skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about the Cisco or VMWare examples. I recall the Twitter and Reddit situations as being more like the products having reached a plateau where people generally knew what it was and how it fit into the world. What feels remarkable to me is where OpenAI is in its potential trajectory as leader of a possible revolution in IT.

But I guess the amount of contingency in how all this might play out may well be the reason for the ouster.
Sounds like a mess. It's practically annexed by Microsoft now anyway, might as well stop being shy about being for-profit.
Sweden:

1/ no new nuclear reactor since 1985, despite hydro being the best existing storage system for nuclear (hydro resources there are fantastic), and hydro remaining there the main source of electricity

2/ wind is very quickly gaining traction https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

3/ Some may remember the Forsmark'2006 near-miss ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J... ) and fight against this project.
Exactly! Really excited about a realignment back to the mission. I hope Ilya knows what he's doing with so much pressure on him now
This probably won't sound satisfying but I can give you an honest answer from my own experience since I am seeing a shift in the hiring/interviewing/recruiting process myself.

I think the market is a bit wonky at the moment. You have an exodus of talented folks from many tech companies, people competing internationally for remote positions, people using AI on the recruiting side, hiring end, and as applicants who tailor resumes and bot job postings.

Weird times.

Eventually the water is gonna separate from the oil, Stay the course, invest in yourself and keep at it.
Sounds exactly like a coup despite Ilya claiming it wasn't one.

But other than that, the details are still pretty lacking. The drama is only getting started and whatever comes next from both sides will be even more interesting.
Would this data be affected by the number of kids trending down?
And a prediction based in a transitory problem with the market, where we have lots of inventory and production cuts. Of course the prices of the raw materials for batteries are going to fall if the demand fall. Is it an indicative of a longer term trend? No.
I just mean people who have actually used the API directly or through task-specific applications like Cursor that are meant to maximize use of AI for their needs know how much of a breakthrough we’ve had this year. People who doubt or downplay the already existing capabilities of this technology tend to have just played with ChatGPT a little bit (or have whatever ideological or other reason to do so).
I bought a Logitech
> If it's truly about a power play then this will be undone pretty quick, along with the jobs of the people who made it happen.

The board that made this decision to fire Altman and they are the captain of the ship.

> if Satya doesn't like this then it will be changed back real fast, Ilya fired and the entire board resign. That's my prediction.

MS does not own openAI if the board does not want Satya to have a say Satay does not have a say. MS/Satay could throw lawyers at the issue, try to find a crack where the board has violated the law and or their own rules. The key is they can try, but MS/Satay have no immediate levers of power to enforce their will.
What "bit of math" are you referring to? Similarly, would you have said the same things one year ago about the capabilities that ChatGPT currently possesses?
Here's a counter-proposal: If you think about it, can't this change actually benefit Microsoft? Sam has an extremely sharp product mind; ChatGPT was his baby, everything from DevDays, the LLM app store; OpenAI was building a product suite that people liked, and in doing so they were undeniably slowing down their ability to iterate into better models and closer to AGI. Microsoft doesn't need OpenAI to build products. They're already doing that, and OpenAI was directly competing with their deployments of OpenAI's technology.

Microsoft needs OpenAI to make fundamental breakthroughs; that's the thing Microsoft spent money on, the technology. Their 49% investment probably won't directly pay off anyway, what with all the layers of corporate governance OpenAI has in place.

I don't want to go so far as to say that it was some grand conspiracy orchestrated by Satya and Ilya in a dark room one night, but their interests are pretty aligned; and that clip that keeps getting shared with Sam asking Satya on stage about their relationship with OpenAI, and Satya dry-laughing and failing to answer for a few seconds... why did Sam ask that? Its a really strange thing to ask on a stage like this. Why did Satya laugh, and take so long to answer? Just weird.
Helen Toner is brilliant. This dude has never met her, yet somehow has the gall to proclaim he'd be better at her job than he is.

People shouldn't get board roles based on what degree they have, but based on how well they can do the job.
Unless their contract had a specific stipulation that Altman shake hands on a stage with Nadella every three months or something, this seems largely irrelevant. So long as OpenAI continues to honor the deal terms about technology access, I don’t see how they’re exposed.
Dude, you’re not even using GPT-4. Which is way less powerful as the version that openai has internally.
The board member in question is not one of the founders.
I have the exact same experience and I’m not sure what to make of it. Even repeating the instructions doesn’t work. There is clearly a lack of basic reasoning ability and it can’t comprehend tasks that a five year old would have zero issues with.
Really? What would happen if OpenAI dissapeared tomorrow and ChatGPT closed down? In practice, nothing. Ask yourself the same question about the truly important organizations in the world.
I think computers need a card reader (like a credit card reader) to read the card. Or you can use your phone to read it wirelessly via NFC.

