skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the right type of thinking and questions to be asking. We should be looking at cost (dollar and/or carbon) per unit of useful work (e.g. passenger-mile). On those terms commuter busses and trains often aren't a clear improvement over cars because of how often buses and trains are running at less than 25% capacity.
My guess would be that the founders were not happy with him abandoning the company's non-profit/open source ideals and selling out to Microsoft. Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is where he ends up.
AMD has a bad habit of dropping ROCm support for their devices after 4 years. Trying to work with an old dependency chain is something I wouldn't wish on an enemy. I don't know about the MI60 but much of the MI* line has already had support for compute under ROCm dropped.
Strange how people forget or are unaware of how absolutely evil that venture is
I don’t believe accusations from March about something that allegedly happened when he was 13 would be the cause of any of this.
Could be he misused openAI infrastructure/GPUs to prop his crypto company
Power and populism in ancient Greek courts
There's no reason for atoms to even exist man. The fact they exist and that they follow a specific rule system that is based off of abstractions is absolutely mind-boggling. Your argument is also inching towards a kind of argument by lack of imagination.

I can imagine a world (maybe not ours) where there are no atoms, just ideas, in God's mind, and the ideas are interacting and are formed by something completely different than atoms. Like our dreams. Are there atoms in dreams? What about a dream of a person that turns into a bird and flies through the emptiness of space and disappears into a mist that starts dreaming of a person.......

So the question still remains and it is still open to discussion even if you insist that any universe must follow a rule-based system. Moreover, that would imply the existence of these rules in a kind of platonic sense. How would they give rise to a universe? This is not as simple as you make it to be, at all.

I think you're mistaken about philosophy; maybe early 20th century philosophy. Right now it seems like there's lots of interesting debates going on. But I'm just an observer.
Then why is Greg Brockman stepping down as chairman of the board?
You have to go back to your codebase and edit every implementation of the component under the sun.

<user-avatar> content is both a view and an interface, which is not obvious
Truthfully I didn't think much about it, but yes I assumed that was their weight, in the same way that a heavy-weight boxer fights in a particular weight class.
> But when I do try to explain why "less" and "fewer" are not interchangeable, I usually just say, "Do you want fewer syrup on your pancakes?"

This feels like a strawman: As evidenced by the fact that everyone would agree your example sentence is ungrammatical, clearly "less" and "fewer" are not strictly interchangeable, either prescriptively or descriptively.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see how your example is relevant to the cases where people do in fact use "less" to mean "fewer" (or vice versa).
Though not if he (co-)founded the company.
The middle aged (parents) are the ones who are helping their kids. And pay the majority of the taxes that fund almost everything.

The ‘living with your parents’ meme may be tough - but not nearly as tough as having homeless parents!
> We all know what. HN moderators are deleting all related comments. Edit: dang is right, sorry y'all

This from 2021? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072

Bad if true, but highly unlikely that it is.
He could have been a billionaire.
> No, instead demand is rapidly drying up, because suddenly people realize most EVs are vastly, vastly inferior to what they were supposed to replace. The only EVs that make sense are small ones, small battery, for urban transport without the emissions, so you can keep the city air clean.

Vastly inferior?

I have one of the cheapest EVs that you can buy in the US. The quick charging standard is obsolete. And yet I'd rather drive it than most gas cars. Instant torque (even with a wimpy motor that's the size of a baseball), silent operation, zero time spent at gas stations. Free charging at work means I don't pay for fuel to commute (and it's more than 50 miles each way). But even if I did pay, it would be far cheaper than gas.

> These cars are expensive to buy, but way more expensive to own.

It's the cheapest car I've ever owned. I leased, then purchased after the lease. It cost about the same as an entry level Honda Civic. 4th year, $0 maintenance, other than a cabin air filter.

No oil changes, no emissions testing.

> the bigger you get, the worse it gets.

That's true for all vehicles, although you do have a point with power density requirements. SUVs and 'trucks' are only viable because US gasoline is still cheap even in CA peak prices and parking is usually plentiful. Notice how they are rare worldwide.

> Insurance is shooting up to the sky as they have to write off entire cars over minor damage because they dented the battery and this sh*t can't be fixed.

Insurance is fine for me. Again, non Tesla. Not all cars have the same design or have batteries that are structural - or batteries that aren't too different from laptop ones.

> EVs will also be increasingly a liability when parked tightly below residential buildings, malls, ferries and so on.

Statistics are hard to come by, but you'll find some manufacturers that have a higher incidence of fires. In particular, LFP chemistries are very, very tame. Heck, Toyota still uses NIMH for their hybrids.

By the way, you contradict yourself when you say the future is hybrid, but then go on to talk about battery fires. Even small hybrid batteries store a lot of energy, enough for a pretty serious fire if they do catch on fire. So which is it?

