skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I read this whole situation as putting pressure on OpenAI to come to their senses and quick.

That we are in violent agreement on, the board should negotiate to be allowed to flee indemnified for the fall-out of their action. But if they do not OpenAI is done for, Anthropic has already indicated they are not going to be there to pick up the pieces, and Google and Meta will try to poach as many employees as they can by being 'not Microsoft' (which has a fair chance of working).

So there is damage, but it isn't over yet and for the moment Microsoft looks as though they hold the most and the most valuable cards already. After all they already have 49%. Another 2% as a suing-for-peace pacifier and they're as good as kings.
Seems like the prettiest girl at the dance.
OpenAI directors in talks with Sam Altman on rejoining board
Why BCH and not NANO? You like to wait and pay fees?
> It's not the issues with tech but the whims of the uber rich that prevent adoption of most innovations.

Please provide a list of 25 innovations who's adoption was prevented by the uber-rich.

In addition to that, also provide a list of the uber-rich who participated in each instance of preventing each of the listed innovations from being adopted.
It is very unlikely that the development team will be able to build features that actually cause the model to act in the best interests of humanity on every inference.

What is far more likely is that the development team will build a model that often mistakes legitimate use for nefarious intent while at the same time failing to prevent a tenacious nefarious user from getting the model to do what they want.
Require is fine but I totally hate the CJS exports. Feels like writing '90s era Perl code. On the other hand ESM dynamic imports like

import('this').then(r => that())

rather suck.
Ah ok, that makes more sense.

I think Microsoft could easily spin this as just protecting their interests.
That is out of our scope as a business but it is something we have found we have to address head on with our customers and airport partners. They want to understand the whole logistics and associated safety from green H2 production to aircraft tank. We don't have it all figured out yet but we are working with some great partners on the problem. We have created a Hydrogen Flight Alliance here in Brisbane https://newsroom.bne.com.au/hydrogen-flight-alliance-launche... that includes, BOC (a Linde Company) and H2EC who are tackling the logistics and re-fueling of liquid hydrogen. Note that we are using liquid H2, which is more expensive than gas, but comes with a variety of benefits, one of which is that it is stored at low pressure. We could opt to store it just over ambient pressure but we will most likely go with storing it < 10 bar - much less than the 350 - 900 bar, that gaseous H2 is typically stored at.
You might be being insensitive to Australian culture where its just a normal word for them.

Might be trying to force your cultural norms onto foreign countries.
I don't know - it sounds like your default assumption is that there is no issue because businesses can commit copyright infringement/fraud and not be caught, I am not a lawyer so I can't comment on the merits of the approach.

Generally I think it is difficult for businesses to break the law given that any one of the members might defect on you.

Also I suspect that the logprobs for various sequences would reveal which foundation model you used.
How has he proven to be so exceptional? That he's talking about it? Yeah, whatever. There's nothing so exceptional that he done besides he's just bragging. It may be enough for some people but for a lot of people, it's really not enough.
I guess with Nazis, there is a chance that a revolt eventually happens and ends their reign. It’s less clear how humans come back from being paperclipped, so maybe that’s his rationale. But it’s a foolish question because of the antisemitism that looms in any discussion of nazis.

I prefer this variant of the question:

Would you rather all of humanity suffer in eternal Hell, or cease to exist?

That’s a pretty clear one for me.
My guess would be that it's from Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God), which leans on the story of Sisyphus. She never actually uses the word "war", but does use various war metaphors ("see how deep the bullet lies", etc.).
This is nice but they really need to fix their new UI, it's a mess. The sprite editor is lovely but the multi-window layout is needlessly confusing, it's extremely cumbersome to edit code in drag-and-drop compared to the old studio 1 UI, and it's extremely unstable, with regular "game maker has become unstable, please save your work and restart" messages.