One neat thing about systems like this is that the card itself can perform a cryptographic computation that proves its own "ID", without communicating its private key to the connected computer/phone. So even if your computer was compromised, the ID card connected to it still can't be copied. The card is simple enough that there is less attack surface (as compared to an entire computer), so it's much less likely be be hacked, even if it's connected to a hacked device. Though mistakes do happen, since no system is perfect. So if a vulnerability is discovered, new cards might need to be issued.

Granted, an attacker on your computer (controlling it remotely) could just wait until you log in to your bank via smartcard and then quickly pull all your money out... you need a more complex solution to fix that problem (like cryptocurrency hardware wallets use; they have a little screen that shows the proposed transaction, and you have to physically push a button to confirm it, and then it does another cryptographic operation to authorize that particular transaction).

However, the smart card system does prevent an attacker from simply buying a database dump of email addresses, passwords, SSNs, etc. and using that to get into your bank account.
Simply requiring the parental control API to be open to third parties is enough.

I use third party controls, it they’re just a VPN (on Apple devices). Severe limits there.
A referral means at a minimum your resume will actually get read. In most cases that’s all it means (i.e. guarantees it won’t get rejected by the ATS).

If the referrer walks it over to the hiring manager’s desk it means a lot more, but most of the time these days it just gets fed into the HR pipeline.

You might want to revisit your resume. Of course I haven’t seen it, this is free advice from some rando, and other disclaimers.
It's embarrassing isn't it. They should wait until there's something to say.
I just woke up what the fuck is this?!
I would assume that “something out of Game of Thrones” were the table stakes, given the money and people involved.
A decade ago, yes. Valve was riding high on the dual successes of Dota 2 and Portal 2, we were only 6 years out from HL2Ep2, and CS:GO was newly released.

Today, not so much. Aside from a prequel, the series had been dormant for as longer than it had been alive (11 years alive 1998-2007, 13 years dormant 2007-2020), and the prequel required a pricey hardware peripheral to run. It’d get attention, but it wouldn’t be that big of a deal at this point.
Vehicle hood heights and visibility have dropped big time, and more importantly, everyone is distracted driving.

Cars are the only reason I cannot let me just pay unattended until they are quite a bit older.
Surprisingly Google's FamilyLink when paired with Chromebook/Android Tablets work quite well.

You can control/add devices pretty easily and block all web access and apps by default.

You can add specific sites and apps manually (without manually approving random IP addresses).
That’s a special case use of “distributed computing” unworthy of ars technica.
Writing text isn't that big of a deal either, you just have to be able in winning arguments and converting phonemes to glyphs. I'm not taking sides here, but GPTs defeated me too many times for me to agree with that on better terms.
snake_case debate got out of control
GPT-4 doesn't fail anything here, it's just worse than humans.

Maybe I was unclear but I'm not claiming that GPT-4 is as good as the median human in any task.
The joint statement was still intentionally refraining from the details, merely revealing the manner the firing decision was delivered. Ilya & rest of the board had a reason to do this and that reason isn't being disclosed by any involved party yet.
> They successfully got you to view phones and tablets as app consoles, the rest of your computers are next.

Yes. Because it’s only logical. Go and watch what any person outside of tech circles do with their computer. Office, Chrome, Spotify, Steam, Minecraft. That’s it.

Saying this as a hardcore Linux and FOSS user.

Plenty HN folks cannot wrap their minds around that the world is in fact, changing once again from what they accustomed to.
At this point whenever I see someone concerned about "safety" with respect to AI, I assume it's either someone who wants to:

a) Make sure it's sufficiently neutered as to not say something offensive or incongruent with certain ideologies, make certain topics off-limits

or

b) Scare lawmakers into making it impossible for anyone to catch up to OpenAI et al, so they can reap the benefits of cutting-edge AI while keeping the public placated with incremental improvements to outdated and sufficiently hobbled models
3.5 and 4 are radically different.
That’s very weird to read, because I’ve noticed some sentiments about “new physics” in anon AI twitter as well around a month and a half ago. I thought it was just weird speculation at the time, but now hearing it from a completely different source suddenly gives this some credibility.

All of the above with tinfoil hat on, of course. Huge if true but still highly unprobable.
"Golden parachutes" is the term.

Along the lines of: "I was laid off from the last two places, and I will never need to work again".
One mans demigod is another mans role model.
Not really sure why people complain so excessively about dynamic pricing software. Whether for flights, concerts, or apartments - sellers will naturally seek to maximize profits. Software helps with this.

