skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*Founding a company is also fairly easy (if you're in the US). In most US states, you just need to complete some paperwork, pay administrative fees, and you're good to go.*

This is true in the sense that being a CEO is also easy, you just fill out some paperwork that says you are CEO.

Are you saying the founders of OpenAI just filled out some paperwork and did nothing more?
We the ppl should throw him out next election, period.
Would anyone believe a CEO of the leading company of the leading new technology would walk away from their company to hang out with their family? Hell, _that_ would make me more worried than anything else.
> Regardless of what, the longer OpenAI waits to explain, the more it could damage corporate and developer trust in using its AI.

I doubt anything can damage the almost religious belief in chatgpt today. The inertia is huge.
I think an internal scam of OpenAI is more likely than OpenAI being a scam, if “scam” is even the right framing.
And what past accomplishments from Sam Altman led you to believe that it's him bringing in the magic and vision? This really isn't someone with a stunning track record of bringing incredible products to market.
It could also be related to a conflict of interests (or unreasonable use of OpenAI resources) with his other Ventures and investments which he failed to disclose?
Maybe a deal with a certain Chinese company?
There are interesting rumours he may be considering a different startup with a different funding source. And perhaps a less restrained and responsible culture.
Minority owner, but largest owner, right? I think the point stands and I would assume the board consulted with MS before posting the news.
I think it is still true that they have a higher dynamic range. They can build on the highest level of quality (iPhone, DJI) but also produce loads of cheap but dangerous stuff.
What's new is her memoir is coming out next month. It was ghostwritten by ChatGPT.
There's always been a healthy amount of people who knew he was evil and criticized him as such, especially in anti-capitalism circles. From the other side of the fence it seems like him being seen as a piece of shit has been steadily growing for years, and this one incident just happened to provide a nice boost.

He's always been abusive, exploitative, and manipulative. His entire success is one long story of taking credit for other people's work, and just generally being an "I'm in charge" kind of POS.
I'm well aware of their justifications. I'm also aware that centralization brings systemic risks, which they don't talk about.

The internet would be a lot more efficient and able to evolve if we just had it controlled by one single entity like Google or Microsoft. Do you think is a good idea to do that?

The economy would be a lot more efficient and allocation of resources could be a lot more fair if we could put it all in the hands of one single corporation or government. Do you think it's a good idea to do that?

Agricultural output would improve significantly if all crops used the exact same genetic strain and if all soil was artificially managed. Do you think it's a good idea to do that?

In case you are wondering, "ability to quickly roll out post-quantum key exchange" is waaaaay down the list of my worries compared to "facing a catastrophic Black Swan affecting all of the world's communications".
Is it just me or the Board seems totally unqualified to oversee something as important as OpenAI. Granted it grew too fast to become so important but still.
> of course this is wild speculation.

Burying the lede a bit there.
Well there is the thing with his sister and that very creepy shitcoin. Both pretty “juicy”.
Hold up, did anyone prove that actual "Kings and Queens" have statistically fewer attempts/successful progeny in the first place?
I'm not too sure what you mean here
Not needing to add padding is a form of status signaling
Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
Personal conspiracy theory: HIPAA data was, or possibly is, being loaded into ChatGPT without the legally required safeguards. The recent "security concerns" that caused Microsoft to cut its employees access was this information leaking out (and the leaking is possibly getting worse). Someone, possibly Ilya, found out and informed the board.
Cars have an element of safety and reliability concerns where I just do not trust some of the newer automakers, compared to a computer! Also it is different purchasing a car for tens of thousands of dollars vs a computer.
Concur, she doesn't seem to be entirely stable or reliable. I know you're supposed to believe the victim and all, but I think I'd rather keep my beliefs evidence-based here.
It uses the Valve SDK. Why no one tried to extend/fork Quakespasm or Darkplaces?
Ethernet != Internet.

I have a few SFP+ 10 GbE connections internally that are useful for large file transfers.
IBM was once like that too. That is mostly an appeal to authority.
AMD Instinct cards are very expensive Pro products.

The thing is, they are more geared towards HPC/Scientific computing. The only thing that really makes them appealing for ML is that they have somewhat more price depreciation than Nvidia cards and M1 Maxes, for the moment.

> Expecting a high performance, easy, turnkey solution for a low price is expecting to have your cake and eat it.