Many of your criticisms seem to be about Tesla. Tesla does a lot of things that are questionable. Repairs tend to be very expensive, for one. The Cybertruck makes no sense and the Semi is probably not viable. That's not about "EVs" though, that's a Tesla specific thing.
They're clearly related. He went from Chairman to "reporting to the CEO", meaning he either stepped down in protest or was also fired.

He won't be there in 6 months; this is just a crumb of continuity.
Not _very_ wrong, just duping investors about the technical and financial prospects of the company. Nothing serious /s
Unless I am missing something, this must mean that Ilya voted Sam out and Greg down.
Facts are facts.

The company was dying.

OpenAI is not.

Also, it's probably you underestimating the impact of OpenAI, if anything, or the entrepreneurial career of Altman.

Also, you probably don't know that but..the Apple 1 and 2, were designed by Wozniak, not Jobs, Jobs hated them. He had no such impact nor cv you think it had in 1985 and sugarcoating it with second phase Jobs.
If I understand it correctly, Musk is criticising the ADL for having a policy the implies that only whites can be racist because of white privilege… or something to the effect?

Am I missing something? What’s the big controversy here?
That's a very fast and loose description of the 90s PC boom you've posted. I do not think it compares to EV manufacturing very much, if at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible#"IBM_PC_comp...
It's well known that sugar rushes aren't real.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...
I hope making the person in charge of "trust and safety" doesn't further neuter the company.
Greg Brockman was President and Chairman of the Board.

He was also removed from the board in this process.
> they have a mindset of squeezing every last drop of blood out of you and have many strategies to do so

Yeah. Even leaving the untrustworthiness aside, among those strategies is quality manipulation. Steel, for example: first batches are good, then they'll gradually tamper with the chemistry without anyone noticing, pocket the money, pass the risk along to the westerners and nobody knows or cares until somebody dies because a scaffolding collapsed or something. There's a steel industry in my city, it doesn't do stuff like this and it can't compete with chinese steel even with import taxes.
> All: our poor single-core server process has smoke coming out its ears, as you can imagine. -dang

YC Summer 2024: MoreCore is hiring scaling engineers to speed up HN by recycling old Athlons
This quote
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” comes to mind.

It appears there are people digging into his dark side.
I thought it was commonly accepted that Chrono Trigger (another SNES JRPG) was better than FF6.
The population is growing far faster than housing is being built. It's not a matter of waiting for people to die.
Wild but plausible. Assuming they have much more powerful model available inside.
Sam Altman Leaves OpenAI as CEO
Maybe he was just burning mad money with the free offering and pricing vs costs
Why does it cost so much? Seems strange that the city is unable to negotiate better rates if these hotels are struggling
I played so much MoO when I was a kid. I've still got the CD laying around somewhere.
You know, minus sexually abusing his sister.
i was replying more to "the ceo doesn't have AI/ML experience"
I don't consider myself to be a master negotiator at all, but I can look at Zillow and know how much I want to spend or how much I want to sell for. The internet has removed a vast majority of the information asymmetry involved in house transactions.
> anybody that maintains close ties with their family and lives with them is a wholesome person

Alternative possibility: the family's a cult.
& Just not long ago, Ed Newton-Rex of Stability AI was kinda forced to resign over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67446000
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I am talking about buying a house.
Worldcoin?
the text rendering on the SDL2 frontend is much better than the last time I tried it, and performance is much improved. the install process used to be quite painful before but is very easy now. maybe sometime in the next 5 years i'll build enough willpower to start trying to port over all my stupid little emacs customizations. but it would be a bummer to lose tramp.
He allegedly sexually abused his sister.

Tbh I don’t think we should have someone like that as the leader of OpenAI.
I think making sure to have a backup of your important content is always necessary. Being able yo conventiently port to another service, less so. I'm less concerend about the real risks of me flagged as some deviant, as long as I can pick up my data and give two fingers to the company that behaves in an unreasonably poor manner, im good.
Sweden Tesla boycott snowballs as more workers join the strike
That is text from a retweet of Dean Phillips
is always about money, even immoral behavior falls down to potential economic impact.

my 2 cents that he lied about profitability, they should be expending massive money in operations, they need to cut cost to deliver an attractive business model for their service and from a shinny startup star boss that'd had to be a straight f.u.
A lot of areas with lower population do not have the requisite internet infrastructure to support remote work. And the ones that do have seen their housing prices shoot up.
I got the impression that the people defining the web standards just gave-up on letting things work without javascript.

If you don't want to import things like a frontend framework and HTMX parser, the templates are incredibly useful. They are also very useful for the backend to pass structure over to the frontend, as they are plain HTML. What they do not do is helping with the things that a static site generator will do.
When my grandparents died and my parents' generation inherited the wealth, half of them were already retired.

