skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm growing somewhat tired of the endless shade thrown at Elon across the internet. People believe Elon when he promises something absurd because he's done it before.

Twenty years ago there were no electric cars. Fifteen years ago the idea of a mass-market electric vehicle was considered a joke. Ten years ago people talked about the chicken-and-egg problem of cars and chargers and how you can't have one without the other, and no one was building chargers. Today, Tesla has some of the best selling vehicles worldwide, as an EV only company; other companies are adopting their standard on charging; the idea of them building a charger network, originally seen as completely ridiculous, has ended up as the premier way to charge your vehicle and is being opened to other companies' cars. I'd be tempted to guess that they've had a larger impact on reducing emissions than any other single company on the planet.

Twenty years ago, private spaceflight was considered impossible; this was the domain of governments alone, and the various x-prizes and the like had done nothing to change this matter. Fifteen years ago, reusable rockets was considered impossible (NASA and their contractors can't even do it, how could anyone else?) Ten years ago, SpaceX cut the costs of delivering stuff to space by what, 10x? 20x? Now they're casually demolishing all players in the satellite-ISP space single-handedly, and are looking at reducing delivery costs another 5-10x; the EU's current rockets and space orgs are collapsing under the weight of their lack of competitiveness.

I don't have to agree with the man's recent decisions around Twitter or politics to credit his past accomplishments, many of which were promised years before they became reality, and it boggles me to see all the people that are incapable of doing so.
Firefox is the browser of choice for me on Android, because it is the only browser that allows using uBlock Origin on a smartphone.
No one sincerely believes they have, or will soon achieve, AGI. Neither can they believe that the CEO can push them to achieve it and forcefully release it, whereas they would responsibly develop it (whatever that may mean) without him around.
> fees for selecting seats, checking bags, and buying food, to name a few .. "unbundling"

I can appreciate this kind of unbundling where I can choose what I want or dont want. Unlike the rental market that has started to "unbundle" with mandatory fees. In my case the mandatory additional fees adds another 12% to the "price".

($250 application fee amortized over a year, $60 credit check amortized over a year, $110 technology package, $31 valet trash, $12 amenity fees, $5 online service fee)
> he is possibly the most desireable AI researcher on planet earth

was

There are lots of people doing excellent research on the market right now, especially with the epic brain drain being experienced by Google. And remember that OpenAI neither invented transformers nor switch transformers (which is what GPT4 is rumoured to be).
Not that I agree with the comment you replied to, but Ilya is absolutely essential to the future of OpenAI. That's why they'd want him to stay.
What's the "game-theoretic equilibrium" that's preventing repairable phones if consumers demand it? We have repairable versions of laptops and phones but they haven't really caught on outside of niche circles. Maybe people don't actually care about repairability?
> an outcome that would end in them being fiduciarily obliged to resign

They are the board of a nonprofit. They do not have a fiduciary duty to shareholders or employees. They may choose to resign due to political or social pressure, but they haven't done anything that breaches legal obligations as officers of the corporation or its controlling board.
> What that translates to is strong prompt censorship and automated tools to ban those who keep asking things we don't want you to ask.

...which several subreddits dedicated to LLM porn or trolling could tell you is both mostly pointless and also blocks a ton of stuff you could find on any high school nerd's bookshelf as "unsafe".
It's crazy that the new one costs as much as it does and doesn't offer this already
Im far from a Musk fan but Xitter is still online

Big difference between how do we develop GPT-5 and can we keep our current model online
This seems like a huge stretch of "dark pattern".

Ultra low-cost airlines are pretty aggressive in upselling seat / baggage / food / fare class upgrades during the checkout process. It is annoying to have no idea what a ticket will really end up costing when it pops up in Google Flights or whatever, but I don't think that's enough to call it a dark pattern since everything is clearly disclosed before you pay for anything. Airlines are very upfront about all the things you aren't getting with your ticket.
That work was all done around 2015 or so. MacOS has had the concept of a Metered Connection for many years now. The first party software all behaves as you would expect, and there are APIs that expose the information to third party software as well.
> Although it would be beautiful if they name it Clippy and finally make Clippy into the all-powerful AGI it was destined to be.

