skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait your work isn’t filled with that group? We don’t have a lot of ballerinas but the rest…

Cowboys run the show, clowns work for them as middle mangers. Most of us low folks are firefighters.
"Tesla shareholder calls on board to dump Elon Musk" - https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/tesla-shareholder-cal...

It tell you...this is the week of the CEO's...
Remember when Anthony Levandowski left Google/Waymo and tried to take all the good people with him? Google eventually got him convicted of theft of trade secrets over some mechanical LIDAR design that never went anywhere. He spent six months in prison before negotiating a pardon from Trump.[1]

Is OpenAI getting court orders to have all of Altman's computers searched?

An indictment might begin something like this: "After being fired by the Company for cause, Defendant orchestrated a scheme whereby many of the employees of the company would quit and go to work for a competitor which had hired Defendant, with the intent of competing with the Company using its using trade secret information".

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53659805
Hotels maybe, but airfare is not going to change because you're in incognito or clear a browser. I rarely see any price differences between an Expedia and booking direct. If an airline was messing with prices based on something with your computer you would be see frequent large differences in prices between direct bookings and third party bookings, which I've never seen before.
So if sama goes back - lets hear it, why is Satya a genius?

This isn't that hard to understand. Everyone was blindsided by the sacking of Altman, Satya reacted quickly and is juggling a very confusing, dynamic situation and seems to have got himself into a good enough position that all possible endings now look positive for Microsoft.
This is the most logical explanation I have seen so far. Makes me wonder why Dustin Moskovitz himself wasn't on the board of OpenAI in the first place.
Money is a hell of a drug.
Functional programming is a perfect pairing with AI-generated code because the type systems are generally more expressive than non-functional languages, which means the compilers can catch all sorts of errors.
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> The position you're advancing here seems to infantilize people in rural areas and undeveloped nations

I believe it seems that way to you.

Many people (in particular unemancipated minors) might likewise consider it infantilizing to place a minimum age requirement on drivers' licenses, firearms, alcohol, etc. yet the consensus is that doing so is for the greater good.
They do that all the time. The first ransom is to get the decryption keys to the target's data, the second ransom is to prevent them from publishing the decrypted data.
would be great if there was an easy mnemotechnics to remember at how many degrees Celsius fresh water freezes
But is Kurt Honnegut's house vaunted? Sources say yes.
United. I saw AA do the same thing too though.

AA has also treated me like shit too many times. I got caught in that pileup delay post CVPR 2022 which resulted in several delays and they would not give me a voucher or hotel. I spent 36 hrs in an airport for them to just say "glad to hear you found a flight. Looks like we resolved your problem."
I went to CMU and was in AEPI fraternity with Brandon Wu. Brandon Wu is exceptional when it comes to functional programming. He was head TA of 15150 for a year, I have 100% confidence in him.

He took a break from TAing for some time, and when he returned he decided to have some fun with his application. He wrote a transpiler from a C like syntax to SML the day before his interview, and used it to joke that they should transition to teaching functional programming in C.
They only have the 8K token version.
Ask HN: What continues pumping up the us stock markets?
No way it is this much.
I don't think this is a fair conclusion. Close to 90% of the employees have signed a letter asking for the board to resign. Seems like that puts the burden of proof on the board.
"Altman, former president Greg Brockman, and the company’s investors are all trying to find a graceful exit for the board, says one source with direct knowledge of the situation, who characterized the Microsoft hiring announcement as a “holding pattern.” Microsoft needed to have some sort of resolution to the crisis before the stock market opened on Monday, according to multiple sources."

In other words... a convenient representation of a future timeline that will almost certainly never exist.
In the next twist Disney will be found to have staged every tech venture implosion/coup since 2021 to keep riding the momentum of tech bio-pics
> Imagine being in the mid-1990s, Windows 3.x is what most people use on the PC, Windows 95 is around the corner.

