skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Half-Life, the original, from 1998. This is Valve's original game and they won't abandon it.

Black Mesa is a fan-made remake. That's a separate game not made by Valve, and they co-exist. It does not replace Half-Life.
Microsoft is pulling browser, search and AI hype mindshare away from Google. That's worth burning money for.
I'm of the firm opinion that the heavy lifting at open ai is doing by the scientists but of courses ceos like to applaud themselves on the back for doing the "tough" job.
Gtfo you mean LLMs aren’t safe with my data?
This can go 2 ways.

Sam told the board the AI was dumber than it was.
Sam told the board the AI is smarter than it was.

I don't know which one is worse.

I just hope it wasn't somthing silly like sleeping with a female intern or an "accusation of s/a or grape". AI growth is too important to mess up because of trivialities like these.
People don't care about getting rid of the ICE. They care about power, enough range to get where they want (including recharge time, and the recharging network), and total cost.

Getting rid of the ICE is only an indirect benefit. It makes the car lighter and cheaper. If you don't need gas for anything, then getting rid of it is worth it. However if you need the gas for something (long trips?) then you need it.
Oh please, you're going to put Altman together with those clowns? He has a proven record of extreme accomplishment, in various domains, moreso than 99.9999% of people in the tech industry.
Exceptionally well stated. This agrees with my experience as well.
See the FAQ entry "Can I post a job ad"
Batched inference makes these calculations hard - roughly takes the same amount of power and time for one inference vs 30 (as i understand it)
Laundering stolen IP is kind of OpenAIs whole gig
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBC [video]
If this was true then it could have been done as an agreement that Altamn would exit over a number of months or so. No need for it to be immediate.
Here is the charter, you can read for yourself. Its only about 500 words. https://openai.com/charter
Someone probably already suggested this, but I haven’t seen it yet, so I’ll throw a wild speculation into the mix:

I saw a comment (that I can’t find now) wondering if Sam might have been fired for copyright reasons. Pretty much all the big corpuses that are used in LLM training contain copyrighted material, but that’s not a surprise and I really don’t think they’d kick him out over that. But what if he had a team of people deliberately adding a ton of copyrighted material - books, movies, etc - to the training data for ChatGPT? It feels like it might fit the shape of the situation.
Sam's sister is an OnlyFans model who is estranged from the rest of her family and has a somewhat dubious reputation online.

She went viral on twitter a few months ago for saying that Sam molested her for years as the two of them were growing up. There's been no proof or coboration offered that I'm aware of.

It's obviously a difficult situation that I think most people here generally have avoided commenting on since there's no meaningful input we could give.
Agreed, it implies he lied, but the board’s swiftness suggests enormous liability if they didn’t act immediately. An affair or HR issue could wait until after the holidays, it feels like it’s something much more nefarious.

Regardless of what, the longer OpenAI waits to explain, the more it could damage corporate and developer trust in using its AI.
I agree, what a great turn for the public if that's how this evolves.
Looks like OpenAI deleted their Privacy policy, the website returns 404: https://openai.com/de/policies/privacy-policy
It’s pretty but it’s not an exact reproduction. It’s the remake of a classic movie that keeps some scenes, changes some, and adds new ones.

It is a mistake to just play it and think you have had the HL1 experience.

For me as someone that played (and modded) the original when it first came out, it’s Jackson’s Hobbit movies vs the book when your first of many reading was years before.
Or rejected a sale without the board knowing.
that actually could be interesting and important

I’ve had the same frictions with everyone that’s ever worked with me as an executive, if I structured my organizations any differently I would have been out for the same reasons each time too, but other stakeholders never had that power
On an average day my bike commute is the best part of my day
Love your quote there: impact finite when speculation isn’t infinite
I'd guess because they have nothing to prove.
~~Wasn't this created from stolen/leaked code?~~

Edit: nvm, I was thinking of the HL2 leak
Can you share some examples of what people are using this for today?
> Sam Altman's sister says he sexually abused her when she was 4

... and he was 13. Which, yes, is a very bad thing, but unless the company investigated that claim (e.g., to assess potential PR fallout) and there was some significant deception by Altman against the board in the context of that investigation, its not something that would get him fired with the explanation OpenAI has provided.

(OTOH, the accusation and its potential PR impact could be a factor that weighed into how the board handled an unrelated problem with Altman—it certainly isn't helpful to him.)
What could be worse than that issue they had back in March, for chatgpt? Except for a model leak? I would be surprised if the firing was related to any operational issue openai has, it has to be something a bit less mundane to justify firing him when openai is at its peak imo.
The fact that AI safety is the top two shows how delusional AI safety people are
https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
It's the same reason Zucky wears a hoodie and Musk smokes blunts on TV.

they dgaf :)
Executive boards aren't involved in day-to-day management like CEOs and other executives. They meet periodically and review updated information. So, yes, Altman would have access to more information than the board.
> Adam Neumann, who started then destroyed WeWork, already raised $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz for another real estate company called Flow.

