skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Meta is wider than their relationship with their users and advertisers. Many sites that contain "Facebook like" buttons etc allow Meta tracking anyone that browses these sites, profiling, and serving personalised ads even if said people never signed up to Facebook or any other Meta service.
I am aware of the puck design, but they will still fail for the same reason other multi-led panels (e.g. micro-led displays). Eventually there's too many dead pixels to make a good image. Discoloration adds up over time and is a huge problem for things like the Samsung "The Wall". That's before even considering the entire puck can fail, just like entire panels fail on micro-led displays.

And many of these run in fully cooled environments, no sun-facing element, running at way lower power levels since they aren't fighting the sun.

Universal Orlando has the Bourne Stuntacular with a 120ft wide panel running 9k 60hz and it requires work semi-annually. Running indoors. From 11-5pm daily. Not 24/7.
Isn't almost everything right now speculation, uncertainty & conjecture? We have only little insight and not even the participating parties might have a full understanding of the situation because motives and choices might be hidden.

Microsoft just saw chaos and made a very smart move before someone else could.
Do we know that Ilya even wanted the firing? AFAIK we “know” this only from Altman, who is definitely not a credible source of such information.
Ilya has backtracked and signed the letter saying he would also leave to Microsoft if the board doesn't resign.
Unfortunately it's not building per the github instructions.

warning: `rustgpt` (bin "rustgpt") generated 15 warnings
error: could not compile `rustgpt` (bin "rustgpt") due to 19 previous errors; 15 warnings emitted
Did you read the article (this one misstates the case but if you look at the one linked about the lawsuit)? This is a lawsuit. Nothing has been proven. Burden of proof is on you
I know Koka is more of a research project than anything else, but I think it’s by far the most interesting. Moving to effect handlers, the Perseus ARC algorithm, and identifying “functional-but-in-place” algorithms all feel like game changers.
Job is not dependent on extant transaction. The bookkeeping of job state runs in the same transaction as your domain state manipulation so you will never get into situation where job domain mutation commited but job state failed to update to complete.
as far as I'm aware the most popular job queue library in elixir depends on postgres and has performance characteristics that cover the vast majority of background processing needs I've come across.

I wonder maybe if you've limited yourself by assuming relational DBs only have features for relational data. That isn't the case now and really hasn't been the case for quite some time now.
IMO it's pretty obvious.

Sam promised to make a lot of people millionaires/billionaires despite OpenAI being a non-profit.

Firing Sam means all these OpenAI people who joined for $1 million comp packages looking for an eventual huge exit now don't get that.

They all want the same thing as the vast majority of people: lots of money.
The "Storage Fault Model" section is about halfway down the page.

https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/DE...
My attitude about money is pretty much the same as Woz's. There's a lot of us out there, but the worldview is so alien to the modern computer industry that it just doesn't register.
Thing is, he's correct. Early shareholders of many unicorns have cashed out dozens of millions of dollars post-IPO - that kind of wealth has no other name but generational, since even if you blow half of it in early stage VC and a quarter on "hookers and blow", the remaining quarter will pay enough in yearly dividends that you and your entire offspring will never have to work a single day in their life again.

A side note: the fact that there are so many tech unicorns in the US is self-reinforcing, because the founders and early employees of IPO'd unicorns have usually invested their money into either their own venture or those of some random people they knew, and repeated the cycle. The rest of the world barely got anything from the insane valuation explosion in the tech sector of the last 15-20 years.
Not an argentinean, but I don't think that's the right way to look at it.

You can exchange dollars in any country and in many you can directly pay in stores if the storekeeper is flexible. You wouldn't call that a parallel dollar economy.

The only additional point in Argentina is thay they have an official exchange rate that is way way different from the true exchange rate (ie the one that arises from demand and supply). That's why you can exchange dollars through the official channels and get, say, 500 pesos, or you can exchange from an unofficial one and get 1000 pesos
Another chapter of the Clownstocene epoch
0% chance of Ilya failing upwards from this. He dunked himself hard and has blasted a huge hole in his organizational-game-theory quotient.
Upper management is usually compensated with financially meaningful ownership stakes.
> Is there anything as good as Firefox with UBO?

Consider trying Orion. I use it on macOS, not on iPhone, but would love to try it on the phone too. It supports UBO as far as I know.
No. No no no. This is liberal “big government” getting in the way again. It will drive up costs, drive down the rate of innovation, introduce burdensome bureaucracy, and cost taxpayers needlessly. It will ensure only those making huge political “donations” have access to space.
My guess -- Microsoft wasn’t excited about the company structure - the for-profit portion subject to the non-profit mission. Microsoft/Altman structured the deal with OpenAI in a way that cements their access regardless of the non-profit’s wishes. Altman may not have shared those details with the board and they freaked out and fired him. They didn’t disclose to Microsoft ahead of time because they were part of the problem.
> Euro is far

Technically, from a geography point of view, euro-using countries as official currency are closer than USD: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/outermos...

