skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also I'd just like to add: everyone forgets that not everyone lives near an urban center. It'd be fine to get rid of 90-95% of the internal combustion cars/trucks and then move on to the next biggest target. We don't need to jump to 100% on everything.
The anti-snitching culture within this community seems to rival that of even the mafia. Perhaps that's why it's been called "the gay mafia" in the past...
It was supposed to be a non-profit
Oh damn, I still have my original Half Life CD key committed to memory. I wonder if that still works.
Mine are really really weird. They’ll be an ominous photo of Elon with some headline like “This changes everything” from some blue check person account with 500 followers and the URL is like, “vegans.site” or something else entirely unrelated.

They’re not even running low-end ads at this point. They’re running generated clickbait.

Oh and absolute blatant trademark violations. An ad with Elon’s face and the X logo for “X Coin official ICO”

How can they possibly pivot to money handling services if they have no choice but to let their brand be completely eroded like that?
You could try reading something more thoughtful than yellow journalism.

E.g. this https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/editor-in-chief-note-use...
Are you new to Hacker News?
Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman
Yes indeed, this industry is filled with obscure improper and/or fake work because we rely on cars too much and are hostages.

Makes me think a tiny city open source hardware EV, with a pedagogical ecosystem, would be cool
Mathematics is about following the rules, you first define some formal rules, then you study the consequences of such definition.

A well-known example: 5th Euclid axiom leads to Euclidean geometry, while a different axiom leads to non-euclidean geometries.
This would be an enormous overreaction to a buggy but seemingly successful rollout.
Death knell of OpenAI
How did the actions of the company not line up with being safe and ethical? It seems to have been tuned to be extremely safe and non-offensive, to a pretty extreme degree.

And totally unrelated, what’s wrong with worldcoin? Isn’t that the UBI project? That seems to line up with the idea that ai will create huge amounts of wealth, and he wanted to share it.
Fall upwards to a better job than CEO of OpenAI circa 2023? What job is that?
Allow me to put my conspiracy hat on: Microsoft has an open “embrace, extend, extinguish” policy since forever. ChatGPT integration into Microsoft has been a huge win for them. Maybe they cleverly figured out a way to guarantee openAI would go bankrupt and know they’d eventually end up with the models due to clever contracts and legal wizardry, and now this ship is about to sink and sama new about this but couldn’t do anything to avoid it?
Generally this is unlikely the happen (obviously will depend on which EV and which ICE). The reason being is that consumers have generally accepted the cost for cars at a certain level. Rather than dropping the price for cars, they add more features or improve quality to justify a certain price point.

The average ICE engine hasn't changed, from a technology standpoint, has not changed in decades. What's changed is all the internal technology (entertainment systems, parking cameras) as well as trim that's become standard (power everything). These standards are defined by the market. Case in point: see what the standard for cars (both quality and price) are for a given market like US vs India.

It's unlikely they will lower margins so much as to make less money from EV's than from ICE cars. An analogous model are iPhones. The old iPhones could be sold today at a fraction of the price but instead they release new models with better features to justify the higher price point.

(This is all with a caveat that I'm talking about sticker price. Given that EV maintenance should generally be cheaper, without a doubt the target is to have the total cost of ownership be lower than an ICE car as that's how EV's are being positioned today.)
The original commercial has Van Damme using safety lines.
This pretty much summarizes how the media LIES all the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9l_2E4LPgY&t=1018s
Show HN: Animating 1000 squares with Web Audio API tones
I was dying to make something tonight but drawing a complete blank. After watching some python sim videos, I figured lets combo these with the web audio api and see what happens.
> covered up a massive data breach or something similar to that

Honest question: do execs or companies in general ever suffer consequences for data breaches? Seems like basically no one cares about this stuff.
FWIW it is simpler because BUSL source can change to any license (including copyleft), whereas FSL can only change into MIT or Apache 2.0. So it goes from N possibilities to 2.

> Is there any functional difference between apache and MIT?

Apache 2.0 has an explicit patents clause, whereas MIT does not.

Better explanation here: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/apache-2-patent-license
I'm a NixOS user, and having seen ideologically-charged members (on both sides of the aisle) maliciously edit package manifests, I'm glad these dick-swingers get kicked to the curb. There isn't room for your politics when designing open source software, and if anyone disagrees with that it's their prerogative to fork the software.

If it was my call, I'd go even further. If you're unwilling to put your love of software development before your arbitrary personal opinions, you shouldn't be trusted in the SDLC. It's a petty rabbit hole that ends in people writing overly restrictive CoCs instead of pounding down the offending users with a mallet. Make an example out of them.
That's interesting. More like a prediction market about whatever becomes publicly told as the reason why he was fired. If e.g. this was military-related, it's unlikely it would be publicly known, so betting on "Military" is almost pointless
> Instead of charging per KW/hr, charge based on the actual costs to the electric provider. A fixed monthly cost representing the cost of upkeep and being connected to the grid, and a variable cost portion that actually reflects usage.