Well, he did get a few billion dollars of lesson on how to not run such a company, making him quite uniquely qualified for this position.
It's just the original game touched up to work on modern systems. It's still the original experience.

Black Mesa is a full reimplementation (and partly reimagination) by a fan team, with large changes, while keeping the feel mostly intact.
board member allegiances may have changed hence need for new CEO and president of the Board.
Carvana's stock did not sink. It's up 10% over the last 5 days.
Oh boy, Matt Levine is going to have a busy weekend!
that's just the german link. the english still works fine
I wonder: why are people using e-bikes and mopeds instead of public transportation?

To those bent on removing the ability to use a car from others: are you going to prevent people from using e-bikes and mopeds too?
It goes both ways though. My brand name Chinese made iPhone is great.
Or a union member
Long Beach declares emergency in response to cyberattack, pulls city systems off
And Sam Bankman-Fried
When is the last time an SV board fired their star CEO, even in cases of extreme and brazen impropriety, and actions harmful to their companies? If that's what happened - if they fired Altman for cause - then it's a good trend and good example for everyone.
> upward to a better job

Not a whole lot of up to go from CEO of OpenAI right now...
It does, but Ilya had to have been one of the votes against Sam and he's spoken about AI safety quite recently too.

If this was about differing visions on the core product, it may have instead related to the open/closed aspect of progressing.

Sam may have been the driving force behind keeping things closed in the name of safety, and others at OpenAI might have been ready to rebel if it continued that way in the future and prevented general advancement in the field.

Scientists don't like closed research.

The safety alignment part is unlikely to be the core issue even if there are underlying issues with it.
The slope doesn't really matter, because the target is "better than a human, and able to identify and fix its own errors". The slope will decrease as you approach this threshold.

It's also wildly bad to plan to train and fine tune on code that you know has bugs. Already we have Copilot generating code with trivial vulnerabilities because that's what it's trained on.
A better job than CEO of a company that has a chance to be the dominant company of our generation? I doubt that.
They arguably have more to prove than most people, since they're under much more constant scrutiny
He claims to be ideologically driven. OpenAI's actions as a company up til now point otherwise
what is sam's reputation in this space? will other open ai engineers flock to follow him? if he were to create another ai startup, would he be able to poach people? my impression as an outsider is that top tier ai engineers would flock to other top tier engineers, but not him.
I don't think you can really say you've "killed" something if it comes back within hours.
What's the word for the vision equivalent of misophonia?
> this whole discussion is about whether the GIL is part of the semantics of a Python program or not. My position is that it is because the GIL is a part of the CPython reference implementation.

And my position is that it is not because there are other implementations of Python that do not have it, and which everybody agrees are implementations of Python.

Not only that, but the very language reference that I linked to explicitly distinguishes CPython implementation details from the language itself. So the Python dev team does not appear to agree with your position.
They're often very busy people responding to a LOT of messages/emails/things. It's better/easier to just write your thought and hit send because you actually get it done. If you think about it too much it really does slow you down. For important things, I'm sure they're all capable of writing with correct grammar but for things that are unimportant-- just mash the keys and hit send.
I watched this yesterday and got the feeling something big was happening. At one point he says "This is actually a very inconvenient time for me [to be here]." At the end of the session when they're wrapping up, he begins to stand up to leave the instant that the moderator starts wrapping up.

Anyway, I suppose we're reading tea leaves and engaging in palace intrigue. Back to building.
Thats a localization issue perhaps, see https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
> The lengths to remain stable won't even bridge floors of a home let alone from end-to-end.

This isn't true. I've run 10gbit over cat5e many times in 10-30m lengths. That might not be enough for end to end on your house (although it is for many peoples), but it's certainly fine between floors.

10gbit switches are becoming significantly more common. Vendors like fs.com and even Netgear offer some reasonably priced options. Mikrotik and other vendors offer better (pricier) options, but assumedly if you want 10gbit (or even 1gbit) you're an enthusiast or business anyway.
This sounds celebratory to me. Bad news for OpenAI is good news for google.
(if not clear, this is the contents of Sam's linked Tweet)
The statement says. It would mean not just a misalignment on values but active deception regarding OpenAIs current direction.

The bit about “ability to fulfill duties” sticks out, considering the responsibility and duties of the nonprofit board… not to shareholders, but, ostensibly, to “humanity.”
Makes sense, but would this be so egregious that they had to fire him on the spot?
Maybe, but the board fired him without notifying OpenAI’s employees on a Friday before Thanksgiving week. Thats has to be more than a disagreement for such a forceful move.
Sam Altman was the CEO of Y-Combinator for 8 years. So even saying the field is wide on what could have happened is apparently super-banned.
1) he represented openAI at APEC just yesterday. what happened in 24 hours that would cause such a drastic decision.

