skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Translating from corpspeak to English:

It’s a far cry from the ideologically sterile corporate language used by many Silicon Valley suits, and his apparent honesty and moral integrity may create problems for a company trying to maximize profit from Sam Altman's fight with OpenAI's board. - The Microsoft's Chief Liar said on Monday.
For what you don't want your direct employees to do, you can always hire a contractor who will do the dirty job and give you the (in this case literal) TL;DR.
Microsoft has the GPT4 weights, ChatGPT will be available in some form regardless of what happens to OpenAI.
I don't think they want to be acquired and I'm not sure it's healthy for everything to get sucked into Cloudflare either.
This is exactly what the previous poster was talking about, these definitions are so circular and hand-wavey.

AI means "artificial intelligence", but since everyone started bastardizing the term for the sake of hype to mean anything related to LLMs and machine learning, we now use "AGI" instead to actually mean proper artificial intelligence. And now you're trying to say that AI + applying it generally = AGI. That's not what these things are supposed to mean, people just hear them thrown around so much that they forget what the actual definitions are.

AGI means a computer that can actually think and reason and have original thoughts like humans, and no I don't think it's feasible.
Elon on standby to reduce twitter by 96%
I know that Clinton watered down the anti-monopoly laws but wasn't sure if Reagan had watered down them considerably more than Clinton.

Why the confrontational tone? If you think I'm wrong couldn't you have stated so in a more gracious tone? Does all discourse on the internet where you don't like what the person is saying have to be hostile sounding in tone?
British Library has been offline for three weeks
Regarding the first bullet, thanks. I just updated my post for more clarity.

I meant internet facing services (e.g. not referring to cron, etc).
WiFi isn't available everywhere. Even when it is, it can be pretty unreliable or require you to enter information into sketchy captive portals. In general, for a mobile computer, mobile data is quite useful.

If you only use your laptop at home, then it's not terribly useful. But then at that point you might be better off with a desktop computer.
This is also why most of the world policy makers don't understand why overpopulation is so huge problem as it too is an exponential process.

If we take Africa as an example then in 1950s there were around 200 million people in Africa. In year 2000 there were around 800 million people.

Today there are 1.5 billion people in Africa and UN projects that for the end of century there will be 4 billion people in Africa with a big if - if the fertility rates go below replacement levels due to development in education and personal well being.

What if the world policy makers really understood exponential growth?

There would be no question if we could provide prosperity for everyone on Earth.
OK, most people have a price. The 3 board members and the remaining workers are outliners.

You don’t have to buy all of them, just most of them.

But they were able to get somewhere because …

> The choice they're making to leave is still their choice, made of their own volition.

Yupe. Most of OpenAI's workers chose the high SV-like salaries over the chartered mission of the organization they joined.
https://tornadovps.com/ (formerly prgmr) has first-class FreeBSD support. I've been with them since 2011.
It depends on what you call “premium”.

Delta and AA are still the largest airlines in the US and unless you buy the basic economy tickets, the experience is a lot better and you aren’t nickel and dimed.

The Delta CEO said that only 5% of customers buy the lowest tier ticket.
It can factually and dispassionately say we've caused numerous species to go extinct and precipitated a climate catastrophe.
Thanks for the links. I think overtly that yes it’s all about dot connecting.

I think a lot of the definitions of safety is early days and has been mangled by OpenAI’s privatization.

I also think the GPT vX formula will only ever be original for so long. Eventually Facebook or Google will catch-up with something just as comparable and if it’s Facebook they will nullify the value of GPT by open sourcing it anyways.

This to me is the reasoning that downplays the safety by elites angle as valueless however you look at the word safety. In the end this battle is about two things, betterment of humanity or making money. One will trump the other it’s just about how much you want to gain in the short term. I’d personally love to see all these already wealthy people hang their heads about a smaller paycheck if it means humanity gets a leg up a little earlier, safe or not. FOSS the damned thing.

PS - What a world where Zuckerberg may be the great equalizer…
Did you read what you posted? All they did was look for neo-Nazi pages and hit "refresh" a few times. That's exactly what Media Matters said in the first place.
Psychology and human behavior - because people do the damndest things don't they?
I don’t mean population as a whole, I mean sample population. 1000 people will act with less intelligence than 100.
Yep. I have very much been bitten by these differences. Particularly for some of the funkier SQL statements where SQLite and PG handle arrays very differently.

In our case, we decided it was a worthy trade off in terms of developer feedback times on our python microservices, because most of the SQL there is INSERT only. In our golang services which do 90% of the interesting SQL, we spin up PG in a docker container.
Toyota Hit with $60M Penalty for Scamming Buyers into Pricy Product Bundles
I think that, for me, the red flags are within the reasoning "those people, because they are from those countries, are all a bunch of savages".

