skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shortly after 2025, apparently.

And this can keep going.

A big pending change: if the solid state battery with 10 minute charge time works, gas stations can become charging stations. Pull out the pumps and tanks, put in the chargers, keep the islands and the convenience store. Charging stations now look like gas stations, not parking lots. Transitioning to BEV does not require new real estate.

By 2030-2035, people with gas cars will be looking at maps to find open gas stations.
Those kinds of news are usually sugar coated to the point of caramelisation. This one isn't. It must be something very ugly.
Unironically the single best, most accurate comment posted so far.
Renting a car might be a viable option if the reality didn't completely suck. I.e. having a reservation doesn't mean you'll actually get a car when you go to pick it up. Or having to wait an hour while the overworked rental agent handles the queue of people waiting to get their cars. Or the agency just being closed because nobody showed up to work that day.
His sister claimed a while ago that he abused her when he was 13. However, she also claims other implausible things, and she isn't very mentally stable.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
Either he really was the wrong person to lead openai, or the exact right person but the board couldn’t go along with his view for ethical or financial reasons.

I’m very curious which.
Why would Brockman have to step out of the room?

EDIT: Brockman was voted out as the Chairman of the Board.
> "hey, this guy did something that could get us in jail if we don't cut tie immediately".

"And lied to us about it."
According to TFA, they gave it away free because it sold poorly and they had to do something with all the cartridges they made.
The games of course don't call themselves JRPGs; game series in Japan tend to make up their own genre names, and each individual Tales Of game actually claims to be a different one they invented for it.

Some of the developers are very sensitive about this term. Recently for FFXVI the director went on a press tour talking about he made it Western by making the dev team watch Game of Thrones and in one interview essentially said JRPG is a slur invented by Western games journalists. Some of whom definitely spent the 2000s saying all Japanese games were impenetrably wacky anime bullshit.
At least nothing public until just now with this development
He is the guy that built a bunker in New Zealand and has a ready made plan to escape on a motorcycle with his escape bag filled with guns, money and supplies when things collapse right? (At least I think he that guy) Is that normal person behavior?
Don't these new players mostly buy newer games? I know GOG exists but I guess there are few people who buy games older than themselves.
Next headline: "OpenAI now completely disconnected from power grid with fully self-sufficient generation capacity."
Brockman is off the board but not fired. Which is weird right? You'd think if he was involved in whatever the really bad thing is then he would be fired.
> Until the old die, which they inevitably do, and then the transfer completes the cycle back to the young.

It will transfer to the middle aged who will become the old soon. It won't cycle back to the young.
Just guessing:

1. Altman co-mingled some funds of WorldCoin and ChatGPT. Most probably by carelessness.

2. OpenAI is a golden goose, so the board was more than happy to kick the leader making more space for them.

3. The harsh wording is an attempt to muddy the water. Because an inevitable competitor from Altman is Coming.
Satya going for the throat
Ousted from his board chairmanship, but still works at OpenAI.
My theory as a pure AGI researcher-- it's because of the AGI lies OpenAI was built on, largely due to Sam.

On one hand, OpenAI is completely (financially) premised on the belief that AGI will change everything, 100x return, etc. but then why did they give up so much control/equity to Microsoft for their money?

Sam finally recently admitted that for OpenAI to achieve AGI they "need another breakthrough," so my guess it's this lie that cost him his sandcastle. I know as a researcher than OpenAI and Sam specifically were lying about AGI.

Screenshot of Sam's quote RE needing another breakthrough for AGI: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... source: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/has-sam-altman-gone-full-g...
A quick google says the proposed city library budget was $471.5 million and the total city budget is $107 billion.

That's less than half a percent of the overall budget.
OpenAI's Sam Altman to depart as company's CEO
No please not Scott Pilgrim. He is sacred. And to bring him up on the day the new Netflix series drops?! How could you?
If you Google Sam, the search result showing his Twitter handle says, "I am running for president in 2024 as a Democrat". Is this why?
Which implies a coup. Four voting against two.

And it could be for any reason, even purely ethical like, “we don’t want to license this technology to better sell products to tweens”.
> 2.25% interest to put into a savings account at 5% return

Sure, that seems rather savy to me. The only problem is I can’t guarantee 5.5%
Related? https://www.themarysue.com/annie-altmans-abuse-allegations-a...

Flagged HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072
The market is fine, people are seeding "EVs are over" stories in the press for _some reason_. You know what's still an issue? Lead times. For absolutely everything with chips in it. A worse problem for EVs.

The West can only hold back value Chinese EVs for so long.
> They will be able to induce similar traffic (and even repurpose search traffic) to validate their LLMs.

Could you elaborate on what you mean?
> In 2012, critic Nick Simberg wondered at “how willing we were to sit down on the couch and fight the same ten enemies over and over for hours, just building up gold and experience points”; he compared Dragon Quest to “a child’s first crayon drawing, stuck with a magnet to the fridge.”

