dead for 76 years and the company is not currently run by vocal antisemites, so I don't quite get the point you're trying to make. Presumably you're saying it's not a big deal and they don't really care?
Article mentions Player Piano!!! Completely underrated Vonnegut work, it is a great depiction of what a fully-automated dystopia might look like. The unemployed living on a UBI dole, engaging in undignified menial labor "reclaiming" scrap infrastructure. (Though at least they all have free healthcare in the book, something that seems too good to be true in real life.) The creative arts are both strictly licensed and all content must adhere to the calculated tests determined by the machines. Even for the elites, a sort of corrosive credentialism runs amok has taken over, with everyone having multiple secondary degrees. Also he somehow predicts the over-commercialism and optimization of college football.
I bet he meant ppl coming from specific country :)

I've heard about it already
Until we can establish independant colonies in Antartica and under the oceans we shouldn't even consider outer space. There are just so many technological steps that need to be accomplished first.
Scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot
Yeah.
You report these things verbally in person, not on written media. This has two advantages: your employer can decide to investigate or forget about it, and you can judge whether you are getting a bad response in person during your report, and act accordingly.

You make a report in writing if you could personally be held liable, and you want your disagreement on the record. But doing so is a burning your bridges moment.

Not quite sure how you handle this if you are remote...
Well still, what's running out of the box other than a mail daemon (which I agree with you about), and maybe sshd? (I think it asks you during setup for that one, but I'm not sure anymore)
Well how can AI researchers prevent government groups or would-be government groups from collecting data and using AI power to herd people?
I'm a fairly new FreeBSD user and this will be one of my first major upgrade. What should I be aware of when performing major upgrades? On Linux, I would avoid it and just start from a clean system. Curious what more experienced users thoughts are.
Many of them game from Google. Furthermore, if the choice is "create AI that no one ever uses" vs "create AI that people use" then it's a no-brainer to go with Microsoft. Compute + products + research freedom.
Research suggests plants able to absorb more CO2 from human activities
X Corp vs. Media Matters [pdf]
> Is it actually an issue though?

The corporations (companies, not trade associations) should care - even if the engineers tough it out. It's often an issue to them. Besides avoiding costly incoming litigation, corporations shouldn't be in the business of encouraging fiefdom, empire building, all the way to outright racism or harassement in groups. None of this overall helps the corporation achieve its objectives. While a manager is busy hiring only their friends or whatever other hobby they have, they are not doing their job.

Conflicts of interest do appear when a corporation estimates a person or group does a very effective "technical" job in spite of their hobbies. Then there's a dilemna: rebuild that group or tolerate the BS a little longer. Even then, they really should care.
Not affiliated but would highly recommend https://httpie.io/app if you’re looking for an alternative
Another very well known misquote is "Beam me up, Scotty".
>async generator

>for await (const s of seconds())

I'd hate to be your code reviewer!
>I would love to see a survey with one question asked at all tech companies with more then 100 employees. "Promotions are based on merit, answer from 0 to 10."

I work in company which had huge freezings and promotions almost fully paused during last 1.5 year. The only promoted ppl that I worked close enough to evaluate them were really, really good.
Matt Levine has a useful diagram on this:

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ixMQ90DVObm...
Bottom line is that the founder/owner of Ethereum has said very clearly that investing in ETH is investing in the Ethereum team. Bitcoin Cash has no such "team" you invest in when buying BCH. I think thats the difference.
The End of the Tye Experiment
Thanks, wasn’t aware of that context
It’s because laws set out what are securities. A distributed ledger of cryptographic tokens is by definition not a security.

So the SEC just claiming they are isn’t going to win any court. Their goal is really to drain funds and get companies to settle. Because the SEC isn’t supposed to determine what is a security
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38251154 (124 comments)
> Immorality (and according to whose standards)?

> Misrepresentation/dishonesty?

These can be a matter of perspective and if someone’s morals doesn’t align with their employer’s, then they probably shouldn’t work there.
Kraken addressed this point in their blog post replying to these allegations. They're not doing this at all.
This is the lawsuit that Elon threatened (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1725771191644758037), but am surprised he actually went through with it.
Early-life stress changes more genes in the brain than a head injury in rats
East India Company is surely one of the biggest plagues ever on mankind. As the name says, it was a private megacorporation, with it's own navy and private army.