It is quite clear that in democratic countries, there is a lot of people who would happily harm the jewish community if they were in position to make that happens, or who would happily throw gays off the roofs if they were in position to make that happens, or who would happily oppress women if they were in position to make that happens.

This idea that immigration is obviously bringing "problematic barbarian people" is the problem: it implies that the commenter truly believes those people to be intrinsically inferior or intrinsically their enemy. This is especially stupid when such commenters end up explaining their political ideals in which there is as much barbaric treatment for people they don't like.

This apparent contradiction disappears when you really understand the logic: the person is not against racism, the person is against racism toward them, but has nothing against racism when it's against people they don't like. The question is not about moral or justice, it is about the fight of two identical mentality, each one group hating the other group, saying "I will do fundamentally the same things as them, but I'm better than them because my group is better and their group sucks".
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Funny to see so many (outdated) buzzwords in such an undesigned page.
The two reasons:

> Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board, according to one of the people familiar. One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project.

> The other was that Altman allegedly gave two board members different opinions about a member of personnel. An OpenAI spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
A lot of cowboys used AAA-Something to bring in rubes.
I have 2 ARMv7 boards sitting on my desk. They're still extremely common in industry.
So, Apple, Comcast, Disney, Warner Brothers, IBM, etc are dropping their investments because they do not care?
5% unemployment, lots of job openings, employers desperate to hire, more inclined/forced to pay higher wages

3% unemployment, more people taking up the fixed amount of job openings, less job openings, employers less desperate to hire

Am I missing something?
see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38356788
The TSA violates the 4th amendment millions of times a day and has a 95% failure rate at its job simultaneously.

Read it for yourself and ask if searching every single person trying to fly is "reasonable" or if they have a warrant: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Satya Nadella says OpenAI governance needs to change
Title says: OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired. They're unconvinced and furious.

Some breaking news: An employer does not owe you an explanation. You exchange money for labor. If anyone thinks for a second that they are essential or that anyone would prioritize them over the company I think they are delusional. OpenAI is a brand (at least in tech) with large recognition and they will be fine.
Finally, drama for people who think ~~we~~they're above celebrity drama.
This sort factually incorrect dogmatic screed from a position of complete ignorance, this is why I find the discourse so frustrating and why I dismissively call it a meme. Look into ControlNets, look into Deforum, look into programmatic loopback, LoRa training, model alchemy; and that's just some of what's available TODAY in a field that's moving faster than most anything else.

You're someone looking at Amiga DPaint in 1986 and claiming to understand the limitations and confines of digital art. It's absurd.
Sometimes people just prefer you to do the easier thing rather than take off for 30 minutes in a busy household with kids.
The lords are smaller scale, have more of an absolute power, not bound by things like laws and such.

To me, it seems like a repeat of history, we had an anarcho-capitalist society already, but people started to self-organize into larger groups with rules, tradition, processes ⇾ states.
> In programming in general, sleeps are generally considered....(I'm lacking the word)...distasteful?

Hmmm.....

In programming in general, Javascript is generally considered....(I'm savouring the word)...distasteful?

Yea, nah. I put a sleep in a Javascript/Dart bridge the other day.... We can do better, I can do better,
I dunno. If you were an employee and managed to maintain any doubt along the way that you were working for the devil, this move would certainly erase that doubt. Then again, it shouldn't be surprising if it turns out that most OpenAI employees are in it for more than just altruistic reasons.
right, Typst is bigger than the online editor. The language and compiler would replace latex. It seems Overleaf is an online editor?
Ouch. That's a bit more than I am willing to handle.
You gotta wonder if they really need all those people… would be a genius way to get attrition numbers up without paying severance.

Man this entire thing is so overblown. Who cares if a ceo was fired all the “””tech influencer””” wannabes are just hyping up this story for views.
In this case, I think it's "non-profits suck" for business analysts. How can you predict what those do-gooders will get up to if they sometimes refuse to make the numbers get bigger?
I... just did a complete rebuild of my Lightsail FreeBSD instance on 13.2! Sadness. Crying. Despair. Relief because FreeBSD just keeps running and doesn't cause me much trouble. :)
It's mandatory in order to continue using clear, not for travelers in general. They're being a little dodgy about what it all entails.

> Members will need to upgrade to CLEAR’s NextGen Identity+. This will power CLEAR’s Lane of the Future rolling out over 2024.