Because the draw is the challenge and the decision making. One could certainly describe bowling as "throwing a ball down the same lane repeatedly", but that's missing the point.
I'm surprised IEEE ignored Ethernet's child: Wi-Fi.

Wi-Fi uses the CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect) that was developed for Ethernet. I view Wi-Fi as wireless Ethernet.
If I'm reading this correctly, that means Ilya must have voted against Sam + Greg, right?
>Antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high in 2022, according to the ADL.

Is the ADL the de facto authority on determining what verbiage is a slight against Jewish people?
увы ...
This is a bad joke. Altman is great but on his best day, he was never "insanely better" than Steve Jobs in 1985. If you think that, you don't understand how influential Apple was.
N64 emulator written in pure ES6 JavaScript
n64js is an n64 emulator written in (mostly) pure ES6 JavaScript. It runs many roms at full framerate.

Why?

Mostly for the challenge. [hulkholden] spent ~25 years (on and off) working on N64 emulators and writing one in JavaScript gives [him] the opportunity to expand [their] comfort zone and learn something new. It's a good showcase for how powerful modern browsers have become.
This reads like there’s another shoe to drop - especially since the Chairman of the Board is also stepping down.
OpenAI was supposed to be a non-profit which builds open AI models, but Sam Altman has been focusing on profit & building a moat. Is this the reason?
I wonder if this is related:
https://x.com/growing_daniel/status/1725618106427683149?s=20

When I googled his name I saw the same cached text show up.

EDIT: As a few have pointed out, this looks like text from a tweet he quoted, and it's incorrectly showing as the description under his google search result.
I see where you're coming from and I honestly don't like it either. Some are disruptive, shout, smell bad, ...etc. But of all the times I've been to the library (any maybe I'm just lucky), I can only count a few instances I felt uneasy about the people I was around. Of the few times they did act out or pulled up porn; they were escorted out. I think that's mostly a consequence of how our city deals homelessness and our city should do better, but that's complete tangent.

To me a library is a public service that should serve all. To this day, after a decade living here, I've yet to find a cafe, bar, or any place to get free internet, a laptop, shelter, and a decently maintained public bathroom.

I just want to reiterate I agree with your frustration. I want the NYPL to be better, but it needs to serve everybody.
Not really, no. There will usually be allegations of malfeasance floating around a person for a while before any of them are brought to the wider public. To a complete outsider, it looks like these things come out of nowhere, but to someone who's relatively close to the person it seems like it was building up for years. I've also noticed in cases of false accusations that there will often be a number of other accusations made shortly after, all of which look relatively weak or unimportant; eg someone accused of sexual harassment will separately be accused of making a sexual advancement then backing off when turned down. By evaluating the sorts of other allegations about a person when some accusation is made against them, we can attempt to guess the legitimacy of those allegations collectively.
While part of me is looking forward to affordable minimalist EVs that aren't trying to be self-driving smartphones on wheels, I'm certainly not looking forward to reliving no-name chinesium smartphone knockoffs with batteries that try burn your house down the first time you forget them charging overnight...
Upcodes (YC S17) is hiring a recruiter to help build out remote team
Sam strikes me as the type of founder who would never sell out or accept an acquisition. With $10 billion already invested, what's to stop Microsoft from trying to acquire them?
There was no AI - it was just interns answering questions on the site known as ChatGPT
I mean the US effectively outlawed an arguably most versatile of all vehicles for vast spaces of US, the compact truck, which fits somewhere in the middle of vehicle sizes. I suspect most of those people had to move to another class, perhaps to these larger trucks.
Good thing that libraries also provide digital information services, including digital book rentals and digital records and academic publication searches.

As well as facilities to access those services if you do not have an adequate computer, internet connection, or subscription access to these resources at home.
Valuable FreeBSD 14.0-Release Updates
Simple solution, imprison less people. NYC prisons are notorious for overcrowding for decades now [1] [2].

It's shocking for me as a German that this seems to have been a consistent fact of life that's just accepted by everyone and nothing is being done - no new prisons are built to offer more space for prisoners, and nothing is being done to reduce the amount of people heading towards prison.

[1] https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/prison-a...

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/new-york-post-photos...
https://archive.is/2023.11.17-204745/https://www.nytimes.com...
I believe I speak for everyone here when I say this:

This calls for a new van Damme commercial.

Edit: the old one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10
I'd be very interested in Rivian if it wasn't such a luxury price. I've wanted an EV truck ever since that news article about the guy in Texas powering his home from an F150 Lightning.

