skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is an excessive response by the director. I wonder if the CEO would have approved of the director's comment if you emailed an apology to the CEO, identifying that the director made the comment ("I apologize for the excessive informal language in my email, as noted by Director X; I look forward to completing the assignment."), as the CEO may have deliberately been trying to create an environment where seniors are more approachable.

In any case, I try to always write in full sentences for professional communications as a minimum (even if there are sprinkles of informal language)—I'm more comfortable writing this way at work, and it has the added benefit that it's hard for a third party to make a similar comment like you've experienced.

(At the other end, it can also be seen as too stiff and uncomfortable to be overly formal, even to supervisors. I've seen this where I had a direct report who was excessively formal at first. By encouraging him to open up and speak more openly, I believe that created a foundation for a more trusting work environment over time, which encouraged him to take more initiative and share his ideas when solving some problems that we were later facing as a team.)
The other two are written by LLMs.
Altman didn't actually do his job, he just let ChatGPT run the company.
As a large language model of a borg-haha we mean, board!

I assure you that sentience is a physical process, akin to HUMAN METABOLISM

You have nothing to be surprised about, Mr. Turing-jokester.
I have my Hacker News top bar color set to a shade of green, as opposed to the default orange. Doesn't bother me! :-)
OpenAI’s models are, quality wise, pretty far ahead of competition. So that’s what they’re spending so much money on. There’s a history of creating things that are expensive then rapidly bringing down the cost, which is what they’ve been doing rather than creating GPT-5
dupe? doesn't say much beyond what we learn in the actual release

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611
Microsoft gave them billions of dollars and access to lots of high performance compute, why would the board want to jeopardize that now?
> There is little new information to gain for them, no matter how Android users communicate with Apple users right now.

The client and the OS don't really give them any metadata or message content. Operating the server infrastructure would.

SMS doesn't touch their servers (except possibly for people that use Google's Messages app and/or backup service); RCS does.

> There is however a lot to gain for them if a unified rich communication standard is established in the market, because apart from finally being able to replace SMS, it would drive platform-agnostic innovation in this area.

Absolutely, but that open standard will hopefully not be RCS. It's way too coupled to the 3GPP/ITU model of doing things.

I trust the organizations in charge of the web and Internet (who brought us email and XMPP/Jabber!) a bit more than those who still somewhat yearn for the days in which OTT players did not exist and telecommunication was charged by the mile and minute or message.
I get this logic, but it seems contradictory with "it was last minute." If they timed it for the Friday before Thanksgiving, then they must have been sitting on it, right? Whereas if it's sudden, it must be unplanned. So which was it, sudden or planned?

The fact they timed the announcement actually implies some planning, which means the reason couldn't be so damaging that they had to fire him immediately after discovering it. (Of course, it's possible that only by coincidence, an unplanned revelation happened at a convenient time to fire him.)
Apples and oranges. Starship delivers far more to the Moon surface in one flight, which is handy if somebody wants to actually stay on the Moon for prolonged activity. And on a per-kilogram on the Moon surface comparison Starship is quite competitive.
I'm a co-founder of Clerky — I think it really depends on your needs. If you're starting a true startup (as in you are going to optimize for growth, might raise money, etc.), then you'll be better off either using Clerky or working with a good startup attorney, or both. The reason for this is because there is a lot more you'll need to do beyond just incorporation, and we have products for that. Incorporation just causes the corporation to exist, nothing more. No one even owns any shares right after incorporation. The odds of someone getting all the paperwork right on their own if they're not a startup attorney are basically 0%.

Even for incorporation itself, if you do it on your own or work with a registered agent, it's likely that you'll end up needing to at least amend your certificate of incorporation later. Most of the self-help / registered agent resources out there are for regular small businesses, not startups, so the guidance is not really what startups need. Some people like referring to every new business as a startup, I think because it sounds sexier to be working on a startup than a regular small business.