> NextGen Identity+ will unlock the CLEAR Lane of the Future. The CLEAR Lane of the Future, which will be rolling out over 2024, will deliver an even faster, more predictable airport experience for our Members. It will allow CLEAR Plus Members to verify their identity with their face (instead of iris or fingerprints) and eliminate the need for Members to stop at a CLEAR pod.

https://www.clearme.com/support/what-is-nextgen-identity-and...
11/13/2023
>2. While facial ID is currently optional, "there is no guarantee that will remain the case" -> this is a textbook slippery slope argument,

And? Years ago you could say the same thing if OP complained about the TSA starting to use biometrics. And you would be disregarding their very real concerns, especially when they would have been right about them. I believe this is also the case now. OP has a valid point.
Yeah but no. Please literally read the text you quoted - there are a lot of prominent Jewish voices that are big in the SJW space - pro immigration etc. The whole nine yards. And suddenly they are surprised when their space erupts with antisemitic fervor not seen since WWII they suddenly act like surprised pikachus. And of course those specific sjw don't deserve a shred of sympathy. Because when the other jews - like the Hassidim and orthodox were paying the price they were virtue signaling.
>All apples are red. All apples are fruit. My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit.

This is an extremely common example of an error. I wish people would put more effort into coming up with examples that aren't so common all over the internet.

The output even calls it "a classic example".
One more thing SBF and crew ruined.
(I realize kraken is not a publicly traded company, but...) I want a reverse ETF of companies that sponsor Formula 1 teams, as they seem to attract lots of bottom feeders.
"Eventually" already passsed five years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
Using Colima to run AMD64 containers in K8s cluster on ARM Macs
I was struggling to set up a local k8s cluster on my M1 mac that works with AMD64 containers. Colima solved it. Out of curiosity, are there other solutions out there?
Henry Ford's Wikipedia page literally has a top-level section on antisemitism.
It’s obnoxious because of that exact implication, that pre-existing altruism wasn’t concerned with efficacy. And that’s just not true.

There has been a community of professional practice around measuring impact and directing funds accordingly for decades. Does it always generate perfect results? No, far from it!! Is there room to improve? Absolutely, lots and lots of room!

But it’s hard not to notice that the people who call themselves Effective Altruists have no better a track record (actually, I would say far worse) than the so-called bloated NGOs and international organizations when it comes to efficacy.
I imagine this wouldn't be a huge issue with women since they don't produce eggs after birth, but men continue to produce gametes for life. Is there a way to prevent the introduction of the CRISPR edits to spermatocytes? Or do you just have to bank sperm and sterilize as a condition for the treatment?
If this is true, why is there no "beer and curry" headache? British style curry is based on a sauce called "base gravy", which is primarily onion (high in quercetin). It's commonly paired with beer, but I've never heard anybody blaming this combination for headaches.

My theory is that red wine gets blamed because it's usually higher in alcohol than white wine. Some people assume all wine is the same and end up drinking more alcohol than they expected.
I run freebsd on a hetzner cloud vps, don’t remember how exactly I did it but I think I uploaded the install medium to the server console. Wasn’t too much hassle iirc.
> Also surprised they are cutting Power. That is one of the 4 platforms RHEL supports.

They're cutting 32-bit Powerpc. It looks like powerpc64le support remains in FreeBSD14.
Seriously bright light vs. the winter blahs
Cloudflare tunnels/zero trust largely do the same thing as Tailscale. Yes there are some gaps but probably not acquisition worthy
You are a hero! I couldn’t access the article.

Weirdly both of these do not seem to be fireable offences. Maybe the second if it was related to a personnel issue that maybe he had a conflict of interest with?
I mean, getting an unlimited data cellular plan in America can be less than $50/mo. I think Simple Mobile (an MVNO of T-Mobile) offers a decent plan at around $30/mo. Maybe it's far cheaper elsewhere, but that honestly doesn't seem too unreasonable to me. (Also, my current cellphone plan offers multiple data SIMs for free with my regular plan.)
Do people really not understand how non-profit boards work?

The employees don't have a right to sue any of the board members over loss of profit, since the board is not concerned with profit. Adam would have a conflict of interest if his ownership of poe lead him to make decisions that went against the OpenAI mission, and since being a competitor doesn't I don't see how anybody could find him at fault.
I have tried ChatGPT for TikZ before with mixed results. It can do some very "example" cases like a complete graph. But anything more custom is tough. It starts making mistakes and seems to have trouble correcting them. Still, it might be good for a starting point to help you remember syntax and tikzlibrary usage.
They really do - I notice that in my conversations with other men there are maybe 7 predominant topics. How Much Money You Make, SPORTZZ!!, motor vehicles of any stripe, etc. With women you get a lot richer palette and conversationally that seems to be more interesting usually. Now tiring people are tiring people mind you but I'll take a chat with an interesting female any day as it's generally a more stimulating experience.
Your use of the word “seat” is overloaded - the one in fare search buys you passage on the plane. More formally we’d call that a ticket. That doesn’t mean you’ll be able to assign a seat during checkout if the ones available for complimentary assignment have already been assigned by others.

