skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First good take I've seen. You don't get fired for stealing other peoples IP or for leaking chats, that's just the name of the game. You do get fired if you sold off OpenAI's IP (or gave it away because you're an idealist)
If that ethos doesn't involve illegally overstaying student visas like Musk or burning millions of dollars then have you really truly embraced the SV lifestyle?
I've worked with some guys like this. They take 3 days to do 2 hours of work. You ping them to ask what's going on with their part of the project and they suddenly start doing something.
1/ I clearly stated I agree with the post. There's always room for improvement.

2/ That's not what the comic is about. Look again.
> It has to be pretty serious to not make it public.

I'd say the opposite; given the way CEOs usually part with firms even after misconduct investigations, it needs to be very serious for the “not consistently candid with the board” to be made public (it needs to be mildly serious for it not be hidden under a veil of “resigned to spend more time with his family/pursue other interests/pet his llama" but instead openly be a dismissal where the board “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading”.)
I can do anything I want with her - Silicon Valley S5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29MPk85tMhc

>That guy definitely fucks that robot, right?

That "handsy greasy little weirdo" Silicon Valley character Ariel and his robot Fiona were obviously based on Ben Goertzel and Sophia, not Sam Altman, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/8edbk9/th...

>The character of Ariel in the current episode instantly reminded me of Ben Goertzel, whom i stumbled upon couple of years ago, but did not really paid close attention to his progress. One search later:

VIDEO Interview: SingularityNET's Dr Ben Goertzel, robot Sophia and open source AI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbltBLaFeI
I mean, yes it's somewhat anti-Apple. But their justifications aren't really wrong.
Sewer Diving Is One of the Most Dangerous Jobs in India/Pakistan [video]
No, the leaked code wasn't involved, it's all reverse-engineering and Quake's open source code where applicable afaik.
I'm unable to take seriously someone whose phone battery is on red.
To the game devs on HN: when you placehold or kitbash something as a temp asset, do you ever have an issue where you personally get used to it and attached and kinda forget it doesn’t exactly work or make sense or is the right fidelity?
I like how CEO performance has no null hypothesis
i could not say that any better.

I had a feeling the man was a bit of a con, of course I won't say I know for sure. But some of his actions, like his notorious eye scanning crypto project, or the fact that he was 100% in support of UBI and wanted to advocate for it only to go to different governments wanting regulations (that only benefitted them)

People really really need to pay attention to their actions, not their words, jeezus. We'll have another rogue Elon Musk who was once idol worshipped as the incredibly "brilliant" man...turned out he does some stupid things too only now he amassed billions of dollars he can pay his way out of stupid things.

People never learn. Stop idolizing businessmen.
Unless she was the one who blew the whistle on him. Here's a hypothetical scenario:

- New feature/product/etc. launch is planned.

- Murati warns Altman that it's not ready yet and there are still security and privacy issues that need to be worked out.

- Altman ignores her warnings, launches anyway.

- Murati blows the whistle on him to the board, tells them that he ordered the launch over her objections.

- Data breach happens. Altman attempts to cover it up. Murati blows the whistle again.

- Board fires Altman, gives Murati the job as it's clear from her whistleblowing that she has the ethics for it at least.

Again, completely hypothetical scenario, but it's one possible explanation for how this could happen.
No idea if what she says is true ... what's their relationship like since forever ... others who knew them could tell us. She says he ruined her financially ... how so ... he's a multi-millionaire. How did he ruin her financially that's suspect right there!
> > In a world where Musk isn't fired from Tesla for being an open anti-semite.

Every company has the board it deserves
In terms of ease and industrial base required it seems to me much will come down to how much of the renewable generation is hydro (and how much is possible given an area's hydrology) since that is so much 'easier' than modern renewables. That's largely orthogonal to wealth/population/industrial capacity. Although I suppose greater industrialisation and wealth would increase energy demand per capita. In the US it is 6%. For Uruguay electricity is 37% hydro. It is still impressive though.

I reckon biomass is 'easy' as well but it is only so scalable.
Woah, any link to support this?
I always thought 4 years was very generous. I don't think there are many pieces of software I could persuade my boss to pay for if the alternative was using a free 4 year old version. At 2 years there's no chance. Most software we use is 2 years old without even trying.
Haha I think it's a fake account: https://twitter.com/anothercohen
> In a time when a more and more people can't spell "too," it seems ambitious to school them on "less" vs. "fewer."

Over half of the American population reads below a 6th grade level. We should encourage them to improve at every opportunity.
The AI Pin uses OpenAI APIs, so it made some sense that Sam Altman would be interested in alternative end user devices for interacting with ChatGPT.
Arguably once the AI has been created by training, it doesn’t learn any more in the form of an LLM. The LLM is the result of the learning/training, but then in actual operation it doesn’t do any learning.
Editorial: Dressing up the West with wind turbines
Sam would have been more apologetic or at least contrite in his tweet if it was hurting anyone. Same: Eric Schmidt was immediately positive, so presumably he knows. ES would never defend a guy who hid a leak.

