skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was this based on the concept from the Big Bang Theory show?
Very true. Given the enormous progress, I would definitely bet on night cars being more commonly used than night trains in the US in 10 years.
Genuinely: how is it not relevant? Posted quite some time ago sure, but paints an interesting picture and the first I've heard of it
I feel like he’s been acting a bit strange for a while. During interviews he often mentions the dangers of AI and how he’s not thr best spokeperson for AI. It seemed very counter productive/self sabotaging to me.
I was going to present a fair rebuttal, but you’ve just convinced me that it’s unreasonable for you to expect any answer from me in this debate.
I don't think anyone in this thread knows what happened, but since we're in a thread speculating why the CEO of the leading AI company was suddenly sacked, the possibility of an unacceptable interpersonal scandal isn't any more outlandish than others' suggestions of fraud, legal trouble for OpenAI, or foundering financials. The suggestion here is simply that Altman having done something "big and dangerous" is not a foregone conclusion.

In the words of Brandt, "well, Dude, we just don't know."
He seems like the kind of guy who is already thinking about what he might do next. Trying to keep a positive spin on it.
>The company was dying. OpenAI is not.

You can make the claim about Apple due to the financials being public - you can't make the same claim about OpenAI unless you have insight the rest of the public doesn't have. "facts are facts"?? what facts do you have here?

>Also, you probably don't know that but..the Apple 1 and 2, were designed by Wozniak, not Jobs, Jobs hated them

I'd be shocked if a significant portion of the hacker news audience wasn't aware of who Woz is and the basic high level history of Apple.
Good points. I’d flip 1 around to add a 6th, and that is, progress was oversold - specifically the compute required to go beyond GPT-4 capability.
For example, Mark Hurd was fired from HP because he expensed some non-business-related meals with his mistress or whatever.
> By 2030-2035, people with gas cars will be looking at maps to find open gas stations.

That's a wild statement. Not everyone replaces their vehicles every year. Some people drive a car for 10-20 (+) years before ditching it. There will assuredly still be plenty of open gas stations in 2035.
They could call it Dynamodb ;)
Probably hardware acceleration in the chrome application host. I've seen this behavior in SyncTrayzor (syncthing client) recently.
It’s true. We don’t. But does it matter? Is there demand to change this?
> Because the fact that Copilot is free ...

I found a tree trial and $10/month $100/year after that. I've asked them to consider a free tier for hobbyists that cannot justify the expense but I'm not holding my breath.

If there is a free tier I did not find, please point me to it!
I've always loved these chairs.. they are $12, very light and are almost entirely indestructible under normal use:

https://www.shoprite.com/sm/planning/rsid/316/product/resin-...

If you took one back to 1600 I wonder how much you could get for it?
Good riddance. Carvana was a nightmare of vehicle issues, months late trade-in payoff and revolving door customer support. I truly hope they go out of business.
She has changed it to just Tasha M now, odd!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tasha-m-25475a54/
Apple was not dying in 1985, when Sculley fired Jobs. It wasn't "near bankruptcy" until the Spindler era a decade later.

Jobs didn't hate the Apple I and Apple II. He wouldn't have partnered with Wozniak in the first place if he'd hated the Apple I.

Jobs was the guy who got Apple enough capital from VCs to actually ship the Apple II in mass quantities. That's not something Steve Jobs would do for a computer he hated.

And the Apple IIc was his idea!
> based on the actual costs to the electric provider

They tried this in Texas. During the 2021 winter storms consumers who opted for cheaper rates tied to the actual generation costs ended up with $20k+ power bills.
Given the arbitrary rate limiting they take the liberty of doing, it's a very deliberate decision and entirely within their control to change at any point.
OpenAI has AGI written in the hero on their website. I think Satya was running a bit long and knew so he wanted to wrap it up
Most of those wouldn't result in an urgent publicly-acknowledged firing
No one knows how to do fuel transfer in zero g, but there must be ways. Here's one: lash the orbiters and make them spin as a centrifuge and, of course, drain from the donor where the fuel piles up.
From https://openai.com/our-structure :

> Even OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, does not hold equity directly. His only interest is indirectly through a Y Combinator investment fund that made a small investment in OpenAI before he was full-time.

That word “directly” seems to be relevant here.
> the most successful company of all time

Source? According to what metric?
I'm not saying that you're not right, but this definitely wouldn't warrant an instant firing of your CEO.
In a world where Musk isn't fired from Tesla for being an open anti-semite.
Looks like both are right apparently? Although, mainly your professor's: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/history-and-use-of-t...
The variations of "an h-" are one of my favorite things to stumble on, because it's one of the few times that the written word tells you what kind of accent the writer has.
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google has this to say:

https://x.com/ericschmidt/status/1725625144519909648?s=20

Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you @sama for all you have done for all of us.

