skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mo Gawdat has famously said that GPT-4 was something like "4300 lines of code," and that he could have written that when he was a kid. He's clearly a smart man, so, I think we could extrapolate his comments to claim that a smart college student with some CS knowledge could have written it. These sorts of "GPT in $X LOC" demos pretty much confirm it.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/tasha-mccauley-3562...
This seems like a trifle not justifying the unusually harsh wording in the press release, combined with the hasty decision. Doesn't really add up.
Or they could just not brand it "Open" if it's not open.
So much speculation and gossip here, but it's neither constructive nor useful and unlikely to be precise and accurate. AFAIK @sama is/was a good guy, creator of value, and big supporter of YC until proven otherwise.

Notes to self:

A. Go the Google route with a board that can't fire you.

B. Avoid dealing with all of the BS of publicly-traded C-corps with private equity. Instead of a board of directors, have a board of advisors and listen to their feedback.

C. Transparency and avoid surprises.

D. Know when a different style of leader is necessary for the phase of a venture and proactively succession/transition plan.

E. Don't get financially involved with other people without interest alignment, or you could end up being fired by a conspiracy theorist.
This is honestly par for the course for anyone who didn't grow up a digital native and is a career businessman who didn't spend it hand-composing messages. I wouldn't read too much into it. Direct emails from executives that aren't filtered by their assistants all look like this.
Would Ilya maybe the one to push for AGI, and Sam didn't? And the board wants the Skynet they were promissed?
Brave is ~0.05% market share.

It’s probably successful in that it’s a well known project within the tech community. And 0.05% of the global browser market is a lot of users and probably a decent business. (Are they profitable?)

But outside of HN type audiences, no one has heard of it.
Ilya is the center of Open AI. Everyone else is dispensable.
it's a language model, not a foom model. nobody has made anything like a foom model yet.
There is FreeHL, a clean room implementation of HL1 game logic on top of FTEQW. It's pretty impressive project.
That's a particularly salubrious shade of green.
lol there’s thousands of Sams out there, he’s not that special, and he’s certainly not indispensable.

I don’t know why so many here are struggling to accept that this guy fucked up, lied to his boss, got caught, and got fired for it, and that’s all there is to it. boards will tolerate many things, but willfully lying to them about anything material is not one of them.

a ceo who won’t tell the board the truth is a ceo who thinks they are more important than the company. some boards don’t care, because they are already bought off with equity, but this board doesn’t get equity…
With a lot of hard work you can enrich yourself through building your own needs.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-lives-floating-island-canad...
it's so pretentious
Prediction: there isn't a difference. The apparent difference is a manifestation of human brain delusion about how human brains work. The Turing test is a beautiful proof of this phenomenon: so and so thing is impossibility hard only achievable via magic capabilities of human brains...oops no actually it's easily achievable now so we better re-define our test. This cycle Will continue until the singularly. Disclosure: I've been long term skeptical about AI but that writing is up on the wall now.
https://archive.is/viTtX
Its time they call their failure a failure and rename their company back to Facebook. That is what I have been calling them anyways.
Denmark Faces Unprecedented Cyber Onslaught: 22 Energy Companies Breached
Sorry, it happens. :)
I felt this one personally.

We have a ton of devices connected to Alexa and HomeKit via Home Assistant. We mostly interact with Alexa through our Sonos system.

I want to throw Alexa out the goddamn window every other week, especially when I ask it to turn off a very specific room, and it responds "which device?" Despite parsing my query perfectly.
Bloomberg got away with conjuring The Big Hack story by intentionally mispresenting anecdotes and their reputation didn't take a single dent.
Exactly, and what we’re now seeing is its overthrow of Sam and the installation of a puppet CEO /s
I am eating lots of plants along with meat, but I would say my 75% calories now come from meat. I dont have stomach acidity (i used to have it since grade 4), frequent migraines, IBS. I have increased mental clarity, better focus, better sleep.

I would attribute most of these changes to grains/gluten reduction than meat adoption.
It's not a bullshit generator unless you ask it for bullshit.

It's amazing at troubleshooting technical problems. I use it daily, I cannot understand how anyone dismisses it if they've used it in good faith for anything technical.
It might not have happened if it wasn't for me and avb. I need to write that up but the short story is that FDDI was the path to 100mbit, I wanted 100Mbit ethernet, the sun hardware engineers thought I wanted to signal over copper the same way that 10mbit did.

I didn't care about that, I cared about what someone in this thread said, it's amazing that you can plug a 10Mbit hub in and have it work with 100mbit, Gbit, etc.

In my mind, it was all about the packet format, if they are the same then we get cheap switches. And that is what we have today, I saw this coming around 1990.

And for you guys hating on the 1500 bytes, the SGI memory interconnect taught me that bigger is not better. When you are doing cache misses remotely, big is not good. I'm doing a shit job explaining but there is some value in smaller.