However, if you're starting a regular small business — i.e. not a startup — then I would say using Clerky is not a good idea. We're really purpose-built for startups and don't attempt or purport to serve regular small businesses. Whether you should use a registered agent alone is another question. At a minimum, if you have business partners you're starting the business with, I would say you probably should talk to a business attorney rather than trying to go on your own. On the other hand, if you just need an entity just for the sake of having an entity, and don't really care about whether the paperwork is done correctly or not, then just working with a registered agent directly could suffice.
[dupe]

All these threads talking about the same reports/same mix of companies

Consolidate or something

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38297685

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38306215
I’m not a lawyer, but AFAIK, they can’t relicense any permissive versions that are already out there.

They could choose to relicense future versions (i.e. they could stop future versions from becoming permissive, after 2 years). And if they did that, future changes wouldn’t propagate down (but it’d take 2 years to feel it).

> Every semi-open license/core tactic is just a rug-pull waiting to happen.

Note that everything you’re concerned about can also occur with permissive licensed OSS.
Per my understanding, the board oversees the non-profit which owns the for-profit entity which Microsoft invested in. It's not clear to me how the non-profit board was picked but equity holders in the for-profit don't have a say on the matter.
So to continue the analogy, you'd rather have the board of the company, consisting of MBA CEO's, making decisions about a company's JavaScript standards?

Experts may disagree, but it's still a whole lot better than non-experts disagreeing.
OpenAI buys out Nvidia’s entire production capacity for the next couple quarters

OpenAI’s biggest customer and investor starts buying AMD chips and simultaneously building their own chips

there are a lot of ignorable cracks in the armor that support any number of theories

let alone Altman himself, who knows
Your Board of Directors Is Probably Going to Fire You (2021)
Why not? They could take all the profit from the sale and distribute it to the executives and remain non-profit.

Even If that didn’t work, it would just mean paying taxes on the revenue from the sale. There’s no retroactive penalty for switching from a non-profit to a for-profit (or more likely being merged into a for-profit entity).

I am not an accountant or lawyer and this isn’t legal advice.
Apple was not running laps around the competition at the time Steve Jobs was fired.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
Just to keep things real and your eye on the ball, there's a caveat (well, several) to the statistic you've quoted and linked.

That's "close to" 50% renewables in some regions toward replacing current electricity generation.

If all vehicles stopped using petrol | diesal tomorrow and automagically becam electric the demand for electricity would increase dramatically and renewable contributions as a percentage would dwindle.

It's good work so far but there's still a long way to go, much to do, and a few billion tonnes of mining to churn through just to provide resources for your goal.
Not really the money but expected return on the money from all these features being rolled out. You can 100% bet there was major estimations made on return on investment. Everything they are releasing has some AI magic on it now. The last thing you want to see is chaos in a company you're betting the farm on.
COBOL ONLY USES 2 CHARACTER YEARS IF THAT IS THE WAY IT WAS CODED. PEOPLE DIDN'T THINK THEIR 60'S - 90'S CODE WOULD STILL BE RUNNING IN 2000. COBOL DOES SUPPORT lowercase LETTERS. GET WITH THE TIMES!
or it's the other way around. she wants to launch because money and investors and that's all that she's really about.

he says fuck them and their money, it's not ready yet, here's a bunch of other things that will make people go wooooow.

she's not happy he does that because future. convinces the board of money and investors.

the board shits on humanity and goes for money and investors.
I thought Ilya was from a Russian family who emigrated to Israel last century… You learn.

Whether Albania is in Eastern Europe is debatable. It was behind the Iron Curtain.
Most transparent Fed plant if I've ever seen one.
What about "Help, James Randi has returned as a ghost to haunt me and ridicules me at night for believing in ghosts, what do I do?"
Principles for Automated and Reproducible Benchmarking
Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
No dog's or pet's allowed!
how do you ensure that the AI that you use does not hallucinate? (assuming you use some type of LLM)
I almost think its too late at this point, unless they have one hell of an arc. I don't see them being "open" until MS is totally out of the picture. I honestly don't even hate OpenAI in its current state... but sitting on the fence, trying to be both "open" and attached at the hip to MS is just... odd.
> according to a person familiar with the situation.