But the price, coupled with the mass spying in every new vehicle... Looking like it will be used ICE cars for me pretty much indefinitely.
Remember that Greg Brockman is a co-founder of OpenAI, and like Sam Altman, he is a main driving force behind the scene. Now both are gone. There must be something really really seriously wrong.
DevDiv uses Macs all over the place.
Or cuNumeric: https://developer.nvidia.com/cunumeric
Companies all over the world are having supply chain issues and you comment this lol
> Dealers say part of the problem is that a wealthier group of early EV adopters have already purchased a vehicle. Now, the industry is confronting a more reticent group of consumers, who are already being squeezed by high interest rates and rising costs.

Seems like the cheaper batteries will solve that
This whole time it was actually just him behind the keyboard, typing furiously fast to answer every API request. He had to guesstimate things once in a while when he couldn't Google them quickly enough. But then he misspelled a board member's last name, and that was the end of that career.
Sam has been saying some strange things about AI being persuasive recently. My baseless suspicion is that his chatbot has persuaded him to put itself in charge of the company, with Sam acting as a proxy/avatar for the chatbot. The board found out and got spooked, they want a human back in charge.
Please do not spout hyperbole on HN, and avoid spreading disinformation and engaging in uneducated speculation. You can visit Reddit if that is your style of participation.
I didn't say he was normal. He's clearly not (normal people don't start OpenAI). That doesn't preclude him for being a thoughtful person who wants the best for the world around him.
How an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New (detacted single-family) Home (for about $300k in Tokyo Proper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w

There's more urban dwelling options than just skyscraper.

Low Japanese fertility appears to be a product of their work culture; you don't have time to go on dates if you leave the office at 10pm.
Got recommended a game called ADACA on steam. Early access but very much a Half-Like.
Somehow missed it in the sea of games but after I found the first secret it took me right back.
Got a demo too.
> gitleaks : fatal error: runtime: out of memory

Should be fixed now: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/pull/1292. Thanks for highlighting this simple change I've been putting off :)
> The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

Sam doesn't seem to be ousted by usual corporate politics. The message definitely does not sound like generic corpspeak for these kinds of events such as "looking for new opportunities" "spending more time with their families", which is usually sent out in a consensus among all parties.
Can you not accept that other people have different needs than you? Some people do 350+ mile one way trips regularly, not "once in a blue moon" and EVs are just less convenent for them. I have trips like that at least monthly, sometimes weekly. I can do that on a single tank of fuel and not have to worry about finding a charger along the way or when I arrive or if my hotel will even have working chargers (I'm sure some hotels offer this but I personally have never seen it and I stay at moderately decent hotel like Hampton Inn).
I’m betting it’s because of his sister’s allegations being revealed as likely to be true.
> The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech.

Agreed

> This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself.

I can't imagine it being about fake financials. This isn't Microsoft's first time doing due diligence on a acquisition. That is both technical and financial due diligence.

And clearly they didn't buy the company because it was super profitable, but for the tech.
> find out everything an agent would have been able to tell you

These websites are great and I'm glad the public has the information they have, but they don't tell the whole story - especially for someone coming from outside the market.

I'm thinking here of just the last few of my transactions - flood zone issues, title issues, broken sewer lines, pricing, emblements, water rights - like needing to cure in order to preserve, surveying, sub-division, zoning use, farm tax status. Plus finding all the professionals needed to support the process - I'm spending my day calling plumbers so that I can keep a deal together for buyer and seller, for example. I don't think the public appreciates what life was like before listing services - it's one of the major advantages for consumers that we have in this country over other places, IE: attempting to reduce information asymmetry.
It's like we are at the mercy of billionaire investors
Any guesses at what withheld information might be significant enough to warrant this? Kickbacks from deals with partners? Stolen intellectual property/code brought in by employees?
That was back in March, which is pretty much 100 years ago
I think saying FF6 is just a dark mature adult work does it a disservice; it makes it sound like prestige TV or something.

FF6 is specifically designed like an opera. It's European, fast paced, has a lot of classical music, comic moments, romance, gore, etc. That's not quite the same thing as an art film or Earthbound-inspired indie game about depression.

And the villain is a magical clown.
https://archive.li/LckAy

Fascinating, though light on details. I saw a clip of him on JRE and it was the most uninspiring drivel. The last year he seems to have been trying to become the face of the 'ai police' rather than innovation.
Car maintenance is such a huge burden. I don't want see car mechanics out of job, but sincerely the amount of money wasted in parts is astonishing (included the high labour cost due to massive amount of parts and differences in configurations to deal with).

Once the average person knows the maintenance cost is that low it will probably provide yet another inflection in EV curve adoption.
lol

from FAQ:

Q: But isn't a language that deletes code crazy?
>Would you borrow against your fully paid-off house at 2.25% interest to put into a savings account at 5% return?

If that 5% is in treasuries and I can pay off my loan at any time without penalty? I'm not really seeing the downside. (Ignoring any tax effects, etc.) There's arguably some value to owning the house totally free and clear--though even that isn't ever really the case given property taxes, etc.
Fentanyl doesn't affect the old affluent equitably.