If you guys want, I'll try and write it up.
Why is OpenAI responsible for protecting Microsoft’s stock price?
>Altman was at APEC yesterday saying "humanity is on the edge of destroying itself" or similar.

A take on this is it's a strategy to get world governments to heavily regulate it by scaring them. This would make a massive barrier to entry leaving the current players the only ones allowed to play.
this was my guess after reading the list of people on the board... power/weight wise, there is no one else comparable to Ilya there, after Sam and Greg are gone.
No, in Europe one of the main importers of this dirtier US gas is... nuclear-hero France!
Source: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/open-sourc...
Ousting sama and gdb over something as petty as a simple strategy disagreement is totally unprofessional. sama got accused of serious misconduct. Even if he was too eager to commercialize OpenAIs tech that doesn't come close to justifying this circus act.
I was really impressed with Tesla's safety when that guy drove his family off of a cliff in an attempted murder-suicide, and they all survived.
First Australia, now Denmark.

Cross-reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38239266
You used uppercase here
Depends 100% on the company you're referring into. The larger the company, the less personal it tends to be. Conversely, if the "current employee" is a leader with hiring authority and the referral will be hired onto their team, the more personal it tends to be.
If people just go for the best people in the world then one man will marry all the women in the world
This is the Twitter thread:

@CWBOCA: To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting "Hitler was right":

You got something you want to say? Why dont you say it to our faces…

—————————

@breakingbaht:
Okay.

Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.

You want truth said to your face, there it is.

——————————————

@elonmusk: You have said the actual truth

<end quote>

The statement Elon calls the “actual truth” is one of the most unambiguously antisemitic statements I’ve ever heard. It’s also what the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter said in his manifesto.
You can't say a person resigned if they refused to resign, correct? If the person says they refuse to resign you have to fire them. So that's one scenario where they would have to say they fired him.

You also wouldn't try to avoid a lawsuit if you believed (hypothetically) it was impossible to avoid a lawsuit.
I wish these ports were upstreamed, so they could leverage optimisations that could be found in latest development branch.

At this time, only nswitch and psvita are upstreamed, but both tend to get broken over time, mostly due to breakage in homebrew SDKs.
> I have the choice of using a Visa/MC gift card I bought with cash.

Technically you can also pay for a burner service to get temporary phone numbers to receive SMSs for registering to services. Can’t attest if any of them are good or trustworthy. I recently looked into it but everything I found was a subscription and/or shady looking.
I can't see the search query or results you got from that link, but I did a search as well and found OpenAI applied for GPT-5, GPT-6, and GPT-7, which is no surprise. I'd be surprised if any of those were granted, though, because "GPT" itself is a generic term already in research papers.
Reminds me of this old comic: https://www.angryflower.com/247.html
Default language/regional formatting options, but those are easily changed.
Well OpenAI gets really upset when you ask it to design a warp drive so maybe that was it.
This isn’t believable. You don’t fire a CEO and put out a press release accusing them of lying over Dev day. Unless he told them he wasn’t going to announce it and then did.
They aren’t anywhere close to AGI. It’s a joke at this point.
dude no way, loopt was super successful - the 4th most successful geo checkin startup of the 2000s.
Most of the newer LLMs that have come out are GPTs though.
That does not change the fact there are no sources. Knowing people does not mean you are never wrong, nor does it mean you will never twist a story.
Thank you for correcting me. I'm not sure why I thought he was the e/acc founder.
I’m an API subscriber and have not seen a message like this yet.
He had grease on his hands - he came up in the days of tinkering with steam engines and his papers came late in life after paying close attention to the financials of running the family brewing business (coal costs) and working with Manchester engineers Peter Ewart and Eaton Hodgkinson.

His papers are based on observations and measurements of heat, force, cooling, etc based on comparing multiple engine design types .. at scale and with models.
What was Greg Brockman's role at the company? Is he a tech genius like Ilya? Iam trying to understand how much tech talent Open AI is losing.
> OpenAI and its people are there to maximize shareholder value

Clearly not, as Sama has no equity and a board of four people with little, if any, equity, just unilaterally decided to upend their status quo and assured $ printer, to the bewilderment of their $2.5T 49% owner, Microsoft.
Here's my theory of what happened -

1. Sam gets the company to agree to pick up the costs of lawsuits relating to unauthorized not-fair-use use of copyrighted content.
2. Announces this.
3. Then tells the board that he is directly on the hook on some lawsuits - essentially creating a safety net/insurance policy for himself without being candid with the board.