Anyone recalls how slow and clunky Java applets were back then? I think we all know why Oberon was ultimately less than successful. Of course, the missing ingredient back in the 1990s was memory safety without relying on GC, what Cyclone gives you and what was further developed by Rust.
Very interesting take, and it sheds some light to the role of the two most discredited board members.
yeah felt like a really weird move
And potentially, despite Quora's dark-patterned and degenerating platform, some kind of value in the Quora dataset or the experience of building it?
This post (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299) in reply to this tweet (https://twitter.com/breakingbaht/status/1724892505647296620).
Great performance but I miss the competitively priced Threadrippers. In 2014 I was able to get a workstation type CPU with extra memory channels, ECC support, and such for roughly the same price as a similar scale consumer CPU. It took 9 years until I increased the amount of RAM and total memory bandwidth by getting a 2 channel DDR5 system with 192 GB, and I'd hardly call that much of a win over 128. At least the price of the RAM itself has come down greatly in that time!
Im beginning to lean toward the time traveler sent back to prevent AGI by destroying OpenAI theory.

Heh it reminds me of then end of terminator 2. imagine the tech community waking up and trying to make sense of Cyberdyne corp HQ exploding and the ensuing shootouts, “Like wtf just happened?!”.
It’s also not just about the economics of it, they’re actually kind of dangerous to produce and involve a fair bit of hazardous materials IIRC. Tinkering with them is a good way to stop your heart too.
But (while you're at home) you control the WiFi access point and so can still ultimately control the traffic. That isn't the case for cellular. Though I think that's ultimately a relatively minute difference. Once you're in that adversarial of a position with your hardware, you ought not trust it.
Yeah. It is a little too harsh. The point of my comment was that the standard conservative's stance of "No strikes and you deserve to starve" is more than a little too harsh.
Loved playing Kalanick so much that he couldn't help himself from taking a shot at Altman? Makes more sense than what we currently have in front of us.
Small businesses snared by onerous reporting requirements and fines
My take as well - and the board acted too late. Sam probably promised people loads of cash, and that's the "candid" aspect we're missing on.
Considering the possible alternative names for programmers:

Software Lawyer: we’ve got a code that ought to be well defined and straightforward to interpret, but a bunch of legacy rules have made it impossible to predict what anything really means without studying the system in great depth

Software Doctor: We’re trying usually trying to fix an absurd system ridden mysterious bugs while keeping it running. How it got into the state it is basically impossible to understand, it looks like they’ve just used parts for purposes totally unrelated to their intended use (the spine is totally in the wrong orientation).

Software Engineer: There is a rigid schedule posted on a board somewhere, but we’ve gone totally off the rails and have no chance of hitting any of those timelines.
I'm still curious about what did Altman do that could've been so heinous as to prompt the board to remove him so swiftly, yet not bad enough to make his return a complete impossibility. Has there been any official word on what was Altman not being candid enough about?
>4) Thus, homelessness is not a virtual certainty if you lose your job.

>People almost always find a way to avoid homelessness, typically by finding a new job.

So you're basically agreeing with the original commenter? I read his comment as basically saying the only reason he works at his job is to keep a roof over his head, and that if you don't work you'll eventually be homeless. He's not claiming that getting fired means you're going to be homeless.
> Sometimes I just want to do something silly, like adding a log somewhere.

In Haskell, you can use Debug.Trace for just that purpose, when you don't want to change the type of your function.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38348995 ...

“GTPs” by the other board member's company last April:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/10/poes-ai-chatbot-app-now-le...

And OpenAI last week:

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts
The hidden motivation there is that the government's rule benefits the government. It's easier for them to raise their taxes and fees, by hiding their portion in the total price where they won't get blamed. (You can find the breakdown if you look for it, but who ever bothers.)
Are you sure or are you just guessing?
Except they won't be burning it to the ground; they'll just be handing it to Microsoft. Hard to see how that's better aligned with the charter (which simply ceases to exist under MS) than figuring out a compromise.
> That would at least make a more damned sense than "everyone is wildly incompetent."