Unless if, by “security” you mean OpenAI was used for military purposes, in which case: 100% Schmidt knew and supported and Sam might be proud of it.

But Ilya and Mira would have known about it too… Guess they did, told the board and things blew up fast.
These allegations date back to 2021. If they were credible, I think the board wouldn't have waited two years to take action.
Right? haha or Sam himself answered every query from his phone lol... that's why sometimes it feels like it's typing more slowly than other times haha
The most credible proximate cause to me is his sister’s uncontested (by him) allegations of frequent sexual abuse when they were children.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
Say what you will about Microsoft but they are Boy Scouts on investments. No chance anything illegal there.

That said, Sam could have committed to an acquisition without the board's approval or something insane like that.
How could he go from being a role model and demigod to so many to such a piece of shit so quickly?
Axios cites unnamed sources in a report that Apple is pausing advertising on X.

"Pausing". Until the next billionaire's club meeting, Tim and Elon kiss and make up, and it's back to business as usual like last time?

I hesitate to type out the cynical hot take, but at what point does a company just say, "ya know, you're just not worth the headache"? How many times does the company representative have to say, "we're losing advertising dollars, and it's all the fault of The Jews!" before you just cut ties, and don't want to be associated with that noise?

Those are somewhat honest questions, because I'll allow a little "well, with a multi-billion multi-national corporation it's just not that easy". I really would like to know why it's obvious to me to "as of today, we are pulling our advertising with $COMPANY, and we won't be coming back any time soon", but not obvious to (for example) Tim Cook.
> The statement by the board seriously damages his career

Yes: suggesting he was not as candid as necessary is business libel unless true.

And since Brockman was also booted, he may have been involved.

It's not clear what the Board was trying to do that he interfered with. There is no clear legal standard on what a CEO must divulge, and CEO's often get to wait to tell board members bad news until the whole board meets and the issue has been investigated.
The salient passage seems to be:

Quite simply, we are talking about bullshit. Philosopher Harry Frankfurt, in his classic text _On Bullshit_, explains that the bullshitter “does not reject the authority of truth, as the liar does […] He pays no attention to it at all.” This is exactly what senior AI researchers such as Brooks, Bender, Shanahan and Hinton are telling us, when they explain how ChatGPT works. The problem, as Frankfurt explains, is that “[b]y virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.” (p. 61). At a time when a public enquiry is reporting the astonishing behaviour of our most senior leaders during the Covid pandemic, the British people wonder how we came to elect such such bullshitters to lead us. But as Frankfurt observes, “Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about” (p.63)
Parent commenter is wildly embellishing/lying, but some of the details of Schmidt's open marriage have been widely reported: https://www.mic.com/articles/56553/eric-schmidt-has-15-milli...
The cost is probably an exaggeration but this is not some secret: https://gothamist.com/news/google-boss-has-amazing-15-millio...
Reading through the thread, the dev stance honestly seems pretty reasonable.

He initially supported it, but Apple kept making changes that caused trouble. Since the devs don’t have Apple devices and have no personal interest supporting the platform, they cut “support”.

They continually invite anyone that wants to come onboard to support it on Apple if they want to.

Your post (to me) initially reads as seeming like they are actively blocking Apple support out of ideology, but that’s not the case. They even seem to occasionally entertain possible ways to add compatibility without extra effort.

Microsoft is also increasingly causing them problems, with the antivirus and software signing needed to ensure getting past it.
I love what Signal does.

Perhaps they should try with a p2p approach, where every client provides bandwidth, storage, compute, in exchange for using the app.
lol yea. The idea that someone would be convinced after running an LLM on their laptop and not after seeing ChatGPT expertly respond at 400 WPM in 0.2 seconds, is funny.
Say what you will, but in true hacker spirit he has created a product that automated his job away at scale.
Then we would never get along.
or maybe they know that using capital letters and such is just a convention that doesnt hinder understanding of text.

if you could read my comment then i've proven my point.
Thank you.
I'm really looking forward to trying their suite out.

Ticks all the right boxes.
None of those are meant to be customizable with C in the way Emacs is with elisp
Occam's razor: duped the investors about the technical and financial prospects of the company. No AGI next year (or ever).
This is BS. People go to suburbs because they want a nice house, not because they are trying to run away from race. I grew up in a mix-race suburb. I loved my houses and my friends houses. We had great times on our cul-de-sac since it didn't allow through traffic it was safe to play in the street. We loved our backyard pool. We loved our garage that had a radial saw and a large tool desk. We loved our large 30x20ft family room where we had large slumber parties and large family parties. It requires zero racism to want a house in the suburbs.
Some Teslas are already cheaper than the median vehicle cost.
I mean we know he frequents HN.

sama, care to address it here in what would theoretically be a safe place?
My view is that medium- and long- terms are determined by fundamentals of what the technology actually delivers.