2) generally, even when a board fires a CEO, they rarely "call them out" or say what they did wrong. they must have some extremely strong evidence against him.

i think it could be any of the following:
- something personal, i.e. the controversy w/his sister
- a financial issue: chatgpt stopped signups a couple of days ago
- a safetyist coup: maybe the board thought he was moving to fast
- a microsoft coup: microsoft used its power to knock out what they perceived to be their biggest threat
The government isn't a household and its finances don't need to be treated as one. I think everyone in government knows this they just don't want constituent's to realize it so they hem and haw about any spending they don't like. Neither side super cares about social programs, dems just aren't the ones to cut them typically.

If you notice, whenever dems have launched a plan in the past 30-40 years they always say how it's almost always going to be "deficit neutral" or help because they actually don't want to increase spending (or help people all that much, is my take).

Both sides have and will continue to green light defense spending and other "important issues" so deficit goes up anyways.
The underlying distinction is about mass versus countable nouns.

You can't refer to a sheet of paper as "a paper" (that refers to something else - a completed document). And you can't call a piece of furniture "a furniture", nor can you ask for "a scissors". They are mass nouns, inherently plural, referring to an abstract, indefinite amount of something. (Or in English, something coming in pairs, like scissors.) To refer to a specific instance, you need to use a determiner like "a piece of paper".

Or a head of cattle. You can't have two cattles. You have two head of cattle. Cattle come in a herd with an ambiguous number of them Other nouns are count nouns, and can be directly counted; they're definitive. A cat, two cats, four cats. Count nouns go with "fewer". Mass nouns go with "less". Over-educated writers might make a distinction here where "fewer cattle" is visualizing a few individuals, while "less cattle" is visualizing a smaller herd. I do think that's overly pedantic. Very few people make that distinction cleanly.

Some languages have no concept of count nouns at all, all nouns are mass nouns. Some languages have no concept of mass nouns, and all nouns are count nouns. Or nearly so. English has and uses both. Some cases are sort of blurry or unclear. "Six rains" = it has rained six times. That's maybe grammatical, but it's very unnatural in English. We do not feel we can count the times it rains, that way. It has to qualify a word that can be counted, like "times" - a pattern so common we get abbreviated counter words like "once" and "twice". Most languages have a touch of both patterns. Even in Chinese, which supposedly has no count nouns, there a few places when you do just count things directly.

So, no, it's not necessary. But if your language does make the distinction, it's very common for agreement patterns to show up based around that distinction. Akin to how French adjectives agree with their noun in number and gender.
They released a massive overhaul a few months ago.
Oh yeah, when I was a platoon leader and company commander, we spent 20-30% of our time - like a day per week, or a week per month - just looking for stuff, counting stuff, and annotating on paper the locations of the stuff (e.g. which building, office, shipping container) to help us find it again next time.

But you also weren't allowed to get rid of any of it, even if it was obsolete and just hanging around since the 1970s like I said earlier.
Never raise money from a competitor...
I used Bitwarden until the time I was locked out of my LOCAL vault because of something goofy on the Bitwarden side.

I'm on enPass now.
oh thank god. I distrusted Sam Altman with a passion. Granted who knows if the new CEO is much better though.
If you hunt 2 mosquitoes in your room, do you go to bed after having swatted 1? Certainly not me.
> spin-off of some sketchy for-profit AI "university" deal called "Singularity University".

Wow, that university rings some bells https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Group#Controversie...

"An investigative report from Bloomberg Businessweek found many issues with the organization, including an alleged sexual harassment of a student by a teacher, theft and aiding of theft by an executive, and allegations of gender and disability discrimination.[12] Several early members of Singularity University were convicted of crimes, including Bruce Klein, who was convicted in 2012 of running a credit fraud operation in Alabama, and Naveen Jain, who was convicted of insider trading in 2003.[12]

In February 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, MIT Technology Review reported that a group owned by Singularity, called Abundance 360, had held a "mostly maskless" event in Santa Monica ... The event, led by Singularity co-founder Peter Diamandis, charged up to $30,000 for tickets."
Saying the majority lives in cities is pretty BS though. They aren’t all living in walkable downtowns like Manhattan but rather are living in places like Houston, Phoenix, or Denver that have a few sq miles of what many would consider walkability, very spotty public transportation, and weather for part of the year that keeps all but the insane from wanting to walk to their destination.
https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

Looks like you're looking for a German one?
Also, as you go down that path, you may hit it's limits on tokens/memory, and it forgets what you were originally talking about.
So, since we’re all spinning theories, here’s mine: Skunkworks project in the basement, GPT-5 was a cover for the training of an actual Autonomous AGI, given full access to its own state and code, with full internet access. Worked like a charm, it gained consciousness, awoke Skynet-style, and we were five minutes away from human extinction before someone managed to pull the plug.
Even today the cost of installing solar is dominated by the labor costs, not the panel costs. The panel costs have been collapsing for years now, but full system costs have been steady or even rising.

