skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When something newsworthy happens, like many civilian deaths around a food truck, people reading the news want two things: they want the truth, and they want it now. I agree with you that good journalism seeks the truth first of all - but that takes time and if everyone else is talking about that truck today, your news outlet has to feature that story too somehow. Maybe we'll have a proper investigative report on that truck in a week, or a month.

I remember that earlier in the war, when some kind of rocket struck a hospital in Gaza, Israel and Hamas also blamed each other - then President Biden said as far as his intelligence goes, it was Hamas and I think that's the consensus now? We might never know for sure, but in the immediate aftermath of the hit the options for a media outlet were basically "we don't know" or "it was definitely the side we don't like". The truthful answer until someone's done the investigation is the former, but that gets you the kind of article on CNN that you're pointing out.
yes, common and why not? i dont think most people here know what non profits are or actually do
But Musk claims X is the free speech town square but it isn't
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> For support, the Progressive Web Apps will still need to be built on WebKit, with all that entails.

I wonder if there was some sort of back channeling with the EU to determine that “actually this is fine, we don’t care about rendering engine competition for PWAs, WebKit-only is better than removing them.”

The law ultimately only requires changes to features the EU cares about.
Primordial USB on Atari 8-Bits – By Paul Lefebvre
I had the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38332460

Apparently a non-profit can own all the shares of a for-profit
OpenAI has received $60 million in donations throughout its existence. $40 million came straight from Musk and the other $20 million came from Open Philanthropy. Musk has said that he donated $50 million, so he may have given $10 million to Open Philanthropy to fund their donation.
"I think for a governance structure, we should start with 5
people and I'd propose you, [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and me. Technology would be owned by the foundation and used "for the good of the world", and in cases where it's not obvious how that should be applied the 5 of us would decide."

You can find the number of letters of the redacted text and then guess who they are. It's fun!
Agreed. The cables don't have to be _that_ much longer.

Although I do think they are going to need a little bit of a redesign of the v4 cabinet. I'm hearing that the holster design isn't working all that well in real world use.
The USSR did the same thing, but worse. There was one (or at most 3) vendors for not just government stuff, for for everything. Even cars, and household goods. For market efficiency of course.

And the vendor got picked by some government official somewhere, so it was almost always their friends. No worries about having to pick the low bid!

That’s why the waitlist was decades for almost anything anyone actually wanted.
the statements made by the board were likely sufficient to trigger invesigation and the current iteration of the government (2010+) wants to have dirt on anything this big
> Chronic litterbugs don't care, they're often low enough on the hierarchy of needs that this kind of morality isn't on their radar at all.

Don’t forget the deliberate litterbugs. There are plenty of people out there with a “for every bottle you pick up, I’ll litter three” attitude. Belligerence against anything seen as a public good is on the rise. I know someone who believes having a clean, trash-free neighborhood is a “liberal” thing. Blows my mind.
Now we know who was behind all the past OpenAI drama. Mask Off (pun unindented)
Hype has a way of drowning out technical information from easy searchability without knowing some of the right terminology that, often, is what you would be trying to figure out if you were searching.
I have no specific sympathy for Altman one way or the other, but:

Why is Worldcoin a grift?

And I believe his argument for it not being open is safety.
Would be insane if the court case ended up hinging on whether AGI had been achieved internally or not
Sometimes "someone else should do it" can be translated to "someone that is being paid to do it should do it." I don't want to affect someone's livelihood, however it's a different story if they're ignoring the task.
https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/32247/W...
I'm not limited to one battle at a time :)
It's sort of like how if you do not have a job and stop looking suddenly according to the data you're employed again.
It takes quite a bit of frivolous filing to get hit with any sanctions or fines.