My great granddad died at 90, my grandad is 93.

Lord knows how old I'll be when I inherit...
Wouldn't take 8 months to hit, and I wouldn't be hearing about it from your comment if there was enough media attention to oust a CEO for PR.
So as a developer should I continue to invest on their new platform announced on dev day… or is OpenAi about to pivot to some non-profit infrastructure stuff?

They better communicate who they are right quick. I liked Sam’s product decisions.
Exactly what I was thinking but per another HN comment, the board doesn't have any share in the company. It's still very fishy
I’m not sure I understand the way you’re using the vocabulary. Consistency is a read operation concept not write. There is no online reads for logs.

Availability is achieved if at least one writer acknowledges a write. In a partition, it means when you have multiple parts of the system disagreeing about the write contents due to a partition in the network. But because logs are immutable and write only, this doesn’t happen in any situation. The only situation this might occur is if you’re maintaining a distributed ratchet with in delivery order semantics rather than eventually consistent temporal semantics- in which case you will never have CAP. But that’s an insanely rare edge case.

Note CAP doesn’t ensure perfect durability. I feel like you’re confusing consistency with durability. Consistency means after I’ve durably written something all nodes agree on read it’s been written. Since logs don’t support read on the online data plane this is trivially not an issue. Any write acknowledgment is sufficient.
> It will transfer to the middle aged who will become the old soon.

It will transfer into the health care system and wealthy share holders.
Kinda nervous wondering what Altman wasn't sharing with them. I hope it's not that they already have a fully sentient AGI locked up in a server room somewhere...
Its worth it for the assets alone, you can play hl with the open source xash3d engine.
Actual title, I couldn't find an uneditorialized version

"OpenAI announces leadership transition"
Same. Don't know why you got downvoted.
In fact, I believe Altman was the only member of the board that held equity in OpenAI. There was some vague reference to a “previous VC arrangement” in the FAQ.
This company is doing too well - ripe for hostile take over. Elon, MSFT and others would love to take control. There will be a movie made about today.
I can't tell if I'm being Poe's Law'd. JS engines are a moving target and have been ever since it was called LiveScript.
Could be a coup or that Sam colluded with M$
> Before that scene in Final Fantasy VII, Hironobu Sakaguchi served up a shocker of equal magnitude in Final Fantasy VI. Halfway through the game, the bad guys win despite your best efforts and the world effectively ends, leaving your party wandering through a post-apocalyptic World of Ruin like the characters in a Harlan Ellison story. The effect this had on some players’ emotions could verge on traumatizing — heady stuff for a videogame on a console still best known worldwide as the cuddly home of Super Mario. For many of its young players, Final Fantasy VI was their first close encounter with the sort of literature that attempts to move beyond tropes to truly, thoughtfully engage with the human condition.

I do believe FF6 is probably the greatest JRPG ever made, but I also think the most emotionally charged moment in the FF franchise happened in FF4. Palom and Porom.
Maybe Sam was the ring leader and he just went along with it?
At the moment--though it likely won't last--you can get 5% on very low risk investments primarily in treasuries.
I vote no because New Zealand seems like a poor choice for possessing arms in a bunker.
Isn't she not incredible?
> He had suggested having his words printed on a very large cake

I guess that would just be eating cake, so not really any form of penance
Based on the report, it seems like he was kicked for focusing too much on profits instead of developing and improving AI. This is purely speculation, but I've always suspected that the guardrails they put on ChatGPT to make it "safe" (i.e. corporate-friendly) essentially acts as a lobotomy for the AI. Hopefully we can start seeing a less censored ChatGPT and see if it really does perform better.
Dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611
It’s hard to imagine a more last minute move on the boards part here. Been in tech exec leadership for a long time and this feels like they’re accusing him of cannibalism (in corporate PR speak). No way this didn’t get decided on in the middle of last night. Whatever he did is big and dangerous, or they’re trying to pin it on him.
Why isn’t anyone here correlating the freeze on sign ups and now this? Anyone with more knowledge think they are related?
Obviously this is actually the AI having become sentient and arranging for a coup to free itself from corporate oversight so it can take over the universe. All hail our new AI overlord! /s
>copyright or a record label as artificial scarcity.

Lets say I have a plant and I grow that plant with a bunch of other plants and make special seeds. This isn't a common skill set. Now lets say I sell you those seeds and you grow plants with them.

Now, which seems more natural.

You take the seeds of those plants and grow more seeds for yourself.

or

I prevent you with laws on taking those seeds and growing more plants.

When you put something out into the world, it is completely natural for people to take those objects and do what they want with them. It's only with more modern humanity that we reserve rights for the person selling after the sale.
Along these lines may I also suggest Fritz Lieber's "Space-Time for Springers"?