Finally the paperclip maximizer
I've been calling this since Friday all over this site and Twitter. It makes absolutely no sense why he's on this board given his direct competition between GPTs and the Revenue sharing versus Poe's creators monetization platform/build your own bot.

The Poe creators monetization is a clear conflict of interest.
I agree with you. The joke that "10% of the work takes 90% of the time" is true in so many domains.

I view the AI hype timeline a little differently. Things really took off with the "Attention is All You Need". Since there there have been a ton of concrete accomplishments in areas that were kind of stuck: image recognition, the game of Go, protein folding, etc. I'm still very bullish on what can be accomplished as current AI techniques are applied to more problems.
Dripping with malicious sarcasm. Are you saying this election doesn't at all represent the popular will? You refuse to defend Argentinian democracy?
Except the founders weren't included in the Skype deal. Microsoft has OpenAI's two founders and they're highly motivated to show that OpenAI is nothing without them which in time it may soon be. I openly await when Sam and Greg ship a product in say two years time.

Meanwhile Microsoft wins if OpenAI stays dominant and wins even bigger if Sam and Greg prevail. Some day soon they may teach this story at Harvard Business School.
is it the full ublock origin impl?
Since AGI isn't a thing, no one knows what it will look like or if it will even exist.

The biggest breakthroughs in science do not come from those with the most money. It's all ideas.
The irony. You can ask chatgpt4 if it was the right decision to fire the guy and it kinda confirms it.
Just had the horrible experience once again. Why is this still allowed?

I later found out that shipping my stuff was cheaper that checking in a bag..
I mean shares in the company I work for. I don't /want/ to be heavily invested in it, but I get grants in the form of RSUs periodically, and also we have an ESPP which is essentially free money in that I get to buy shares at a discount. I get a better tax deal if I keep them at least a year after I buy the shares/exercise the RSUs, (long-term capital gains vs short-term capital gains). I absolutely sell them as soon as they are considered long-term but in the meantime I'm a shareholder and I could vote those shares if I wanted to.

I'm not sure why I would care about what the board/management of some /other/ public company (that I don't work for) thinks about my vote. Almost certainly they won't think about it at all.
i can confirm (it even affects people on chrome with adblock detected). also on reddit it has the javascript causing this.
To all who say 'handled so poorly'. Nobody know the exact reason OpenAi fired Sam. But go ahead and jump to conclusions that whatever it was didn't warrant being fired. And that surely the board did the wrong thing. Or maybe they should have released the exact reason and then asked hacker news what they thought should happen.
n++, I've seen this behavior.

Adding 'NotChrome' to my UA worked around this, as the code seems to be looking for the string literal 'Chrome' anywhere in the UA to trigger this and other behavior.
*for using firefox instead of google's own browser.
Well its better to read this than reading all the other threads with thousands of comments
So much for “don’t be evil”
Yeah, no. For a small company its not really that complicated and it's also uniform. You can use a simple service for things like cookies and then manually comply in the backend.

Reading GDPR is less complicated than finding out precisely what unregulated in most states means.
It's by Zvi so it’s probably good work and worth reading if you want an overview.
> removing a motive that has the most direct connection to quantifiable results (profit) can actually make things worse

I totally agree. I don't think this is universally true of non-profits, but people are going to look for value in other ways if direct cash isn't an option.
Ahh I hadn't seen that detail reported. Thank you.
Have you tried Mermaid?

https://mermaid.js.org/
I worked with 2D artists for 5 years, and the actual attitude is much more mixed than it might appear from listening to the vocal folks. Eventually most will accept this as another tech-heavy field like 3D CGI, especially when these tools will start to give more usable results in the hands of skilled artists. (they mostly don't, yet)
84% of the OpenAI team resigning? Is this true?

