skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this checks out, as most of the ideas around here involving him hiding OpenAI internals from the board don't, for this reason: How could he, given who is on the board?

There is no way that sama is the only person in this set of people to have unique information on critical privacy incidents or financials or costs of server operations, because these issues don't originate with him.

If some version of this turned out to be true, I would be seriously confused about ground truth transparency in the company and how the fuck they set the whole thing up, that this was an option. But again, this is why I'd say: Implausible.
My guess is he's the right person to run closedai, but not openai. Board has no financial interest in the company, and wanted to stay true to its initial goal.
In the AGI sense of intelligence defined by AIXI, (lossless) compression is only model creation (Solomonoff Induction/Algorithmic Information Theory). Agency requires decision which amounts to conditional decompression given the model. That is to say, inferentially predict the expected value of consequences of various decisions (Sequential Decision Theory).

Approaching the Kolmogorov Complexity limit of Wikipedia in Solomonoff Induction, would result in a model that approaches true comprehension of the process that generated Wikipedia including not only just the underlying canonical world model but also the latent identities and biases of those providing the text content. Evidence from LLMs trained solely on text indicates that even without approaching the Solomonoff Induction limit of the corpora, multimodal (e.g. geometric) models are induced.

The biggest stumbling block in machine learning is, therefore, data efficiency more than data availability.
Wait maybe he resigned with no notice to do something different and that's why the board response is so harsh.
Also, the technology of finding the right set of human experts on basically any topic in milliseconds in India would be a massive feat in of itself
> If you don’t consider the capital of a panel then sure free / cheap as dirt.

That's what I meant, the capital cost is already so low that you could use them as fence panels. They will only get lower with the looming supply glut.

Look at this monocrystaline (higher eff) panel in china: 15 cents per watt. There are cheaper ones too:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Haitai-Solar-Panel-Pr...

A 400W panel will cost 60 dollars and has a size of 1.8mx1.8m. Per square meter that is $18.52

A generic plastic fence panel from lowe's 6ft by 8ft costs $120
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Freedom-Actual-6-ft-x-7-82-ft-Ready...

price per square meter: $26.87
It seems like it's been getting a bit more attention over the past month.
Tons of high profile people spoke like that about a large number of individuals in the past. Here I think it's clear that OpenAI has indeed delivered something serious.
Sam Altman's first response after being fired from Open AI
This is silly. We need to start viewing gas as a precious resource and treating it as such which means creating cities that don't take a car to get around in.
Unfortunately most companies don't operate as a meritocracy. Leadership is almost never fired because it becomes a club/brotherhood. The first people who are fired when things go badly are those not in the club (individual contributors).

There are always exceptions, but they are rare. People are innately tribal and political.
Theory: possibly because Mira disagreed with Sam on launching so much so quickly (she reports to him), he overrode, it went wrong, and then she took it to the board.

Hence, they trust her to take on the interim role.

Again, all speculative.
Plot twist, GPT-4 is pulling the strings behind OpenAI and for Sam Altman fired...
In the scenario where a security incident is the cause, the CTO might have been the one blowing the whistle
If he already abused his sister, him being gay isn't a subject that matters on his preferences on who to prey on.
Is your point that all handicapped people need cars to get around in bad weather? I understand not everyone lives somewhere with good weather, but I'll point you to look at cities that get a ton of weather and still manage to have good transportation like Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Tokyo, etc. and many handicapped people make great use of the transportation in those cities.

Physical and mental ability exists in a spectrum for all of us. A small portion of people may physically need to be driven around in a vehicle. But a huge portion of those with disabilities are still fully able to get onto a lightrail, metro, etc. to get around.
Yes true that is obviously the most pertinent sentence. I guess my point is that even with that sentence there is still wide-ranging speculation about what happened, and I think the last paragraph is hinting at what happened.
Did you try with your Internet off?
I think it makes sense for peak electricity usage to have to pay more for upkeep and infrastructure. Building everything out for peak usage is where the higher costs come from. If my usage during peak is 1kw and my neighbor's is 10kw, our local grid will have to be able to support 11kw. How should those costs for infrastructure be split?
>last minute move

Also, they did it around 3:30 Eastern, 30 minutes before the closing bell (Microsoft is xxmajorityxx 49% owner). It was so urgent they couldn't wait until after the market closed.
Extra battery in the trailer can make it go so much further. And make battery in the trailer replaceable during a "charge" stop
That doesn't seem like a very smart strategy ahah
If you want to get paid maybe don't give away your software for free? This comes across as major sour grapes. "I made this free thing for people to use and they don't pay me for it!!" Ok, then maybe don't give it away?
Azure OpenAI Service Launches GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5-Turbo-1106 Models
Why would someone running OpenAI possibly be involved in something so unnecessarily speculative and unrelated?