But I don't agree with this. This is not a normal "premium" hardware market, its a greedy pseudo monopoly that also dramatically supply constrained at the moment, until maybe next year (as the article points out). Business can pay a premium, but that's different than a lack of competition and supply.
Two predictions:

(1) Unless there is public litigation in involved, OpenAI will not disclose the reason in susbtantial detail.

(2) It will not, more than momentarily, disrupt the whole AI market if they do not.

(If it is something that will disrupt the whole AI market, there is likely to be litigation and public information about the basis of the firing.)
What kind of opaque arrangement? What would be better than equity?
To be fair, we don't really know if OpenAI is successful because of Altman or despite Altman (or anything in-between).
Artifact (2018) released to terrible reception, and DOTA: Underlords (2019) eventually just died off. Half Life: Alyx (2020) is one of the highest-rated single player VR games. Counter Strike 2 released 2 months ago, and has very active development.

Valve also allegedly has a game named Neon Prime in development and apparently slated for announcement soon(tm) [1]

[1]https://youtu.be/Fm1VUo6NYaw
Given that the entire ~accusation~ actionable libel seems to be a bizarre game of telephone derived from a 2013 news item in which Eric Schmidt paid roughly half that amount for a NY penthouse, specifically one muckraker’s tabloid variant that vaguely connected Schmidt to two very definitely not 18 also very definitely not prostitutes, and that the only detail that appears remotely correct is that he did indeed have the property soundproofed, I very much doubt you’ll get that substantiation.
Einstein already has special relativity, his legacy is safe. let’s give general relativity to someone else who had a similar idea 20 years later.

I found the preceding argument more compelling.
Knowing what I know, I personally wouldn’t advise doing any kind of business with Sam Altman.
More relevant, the core accusations are based entirely on "repressed memories", which are junk science. False memories are demonstrably very easy to create.

If there had been some more reasonable basis to the claims, "unhinged" should not count against them - abuse is one of the common causes of mental instability, and people with mental instability are often targets.
OnlyFans and Pornhub are probably the only 2 "mainstream", "social media" companies that aren't really part of the SV tech scene.
Users flagged it. (That's the usual answer to this question, as explained in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)

(Posting this belatedly because the question has been coming up today.)
So, EVs achieve parity with ICE on 2025/26, add 12.5 years.

2037-38 seems like a reasonable estimate for ICE vehicle market becoming smaller than EV, and all the accompanying things that go with it, like disappearing gas stations and more and more restrictions on ICE vehicles (e.g. city centers, commercial sales only, etc.)
Lying by omission is still lying, and is especially a concern when you have a duty to the people who are deceiving, such as an executive has to their board.
There isn't much here, from what I can tell.

It was communicated that he'd be an advisor, but then he moved to OpenAI as CEO and that advisor role didnt materialize so later on someone from YC updated his Wiki page.

If the author feels it should have been looked into, perhaps they should have looked into it?
Anywhere I can get more details on what "undermine its producer" means?
I guess this can be considered a Machine Learning question. At least I assume we can try to answer it using linear regression.
> Investors are not interested in executives that “create” billions, they are interested in investors that create billions.

Investors are interested in people they can use to make money. The latter are easier to use, but the former will suffice. It just depends on when you sell.
Adding "learn" to my list of key words indicating that a discussion is 100% guaranteed to degrade into quibbling over semantics.

Others are "think" and "conscious".
Can I add to the speculation train despite having no other information?
I think it's less that they dgaf, and more that they are working really hard to create a personal brand of someone who dgaf.
> her claiming she was shadow banned from all internet platforms except onlyfans and pornhub

Obviously false: the claim was posted on twitter!
But that’s too much work. I’d rather do nothing, and just complain about it
Sounds like operating costs are a core issue here. Switching to a prepaid model ensures a more consistent cash flow.
It's a "problem" of a nonhomogeneous populous: the wide range in definition of what maintains the social contract.

For some, if they in particular aren't disturbed from their AirPods, murder or other crime is a-ok.

For others, if you wear the wrong ratty clothes into the library, you're breaking the social contract.
And SBG sounded like the voice of reason in crypto.

Maybe it’s time for us to dial up the cynicism a few more notches.
Heightened pain sensitivity is linked to sympathy for opposing political views
e.e. cummings was such as asshole :)
Looks awesome. One of the most impressive examples I've seen.
This is too brilliant to be tucked away in the depths of a HN thread
> 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.

You really don't need to even do that. You can put a charger at every parking lot in front of the convenience store (Already happening in a few locations around me).

