skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, are you simply unaware of the widely reported circumstances in the company at that time? 95% of employees signed a letter to the board stating that they would leave the company if Sam was not brought back [1]. Ilya Sutskever, who was on the board and voted to remove Sam, changed his mind and signed the letter. The board named Mira Murati interim CEO; then she signed the letter, the board fired her, and hired another outside CEO. Several key researchers resigned outright before letter even went out, including Jakub Pachoki, who replaced Ilya after he left [2] .

I would challenge you to name a researcher who didn't resign or threaten to resign. Remember, they all had a plausible landing spot: They could simply show up at Microsoft with all the same leadership, coworkers, salary, compute, and IP the next day. OpenAI as we know it was over unless and until the board gave in.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/95-percent-of-openai-employees-t...
[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/three-senior-openai-...
Oofff, yeah, that was a mistake. Thank you for clarifying. I really wasn't getting what the other user was trying to communicate, but it does make sense now. I was having a hard time seeing it because I was like "yes, that's correct?" not seeing where the actual blunder on my part was lol.

Yes, U-238 is more stable than U-234. I incorrectly wrote the reverse before.

Degree of stability would refer to the rate of decay, which generally is going to strongly correspond to the half-life. (I think the error happened in an edit, where I was previously still talking about Pa. Either way, I messed up)
There's a small chance that your password will be my first roll in a random generator.
Honestly, this is the only reason I keep my account open. I'm waiting until they're forced to honor account close/deletion for ALL users, not just EU or California residents. I'm sure any data attached to the account will have been shared around more than the village bicycle by then, but it's my best bet I think to wait until I'm sure it's closed before I just kill my own access to it.
Why would you think this stuff wasn't in writing? Do you think the investigation OAI did into the board's actions was just relayed orally?[1] That the board's discussions where all done in conference calls and not in e-mail? Do you think that this documentation gets routinely released to the public or even employees? Before you throw around accusations of incompetence, you should probably have some shred of evidence. This is the type of stuff that is typically considered extremely confidential and even now they say they are unable to reveal details. Why do you think that is? What is preventing them from doing something they apparently want to? Legal agreements such as NDAs, the same ones that would have prevented them from going public with details last years.

The board's mistake was not figuring out a way to go public with their case against Sam when or before they fired him. They obviously misjudged how he would respond. But even there we don't know the full context and constraints they were under. Hopefully, one of them will answer that question of why they didn't at some point, but until we know more, we would be wise to reserve judgement.

[1] https://archive.is/wbwC2
It’s not good form to bad mouth someone you’ve fired. They did, in fact, release a statement which aligns (in PR speak) with what Toner is claiming now.

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

https://openai.com/index/openai-announces-leadership-transit...
Lying to the board was the reason given for his firing even at the time. They just declined to elaborate back then.
Savvy doesn't have SSH support, but I'm working to add it soon.

I think we can make SSH support work without installing Savvy on the remote machine, but I'm still working through the details.

I'm laser-focused on nailing the DX and making sure it delivers a lot of value to our users.

If you're up for it, I'd love to chat and learn more about how Savvy can help you personally and at work - my email is shantanu@getsavvy.so
The link is to the live update site, so the information about the munition has scrolled way, way, way down.

Actual article: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/28/middleeast/gaza-us-muniti...
Several countries in Asia are/were not only making new cities, but new Capital cities (Malaysia, Egypt, Indonesia, etc) and they have mixed results. Old city pull and inertia is so strong.
It works well for me. We’re very frugal, so we know how much we usually spend and set a fixed limit per expense +- a small amount. That’s it. We review every time an expense or income changes, so usually monthly.

We have multiple accounts (food+fuel, bills, apartment, fun money) and we put the exact same amounts into each account each week.

Anything left at the end of the week gets moved to overflow accounts (food+fuel overflow, bills overflow, apartment overflow, etc) and anything in overflow accounts at the end of each month gets moved into savings as bonus savings.

We have 4 savings accounts. Short term, mid term, long term, retirement. We always put the same amount into these each week.

And then as our expenses decrease, or incomes increase, we just put a higher percentage into savings.

It works pretty well, we are the only couple I know who could purchase a home at our age in this environment in one of the most expensive cities in the world. I earn about 115% more than average worker, but my partner earns about 80% of the average worker.

Our situation and savings and spending discipline has allowed us both to drop 1 full day a week of employment.

We have only been out of university for 4 years
> So you can use it to conduct illegal cross border money transfers

That's exactly the use of crypto. Illegal being based on a random law by a random government in a random country.
I agree that it helps! but I did mention it, no? Admittedly "to that from" is a bit of an awkward construction
"Those who fall to remember history are doomed to repeate it."

