skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Introduction to Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism [video]
Why is Google still paying Musk money ?
I wondered about the timing. Microsoft’s stock took a swan dive. I can’t imagine they're happy regardless of what they say to the press.
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Yes and no. On the one hand, you want to pick dependencies that have staying power. On the same hand, having mindshare is necessary for the durability.

Hard to resolve the core issue here, since it's ultimately social rather than technical.
> leaked a bunch of data, and it wasn't disclosed, but Microsoft knew about it

Didn't we just have a topic here on HN how not disclosing the breach within 4 days is a securities fraud? Since Nov 9 there has been more than 4 days, so either there was no (material) breach, or Microsoft committed securities fraud and somehow expects to get away with it.
I wish the Bollinger trucks had worked out; that utilitarian design ethos really nailed it.

My family is sticking with our old Toyota pickup for the same reasons you mention. It would be nice to completely stop burning fuel, but in practice we've already electrified our everyday travel by switching to bikes and scooters.
Comparing two things is not the same as saying they're the same in all respects.
I don’t think it’s all rude or off-topic. It’s just as easy to make deep fake pornography as it is to clone voices, so if someone claims they’re being unjustly prevented from having the one one under this insane logic, why not the other?
There’s a famous NFL quote from a former general manager of the Arizona Cardinals that goes, “If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3 (40-yard dash) we'd probably diagnose it as an eating disorder.”

I'll argue in this day and age, that any founder/C-level person who has "created" billions in value, no matter how much of a paper tiger it is, will almost always get another shot. If SBF or Elizabeth Holmes weren't physically in prison, I bet they'd be able to get investment for whatever their next idea is.
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Uber comes to mind.
There are some people who complain that JRPGs take away too many obscure menus.
> And now, Weird Al has some words

A linguist had some words in response[0]

> While "grammar nerds" are psyched about Weird Al's new "Word Crimes" video, many linguists are shaking their heads and feeling a little hopeless about what the public enthusiasm about it represents: a society where largely trivial, largely arbitrary standards of linguistic correctness are heavily privileged, and people feel justified in degrading and attacking those who don't do things the "correct" way.

I know who I'm trusting to speak confidently about language usage.

[0] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13521
While there is no evidence to back this, I wouldnt be surprised if the CTO made a for the CEO role. I mean shes a great fit for the role
Ah, got it; makes much more sense now. Thanks for the clarification.
The following was posted by an Alex Coven on X (Twitter). I cannot verify if it is legit.

I was laid off from OpenAI today along with my boss Sam.

I was the person in charge of putting together the presentations for our board meetings.

No one has told me why I was let go but Sam texted me “wtf” and next thing I know my Slack and Gmail were disabled.

I’m now looking for a new role, so if you’re hiring for investor relations, my DMs are open!
I agree this is the most likely explanation. Is it possible Sam tried to wrestle power away from the board? He wouldn't even need to sell the whole company, just enough tech for a large company to kill OpenAI.
Yeah, it'll vary a lot by location and time of year (end of year demand is highest for incentives).

Unfortunately, loans aren't quite what they were when I got solar over a year ago, 0.99% APR was one of my offers with the lowest cost quote. >10 year payback is quite high, mine is 4-5 years (not accounting for inflation or annual increases in electricity costs).
Thanks for fixing the problem; I was sick of it too.
Even Altman would not be good at playing Altman based on what we can decipher from this cryptic board outing.
Ask HN: Did Bing Chat recently introduce a 2021 knowledge cutoff?
I’ve been using bing chat a lot the last few months, and yesterday it gave me a clearly outdated response and I was startled, because it was the first time it had given me a wrong answer. Today I notice numerous times it mentioning it had a 2021 knowledge cutoff, which I had never seen before.

when/why did this happen? anyone else notice this?
>> it implies he lied

It says he lied, explicitly, just with slightly nicer words. Whether he did or not, that is the definitive reason the board is giving.
And that’s why we call them “tech giants”!
This sounds interesting but I'm not sure I understand. The responses ChatGPT gives or the responds to his tweet?
Adam also managed to get almost half a billy worth of money out from Softbank as a corporate loan for himself

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/softbank-takes-14b-hit-wework...

Adam is good making people rich, but those people are not his investors.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231117201820/https://www.wired...

https://archive.ph/Xm45I
It's not just raw technology. It's a vision for what the product should be, what overall strategy to take, how to fund it, how to introduce it to the world, how to scale it, what order to do things in, what approach to take with 3rd party developers, when things are good enough to launch, who to hire, who to promote, etc. There are a million little decisions that go into a runaway success like this. And a million opportunities to make the slightly sub-optimal or wrong decision. And it doesn't take many of those to kill everything that made the place special, and that's actually my new base case for OpenAI-- that's the base case for any company/organization. The default state is chaos and entropy, and it's a miracle when you can escape that fate for even a few years of hypergrowth.
That is Microsoft's PR statement to the press in response to a leaked story. They're major investors in OpenAI - it's in their interest to downplay and respond this way.
Obviously lower incarceration correlates with lower crime. When crime is low you need to lock fewer people up.