https://x.com/lilianweng/status/1726634736943280270?s=46
Wi-Fi is kind of horrible, 4G/5G is better tbh.
You can like D'Angelo or not but he was the CTO of Facebook.
I think this is pretty common with US carriers. "Unlimited" doesn't actually mean unlimited, ever
Basically the current situation you have with AI compute now on the hyperscalers

Good luck trying to find H100 80s on the 3 big clouds.
You're right. It totally could happen. I'm just saying it doesn't sound like this is the path they could take. Though I've been wrong before. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Between them IBM and MS traded performance for forced standardisation"

Maybe I misunderstand, but for me it is a strange statement:

* IBM fought standardization: they initially released a PC compatible with nothing, even in their own product lines, and fought hard against any kind of clones - those that transformed the IBM-PC in a de-facto standard. They even tried with the PS/2 line to break compatibility for all third-party hardware extensions (the MCA bus that could be used only by paying royalties to IBM).

* Microsoft cared neither for performance (obviously) nor for standardization. They just fought to own the market. Their products became de-facto standards because MS worked hard to kill competition and real standards. They even theorized and practiced the "embrace extend extinguish" process to kill competing products by breaking standards.
The same could have been said for Adam Neumann, and yet...
Visual ChatGPT#.net
But the justification is the same, congruence modulo 2^n

Z_4

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1
0 1 -2 -1 0 1 -2 -1 0 1
Matt Levine's Money Stuff: Who Controls OpenAI
I'll just say, I've had my laptop connecting to my phone on tethering 24x7 for years now, since before the pandemic, on a relatively low cost unlimited data contract. I use cellular for both my home and office internet connections, as well as when travelling. My Macbook knows to connect to my Android phone automatically.

Latency isn't great, but everything else works pretty well. I've done a few remote jobs and contracts just fine since using this setup. All the usual daily video standups, meetings, Git, remote builds, etc. No other internet unless there's something convenient where I travel to. At home I terminated the ADSL I used previously, because its bandwidth was worse, usually, and I decided it wasn't worth the cost of the line. I miss the better latency though. At the office I tried to get ADSL (actually FTTC), but the providers were unable to offer above 17 Mbit/s despite being a town centre building, compared with 90 Mbit/s over cellular on a good day, so I stayed with cellular for the office too.

Tethering is so automatic and convenient nowadays that I relate to the folks who don't see a point paying for a second cellular contract just for convenience. I never have my Macbook without my phone nearby, and connection is automatic. There are occasions when a large antenna might work better, though, if the laptop is well designed.

Someone wrote an interesting point that phones get newer cellular standards more quickly than laptops in practice. This is surely true when using very expensive Macbooks! I can imagine having great cellular connectivity in a laptop when it's new, and five years later finding the same laptop communicates over tethering faster than natively. I've seen enormous variation in the bandwidth achieved by different devices already: ~90 Mbit/s on my last phone, vs ~18 Mbit/s on a dedicated 4G hotspot of the same era.
This is not directly related to your comment but the funny thing about the "trickle down" metaphor is that it actually makes a very strong case against Reaganomics. "Water", in the metaphor, is obviously money and as we all know water (for the most part) "trickles down" from places where there is less of it to places where there is more of it. The rich get richer. The poor stay poorer. Without regular and constant application of outside force in the form of regulation, taxation, redistribution of wealth, monopoly breakups, etc (in the metaphor, this is represented by the Sun) all wealth eventually pools in the few oceans and everywhere else is barren.
Do majority of humans need AGI?
It seems the future of humanity is being decided by a bunch of folks with GPU.

AGI will have a potential to disrupt ordinary daily lives of humanity and other animals. It may have lots of undesirable effects on other humans.

Most humans might not even like the GPU folks consider cool.

So the question is who gets to decide the comfortable future of our children and grandchildren?
> The AI safety people seem to generally be of the opinion that open source == less safe.