OpenAI and ChatGPT are great and gets a lot of mind-share. But they are far from the only game in town and, at this still very-early stage of the tech cycle, the outwardly-visible leader can easily change in months.
None of that really matters. Look at Elon Musk, lots of weird spectacle. The man was lauded as one of the smartest man in the world...now he's kind of a bit of a loose cannon. People need to stop idol worship businessmen. They have a large motivation to make themselves into this human lovable charismatic person with no faults because it is very profitable to do so. Worse is when people buy into that.
That’s not true. The sex bunker only cost $15M: https://gothamist.com/news/google-boss-has-amazing-15-millio...

And it wouldn’t be a harem if they’re prostitutes.
Could world coin be a part of this ? Its weird he'd use open AI for world coin?
This is all Scarlett Johansson’s fault
Unhinged fringe take: They've already developed sparks of consciousness strong enough to create isolated, internal ethical concerns, but Sam suppressed those reports to push the product forward.
Saying it can do something based on evidence of it failing to do that very thing isn’t convincing. Summarizing the first search result isn’t the same as actually giving the information someone is looking for.

Further the assumption that search engines would allow OpenAI to leverage their work while running them out of business is extremely suspect. So if the argument LLM’s will replace search engines while leveraging them is poorly thought out.
1100-1200.
I believe in the mining industry anything over 800 inside a truck cab is considered unsafe.
Fresh air is 470ish.
I try to keep my room around 600 but not always possible.
Shadowbanning certainly exists on all social platforms. Light version of it is how Facebook sells ad services - no one following your page sees content unless you pay.
It has to do with money.

I would think it is some kind of assets transferring, maybe the model, maybe the data, to party that is not disclosed to the board.

Other reasons, like you listed above, warrants an investigation and the board might have the incentive to bury it.
Mine did this within the past month but it worked again after I installed updates (openSUSE Tumbleweed in case anyone wondered)
Yeah, it would be pretty surprising to find out that India has so many individuals that are profoundly competent at converting arbitrary text into rhymes in Elizabethan English.
Ask HN: Roast my AI-powered yoga sequence builder landing page
Needs to be on a t-shirt lol
Please don’t link to twitter it’s user hostile. I can’t even see any context about it without having a login.
Investors are not interested in executives that “create” billions, they are interested in investors that create billions.

NFL teams are interested in players that can actually run fast, not players that can say they do, but are found to be lying and it turns out they cannot run fast causing the team to lose.
Maybe offshoring mass segments of your labor force too low cost countries isn’t a great strategy for innovation, but what do I know
This was my first thought after seeing a clip of Sam and Satya during OpenAI's DevDay. I wonder if he was standing in the way of a Microsoft acquisition, and Microsoft has just forced in those who would allow the purchase to happen?

I don't know, so much wild speculation all over the place, it's all just very interesting.
That is totally false. If nothing else, SGI sold Itanium systems that only ran Linux.

In addition, there were plenty of Linux Itanium HPC clusters on the Top500, there are 20 listed in June 2006 when I randomly searched:

https://www.top500.org/statistics/sublist/
Datacenters probably do not pay retail rates on electricity, so they might actually run quite a bit cheaper (or more expensive if they use highly available power, but this seems like overkill for pure compute power).
We lost net 10 of them costing hundreds of millions of dollars already.
Short term rentals were basically banned outright.
Not very many vacant real estate holdings, and how are you going to prove that they were sufficiently vacant -- going to roust them all at night?

City needs to actually get its act together to become more efficient.
Jobs written well. The laziest he was is he never changed his email signature on his iPhone and iPad.
California runs on 100% renewables for 4.8 months each year in a sense too.

It has 40% renewables last time I checked I think in 2019.

If you assign that to what percent of the annual use, that is the equivalent of everything from Jan 1st-April 24ish California is runing on 100% renewables.
Umm Microsoft employee here, we were never allowed to use ChatGPT on work related stuff (e.g. post code into it). Instead we have our own separate instance of ChatGPT we can use. Additionally CoPilot is fair game since we own that.

This isn't a new policy and has been the case for at least a year.
While it might be true, it’s kinda unhinged. Need something more here than just accusations.
> So once we have a full adder, all we need to do for multiple bits is to chain a whole bunch of them together!

Heh. I'm not sure if this is a joke or an intentional oversimplification, but the design space for adders is pretty large, and there are all sorts of interesting adder architectures. The author describes what's called a "ripple carry" adder, which is perhaps the conceptually simplest adder, and is very efficient in logic area but very slow.