(I.e. French guiana's currency is the Euro)
It’s not malice on behalf of that engineer. It is at the level of the managers who decided not to have adequate staffing, and who set the policy that unlike other companies they are willing to risk poor user experience to shift the browser market.
They don't. But if you look at predictions of the future like those in optimistic SciFi, the dream was that automation would eliminate repetitive, dirty, and dangerous jobs, eliminate scarcity of basic necessities like food, and free up every individual to pursue whatever creative endeavours they wish.

What we're getting instead is the automation of those creative endeavours, while leaving a "gap" of repetitive, mind numbing work (like labelling data or doing basic physical tasks like "picking" goods in an Amazon warehouse) that still has to be done by humans.
Ok ...

< "the two"

> "two of"

And let me add

< "hardest working"

> "hardest working and talented"
Start ups thrive by, in part, creating a sense of camaraderie. Sam isn’t just their boss, he’s their leader, he’s one of them, they believe in him.

You go to bat for your mates, and this is what they’re doing for him.

The sense of togetherness is what allows folks to pull together in stressful times, and it is bred by pulling together in stressful times. IME it’s a core ingredient to success. Since OAI is very successful it’s fair to say the sense of togetherness is very strong. Hence the numbers of folks in the walk out.
> At least another 2/5 foundation board members have strong personal ties with New Vector

Nope. Neither Ross, Jon or Jutta have 'strong personal ties' with NV. We had met Ross twice(?) before asking him to join (based on his qualifications as a decentralisation-focused lawyer and casual Matrix user). Jutta we'd met once (and was asked based on her qualifications as CEO of a decentralisation-focused company which used Matrix). Jon had supervised me on an undergrad project 20 years ago (and not been in contact since), and was asked to join on the basis of his qualifications as an academic expert in decentralisation. We recruited experts to the board who we were familiar with from the industry, and have asked them to put their professional reputation on the line to ensure that Amandine & myself (as founders of Matrix, and later Element) keep the foundation on mission.

> 7/8 spec team members are from New Vector.

This is only because 3 of the 8 were independent when they joined the team, but subsequently ended up working at NV so they could be paid to work on the Matrix core team as their day job. When performing their SCT duties they do so as independent individuals rather than Element employees, and do a great job of separating the two.

> If New Vector does not like a competitor, they can block them from participating in the standard (making new features of them standards non-compliant) and then block them from using the Matrix brand or claiming to be Matrix compatible.

If that happened, the Guardians (and in future the Governing Board) would step in to fix the abuse. It's a checks & balances system.

> That should be enough for a full-time hire with competitive compensation for a few years, especially if that hire is not in California (why the hack hire in California when you don't need to?)

I am very glad that the Foundation hired a world-class Managing Director in the form of Josh, precisely to address the issues you've been highlighting, with a pretty much unique history and qualifications for managing non-profit open source foundations. That's why the hack we hired in California :)
I don't see what was so harsh? I checked the edit history, I saw the original comments and subsequent minor tweaks. His response was rather testy and stubborn (as is the case with the Elm team generally, it seems), but not as much of a dick comment as I have seen elsewhere in GitHub issues.
This is a lot closer to my thought as well. No one is saying extinction is beneficial. However, in the grand scheme of things, how critical was the unique Catfish that was only found in 1 river in Ohio? How many species have come and gone completely undetected?

Now that a species near the top of the food chain is missing, what species can grow and change to fill the gap? Isn't that evolution, you respond to a change in your environment.
It's a selection bias: they people who weren't so intrinsically motivated to get rich are less likely to end up as wealthy people.
Meta still built a profile on you based off your friends posting. I believe that this is what got them into trouble in the US (shadow accounts).
I'm not sure I fully buy this, only because how would anyone be absolutely certain that they'd make more with Sam Altman in charge? It feels like a weird thing to speculatively rally behind.

I'd imagine there's some internal political drama going on or something we're missing out on.
I'll have to revisit those episodes, which I've not seen for a while.
Kyle Vogt Resigns as CEO of GM's Driverless-Car Unit Cruise
The Blue dollar refers to the grey market exchange rate currently hovering around 950 Argentina Pesos to 1 US Dollar. The official exchange rate is set at about 350 to 1. It is actually quite hard to spend US dollars directly in Arg. However it is common for both foreigners and Argentines to use grey market money changers at the blue rate. Argentines are only allowed to purchase a limited number of US dollars at the official rate each month so if they want to travel or protect the value of their savings from the extreme inflation they need to use the grey market to do so. The Blue dollar exist because the current government artificially pegs the peso at the lower rate.
The situation you're describing would happen if there's no transition period whatsoever. If the plan is to stop using pesos overnight, that would certainly be catastrophic. You can avoid that if you say "we'll stop using pesos by X date. Until then anyone can trade their pesos for dollars at any bank for a fixed exchange rate of Y pesos per dollar. Businesses will be required to accept dollars by Z date, and can reject pesos by W date."
There is also a possibility, however remote, that Aliens are involved somehow.