A single frivolous lawsuit happens here and there, it's when people/organizations are clearly malicious and abusing the system by filing continuous suits against others.
I think OpenAI has been using the excuse that GPT-4 is not AGI, and therefore can remain closed-source.
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No. He couldn't back out as he had already agreed to the 44B. The breakup fee was for if the deal fell through for other reasons, such as Twitter backing out or the government blocking it. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/technology/twitter-musk-l...
It’s much better because I can say to some random, say, nurse that I have autism and they a general idea. Of things that are likely to be challenging for me.
Funny thing is that the other company was a serious contributor to the android ecosystem was Huawei.
I can even dare say that they were even more serious than Samsung.
Google's lack of support for non smartphone OS will give Huawei an opening.
Kind of getting tired of litigious billionaires.
In short, NYT is being accused of propagandizing accusations of sexual violence. This is very serious and not OK for a serious newspaper to do. On BlueSky I saw this described it as such:

> Trying to explain the NYT story to a friend and getting tears in my eyes- such a vicious horrific thing to do to weaponize people’s real trauma to carry out a genocide AND ensure that more actual sexual assault victims aren’t listened to in the future.

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I'm a little disappointed that fighting games didn't get a number.
Not sure about English law but in Roman law (and derived systems as in South Africa) the emphasis is on specific performance as a first resort — the court will seek to implement the intention of the parties embodied in the contract as far as possible.

Cancellation is a last resort.
I don't know how comparable it would be, but I imagine if I donated $44 million to a university under the agreement that they would use the money in a particular way (e.g. to build a specific building or to fund a specific program) and then the university used the money in some other way, I feel I ought to have some standing to sue them.

Of course, this all depends on the investment details specified in a contract and the relevant law, both of which I am not familiar with.
and part of the reason we hear this all the time is because non-profits are required to report exec compensation but private cos are not required to report the absolutely ridiculous amounts their owner-CEOs are making
To pivot or not to pivot, that is the question
Who needs another financial website?! I built this site without thinking through the idea. The time invested in creating it is the biggest obstacle for moving on. Any thoughts?
The more vigilante side of things, gotta be careful too.

I have no problem telling / hoping someone would pickup the trash they saw and helped out even if a little. But not so much retrieving stolen bikes, those folks, their call.
It won‘t, that‘s pretty much a throwaway half-sentence, but it stood out to me.

You throw a lot of things at the judge and see what sticks.
So glad they reversed that, it would have killed my side-project which I based around webapp push notifications just after they released PWA pushnotifications with iOS 16.4 not even 12 months ago. That backtrack would have been a punch in the face of all devs that jumped on that feature.
You are wrong, I’m afraid. The breakup fee is reimbursement for outside factors tanking the deal. A binding agreement to buy means that if you arrange financing and the government doesn’t veto it, you’re legally obligated to close.
Genuinely curious why I'm getting downvoted - similar comments don't appear to have met the same fate, and I'm by no means defending Altman or OpenAI.

If it's because I mentioned that Altman is gay - and I can't find another reason - I think that's relevant in context of Musk's recent hard shift rightward and his consistently aggressive, unprovoked behavior toward LGBTQ people. For some reason the topic looms large in his mind.
Zuckerberg probably follows every #killedbygoogle social media account out there
In the movie The Matrix, should those people trapped in the cultivation tanks be considered as having seven days of rest a week?
> Do new building codes account for this?

Yes. Survivability to fire is explicitly listed as a requirement, and different classes of buildings have strict requirements on survivability (i.e., how long a structure must remain safe while subjected to a fire).

> I would expect a house built today to be much safer (...)

It is, but there are nuances. For example, modern houses have additional requirements on energy efficiency, which mean thermal insulation. Elements used in thermal insulation applications are regulated, but it turned out that some assumptions regarding flammability ended up not being met under some circumstances. Consequently, we've started to see a few incidents such as the Grendell tower fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

Another event was the much recent fire in a Spanish residential complex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Valencia_residential_comp...
And many cannot save enough money for retirement on 40 hour a week either.
There's a loose mount on a swing at a nearby playground that's been driving me crazy, because it goes klak-klak as the swing swings, but I can't reach it from where I stand.

The swing did undergo some maintenance in the meantime, but somehow that one part is still loose.
I’m in a team. It’s just that what was a team of 4 including our senior tech lead.

Over the past 4 years the other 3 on my team all left.

The only position backfilled was the most junior one, doing 99% html/css/photoshop work.