Making such a statement before knowing what happened, or, maybe he does know what happened, make this seem it might not be as bad as we think?
"Interim CEO", she may also be marked for termination too.
I mean, the COBOL accounting systems being discussed were developed and put in place after his term, no? So they are, in fact, more modern than they would have been during Eisenhower's time.
Rarely have I found it to be that easy. Generally you'll get a hit on a partial match of your sequence but from that you'll learn about some number theory regarding that sequence or there will be links, formulas and code snippets that help you further research your specific algorithm you're trying to solve. You're just looking for that 'aha!' moment and this database usually delivers. Sometimes that 'aha' is the realization that it's going to be impossible or take too much time or resources to compute and that's just as helpful.

Recursive/fractal sequences are toughest because there's very likely no direct computation. Say your sequence matches with a fractal sequence at only every fifth element, you still have to compute the elements you don't need to get the ones you do need. Sometimes you need a number theory math library to do the computation and that kind of dependency is overkill so now you've got to figure out how recreate just the parts of that math library you need or discover a shortcut (again, using the sequence database.) Invariably you'll discover something new and be able to contribute back.
> he lied to the board about something important enough to fire him on the spot

I'd tend to agree, but "deliberative process" doesn't really fit with this. Sounds like it might have been building for ~weeks or more?
Nope...creasing occurs by pressure applied to the fold. If you stack clothes on top of each other the bottom one will be more creased than the top ones.

The fold as done here, without any external force, won't result in a crease
The company byline is: "Creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity"
I suspect that commenter is sarcastically mocking this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_women Specifically the controversial "believe all women" phrasing.
I hear what you're saying, AND ... if you have a couple of hours, review some daily summary videos of the recent Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial.

Coming from an "I believe the woman" background myself, I was pretty shocked.
Organizations are systems, not people, if he put into place the right incentive structure then the company will go in a good direction with or without him. Arguably the structure is now set in stone with his departure.
The implication is that this could be the 'unrelated reason', that he lied to the board about sexually assaulting his sister/step-sister/whatever. Of course, I'm not sure who Annie Altman is or how exactly she is related to Sam or if the allegations are true.
New rule on hiring a tech leader, don't be named Sam.
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I mean yes, but that would require an investigation normally.

Something to happen immediately would require overwhelming evidence on hand in the meeting. So it could be something that has been uncovered as part of the due diligence with the MS investment

Its more likely to be fabrication of numbers, or misappropriation of funds, rather than something "dramatic" Think musk at paypal being monumentally incompetent, rather than planned misdeeds.
Including Amber Heard?
Its even older if you want to focus on when these ideas started being written about academically. Markov chains are from the early 1900s. Bayes theorem is from the 18th century.
Most plausible hypothesis I’ve read so far
You sharing this made it the 6th most read article on the guardian today as of right now
Episode 142 starts at about 1 hour 5 minutes if they're talking about the one I just went back to watch.
https://rocket.rs/v0.5/news/2023-11-17-rwf2-prelaunch

They address your concern, a foundation is being created
HeartSuite is offering $1k bug bounty for first person to "capture our flag"
I'd guess Leaf or Bolt.
Would I borrow at 2.25% when I could get 5% on what I borrowed and immediately pay off the borrowed amount if the 5% slipped? Yes I would, why wouldn't I?
Not gone, just out of power.
Hard to imagine it was so major that it lead to him being fired while still being so quiet that it hasn't hit any news outlets
Altman's sister's allegations seemed pretty disastrous.
A human blink is 100ms, it would be amazing if in half that time a blink could be detected and the feed immediately switch to someone new once you open your eyes again.
Plausible that the reason nobody else has released a GPT4 equivalent is that it costs an unbelievable amount to run but he thought they could get the cost down quickly enough that it wouldn’t matter.
Security lapses is still sadly not a fireable offense. It has to be either money related, criminal, or something deeply embarrassing. More embarrassing that being a public anti-semite (like another tech CEO not yet fired by their board).
are we allowed to ask questions about his sister now or will that get flagged and deleted again?
I don't thing there's necessarily anything there. Microsoft might be burning money because they've decided that browser adoption and usage is worth it to them. It doesn't have to involve OpenAI in any way.
I think this is the most important detail here. The board is meant to follow the principles of the non-profit, that may have been the most important consideration here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift#Criticisms

Just because someone gives it a formal name doesn't mean it's true.

>One person's savings is another person's debt.

Only if you treat fiat currency (or bank deposits in general, the paradox you mention was formulated long before we got off the gold standard) as the only possible form of savings.
The board is the board of a non profit, isn't it?
> Electricity during the daytime will be free

> Panels will be cheap as dirt

If you don’t consider the capital of a panel then sure free / cheap as dirt.

