skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's cold out, I can really layer up and not worry about sweating because I overdressed

I envy people with good heat regulation. I love my cycle, but if I start cycling in freezing weather, I can either dress up for the start of the right, or the rest of it. If I wear a warm jacket, I have to take it off five minutes later and be riding in a t-shirt in freezing weather, otherwise I'll get extremely sweaty. If I go out in a t-shirt, I'll shiver for the first five minutes.

The summer is hell, I can't go anywhere without being drenched in sweat.
>Most of the federal debt is held domestically, meaning by the US. You can't be in debt to yourself.

Sure, we can just inflate away the Social Security fund, but do you think the effects of this would be better or worse than simply defaulting? And nevermind the political optics of "We still paid what we owed to China but magic wanded away the debt to Grandma!"
I loved my time at OpenAI. it was transformative for me personally
Eric Schmidt is also the person that said Google's old "do no evil" slogan was the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. Given that there's apparent tension at OpenAI over non profit vs for profit goals I'd not draw any particular conclusions from Schmidt's statement.
I love this! Been working on something similar that uses containers and Jinja2 templates: https://github.com/kordless/SlothAI. A demo is running at https://mitta.ai. No docs yet and the auth system is getting an upgrade.
> Because if you still think this is about hydro access, and not leadership

I looked up the McKenzie report[1] where I think the 5.7 trillion comes from. In short, the renewable energy would be 1.5 trillion, and batteries 2.5 trillion (transmission is the rest).
If you have 50% hydro, then you don't need batteries, so the cost for the US would drop by 2.5trillion. Having hydro is a big reason why some countries can do it easier than others. It's not a white and black situation, after-all, the US is already investing a lot in renewable energy.

Second, the report says it provisioned for 900 "gigawatts" of batteries. If they mean GW rather than GWh (Which I think they do), that is not nearly enough, that is just 2000 GWh at today's prices. The US needs 500GWh on average each hour, so you only get batteries for 4 hours. You need to either build much more PV, or buy many more batteries. Also, 2000GWh is about 2 years worth of current global battery manufacturing. It's just not the same building out a small country or a large country electrical grid.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/shifting-u-s-to-100-percent-ren...

That being said, it will happen, we'll soon switch to PV production, and it will happen faster than people think. It will be a disruption previously only seen in software. By 2030 we'll probably be pretty much powered by PV panels.
He got replaced by the CTO though.
If you have a neighborhood or off-site car rental location near you the experience is usually far better than airport locations. You also usually save a bunch of taxes and fees that only apply to airport locations.
This kind of argument goes both ways. See —- having a car is also an option only for a minority of people, so please stop having it.
No way OpenAI cares meaningfully about losses right now. They're literally the hottest company in tech, they can get stupendous amounts of capital on incredible terms, and the only thing they should care about is growth/getting more users/user feedback.
I'm betting that ridiculous offer they made last week to cover developer legal fees has already blown up in their face
If you reply on a Slack thread, then every reply on that thread pings you
It's possible for our heroes to fall from grace. There's nothing wrong with Eric saying this without knowing the full story.
It's because he failed to recognise that gpt would be widely referred to as gipety and someone else has registered the domain name and is raking in the money ;)
USG just took over.
California's grid already has so much power during peak solar that energy is exported to other grids. So adding more solar is diminishing returns.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...
What’s the benefit of doing that please?
The "white cis man" stuff isn't an incisive comment, it's an academic's way of trying to get into an insult war with other academics.

Constantly calling out "cis men" is in fact transphobic, which is how you can tell they don't care about it. If you think cis men and trans men behave differently or are always treated differently, this means you don't think they're both men.

Also sama is not white. Although he does appear to have gotten a series of jobs with not a lot of experience by convincing Paul Graham to figuratively adopt him.
Hard to remember the Independent used to be a proper newspaper - they mean “random coronavirus unrelated to Covid-19”.
Nit pick:

The article explains why many years have passed from the development of efficient steam turbines until the development of efficient gas turbines, due to the differences between the Rankine Cycle and the Brayton cycle.

