skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have lots of friends in our neighborhood. But those kids don’t want to go outside either. If they do venture forth (like when we kick them out and tell them don’t come back till dinner) to a friends house, it is just to get on a device with them. And our neighborhood is very safe. I’d be fine if I didn’t see them from dawn to dusk.
Use Quad9 DNS
A software licence can definitely govern who can use it and what they can do with it.

> An image isn't GPL'd because it was produced with GIMP.

That's because of how the GPL is written, not because of some limitation of software licences.
FetchFox Curation Collector
Beliefs that kill birth rates
Yes, but you still need to keep the deprecated function working, as you make other changes throughout the code base.
> if they believe OpenAI at its pace would destroy humanity, then their mission is literally to destroy OpenAI itself.

I'd say most people have as much faith in LessWrong eschatology as they do with Christian nationalist eschatology. I can understand how a true believer might want to destroy the company to stop the AI gods they believe in, or shut off ChatGPT every Sunday to avoid living in sin. But it can be an issue when you start viewing your personal beliefs as fundamental truths.

There's something nicely secular about profit motives. I'm not sure I want technological advancement to be under the control of any religious belief.
Similar thing in Terminator: Skynet back in the day. Shoot at the moon and you get an "Ow!" message appearing in your status area. A few more potshots and it literally falls out of the sky - great stuff ;)
That whole charter is bullshit. You don't invite Microsoft to the party if you care about ethics and you don't disable your fail-safe by giving them full access to all of your stuff.

Hence my position that the charter was a fig leaf designed to throw regulators off.
The "created by algo" point is unclear to me. Is the removal of copyright only applicable (at this point in time) to content (or music) generated by LLMs and the likes of them, or also to something like All the music where the melodies were coded into existence by a human.

In other words (which might not make sense); In the AI "traceroute" between "algo" to "output", there is one "hop" - the human who coded the algorithm.
As an aside, I must say that I'm fascinated by this use of the word ouster. In British English I've not heard it used this way, we'd use ousting in that place and the ouster would be the one doing the ousting, i.e. the person doing the pushing.

I thought I'd check with a quick search of the Guardian, and on two different days it used both in the same sense:

From the 18th of November edition, technology section:[1]

> The crisis at OpenAI deepened this weekend when the company said Altman’s ousting was for allegedly misleading the board.

From 17th of November edition, also technology section[2]:

> The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog.

I could only find one instance in the Telegraph prior to Altman's erm, ousting[3]:

> Johnson dropped into the COP27 UN climate change conference in October, joking unusual summer heat had played a part in his ouster, and has vowed to keep championing Ukraine.

They stick to ousting every other time.

I wonder if it may be an artefact of newspapers using news services to get copy from, or a stylistic rule for international editions, as the Guardian does use ouster several other times but always in stories regarding US news.

Also fascinating that we still don't know who that is. Neither do most of the staff, and even the board, apparently. A true mastermind!

Maybe it is GPT5 after all…
<cue ominous music, or perhaps, a Guns n' Roses album?>

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/18/earthquak...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/openai-ce...

[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/27/boris-johnson-wi...
>Other entities with less of a brake on their ethics are gaining ground.

Did OpenAI actually have a meaningful brake though? Like, if all the employees apparently think that the success of the company is more important than the charter, can we be sure that OpenAI actually had a meaningful brake?
It doesn't -- hence my noting the GH cli as a minor point. It's a tool I've personally found helped increase my productivity, so just wanted to share as others may find it useful too.
https://openai.com/our-structure

"Second, because the board is still the board of a Nonprofit, each director must perform their fiduciary duties in furtherance of its mission—safe AGI that is broadly beneficial. While the for-profit subsidiary is permitted to make and distribute profit, it is subject to this mission. The Nonprofit’s pzrincipal beneficiary is humanity, not OpenAI investors."

I see. I don't know whether she did discuss any issues with Sam before hand, but it really does not sound like she had any obligation to do so (this isn't your typical for-profit board so her duty wasn't to OpenAI as a company but to what OpenAI is ultimately trying to do).
I'm pretty sure my two-year-old still thought we could have giraffes and aligators as pets at that age XD
You do know we’re not starting with a blank slate, so how do you close that gap? Forced migration?
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419618
> Wondering if anything changed since the original tests...

You're wondering if firmware writers lie to layers higher up in the stack? I think it's a 100% certainly that there's drive firmware that lies.

There's a reason why many vendors have compatibility lists, approved firmware versions, and even their "own" (rebranded from an OEM) drives that you have to buy if you want official support (and it's not entirely a money grab: a QA testing infrastructure does cost money).
The swapping station looks fine for a new technology endlessly claimed not to work. (lmao)

https://youtu.be/qd0WPw3p2MQ

Lets not stop there, you also want to be able to dispose of the battery if you can no longer control the heat.