Excising everything ungood from memory doesn't help with this.
ORMs are such a toxic idea, we'd be better off if we could un-invent them. Look how thoroughly this poor author's mind has been poisoned by long-term exposure.

Please get out there and write some SQL. I promise it won't hurt you.
> And if you realize there's no way to convince them that they are wrong?

Then you resign and start your own company whose charter is written the way you think it should be written.

> But it's a matter of survival of the entire universe?

If this is actually true, then, as I've already said elsewhere in this discussion (and in previous HN discussions of OpenAI), Altman is the last person I want in charge of this technology. And the same goes for everyone else associated with OpenAI. None of them have come anywhere remotely close to showing the kind of maturity, judgment, and ethics that would qualify them to be stewards of an existential risk.

If Altman sincerely believes that AI is an existential risk, then he should resign from OpenAI and disqualify himself from working on it or being involved in it in any way. That's what he would do if he were capable of taking an honest look at himself and his actions. But of course I won't be holding my breath.
I think there is a subset of VCs that would pay for this.. unfortunately, that very particular subset of VCs has the smallest budget to pay for things based on their fixed fees/fund sizes.

Firms like CapitalIQ or Pitchbook have their largest contract with giant asset managers for whom a 6- or 7-figure deal would be a very small percentage of AUM (and thereby small percentage of management fees).

For angels/seed stage VCs, you are likely looking at "pro-sumer" like prices. So, something like 100-1000/month at most.
I think it's fair to assume j. random user isn't typing "http://api.example.net" into their web browser.

leading www perhaps, leading api no.
I'm confused how this fits with the US ideal of free enterprise, and market economics. It's one thing to regulate some product out of the market with behind-the-scenes bargaining, but it's another entirely for a president to kill a market by executive fiat.

What does Elon have to say about this?
it's an outrage that USPS is subsidizing temu/shein/aliexpress to ship toxic/cancerous items from China to kids.

Temu’s products, like those of its peers, harbor these toxins. In fact, Health Canada revealed that a Shein children’s jacket contained more than 20 times the allowable amount of lead for children’s products.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2854161/temu-dark...

Seoul gov't finds carcinogens in children's products from Temu, AliExpress

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-04-25/nationa...
In the Western world, a "criminal" is any person not conforming to the government mandated system of work and transactions.
We all lived through it. We know what happened. I've likely even seen that exact article before.

Your original portrayal remains exaggerated.
Anyway, it's fun that the CEO of the company closer to AGI is super-smart but has a clear alignment problem.
Can you point to the bit of the US constitution that says it's illegal for sentencing to consider questions of remorse and admission of guilt as factors?
> They could have filed formal complaints, mandated increased scrutiny, handed off Sam's responsibilities to other people, or threatened legal action.

I think you fundamentally misunderstand the role of the board of directors. It's often been said that the board (of any company) has basically one job: to hire (and fire) the CEO. While that may be a slight exaggeration, the wisdom behind that quote is that things turn out badly when the board meddles in decisions of a company's executive leadership - if they don't like the decisions being made, they should replace the CEO, and that's where their power lies.

You talk about "filing formal complaints" - what does this even mean?? They're the board, who else would they file formal complaints to? "Hand off Sam's responsibilities to other people"?? Again, any corporate governance expert would say that's a recipe for disaster, never mind not even feasible the way corporate hierarchies work.

I've commented many times before that I think the way the board handled the Altman's filing was, at best, woefully naive, and their communication at the time (even after he was fired) abysmal. But neither do I think it was some sort of "coup", and your recommendations simply don't make sense.
I agree - Twitter is still the primary source for a lot of original work and original thoughts. Unfortunately it's gotten more complicated because (1) the threads there have gotten less accessible and (2) some people have assigned the entire site to one side of the culture war.
iPhone Sales Recover in China Amid Surge in Smartphone Demand
Little Bobby Tables would love that to pieces.
Ford keeps a small fleet of Model T’s running in Dearborn for visitors to ride. Last time I was there I think it was $5 for a ~10-minute ride. Each Model T is driven thousands of miles over the course of 350+ days per year.

If a dealership needs to know how to do maintenance or get a part, they just need to call Ford HQ. The person I talked to said that they actually run better now than they did back then because all the maintenance items are made from modern materials.
Not if you're the sort of person who dismisses it out of hand, no.

In the context of understanding that Bitcoin is the best performing asset over its admittedly small lifetime, then it just sorta kinda might just start the process of making sense to unthaw a little.