And that’s not a problem, if you don’t care where specifically you sit. Once check-in opens you’ll be assigned a seat. Including from the inventory that normally requires you pay extra. Without an additional fee.

If you do care where you sit you can elect to pay extra in advance.

A “seat” in the search results is booking passage on the plane. You are looking at optional, complementary advance assignments. Those are taken at the moment.

I hope that clears it up!

I wouldn’t call this a dark pattern - some airlines like Southwest don’t even let you select seats at all! Some airlines require you pay a fee for any and all seats, mostly low-cost carriers. This is just an example of unbundling. If you value a specific seat assignment you can pay for it. If you don’t, no problem, your flight is cheaper.
OpenAI is definitely on the "less" side of charity.
Well, Kraken was the conduit through which payments were going to be made. Japan is … fastidious … to the law. I think they wanted to deal with an actual entity.

Hopefully this legal albatross won’t spook them.
In this part of the world, we're more worried about what the US government can do to us than what the Chinese can do.

In other words, for many people in the world that wouldn't be an issue, it's already in the hands of a country that had invaded or intervened far more countries than China in the past few decades
sure, but I mean, we're just shifting the battery drain to the laptop now

the laptop has a bigger battery, obviously. but i'm trying to understand the Venn diagram of people who are willing to tote around a laptop, but not an external hotspot or extra battery pack to offset the extra battery drain on their phone, and need to do this for hours at a time with no AC power available, and are also willing to pay $20 a month for it or whatever the carrier charges

all I can really come up with is "businesses who issue laptops that need to stay connected to the internet and it's not feasible to expect employees to use their phones as hotspots"

and maybe "people doing mission critical shit who want the laptop cellular modem as a backup in case something happens to their phone or whatever"

and of course people who won't blink at $20/month
Jobs was a bit different as his adopted father was a mechanic. He was not from a wealthy family.

Altman reminds me of Sam Bankman-Fried but dropping out.
What hardware is OpenAI using now for running ChatGTP? And how many users can they serve with it simultaneously per instance?
Is that inherently problematic, as long as they're accounting properly?
This sounds like it was made by ChatGPT.
I was going to say, I wouldn’t be surprised if I am one of only a handful of the people whom I know who even know who sama is.
It's fairly expensive: "estimates suggest that it could cost roughly US$2 million per patient, in line with the pricing of other gene therapies."

I assume it's a long and labour-intensive process?
Do you happen to have a link to where that interwoven layers bit is described? As far as I can tell it's not clear on the model cards.
Based on the doomer tone, it was probably the latter.
This some kind of 80s revival thing? Not the mullets again, for the love of God, not the mullets ...
> The two people I know of who dared to say something were shown the door. Quietly, discreetly, done in a way so they wouldn't dare to sue.

How does this work? If I'm in this position, you'd have to either give me a lot of money or threaten to kill my family. I'd be surprised if a business tried the latter.
I'm leaning toward the reason being that Sam did something that created a massive legal risk to the company, and that giving more details would cause the risk to materialize.
If you're rich enough you can even buy laws via "lobbying". Some politician voted in by the people tries to regulate you? Send in the lobbyists to introduce some "reasonable exceptions" into the law text.

Hell if you're rich enough you get to enforce US laws in foreign nations. Reading the US trade office reports is seriously disgusting to me. "Stakeholders" this, "stakeholders" that.
I posted it since that was hidden very deep in the article, it is annoying to find information among all that padding.

> Weirdly both of these do not seem to be fireable offences

Yeah I agree that doesn't seem egregious enough to warrant firing him on the spot. I can see why most of the company takes Altmans side here.
World population grew tremendously from 1900 to 2000, and in much of the world, so did living standards.
Because that would be a conflict of interest between the for-profit OpenAI corporation and Adam. How does that conflict impact his ability to make decisions on behalf of the non-profit corporation? Basically what about his ownership of poe constitutes a conflict of interest with the non-profit corporation OpenAI?
Making an ocean Maxi-Trimaran fly [video]
Weird take in this context. Nearly all of the company has threatened to walk out and join Microsoft.
I really don't get how Microsoft still gets a hard time about this when MacOS updates are significantly more aggressive, including with their reboot schedules.
Nano is the only crypto I'm aware of that actually does 0 transaction fees https://nano.org/
For the sake of Poe's law, is this sarcasm? I genuinely don't know, none of those things brought down humankind or anything but you could write a library about the issues with these.