I'd sooner pay 50 euros for Game Maker with a stable, simpler UI than 0 for the current one.
How many children miss out on face to face interaction or conversation when at reataurants, in the home, or in the car while using their screen?
Lots of things,

- playlist decayed and dropped songs, YouTube is even worse about this

- Play Music had a new releases browser highlighting new album releases by genre, you could "walk" into them in AA, then they bled that off

- as it stands "Play" doesnt have music anymore, and so the only discovery is YouTube's recommendations

- YouTube's recommendations are somehow difficult to control, overly gamed, repetitive, coarse, and generic -- some of which are contradictory. Google wasn't even able to protect Gboard from exploits like this with their unsated thirst for big data automation dominance

- they haven't begun to cooperate with other vendors to operate with assistant, instead picking winners, again

- for a span battery was concerning, it's not right now

- for a span Google's failed record of protecting user privacy, even now Google+ echo's when the Photos flow Share workflow walks me into privacy violating features

- i have qualms about providing an ad personalization business real-time granular data about my mood (though it's unlikely since my tastes are too obscure, anyway)

- i have qualms about subjecting myself to the opinions of a business with large enough reach to be an effective political entity and lever of corporate activism against my neighbors in society (particularly for an inferior product)

Hope this helps.

Edit: also the playback history was pretty bad IIRC, I assume it lumps audio playback with shorts, and shorts can't be organized into playlist despite their efforts. I need music to be a commodity, not a gift/promise.
Ah, nice! Applies regardless of what the underlying asset is ~ some good ole’ tax engineering.
Most neuroscientists would expect TBI to be linked to regional micoglial activation. And perhaps activated GFAP-positive astrocytes. Psychosocial stress will have different effects mediated in part by the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system.

There may be some postmortem RNAseq studies of humans, even small pediatric cohort, but I did not find them in PubMed. I did find this treatment approach for TBI (yes, in mice)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33540074/
These people were scammed by humans, not by bitcoin.
Did you use a business email?
So did Ridge Racer.

After loading, the entire game (from opening screen to ending scene) fit completely into the PSX's tiny RAM.

And the in-game background music was just regular CD audio tracks on the game disk, which was easy since the drive wasn't used for anything else anyway.

Open the drive, swap disks for your choice of audio CD, and it was happy to play those tracks instead.

(Or, alternatively: Put the Ridge Racer game disk into a regular CD player and enjoy the synthwave soundtrack all on its own.)
I've had Claude hallucinate notes for a textbook chapter; it claimed that Teddy Roosevelt did not do much trust-busting, arguing that Coolidge was the primary trust-buster of the era...
The single greatest problem we have in government today is the fact that over the years we have added more and more exclusions, exemptions, and privileges for "law enforcement"

Rules for thee but not for me is the height of government tyranny, and today that is at all levels of governance from something as simple as parking enforcement all the up to lethal force

No government agent should be exempt from the law, no government agent should have special rights.
There is no lithium bottleneck, we merely haven't even bothered to catalog all the lithium that is easily accessible.
It used to be good/great in the past but nowadays I avoid Quora like the plague, due to its massively confusing interface.
I was curious about how Julia does 2D matrices and arrays, given they target mathemeticians. They seem to have no shortage of methods of creating them.

julia> [1,2,3] # An array of `Int`s
3-element Vector{Int64}:
1
2
3

julia> [1:2, 4:5] # Has a comma, so no concatenation occurs.
2-element Vector{UnitRange{Int64}}:
1:2
4:5

julia> [1:2 4:5 7:8]
2×3 Matrix{Int64}:
1 4 7
2 5 8

julia> [[1,2] [4,5] [7,8]]
2×3 Matrix{Int64}:
1 4 7
2 5 8

julia> [1 2
3 4]
2×2 Matrix{Int64}:
1 2
3 4

julia> a=[1 2 5 8 9; 3 4 2 1 33]
2×5 Array{Int64,2}:
1 2 5 8 9
3 4 2 1 33

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/arrays/
Why is this? Is it because the boat mass doesn't scale linearly with surface area?
I assume if MSFT/Satya are supportive it won't be an issue.
Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence
1. It's a network effect. If you're raised around doctors, go to school with prospective doctors, and your school gets many university recruits from a good doctor college, you will strive to be a doctor more likely than not. SV had a bunch of tech companies and falls into the same kind of environment.

