skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people are convinced that because we don't have a next gen LLM model (i.e GPT-5) 14 months after 4 and that the best 3rd party models are 'only' GPT-4 level, there must be a plateau or something. Nevermind the 33 month gap between 3 and 4 or the 18 month gap between GPT-3 and the first 3rd party >= GPT-3 level model (Gopher).
Your description sounds exactly like I'd expect a regulator to describe discretionary enforcement.

My point about PCI is that people can actually implement it and know that they've done so. If the goal of GDPR is to get people up to compliance ... well since no one but the regulators can determine if a company is complying, we have no idea whether they're actually accomplishing that goal.

The cottage industry you're complaining about exists precisely because the law was so unclear. I remember reviewing "non-binding recital" documents before it went into effect which were not helpful. For a law which created new requirements for systems at thousands of companies, they could have written material which directly was targeted at the parties who would be responsible for implementation, and which they would commit to being binding. But they didn't.

> you can not "opt out" of GDPR

For companies based elsewhere, there was a very serious consideration of should we just not try to do business in the EU. If you're a midsized company in the US faced with a large engineering effort to possibly meet regulatory requirements for a region where you have a small minority of customers, it's a real question.
I have tried a bunch and would love a free OSS option but honestly Leanpub is the best I have found for ebook and printing.

For web, I went

Mkdocs material (cos I like Python) to Docusaurus (because it has more features) to Astro (because wow at speed and polish).
You don’t need to out-litigate the bear,
I don’t have any idea what goes on inside OAI. But I have this strange feeling that they were right to oust sama. They didn’t have the leverage to pull it off, though.
> (I wonder if I should have waited a little bit more before actually posting it)

No. You built something that’s pretty cool. It’s not done yet, but you’ve accomplished a lot! I’m glad you posted it. Thank you. Ignore the noise and keep cooking!
It's about as reliable as I thought.

If it was even remotely reliable, this would be a billion dollar idea (at least) treated as a secret sauce in an investment company.

Instead, it takes some input, throws some garbage output, but as it's not blatantly just random numbers, people think it's helpful for investing.
I've not seen any of these "agentic" systems be all that useful in practice. Complicated chain of software where a lot can wrong at any step, and the probability of failure explodes when you have many steps.
My initial reaction was "Hold up - your RSUs vest, you sell the shares and pocket the cash, you quit OpenAI, a few years later you disparage them, and then when? They somehow try and claw back the equity? How? At what value? There's no way this can work." Then I remembered that OpenAI "equity" doesn't take the form of an RSU or option or anything else that can be converted into an actual share ever. What they call "equity" is a "Profit Participation Unit (PPU)" that once vested entitles you to a share of their profits. They don't share the equivalent of a Cap Table with employees, so there's no way to tell what sort of ownership interest a PPU represents. And of course, it's unlikely OpenAI will ever turn a profit (which if they did would be capped anyway). So this is all just play money anyway.
We tried using a multi-agent system for a complex NLP-type task and we found:

- Too many errors that just propogate on top of each other, if a single agent in the chain generates something even a little bit off then the whole system goes off the rails.

- You often end up having to pass a massive amount of shared context to every agent which just increases the cost dramatically.

Curiously enough we had an architect from OpenAI tell us the same thing about agent systems a few days ago (our company is a big spender so they serve a consulting function), so I don't think anybody is really finding success with multi-agent systems currently. IMO the core tech is nowhere near good enough yet.
Right and that's why it's a farce.

> Whoa whoa whoa, we can't let just anyone run these models. Only large corporations who will use them to addict children to their phones and give them eating disorders and suicidal ideation, while radicalizing adults and tearing apart society using the vast profiles they've collected on everyone through their global panopticon, all in the name of making people unhappy so that it's easier to sell them more crap they don't need (a goal which is itself a problem in the face of an impending climate crisis). After all, we wouldn't want it to end up harming humanity by using its superior capabilities to manipulate humans into doing things for it to optimize for goals that no one wants!
Agreed, money has to be involved.

Having a CTO and SVP axed in the same statement means rather specific circumstances. Realistically rules out harassment, performance, even "kickbacks". These you would only expect one or the other to be terminated. Whether you agree or not, a company does not want to terminate immediately (she was just on stage as key speaker) two such key positions at the same time in the same department. It's a very large gap in the org that represents a material risk to the business. So their actions have to be so "huge" to match.

Stealing, but more likely some form of colluded insider trading.

I'd wager that the SVP was helping perform trades of expedia stock on behalf of the CTO. They got caught before the SEC and were fired.
Link should probably go here instead of X: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai...