Then the sun goes down and the wind doesn’t happen to blow, so you fire up your gas turbine.
>It's free, so why not join today!

Evidently their passion for punctuation does not extend to the question mark.
Flagged without a vouch button. Interesting.
I think you are mixing things up. Apple was experiencing a sales slump but was far from dying in 1985. Jobs got ousted in a power struggle between him an Sculley who was CEO. In 1997, when Jobs returned, Apple was reportedly months away from bankruptcy, and only survived because of a cash infusion from Microsoft.
Yes, I understand there's usually a union vote before a strike. To clarify, you said, "Tesla's "happy workers" had to vote on it and decided to."

In a sense, that's probably true. But also maybe members of IF Metall at large voted on this, not just Tesla workers. After all, IF Metall stopped union members at other service shops than Tesla from working on Teslas. If so, then it could be that there indeed were "happy Tesla workers" who voted against it but must abide the union rules. We know there are service technicians working for Tesla who are unhappy with the strike ( https://www.na.se/2023-11-16/tesla-ar-den-basta-arbetsgivare... ).
Nintendo also dedicated an issue of Nintendo Power to a full strategy guide for Final Fantasy, including a surprising amount of new (heavily Westernized) art depicting various scenes in the game. I read that issue front to back many times before I ever had a chance to play the actual game. (In retrospect it gave some bad advice, because the authors were unaware that the game had numerous bugs that made equipment and spells work differently than intended. But the maps were very) useful!
100% this. Firing your well-recognized and seemingly capable CEO means there's a fatal problem, or that he committed something so reprehensible that there was no option but to oust him immediately.

Maybe Sam had been trying to broker a sale of the company without consulting the board first? All speculation until more details are revealed but he must've done something of similar magnitude.
Well, the problem with that is the CTO is now the interim CEO. Not saying she might still not be fired; but it would seem a little strange to make the arsonist the temporary executive.
Different, but they also share some major base training sets, i.e Wikipedia.

If differentiation is really about proprietary training data sets, then the winner will be determined by a data land grab, not by technology differentiation.
Assuming Ilya voted to fire him, this clearly was not about some technical oversight or something that was unknown which suddenly came to light. its likely over some financial stuff like burn rate or undisclosed partnerships.
Ah yes—as the saying goes: “keep your friends at the Bayes-optimal distance corresponding to your level of confidence in their out-of-distribution behavior, and your enemies closer”
My bet is that the last paragraph of the statement holds the key:

> OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. In 2019, OpenAI restructured to ensure that the company could raise capital in pursuit of this mission, while preserving the nonprofit's mission, governance, and oversight. The majority of the board is independent, and the independent directors do not hold equity in OpenAI. While the company has experienced dramatic growth, it remains the fundamental governance responsibility of the board to advance OpenAI’s mission and preserve the principles of its Charter.

This prompted me to actually read up on the charter: https://openai.com/charter
If the CEO attempted to hide it though…
Not Brockman, Altman.
She was involved with starting "Fellow Robots" in 2014, which is a spin-off of some sketchy for-profit AI "university" deal called "Singularity University".

AFAICT she's notable because she's been an academic and executive in the field for many years, in many different companies.
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-chatgpt-is-coming-... We helped our sales teams cut RFP response times from weeks (involving multiple folks) to minutes. They still review all the answers and handle edge cases, but it's been a huge value addition allowing them to spend more time engaging with customers.
I second this. As someone who's operated in the startup and YC ecosystems for years, I've seen Sam help a lot of people with no clear upside for himself. He's a net plus to Silicon Valley and SF by a long shot.
What are the parameters of the non-profit? Not having thriving as a goal for any org, even a non-profit, seems weird to me. Note that thriving is not synonymous with growing.
Since you're alluding to there not being a policy - someone can now tie a face to an IP address.
You can know someone is a bad person from casual interaction, but not vice versa. There's basically no way to know if anyone intelligent is a good person without extremely intense surveillance. I guess with an unintelligent person, you can assume that they're not smart enough to hide if they're doing something really bad, but even then, maybe they're just playing dumb.
Ever since the 3000 gen of Nvidia GPUs have simply gone out of being a possibility for anyone in the 3rd world, they are way too expensive.

Add in the increase in energy costs... I don't know, really.
Wow. That's unbelievable! Guy was doing a perfect work? There's something huge behind this. If AI is as serious as they were talking about, theyb should be investigated
You got me excited that Github Copilot was free. Was going to post to tell you it is, in fact, not free.
I've been using Bing on Edge browser for a while now, it's super useful! Sad that they rebranded it to Copilot though, "I have been a good Bing :)" will be forever in my memory. [1] RIP Bing, you were a good chat mode.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
6% of rape allegations are proven to be false so you should absolutely not do that[1] Take the claims seriously but don't assume guilt automatically, everyone deserves due process.