2. It's probably a matter of Venture capitalists. Even if you aren't from SV, you may strive to go there to get funding for a pitch or find talent. Similar to your prospective actor that moves to Hollywood. Go where the crowds are.

Now, we can ponder why SV became a tech hub, but current market forces makes it ripe for tech startups.
If you are building a blog or something content Astro is a great choice!

The portfolio looks great, congrats! I hope she will find a job soon, and good for you for building & promoting it ;D
Reading about this game in the late 90s when the N64 was out, it had this insane allure and lore to it that other Nintendo games lacked outside of Zelda and maybe Pokemon. This game got me into emulation and retro gaming at a very young age and I'll always think back on it fondly.

I've heard good things about the remake and still find this to be one of the most accessible games in the RPG genre that I've ever played.
You are teaching Python to your 3yo son??
I mean, maybe he is a genius but I do really wonder what a 3yo can possibly understand about programming (and you even make him type!)
that's what I thought but I don't use pihole so thought it might be effective somehow.
Of course it's absurd: it was all a game of playing pretend. That's the fantasy part.

It hadn't been open AI for a long time.

The entity that you're referring to no longer exists at present. They can revive it by splitting these inherently at-conflict entities apart.

With tens of billions in funding via stock liquidation they can go back to pursuing actual open AI and have a lot of money to throw at doing so, without concerns for conflict with a for-profit mission in relation to a funding source.

Today the mission of being open with their AI tech is at conflict with the funding base: GPT commercialization. At least with how they have been operating for years now. There's no fixing that in the current structure.
"This also isn’t the first time Altman has been asked to depart a company...."
It wouldn’t be the first time Altman orchestrated something sketchy like that: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

That, plus accounts of him being deceptive/manipulative like this (e.g. https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427761849141...), plus being fired precisely for deception makes it pretty consistent.
How about Puget Sound (Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia...), where there are ferries all over. Several routes have "foot ferries" (no cars) offering rides with added speed to get the commuters to home or work across several miles of semi-open waters. Only rarely are waves a serious factor, and I don't know if that's even serious enough to affect this watercraft.
Just one example of where this could really be useful and profitable. I can think of others.. Chesapeake Bay, Lake Champlain, Great Lakes...
I wonder if Microsoft owning 49% of OpenAI vastly simplifies such a situation. Or maybe further complexifies it. It's fascinating to watch, anyway.
Archived link: https://archive.ph/ufTjg
Wild speculation aside, it probably wouldn’t be a good thing for this lawsuit to be successful.

Broadly speaking, allowing a nonprofit to own and control a for profit is already a big loophole in the tax system. If the nonprofit then becomes technically beholden to the shareholders of the for profit, then what exactly is the point of the nonprofit?
No kidding, their investment will go to zero as soon as he officially joins Microsoft or starts his own firm.

All they will have left is lawsuits.
Is 700k for a CEO really that inflated? You can probably find a few people here in HN as an IC making even more money at some top tech company.
I doubt that. What's your source?
Does anybody know who is currently CEO of OpenAI? Friday, Sam. Saturday, Mira. Sunday was a day off, Monday it was Emmet so who is it for today?

Kidding aside, the board is under more and more pressure but - surprisingly - they haven't folded yet. I am interpreting that as that they are trying to get something out of it that nobody is willing to give them. The new CEO is also surprisingly not to be found at all, no public statements, nothing to reassure employees that the ship is in good hands. Not the best showing for a captain of a ship in crisis.
It is indeed, but the refrigeration needed would seem cumbersome for most applications.
> Google is it also controls the marketplace.

And? Retailers cut deals and do kickbacks with certain merchants all of the time for different reasons.
There are hundreds of coins some copied from bitcoin and slightly changed like litecoin.