Nation states kill for the ideals. Private companies that have the power of a state kill, enslave and pillage only for more profit.
OER also does not capture the cost of buying a house today, but of renting an already owned home. Rents do not seem to have gone up nearly as much as prices + interest rates.
Related discussion on serving finetuned LLMs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196661
Even GDPR only applies to private entities, and the same polity who did that have used their willingness to regulate data handling and software architecture to, if anything, minimize end-user privacy vs. the state.
X seems to be arguing that the report was defamatory because only Media Matters saw ads from 4 companies next to specific pro-Hitler posts, while not presenting an argument that no company has its ads run next to antisemitic content in general.
I think the main blocking point is that TeX algorithms are near optimal for a lot of the technical typesetting and everything else looks somewhat off to the astute readers, and those readers are repeat consumers of the technical texts.
Their github [1] page is more helpful for this. Typst itself (as in the program that converts your input to a PDF) is free and open source under the Apache license, and the online editor is free as well but it's currently in a public beta so that could change in the future once they move that out of the beta.

1: https://github.com/typst/typst
I can get my license reissued with my old photo as long as it’s within X number of years. This was handy during COVID when renewing entirely by mail was rolled out, but I also did it on a prior license renewal as well.

I’m generally opposed to government intrusion on rights, but I don’t think I have the inherent right for the government to have no photos of me. I’m sure the Dept of State, Customs/Border Patrol, and my local motor vehicles dept has my photo on file.
Microsoft literally built the 5th fastest supercomputer for OpenAI to train its GPT3 back in 2020 as part of the 1B investment
I think that is a fair statement. You also have to factor in the capital costs, the aircraft purchase price per seat typically increases with aircraft size so it comes down to the balance there, between that cost increasing and other costs decreasing. The scales can tip either way depending on the circumstances. For a 737, we have that capital costs contribute about 40% of the CASM, whereas Crew is 4% and Maintenance is 16%.
In conventional aircraft, the efficiency of larger engines really vs smaller ones really push towards larger aircraft.
Yea Poe ain’t small to Adam lol
Go figure, his training data only goes up to February of 2023...
X Corp. vs. Media Matters for America et al.
Point 5 of the complaint is funny:

> This November alone Media Matters released over twenty articles (and counting)
disparaging both X Corp. and Elon Musk—a blatant smear campaign.
Yeah, well, if you're nice and helpful to enough people eventually you cross a threshold to just being a good guy, at which point, the deranged behavior of a couple poorly qualified board members ceases to matter.
she probably should do so... simply to save what's left of her career.
>junior devs straight out of no-name universities

Nobody cares what university you went to.
It's not "just" a username, in a way that I can type arbitrary username easily, but spoofing biometrics is somewhat harder, at least in a controlled environment. And that's the only reason why it's used - it is essentially a replacement for situations such an agent quickly checking a photo ID (low-effort high-volume quick-and-dirty weak authentication).

Not that I'm fond of this, just saying that it's not exactly just an username.

There is no culture of using secrets for authentication in any public setting. It all had always relied on biometrics, since times immemorial (people knowing how one looks like, then scaled up with printed documents, now scaled up again with machine-assisted recognition). Essentially, with some exceptions like high-security facilities, people had always relied on their public identities (self-asserted or asserted by a trusted third party, depending on the requirements) to get access.
AiCSD: Connect data from scientific instruments to applicable AI pipelines
They’re targeting specialized cells that make blood cells outside of the body. Once they’re reimplemented they don’t move around.
Yeah the margins in that enterprise are pretty small not something you can franchise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354130
Assuming this is a joke about Cortana.
This is one person's commentary without evidence?
And 2001's HAL was a creative respelling of ...
The board has refused to provide the CEO with the reason they fired Altman. Seems like if he was lying it'd be easy to do so.

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1726695001466585231
Wired: 95 Percent of OpenAI Employees Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door

>Some 738 out of its around 770 employees, about 95 percent of the company, are now listed on the letter released early this morning.

https://www.wired.com/story/95-percent-of-openai-employees-t...
I don't think Spirit makes any secret of the fact that carry on bags are not included in the price? And in any case, the flight aggregators I have used lately (namely, Google Flights and Kayak) make it obvious.
Crazy... :))
I can drink white wine for days but a few sips of certain red wines can cause splitting headaches. They even address onions in the paper.
And? They don't own the non profit part of Open AI, they have not invested anything into it.