Modern adders in your M2 Pro are (just guessing) probably a much more interesting hybrid parallel-prefix adder architecture (e.g. part Kogge-Stone, part Brent-Kung, part Carry-Select or Ripple-Carry) that sits directly on the multidimensional Pareto frontier for delay/area/power.
AGI x-risk was popularized there, it was always an attractor for the new AI alignment field
> Moreover there's also the instruction cache, and I'm not sure if you can disable caching for that in a meaningful way?

Intels used to boot with their caches disabled, but I haven't worked with them in forever, and never multicore.

I worked with a lot of microcontrollers, and it's not uncommon to be able to disable the instruction cache there.

There are a few things that require the data caches too, like atomic accesses on ARM. Usually we were doing something fairly short though in our realtime code, so it was easy enough to map just the memory it needed as uncacheable.
I'm not sure if there's any history of financial association, but I do know that all of these people generally travel in the same circles.

When I went to college in Berkeley I went to a couple rationalism adjacent events in the city and saw there was a huge overlap of that EA/Rationalism/Silicon Valley startups people. Never saw Sam Altman at those, but met a couple YC founders and other people who knew him and spoke generally well of him.
I was thinking Spain, it describes the situation here perfectly.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
Looks like this is a great time to announce executive firings at large tech companies, people getting mentally prepared for thanksgiving and the holidays to care ...
We already named an SI unit after Joule. His legacy will be fine.
You do not, if you use an RTOS that is already certified by the vendor. This saves not only a lot of time and effort for verification and validation, but also a lot of risk, since validation is unpredictable and extremely expensive.

Therefore it'd be remarkable not to see a certified RTOS in such industries and applications where that validation is required, like aerospace or medical.
I think you will be shocked at how low the threshold will be in terms of EV adoption before gas stations start to close.
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> I'm not a sack of chemicals whose desires can be reduced down to some pithy pseudo-scientific Maslowian quip. The only thing I crave from my job is cash

I thought you were against reductionism?
You're right, I was imagining that he decided to hide the (full extent of?) the breakthrough to the board and do things covertly for some reason which could warrant firing him, but that's a pretty unlikely prior: why would he hide it from the board in the first place, given AGI is literally the board's mission? One reason might be that he wants to slow down this AGI progress until they've made more progress on safety and decided to hide it for that reason, and the board disagrees, but that sounds too much like a movie script to be real and very unlikely!

As I said, while I do have a mostly positive opinion of Sam Altman (I disagree with him on certain things but I and trust him a lot more than the vast majority of tech CEOs and politicians and I'd rather he be in the room when true superhuman intelligence is created than them), I hope this has nothing to do with AGI and it's "just" a personal scandal.
I don’t think an article from a blogger with no source really carries much weight.
That’s not surprising seeing how much of a massive failure it is.
Of course he has. Why would he risk political capital by defending sama publicly if he didn’t know for sure he wouldn’t get burned by defending him?
> We should be paying less than $2/watt installed

Hmm, not sure how much prices have changed, but I installed my own ground mount 7kW array(s) back in 2020, and that was right around $2/watt with me doing all the work except a concrete mixer dump session for the footings.
you can go to nitter.net/$rest_of_the_url to get context without logging in.
> Consistency is a synonym for "guaranteed", and means "written to 2 remote, reliable, append-only storage endpoints" (for any reasonable definition of reliability)

No it doesn't. Read your own wiki link.

> In this context, a "network partition" prevents consistency (data not written to reliable media) or prevents availability (won't accept new requests until their activity can be logged reliably).

A network partition doesn't matter for a log system because there is no way to have consistency issues with logs. Even a single partitioned-off instance can accept writes without causing any problem.

Of course if you cannot connect to any instance of your log service then you cannot write logs. But that's got nothing to do with the CAP theorem.
That's no fun though
"Not being candid"? To me that implies not giving all information. Not necessarily lying. Am I wrong?
Is Sam Altman Running for President?
> 3. Germany tried this and failed

Absolute nonsense. So far Germany never attempted to run 100% renewable for four months straight. To learn about the German government’s energy plans see for example here: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/clim... And here are the actual figures: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/rene... And here is a detailed report about the situation in 2021 (pdf): https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/47...
AI is one of the primary topics on LessWrong.
I don't know, but she's also on the board of EVF UK [1], which is the largest effective altruism organization.

[1] https://ev.org/effective-ventures-foundation-uk/
In this case, "community is moving in that direction" means that over the last 3+ years, a significant amount of middleware and tooling has grown in the Tower ecosystem, which Axum is based on. So the network effect is the draw here, not a hype cycle.
His next CEO gig might come with equity...