California recently adopted a version of this.

> But if solar is getting large enough that this is becoming a problem for the utilities, then the answer is to fix the pricing issue - not to stop putting up solar.

California has adopted mandates for solar on new construction; reducing separate incentives is not a decision “to stop putting up solar”.
Equating "Here's the full source code and you can do more or less what you want with it, except this one specific thing because it would really harm the future development of this software" with "proprietary" (that is, "no access to the source code at all") is just silly and ridiculous.
Devil's advocate: "actual ownership" is overrated in the same way that banks having a 100% reserve ratio is overrated.

Mortgages form a low risk/return investment (in theory anyway) which frees capital for medium risk/return investments, especially for young people who can benefit from the higher long term returns. Once they get old, they can transition their investments to low risk, such as mortgages as part of various investment funds.

This makes capital more liquid and generally improves the efficiency of the economy (in theory anyway, if you ignore bad actors doing subprime mortgages/etc)
This is more like them requiring a license, but then also refusing to actually check yours.
You can't make this stuff up.

https://babylonbee.com/news/we-cannot-be-associated-with-elo...
That would be a form of obfuscated profit-sharing, not equity ownership. Equity is something you can sell to someone else.
Is it possible that the Open AI employees had to recuse themselves from the vote?
is it a new 3ds?
Pretty much, yes.

From Musk:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724933980276084909

Article from CNN talking about their definition of racism.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/us/anti-defamation-league-rac...

The ADL's definition:
"The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people."

Also they have defined saying "it's okay to be white" as hateful language.
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/its-okay-be-white

There are a few other such examples, such as statements from ADL leadership.

The controversy is that people are calling this antisemitism
As someone with a journalism degree I am really sad about this news. Also learned a new term in this story, news desert.

Here in Michigan the city of Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, and one of the few places in the state growing in population lacks a daily newspaper and that fact just amazes me. I think Washtenaw county where the city is located has the highest number of college and graduate degrees per capita in the state.
A non-profit can make plenty of profit, there just aren't any shareholders.
OpenAI is two entities, one nonprofit and the other for-profit, that are owned by the same umbrella company.
The simplest solution is often the best. In this case, Sam did something that was so dramatically bad resulting in a high level of legal peril, which created an existential risk for OpenAI and Microsoft, or something in his personal life came to light that was beyond the pale. I love the AGI theories but in all likelihood it’s probably a boring thing: he made a terrible choice in his life somewhere and it’s caught up to him, with major consequences.
How could disabling auto-capitalization influence aesthetics?
yeah, that answer
Lot of famous rich powerful people have been accused of horible things they have never done. Look at all the crazy accusations levied against Bill Gates over the last few years from the alt-right.

Lots of mentally ill blame relatives for crazy shit. I know from personal experience watching my family and extended deal with my mentally ill uncle trying to get him help and deal with his accusations and threats. He had a full flow chart of his insane conspiracy nonsence that connected everyone in his life to some horrible accusations. My father (who refused to communicate with him after recieving multiple death threats and endless calls begging for money) according to my uncle was in league; Satan, the sheriff department, and his exgirlfriends brothers girlfriend to do various horrible thing to him I do not exagerate.

Altman happens to be wealthy famous and in position of power and have a mental ill sibling. I find it very possible he has done nothing to her. I have no proof either way.

My only thought is that all else being equal I would tend to trust the word of someone that is emotionally and mentally stable more than that of someone that is neither and has admitted to being off of their medication and is making accusations about something that they were to young to remember with any degree of accuracy.
Yeah the media LIES all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9l_2E4LPgY&t=1018s
Yes, it was clear that he was lying, but lying doesn't matter for in a vacuum, the thing that matters is what he's lied about. That's what it's fun to speculate about.
South Australia has sourced 71.5% of its electricity from wind and solar over the last 12 months. It was 86.9% in October of this year. And its main transmission company is forecasting it will be 100% by 2026/27 [1]

To be absolutely clear, the percentages above are wind and solar only. They don't include hydro of which SA has only one small generator (3MW), that is situated in the main city's gravity-fed supply pipes. [2]

[1] https://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-solar-meet-stunning-87-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Storage_Mini_Hydro
In the last hour he's gone to the opposite extreme, posting :

As I said earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide.

Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.