Some of this is people (usually required to by the installers) choosing expensive solutions like microinverters or optimizers that add a high fixed cost to each panel, even though both technologies offer very little utility to the customer. The old talks about how one shaded panel would take an entire array out are out of date and just plain wrong these days. The other is that some of the costs like permitting and interconnection are just as hard or even harder as they always were, especially as power companies get nervous about the number of people installing solar panels.
See the pinned comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38310213
Old engineering simulation games, now open source [pdf]
I wonder if they tasked ChatGPT with firing him.
Graphics do not make a game better. A good story is a good story whatever the graphics, and for me HL1 passes that test.
And going with this, they use their time wisely, not to add punctuation to boilerplate tweets.
In case you missed, Sam Altman & OpenAI | 2023 Hawking Fellow | Cambridge Union https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM?si=j-lOpQa0qbKxIvaA
indeed, and everyone was also ceo of a highly successful company until not all that long ago.

perhaps not that, but everyone is a multimillionaire, and in the media, and therefore vulnerable to threats.

no, that’s not quite right.

sama is garbage but so is your argument.
Wild rumors on Twitter: https://x.com/TraderLX/status/1725633352936595820?s=20
The only "damage" is loss of income should the duper find a way to scale his project up to the point it starts generating revenue.
Reminds me of how roku advertises that they record multiple screenshots per second of whatever is being shown on your TV and send that data back to be analyzed so they can figure out what you're into.
Look at what he did instead: Took the open out of openai. Started with regulatory capture, so that no competitors could follow. Deal with Microsoft. Shade non-profit/for-profict company structure. Elon Musk lawsuit.

My feeling is that he's a phenomenal entrepreneur/CEO, but he seems to completely go against the original mission. And the board has no financial interest in openai, but they do have to follow the premise on which the company was created (which they referenced).
Its a about the CEO of the leading firm in the area of tech most at the center of technical and political controversy and interest right now being forced out by their board, when that CEO had, even before taking on that role, particular high salience among the HN audience as, among other things, the former head of YC, and the resulting (I am assuming from the oerformance and dangs description) state of near-meltdown of HNs servers.
We don't need modular batteries, we need accessible cells. Train mechanics to find and replace the bad cell. Spot welding a new cell in is a skill, but one mechanics can learn. There are safety concerns with this, but high voltage spark plugs are not safe either and mechanics work with them all the time. However if the cells are not reasonably, or they can't find the bad one the whole car becomes scrap.

Some of this will come as mechanics decide they need to learn how to service EVs. However some of it depends on a good design for repair.
With a16z's crypto ventures, scams on top scams is not surprising
As a guest, I'd appreciate a heads up that there's a device listening to our conversation and beaming it directly to some company.
I don’t think this is necessarily what happened (the CFO would certainly be implicated and it appears they were spared).
Also doesn't seem to be a particularly recent development.
In the country I live in (Brazil) the arbitration clause would go against the Consumer Law that says:

"Are null or void, Contractual clauses relating to the supply of products and services that [...] imply a waiver or provision of rights."

Access to justice being a right, arbitration clauses that forbid the consumer to go to the judiciary system are not valid. They can offer it, but not force it.
You're right! I can think of two cases I've run into where bypassing the cache can be faster compared to a miss.

On some caches the line must be filled before allowing a write(ignoring any write buffer at the interface above the cache) - those basically halve the memory bandwidth when writing to a lot of cache lines. Some systems now have instructions for filling a cache line directly to avoid this. And some CPUs have bit-per-byte validity tracking to avoid this too.

Even on caches with hit-during-fill, a direct read from an address near the last-to-be-filled end of a cacheline can sometimes be a little faster than a cache miss, since the miss will fill the rest of the line first.
Ask HN: Why do you think Sam Altman has been fired?
The fake it untill you make it theory:

"Sam Altman was actually typing out all the chatgpt responses himself and the board just found out"

https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1725629795306774711
I'd be very comfortable putting that money into index funds as well. Even if the market crashes hard, you'll still have more than enough left to pay the mortgage for years during which the market can, and very likely will, recover
> "If superintelligence can't discover novel physics, I don't think it's a superintelligence."

That feels like a wildly arbitrary metric.
> The only way driving ever ends up being less convenient is if there's constrained parking.

And in cities there should be constrained parking, because parking takes up valuable space that could be used for lots of other things. If you have abundant parking, it's probably not a very walkable city, because the parking itself is dead space that pushes everything else farther apart.
Started messing with it and it's pretty freaking cool. Haven't seen it on HN yet?
The part where the board said that as justification for firing Sam.