Housing and apartments are in many senses artificially expensive. Existing laws and regulations make it very difficult to build, appreciating the value of land and buildings. If people want lower rents - making it far easier to build is one of the best solutions.
Yeah… I don’t know. A lot of engineers miss the forest for the trees when it comes to business demands. Very possible that a return to a “safety oriented” culture means that OpenAI fades slowly into obscurity.
Have you tried Cursor out of curiosity? No ties to the company and long-time dev (Scala mostly), just genuinely found it to be transformative to my development practice like no tool before.
You're not wrong. Bard is lagging bad. Depending on how much of a shit show this becomes it may present a catch-up opportunity.
Yes. It’s also true that the board made decisions I would not expect from a competent board, like not giving any investors a heads up about this.

One thing we’ll know by tomorrow morning: was Swisher right when she said there’d be more top level resignations? That will tell us a certain amount about her credibility/sources.

(Also, obviously, my opinion about any of this is worth what you pay for it.)
IP permissiveness is the basis for LLM quality. Those laws have not been written yet.
The resume tailoring thing will
make CVs essentially worthless very soon. Question is what can replace it
If you still have the serial from that CD copy, you can plug it into Steam and redeem a copy (and also the expansions, depending on which version you bought).
I was going to link to a review of the literature on the local effects of new construction, which reviews the empirical literature showing that any additional demand is more than offset by additional supply, but I'm having trouble finding the PDF. (For global effects, remember that building new housing does not change the global demand for housing, as it does not create new people, so hopefully it's obvious that new housing supply must be a global downward pressure on prices).

But this newer paper is far more comprehensive on far more topics. IMHO it's far too charitable to some really bad and research with highly biased and methods (e.g. Damiano) but it still does point out the flaws there.

https://furmancenter.org/files/Supply_Skepticism_-_Final.pdf

Unfortunately this review does not cover the spate of papers in the 2020s that I was originally thinking of, so I'll see if I can dig that up still.
If your definition of a ceo is that cynical, sure. Average people expect more; which I understand is an awful lot to all of, checks notes, the best paid person in a company.

Seriously, if a ceo needs to stoop to manipulation to get things done then they’ve lost control of the entire company and manipulation is forestalling the inevitable. Sure, a bad ceo can create large returns for investors but people who hold such myopic views of success navigate life with their training wheels still on.
Do you imagine executives/board member dismissals have some elaborate ceremony?
You wake up in the regular capitalism. Good morning.
Net metering is in practice a subsidy for solar owners and probably won't last long. Without net metering things are not as good.
Strongtowns.org has good resources
From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2]

"In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.”

Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Brockman. Mr. Brockman said that even though he was the chairman of the board, he was not part of this board meeting.

He said that the board informed him of Mr. Altman’s ouster minutes later. Around the same time, the board published a blog post."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/openai-sam-alt...

[2] https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594
The primary claim in your link is property prices have gone up, increasing the 'wealth' of the average family, which is not directly linked to wages.
No software will ever replace parenting. If you have an 8 year who needs to do homework you sit them at the kitchen table with a laptop and peek over their shoulder every 15-20 minutes. If your 8 year old is browsing porn instead of doing math you're going to notice. Better yet, sit down right next to your kid and help them.

If I worried about this, my solution would probably be more like this:

Small children (say under 8-10) get computers with zero internet access. Not even an ethernet adapter. Zero unsupervised access to the internet on other devices.

Older children (10-14) get devices with access to the internet, but first get education on what is/isn't appropriate to do/share online. I'll still check over their shoulders from time to time and everything is logged at the router. Ad blockers everywhere. Everything kept fully transparent so they know monitoring is happening and if I see requests made to questionable websites we can have a conversation about it. By now it'll be drilled into their heads that everything they do online is monitored by us, by the state, and by other companies who will sell that information to data brokers where it will end up collected into dossiers that will follow them for the rest of their lives.

Young adults (14-18) don't need parental controls and are hopefully tech savvy enough by now to get around any if I tried using them anyway.
Today’s lesson, keep multiple board seats

None of the tech giants would be where they are today if they didn't ram through unique versions of control

Their boards or shareholders would have ousted every FAANG CEO at less palatable parts of the journey
I do it from time to time and I feel like it's a mix of several things (1) it's counter culture, (2) it's early internet culture, (3) aesthetic/uniformity, (4) laziness, (5) carelessness, (6) a power move, (7) "hyper rationality".

And all of these contribute to it being a power move.
>Ilya claims the transformer architecture, with some modification for efficiency, is actually sufficient for AGI.