I would suggest people making this claim learn about the difference between correlation and causality.

And then look at El Salvador. It is incredibly clear that increased incarceration lowers crime.
oops. There's no way to delete this now, is there?
This doesn’t make sense to me. It assumes Schmidt has inside info on why Altman was fired.
That doesn't justify a sudden firing and describing him as not candid.
You're talking about retrieval.
interesting take, we'll see how things evolve.
Yeah, CPUs too. Power use is unacceptable, desktops and big laptops turbo like mad to achieve really tiny performance boosts.
This comparison makes no sense. Hannibal Lecter would be helping the team by being able to run fast.

Neumann and Holmes and SBF lost their benefactors money.
> What else do you need?

Some damn sanity. Thank you.
Is there a link to the whole thing? I see three screenshots but it seems that the original writing is longer than that.
There is no AI, Sam Altman was answering all the prompts?
I assume he has trademarked the word "Flow" and is licensing it to the company for a few million dollars.
Tbh surprised some of the personal stuff hasn't come to light. Nothing horrendous, but enough to push him out of any CEO role.
The problem is not a lack of ideas, it's in the engineering details of how to do it. "Lash together spacecraft" and "spin x as a centrifuge" are also hard technical problems.

What makes this particularly difficult is it can't really be tested and prototyped on Earth, you have to make all your mistakes the expensive way.
This morning a combination of sun in my eyes, a blind spot, and a dewy morning almost led me to run over two people legally crossing the street. My significant other had to scream at me to stop. I could have killed two people. All I was trying to do was get coffee. I need to get rid of this death machine fast.
I love that HN can help contextualize things like this and leave it open to consideration and not presenting it as fact.
That's a pretty wild accusation that I feel like needs some substantiating.
Or Sam was the driving force behind increasingly closed research and that went against the board's commitment to "benefit all humanity"?

Maybe the closed GPT-4 details were promised by him to be a one time temporary thing at the time and then he has been continuing to stonewall releasing details later on?
If someone can find an accurate, neutral, and representative phrase from the article body, we can put that in the title instead.
Turn that on it’s head - was he standing in the way of a commercial sale or agreement with Microsoft!

He may not be the villain.

But who knows, it feels like an episode of silicon valley!
I've always wondered if that's the old glass insulation itself, or the accumulated mouse-poop-dust embedding itself in the microscratches and freaking out your immune system.
> His intelligence is evidenced in his wealth. That's how the free market works.

Yet we have so so many stupid rich people and many many more brilliant poor people.
The article has a lot of interesting details about the history of the gas turbine and its incorporation in electrical power generation. Gas turbines first became common in the late 1980s and the US built hundreds of gigawatts of gas turbine generating capacity between 1990 and 2005. This was back when shale gas production was less than 5% of its current rate [1] and gas was a more expensive fuel.

Fast construction speed was an advantage even 30 years ago, and so is the lower number of full time employees needed to operate a CCGT plant vs. equivalent capacity from a nuclear or coal plant. But note that the turbine revolution arrived back when the US was still building coal and nuclear plants. They weren't built just for "green washing" reasons or for avoiding legal battles.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/res_epg0_r5302_nus_bcfa.htm
I suspect that some big news of data leak or some other security incident is about to follow.
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The dude is just a businessman through and through. Stop idol worshiping these businessman. We'll have another rogue Elon Musk. At least Elon Musk is exposing himself now for what he is, but he has so much money at this point it has no effect on him to do random weird nonsense. Sam Altman seemed quite slimy to me, with his actions, garnering support by talking about UBI and advocating for it, but then going to talk to US Congress to talk about regulations (because it benefits himself).

The man was starting to seem like a huge con and people just seem to not see through that.
He said they both involved failing upwards...

OpenAI is not a failure.
Agreed.

"Look, world, I care so little about being dumped, I don't even need to make an effort. Plus, I've got brains and more money than I can count."

Next level: Bond villain.
This will go over like a lead brick in car infested suburbia.

I love a carless life in Berlin, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Seoul, but a carless life in Santa Clarita California? Carless like in Silicon Valley? Not gonna happen. LA, maybe a few can get buy without a car but they'd need to add Tokyo level of trains (40+ lines with express trains) before I could function without a car in a city like LA. I have friends I can generally see in 40-60 minutes that with current public transportation would take 3hrs one way.