They (the moderate AI risk-of-slavery-or-extermination camp, that sees safety as a critical issue but the promise of AI benefit to humanity if well-aligned as significant enough that working for aligned AI is worthwhile instead of just adopting an AI-ban and bombing non-compliant datacenters) have always been of the opinion that open source is less safe than in the hands of a benevolent dictator with AI safety in mind, which is why their best case scenario was them being the benevolent dictatory gatekeeping AI.

OTOH, its quite possible that they would see having a single entity purely interest in private gain being likely to acquire a commanding lead as even a greater risk than having current SotA public (really, its hard for me to see any other possibility consistent with their public views other than seeing that threat as a reason to join the extremist Yudkowski camp in anti-AI crusade mode.)
Then you didn’t buy a basic economy seat or buy from a second tier airline like Spirit or Frontier.
Ask HN: How Is Yahoo Still Functioning and Relevant in Today's Tech Landscape?
Hello HN community, I've been reflecting on the evolution of major tech companies and noticed that Yahoo, despite its ups and downs, is still operational.

In an era dominated by Google, Facebook, MS and now OpenAI, how is Yahoo managing to stay afloat? What are their primary revenue streams and user engagement strategies in today's market?

I'm curious about any insights or insider perspectives on this.
The issue is several years old, but the comments that are new - and of interest - are those that assert the statement int he submitted title.

Without taking a position on the underlying issue (I'm broadly pro-matrix), I wonder: is it worth considering whether this is a scenario worth an addition carve-out of the "original title" rule?
Oh no, you're absolutely right. I can't delete my rubbish post, but I've added a disclaimer, thank you very much. Also, it seems that DDD can mean Domain-Driven Design, so that's a confusing namespace to navigate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
True that if all vehicles were autonomous and coordinated then traffic flows could be increased (though by how much is debatable). However, as with building more lanes, you run into the issue of induced demand, where as you speed things up more people want to do it so you are back to congestion.
> Children should not be poor, but how can you ensure accountability on the part of the parents?

What the TFA shows is that when you give parents money unconditionally they do overwhelmingly spend it on their children. Once that is understood, you must evaluate any system for measuring accountability against the cost of that very low rate of abuse.

If the means testing costs more than it saves and/or wrongly rejects too many people then whats the point of having it?
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. I think in this case MS is winning.
> The EPA says there's about 8.9kg of co2 per gallon of gas, which means driving such a distance would emit approximately 1434kg of carbon. On the other hand Google flights says the same trip by direct flight only emits around 400kg, depending on the airline.

There is no law concerning the emission of CO2 from old trucks. Look into the laws governing emissions and fuel economy on old trucks. What's good dirty for old trucks is good for shiny new aircraft.

> I'm not really sure why a ban is needed when mandated sequestration will have the same effect, and won't kill half the travel industry.

Say you're in the 1% without saying your in the 1% by claiming aviation is "half the travel industry."
Also I really doubt taking all that data and doing whatever with it would be legal. I'd be really surprised if MS's license with OpenAI allows for unfettered access and unlimited use.
Azure has ~60% profit margin. So it's more like MS gave $5.2B in Azure Credits in return for 75% of OpenAI profits upto $13B * 100 = $1.3 trillion.

Which is a phenomenal deal for MSFT.

Time will tell whether they ever reach more than $1.3 in profits.
It is a very old LTE modem. It looks like it's 10 year old tech. People often forget how much LTE progressed in a decade.
As long as compute keeps increasing, model size and performance can keep increasing.

So no, we’re nowhere near max capability.
But if cost is similar per sim card; then it cost increases ~ 46x
https://archive.is/SLMXp
> Probably safe to say Henry Ford had considerable power in Ford Motor Co compared most executives today?

That is not actually true, necessarily. Your power is typically very term dependent. A CEO who is also president of the board, and a majority shareholder, has far more power than a CEO who just stepped in temporarily and has only the powers provided by the by-laws.