We have no senior tech lead.
Pump the numbers and hire new scrubs in the next quarter for less than what the previous person was making. Do it industry wide and you reset baseline pay which drives profit up further.
delusions of grandeur strongly remind me of Paul LeRoux https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind/

... also Kim Dotcom who I met personally before going on a run to Asia. He too had cardboard cutouts of himself as a cartoon character all over his Munich office of DataProtect. Funny that Kim Schmitz managed to settle in NZ and not Russia. He is an outlier, probably lacked the RU connection back then.
Why would you assume that it’s malicious and not just the result of getting further clarification from lawyers on both ends?

The DMA isn’t an exact set of steps to follow. A lot is left to interpretation
> Should the French have tried reforming the feudal society?

Well, the English AFAIK have done exactly that, haven't they?
How would you randomize 4 day work weeks in an unbiased way?
animal pictured is a harvestman I don’t know who calls these daddy longlegs but if you google pictures of daddy long legs, you don’t see no harvestman.
AGI as defined narrowly by OpenAI, Microsoft et al for their contracts, not what scientists would define it as .

While I don’t think we are close to AGI, we also have to acknowledge that term is forever changing meaning and goal posts , even 10 years back a Turing test would be considered sufficient, obviously not anymore .

The scientific, public understanding is changing constantly and a court would have difficulty in making a decision if there is no consensus , it only has to see if the contractual definition has been met
They will probably try to unearth that in the discovery phase
Have a set of outside porch furniture as well - that my wife had at her parent's house even before she was born - so the set is at least 58 years old, and besides having weathered a bit in color - are as good as new.
I don't even particularly like Musk, but I definitely despise M$ and their comic-book tier villanous shenanigans even more. Here's to hoping M$ gets fucked in this.
Everything around it seems so shady.

The strangest thing to me is that the shadiness seems completely unnecessary, and really requires a very critical eye for anything associated with OpenAI. Google seems like the good guy in AI lol.0
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I'm pretty ignorant of this issue.

But if the trade came up as a matter of an investigator researching a company, and communicating with people about the details. Even if they disclosed the exact time they planned on publishing this information, is it insider trading?

Wouldn't you have to been privy to information from inside the company itself? Otherwise anybody could have investigated this person, and had equal opportunity to discover negative things to expose?
Probably not common, since that aspect is part of the complaint. See "E. OpenAI’s Shifting Corporate Structure":

> 70. In the years following the announcement of the OpenAI, L.P., OpenAI’s corporate structure became increasingly complex.
That's also a neat result! I'd just like to highlight that the conservation laws proved in that paper are functions of the parameters that hold over the course of gradient descent, whereas my post is talking about functions of the activations that are conserved from one layer to the next within an optimized network.

By the way, maybe I'm being too much of a math snob, but I'd argue Kunin's result is only superficially similar to Noether's theorem. (In the paper they call it a "striking similarity"!) Geometrically, what they're saying is that, if a loss function is invariant under a non-zero vector field, then the trajectory of gradient descent will be tangent to the codimension-1 distribution of vectors perpendicular to the vector field. If that distribution is integrable (in the sense of the Frobenius theorem), then any of its integrals is conserved under gradient descent. That's a very different geometric picture from Noether's theorem. For example, Noether's theorem gives a direct mapping from invariances to conserved quantities, whereas they need a special integrability condition to hold. But yes, it is a nice result, certainly worth keeping in mind when thinking about your gradient flows. :)

By the way, you might be interested in [1], which also studies gradient descent from the point of view of mechanics and seems to really use Noether-like results.

[1] Tanaka, Hidenori, and Daniel Kunin. “Noether’s Learning Dynamics: Role of Symmetry Breaking in Neural Networks.” In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34:25646–60. Curran Associates, Inc., 2021. https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/d76d8deea9c19cc9aaf22....
It's worth reading the actual filing. It's very readable.

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mu...
I doubt there was back-channeling - Apple is seeing how liberally they can interpret this act. They tried doing the same thing when they threatened to use MFi on USB-C, up until an EU Comissioner threatened to boot them from the market. Plus, making per-company agreements would kinda render the entire "point" of the Digital Market Act moot.