It seems to be one of many "everyone except one clever mastermind is wildly incompetent" explanations that have been tossed around (most of which center on the private interests of a single board member), which don't seem to be that big of an improvement.
Ah yes, silly mistakes—I mixed up getenv and setenv. Those examples transitively use getenv, not setenv.

Having said that, my point still stands. You can only control what you directly use / don't use. Third-party libraries you use might use setenv at times other than "the very beginning of the program."
I wonder if this counts as an ITAR violation on Boeing's part.
I've added several of those checks to Google products; it's certainly never been for the reason you're suggesting.

You get a bug that a certain feature is crashing Firefox, or slowing it to a crawl. You can't do feature detection, because Firefox reports the relevant features are supported. So you code up a less-efficient behavior that avoids the crash, and only use it for the Firefox user agent.

Months or years later, Firefox improves the problematic behavior, and now performs much better when you switch the User Agent to Chrome and get the efficient path. Nobody at Google is paying active attention to that code anymore, so it remains in that state until someone notices.

The idea of slowing down Firefox based on a User Agent check would be totally crazy to anyone I worked with at Google, and you'd be immediately reported to legal and HR if you tried to get such a thing through code review...
Or one can try to rent a cluster in the clouds.
AI in BI: Rhyming doesn't make it so
I agree, but sure as McDonald's fries are salty, I want to get better at passing the theory on.

When I launch my business, that will be an essential part of my product.

So can you give me specific feedback on that document?
What as "open" about it before that?
This just seems like a very natural back and forth
You complain on social media about your employer and how they mistreated you
They fire you for making them look bad by describing how they treated you
Your view of them as a bad employer is reinforced and you warn people not to work for them
Their view of you as a bad employee is reinforced and they earn people not to hire you.
In both cases people's views are reinforced by reality. Where's the bug?
There was never anything open about open ai. If there were I should have access to their training data, training infra setup and weights.

The only thing that changed is the reason why the unwashed masses aren't allowed to see the secret sauce: from alignment to profit.

A plague on both their houses.
The other poster is wrong, the entire reason the history API exists is specifically because when these SPA frameworks first came onto the scene one of the things that was broken was history.

So they invented the history API's so SPA's could stop breaking some of the user expectations they were breaking.
https://zeromq.org/get-started/?language=cpp#

there's 5 listed for c++ which one creates threads before main()?
Anyone else hear this rumor about Sam OK'd in private the training of a dataset from a Chinese cyberwarfare unit? Or is that more insane theoretical stuff going on? Honestly I don't want Microsoft to own AGI, it'll mess up AI for a decade much the same it did to Nokia and mobile phones. Let's be real here too they don't have the capacity at Azure to do their main business of training new models. I think OpenAI got around requesting for data to train because it was 'non-profit' and not a for profit. Now getting the data is going to be expensive.
I do think that's almost certainly going to happen. But they're probably still trying to find the one scenario (out of 16 million possibilities, like Dr. Strange in Endgame) that allows them to keep their power or at least give them a nice golden parachute.

Hence why they're not just immediately flipping the undo switch.
Depends on the type of device you're talking about. The company I work for installs batteries and solar on homes as part of its business and we were surprised to find cell modems starting to come installed inside the battery system we use most often - with no notice to us or apparent change in how the system operates. It's not for customer-accessible statistics/usage information, those still require a hardwired connection. We haven't been able to get a good answer from the company about why they started being installed.
>Insurance: Go to https://www.insuremytrip.com/ and get it yourself. Ignore whatever airlines offer you.

or get it free through your credit card. Many premium cards offer it as a free benefit.
What was "open" before ChatGPT?
Is this your opinion or is this something that’s an actual theory in sociology or psychology, or at least something people talk about in practice? Not trying to be mean, just to learn.