The press has tricked you into believing every coin aside from a few popular ones are scams. Dig deeper.
I got back a comic, and another time a T-Shirt (with the MMIX instruction set).
Because Apple’s monopoly position in mobile means the company doesn’t have to keep you happy to keep you as a customer. What about android you say? Apple has been able to achieve customer lock-in which gives them a de facto monopoly because the barrier to quitting is too high.

Complain to the FTC and your state’s attorney general. Apple needs a slap or else they’ll keep using anticompetitive practices to keep customers even when they don’t have the best product or the best price.
I guess this begs the question, why run war-related ads?

If you’re not making profit, then all you’re doing is fueling the fire and throwing some coins at the maimed for zero purpose.
There's a special talent visa that's general but it has much higher requirement than skilled worker visa.
And difficult ones at that, but they have plenty of money so I'm sure they'll be able to set a couple of lawyers up for life.
Now I wonder, is https://scotcoinproject.com/ a joke or not?
No he’s saying we can steal the employees and rebuild it. He just wants people to think there would be no downtime but there will be regardless what happens. It’s stock price protection.
I asked GPT 4 and it had some counter points:

Reasoning blends learned skills and natural cognition.
It integrates new information, not just past memories.
Reasoning is adaptable, not rigidly algorithmic.
Emotions and context also shape reasoning.

which seemed to make sense.
What was the big “unlock” that allowed so much progress this past year?

I ask as a noob in this area.
FBI: See the problem we face is finding a needle in a haystack.

Morons in congress: Oh, we're really sorry to hear that, what should we do?

FBI: Give us more hay for the stack.
"I'm ready to reenter the arena, but am looking to do so under the guidance of a coach"

That's the thing with entrepreneurship. You have to start first. Only then you can get a coach/mentor may be. There is no perfect day or time. You can't depend on someone else to tell you that it is time. You are the one to tell you it is time. There is no "playing safe" in this arena. This is all about taking risks because you want it that bad.

There are plenty of "life coaches" who will take your money and tell you what you want to hear. But trust me. No stranger can truly help you become an entrepreneur. That is an itch you have to scratch yourself. Real mentors or people who actually can help won't wanna do anything unless they see some actions from you first. You start and then go seek help.
Yep. I know a problem is interesting if I reach for the pencil and paper. It's been on my desk today, which is good.

My PhD supervisor got me into writing with pencil and paper. I wrote near enough my entire thesis that way. It was only transcribed to computer for typesetting after it had been proofread at least once.
Why not store it in trees?
this is an international forum, please check yourself before lecturing others for having different cultural norms
MSFT, presumably, is one of the investors that want him to stay at openai.
By that same notion, we could eliminate the $50B funds to energy and the environment, no big deal. $50B is a lot and it doesn't help to trivialize it because it sounds good. Thats double what was spent on Medicare. More than double what was spent on education and social services, Dept. of Education, NASA, etc. Over 10x what was spent on the Dept. of Transportation.

The point is, it's a lot of money and that money has to come from somewhere. Most economists would say it makes the most sense to get that money from the people who most use the roads. That sounds like a mileage tax, tolls, or some other mechanism. I don't see why EVs would get a (literal) free ride here.
I am not sure the enforceability of non-competes in California. They're certainly not for ordinary workers but I know that it is often enforceable in other places for executives even when deemed not for workers.
Indeed, anything and everything that can conceivably be used for malicious purposes should be severely restricted so as to make those particular usecases near impossible, even if the intended use is thereby severely hindered, because people can't be trusted to behave at all. This is formally proven by the media, who are constantly spotlighting a handful of deranged individuals out of eight billion. Therefore, every one of us deserves to be treated like an absolute psychopath. It'd be best if we just stuck everybody in a padded cell forever, that way no one would ever be harmed and we'd all be happy and safe.
> What Bloomberg Intelligence Says

"A potential return of Sam Altman as OpenAI’s CEO will likely strengthen Microsoft’s strategic positioning, especially if it’s able to procure a seat on the new board. This could also be the preferred outcome for Microsoft, given a high legal risk if it hires a majority of OpenAI employees. We see little to no likelihood that Microsoft will buy OpenAI amid ongoing regulatory hurdles."