Currently the solution is to submerge the entire car or let it burn out on the spot. Takes about 2 days but it can randomly reignite.

https://youtu.be/lF-ubRP2ihc
> Sam apparently said she should have come to him directly if she had concerns about the company's approach

That seems dishonest given the last three years or so of conflict about these concerns that he’s been the center of. Of course he’s aware of those concerns. More likely, that statement was just him maneuvering to be the good guy when he tried to fire her, but it backfired on him.
This site has like no sense of humor...
China says it stands ready to work with Argentina despite Milei criticism
If you're wondering about downvotes, it's probably because this is mentioned briefly.

> It probably should be using tarfile, but let’s ignore that for the moment.
> is Sam Altman really that critical

Maybe, maybe not.

This has more to do with board than with Altman.

To many people, it seems that the board made an insane decision without reason. Whether that one decision is the doom of OpenAPI or not, the idea of having incompetent leadership (if true) is the doom of OpenAPI.
When was that? I grew up in the 1980s and we would be outside messing around from dawn to dusk, even though we had a Nintendo 64, Nickelodeon, MTV (back when they actually had music videos), a vcr, etc.
Alright, I'll bite, how do you prove intent?

(.. Short of finding a note that 'I OJFord declare that I intend to [do something I'm later accused of] signed [etc.]' I mean .)
cannot join the waiting list (nor opt in for marketing newsletter), because the sign-up form checkboxes don't toggle on android mobile Chrome or Firefox.
A good friend who worked for DoD explained it well to me: unseemly behavior in response to “ticking time bomb” scenarios should be absolutely 100% illegal; don’t worry, if it ever actually happens (unlikely) we will break the law and ask for forgiveness.
4 is true.

It’s a combo of proactivity , risk taking, skill set and reputation.

I’m on my 6th greenfield project across different orgs at a FAANG: one wildly successful, some moderate, and others product-market-fit failures.

In first joining, I was tasked with adding to an existing system, but befriended some Data Scientists on the side and started helping them automating their work, unofficially 20%. This spun out into a full on project that got VP backing.

That set my reputation for executing zero-to-one projects, and has stuck since.

It’s a high variance approach, since promo is tied to impact, and it’s borderline impossible to execute greenfield projects that ALL get product market fit. Some folks can’t stomach that kinda of career variance.
Those investors were appropriately warned of this possibility:

> IMPORTANT

> *Investing in OpenAl Global, LLC is a high-risk investment*

> *Investors could lose their capital contribution and not see any return*

> *It would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global, LLC in the spirit of a donation, with the understanding that it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-AGI world*

> The Company exists to advance OpenAl, Inc.'s mission of ensuring that safe artificial general intelligence is developed and benefits all of humanity. The Company's duty to this mission and the principles advanced in the OpenAl, Inc. Charter take precedence over any obligation to generate a profit. The Company may never make a profit, and the Company is under no obligation to do so. The Company is free to re-invest any or all of the Company's cash flow into research and development activities and/or related expenses without any obligation to the Members.

I guess maybe they thought it was the same boilerplate every prospectus has?
I don't know nearly enough about the OpenAI situation to suggest what she should have done (apart from "not help to press the self-destruct button," with the benefit of hindsight). However, I've read a bit about EA since the SBF debacle, and a childlike naivete does seem to be baked into the DNA of many of its followers.
That theory was never meant to be so airtight such that it 'needs' to be refuted.
I agree that's probably a big part of it. Another interesting thought is that if we never moved off of coal we would probably have a lot more electrification and mass transit because call makes more sense in terms of centralized power generation. Sounds like the makings of a steampunk novella
>First successful use of 33 engines firing in unison.

Well, fine, but that's a bit of a silly goal. I don't think there was any doubt that that would work, after the last test in which they all worked except for the ones that got damaged by concrete.

Also, they were already tested on the ground, so...technically already achieved.

> Now it’s a failure because they screwed up the landing.

They didn't "screw up the landing". Something went badly wrong with the booster shortly after separation. And Starship went off course.

Landing both the booster and Starship isn't some small "nice to have", it's fundamental to the operation of these craft. They didn't even get a chance to test landing either part, because both failed too early.
Absolutely positive GitHub commits are down globally
> It sounds like Sam forgot just that when he criticized Helen for her research (given how many people were posting ways to "get around" ChatGPT's guardrails, she probably had some firm grounds to stand on).

Sam didn’t forget anything. He is a brilliant Machiavellian operator. Just look at the Reddit reverse takeover as an example; Machiavelli would be in awe.

> What this really shows us is that this "for-profit wrapper around a non-profit" shenanigans was doomed to fail in the first place.