There’s a whole genre of press releases and videos for apologies, so I’m not sure it’s such a reputational risk to admit one is wrong. It might be a bigger risk not to, it would seem.

But what you say sounds interesting.
[citation needed]

I just googled, "NHTSA sues Tesla" -- Nothing!
I can be on the bleeding edge of whatever you like and be no closer to having any insight into AGI anymore than anyone else. Anyone who claims they have should be treated with suspicion (Altman is a fine example here).

There is no concrete definition of intelligence, let alone AGI. It's a nerdy fantasy term, a hallowed (and feared!) goal with a very handwavy, circular definition. Right now it's 100% hype.
Sam starts a new company, they quit OpenAI to join, he fires them months later when the auto complete hype dies out. I don't understand this cult of personality.
Since when is it “adversarial” to charge people who consume more of the product (more legroom, extra bags) more money than people who consume less? That’s how all businesses work. Is it adversarial for a restaurant to charge
extra if you order a second entree?
> Well, it’s a longitudinal north-south trench because the movie literally showed us

Yeah, that's why I never believed otherwise. Didn't know anyone thought it was the equator.
yt-dlp and VLC. Problem solved :@]
Due to the changes in recent decades, including the security, no leg room, horrible treatment and customer service, I loathe air travel now and avoid it at all costs. I wonder how many are in the same boat. Sadly I’m guessing the industry doesn’t care since their primary revenue is from captive business travelers.
The average economy might look good by some metrics, but there are a lot of changes creating various groups of winners and losers, and depending on the people you know you might be in a group of people feeling hammered by the waves right now.
Right, what if what he wasn't being candid about was "we could be rich!" or "we're going to be rich!" messaging to the employees? Or some other messaging that he did not share with the board? Etc.. etc..
the only thing that could be more ironic here is the original board memo was written with chatGPT help.
Seeking of suppression of desire and sexual deviants, is that what you would tell to people who want to change their gender? Would you tell them it would be healthier for society if they didn't become transgender?
Having more competition is usually inherently better than having less competition?
Given the sensitivity of data handled over Citrix connections (pretty much all hospitals), I'm fairly sure Microsoft just doesn't want the headaches. My general experience is that service providers would rather be seen handling nuclear weapons data than healthcare data.
If they retract that, they open themselves to potential, personal, legal liability which is enough to scare any director. But if they don't retract, they aren't getting Altman back. Thus why the board likely finds themselves between a rock and a hard place.
Assuming you have the hardware, what could you use this for?

Would it be difficult to wire up for conversations like ChatGPT? Could you run it against a local photo store to let you search by names of objects/people?
Or is it basically an intermediate model that needs further training to fine tune to your application?
The initial emissions cost of an EV is somewhere in the range of 5 - 10% of total emissions of the ICE over its lifetime. Then as to the consumerism bit, there's generally two types people who buy Teslas. The practical side isn't doing excess consumerism and is likely to buy something like a Toyota Camry or RAV4 instead, still causing 10x the emissions eventually. The other side, luxury and consumerist, is going to be buying a Mercedes instead and still doing all the excess consumerism and traveling. EV are a net emissions positive on the margin, but feel free to inhale the particulate emissions sitting in traffic if you'd prefer. Only about 5 million globally dying of air pollution every year...
> How do we know the mission got thrown out a window?

When was the last time OpenAI openly released any AI?
Prices vary based on data they collect about you. Such as browser cookies, hardware info, browser, etc. You can often find different prices simply by clearing your cache or cookies. Or trying from a different browser. I left a comment in main about an anecdotal experience. One thing I'll add is that I also tried having 3 browsers open: Firefox, Mullvad, and Safari. I saw different prices on each.
It's not disingenuous to assume that you meant what you said.
This isn't about picking N. This is saying "No matter what N you pick, your runtime will be smaller than roughly 2^[number of atoms in the reachable universe]" (Because if you hit the same state twice, you're stuck in a loop that will never halt.)