But until we have evidence for any of these remote theories, I’d argue they’re all equally uninteresting.
Sure, the point is that MS giving $13B of its services away is less expensive than $13B in cash.
I knew something like this would happen, MS was told they would originally only be given stuff until their investment was paid off, but MS could care less about their investment, they want to own OpenAI, so it makes sense they would coup the company
Do you have any firsthand knowledge of Syria, or merely passively consume "geopolitical" content on the internet far away? Anyone who actually spent time in Aleppo in the early millennium saw that it was a powder keg, because the one thing people loved to complain about endlessly -- whether they were religious or secular, Arab or Armenian or Kurd -- was how much they despised the regime. Blaming the actual unrest against Assad on the US, as opposed to US attempts to subsequently exploit it, infantilizes the Syrian population.

And don't do "/s", which I see you post often. This is HN, not Reddit, and sarcasm is considered poor form here.
Yep.

What people don't realize is that Microsoft doesn't own the data or models that OpenAI has today. Yeah, they can poach all the talent, but it still takes an enormous amount of effort to create the dataset and train the models the way OpenAI has done it.

Recreating what OpenAI has done over at Microsoft will be nothing short of a herculean effort and I can't see it materializing the way people think it will.
https://archive.ph/vogqJ
> over the safe development

Not if you think the utterly incompetent board proved itself totally untrustworthy of safe development, while Microsoft as a relatively conservative, staid corporation is seen as ultimately far more trustworthy.

Honestly, of all the big tech companies, Microsoft is probably the safest of all, because it makes its money mostly from predictable large deals with other large corporations to keep the business world running.

It's not associated with privacy concerns the way Google is, with advertisers the way Meta is, or with walled gardens the way Apple is. Its culture these days is mainly about making money in a low-risk, straightforward way through Office and Azure.

And relative to startups, Microsoft is far more predictable and less risky in how it manages things.
His research students used to.

Recently I saw a book of his on .NET, is he still involved in GraalVM?
I recently got a new Mac and didn’t install Chrome. I now only run Firefox and Safari. For a company so big, it’s embarrassing to see their websites and products be some of the poorest run on my computer now. It’s quite obvious that they at least optimize it for Chrome if not de-optimize it for other browsers.
And all that's not even going into things like the pandemic business loans that were handed out like fucking candy, many to businesses that barely even existed at the time, to the tune of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars, most of which were entirely forgiven after the fact.

But that's not socialism of course, that's not "financing bad decisions" and those people definitely 100% used all that money in their businesses and not for frivolous and unnecessary luxuries, so that's fine.

The hypocrisy in all these issues is absolutely mind-boggling. If you're rich, getting free money from the Government is just business as usual. If you're not, it's the worst thing in human history and you deserve to die.
Well, yes, but you see, talking that way about "generational wealth" is meant to signal approval for wanting to create a permanent dynasty of rent seekers. Even a lot of billionaires disapprove of that.
Is there any confirmation or sources for the claims in this article? Or is this just speculation? I haven't seen any confirmation that all of OpenAI's core team has joined MSFT, or that they are getting $10M packages
They are actually extremely advanced autocomplete.

But when you think about it this way, your brain is also just autocomplete.

You give it input, tons of input, and your next thought/action/sentence is really just what your brain is autocompleting from the previous data he got, your brain could essentially be summarized as a few dozens multimodal gpt-6 running at the same time, interacting with each other, connected to sensors and a few "organic servomotors".

A LLM can be trained to think, and it will essentially autocomplete a thought process, outputting it(thinking out loud), before autocompleting an answer.

ChatGPT was overly trained towards safety because A. a lot of field experts are terrified of what could happen if LLMs were unhinged, B. because they don't want to be sued. C. OpenAI would rather have ChatGPT output dumb answers than dangerous ones in the case the person reading them is naive, overly confident or mentally challenged(or a child).

I like to think of ChatGPT as a naive 6yo telltale nerd with all the world's knowledge who speaks mostly very formally and with the emotional maturity of a toddler.
No kidding. It looks like the most secure jobs will be "the trades" since the environment these professionals work in is the most variable/least structured and thus least susceptible to automation by robotics.

My "Plan B" is becoming an electrician.
It would benefit OpenAI by suddenly actually being an open source project that everyone can contribute to and improve on. It'd be a win for OpenAI the project even if it means that individuals at OpenAI would lose potential personal wealth and power.
Dicts are essentially an untyped API, even in a strongly-typed language - at least until you have "dict that contains at least keys X, Y, and Z" as a fundamental type in your type system.

