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jxi··on Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding
He wasn't shutting down her academic freedom. However, if you're going to diss what your own company is doing and praise competitors, you probably shouldn't be on the board.

>During the call, Jason Kwon, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, said the board was endangering the future of the company by pushing out Mr. Altman. This, he said, violated the members’ responsibilities.

>Ms. Toner disagreed. The board’s mission is to ensure that the company creates artificial intelligence that “benefits all of humanity,” and if the company was destroyed, she said, that could be consistent with its mission.

This person is too far gone. Life isn't a movie.

jxi··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
She only founded one, Fellow Robots, and that "company" went nowhere. There's no product info and the company page shut down. She was CEO of GeoSim for a short 3 years, and this "company" also looks like it's going nowhere.

She has quite a track record of short tenures and failures.

jxi··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
It's certainly telling when you're more known to be an actor's wife than anything to do with AI or the company you're on the board for.
jxi··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
That would have opened them up to a lawsuit (while employment is "at will", you can still get sued for negligence or baseless slandering). A statement retracting claims for such a high profile move would be a pretty solid piece of evidence in such a case.
jxi··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
Her move makes even less sense than what the board did. The board told her the day before that they're firing Sam, so she obviously accepted it. But, one day later she caves and sides with Sam (that's what the heart tweet means)? That's weak leadership and resolve.
jxi··on For Altman to come back, board must issue statement absolving him of wrongdoing
They were really dumb to fire him in the first place. At this point, they're just stuck between a rock and a hard place.
jxi··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
I'm not trying to throw undeserved shade, but why do we think this is something as complex as that and not just plain incompetence? Especially given the cloak and daggers firing without consulting or notifying any of their partners beforehand. That's just immaturity.
jxi··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
I guess since they're doomed anyway, resignation saves face a little bit more.
jxi··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Because they won't have a company to "run the board for" anymore if Sam doesn't come back (since so many people have threatened to resign).
jxi··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Their achievements are already framed in their best light.

Hopefully you're able to tell the difference between serving as CEO or president of real reputable companies (the "trash tier startup" still exited for mid-8 figures) versus what looks like being a figure head for fake companies.

jxi··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
None of that sounds like actual work or results. It's just a bunch of empty business speak. They are definitely not qualified to serve on the board of a company like OpenAI.
jxi··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
> OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.

At least two of these people are not like the others and deserve to be fired and disgraced for this shitshow regardless of how it pans out.

jxi··on Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?
Because he basically got fired by Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner who are inexperienced outsiders. Either Adam or Ilya initiated the move, but those two give them the votes needed to fire Sam. Not to mention those board members have no stake, so whatever incentives they were given to do this are likely not aligned with the OpenAI business.
jxi··on Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims
What was the scam?
jxi··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
Is this a raindrop or more like a whole group of rain clouds?
jxi··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
Will this have impact on the broader real estate market?
jxi··on Topic: Discord Stealer
What's the high level of how these things work?
jxi··on Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
How does this differ from Neon?
jxi··on Yarn 4.0
I use Bun in CI too, and they have a clean GitHub Action for it: https://github.com/oven-sh/setup-bun.

Actually now that you mention CI, I remember now that I did also run into non-deterministic problems running type checks on projects with Bun using Github's free runner.

Errors looked like this, but it worked fine every 2/3 runs with the exact same code: `tsconfig.json(5,25): error TS6046: Argument for '--moduleResolution' option must be: 'node', 'classic'.`

It was fixed by just running on my own runners instead, and I never hit those errors building locally. Very weird.

jxi··on Yarn 4.0
Converted existing large NPM workspace-based projects. It depends which part of Bun you're talking about. Do you mean the package manager didn't work or the runtime didn't work? I would be a bit surprised if the package manager was not a drop-in replacement, but I know they recently fixed a lot of bugs too.
jxi··on Yarn 4.0
What didn't work? What was the error?
jxi··on Yarn 4.0
As a Bun convert, it's interesting that they felt the need to have a preemptive response for Bun as part of this major release. The response itself seems unconvincing though: Basically, Bun is a lot faster and simpler, but they think they can catch up.

I'm not convinced they can catch up even on speed, and Bun ergonomics are also a lot nicer from the get go.

jxi··on Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
Tax year 2024 means the filing due in April 2024 or the one in April 2025?
jxi··on Ruff v0.1.0
Black takes a good 3-5 seconds each time to format for me. Very noticeable.
jxi··on Meta Quest 3
Performance per watt is not far off? The processor is half the speed of the M2.
jxi··on Meta Quest 3
I'm glad I sold all my Quest 2 headsets (family) earlier this year. These things go obsolete faster than phones.
jxi··on Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
There's more ads on a clean install of Windows than most streets of New York City. Why does a professional OS come with Candy Crush installed by default?
jxi··on Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-dependency static site hosting service for hackers
Does rsync work instead of scp to take advantage of incremental updates?
jxi··on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
I feel like anyone with half a brain would realize that it’s very easy and fruitful for Meta to data mine the billions of requests they receive.
jxi··on Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits
Creating new avenues for immigration is one way to try to plug the housing bubble problem (fresh new capital flowing in). Problem is I don't think it will work, and they'll instead attract even more extra mouths to feed and bring further social problems.
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