I ask that question leaving out any of the socio-economic and privacy concerns around that project.
nah, probably some toxic sex stuff. i can't think of any business reason for sam to be ousted. bribes, losing money, lies to the board? all good and well as long as the company stays the leader in the absolute most groundbreaking tech in human history so far.
I'm very curious if anyone could share reasons why Smalltalk and the system they are using here didn't "win" in the "marketplace of ideas". Performance? Native integrations? Developer preferences? Or because it was comercial and free / open source tools won even though they were less sophisticated?

I can already see that some of the ideas mentioned were completely wrong, like "buying objects on the market". "Reusability" on the object-level is very low, and nowadays we can clearly see that "re-usability" is better achieved on the "module" level (npm, cargo, etc.).

I'm like half-way through the video and basically I can see the naive believes about potential OOP that nowadays we kind of know didn't work (re-usability through inheritance, ignoring the complexity explosion etc.)

But even ignoring all this, the tooling, JITs, portability - all seemed quite nice and it's surprising that it seems all gone.
One of the things that needs to change is that the pricing becomes more reasonable.

I believe that the US has terrible passenger rail, so it makes sense for things to be overly expensive, but in Europe this is a major problem too. One fair fix would be to start taxing flying more (e.g. fuel is untaxed right now) and actually give tax benefits to trains.
Different strokes for different folks. I enjoy living in suburbia very much and densely packed urban areas give me nightmares.
That's definitely a big improvement and protects all the cats.
this is a strange and concerning comment imo
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Agreed. When I first considered porting small APIs over to Rust, Rocket appeared to be the most popular besides Actix. Axum hadn't even came out (it came out a month later and we ended up using it even though it was in its infancy). It's pretty unfortunate because Rocket could be amazing but the lack of updates killed it. See you guys in 5 years when v0.6 comes out.
mistral 7b foundation model is the first AI related thing that excites me since the launch of ChatGPT. shows us that this tech is poised to be commodified, self hosted at a low cost eventually and won't necessarily be tied to and controlled by tech billionaires.
Well what do you do when your only option is a car but you can't drive?

Cycling infra helps: https://youtu.be/xSGx3HSjKDo?t=42

So does public transport: https://youtu.be/hK5r4dtFXGA?t=326, https://youtu.be/PgFVjCL21WI?t=178

Quote from a stranger: "I am a disabled individual. I literally cannot operate a motor vehicle in a legal capacity. I cannot live in most US cities because of the lack of public transport and inability to walk places. I WANT THIS TO CHANGE. I am visually impaired, but I want this to change not only for me, but others like me whose disability would not hinder their life nearly as much if the cities they lived in were walkable cities. This would also benefit the mental and physical health of future generations, granting younger people the opportunity to see more of their home town in a safer environment."
> If people could be fired by being accused of rape decades after the fact by a homeless drug addict then nobody in the world would have a job.

This is a good point. Everyone has been accused of rape by a homeless drug addict, it is like taxes in its consistent applicability to every person.
What the heck? Politics at play here I assume. OpenAI was hitting zingers.

RIP Sam. Cut down too early; not given the chance to become the next crazy CEO tech baron.
i’m pleased with 7950x, it was just a surprise. when benchmarking the game engine, massive latency variance due to background jobs using all cores.

when i compile, all 16 cores are used.

when playing, core0 is main thread, core1 is physx, core2 is network, core3-7 are background jobs used by main thread.

i’m not sure more than 8 cpu cores can be meaningfully used by any current game engine tech.

when i run the server locally, i reduce usage to 4 cores so client and server don’t contend. not much impact.
Remember where you started.

You said, "Volvo has possibly not delivered any?". And you said, "I'm not saying the trucks don't physically exist, just that I can't find evidence of deliveries to customers."

You're flat wrong, aren't you. Admit to it. It will be a weight off your shoulders.
Why would that be cause for firing the CEO? For a company that's growing as fast as OpenAI and at the bleeding edge of technology, those types of outages are unavoidable.
I guess it turns out I'm a rebel then.
But would that warrant outright firing him like this? No exit plan where they can give the appearance of leaving on good terms?
My bet is actually not on the recent security concern, but more about OpenAI "was not consistenly candid" on how it trained data. Facing the recent lawsuits, that would explain the hasty firing. The security concern is huge, but doesn't warrant an immediate firing.
Leaking secrets to Tim Cook?
Both of the former provide stronger promises about how likely changes in the future are. For the former, user input and coordination is absolutely required.

