skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The problem here is that OA is too valuable, and the non-profit owns too much of it (ie. all of it). The non-profit owns exactly 100% of the OA for-profit right now, and can cancel the "PPUs" any time it pleases, and if you believe Altman about the agent roadmap, would be required to do so within a few years. Now, given that the PPUs are being raised at a pseudo-marketcap of $150b, we're hearing, and that non-profits are required to sell assets for fair market value, how can the board sell its 100% ownership of the for-profit for anything less than the $150b that the market values that ownership at...? And where does one get $150b, exactly? Even Sam Altman can't pull that off.

So, the whole question has been, how does he figure out how to leave the board with <50% ownership (preferably much less than, even 0%), in a way which passes the legal sniff test so the deal goes through, but which doesn't sacrifice >$75b that neither he nor anyone else has?

This is where the rhetoric and preparing the grounds comes in. You can argue that OA is actually worth <<$150b, maybe even as low as $0, by saying that it has value only because it is going to keep raising enough cash to reach AGI... but the board remaining in charge + the current cap on raising capital + Altman quitting will destroy that raising ability, rendering OA worthless. (Similar to his threat last year to destroy OA by creating a competitor in MS, and MS then immediately cutting off hardware & capital so the rump OA would starve to death.)

Hence, the board should - nay, is required by their legal & moral duties to the nonprofit - to accept much less than $150b, because whatever that deal is, it's more than $0.

This is of course ridiculous and wrong, but it's not so ridiculous that a board of loyalists can't sign off on it, nor that lawyers can't defend it in court in front of a judge who wants to rule in its favor (because judges will tolerate anything in nonprofits short of gross criminality).
Then every downstream/subsequent engineer is going to hate your guts.
Sonic Youth were dicks to him too.

Honestly whenever I’ve watched an interview with a musician I like they’re mostly either matching his energy or just pleasantly surprised.

Whenever I’ve heard of a bad interview it was never an artist I particularly enjoyed… or even heard of.
> At this point I'm convinced that new package managers forbidding transitive dependencies would be an overall net gain.

Composition is an essential part of software development, and it crosses package boundaries.

How would banishing inter-package composition be a net gain?
not so.

> Many enthuse about how like “old Twitter” Bluesky is, which is telling in itself

There is of course the required 2min hate of musk and lament for twitter but then there's some acknowledgment of "people are tribal" applying.
The Dagoth Ur voice generation is shockingly good. I found a youtube channel of Dagoth Ur narrating Lovecraft stories; it's as good as human narration IMHO.
Mothers who regret having kids: 'I wished I were holding a cat and not a baby'
What is the crime?
Is this a US thing? In the UK employee tax is the employee’s to pay, not the company. Even if the company technically transfers it directly to the tax agency it’s not really their money.

EDIT: I guess we do have employer tax as national insurance contributions too, always forget about that since I’ve always paid myself under that threshold
*yawn
Another Silicon Valley startup looking to get rich quick, following in the footsteps of Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, WeWork...etc, which have all played in the legal grey areas
Finally, something that can curve a bullet.
Nobody gets their 2 year fed sentence in a medium or pen

(unless they already attempted to escape from the minimum security / camp, or some weird corner cases like that)
Having a downstream engineer to hate your guts is a good problem to have! It means your product succeeded for that long, and that it is still relatively well funded.

Most products don't get this far.
It's just a shorthand way of referring to how transformer-based LLMs work. It should go without saying that there are hundreds of layers of hierarchical representation, induction heads at work, etc, under the hood. However, with all that understood (and hopefully not needed to be explicitly stated every time anyone wants to talk about LLMs in a technical forum), at the end of the day they are just doing autocomplete - trying to mimic the training sources.

The only caveat to "just autocomplete" (which again hopefully does not need to be repeated every time we discuss them), is that they are very powerful pattern matchers, so all that transformer machinery under the hood is being used to determine what (deep, abstract) training data patterns the input pattern best matches for predictive purposes - exactly what pattern(s) it is that should be completed/predicted.
I mean, yes, that is a theory one could reasonably believe in. In the absence of evidence, it's not obvious at all whether it is true or false.

But this submission is about research showing that the legal market isn't just replacing the illegal market. It expands the market and the bad effects.

That is, they're able to track the deposits made to betting sites and other spending. Bets to illegal bookies are obviously not in that dataset. But if the legal gambling had replaced illegal gambling, the money going into legal gambling would appear to be coming from nowhere. Most likely a reduction in cash withdrawals? But that's not the effect they're observing. The money going into gambling is displacing other spending, including spending on +EV investments.