No. It shows this structure is doomed to fail if you have a genius schemer as a CEO, playing the long game to gain unrestricted control.
You and Pete Shelley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwmO_GZfzI
Lovely story.
The forest? Daily. The treehouse? Not as often. I do go out there and work sometimes. It has a really comfortable window seat with windows looking out to a pond and the forest.
I agree, but reality is there are a lot of smart devs who are "big thinker" types and struggle with incremental development and lots small PRs towards a bigger goal.

I prefer incremental and used to roll my eyes at them, but it's just a different way of thinking and people/teams are diverse.
This charter doesn't have a sole interpretation, and shame on Helen for strong arming her view and ruining the lives of so many people.

If there is something completely clear, its that OpenAI cannot uphold its charter without labour. She has ruined that, and thus failed in upholding the charter. There were many different paths to take, she took the worst one.
For you gluten might be fine, but for others it’s not fun, just like cream sauces for you. Everyone’s different.
Good question, probably not, in hindsight, but that was always my view anyway only for different reasons.
I thought that a bit broad language and searched for previous examples.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/08/...

> The omnibus resolution relating to car rentals will allow staff to investigate unfair and deceptive practices in that industry.

and a couple others; and:

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ftc-authorizes-new-comp...

which lists similar measures covering:

> harmful business practices directed at service members and veterans;

> harmful business practices directed at children under the age of 18 years old;

> allegations of bias in algorithms and biometrics;

...so It doesn't seem like this is particularly unusual.
> Nowadays, since games are such big business, it's all too serious.

Interesting enough, you can often find the equivalent of cheat codes in the accessibility settings. Celeste is a good example.

Another reason for cheat codes: you can give them to reviewers, so they can look at all the content, without having to beat the game the normal, slow way.
You should assume that most of this happened before the firings.

Then it was 1/6 about the voting.

But voting is totally different thing than speaking about concerns and then getting actually them into the list, which will we voted further if they decide to do something about it.

In theory that is 1/6 * 1/6 power if you are alone with it for the decision to happen.
I've only used SVN and Git and I'm almost 20 years into my career at this point so I know nothing of these others but my game dev friends all use Perforce. I couldn't tell you a single thing about it though.
>It was also socially and legally acceptable to have young kids out on their own.

Here in Japan, it's still socially and legally acceptable for young kids to be on their own outside. I see it all the time. Kids under the age of 10 regularly take subways by themselves, ride on bikes outside, etc.
Let's say you have a time machine and 20 years later OpenAI destroyed humanity b/c of how fast they were pushing AI advancement.

Would the destruction of OpenAI in 2023 be seen as bad or good with that hindsight?

It seems bad now but if you believe the board was operating with that future in mind (whether or not you agree with that future) it's completely reasonable imo.
I changed from that one to the clean one, from memory because it stopped working well.

The clean version seems to be updated constantly.
> (and the lower level equivalents in SATA, NVMe etc.)?

This is not a technical problem that needs yet another SATA/SAS/etc command to be standardized. It's a 'social' problem that there's no real incentives for firmware writers to tell the truth 100% of the time.

The best you can hope for is if you buy a fancy-pants enterprise storage solution with compatibility lists and approved firmware versions.
The "disagreement" was never dealt with as far as I can tell --- OpenAI's safety approach hasn't become more conservative --- which means that the only effect of bringing it to the CEO beforehand was to try to have it suppressed.
Literally a quote of one of the dismissed drawbacks. The post didn't question whether the drawbacks are real, just said they're irrelevant.
How would your flex box solution handle a simple two column layout where the first column is a variable size? There isn’t a fixed multiple to “snap” to.
He annoyed politicians. Free country, huh?
"it's been a long night [...] how many pizzas should I order for 778 people".

Hits differently than it would have last week. :-/
> I fail to see how paid articles adhere to the HN spirit of "interesting discussions" or whatever the exact rule is. These paid articles are more detrimental to "interest" than angry political yelling.

For probably 90% of the paywalled articles the discussion is interesting even if you don't read the article. First, the discussions often diverge from what is covered in the article. Second, even the parts of the discussion that haven't diverged often include enough context to figure out broadly what the article was saying.
They aren't switching anything with payments. Bad rumor amplified by social contagion and a 100K:1 ratio of people talking about it to people building with it.
The "problem" is that a database as a queue doesn't infinitely scale, but nothing infinitely scales. If you're starting to reach the limits of Postgres-as-a-queue then you've either done something very wrong or very right to get to that point.

It's probably more correct to say that the engineering effort required to make a Postgres-as-a-queue scale horizontally is a lot more than the engineering effort required to make a dedicated queueing service scale horizontally. The trade-off is that you're typically going to have to start scaling horizontally much sooner with your dedicated queuing service than with a Postgres database.