This is the article that the author talks about on X.
A Guide to the Zsh Completion with Examples
This approach is valuable because it abstracts away certain complexities for the user, allowing them to focus on the code itself. I found it especially beneficial for users who are not willing to learn functional languages or parallelize code in imperative languages. HPC specialists might not be the current target audience, and code generation can always be improved over time, and I trust based on the dev comments that it will be.
I, too, am lisperati :-)
In unrelated note, it's funny to be greeted with a 20 secs Ad video before seeing the 50 secs squid video you land on the site to watch! Ah.. Ads are ruining the entire web these days, and the experience keeps worsening.
Thank you for using vanilla JS!
I'll second the recommendation for the E3-1265L v2 as an upgrade for the Gen8.

Note that the onboard SATA/firmware RAID controller on the Gen8 only supports 6Gb/s SATA on two drive bays; the other two (and the SATA interface to the optical drive) are 3Gb/s.

While this probably doesn't matter if you're talking about spinning rust NAS, it seems worth pointing out.

The drive bays are perfectly capable of 6Gb/s — both SATA and SAS — with a different controller; HP Smart Array P222, also cheap on eBay, is the officially supported option.
[dupe]

More discussion on their post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391412
Humans are not aligned with humans.

This is the most concise takedown of that particular branch of nonsense that I’ve seen so far.

Do we want woke AI, X brand fash-pilled AI, CCPBot, or Emirates Bot? The possibilities are endless.
After years in the tech space I now see this as “A single developer’s (or maybe designer’s or maybe even a cleaner’s) insane attention to detail paired with the time and effort it takes for an idea to get traction”.

It’s rarely ever been the company itself or even the policies/vibe of a company but instead it’s been the few employees who propose, communicate, and support the details that eventually get rightfully called “insane”.
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40382783
Why OpenAI Is Forced to Enter the Search Business
Can you give some examples of experts saying we won't see it in our lifetime?
Some nobodies at a bottom of the barrel Fortune 500 company get shit canned is not news worthy.

C-levels get canned all the time yet these 2 get attention. What am I missing?
The savings in reduced diabetes, heart disease and cancer would make up for it.
is it not ironic to list Sam Altman ("Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity") among those paragons of virtue, half a year after the internal struggle between safetyists and pragmatists at openai has been revealed? is it not naive to assume that the other virtuous men you list are not the minority, given that the vast majority of openai had sided with Sam, revealing themselves as pragmatists who valued their lavish salaries over mitigating the supposed x-risks? is it not especially ironic to present Sam as a paragon of virtue here, in the context of a safety cultist leaving openai because he realized what you do not - it's all bullshit, mirror and smoke to misdirect the press and convince the politicians to smother the smaller competitors (not backed with billions of VC and unable to lobby for concessions) with regoolations.

>But over the past few years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.

you know what else happened over the past few years? openai started to make money. so while sama was making soundbites for headlines about the existential threat of AI, internally, all the useful idiots were already told to shut the fuck up.
In the early 1980's we were just coming out of the first AI winter and everyone was getting optimistic again.

I suspect there will be at least continued commercial use of the current tech, though I still suspect this crop is another dead end in the hunt for AGI.
Your point is “we have too many sick people, let some of them die so the rich can keep their ease of access” and it’s gross.

That’s what “demand” represents in this equation. Not people who want faster cars or different colored Stanley cups, but access to life saving drugs and treatment. I’m not saying para-socialized systems are better (it’s capitalism with a wig) but the “benefits” of capitalism are nowhere near equally shared and in fact highly concentrated at the top. The benefits are in fact over-appreciated by those who have them and they will do anything to keep the dirt people away from their stash.

I don’t have a solution, but my point is praising mass death for the squalid masses is tacky and I personally wouldn’t do it on public forums.

*edited for spelling error
When supporters buy and repeat every Zaka lie that BBC, NYT etc launder even past being discredited even by Israeli papers like Haaretz, there’s not much hope in the back and forth
It is an issue with some modern games (I recently played a title that had a "Preparing Shaders..." loading screen); the main difference is that those games know the full set of what they need to do and can precompile most of them up-front, while an emulator like Dolphin needs to handle whatever the game throws it on the fly.

Also, games might know what shaders it can skip and what it can't, but Dolphin can't skip shaders if they aren't compiled, because it doesn't know what the game will do with the render (e.g. Miis work by rendering their heads once into a texture, and then reusing that. If it skips the render because the shader isn't ready, the Mii will just be missing forever).