[1] https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/health/services/promotion/...
He’s a major investor in that AI pin thing? If that is so, maybe something like this is the cause for him being fired.
The problem from the maintainer side is:

0. Don't give away something and expect tips, donations, or anything else because it will only lead to resentment. If you voluntarily give something away, you basically lose all control of how it's used in the real world. If someone intends to make money from code, then OSS is probably the wrong approach.

The challenges from the user side are:

1. Donate time, money, and effort based on utility and necessity to support what's vital.

2. Be a proactive self-starter whenever possible rather than depend on others for support.

3. Some maintainers and communities turn out to have an un{cool,professional} culture of hostility, uncooperativeness, or unhelpfulness. Don't waste time with that.
Since it's based on Electron, they might need to delete the `~/.config/<whatever bitwarden uses>/GPUCache` directory. I have this invisible text issue with VSCode and Chromium after every weekly packages update, because of Mesa updates I believe.

Edit: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/40366#issuecomme...
I feel like most of the people hypothesizing here in the comments haven't read the full statement.

With such an insistence on the fact that OpenAI is supposed to be non-profit and open for all of humanity, it's pretty clear that the board doesn't like the direction that the company has taken, both in its search of profit and its political lobbying to restrict innovation.
OpenAI is really using Mechanical Turk? (I'm mostly kidding.... mostly)
Two comments:

1) Saying the “right” things does not work in the long run because people want results. Also, if the “right” things are not true, they will notice, and there are usually consequences.

2) I think May Angelou is right that people remember how you make them feel. I also think they remember people’s actions and statements. A good example of this is Google itself. People eventually figured out that the “do no evil” moto was bullshit. They also figured out that when Google said something, you should be skeptical because of Google’s track record of canceling products.
There's a prediction market here about why he was fired: https://manifold.markets/sophiawisdom/why-was-sam-altman-fir...
twitter :)
I wonder if people holding those fears are even using the internet today? Its been this way, full of automatically written noise for decades perhaps now. The limiting factor is not what method you use to churn out junk content. Its probably just limited by cost of compute and hosting, things that have been “too cheap to meter” for these sorts of junk content websites for a very long time now.

The future ai spam internet will look exactly the same as the current automated spam internet, is my guess.
The CTO would have to go in this case too, not be promoted to interim CEO... unless they didn't know it was going on - in which case they shouldn't be made interim CEO either
Conversely, a lot of Dutch people use apostrophes for plurals in English, probably more so than the average non-native speaker, because that's considered correct in Dutch.

Mixing languages is hard. I've lived abroad for a few years I can no longer tell the time in Dutch. Does "half two" mean "half past two" (14:30) or "half of two" (13:30)? From where I'm sitting now, I'm genuinely not sure; in (British) English it's usually the latter, although that's confusing as well because Americans usually mean the former (or was it the reverse?)

Maybe I'm just stupid – I've never been able to recite the alphabet either (always get confused somewhere after O/P).
Sure, "good person" may sound generic. But he is still a good person trying to do the right things. To me it sounds like the board is afraid of being sued and needs to clearly appoint a scapegoat.
That board meeting will be in a movie someday I'm pretty sure.
Corporate malfeasance is not exclusive to tech and neither are collections of incredibly intelligent people.
thank's a lot
He’d be a strong SVP managing a department of little consequence.
I can't find it?

I can think of quite a few entities that are very, very interested in this data.

Nice project though!
Detail for founders to understand importance of share structures?
is this incredible detail for founders to understand importance of voting share structures?

Openai vs Facebook. One board can fire founders other can't. Despite FB being a public company.

Is this great lesson here for all founders out there?
Don’t forgot the major outage incidents attributed to DDoS and auth failures between the 6th and 15th
>My tesla model s is about 10 years old now and it's cost of ownership is far lower than any gasoline car I have had... total cost of ownership of EVs will be lower than gasoline cars by 2025

are you saying your tesla's total cost of ownership is higher than gasoline cars you've had? Or that your car is somehow unusually cheap, given that you bought an expensive one and we are before 2025?
Sam Altman just tweeted: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1725631621511184771
Can you please share the email?
Seems to be based entirely on "repressed memories" which is junk science. False memories are demonstrably very easy to create.
Survey: Most German students have used ChatGPT for homework
Bad example. He also was part of a number of startups including Transmeta.
Did you know about Kodak and Apartheid? During the 1960‘s, Kodak developed a photo id system for the South African government which was better at taking pictures of darker skin. Due to employee and international pressure, in 1971 Kodak declared they were pulling out of South Africa. Privately though, they used Frank & Hirsch as an intermediary to continue to supply the passbooks until they were found out in 1977.