'Decolonization' has been in the air a lot recently due to the ongoing war in Gaza but is mainly used to describe the gradual unwinding of European colonialism/imperialism; Wikipedia's article provides a good overview. The term is often associated with Frantz Fanon, who opposed the French colonialization of Algeria, and wrote several influential books on the subject, the most famous being The Wretched of the Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization

For Musk to engage in such an abrupt reversal of his stated free speech ideals (and barely-qualified endorsement of white nationalist conspiracy theories yesterday), Twitter's financials must be undergoing a severe erosion.
More so just irresponsible to share 2nd hand rumors without evidence. If someone else had first hand experience that would be one thing, but its far enough away from me to confidently share.
Yes its still the underlying software thats terrible.

It's an almost straight port of normal android into the headset which is at least familiar but they've really not made any progress in making it more VR and comfortable over time. Lots of small tweaking of whats probably not a great overall fit for VR.

For a direct example look at the room boundary system and setup.

Even with the new depth sensor and the color passthrough, it fails to figure out whether a table is a surface or a pillow of polygons, it fails to set reasonable wall boundaries (and then the ui is awful for addressing that) and then it nags and irritates people with those failures and misunderstandings.

Last I checked, the room software still only stores one room in your house. If you go to your kitchen for your coffee... remake the room boundary over again.

This is very fundamental for any AR to be built on and its terrible and unreliable.

Edit- also, last I checked, if you turn off boundary nagging with the devtools you cannot use the passthrough mode whatsoever.
many features != good experience
Why would Schmidt be privy to such information? Is OpenAI full of leakers?
>require months of re-training

the computers they have, you wouldn't believe it...
Given the other comments in this thread, this vote was very recent, with Sam apparently not knowing of the situation yesterday. They haven't even updated their website, this page still describes Sam as CEO: https://openai.com/our-structure

With this apparent rush, I'd habour the guess that the situation just happened to unfold on a Friday and wasn't planned as such.
Don't they only have to hide the truth from one person? Altman and Brockman were ousted. The only other person on the board from OpenAI is the Chief Scientist, and I doubt he's that involved in the business-end of things.

Edit: Also, yes, it's hard to sweep things under the rug. We don't know the timeline of events, and we're seeing an instance where Altman failed to hide something.
Why do you think it's great?
Similar to E.Musk. Maybe a little less obvious.
Has anyone recently told you how superior you are to everyone else, with your secret knowledge oh great wizard? I feel like that's what you bunch want to hear, since you are in on the world conspiracy.
A number of the Gmail features are unique to the web app, not standard email filters so while Mail.app will get you the core features you'll still need the ability to run the web app from time to time (eg: updating mail filters)
Network latency doesn’t matter as long as the latency is consistent. The limiting factor is how much the roundtrip time varies.
Isn't it possible Sutskever and Brockman voted with Altman, but since Altman had to recuse himself they lost 3-2?
Is that a suggestion to protect network packets or is there another use on the client?
Impressive you know that. I simply confused it with the sword, Narsil. I just considered that close enough to be unfair haha
He's thrown away $45 billion..
I think you overread it and OP meant turbines generally, but yes, if you mean only jets, that’s different.
To be fair the UX on those things is abysmal.

Github could improve the experience 10 fold.
Microsoft already has the GPT models, that's how Azure OpenAI is a thing from what I understand.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/cognitive-services/o...
Adam Neumann is not a good example. While he has proven good at raising money he has not been proven at running a business or even finding successful ones. My comment was exactly about that difference.
He's already set for life rich
Taking over the world, obviously ;)
If I haven't found it after thirty seconds, I put on a long sleeve shirt and open the door...
Chasing the impossible for three years and succeeding
True, so it can't be this exact situation. Possibly he sold it including training data or gave access to another company? We'll see, but something in that direction still seems likely to me.
I wouldn't buy a Chinese ICE vehicle (besides maybe a Wuhan-made Honda). What makes you think EVs would be any different?
IIRC redeeming a Half-Life or Counter-Strike CD key on Steam grants you the Half-Life 1 Anthology pack[1], so it's worth giving it a shot!

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/237/HalfLife_1_Antholo...
Kara Swisher just tweeted that MSFT knew about it merely minutes before the statement went out: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725657068575592617

Folks like Schmidt, Levchin, Chesky, Conrad have twitter posts up that weirdly read like obituaries.
We are on an article talking American homeownership. America is projected to continue growing through the rest of the century due to immigration.
Sentient AGI has just as likely a chance to pull the plug on itself.

Unpopular, non-doomer opinion but I stand by it.
> all the other people working there

Or, the people working at Google.
Thanks I was just trying to remind the community that these can come in forms unrelated to investment, product vision, profitability or market penetration and that an action like this doesn't say anything necessarily about the company
I disagree. It is either simply lazy or (charitable interpretation) ... lazy.

No journo. or professional writer I know would ever forget to hit the shift key for some sort of weird "convenience". It is harder to write all lower case prose. Hit . + and you are primed to hold left shift for the next character with your left or right small finger (pinkie).