Just a rumor. Zero chance someone at MS wasn't already aware.
On point 6, i think the assumption that people will regress against intrusive and abused tech by using older "abuse proof" tech - at least en massse - has been debunked.
Cars have an element of safety and reliability concerns

Teslas are claimed to be the safest cars ever made. In fact, Tesla uses instrumentation to track accelerations many times a second during actual crashes, and gather statistics on what gets hit, and what goes where during a crash.

This is data of a quality head and shoulders above the competitors, and it shows.

On top of that, they are using similar techniques to have the car avoid the crash altogether. These comprise active safety measures which are included with FSD, but which are also standalone and included generally in Tesla cars.
Does it work for me? Then is a success.

Exactly. Open source projects do not rely on 'sales' to survive. If the project scratches MY itch, it really doesn't matter whether it scratches one other person's itch, or millions of other persons' itches.

It sometimes surprises me how many people have seen and even used my projects.
In the world that both Messrs. Schmidt and Altman operate in, liability is a vastly stronger incentive than character.
Critique is not abuse.
A few words can make ChatGPT voice more enjoyable. + Oh god, this is dystopian
You need to read https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ more
It looks very childish to me.

Capitalisation and punctuation provides a form and rhythm to written prose. When you scan (English) prose, your eyes very quickly pick up the start and end of a clause or sentence via the capitol letters and certain marks. English lacks nearly all accents and other "letter adjuster marks" that other languages enjoy. That generally means that when you see a mark of some sort in an English sentence it is a form of containment and not a change of sound.

That means we have a lot less sound adjusters, which means we end up with a lot more "local knowledge". A silly example: Slough and slough - the first is a town in Berkshire and the second is what snakes and crabs etc do to their skins/carapaces to grow to the next size.

That said, English is extraordinarily tolerant of pronunciation in most cases. You may not know the "correct" sound of a word but a bit of a dabble (try slightly different approaches) will get you there.
this is “naked gun”-level “nothing to see here.”
except founding a new startup with a bunch of top level players who recently left top level companies.
>By 2030-2035, people with gas cars will be looking at maps to find open gas stations.

I'm already doing that now for true Diesel #2 in SoCal with my '15 VW GSW TDI SEL. Diesel was always hit-and-miss being at about a third of stations, but now it seems like two-thirds of the stations which had Diesel #2 converted to some B20-B50 variant or even R99.

I wonder how many diesel fuel systems are getting absolutely pwned by ignorant owners putting high(er) biodiesel content fuel in contact with gaskets which will swell and fail once the owners switch back to Diesel #2...
Most pre-industrial cities were limited by how far you could walk in 30 minutes to the center of town where the markets and government would be.

Most people walked everywhere, especially in a city.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-29/the-commu...
I’d try to get to the source of the compute, partner with AMD and Nvidia to build out DCs architected from the ground up to train and serve LLM’s. Get rid of Microsoft…
That’s usually because you’re using Cloudflare’s DNS, either explicitly or implicitly via Apple private relay (long saga you can easily search for)
Don Box ;)
meaning BIG THIEVERY
This goes against all the theories saying it was Satya that forced him out or was otherwise some back room deal with MS.