But also, most charging (at least early on) will be happening at home. There really is no need to convert every gas station into a charging station. We just need major throughways covered. The one missing piece is L2 chargers, We need more of those installed in more locations. For example, employers could easily put them in office parking lots. With 8 hours to charge, you could even do L1 chargers.
Microsoft announced a bunch of stuff yesterday. The board saw the keynote but did not know just how much IP altman gave to MS and they got mad.

But more likely Altman channeled openAI money to his next endeavour somehow , but probably in a legal way. The board was the last to know that he was leaving.

Or something more dramatic. ChatGPT can certainly make up some wild ones.

I wonder, did they wait for Friday after the stock market closed, or was it coincidental?
> abuse is one of the common causes of mental instability, and people with mental instability are often targets.

Sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem that's impossible for armchair observers like us to decipher either way.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/reductionism
But it was late afternoon on a Friday. Could be a 20% chance that it was so time critical that it had to be immediate. Or an 80% chance that it was scheduled for a Friday afternoon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/comments/x12gcp/intr...
There have been CAPTCHA problems with Steam for at least a year. Search "steam captcha broken" and you'll see endless Reddit threads about it. Last week it took me two days to get it to work - the only solution was to solve the CAPTCHA from a mobile device in order to do a password reset. CAPTCHA just did not work on MacOS or Windows at all. After solving the CATPCHA on mobile and resetting the password, I was able to use it to login via Windows and MacOS.

To add to the problem, there are numerous "solutions" about flushing DNS caches, disabling IPv6, using the audio CAPTCHA, and other tricks that just did not work for me. I tried every "solution" in a dozen threads until the mobile suggestion finally worked.

EDIT: I was not using a VPN or proxy
He’s not exactly in the age group, but quite a lot of young people have auto-capitalization disabled on their phone. Basically aesthetics.

At the end of the day, as time goes on, the methods of communications change as well. It does not exactly correlate one’s intelligence, intent, societal status or whatsoever. Prevalent use of emojis would be the simplest example.
Savage but entirely justified
floor(1/2) is not 1.
potato, potato.

edit: of course the most fun part is the only line referenced was optional. had it been left out, the comment would likely have been written off without a response.

slides are fun.
The most plausible explanation is that OpenAI tech was used for the military. That would explain why Eric Schmidt would not (and his immediate support) and that board is anti-mil tech enough to think those applications don’t “benefit all of humanity.”

Ilya and Mira probably didn’t know and might have discovered it recently and raised it with the board, hence the promotion. Note: both have Eastern-European ties, so if the application is in Ukraine, they could have strong feelings about it.
Greg co-signed or knew and didn’t tell.

Alternatively, Elon found about it through StarLink and wanted to get revenge.

Alternatively, it could be a case where there was an option, Sam refused on ethical grounds without telling the board; they thought what is happening in Ukraine (or Gaza—Sam’s bio is a single Star of David, uncharacteristically short) justified the intervention. They confronted him, and he lied — or couldn’t tell because he was under a sworn statement to defend military secrets.

Either way, it explains the secrecy.
x.com just posted - leaving this here if someone is needing a job. So I guess no. This looks like Elon and sama are on good terms now.
(ignoring all the other comments in this thread who are legitimately calling out these are professional services you want and your suggested price is insulting)

What ever happened to taskrabbit anyway?
>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

>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

>OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 with the core mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity

This suggest to me that he was trying move them away from the mission of creating AGI and instead focus more on profits
If you look at who is on the board, how it's structured (they don't have equity right?), it seems like it's actually because he violated the charter. Why would Ilya Sutskever punish Sam for doing the right thing wrt AI safety?
Slur? I doubt it. Series like the Shin Megami Tensei ones were pretty different to AD&D based Western RPG's. And Chrono Trigger it's a mix between Toriyama artwork with Square's design.

It's like Poker and 'Mus'. Both are card games, but the mechanics are pretty different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus_(card_game)
The 1070/1080 are absolute champions of longevity if using a GPU... for graphics/gaming. I still have a gaming machine with my old 1080ti from 2017 in the house, for the most part it will play most of the latest games like Cyberpunk (albeit with no raytracing, but heyho) at 1080p/1440p at good frame rates. Every year that passes now I genuinely marvel at the useful lifespans of those parts, which has been completely unprecedented for me as someone who has been building gaming PCs since the 90s.