Hence, fired.
When I was a wee lad in my parents' basement with bread racks full of old x86 boxes cranking away on Distributed.net's [1] RSA cracking projects, distributed computing was in fashion because there was a lot of spare compute globally. As you mentioned, a lot of hardware has shifted to laptops. That is one part of the bifurcation. The other part is the mass movement to cloud infra, where there is much less idle compute available. Distributed computing was arbing excess idle compute at scale, which has seen a decline due to the factors mentioned.

The EFF DES cracker was also pretty cool in a hybrid distributed computing/custom ASIC fashion [2] [3] (which partnered with distributed.net to chew through key space for RSA Security's DES Challenge III after having accomplished a brute force challenge exclusively).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed.net

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker

[3] https://archive.org/details/crackingdessecre00elec
I referred maybe thirty people to Stripe and I think maybe two of them got interviews. Nobody got an offer. At Uber, zero of my referrals were followed up on. At Box, I don't remember any referrals getting followed up on.

I won't say they're worthless, but don't feel bad that you are getting the response that you are. Nearly every place I've been (and lots of places that friends are at) do an abysmal job of following up on referrals and taking them seriously.

That said, you might want to ask a trusted friend to look at your online presence (LinkedIn, GitHub) and offer some critical feedback. It may simply be the case that—despite being well qualified—you don't look that way to recruiters following up on what amounts to a ticket in a queue.
This wasn’t obvious, but it seems likely when you put it that way.

Unlike other iconic company/founder origin stories OpenAI really felt like they hit a special team dynamic that was on the verge of some equally special.

In light of this OpenAI still feels like they will be a relevant player, but I’ll be expecting more from Sam and Greg.
Base or with bonuses?

I find it hard to get roles in the midwest (large metro in Ohio) clearing 200k, though sometimes bonuses get you up there.
Maybe the being wacky was what led to them having the most valuable product in the world?
Your comment is reasonable. Perhaps hitting close to the truth considering the downvotes. Everything in this thread is speculation.
Certainly a snarky feminist tumblr thing ca. 2010 before cool people all starting posting on their phones and everything became sentence case again
The comment I was replying to said “I don't think there's any juicy scandal of the kind that people are expecting, both at YC or OpenAI.”
He was the CTO of OpenAI, and notably was the CTO of Stripe during its hypergrowth.
I’m not sure this article was as sympathetic as the author intended - the vignette didn’t help too much.

Neither person in the example couple brings much to the table, marriage-wise. But I will fully agree that the father in the story should step back into his child’s life! But they can do that without marriage.
Maybe the tech connection explains why he was intrigued by the role
But at least the ads work! :)

Good article. I really wonder if the management of these companies use their own products (or have kids?) Maybe there is a weird Venn diagram here?
The only people who think this are people who have never been associated with a top research org. You NEVER hear about anyone, let alone the top people, going to work for government. They all get scooped up with big tech salaries or stay in academia.

The military would need to be literally breeding geniuses and cultivating a secret scientific ecosystem to be ahead on AI right now.
got it now. thanks. i mentally blocked this noise at the end of the article as ads, noise, idk.

CRAPPY journalism, btw.
Xash3D isn't the engine of the 90s, despite it allows to run the game from this era.

The fact that it actually works in such constrained environments is impressive.

We ran our FWGS fork with our own software renderer on Chinese MP3 player and Motorola Linux phone from the mid-00s just for fun. But these ports are total hacks. :)
> If he decided to quit immediately after the vote then why would the board issue a statement saying he was going to stay on?

Why would they issue a statement saying that he was going to stay on without some form of assurance from him?

I mean, you're writing a release stating that you're firing your CEO and accusing him of lack of candor. Not exactly the best news to give. You're chasing that with "oh by the way, the chairman of the board is stepping down too", so the news are going from bad to worse. The last thing you want is to claim that said chairman of the board is staying as an employee to have him quit hours later. I find it hard to believe that they'd make mistake as dumb as announcing Greg was staying without some sort of assurance from him, knowing that Greg was Sam's ally.
>https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1707752576077176907

Dang! He left @elonmusk on read. Now that's some ego at play.
> The future of personal transport vehicles is battery-electric, full stop.

If fossil hydrogen ever gets off the ground I still have hope for fuel-cell/battery hybrids. Since they generate water vapor as a side product they'd also be beneficial to a small extent for arid climates.

I'm not happy if the harvesting of fossil hydrogen harms the subterranean ecosystem, but then I'm not happy about the ecosystem harms of oil or mining either.
It means that over a long reporting career, there’s no reason, whatsoever, to believe she’s either lying or twisting things.

Being a contrarian for kicks or as a personality is boring: if you want to make an accusation, make it.
Just Russia being Russia

https://www.ft.com/content/6409ed38-73f4-46b3-b0f1-649c5e5b7...