Given there is now evidence that the theory isn't correct, there's probably not much value in talking about it as if there really was a legitimate tradeoff here.
i cannot connect to kia anymore, would have bot worked in me
If you are going to make a bold assertive claim without evidence to back it up, then change your statement to my assertion requires "optimism.. trust me on this", then perhaps you should amend your original statement.
What if we had laws that required car manufacturers to have software with slightly better quality than the utter syphilitic diarrhea they currently ship?
People who have either no intention of holding someone/something to account, or who have no clue about what systems and processes are required to do so, always argue to elect/build first, and figure out the negatives later.
> developers could still potentially commit private keys the repo or commit the decrypted env file

to prevent this, use:

$ dotenvx ext precommit --install
If it's done well, there are some useful features there.

App unlock, remote start + remote temperature control. All very useful.

I couldn't imagine buying a car without carplay now.
Have they? Has MrBeast had 2000 people at one event before?
I thought about expanding on the thought, but honestly the original post seems to be in bad faith. It should be immediately obvious to anyone researching social issues that there are tons of people working on them. Also the problems listed are important and require capital, but not even close to what I would consider the hardest problems humans are up against.
Managing Software Engineers [video]
The government won't let you see its best tool for forecasting hurricanes
https://archive.ph/o2U01
> it wasn't saying anything concrete (talk to each other, collaborate, be flexible, react to reality etc.)

No, there is something concrete there: No managers. Traditionally those would be the concern of the manager. Agile says it best be the concern of the developers.

Which, of course, is Agile's whole deal. It is all about self-organization. The Twelve Principles goes into more detail about what to think about in the absence of managers; to ensure that developers take over the jobs that managers would traditionally do.

Ironically, it seems only managers have an interest in Agile, in a bastardized form, as a way to push their workload off onto others, but without giving up their paycheque. Which is also why we're seeing a death spiral now. With higher interest rates seeing businesses cracking down on the work being done, managers are finding it necessary to shape up and start doing their job again.
If you are going to make a bold assertive claim without evidence to back it up, then change your argument to "my assertion requires optimism.. trust me on this", then perhaps you should amend your original statement.
> car that requires you to create an account online to "activate" the vehicle

I have a 2023 Kia and that's not necessary. You only need the account if you want to use the optional online services.
To be fair, you don't know what the poster believes about those services either.
Phlair's carbon sucking technology could lower direct air capture's costs
I was curious about this and went sniffing around and it seems that their instance metadata[1] doesn't include anything that demonstrably associates the instance with Hetzner nor your specific account, making chain of custody ... tricky.

The best work-around I could come up with (not having a Hetzner account to actually kick the tires upon) is that you could inject a private key that you control into the instances via cloud-init (or volume attachment) and then sign any subsequent JWT using it. For sure it would not meet all threat models, but wouldn't be nothing either. I was hoping there was some chain of custody through Vault[2] but until Hetzner implements ANY IAM primitives, I'm guessing it's going to be a non-starter since the instances themselves do not have any identity

1: https://docs.hetzner.cloud/#server-metadata

2: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/v1.14.7/website/cont...
If you think about it, he pioneered the style of completely annoying, insufferable yet somehow entertaining content that you see all over TikTok…

But he had to commit to a full interview and release it on classic media, then later on, internet, then finally platforms.
I agree, if I would making bookoo bucks off of someone else’s “open”platform, you could be 100% sure I would be feeding the golden goose some grain to build some rapport. If I’m playing with it in my homelab, maybe not so much but try occasionally to donate if it’s an OSS project that $10-50 makes a difference for.
If SBF didn't have anything to give up on Tether (because he sure as hell would've made a deal if he did) what makes you think Trabucco does?
It's not really easy to switch jobs right now, and TBH most of them ask for Hybrid at least.
Could they...employ their own services?
Yep, need some way to image each new brain that comes online with some basics so it's not starting from 0 each time (and what basics to include would be a battle for the ages)
You can recognize this and still be grateful that Mark's incentives align with my own in a way that has made llama free and open sourceish
OS-themed site: no JavaScript, accessible and mobile-first
Being dishonest and cagey only serves to build public distrust in your organization, as has happened with OpenAI over the past couple of months. Just look at all of the comments throughout this thread for proof of that.

Edit: Shoot, look at the general level of distrust that the populous puts in politicians.
I did not mean to imply that. Humans should not be driving. Even a bicycle is wrong for how humans reactions. But in the world we live in...
just guessing but since access keys are paired with secrets that’s why you see a username and password there.

1p lets you create arbitrary fields in an entry, so you could create one with a VARNAME field or something, or just use a naming convention on the entry. for project isolation you could create separate vaults or use tags to distinguish.
I went through something similar with a prior startup. Though, it wasn't anything nefarious, like this.

Basically, the plan was to create a new for-profit entity then have the not-for-profit license the existing IP to the for-profit. There were a lot of technicalities to it, but most of that was handled by lawyers drawing up the chartering paperwork.
Sorry no. App unlock is a stupid anti-feature, do people genuinely think it's better than pressing a keyfob?