sama’s generic “looking forward to what’s next” response also doesn’t give me confidence it won’t be a bigger scandal
Insecure renting ages you faster than owning a home, unemployment or obesity
infuriating, but man it's gonna make a great HBO series
PC manufacturing is wildly different than car manufacturing. Building a car requires like 20 different disciplines all working in unison, perfectly. Regardless of how cheap the battery gets, it's still complicated, difficult and expensive to make a car [that doesn't suck]. So it's unlikely prices will drop significantly just because one big component gets cheaper, and "scaling" production is still very hard. Just screwing up one assembly step can cause huge costs.
The cuba part. The Mexico thing, wow I'm going to have to look that one up, I am ignorant on that. I don't see what it has to do with Ukraine wanting to join NATO , I didnt say I want them to join NATO, just it's a fact they've talked about this.
Greg just quit too: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
Netflix documentary… so fiction?
You can detach the browser addon into its own window too, I would be too cautious using any third party clients like that.
“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have our hands around your…”
I'm pressing X really hard to doubt.
Check out https://konvajs.org/docs/sandbox/Canvas_Scrolling.html
That really seems to skip over point #2, which seems like a much stronger indication that this wasn't just a planned transition.
Its the same as Covid where people said it was going to kill everyone or was an authoritarian conspiracy. chatGPT is neither the singularity or useless junk. I use it everyday at work to write code but it’s not about to take my job either.
It's more like "why use Linux if you dislike using the shell?" or maybe "why use XMonad if you dislike Haskell?"

Which aren't unreasonable questions; there are a lot of people who use XMonad despite not caring about Haskell, just because they enjoy using it.
https://www.thestreet.com/investors/sam-altman-net-worth-how...
life imitates art
Usually news orgs don’t put their reputation on the line unless they feel there’s some substance
That is definitely the problem foundation want to solve. Hope then it could reasonably speed up the development
Jesus. I saw he was "demoted" but he's totally out now, right?
I'd be willing to put money down that Altman was embezzling funds. See worldcoin.
https://fxtwitter.com/ShimminyKricket/status/172562744637490...
"Deliberative process" just means they had some sort of discussion amongst the board members before they took the vote.
I wouldn’t hold my breath - there is still plenty of excess demand for new cars to be worked off before auto manufacturers will need to lower prices - evidence of this is the decline in used car prices, but now where bear back to “trend” levels… https://site.manheim.com/en/services/consulting/used-vehicle...
I don't think so. LLMs are absolutely not a scam. There are LLMs out there that I can and do run on my laptop that are nearly as good as GPT4. Replacing GPT4 with another LLM is not the hardest thing in the world. I predict that, besides Microsoft, this won't be felt in the broader tech sector.
And they were quite clear that it wasn't.

It is not a crime to share excitement about new developments that haven't been verified.
Look at all his other leadership jobs. The only other company of note is YCombinator, which was running well before and after his time there. So what makes him so great? Seems more likely that he was not as essential to OpenAI’s success as you give him credit for. Honestly, giving Microsoft a 49% stake for $10B seemed really short-sighted to me and will hamstring the company in the future.
it’s not really possible for it to be a scam. if you want to see its product you can go and try it yourself
Layoffs got to C-level?
I think this strengthens my theory that the AI safety true believers wrestled control away from the entrepreneurs.

The Open AI board letter, representing just 4 people, screams butt hurt and personal disagreements. Microsoft, who just finished building OpenAI’s models into every core product, was blindsided. The chairman of the OpenAI board, Greg Brockman, another startup exec was pushed out at the same time. Eric Schmidt, with his own AI startup lab start singing Sam’s praises and saying “what’s next?”

My guess is that Microsoft is about to get fucked and Eric Schmidt is going to pop open a bottle of expensive champagne tonight.
> t became public that Google was building a computer vision system for targeting drone strikes for the Pentagon, and a number of executives resigned over it.

er what? source?
Don’t doubt conspiracy theorists ability to declare evidence to the contrary as all part of the plan.
Y'all understand that gas stations make almost all their money from snacks right? They make maybe up to 10 cents a gallon on gas. It's always been a low margin business, but since gas can sit in a gas station's below ground tank for months at a time, it's not really a concern for them if people start filling up gas less and start super-charging more. They will simply have less fuel resupplies. That's all.
Depends on how long you are allowed to do the staring.