I'm not saying we shouldn't start adding the public transportation back to LA. Of course we should. But it will be 100 years before it's anywhere close to where it needs to be for people to give up their cars.

And for suburbia, you'd have to get everyone to sell their 2-3 car tract houses so you can rebuild the cities to be more dense, and get all the stores to give up their parking lots, It's just not going to happen. :(
> Feel free to try

I will, but not yet. I am building a product, slowly. But my only user so far is myself :p
This was my first thoguht, I think it was a more recent episode. The one where they discussed the open ai phone. Probably in the last 2 months
Extremely shocking.

The only thing that comes to mind is criminal conduct. Nothing else seems to demand a sudden firing. OpenAI has clearly been the rocket ship startup - a revolutionary tool and product clearly driving the next decade?+ of innovation. What else would demand a a fast firing of the popular, articulate, and photogenic CEO but a terrible problem?
Here’s what I heard: they are okay with such a workaround for now because they realize how hard it is to adapt to the new model, but in the future they’d prefer to see extensions adapt and be able to quickly reinit.
Possibly as a similar thing happened with Steve Jobs. Though Maybe it's all been set up and faked ;-) Steve Job's story is a great one.
Helmets prevent a particular type of injury - traumatic brain injury
This is true for all types of transportation including driving.

Traumatic brain injury is a common outcome of an automobile collisions - yet we don't see people with the same concern for introducing mandatory helmets in day-to-day driving.
Have you ever read ‘The Monkey Wrench’, by Gordon Dickson?

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v47n06_1951-08_MadMax...
Went digging through your Substack archives to find the full piece, but sadly it's locked.

An adjacent story had an interesting and tangentially relevant point as of today, though

> To understand the material world, you might study physics. To resolve those epistemic questions, you could turn to philosophers. For questions of the soul, you might ask a minister. But for these social questions in the short-term you’re basically stuck with journalists...
>
> ...We’re left trying to build a mental model for how the world works in this fog. In tech, we know very little about what leaders like Peter Thiel or Marc Andreessen are up to on a day-to-day basis. We get only snippets of their actual ideologies. Thiel famously hid the fact that he was funding the lawsuit to bring down Gawker! We learned about it because Ryan Mac and Matt Drange reported it.

https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-and-the-future
However keeping the Python version up to date shouldn't be that hard though, should it?
Yeah but if charging stations become as ubiquitous as gas stations, this becomes a lot less of an issue.

And quite frankly my 10-gallon tank has like a 400 mile range, and newer electric cars have like a 300 mile range, so the gap is getting pretty narrow.
That's a damn good idea.

I wired a string of LED lights for a friend (with outlets), but I figured the electronics in them would eventually fry.

I wouldn't be surprised if attics in the southeast get up to 140F in the summer.

Rope lighting would be cheap and semi-insulated.
Nah, that would get you a raise.
It feels that in the case of fundraising disagreement, the language of the announcement would be different. It says Sam lied to the board. There is no need to lie if you have a disagreement about take it or leave it offer.
Microsoft is a minority owner (49%) of the capped-profit OpenAI subsidiary.

The OpenAI board has no responsibility to consider Microsoft's wants. I'd accept the argument that, their decision to not wait until after 4pm was a slight against Microsoft, for the reason you outline; but I'm not sure if urgency plays into it.
How so? Seems they’re doing a pretty good job of making their stuff accessible while still being profitable.
This is one of the most insightful comments in this entire thread. Public companies never drop news during the trading day, and Microsoft surely would have been notified in advance if they planned to fire him, and had some say in the timing of the release. Whatever it is, it is so serious that Microsoft would break that coda.
Given how often I see supercars in Monaco, it seems they must be more in active use.
Although technically correct (the best kind), that is a weak point. In a more formal sense, "playing" a 2 player game means something like approximating the move in a game between 2 min-maxing oracles. Humans can't do that anywhere near as well as KataGo.

A human can, technically, beat a superhuman Go AI. But the process is clearly playing the opponent rather than the game, the moves are obvious weak moves. Humans aren't winning by playing good moves, the challenge being posed to the AIs isn't intimidating at all and they will defend against it sooner or later.
Parent comment is referring to Sept. 29th's Episode 147 [0], at 1 hour and 4 minutes in.

[0]: https://piped.video/watch?v=4spNsmlxWVQ&t=3866
> No one is asking you to live there or not have a vehicle.

Several of the most upvoted comments in this very thread are advocating banning vehicles.
Theranos level fraud combined with the impossibility barrier?

OpenAI fakes their AI to be first to market and then everyone else, thinking that it's possible, finds ways to do it for real.

(this is 100% a joke. I know OpenAI's work is the real deal)
It suggests that he thinks there’s a way to defend his actions, so it’s not a personal matter (Metoo) or blatant fraud.