I thought this guy was supposed to know what he's talking about? There was a paper that shows LLMs cannot generalise[0]. Anybody who's used ChatGPT can see there's imperfections.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288
Not a real system, obviously, but a high level overview of what it does: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/10/30/developing-in-stockfigh...
He didn’t say “we” he said “jews”.
Thomas Garrity – Functions Describe the World (2022) [video]
I don't particularly care about Sam Altman but seeing turbulence at OpenAI is interesting news.
I think that gas stations will be harder to find sooner; 95% of the time, 70% of ev owners will charge at home, where the daily average commute is possible to charge on a 129v circuit.

With adoption already at 5%, that's a serious threat to gas station visits; imagine 10% fewer people stopping at a gas station a given week, or 20%. And this doesn't only apply to bevs, but to a smaller degree phevs too.

Service centers (fewer oil, brakes, coolant changes), dealerships (because engine and transmission failure decreases), and eventually auto parts stores will also see this volume of customers decrease.

Getting to 2030 is going to be wild.
Just out of curiosity, what are you using it for that makes it that valuable?
Nothing about the story is unprofessional. Now, there's different process appropriate depending on the actual reason termination was being discussed, and we don't know enough to say whether this was appropriate fiven the cause, but its definitely in the scope of what is reasonable and orofessional for dismissing them.
As a parent who's kid does find amazingly creative solution to working around the parental controls, I don't believe they never work. I have pretty strict parental controls which amounts to still a pretty open net but it's not nothing. Something, in this case, is better than nothing at all.

My goal is not to prevent all access to all "naughty" information that but rather to provide some control because my kid doesn't yet have fully developed self-control.
> Gen3+ reactors
> yet hardly anyone has started building them

Some attempts weren't particularly enticing.

The EPR is a Gen3+:

One just started in Finland, and as a project it is a major failure. Nearly 4 times the budget, 12 years late... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Olkiluot...

Two of them run in China, they were five years late and 60% overbudget. One had a problem justifying to stop it for more than one year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Taishan_...

One is a WIP in France. It is massively late and overbudget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...

Two are a WIP in the UK, they already are (surprise!) late and overbudget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Hinkley_...
I agree however he'll have no problem finding another vehicle.
EHDS: Spanish presidency seeks additional tweaks on health record systems
"On the last day of October, the Spanish Presidency made additional adjustments to the primary use of health data in the Presidency’s third compromise proposal. Among the provisions, the Presidency opt-out option is being introduced for the primary use of health data. This means that patients who don’t want their data to be accessed and used by healthcare professionals could decide to stay out of the system."

Not an opt-in, but better than nothing.
Eventually being maybe 5+ years to build out the cloud tech to do so. The reason GPT-4 succeeded is massive RDMA+GPU compute clusters for training the model.
"A joint project of Human Rights Watch and New York University to document human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been taken offline after exposing the identities of thousands of vulnerable people, including survivors of mass killings and sexual assaults."

"But the KST’s lax security protocols appear to have accidentally doxxed up to 8,000 people, including activists, sexual assault survivors, United Nations staff, Congolese government officials, local journalists, and victims of attacks, an Intercept analysis found. Hundreds of documents — including 165 spreadsheets — that were on a public server contained the names, locations, phone numbers, and organizational affiliations of those sources, as well as sensitive information about some 17,000 “security incidents,” such as mass killings, torture, and attacks on peaceful protesters.

The data was available via KST’s main website, and anyone with an internet connection could access it. The information appears to have been publicly available on the internet for more than four years."

"Almost all the individuals in the database, as well as their interviewers, appear to have confidentially provided sensitive information about armed groups, militias, or state security forces, all of which are implicated in grave human rights violations. Given the lawlessness and insecurity of eastern Congo, the most vulnerable individuals — members of local civil society organizations, activists, and residents living in conflict areas — are at risk of arrest, kidnapping, sexual assault, or death at the hands of these groups."

"The KST’s sensitive files were hosted on an open “bucket”: a cloud storage server accessible to the open internet. Because the project posted monthly public reports on the same server that contained the sensitive information, the server’s URL was often produced in search engine results related to the project."
The money won't dry up because of his reputation and team.
I don't think it's a joke. I would find it patronizing unless I'm already on a first name basis with the commenter through some prior relationship.
Sam Altman: if I start going off, board should go after me for my shares
> It seems incredibly risky to give Microsoft’s lawyers $10bn worth of reason to take a close look at a novel corporate structure and surrounding case law.

Presumably, Microsoft’s lawyers did that before they bought into the novel corporate structure. I mean, its Microsoft, not Elon Musk. Due diligence is a thing.
This is a surprising advantage Zuckerberg has in manoeuvring Meta. At least, to my knowledge, he is still effectively dictator.
It's mind-blowing that a company of this significance was left in the hands of four people, two of whom are complete unknowns in the field - or at least utterly unclear what credentials got them there.