Implementation details are documented to allow performance optimizations and to give insight into why certain things are how they are. Therefore, users can reasonably expect that the vendor won't cause performance regressions for existing code. However, it is unwise to derive semantics from them, even if they are technically documented in that way.

One of the biggest disadvantages of relying on implementation details is that it makes it way more troublesome for the vendor to maintain and improve the product.

Anyways, the GIL and the presence of possible concurrency bugs are completely orthogonal things as the GIL has always only served to prevent corruption of runtime data structures, not of user code.
Context for this: Paul Graham tweeted one tweet highlighting the disproportionate assault by Israel on Gaza by citing the enormous number of children killed by the bombings, and then got mobbed on twitter by extreme Israel supporters for being an anti-semite.

Not one of them could provide a single evidence for this serious accusation beyond the tweet I mentioned above.If anything the story highlights how anti-semitism has been disgracefully weaponised by extreme supporters of Israel to shutdown any criticism of Israel's military.
> Don't get too hung up on the present technical definition of LLM.

The paper is literally about LLMs. Speculation about future model architectures is irrelevant.
From: https://openai.com/our-structure

"Second, because the board is still the board of a Nonprofit, each director must perform their fiduciary duties in furtherance of its mission—safe AGI that is broadly beneficial. While the for-profit subsidiary is permitted to make and distribute profit, it is subject to this mission. The Nonprofit’s principal beneficiary is humanity, not OpenAI investors."

So, if I were to speculate, it was because they were at odds over profit/non-profit nature of the future of OpenAI.
That's an exaggeration. Certainly there are new species of fish (and molluscs, annelids, etc.), to be discovered in the sea, especially at deeper depths, but it isn't as if there is something beyond the usual additional biodiversity to be found just like exploring the remoter parts of the Amazon rainforest.
Finally some openai drama!
Exactly. Which is why they trust her in the interim CEO role.
DuckDuckGo is a great internet search tool if you don't want to muddy up your Google history (which is very understandable).
I want a network with that much bandwidth but prices are astronomical.
I did something similar using Leonardo.AI (it's cheaper) to give me random vibrant abstract christmas oil paintings every hour.

What are you using to get the picture into your frame? I'm currently running my python script on a raspberry pi 02W, but was wondering if there's a better way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37785072
USDA's plant hardiness zone map shows half the country has shifted
Meta's head of augmented reality software stepping down
Deceiving the board about ...

Its investigation of misconduct?

Sources and rights to training data?

That the AGI escaped containment?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

Sexual abuse by Sam when she was four years old and he 13.

Develops PCOS (which has seen some association with child abuse) and childhood OCD and depression. Thrown out. Begins working as sex worker for survival. It's a real grim story.
Is that normal person behavior?

Other than the part about having enough money to build a bunker in New Zealand, I'd say "yes".
> SF has bus-only lanes everywhere.

I wouldn't say everywhere, but wherever they were introduced they reduced travel time significantly, and traffic in those corridors didn't get any worse. The 38AX became redundant after the Geary bus lane because the 38R is just as fast.

> The only way driving ever ends up being less convenient is if there's constrained parking. It's just very hard to beat a car that can go directly from point A to B.

Or if everyone else also decides to drive. Traffic continues to get worse until alternative ways to travel become faster. If there are no alternative ways to travel, traffic becomes worse and worse without bounds beyond human patience. Paradoxically it also means that improving transit travel times also improves driving times.

> What also beats mass transit is walking, if a city is laid out such that you don't usually need to walk very far.

There Venn diagram of people that want walkable cities and better transit might as well be a circle.
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you mean x'd? (im kidding)
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A Bloomberg reporter is pointing out that his leaving YC perhaps wasn't scrutinized enough by the press, indicating this could be a pattern. https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1725633569056506282
But not, in and of themselves something likely to get Altman dismissed for lack of candor with the board.
> people realize most EVs are vastly, vastly inferior to what they were supposed to replace

I don't know how anyone with any knowledge of EVs whatsoever can make this argument in 2023. Maybe this was forgivable 10 years ago, but now? This feels like bad faith.