It could be about the cost of operating the business (consistent with the announcement to cut Plus subscription, although wouldn’t justify how fast he was fired) or his previous action a legal risk (something he promised Microsoft or Elon Musk); the later is consistent Greg being demoted: he knew and didn’t tell the board.
Well fully sentient doesn't mean it is superintelligent.
The average user of ChatGPT has no idea who Sam Altman is.
Well, according to his sister, he used to molest her when he was 13, and she was 4, so...

https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/163570439893983232...
Is lesswrong associated with Sama somehow? I thought it was a site for discussing rationalism. Long essays about how to make better decisions and such.
Yeah, even if criminal there usually must be a sentence first
This type of comment doesn't really help.

And for my two cents, he always seemed like a disingenuous hype salesman more than a technical person.

He's an Elon Musk or a Lex Friedman.
Or, not commercial, but military/gov.
I didn't notice the site itself, but it does have some very odd and poor writing in this article.

Like this wordy sentence:

>The U.S. Department of Justice has now reportedly contacted Kristy Althaus, who recently filed a lawsuit against Aylo for apparently being the victim of a rape during the shooting of a GirlsDoPorn video

Also it quite confusingly alternates between "PornHub," "MindGeek," and "Aylo" and it's not clear which company specifically is getting acted upon
CEO of the first company to own the «machine that’s better than all humans at most economically valuable work» is far rarer than getting rich.
The point of comparison in the analogy is "founder/C-level person who has "created" billions in value, no matter how much of a paper tiger it is."

The claim is that investors are interested in executives who they perceive to have created billions in value, and that's analogous to how NFL teams are interested in people who run fast.
According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_(spacecraft)

Launch mass: 1320 tons (120 tons dry)
Payload capacity: 100 - 150t (fully reusable)[1] 250 - 300t (expendable)[2]

So, to fully fuel up a Starship on LEO 1200 tons of fuel are needed, which are between 8 and 12 full payloads of said Starship.

Yes there could be some boil-off.

Refueling station could be protected both by Sun screens (a-la JWST if you wish) and include active coolers. This is an old topic in space technology, e.g. both Buran (30 days of orbital flight while keeping LOX liquid onboard) and Vulcan's second stage (LH2 onboard) focused to an extent on that.

We do have a long history of refueling - since at least station Mir the visiting Progresses used to refuel the station, only the liquids were different, and of course the amounts were very different. Still this increases hopes that we can develop the refueling technology since we'll soon need more of it.

Those multiple launches don't necessarily spell doom to the lunar plans for Starship. For example, Falcon-9 is reliable enough to have a hundred consecutive successful flights. And even in 1960-s the idea to have multiple launch pads to be able to launch even after catastrophic event on one of them wasn't too radical. And majority of activity of this kind is probably going to be unmanned, which makes things faster and cheaper to repeat if something goes wrong.
By this metric Musk would've been sacked long before X or even the horrible panel gaps on his cars.
I'm guessing those "comparable" EVs don't actually compare on range on a full tank vs. range on a full battery.

Or on depreciation. When some battery breakthrough finally hits the market and unfucks EVs so they don't weigh twice as much as regular vehicles to go half as far, then you'll be left with $1-2k worth of metal around a worthless battery that nobody will want to buy anymore.
I swear I just played against someone who was sitting on the toilet, lol
I love that you think Sam A is ideologically driven - dive a little deeper than the surface. man's a snake
Another article I read said both Sam Altman and Brockman left the room for the vote.
Only if it’s true. His sister could be a pos that just wants some of his money.
Pray tell why do all the largest pieces of equipment on the planet use electric drives? This may be direct plugin to the grid, or diesel electric.

Moreso, explain hybrid systems like the Edison Topsy that run at a fixed rpm and can use battery for things like regenerative braking?

If you come to a form and say dumb crap, at least have something to attempt to prove your point.
I was stuck for words. But 2000AD to me was a period of bloated superficial high tech, which is my view of js
We are trying at https://realagent.ai, issue is the real estate "cartel" is strong.
It's probably not surprising that cheaper options sacrifice some level of software or hardware support - that's why they're cheaper. Software support is why the "pro" versions exist as separate (more expensive) SKUs, after all.

Of course you'll get a better service if you pay more. Expecting a high performance, easy, turnkey solution for a low price is expecting to have your cake and eat it. It's never happened on any other technology with this level of demand, and expecting it now seems naive at best. There's too much money (and hype) sloshing around in the sector, and limited supply.

Enthusiasts and experimenters have always traded their time for cost - if only because their time investment and learning (and maybe fun) is the whole point, not the end results of their experiments. If you expect financial returns due to your incredible idea, you should be looking for investors not old hardware.
Lots of discussion and pressure on it, going back 10-15 or more years.