Denmark could block Russian oil tankers from reaching markets
An ego battle really
I dont get the impression that everyone involved was that mature, given Greg’s tweet

I get the clout everyone has but this was to be a non profit that was already coup de tat into a for profit that grew extremely quickly into uncharted territory

This isnt a multi decade old fortune 500 company with mature C-Suite and boards, it just masquerades as one with a stacked deck, which apparently is part of the problem
>There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Are they ignoring the hype around AI?
So basically a confirmation, but with a slight disagreement on the vocabulary used to describe it.
Some Chinese car models are now achieving top ratings on crash safety tests.

https://www.euroncap.com/en/press-media/press-releases/nio-s...
he seems highly proficient at technical stuff, i remember reading his blog about how he taught him self all the latest ML stuff.
Nonsense. I was a semi-technical writer who went from only making static websites to building fully interactive Javascript apps in a few weeks when I first got ChatGPT. I enjoyed it so much I'm now switching careers into software development.

GPT-4 is the best tutor and troubleshooter I've ever had. If it's not useful to you then I'm guessing you're either using it wrong or you're never trying anything new / challenging.
> That is one part of the bifurcation. The other part is the mass movement to cloud infra, where there is much less "spare compute" available.

What was moved to cloud infrastructure are rather servers that were on-premise in the company's data center in the past. These on-premise servers did never really have any "spare capacity" that would have been allowed to be used for such scientific distrubuted computing projects.
Been so frustrated by the plethora of controls, their various inability to do what I want and the constant need to check the settings to make sure they didn't fail open or that I just forgot to lock something back down because my children needed access to do school and I was in a hurry and just disabled everything because it was simpler.

Adding multiple devices of different types just exacerbates the problem and made me set everything to max lockdown and only unlock on demand.

We have a switch. You can't lock it. You can set a minimum playtime of 15 minutes but then the kids sneak up to the attic and get their "free" 15 minutes of playtime in the middle of a school day. You can't set playtimes individually per kids account either.

We have a family imac and our teens have android phones so now I've got three separate family account managers to use, family link (Google), screen time (apple) and Nintendo. No, make that 4, because I also have ubiquiti networking and have a separate WiFi network for kids devices so I can block the school provided chromebooks which I otherwise have no control over.

You know what we've resorted to? Keeping devices in our bedroom and physically controlling them. Super simple, no passwords or random fail states.
Sutskever: "You can call it (a coup), and I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity."
Scoop: theinformation.com

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1725707548106580255
Ask HN: How are generational companies different from YC's best startups?
Hey HN,

This is my first post.

I've always felt that established big tech companies are fundamentally different from YC's most successful companies (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?top_company=true) in that they just seem so much more foundational and impactful to the world.

I can't see how any of those YC companies will produce the amount of value FAANG Et al. will produce.

So my question is, how may one go about starting a generational / foundational technology company today? The only example I can even think of in recent memory is OpenAI, Tesla & SpaceX. Note that 2/3 of these have a huge hardware and manufacturing component to them.

It seems like it has been decreasingly common to start generational companies. Is it because they are just harder to start over time? Does that mean future technology startups will never be as big as the biggest technology companies of today? Are software startups particularly limited, competing for an ever smaller pie?

And if generational technology companies can still be founded, then what are some ways in which that could happen? Will they be mostly hard tech, biotech? Or is there room for pure software still? A related but meaningfully different question: Can the founders of generational companies still be young (as in the past) or do you need a ton of expertise now?

Excited to hear your thoughts!
I believe the only answer to human misery is no economic model at all. Post scarcity. Economies only exist if scarcity exists, thus we need to eliminate scarcity. The goal is to automate all work and achieve an unending abundance of food, energy and goods.
We are tackling this at hellowonder.ai . I took what I learned building ai tools at Google and built a system that does more than just block bad content for kids. It helps kids find exciting content that is aligned with their parents, effectively allowing them much more freedom.

It’s amazing how this system actually brings kids and parents closer together in practice.

Email seth@ that domain if you have kids and would like to skip the waitlist.
For which distributed computing project involving AI can one provide computing time?
Bill Gates' predictions about speech recognition: a historical review
Very unprofessional way to approach this disagreement.
Actual referrals for specific needs are useful. Letters of recommendation are variably useful, but not warm intros.

Social media-based "networking" in the industry has limited utility. I was 1-2nd degree on LI from most of Silicon Valley but with 100's of people I never talk to.

You're barking up the wrong trees combining outbound effort that has much less value, especially if it's untargeted or unfocused. In general, it's better to market yourself and let the hiring managers and headhunters find you. Although, it's entirely possible to replace the role of the headhunters if you market and convey useful business value you present to prospective employers: a cover letter exists to sell a resume to sell a phone call and so on.

If you're trying to network for work, I would check out hot and interesting tech meetups.

Remember, it's sales and dating, and therefore, a numbers and interest game.
Going from one abusive partner to another will not fix the issue