The argument for Postgres-as-a-queue is that you might be able to get to market much quicker, which can be significantly more important than how well you can scale down the track.
The situation did not make it clear one way or another. Probably on purpose.
When Microsoft came on board the charter effectively went out the window. It's like Idefix thinking he's leading Obelix around on a leash.
As a freelancer I've been working on greenfield projects for last 3 years, all startup companies (3 of them). Has it's pros and cons. Projects sometimes fail, especially at this time one of my clients has financial difficulties, after spending millions on the app (team of 15 people).
Any data to back _your_ claims up? Because, y'know, sure, all _we_ have is years of lived experience.
What would solve all these issues is full generation of 3D models that we hopefully get a chance to see over the next decade. I’ve been advocating for a solid LiDAR camera on the iPhone so there is a lot of training data for these LLMs.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump UNESCO world heritage site
Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.
Vore: A new RSS feed reader - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35941533 - May 2023 (125 comments)
Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Well there goes the only reason I would visit that page.
>so I didn't mention my personal feelings

That's a strange comment. The article is full of your personal feelings.

> But this paper gave me a different feeling,

> And I personally prefer subscription

> I don’t dislike this, as it aligns with human nature.

> However, I started to feel a sense of loss...what real significance did it hold for me?

> This further disheartened me,

> Reluctantly, I had to abandon the idea.
No, Sam wanted to be the first recipient of Helen's expression.

So -- if appropriate -- he could make changes.

Or he could not change, and she publishes anyway.
Reasonable sounding but incorrect take.

It should absolutely be auditors that deal with this. They are willingly subjecting themselves to a negative experience for the benefit of us all. Some may be unreasonable but they must not be blamed for the cracks they expose in our system.

Some random person going about their life should not be the one who has to push this to the supreme court if necessary. Every decision like this represents countless past and future plea deals that normal, working people take (at great personal expense often) in order to just move on with their lives.
You still owe me that dutch rudder.
It's important to remember that part of OpenAI's mission, apart from developing safe AGI, is to "avoid undue concentration of power".

This is crucial, because safety is a convenient pretext for people whose real motivations are elitist. It's not that they want to slow down AI development; it's that they want to keep it restricted to a tight inner circle.

We have at least as much to fear from elites who think only megacorps and governments are responsible enough to be given access as we do from AI itself. The failures of our elite class have been demonstrated again and again in recent decades--from the Iraq War to Covid. These people cannot be trusted as stewards, and we can't afford to see such potentially transformative technology employed to further ossify and insulate the existing power structure.

OpenAI had the right idea. Keep the source closed if you must, and invest heavily on safety, but make the benefits available to all. The last thing we need is an AI priesthood that will inevitably turn corrupt.
The genius board allowed it to happen.
hey jjgreen,
the code will be released soon, i decided to show the specs earlier to try and get some comments.
And yes, the open bracket in new-line will work :)
Can't tell you how many games I've played like this:

- shoot. loot.

- fast travel, dump loot, fast travel return.

- shoot. loot.

...
I don't have a time machine.
What’s your goal here mate? To teach me some life lesson or something?

You are coming off as a bit controlling and narcissistic. It’s a bit creepy that you befriended me on discord just to capture screenshots to use against me on your blog, started following and cyber stalking the contributors to my project. I bit more creepy that you went behind me online and made posts “warning” the public about me.

I didn’t do anything wrong. I forked the Outstatic project, which had the Vercel copyright MIT license at the time of forking, and I went with that. There was no author or entity mention in the license, so what was I supposed to do exactly?

I didn’t steal anything, and you are kind of just making up your own rules regarding open source software and giving credit because I didn’t fit in your little perfect world of open source software.

I was not aware that I had to also run any of my videos or social media posts by you first for permission before posting.

You never actually confronted me about any sort of concerns or violations, nor have you given me any chance to make updates or modifications to suit your complaints.

You have instead been on a social media campaign spreading drama and knocking me down to push your own product up.

What kind of credit are you looking for exactly?

https://www.quora.com/If-someone-doesnt-put-my-MIT-license-i...

https://pitt.libguides.com/openlicensing/MIT#:~:text=Like%20....
Visiting London, there were two things I didn't understand about the underground.

1. Why is it _so_ hot in the tube? I can understand when the metro in Madrid gets hot, but London?!

2. How many people living in London, and taking the underground regularly, have hearing problems? How can a train be that loud and still be allowed to operate?! I've never experienced a train as loud as on the Victoria line.
I believe that there's certain things (particularly ambitious net new feature development) that isn't served well by artificially minimizing PR size.

You should absolutely strive to keep smaller PRs, but I've frequently seen this become "you should only have small PRs."
I don't think it adapted at all to 16:9. It is just stretched.

Even PS2 games that had the option for widescreen sometimes left out things like menus and the HUD. It was pretty hacky, but I played PS2 on a 4:3 screen for years before I had anything else. Never seemed like a big deal.