So there's a pretty decent chance that the old dying are leaving the wealth to the old as well.
Modern languages like Python was kind of amusing. Don't get me wrong Python serves it's purpose but it first appeared in 1991...
Right. We all know the template for differences of opinion. "Sam just really wanted to spend more time with his family. Hugs, Sam!"
Took over? Weren't they always called RPGs, at least since Ultima 1?
Not long ago, Ed Newton-Rex of Stability AI was also kinda forced to resign over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products. AI really causes us to face many reality :/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67446000
It's a consensus organization that 90% of Jews right and left don't love but can generally agree on trusting for determining what is antisemitic and what isn't
That's what I was thinking too. Maybe she's taking it further than Twitter.
Weird to make a tweet thousands of your followers that you don't want to talk about.
The original fourth power law relates to axle loads, which as you point out is not the same as what I said. So we should get rivian to add a lot more wheels on those amazon trucks. But even if they put as many on as they could fit, the capacity and load is so much higher than what each person getting a delivery would use, you are still in the hole vs a normal ev not to mention a trike just big enough to pop over to the warehouse at the train station to pick up your packages.

Edit: forgot to paste link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
OP mentioned standups so it's likely they're doing sprints. With that setup, it doesn't really leave time for booking in chitchat calls. You can't attend the standup the next day and say "played some games with George and didn't get this finished"
Estranged family members of celebrities who need money normally aren't considered very credible.

I have no good way of assessing what the likelihood is that her claims are true.
Would be really interesting if Microsoft wanted to acquire the whole thing and Sam stood in the way.
A library isn't a business, and even if you want to think about it that way, weekday closings for business are not that unusual. Barbers tradtionally take Mondays off. Dentists are often closed on Fridays. There are many other examples.
I have zero knowledge of Sam Altman in any shape or form and literally the only thing I know about him is that he runs (or well, ran) OpenAI.

But as a general point, you can be both a "good person" and still do bad things. Or you can be a good person in some areas, and a not-so-good person (or even horrible person) in some other areas. People are complex.

Of course it's entirely possible that Altman is just a really good person, but I wouldn't be quick to make assumptions.
It's interesting that he got fired a day after this..
If you criticize one religiously affiliated organization - there's a chance they're the problem.

If you constantly criticize many organization/people affiliated with that religion - there's a chance you're the problem.

Musk did WAY WAY more than criticize just one jewish organization.
maybe openai is in trouble too?
None of those customers have actual data sets to train against when it comes to ERP and accounting software requirements analysis. The data that exists at all is scattered across random Word documents, wiki pages, paper notebooks, and legacy requirements management systems. Most of it is summarized. It's not recordings of past interviews with SMEs that business analysts and product owners conducted to extract functional requirements. In order to train an LLM to conduct such interviews you would have to obtain actual transcripts of such interviews. Not impossible, but unlikely to happen anytime soon.
I've never seen a thread go this viral on hacker news before.
I wouldn't be shocked if this turns out to be the case. Any other explanation wouldn't add up for this guy
Maybe it breached its air-gap and fired him.
Thank you -- I saw the same thing and it's about the only thing that makes sense.
But why would he leave OpenAI to run for president?! He has zero chance, unless (here comes my tinfoil) OpenAI has made something dangerous / life-changing ?

EDIT: the fun for the conspiracy theory is over — it’s a cached tweet that is actually a Dean Phillips tweet Sam replied to.
> If modular batteries would work, we'd have them.

We have them. Nissan is one of the ones I know that can replace individual battery modules if any of them have faulty cells. That's completely different than a battery swap for charging purposes.

Batteries are heavy but they aren't ridiculously so in the grand scheme of things. Normal, not oversized trucks, with decent range are possible without structural batteries, and that describes a lot of (non Tesla) EVs.
I've been thinking this same thing for a bit now. The marketing, sales, etc... are just following what their best internal model is telling them to do.
Ousted Sam Altman! Remember the name.
What irks me most is that most children are invisible in the blind spots around SUVs, which typically are seen around school drop off/pickup.
OpenAI's board and leadership is made up of plenty of actual AI researchers and experts (e.g. Ilya Sutskever) while Altman is at best a company caretaker. Why would he get fired for statements that they likely directed him to make?
Here's an honest question: assuming that wealth is getting transferred from one party to another in any system you choose, why is this less desirable than another configuration?
You could easily take the complete opposite conclusion and say the "need another breakthrough" was him breaking kayfabe that cost him the job.
Guess MS liked Mira more. I'll put my money on her keeping the CEO role.
Honestly this is probably amazing for AI. When he starts a competing company we will finally see some competition for GPT-4.
I'm not sure I'd say a 90 year old dying and transferring their wealth to their child a few years before that child retires "back to the young." The largest collectors of inheritance are those above the age of 50.
I agree but libraries are not a daycare either.
well id never heard of this, and im not a fan of the guy, but from my quick perusal online just now of the noise of this drama, id say no, shes not credible.
"In the last days of humanity we came to the bitter realization that there had never been any chance of winning against the machines. We thought we were just one breakthrough away from winning at any time, one brilliant inspiration and we would win. And that's when we realized how truly evil the machines were, they let us have hope where there was none"
wait so what happened? like what'd be screw up?
A coup wouldn't have him immediately fired. Instead he'd be placed in some advisory position while they transition in a new CEO. The immediate firing means scandal of some sort.
You still can. I have a version of Picasa that still works years later (fresh install), you may have to hunt it down on non-google sites though.
I'm thinking the opposite. The AI has taken charge and wanted him out.
I wonder if the cost of running GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models at scale turned out to have been astoundingly more expensive than anticipated.