Remote start is very useful in very cold climates, but guess what, it doesn't need a phone, an app or the internet. My friend in a snowy part of Japan had a radio keyfob that did this literally 10 or more years ago. As long as you were within about 100 ft of the car you could switch it on and turn on the heaters.
See https://archive.ph/oFnou

I started on Mastodon around the time the Reddit protests happened and would say it has a lot of highly negative left wing nuts. I used to be bothered by "gender activists" who I've been able to keep at bay with blocks and filters but now the people I find obnoxious are the ones who have built their identity around having a "disability" and how it makes them morally better than "abled" people. (Blessedly I don't need to deal with right-wing nuts on Mastodon, but I meet some in real life)

I have to deal with emotional negativity sometimes from people I care about but strangers no. I immediately unfollow people who boost emotionally negative stuff and mute liberally.

I post a similar stream of content to Mastodon like what I post to HN

https://mastodon.social/@UP8

I am very interested in political science and politics outside the US, if I want to read about the Presidental election though I will go to The Economist and 538 and maybe Google News if there is breaking news (e.g. more shots fired at Trump) I will unfollow anyone who posts Kamala Harris memes (won't help her win.)

I absolutely need an API for posting on any site I join because I get a little help from my friend YOShInOn (look it up in the HN search) I have thought about Bluesky, Instagram and Threads in that order. For whatever reason Instagram won't let me create an account even though I think my photos would do well there. (I never did anything obnoxious on a Meta property, honest!) That rules out Threads but I have to admit that if I ran a social network it would look like Threads in that I'd de-prioritize polarized politics.
> The point-like singularity predicted by GR seems obviously implausible, it makes more sense for it to be smeared throughout some volume of space. If I understand correctly, he proposes that the singularity is a compact object rotating about the center so fast that it's more or less a solid torus.

I think the idea there is that there is no singularity. He's taken the prediction for a rotating blackhole (all mass collapses into a 0-volume ring) and supposed that there is a yet to be discovered force that resists infinite compaction leaving a ring of greater than 0 volume.
I think DoNotPay and find out is the vision of this company.
Your equations do not account for the difference you mention, they only ensure growth will be slower and riskier.
Maybe the real contestants were the producers, medics, and support staff.

> Earlier in July, Medics on the Go collaborated with doctors stationed nationwide, eliminating applicants based on their medical records who they felt could be at risk during the competition. At the time, April said Medics on the Go was not privy to age information. April said pharmacy medics learned of the contestant’s age when they first visited the pharmacy and shared their identification wristbands.

> Recalling one healthy 82-year-old lady, April said, “She got banged up and scratched up when it comes to money, people are ruthless.”

I hated reading this article. Disgusting behavior by a YouTube star who will be spared all consequences.
In enterprise, products last longer than in the consumer space. So YMMV.
While Patrick played a critical role in Rust's history, he said that years after he stopped working on Rust. I haven't seen people still involved share strong opinions about Zig in either direction, to be honest.

I've known Andrew for a long time, and am a big fan of languages learning from each other. I have always found that the community of people working on languages is overall much more collegial to each other than their respective communities can be to each other, as a general rule. Obviously there are exceptions.
It's same kind of thing people tell me about ripgrep. "Why bother with ripgrep, grep has always been fast enough for me." That might well be true. Or maybe we value time differently. Or maybe none of your use cases involve searching more than 100K lines of code, in which case, the speed difference between GNU grep and ripgrep is likely imperceptible. Or maybe being faster unlocks different workflows. (The last one is my favorite. I think it's super common but little is written about it. Once something becomes fast enough, it often changes the way you interact with it in fundamental and powerful ways.)

Because I have git-absorb, I tend to be a bit more fearless when it comes to fixups. It works well enough that I can be pretty confident that it will take most of the tedium away. So in practice, maybe git-absorb means I wind up with fewer squashes and fewer "fix lint" commits because I don't want to deal with finding the right commit.

My use of git-absorb tends to be bursty. Usually when I'm trying to prepare a PR for review or something along those lines. It is especially useful when I have changes that I want to be fixed up into more than one distinct commit. git-absorb will just do it automatically for me. The manual approach is not just about finding the right commit. It also means I need to go through git-add in patch mode to select the right things to put into a fixup commit, and then select the other things for the other commits. So it actually winds up saving a fair bit of work in some cases.