Some emulators handle this by sharing "shader caches" between users so that they have a better idea of what the game will use; Dolphin opted for a different solution here.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390831

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391382
And he claims to have made his fortune by just helping people and not expecting anything in return. Well, the reality here is that was a lie.
You're already excluded from banking in EU if you don't use Google or Apple online mobile services, this at least includes desktops and isn't nearly as essential.
These are all from 8-10+ years ago and your first example doesn't say what you think it does. Everyone's said questionable things online. That was a catalyst of the deplatforming campaign if you read TFA.
Software Design of the PGB-1 Open Source Synthesizer
Yes, they can choose not to renew and IANAL, but I'm fairly certain there has to be a valid reason to cancel vested equity within the 7 year time frame, i.e. firing for cause. I don't think a right to shares within the period can be capriciously taken away. You have a contract. The terms matter.
It is not evil to own even hundreds of properties for the purpose of renting them out at market rates. It is a good that should be celebrated.
I heard about the 'camp' on a YT documentary, though it came across as positive in that telling. Now I'm curious to hear more from first sources!
>*This is a developing story and will be updated.

Hard to know what to say without engaging in the very speculation they are hoping to avoid. But apparently there's more details coming.

In the absence of those though, this feels rare to me, for such a thing to either (1) happen at all or to (2) have this degree of visibility.

Are high level executives getting fired all the time for violating internal company policies that are something short of being against the law, and we're just not hearing about it? I suspect not, or at least, when they are there is not often press releases about it.
^2020

An either thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24941667
> if 7 years have elapsed since they were granted, they are now worthless

Once vested, RSUs are the same as regular stock purchased through the market. The company cannot claw them back, nor do they "expire".
I am a lawyer. This is not just a general release, and I have no idea how OpenAI's lawyers expect this to be legal.
Unfortunately this is actually pretty common in Wall St, where they leverage your multiple years of clawback-able shares to make you sign non-disparagement clauses.
Almost all street-level crime (burglaries, robberies etc) is caused by degenerates (homeless, mentally ill, 'professional' criminals) and there's often a race component to it (even outside of the US).

You can't really talk about those things in polite company, so house prices are the euphemism used instead.
More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383978
Who knows? But I’m betting he wants to make money from his investments.
Wuffs is great. I use it in Substrata (https://substrata.info/) for loading PNGs. It is both faster and safer than LibPNG.
It's something around 2x faster than LibPNG in my tests (depending on the PNG file), see timings here: https://github.com/google/wuffs/issues/13#issuecomment-17325...

So generally Wuffs is great and you should use it to decode your PNGs. There are some downsides: not all of the obscure bit depths and formats that PNG supports are loaded as-is, some are converted to more standard formats.

Also the Wuffs documentation is a bit hard to understand. It's a litle bit of a mission getting PNG decoding working. You can see my code for that here though:
https://github.com/glaretechnologies/glare-core/blob/2c7174c...
I see customer support as a very talked subject to solve this. But these system really manage to solve the issue removing the human feedback dramatically?
Convicts fail to appreciate the most important principle: One should only attempt to profit from the violation ethics or morals on a much larger scale legally without noticeably affecting other powerful people.

+ Wall St., MBB consultants, Boeing, Facebook, Google

- Madoff, SBF, and this dummy
I have a 11 inch tablet for HN casual reading. And I moved over to the laptop for serious discussions. My phone is for checking only because it’s always near.
Definitely an interesting way to expand existing legislation vs having a new piece of legislation altogether.
What’s misogynistic about the paraphrased 4chan comment? That just seems like your stereotypical suburban woman.
that's actually a great reply, thanks
Glad to see more useful things like commentary built in.
My theory is population growth. When population doesn't grow more older buildings get reused and fewer ones are built, so society can afford to ornament new constructions. When the babies boomed, you got Sears catalog houses.
i don’t think we need to respect these elite multi millionaires for not becoming even grander multi millionaires / billionaires
IMHO superalignment is a great thing and required for truly meaningful superintelligence because it is not about control / enslavement of superhumans but rather superhuman self control in accurate adherence to spirit and intent of requests.
In what way is this an SEC violation?
A lot of folks I've spoken with say that single-agent systems are still extremely limited, let alone multi-agent platforms. In general, it seems to boil down to:

- Agents need lots of manual tuning and guardrails to make them useful

- Agents with too many guardrails are not general-purpose enough to be worth the time and effort to build

I believe truly great agents will only come from models whose weights are dynamically updated. I hope I'm wrong.
>I will think on how to make this reporting as frictionless as possible for such cohorts.

You have to be joking. Unionizing and a strong workers movement is the only thing that has ever moved the needle. The only exception might arguably be state competition, but this is the US we're talking about so that would be irrelevant.
They failed to align Sam Altman.

They got completely outsmarted and out maneuvered by Sam Altman

And they think they will be able to align a super human intelligence? That it won’t outsmart and out maneuver them easier than Sam Altman did.

They are deluded!
The compute problem and the brain drain are just a huge hurdle to overcome.

Ahhh I see. Will do a better job of that going forward, thank you!
Wow. Smart for them. Former employees are behooved to the company for an actual perpetuity. Sounds like a raw deal but when the potential gains are that big, I guess you'll agree to pretty much anything.
Ask HN: What book have you written?
I tried playing the latest one on Xbox Game Pass and you needed to make an account. It also hilariously… didn’t work. I was dumbfounded that you couldn’t play the game.

