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There's another similar thing needing correction, which is that the LEDs near the center sweep a much smaller volume than the ones at the edge, and should be dimmed in order to yie…

Scientific fraud robs the community twice: the first time by wasting research funds on fraud, the second time because experiments with the appearance of success funnel more dollars…

Looking at other comments, evidently a lot of HN readers didn't!

The title is misleading without context. TFA doesn't argue that RTO is a bad policy or is being abandoned. It only presents facts showing that the post-COVID RTO trend is flatlinin…

Time zones are geopolitical artifacts just like borders, laws, currencies, etc. They can't really be "permanent"...

People need to stop using data as an excuse for making decisions, or apologizing for not having data, or arguing about the lack of data as an excuse for maintaining a status quo. A…

I'm not sure this doesn't just lead to blind rubber-stamping unless this is done very very rarely

I'm sure there's plenty of local enforcement, I'm just talking about my own cookie wall experience which is mostly happening when consuming Europe-based news outlets. I was really …

News outlets based in Europe routinely pull this cookie wall crap. I guess they get a pass for very very principled reasons and not just because they are based in Europe whereas Fa…

Yeah but in these kinds of big companies there are supposedly compensation "bands" by technical level. When salaries within each band are very different, it can be an impediment to…

Nonprofit status relates to the absence of investor payouts, and doesn't fundamentally have much to do with pay levels. Some employees can be on occasion willing to accept lower pa…

They didn't say they were going to Microsoft, as far as I can tell. I presume many can get golden offers anywhere including academia and other institutions with stronger nonprofit …

The premise of founding OpenAI as a nonprofit with "nobler" goals than making money was that it would be a strong magnet to the right talent. Going to work for Microsoft (or any ot…

TL;DR: The emperor has no clothes, and the OpenAI board are just a bunch of clowns.

The issue is not that talent will defect, but that it will spoil into an unproductive vortex.

While it is true that the govt looks to keep such engagements short, SVB absolutely did not shutter. It was taken over in a weekend and its branches were open for business on Monda…

You are maybe mistaking nationalization for civil servant status. The government routinely takes over organizations without touching pay (recent example: Silicon Valley Bank)

Waiting for US govt to enter the chat. They can't let OpenAI squander world-leading tech and talent; and nationalizing a nonprofit would come with zero shareholders to compensate.

I believe it's operating by the mantra of "doing the things that don't scale"

Yes, market conditions and competitor landscape are a big factor too.

> He could likely have $500M-$10B+ lined up by next week to start up a new company and poach much of the talent from OpenAI. Following the Jobs analogy, this could be another NeXT …

Inferring someone's demographic attributes by observing their behaviors isn't very new or specific to LLMs. Basic stats can do the job well enough, and ML classification models hav…

Not hard, lawyer not needed. If you want someone to hold your hand through it to allay some anxiety then feel free to hire a lawyer, but honestly they'd just be doing project manag…

Neither do mine, but it happens in some night clubs for example.