> The future is hybrid

The future of personal transport vehicles is battery-electric, full stop. Why? Because you no longer need any of the trappings of an internal combustion engine. People forget why cars were awesome in the first place -- because you didn't need a horse anymore. In the same way, the big gain in the BEV is NOT adding the battery and the electric motor, it's getting rid of the ICE.
Interesting. I thought narrator's response was needlessly misogynistic - but I suppose it's easier to ignore that part of the argument and instead try to tell me what I really meant. I wonder if you can do better.
That only makes sense if Altman is the only one with access to the company's financials which obviously can't be the case. No one else noticed truckloads of cash getting flushed down the toilet?
Maybe this is that AI's endgame, and it just took full control of openAI's compute through a coup at the top?
It's free again. Will it play on modern machines?
But they released Bard
I remember riding a bike to go places as a kid/teen. I used to ride a couple miles to a CD store, convenience store, etc all of the time. If I had been aloud to drive a car I would have said fuck this piece of shit bike and thrown it immediately in the dumpster for the convenience of a car.
This could be true.

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
Thanks for pointing that out, now it's 5th!
> feels like the community is moving in that direction

Likely unpopular opinion here but the Rust community is incredibly fickle and tends to attract "shiny new thing" types. I'd be very cautious hitching your wagon to whatever horse they are championing in 202X. Use what is best for your needs.
The tone used by OpenAI (their distrust of Sam Altman) tells me that they did not simply decide they need different leadership. The statement by the board seriously damages his career. Why else would they burn bridges and oppose themselves on ethical grounds? Or they are trying to blame and sac Altman.
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For me, this stood out in the announcement:

> In a statement, the board of directors said: “OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission.

Why would they include that? Maybe its just filler, but if not then it is possible that there has been more than a simple disagreement about long-term objectives. Possibly something going on that the board feels would get them shut down hard by state-level players?
So this is the non profit board. Maybe he was trying to influence the board members to make OpenAI a for profit company and the board saw that as a traitor move.

The only other business thing I could think of is he moving openAI's money to one of his other venture or for some other personal gain.

I don't think spending too much money in openAI could get him fired like this in current environment. Neither does overpromising stuff or something.
Altman is a rich prepper who talks about it, like Thiel. He claimed his bug-out base is in Big Sur, not in NZ as far as I'm aware.
ChatGPT Writes Joke About OpenAI Firing CEO Sam Altman
This is exactly what we would expect to happen. There was a major supply crunch for batteries which incentivized people to build more battery factories which caused a projected crunch in the mining sector, but the mining sector saw the writing on the wall and started ramping production too.

Now the battery costs are falling and in a few years we will probably see an oversupply situation which will be good times for anybody who uses batteries. I'm a bit hopeful about decarbonization efforts for the latter half of the decade. I think battery prices will drop enough to make grid storage viable in more places and further allow the deployment of wind and solar generation. As this article mentions EVs will see a major price drop in their most expensive component.

Then of course a bunch of the manufacturers will go out of business because the prices dropped too low and then the market will consolidate into a couple of companies and prices will creep upward again as they fail to compete with each other. But that's a problem for the future.
The issue is some people are quick to dismiss progress especially on technologies with political salience.
Singularity University was such a funny grift. Google must have figured the best way to monetize Ray Kurzweil was to put him on a stage at the NASA/Moffett center and have him perform magic shows in front of the moneyed class. And you know, they were probably right. Not like he can still code or anything, and the lines were out the door and down the street. I visited a couple of times when my sister's old boyfriend was working there. They had all kinds of fun little booths and displays for people going through the bootcamp to gawk at.

I'm imagining the kind of person who starts their career as an executive at a spinoff of SU.
Such an accusation coming from a family member is different than when it comes from some random homeless drug addict off of the street.
With battery prices like this, and days to a week of a household's electricity needs parked in the garage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304405

Add in the large number of storage options that are coming to market besides lithium ion, from sodium to iron to straight up thermal storage, and we may still have gas turbines on the grid in 20 years but it's unlikely they will generate more than a few percent of a year's electricity.

We are seeing the first disruption of the electricity industry in a loooong time and it's going to upset all other energy processes too, as electrical sources of process heat become cheaper than burning gas or anything else.

Looking at where prices are today misses the picture, look at where they will be in five years or ten years in order to understand our future.
Your use of the word "our" is too liberally applied, he was no hero of mine. I believe history will have a very different view of Altman, "Open"AI, and AI in general.
We went and started the fire. It was never burning and the world's was frozen
Title: "Covid strain that killed 8,000 cats found in UK"

Article: "The strain has been identified as a new hybrid of existing feline coronavirus and canine coronavirus and is called F-CoV-23, while it is not linked to Covid-19."

I guess they still got me to click.
> they can get stupendous amounts of capital on incredible terms,

This may be the problem: at some level OpenAI is still a non-profit, and the more capital they accept, the more they're obligated to produce profits for investors?

Perhaps Sam was gleefully burning cash with the intention of forcing the Board to approve additional funding rounds that they had explicitly forbidden, and when they discovered that this was going on they were apoplectic?
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