Its very commonly said that if you stare into another person's eyes for thirty seconds, you'll either fight or fuck.
Did Joule ever actually ever build a Brayton engine? It's one thing to publish papers about how a thing might be done, but it's another entirely to actually create an invention.
My guess is OP needed money. Same reasons many take an entirely office job when they prefer to work remotely.
Sam Altman never informed the board, let ChatGPT write all his mails instead?
No that's not my point. I'm not saying he's a liar or not, I'm saying that they are not similar regardless. He could be a liar without being a fraud. Openai is already not Theranos no matter what happens next.
I can tell HNers haven't worked at the executive level. Executives can and do do things all the time without informing their PR departments ahead of time. Often the feigned surprise is intended.

"Im shocked to see gambling in this establishment! Shocked I tell you!"
Greg Brockman has also left:
https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
> Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk's antisemitic posts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310673
Thankfully LLMs aren't that much secret sauce. Hope another company / open source can keep them on their feet.
The max temp differential may just be the initial prototype they constructed, and not an inherent limitation of the technology.

In general, capacitance isn't dependent on temperature. Capacitor temperature limitations are really just an optimization for density. There may be another choice of inexpensive materials that works over a vastly greater temperature differential.

Refrigerant-based systems are 300% Carnot efficient? Perhaps you mean Coefficient of Performance?
An important function of language (and accent) is to distinguish between groups/classes of people.

Makes it easy to tell if someone spent many years at school, or learnt a "trade", to tell people from one (monied) area from a less affluent part of town.

For this function, "correct" or "incorrect" use of apostrophes (like an accent) is serving a very clear purpose - telling others your position in society.
You may like the game "Before Your Eyes" then, it's controlled by blinking: https://www.gog.com/en/game/before_your_eyes
This suggests that Greg Brockman wasn't in the board meeting that made the decision, and only "learned the news" that he was off the board the same way the rest of us did.
Bahahahaha. The South seceded explcitly so they could keep black humans as slaves. Full stop. Any defense saying otherwise is playing into a bullshit narrative spun over years by southern apologists and the KKK.

The South fought to maintain black humans as slaves. The South fought to preserve white supremacy.

Anyone who argues otherwise is an idiot or a white supremacist trying to hide it.

Edit: grammar
Concur. GPT4 is like having an infinite-energy L3 engineer reporting to me. That's worth $10,000 per month according to the labor market. Sam has been giving away the farm!
If you’d ask around yesterday, every sane person would say there’s zero change Altman will be soon fired on the spot. We’re already past that point.
this keeps getting better and better
Yeah, this is not a good sign for OpenAI. Or at least not for those who appreciate what OpenAI was working to become.
This totally business-as-usual post from Greg Brockman happened 1 hour before the one from OpenAI: https://x.com/gdb/status/1725595967045398920

https://x.com/openai/status/1725611900262588813

How crazy is that?!

(Edit 2 minutes after) .. and /there/ Greg quit!!

https://x.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
affair with employee

Just like the McDonald's CEO.
Previously:

When NASA Used an RC Tiger II to Drill into Space Shuttle Tires

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38228114 ( 6 days ago, 160 pts, 72 comments )
This feels like the beginning of the end of a hype cycle to me.
I always felt his sister is unhinged, I doubt she has anything to do with this
many things are happening
Well "out" as in he explicitly quit. He wasn't fired.
Microsoft had no prior knowledge: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/microsoft-openai-sam-altman...
Part of being a distribution monopoly is delivering power to everyone, not just places where it's profitable. People in rural areas are able to afford grid electricity because the disproportionate cost of delivering power to them is subsidized by people living in cities paying the same rates.

Rooftop solar being cheaper overall than a grid connection for some people isn't that surprising. There are lots of other costs and externalities associated with running a grid that don't need to be contemplated for off grid home solar.