This justification is only valid for certain time-scales however, and once you get into a discussion of that it can easily degenerate into cherry-picking and misaligned points - and I can be accused of cherry picking in limiting my judgement to "over it's admittedly small lifetime".

Basically, it comes down to a difference of opinion in the long-term value of an asset that hasn't existed long-term. If using the only available data, being short-term, as a guide, then it could be predicted to be a great investment.

Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. True of everything. I guess you and me both are just showing our different colours based on, potentially, the exact same reference data (although I'm going to assume my reference data set is larger and/or more varied than yours).

Alternate comprehension of your comment:
He's not gambling his Bitcoin, he's holding it. At the "end" he will still have the same number of Bitcoin. I believe your misunderstanding is that it may represent a smaller US dollar value and therefore he's gambling his bitcoin, however this means he's actually gambling the value of his bitcoin - which I specifically didn't say.
> This is all just business, right?

Not according to Sam Altman, or for that matter the other OpenAI board members who have been involved in this whole kerfluffle. They all say AI is an existential risk, and OpenAI is necessary to mitigate that risk.

In other words, they themselves have told us to judge them by a much higher ethical standard than "just business". And all of them (not just Altman) have failed when judged by that standard. Even if they're wrong and AI actually isn't an existential risk, that doesn't mean they're off the hook for their behavior, because they themselves set the standard for them to be judged by.
I'm not doing Vue so for my own purposes I think I'll be going with (the non-React, Web Components version of) MS' Fluent UI, but in my research I came across also IBM's "Carbon Design System" which has a Vue3 version, you might like it:

https://vue.carbondesignsystem.com/

But apparently Fluent UI also has a Vue story: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fluent-ui/web-components/i...

Or if you like this "Tailwind CSS" stuff, might like this: https://flowbite-vue.com/pages/getting-started
This is not about science at all. It's about "science". No one attacks mathematicians. People defend themselves against people who have insane control over their lives and made it much worse. The reaction is not only understandable, but also to a degree correct and the right thing to do.
That's a fair criticism.

I'd love to delete my account, unfortunately some groups I'm a member of continue to insist on using the platform for carrying out business. :-(
And judging by how Altman, and indeed everyone associated with OpenAI, has behaved through this whole kerfluffle, any AI they create will be evil if it has that much capability.
> And if you realize there's no way to convince them that they are wrong?

Leave.

> But it's a matter of survival of the entire universe?

Literally nothing is like that. And even after correcting your hypothetical to something reasonable, Altman was almost certainly closer to the "risk destroying the universe" camp than the board.
Love this! I’ve been mostly doing my hobbies as work for 20 years, but I’ve been having a blast getting back to deep pure math and PL research in the last 6-12 months which absolutely topped everything. It’s fully targeted towards my business goals which is ideal for me as I need a concrete problem to solve when learning. I’m 40 and this has been intellectually more productive than anything else I’ve done (feels like x times more than what I remember).
It’s exciting and inspiring to see others doing it later in life as I wish I could keep doing it too.
Sell a box[1] at computer stores with a bundle of a linux distribution, apache, ssleay and a license for it, and a coupon for $25 off a certificate from thawte.

And/or talk to Walnut Creek CDROM, inc about getting in their monthly linux cd bundles. These are the people that ran ftp.cdrom.com.

Actually, that's not really early users; that's 3 years in. In the early days, just kind of work on what Yggdrasil users are complaining about, and advertise in their news groups maybe?

[1] like this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/225617084070
> Why is it that schools are failing us in dramatic ways?

Do you have some ideas as to the answer(s)?

Is it simply a matter of adopting a better educational approach that has been shown to work in another country, or would that also fail in the US?
I'm not seeing the quote where he actually says this...only that he will roll back the EV credits, which is actually like you say rolling back regulations to make EVs compete in the free market.

I'm actually for EVs if we can get our power situation worked out...but this seems like a stretch article written for click bait.
What's the best framework for harnessing Android GPU compute?
I'm working on an Android project that requires hardware acceleration. Ideally harnessing the GPU, but harnessing the CPU more fully for compute would be useful too. Problem is, as many Android things are, there's seems to be little consensus on which framework is most compatible and effective. So, oh HN hivemind, which frameworks do you use to accelerate on Android and why?
Why not tell it at the time when it required them to tell. Board acted that they have decision making power just by authority even after 90% of the employees didn't like the decision. They didn't even tell it to the new CEO they hired even after he asked it multiple times, let alone the employees of the company.