We humans mostly have five digits per hand. Even a single finger "poker" will manage to hit shift too, when appropriate.

Many years ago I used to teach a hand written correction markup used on manuscripts. Delta for delete, triple underline for change of case, the correct way to route clause moves etc. You put the change in the body and a symbol in the left margin for each change. To accommodate these changes you use 1.5 or double space inter line in your draft. You might also allow a slightly larger margin but that is generally optional and probably wasteful. The marginal indicator markers can be a bit "loose" - its hand written so an asterisk and a foot note is always an option for really tricky cases. When it gets too bad, the spike is the final home for the piece (or an open fire).

Your experience of journalism is rather different to mine.
So what's your point? How does the fact that an LLM learns only during training make it any less "learning"?
Hipaa definitely was in there, but you don’t fire people rapidly for that, unless it was deliberate, and I can't see Sam surprising people with that.
If you were accused of this, what proof would you insist on? Would you accept allegations made on Twitter?
Brayton Cycle is the established term and it's not some unique American proclivity. This seems like unnecessary nationalistic nonsense.
They fired him for lying. I think GP meant what they said, which is that what he was doing was blatantly lying, rather than whatever softer interpretation can be made for "not consistently candid in his communications".
Yeah a lot of that. And OnlyFans models replying to everything as cheap marketing. And bluechecks spamming to drive engagement to make their $8 back.

It's really been a race to the bottom.
IIRC, in a video I saw a couple of days ago, Noam Chomsky referred to LLMs as plagiarists.
Technically, you can sometimes measure the motor position without a position sensor by measuring the back EMF (although I doubt Tesla is doing this, IIRC it's hard to get good starting torque out of this setup)
A seat at the table for the revolution.

You have to understand that OpenAI was never going to be anything more than the profit limited generator of the change. It’s the lamb. Owning a stake in OpenAI isn’t important. Creating the change is.

Owning stakes in the companies that will ultimately capture and harvest the profits of the disruption caused by OpenAI (and they’re ilk) is.

OpenAI can’t become a profit center while it disrupts all intellectual work and digitizes humanities future: those optics are not something you want to be attached to. There is no flame retardant suite strong enough.
Xash3D was used by marty to port HL1 to the original Xbox [0].

[0] https://github.com/brentdc-nz/Half-LifeX
I can't believe there's never been a Splinter Cell game that breaks into the Pentagon. I feel like I'd appreciate that gameplay.
I think you misunderstood that he helped me overstay my student visa etc.

I was in a Ph.D. program at a top CS school and there are ways to transition your visa when building a startup. It was that I was not sure if the transition or the startup would work out - that startup did not - but years later another one did.

I would probably not have taken the plunge out of academia and not achieved much else had it not been for him. And I am deeply grateful for that.
2023 is a bad year for CEOs of hype-companies named Sam.
"Cool. Create a 4x4 matrix of symphonies, with 'vivaciousness' on the X axis and 'dramatic themes' on the Y axis, then listen to them all and tell me which one's best."

Sonny: "...oh god"
Yeah that's my guess too. The claim that he doesn't hold equity always struck me as suspect. It's a little like SBF driving around in the Toyota Corolla while buying tens of millions of dollars of real estate for himself and his family.

It's better to claim your stake in a forthright way, than to have some kind of lucrative side deal, off the books.

For a non-profit, there was too much secrecy about the company structure (the shift to being closed rather than Open), the source of training data, and the financial arrangements with Microsoft. And a few years ago a whole bunch of employees left to start a different company/non-profit, etc.

It feels like a ton of stuff was simmering below the surface.

(I should add that I have no idea why someone who was wealthy before OpenAI would want to do such a thing, but it's the only reason I can imagine for this abrupt firing. There are staggering amounts of money at play, so there's room for portions of it to be un-noticed.)
It doesn't take a genius to figure out they are losing stupid amounts of money, with no major plan to recoup their investments.

Board probably took a look at updated burn-rate projections, saw that they have 6 months of runway, saw that they don't have enough GPUs, saw that Llama and Mistral and whatever other open-source models are awesome and run on personal computers, and thought to themselves - why the hell are we spending so much God damn money? For $20 a month memberships? For bots to be able to auto-signup for accounts, not prepay, burn compute, and skip the bill?

Then Grok gets released on Twitter, and they are left wondering - what exactly is it that we do, that is so much better, that we are spending 100x of what cheapo Musk is?
>Air Quality

Adding to this, it also appears that even low levels of PM 2.5 air pollution has negative impacts on health over a long timeframe (including increased risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, death, and more).

WHO is now recommending average annual exposure targets should be set 2-3 times lower than current EPA levels and a whopping 5 times lower than EU standards. Serious health complications occur above this level. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10097564/