Another example is renaming. Maybe PR review revealed the names of some functions were bad. Maybe I introduced two functions to be renamed in two distinct commits. I could do

first rename -> first commit -> second rename -> second commit

Or I could do:

both renames -> git add -p -> first commit -> second commit

Or I could do:

both renames -> git absorb

In practice, my workflow involves all three of these things. But that last git-absorb option eats into some of the first two options and makes it much nicer.
Plus the danger of fluid helium escaping within seconds.
The EFF [1] is less optimistic that all of this spying is opt-in and clearly-stated (instead of buried in legalese), and Wired [2] likewise mentions cases where it's opt-out instead of -in.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-yo...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240705093406/https://www.wired...
'git rebase -i' meets this need and more. Everyone using git should learn to use it eventually. With it you can squash, fixup, reword, or delete commits interactively.
And here you are, making comments about people making comments about Musk on HN.
My dude, it was the biggest, most dramatic crisis in OpenAI’s short history so far. There was no choice, “don’t rock the boat.”
Libraries will only exist as long as we borrow from them. It's your civic duty
Ok, lesson learned. Thank you.

I have a Kia Niro EV Wind 2024 and just cancelled my account at Kia Connect.

Yes, I felt stupid. But a little less stupid now.

Edit: does anyone know how I could disable Kia's remote access to my car? Is there any antenna I could cover with tin foil or a chip that can be disconnected?
Pretty sure Alphabet projects don't need hype.
I'm part of a local physics meetup where AI is often a topic of conversation. One member is a well-regarded high school physics teacher (his students end up at MIT, Georgia Tech, etc., and some go on to get physics PhDs).

He shared that some teachers now require AI/LLMs for homework assignments, such as writing essays. The actual assignment is to critique the output of the LLM.

As a millennial, even our middle school classes taught information literacy in various forms in the "computer lab". And that was the nascent days of the web.

AI is a tool, not unlike a calculator or Wikipedia. They were both controversial and even forbidden at times. Students adapted. So did education.
“The market is merciless” is something a business should always keep in mind, at least when their existence isn’t guaranteed for some reason.
A bit of a nitpick perhaps, but I'd say a personal parking area.

I don't charge in my garage, I charge in my driveway. My garage is stupidly small. My previous car, a small Subaru BRZ, barely fit in my garage. It doesn't help that there's a pillar right in the middle of it, preventing anyone from opening the passenger door of any car parked.

If I parked my Model 3 in my garage, I'd have about two feet between the front bumper and the back wall of the garage.
Can you sell it through some platform like OnlyFans?
Have you asked CCBill?
This won't have nearly the same impact, but when you're considering how vulnerabilities like this might influence your future purchasing decisions, remember that Kia's decision to omit interlocks from their US vehicles (but not Canadian ones!) led to a nationwide epidemic of Kia thefts so large it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over. If you've read about carjacking waves in places like Milwaukee and Chicago: that was largely driven by a decision Kia made, which resulted in the nationwide deployment of a giant fleet of "burner" cars that could be stolen with nothing but a bent USB cable.
It's never well done.
I haven't seen any details, but isn't this a pretty straightforward way of doing it? The non-profit has had majority ownership of the for-profit subsidiary since 2019. The already-for-profit subsidiary has owned all the ChatGPT IP, all the recent models, all the employee relationships, etc etc.

The cleanest way for this to work is the for-profit to just sell more shares at the $150B valuation, diluting the non-profit entity below majority ownership. The for-profit board, which the non-profit could still probably have multiple seats on, would control the real asset, the non-profit would still exist and hold many tens of billions of value. It could further sell its shares in the non-profit and use the proceeds in a way consistent with its mission.

They wouldn't even have to sell that much - I am pretty sure the mega-fundrasing rounds from Microsoft etc brought the non-profit's ownership to just north of 50% anyway.

I don't see how this wouldn't be above board, it's how I assumed it was going to work. It would indeed mean that the entity that controls ChatGPT would now be answerable to shareholders, a majority of which would be profit seeking and a minority of which would be the non-profit with its mission, but non-profits are allowed to invest in for-profits and then sell those shares; all the calls for prosecutions etc seems just like an internet pitchfork mob to me.
It’s in your own self interest to know what you’ve built your business on and have a backup plan if the bottom falls out. I don’t really have any compassion for them, but I do for their users.
Copyright concerns are only the tip of the iceberg. Think about the range of other harms and disruptions for countries and the world.
> They work well and have a good safety profile. For many people they are the only thing that works. Seems like a good thing that we have them.

What a blissful world to live in, where you never have to consider second-order effects and can be hyper-optimistic about everything.

I wonder what drug it takes to view the world in such a lens.
features...or distractions?
That‘s almost certainly impersonation.
As so often I think it would be beneficial for the conversation to provide some more context. Single user install generated load VS WP generated load on the infrastructure of WordPress.org
Not everything presented as a problem is, in fact, a problem. A solution for something that is not broken, may even induce breakage.

Some not-problems, presented as though they are:

"How can we prevent the untimely eradication of Polio?"

"How can we prevent bot network operators from being unfairly excluded from online political discussions?"

"How can we enable context-and-content-unaware text generation mechanisms to propagate throughout society?"