— Anurag Rana and Andrew Girard, analysts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-21/altman-op...
I use RSS. I want to like RSS, but most sites want the eyes/clicks, so RSS isn't nearly as useful and pleasant as it used to me.

So the only feeds that go in my RSS reader are those that let me read at least half the article to decide if I want to continue. Others I like to visit often end up in a feeds bookmark folder.

Scant few, like itsfoss.com let you read the entire article/post anymore.

I don't see ads anyway. It'd be nice if they just added a short "please consider supporting..." or something to the feed. What really torques me is when I have a subscription but the feed still only gives me the first paragraph.
It took ~2 years for my 10 year old daughter to get bored and give up the shitty user made roblox games and start playing on switch, steam or ps4.
All they need is another 2% and at a measly two billion that would be an easy settlement. The board members get to save face and Satya is off to the races, employees happy, investors happy.

It could easily happen.
Of course. The value of their investment goes to zero if all the employees walk away.
<sarcasm>I guess people trust Blackrock and CZ on setting BTC prices more than they trust the greenback</sarcasm>

Also, CZ (pleads guilty to money laundering charges): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38366729
Maybe EU is underpaid instead of Bay area overpaid?

But it's hard to compare EU and US salaries directly. You got taxed way more and your health care isn't bound to your job.
Emmett Shear to quit if OpenAI board don't give proof of Sam Altman wrongdoing
Hi Jason, I don't think my conversation was antagonistic, I was just probing. I expected to hear Claude or Claude v2 or 2.1 etc. I then thought it was strange that it couldn't answer any of what seemed to be specific questions.

Here is a Vanilla GPT with "You are a helpful assistant" instructions answering the questions easily: https://chat.openai.com/share/b6a60a9d-4b38-4b06-953f-bce4f8...

Now I know, comparing to GPT-4 is a little unfair. I like Claude and I want it to do great, but the first step is accepting that it (for now) lags behind in terms of capabilities.

The question is: how do we get it to the point where it is able to answer randomly, arbitrary questions like "Tell me something that happened in 1990." etc.
Open source Notion altern. AppFlowy gets big-name backers and lands on the cloud
Ask HN: Best Board Games of 2023?
A wonderful thread from last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990944), looking for new recommendations!
Satoshi Nakamoto probably
That’s pretty unlikely to happen at the moment though. I’m far from a Tether fanboy, but in this interest rate environment they are likely making boatloads of money just by sitting on a nice chunk of T-bills.
How do you find HN via RSS less distracting than the site itself?
Interesting. The second web site cites a number of advantages of the sodium-ion battery:

> Sodium is 10 times faster to charge than lithium, and safer because of its low operating temperature. The number of recharging cycles is up to 5 times greater than lithium. Another advantage is that sodium is more widely available and accessible on the planet, and its processing has less impact on the environment.
You mean, the Pentagon ;)
If California Fuel tax is $1.24 per gallon in total (20%), which is about $0.15 per mile revenue. Tesla semi is supposably about 2kwh/mile. PG&E commercial vehicle electric rates for off peak are about $0.20 per Kwh, which translates to $0.40/mile.

If California wanted to collect similar revenue, that 0.15 would be about 35% of the operational fuel cost.
> given a high legal risk if it hires a majority of OpenAI employees

What legal risk would that be? All they have to do is to claim that they are protecting their interests, besides it is not as if Microsoft has ever been afraid of a legal challenge.
It's just so slow
What's that got to do with it driving people away from speculative assets?
> Imagine being a competitor and then finding out the company that is crushing you had a secret deal to pay nothing while you struggled every month to pay royalties and were told over and over by the parent company that “it was the best they could do.”

Imagine you’re an also ran streaming service and found out that AWS gave a special deal to Netflix and they had reduced rates

Or imagine you’re selling “Joe Bobs Cola” and that Coke had a special deal with Walmart.

This is not new. You really think big vendors are getting the same deals as everyone else?