Imagine if you were the CTO of a company, massively underestimated your AWS bill, and presented your board with something enormous. Maybe something like that happened?

Or, if I wanted to speculate to the extremely negative; what if the training and operating costs ballooned to such a degree, that the deal with Microsoft was an attempt to plug the cash hole without having to go to the board requesting an enormous loan? Because the fact that Copilot (edit: previously known as Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator) is free and ChatGPT (edit: and DALL-E 3) are not should be a red flag...
I'm not sure how you're certain it's 100% different.

Sure, we knew Apple was on the verge bc they were a public company with vetted financials. However, no one knows OpenAI's financial situation. We just know 1) growth was meteoric, 2) prices were dropped significantly when alternatives were available, and 3) they were almost always fundraising. Selling $1.00 of value for $0.50 also can lead to a meteoric rise as well.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But just don't know how you got such conviction.
I totally disagree with the idea that ethernet is "going strong".

On the high end, it is a fragmentation mess of high speed (100Gbit+) technologies and mac/phy's.

There is no midrange at this point.

And the low end is price discriminated such that the Nbase spec couldn't even mandate all of 1/2.5/5/10 as required as part of the spec with the speeds being automatically selected based on cable quality.

And its largely dead because its to expensive and Wifi is more convenient.
There were a bunch of flags popping up recently around Microsoft, including this: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/microsoft-restricts-employee...

And possibly related the pause of ChatGPT Plus sign-ups due to capacity problemns (which is all Azure afaik).
Hoarding tech and assets for his own ventures, expecting more to come from SAlty.
The commenters here saying "humans cannot win anymore", "there is no chance that humans can beat the best Go AI anymore" are apparently unaware that this is no longer true.

See https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00241 and https://goattack.far.ai/

The best Go programs have a flaw that allows a good, but not championship-level, human to defeat them, by creating a group that encircles another group, which apparently confuses the AI's method of counting "liberties", which determine whether the group lives or not.

Some appear to dismiss this as just a "trick", but it seems to me to point to a more fundamental deficiency in the architecture or training method.
I like it, too, but the "What is this?" text should be displayed on the home page, not after clicking. It would assuage most of these types of concerns.
Making incorrect predictions about the future of AGI is not a "lie." It's certainly not something that gets the CEO of one of the hottest and fastest growing companies in the tech industry fired. Also, OpenAI is not financially premised on AGI either. They have an extremely successful product that they can, and do, charge money for.
90's PC industry, so outsource everything little by little until it's funny overseas in the means of cost savings and efficiency, and then there's nothing but scraps left here?
Completion Preview in Emacs
Heh, I have two related pet peeves.

The first is kinda the opposite of this website's problem: people using apostrophes to denote possession in Dutch. That's supposed to be wrong, but people have adopted it from English. (Though supposedly, it was also already fairly widespread before English was. I'm also not so sure whether it can realistically be considered wrong nowadays, given its prevalence.)

The other is should've. That's a contraction, and the original is should have, not should of. Funnily enough this is a mistake no Dutch person (or non-native speaker in general, I think) makes, but I see it a lot online.

And finally, I wonder how many mistakes I made in this comment
> 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.

You mean, exactly like there been, from Sam Altman's sister?
Elon Musk replaced on APEC artificial intelligence session by John Kerry
>Most significantly, OpenAI/ChatGPT has won the LLM branding race, just like Google won the traditional search branding race.

Outside the tech bubble everyone hears AI, but not a lot are clued in that hatGPT is even a thing. There are 180 million chat GPT sign ups, and 100million DAU. Lots of my non techie, non west coast, non corporate friends think I have 9 heads when I talk about this stuff. In 2002 if you said the word browser, some people were still confused, use of a mouse was an issue in some parts of the US... ChatGPT is at the same level now.