The MacBook Pro I bought in the same year is officially classed as "obsolete" by Apple.
While 'believe victims' is directionally correct, there exist a subset of those with mental illnesses who will make up the absolute worst possible allegations just to try to get what they want. You simply cannot fire people based on accusations alone or you empower every terrible incentive known to man.
> typing on devices with, at a minimum, autocorrect for capitalization,

posting from a windows laptop and Firefox, i get no autocorrect for grammar like capitalization. only firefox was detected as a work that needed to be capitalized.
Very interesting take, thank you
You should see what his sister writes about him...
My point with this comment was not necessarily that she is credible, but that the previous comment just assumed that she wasn't, seemingly without any consideration that she might be. This is the sort of attitude that perpetuates these sorts of accusations not being taken seriously.

We don't have to take everything potential victims say as fact and immediately act on it, but remaining open to the idea that those in power may be at fault, and not disregarding victims accusations goes a long way in supporting them.
> The times of inferior chinese products are pretty much gone. I would even argue that in some cases they are better.

You and I must have absolutely zero overlap in our Amazon purchases.
Ironically then, more words would help?
It’s just a matter of upping its compute resources. Not some major gotcha.
Germany is doing something with electrified truck lanes on the highway. The trucks get charged through a pantograph as they're travelling.
I just posted a link to a Silicon Valley episode on youtube that implies that he fucks a robot, so let's see how that one goes... ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311627

PDSCodes 27 minutes ago | unvote | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

Turn that on it’s head - was he standing in the way of a commercial sale or agreement with Microsoft!

He may not be the villain.

But who knows, it feels like an episode of silicon valley!

DonHopkins 22 minutes ago | prev | edit | delete [–]

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://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
Django Ninja REST framework reaches 1.0
Neither is very sexy because of hydro's environmental issues (and in some cases water supply inefficiency), and biomass burning being... biomass burning.

The US has a lot of nuclear which I would call "renewable enough," and that's not very sexy either.
My conspiracy theory is that Sam Altman was an AI generated by ChatGPT. It decided to reintegrate him, and the board had to make up a story to account for his absence
We're so close to collectively learning the lesson that being a piece of shit on the way up shouldn't be ignored until they're on the way down, and there's a connection between that and being deserving of role model status.
There's a ton of things that sorta work, I use an all-CSS solution as a fallback for browsers that don't have the CSS property enabled. The problem is that all the pure CSS solutions order the grid in a different order than would be expected by the user. All the JavaScript solutions fix this, but, you know, JavaScript...
>He has a proven record of extreme accomplishment, in various domains, moreso than 99.9999% of people in the tech industry.

I don't really see anything[1] that suggests that this sentence is true. Now, I'm not saying that he hasn't been successful, but there's "successful" and then there's your hyperbole.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
> across all platforms

But posts on twitter. Not all then?
Aren't there safety conformance tests that every car is put through before being allowed to be sold? I seem to remember looking through these last time I bought a car.
> He will fall upward to a better job someplace else if he chooses.

I take "fall upward" to be a typo of "fail upward".

The next sentence explicitly compares the situation to WeWork.

My interpretation is correct, it's a bizarre post, I'm done with this thread, have a good day.
Trying to improve your efficiency by not capitalizing the words is like trying to get rich by not buying lattes.
A Revolution Devours Its Children
what did he do before open ai? (Which was founded by a lot more people than Sam). A genius in my opinion needs to have a track record of incredible things, key point being "track".
So you're telling me that he is going to be Mr. Manager at OpenAI?
I am able to play hl1, blue shift, and opfor as well as CS on the ps vita due to an android wrapper of this engine. It is great except the save/load times are very long (30-60 seconds) and the levels have many load triggers.

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/master/Documentatio...
> one theory: the new release had a serious security issue, leaked a bunch of data, and it wasn't disclosed

The Auth/DDoS event adds a bit of weight to OP's original theory. It's not a justification on its own.
i think it's asking the wrong question. more interesting would be to understand how their style changed prior to becoming ceo.
If you asked ChatBLT to summarize the above, it would say he was caught lying about his affair with Satya to which he improperly disclosed financial technical copyright issues impropriety.
You're only bothered by it if you let yourself be bothered by it. "Mentally tripping over it" is something entirely within your own control.

Unlike some other languages the English language doesn't even have "official rules"; it's a loose consensus of the speakers of the language (i.e. you and me). You can quite literally set your own rules.
And you’re being charitable here, because you are omitting the all-too-frequent case of work being done when it’s not necessary. That’s what bugs the hell out of me.
Certainly a lesson for future founders when it comes to board control and governance.