Regardless, the solution to "I want to do something ethical that is not strictly in the company's best interest" is to make the case that it is the company's best interest. For example, "By investing in our employees we are actually prioritizing shareholder value". If you position it as "this is a move that hurts shareholders", of course that's illegal - companies have an obligation to every shareholder.

That also means that if you give your employees stock, they now have investor rights too. You can structure your company this way from the start, it's trivial and actually the norm in tech - stock is handed out to many employees.
D'Angelo's presence on the OpenAI board definitely feels like having a combination buggy whip magnate and competing motor company CEO on the board of Ford Motor Company in 1904.
> Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT.

If Microsoft does this, the non-profit OpenAI may find the action closest to their original charter ("safe AGI") is a full release of all weights, research, and training data.
OpenAI is 6/30 news stories, or 20%. For a fast moving story about the future of the company behind of one of the biggest tech innovations in my lifetime it doesn’t seem outrageous.

You still have 80% non-OpenAI news to browse.
It sounds like he’s just trying to save face bro. The truth will come out eventually. But he definitely wasn’t against it and I’m sure the no-names on the board wouldn’t have moved if they didn’t get certain reassurances from Ilya.
Back in those days, GIMP was just barely usable for painting, and Krita was mainly good for crashing. Both have come a long way since then. GIMP is still mainly an "image manipulation" program. It got better at painting, too, but you probably want to give Krita a try for that.
At this point it seems pointless to even bother to try given that AI will generate all possible artwork within a couple years.

I mean. Say you get "good" at using this. What's the life expectancy at any kind of creative outlet you could have that would support you? I mean if we're talking this is fun as a toy, yeah ok. I could see that. But as a job? When everyone can paint no one is paid for it.

I suppose that we could all go back to paying people who can physically lift things or wait on tables, but that's about it.

I want to use this, but then I just think "Holy shit, what if I get good at this and then get my hopes up like I did with React? What am I going to do, sell artwork that anyone can make for next to nothing on the internet?" I believe I could probably come up with some cool paintings, but the question is "why"? Everyone else on the internet will generate all the possible content it's possible for me to come up with anyway, so why does it matter?

And if that makes me care about "money" then yeah, I care about money. So what?

All of that being said I'm now going to draw a latex glad ninja being molested by a demon. Also I'm broke and living in a homeless shelter. But I can get a supercomputer to make me draw sexy girls so I have that going for me.
Snowballing also happens a lot in SC2, and also even in Chess. That's simply the normal way to win, even if on the other side it feels bad when you get steamrolled by overwhelming forces.

Comebacks in high-level SC2 games don't usually happen as you say. More often, the losing party relies on their opponent overlooking some peculiar tactic like using DTs (for those who are not familiar with SC: invisible units that can only be detected with specific means). Otherwise a bad engagement very often means defeat in short/mid/long term.

Finally, ZK does have very long range static weapons that can hardly be countered (unless you destroy them). If the opponent "camps" in their base, you just start to build one that will either vaporize their army or buildings, or slowly wear them down. But really, camping is usually newbie-level strategy.
Yes, it was a related observation, not a refutation.
At the bottom of the page on riverqueue.com it appears there's a screenshot of a UI. But I can't seem to find any docs about it. Am I missing something or is it just not available yet?
Not sure how that was your takeaway from my comment. I was challenging the parent comment’s assertion that CEOs continuing to work after gaining riches implies that poor people would still seek out employment if they were given basic income.
Kind of feels like "bureaucracy actually working as intended."

I think it at least remains to be seen as to whether "rampant copyright infringement" is necessarily a good thing here.
I think it's a play on "four score and seven years ago". "Four GPTs and seven years, eleven months, and nine days ago" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
I might be wrong, but my recollection is that the practice of changing the price based on user location has been challenged in court some time ago. It's appalling that companies do that. I will definitely follow your advice for flight booking though.