I’m sure I hit some sort of downtime or whatever, but I basically never looked back.

Reminded me of the Helldivers situation.

Just… let people play games.
I would love to be using Claude, but you can't get API access (beyond an initial trial period) in the EU without providing a European VAT number. They don't want personal users or people to even learn and experiment I guess.
“You get shares in our company in exchange for employment and eternal never-talking-bad-about-us”?

Doesn’t mean that that’s legal, of course, but I’d doubt that the legality would hinge on a lack of consideration.
You don't need a vision to start a company
Please make a live demo version of this using only JavaScript and HTML :D
In your article you state that kiwifarms has rules against harassment:

>If I ask Google Gemini to describe the Kiwi Farms in a sentence, it tells me “a controversial web forum known for its users' online harassment and stalking campaigns against various individuals and communities”, despite the Kiwi Farms having explicit and enforced rules against contacting people off-site (i.e. harassment).

Could you comment on the contradictory statements you have said elsewhere? Such as the ones where you admit that you turn a blind eye to harassment:
https://old.reddit.com/r/keffals/comments/1bkp9my/proof_kf_h...

Why weren't these rules enforced against users such as "Not Based and Redpilled" when he hacked the game developer of Yandere Simulator? You were aware of it and described it as a violation of federal law. In fact, the only user who was punished was someone who criticized the hack: https://archive.is/dr0MR#10%
Or current X employee.
Because in trying to tell that kind of interesting story today, the creators would force the current day politics and other bullshit into it and make that the front and center instead of the cool math or science stuff.

If even simple children's stories can't escape it with the remakes, forget it when it comes to something interesting.

I'm always happy when there are exceptions to this of course, but it is quite rare. One of my goals if I ever make it to the 9 figure club is to start a media company based outside the US where we can make great content about interesting concepts like this, without injecting politics into it or having to work with people who inject nonsense into everything. (on a side note, this is why I enjoy working with E. Euro and S. American engineers - they just focus on working and problem solving, not feelings and shit based on half truths they made up from taking drugs or whatever)

Anyway I was just responding to why stuff like that isn't made anymore. That's my opinion.
Proton is Wine, isn't it? It's a friendly downstream fork.
You can also do:

$ ls [files ...]
$ ^ls^rm
No, this is not true. That's the entire point I'm making. An RSU that is vested, for a private company, is not a share of stock, it's an entitlement to receive a share of stock tied to a liquidity event.

> same as regular stock purchased through the market

You cannot purchase stock of a private company on the open market.

> The company cannot claw them back

The company cannot "claw back" a vested RSU but they can cancel it.

> nor do they "expire".

Yes, they absolutely do expire. Read your employment contract and equity grant agreement carefully.
I think you oughta respect everyone who does the right thing, not for any mushy feel good reason but because it encourages other people to do more of the right things. That’s good.
Just curious: what's the point in running Steam in Wine nowadays?

It seems that every Windows game in Steam that I've tried recently (Helldivers 2, Hades 2, Hogwarts Legacy, Talos Principle 2, etc) have been flawless in Steam for Linux since Steam will run them with Proton.

Even non-steam games such as Starcraft II work well by adding battle.net setup.exe to Steam as a "Non-Steam game", and selecting Proton as the compatibility layer.
It's not open source and hasn't been in a very long time.

Still very useful though.
I still don’t understand why you didn’t use the precompiled shaders packed with the games… you’re emulating the GameCube or Wii GPU, and it’s never going to change, and the games provide precompiled shaders.
Hey, co-author of the article here!
You are completely right, this is a typo, I will fix it asap!
Thanks for the kind words
Apart from games, there are many CAD tools such as Rhinoceros 3D which don't work in Linux and have no open source equivalents.
>in a free and open source tool

It’s not open source for more than 15 years. The last FOSS version was released in
2009 November
If you haven't already, try compressing the video using Handbrake to cut down on its size. 1 GB for 5 minutes is quite a lot.
I'm wondering how anyone at an ivy IT dept, even the central IT shop, gets $40M of budget for a single project and with little oversight.* That's a whole lot of budget.

In other news, I saw ~$120M of Stanford's money frittered away based on sloppy program/project management and lack of oversight (not through malice). The real question is: Is there any material organizational difference when money is wasted through deceit or through incompetency? The optics of the former are worse because a villain to the story got ahead improperly.

* I did work at an ivy IT department where my boss had roughly $2M/y budget without supervision. $40M without internal controls, approvals, or auditing seems bonkers reckless.
No, we don't, the poor among us take it as a cope.

You're just running in the wrong circles.
Sentence generator that adds words based on learned probabilities of a trained model. When the training data is big enough and the model is tuned enough, it can be seen as AI.