Why he thinks that he has authority to dictate how the non profit should be structured? I don't think he has.
OpenAI 1.0 to become Netscape? It's great if it happen.
Phosphorous discovered in outskirts of the Milky Way
And the comments section pointed out multiple flaws in that article.
I think you mean SEC, the people who bought stock on the basis of Nadella's "announcement" will probably be thinking they can sue.

But beyond that did Nadella think there was insufficient chaos around OpenAI and felt he needed to add his own?

Everyone is issuing claims, counterclaims and threats. Has no one thought it might be a good idea to just step back and think for a day or two, let things cool down before issuing more of the same?
Show HN: An Undetectable YouTube Adblocker
Hey HN! Me and my brother made an undetectable YouTube adblocker that doesn't get detected by Youtube (yet). Would love to hear what you guys think!
> All apples are red. All apples are fruit. My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit.

I Googled that exact phrase and got solutions. A logical problem that can be solved by a search engine isn't a valid example, the LLM knows that it is a logical puzzle just by how you phrased it just like Google knows that it is a logical puzzle.

And no, doing tiny alterations to that until you no longer get any Google hits isn't a proof ChatGPT can do logic, it is proof that ChatGPT can parse general structure and find patterns better than a search engine can. You need to do logical problems that can't easily be translated to standard problems that there are tons of examples of in the wild.
Also Ethereum switched to proof of stake. Which means that the "stakeholders" (shareholders) are voting what transactions go into the ledger. Bitcoin is proof of work still.
At my local dollar store, it began the day before Halloween. Two and a half aisles of Halloween stuff, and a half aisle of Christmas stuff. Then the day after Halloween... Christmas big time.

So bizarre that people need almost two full months to shop for a one-day event now!

Those charts are interesting. You know what else was happening during that main spike? Covid lockdown. Nobody had anything to do except change their behaviours and traditions irrevocably.

I get cause and correlation, but I think that's what happened. Christmas timing isn't the only thing that changed, but it's one of the more visible things we're still seeing the past few years.

My newest Christmas/Holidays Ritual: Watching lockdown videos where people combined and did really neat stuff together using Zoom or similar group chat apps. Those are actually the closest to true holiday spirit than anything that came before.
95% of OpenAI Employees (738/770) Threaten to Follow Sam Altman Out the Door
Sam Altman would not be the first or last CEO to be described in those terms.

It seems like the bigger culture clash at the heart of this is whether AGI is a) even on the horizon and b) dangerous.

Brian Cantrill has a good (slightly shouty) video where he railed against that idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

It feels like the board got way over their skis about this.
I remembered that, but since it was an isolated incident chose to ignore it. I meant at some point China or some other country is going to just give a blanket approval or just not enforce any restrictions and then the game is on.
Well it depends what you mean by successful.

If you mean earning a lot of money by selling art, then yes, it's all about playing the game, and who you know.

The vast majority of artists don't do this, many make a living through more regular jobs like teaching for example, and the art is a passion project.

For many, having to make a living from their work would spoil their reason for doing it in the first place even!
I guess what I'm missing is Deep Space Nine type of writing and content. Sure there were a few filler episodes, but the writing was excellent. The dominion/Cardasian war was the best content on TV I've ever seen.
> You report these things verbally in person, not on written media.

I think this is dangerous. If push comes to shove, you will not have anything to defend yourself with, because of no documentation.
GPT-4 is better than most Quora experts. I hope this was not a critical dataset.
It seems like we should collectively decide on a reasonable pathway to germ line edits for single gene disorders. If we don’t and keep waiting, someone will do it somewhere. And once the taboo is broken things might get weird in a hurry of the global scientific and medical communities aren’t prepared.
Wendover Productions has a great overview of airfare pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72hlr-E7KA0

My understanding is that on most airlines, for a given route and fare class, you should expect a consistent price. Fare class is determined by stock available and a few extra inputs like trip length.
The only registered cryptocurrency exchange is Prometheus, and it doesn’t have any trading activity. There haven’t been any rules published by the sec regarding cryptocurrencies or crypto exchanges. Since cryptocurrencies aren’t investment contracts, it’s not possible to comply.
> Might I introduce you to the Tupolev Tu-134?

Also perhaps the 737-MAX. :)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...
The exosphere LED pucks really share no similarities with the more common video wall panels. The LED pucks are repaired daily, and due to the nature of replacing individual pixels, you don't run into the discoloration that happens when you replace an entire panel.
Dream job was Paleontologist but now works as a Data Engineer.

Boring, but whatever. I collected some fossils a couple of years ago and will do more in the far future if I could.