Apple knows exactly what the DMA wants from them, they're just deathly terrified of handing it over.
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Kidney stones flow down a one way river, I'd be worried about a large plaque dislodging and causing an embolism
There is a lot in here but turning a non-profit into a for-profit definitely should be challenged. Otherwise why wouldn't everyone start as a non-profit, develop your IP, and then switch to 'for-profit' mode once you got something that works? You don't pay income taxes and your investors get write offs.
And he who owns the kingdom owns the serfs.

The result of dominance games is stagnation. Innovation happens only as a side effect during regime change.
You can't, which makes it difficult or maybe impossible to have hard facts about it
“Now that I have a powerful weapon, it’s very important for safety that people who aren’t me don’t have one”
The filing is listed with all the reasons for the suit here: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mu...
I also wonder what's point of PWAs _only_ supported in WebKit.

It feels like they trying to keep playing cat and mouse.
Nobody promised open sourced AI, despite the name.

Exhibit B, page 40, Altman to Musk email: "We'd have an ongoing conversation about what work should be open-sourced and what shouldn't."
You can avoid this by having a full-sized spare and rotating it in during your tire rotations. It's what I do so if one goes to shit, you still have 4 even ones left. If you never have a failure, you get much better mileage because one of your tires always gets to rest.
From: Elon Musk

To: Sam Altman

Subject: AI Lab

Agree on all

On Jun 24, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Sam Altman wrote:

1. The mission would be to create the first general Al and use ti for individual empowerment ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest. More generally, safety should be a first-class requirement.

2. I think we'd ideally start with a group of 7-10 people, and plan to expand from there. We have a nice extra building in Mountain View they can have.

3. I think for a governance structure, we should start with 5 people and I'd propose you,[blank] and me.
The technology would be owned by the foundation and used "for the good of the world", and in cases where it's not obvious how that should be applied the 5 of us would decide. The researchers would have significant financial upside but ti would be uncorrelated to what they build, which should eliminate some of the conflict (we'll pay them a competitive salary and give them YC equity for the upside). We'd have an ongoing conversation about what work should be open-sourced and what shouldn't. At some point we'd get someone to run the team, but he/she probably shouldn't be on the governance board.

4. Will you be involved somehow in addition to just governance? Ithink that would be really helpful for getting work pointed in the right direction getting the best people to be part of it. Ideally you'd come by and talk to them about progress once a month or whatever. We generically call people involved in some limited way ni YC "part-time partners" (we do that with Peter Thiei for exampie, though at this point he's very involved) but we could call ti whatever you want. Even fi you can't really spend time on ti but can be publicly supportive, that would still probably be really helpful for recruiting.

5. I think the right plan with the regulation letter is to wait for this to get going and then! can just release ti with a message like "now that we are doing this, I've been thinking a lot about what sort of constraints the world needs for safefy." Im' happy to leave you of as a signatory. Ialso suspect that after it's out more peopie will be willing to get behind it.

Sam
Absolutely, Mozilla is another relevant example where the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit that owns the Mozilla Corporation, which is for-profit. Furthermore many non-profits also buy shares of for-profit corporations, for example the Gates Foundation owns a large chunk of Microsoft.

You can imagine a non-profit buying enough shares of a for-profit company that it can appoint the for-profit company's board of directors, at which point it's a subsidiary.

Heck a non-profit is even allowed and encouraged to make a profit. There are certainly rules about what non-profits can and can't do, but the big rule is that a non-profit can't distribute its profits, ie. pay out a dividend. It must demonstrate that their expenditures support their tax exempt status, but the for-profit subsidiary is more than welcome to pay out dividends or engage in activities that serve private interests.
Given that reversing course here means "Home Screen web apps continue to be built directly on WebKit", this pivot doesn't actually contradict their claim that safely supporting PWAs from other engines was too much engineering work.

My hunch is that the initial change may have been performative, but it was likely performative for the EU regulators and not the customers. This pivot presumably means that the EU has now okayed browser engine lock in for PWAs.
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Steve Jobs was legendarily spiteful and petty. They just carry over the tradition.
That's only true for AWD. Otherwise it's 2. Also, consider buying used for a fraction of the price. Plenty of cars with good tires end up in junkyards. I've never bought new tires.