Whether that's a benefit or a liability is in the eye of the beholder...
> many with a power-reactor design that they hope to have operating in the next decade or so.

The old ten years out, rephrased very nicely!
yes, keep waiting.
Love it. Could also be called a hostile giveover, considering the OpenAI board gifted this opportunity to Microsoft
"I'm into effective altruism and created the largest crypto exchange in the world. Cut me some slack."

No, we don't operate like that. Call me out when I'm wrong technically, but don't tell me that because someone is some sort of celebrity that I should cut them some slack.

Everything he pointed out is literally covered in the GCP Tasks documentation.

https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/dual-overview

https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/common-pitfalls
> This is what happens when free market capitalism is your economic system.

And here's what happens when it isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resista...

I know which one I prefer.
"Microsoft can likely claw back or not deliver quite a bit of what it had planned for OpenAI. These compute resources can be routed to the new internal team."

Ok sure internet guy. They'll just "claw back" based on which clause in the agreement? Oh the "don't fire the CEO clause". Really, which section and paragraph is that?

My conjecture on what'll probably happen is compute will be split somewhat unevenly between NewOpenAI and OldOpenAI. Because let's not forget, OldOpenAI actually has revenue and a raft of paying customers.
The AGI Turbulence Theorem
As an artificial intelligence company progresses towards the development of AGI, it encounters an escalating degree of internal complexity and unpredictability.

This theorem suggests a direct correlation between the advancement toward AGI and the amplification of organizational challenges, encompassing technical, ethical, and operational dimensions. The closer a company gets to achieving AGI, the more turbulent and chaotic its internal and external environment becomes, reflecting the intricate and multifaceted nature of AGI itself.
I think you’re making some assumptions there. Many consumer devices were reparable to at least some extent till relatively recently. Many phones used to have removable backplates and jellybean-part batteries because it’s cheaper to manufacture than single part cases and a custom battery pile.
> but having a nonprofit investigate solutions to prevent them is a worthwhile pursuit,

This is forgetting that power is an even greater temptation than money. The non-profits will all come up with solutions that have them serving as gatekeepers, to keep the unwashed masses from accessing something that that is too dangerous for the common person.

I would rather have for-profit corporations control it, rather that non-profits. Ideally, Inwould like it to be open sourced so that the common person could control and align AI with their own goals.
Hanlons razor would not be used to explain a tiger eating a person.

Hanlon's razor would be used to stop a mob from lynching the tour guide that was supposed to guide that person through the zoo. One explanation is that the tour guide intentionally arranged for the person to be eaten. This is malevolent and dispicable act. Hanlon's razor says "Hold on, maybe he just wasn't aware the tiger was out of the cage at that time".

It is effectively the presumption of "Innocence (stupidity)" vs persumption of "Guilt (malevolence)" stated another way.
What's not true at all? That more powerful rich text editors need to rely on a tree structure?
No doubt everything could've been learned and heeded by now, I think it's really, really, really hard to say "OK, so then everyone should go and try to raise $4000/mo for the new project they have." Even just using a programming language is an investment of time and trust, too, lest you want to wind up stranded on some-old-version-of-Elm island with tens of thousands of lines of code.

Elm also seemed very promising in the beginning, and honestly I don't even think that comment is so abhorrent on its own. I think Elm died the death of a thousand cuts. If it had only been one errant comment somewhere, it would've been mostly forgotten about by now. Instead, it's Elm that's mostly forgotten about.

So I say best of luck, but also... No thanks for now.

edit: Just so it's completely clear, I am actually implying that "maintainers being dicks" was actually not the problem with Elm. I think people just got especially infuriated by it because they were sick of trying to deal with Elm's breaking changes, of which this represented one. I remember going through and learning Elm and like literally months later everything was completely different and I no longer knew how to make a basic hello world application (around 0.16 or 0.17 maybe? Can't recall. I just remember that effects had changed a fair bit.) I know that to some degree this is the nature of a 0.x product, but at some point it's like "OK... then who is supposed to even use this?" Among other issues of course.
At the start of the year I built Hotlist to get familiar with Tauri and to see if I could make it feel like a native MacOS app.

I got a bit carried away and ended up with a lot more features than anticipated.

There's multiple themes to choose from, customisable keyboard shortcuts, auto word tagging and sorting, and the option to sync with remote services by loading a custom JavaScript module.

Anyway, would love to get some feedback! Cheers.
The White House May Condemn Musk, but the Government Is Addicted to Him
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All: this madness makes our server strain too. Sorry! Nobody will be happier than I when this bottleneck (edit: the one in our code—not the world) is a thing of the past.

I've turned down the page size so everyone can see the threads, but you'll have to click through the More links at the bottom of the page to read all the comments, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344196&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344196&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38344196&p=4

etc...