And why say "Allowing the company to be destroyed would be consistent with the mission", if your reason is Sam's action alone.
Check out the local dive bar. They are the modern version of 19th century coffee houses.
Classical magnetism has a fantastic explanation in Feynman Lectures on Physics fwiw.
This is just a repost of a reddit submission currently on the front page there, and the article was debunked in the comments:

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1d2w9lc/donald_...

Not sure why we are now spamming HN with random low-effort reposts. The entire point of this site is antithetical to that type of behaviour.
SQL injection is totally optional. If you use prepared statements, which are easier to use than formatting arguments yourself, it’s not a possibility.
Totally agree. The initial press release made it sound like Altman was guilty of borderline illegal malfeasance, which wasn't true. Without any more information, the world was left to speculate about what happened, and it came across to many as more of a "power struggle" or grudge match than fundamental concerns about the direction of OpenAI.

While in retrospect I think the board's actions may have been warranted, their communication was absolutely atrocious.
> let's imagine, the board wants to detonate a nuclear bomb.

In the case of OpenAI, it was Altman, not the board members he should have been arguing his position with openly, who wanted to undertake actions that others thought were too risky. So your argument, if it were valid, would not apply to Altman, but to the other OpenAI board members whose confidence in him had been destroyed. Do you think they should have lied to Altman to get him to stop doing things they thought were too risky?
It's cool to see more systems code written in Rust! I also previously worked on SPDK, so it was neat to see it being chosen as a point of comparison.

However, I was waiting for the touted memory safety to be mentioned beyond the introduction, but it never really came up again. I was hoping for the paper to make a stronger argument for memory-safe languages like Rust, something like "our driver did not have bugs X, Y, and Z, which were found in other drivers, because the compiler caught them".

Additionally, in a userspace device driver that is given control of a piece of hardware that can do DMA, like an NVMe controller, the most critical memory safety feature is an IOMMU, which the driver covered by the paper does not enable; no amount of memory safety in the driver code itself matters when the hardware can be programmed to read or write anywhere in the physical address space, including memory belonging to other processes or even the kernel, from totally "safe" (in Rust semantics) code.

While the driver from the paper may certainly have a "simplified API and less code", I don't expect much of this to be related to the implementation language; it's comparing a clean-sheet minimal design to a project that has been around for a while and has had additional features incrementally added to it over time, making the older codebase inevitably larger and more complex. This doesn't seem like a particularly surprising result or an endorsement of a particular language, though it perhaps does indicate that it would be useful to start from scratch now and again just to see what the minimum viable system can look like. I certainly would have liked to rewrite it in Rust, but that wasn't really feasible. :)

In any case, it's great to see proof that a Rust driver can have comparable performance to one written in C, since it will hopefully encourage new code to be written in a nicer language than C. I definitely don't miss having to deal with manual memory management and chasing down use-after-frees now that I write Rust instead of C.

(As a side note, I'd encourage anyone thinking of using a userspace storage driver on Linux to check out io_uring first before going all in; if io_uring had existed before SPDK, I don't know that SPDK would have been written, given that io_uring gets you most of the way there performance-wise and integrates nicely with the rest of the kernel. A userspace driver has its uses, but I would consider it to be a last resort after exhausting all other options, since you have to reinvent all of the other functionality normally provided by the kernel like I/O scheduling, filesystems, encryption, etc., not just the NVMe driver itself. That is, assuming the io_uring security issues get resolved over time, and I expect they will.)
Yes, I'm aware of mRNA and its history. I'm also aware of Moderna and the purpose of their
existence. The covid vaccine was the first approved and widely deployed mRNA vaccine, and R&D is a far cry from injecting such a substance into human beings on the scale of billions.

I'm pretty sure I test my software more than they tested that particular vaccine before deployment, and I personally don't like the idea of being a guinea pig.
History is not statistics. But history does show that "end justifies the means" logic never ends up working out well. In the 20th century it killed well north of a hundred million people.
Me:
Why was Sam Altman fired from OpenAI?

ChatGPT 3.5:

There isn't any information available indicating that Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI. As of my last update in January 2022, Sam Altman was still involved with OpenAI, serving as the CEO. However, leadership changes can occur, and it's always a good idea to check recent news sources for the most current information.

Me: (drat)
I didn't type that.
They inveted this game and they now how to do it.
The trick is dressing it as another thing, like for example: is not forbidding sale, is increasing taxes of electrical vehicles to fossil vehicles level. They are fighting for all vehicles to be "equal" in fact! ;) (yeah, I now about carbon footprint... they will come out with something about that when confronted, but freedom is saved this time)
> What does Elon have to say about this?

"Dogecoin officially isn't considered money by the US, so Tesla officially won't be selling any cars"