So yes, your algorithm is bound by O(N^2), and that's the number that matters on practical computers... but it's also bound by O(1) with a stupidly large constant. So it's O(1).

> I guess you're the kind of guy that chooses to uses not 8-bit bytes in an interview?

Dude, I'm here specifically to argue against insisting on the exact literal meaning, and to choose the practical option.
> * This was what MS did to Nokia too, if I remember correctly, to get them to adopt the Windows Phone platform.

To me, RIM circa 2008 would have been a far better acquisition for Microsoft. Blackberry was embedded in corporate world, the media loved it (Obama had one), the iphone and android were really new.
Being a Russian-linked cyber gang, anything sensitive in there should be treated as public information now anyway. Why bother paying then?
Do you have plans to support Bedeock? In a hosted environment, I recognize it's a little more...involved. But still, I'm curious.
Yep, this is good enough for me, and I suspect for anyone who is not hellbent on holding a grudge.
Messin' around with web components. Also–JavaScript, generally
> 1. The typesystem will be sound, ML-like, and so simple that any code that doesn't interact with external data will not need _any_ type annotations.

I've tried using languages with this promise, such as Haskell, and also spent a lot of time with TypeScript, which makes a different set of tradeoffs, and I feel like I've spent enough time on both to know this is the wrong tradeoff to make. It sounds flashy to be able to say that no type annotations are necessary, but in practice what it ends up meaning is that you end up tracking down errors in the wrong parts of your code because the compiler can't figure out how to reconcile problems.

e.g., you have function A incorrectly call function B. How does the compiler know if A has the wrong arguments, or B has the wrong signature? It can't! I know that's a toy example, but it really does lead to a lot of real-world frustration. Sometimes the type errors are very far away from where the actual issues are, and it can lead to a lot of frustration and wasted time.

The TS approach of "please at least annotate all your function signatures" isn't nearly as flashy, but it strikes a much better utilitarian balance.
Think of the audacity of forcing out someone who had previously forced out Musk...
https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
I don't grok the original tweet very well, and I don't understand what Musk means by his reply. Can someone ELI5?
Ehh I don't think SVB is an apt comparison. When the FDIC takes control of a failing bank, the bank shutters. Only critical staff is kept on board to aid with asset liquidation/transference and repay creditors/depositors. Once that is completed, the bank is dissolved.
I think we forget how much software engineering should be influenced by other engineering disciplines, rather than the other way around – I think there are plenty of cautionary tales of "move fast, break things" physical things startups.
Yeah the problem for the consumer is how opaque it is. They're all competing to get the lowest ticket price on the aggregator price, and then claw back a profit either through obtuse language during the checkout process (i.e. insurance which is not clear at all about what it covers) or through unexpected "extra fees" you end up paying between when you get to the airport and when you arrive at your destination.

Ryan Air was so bad with the latter that I flat out stopped flying with them. It happened a couple times I had to pay some extra 40 EUR for not reading the fine print carefully enough (i.e. I paid for a cabin bag, but I had to pick up a tag for it at the check-in counter instead of going straight to the gate to avoid an extra fee)

Imo unbundling is fine if you are allowed to make informed decisions about what you want or not. If you feel like you've been tricked or robbed after using a product it's probably going a bad way.
Right?! That'd be the first thing on my agenda if I wanted to write an article with that title.

I'll choose to believe the writers didn't especially have an interest, they were just paid to write.
Yes, but the message clearly states it will be removed in the future. IMO they shouldn't do that. Deprecate indefinitely.
> He dropped out of college after just a year

so did gdb and he's a superstar
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I certainly think it’s possible but have no idea how close. Maybe it’s 50 years, maybe it’s next year.

Either way, I think GGP’s comment was not applicable based on my comment as written and certainly my intent.