Even if the Americans like to name the Joule cycle as the Brayton cycle, the American name does not have any justification.

While George B. Brayton has patented his engine in 1872, James Prescott Joule has published already in 1851, 21 years earlier, a scientific paper (“On the Air-Engine”) describing what is named now as the Joule cycle, a.k.a. the Brayton cycle.

While the Brayton patent contained very little information, the paper published by Joule was very important and it described in great detail how to design an engine using this thermodynamic cycle and why this is useful.

Moreover, in 1859, 13 years before Brayton, William John Macquorn Rankine has published a very influential manual (“A Manual of the Steam Engine and other Prime Movers”), where all the thermodynamic cycles used in engines known at that time were classified, and he already referred to this cycle as Joule’s cycle.

Therefore there is no doubt about the priority of the term "Joule cycle" over "Brayton cycle".

An interesting fact that is usually not mentioned in most manuals is that at equal maximum temperature and maximum pressure (which are typically limited by the materials used for the engine), the Joule cycle is more efficient than either the Atkinson cycle or the Otto cycle, so the fact that it is the easiest thermodynamic cycle to approximate in a gas turbine is favorable for its efficiency.
There is even a XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/978/

s/a user's brain/llm/g
I was young and naive!
Also, I wanted to make the donation immediately, while I was thinking about it. I didn’t want to put it on a back shelf of my mind and forget about it for a few years, and I assumed “The Good Guys” wouldn’t use my information in a negative way.
What's so shady about it?
"White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/white-hou...
> you don't truly know someone unless you've had conflicts of interest with them

This hits a spot. I had a really nice boss.. Until we got into a conflict, then she tried to blackmail me, pressure me and break me. I learned why some people who left our company needed months to get back on their feet. I got out quite well and managed to push back, but it was a tough period.
This is straight out of Succession. What the heck happened here!
Tons of high profile people spoke like this about Adam Neumann or Elizabeth Holmes too
New Yorker is very progressive, and they worked for months on the article, yet they only mentioned in passing his sister accusations and didn't highlight them.
“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.”
Michael J. Fox didn't have Parkinson's.

The USSR still existed.

9/11 didn't happen yet.
Sam Altman tweet after being fired
i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.

will have more to say about what’s next later.
Whoa I did not hear about this. What happened?
That's a good point. It suggests to me the issue is then safety. People might have been using chatgpt for something awful and Sam knew about it from her but didn't care. That would mean the technical execution might still be great, but the board lost confidence in him due to lie by omission.
I can only speculate that he may have left them liable for huge copyright claims for illegal scraping
> "We were testing endpoint control systems for LLMs and inadvertently turned them on for all employees," a spokesperson said. "We restored service shortly after we identified our error. As we have said previously, we encourage employees and customers to use services like Bing Chat Enterprise and ChatGPT Enterprise that come with greater levels of privacy and security protections."
Or accidentally let something egregious happen under his watch and then tried to cover it up, like a data compliance violation
>Instead of: "I took my $500k/year tech salary which I formerly spent on Teslas and cardboard apartments and just hired a competent electrician or other tradesman to pull cable to every room."

You'd have to pay me that kind of money (amortized) to deal with vetting/hiring/managing/scheduling/QC'ing someone else and their work.
Building a DDOS botnet out of vulnerable IoT devices, hardly a Web-Killing Monster.
We have a long history of indicting people for "lying under oath" and never indicting them for the actual issue they were interrogated about, which often is not an indictable offense, but rather something personally embarrassing.
You'd think of Plus was profitable, ie: it costs less than a user was paying for it they'd just provision more resources. The fact that they can't seem to do that might either be an indication they're having a hard time finding hardware, or more likely they lose money with every new user they sign on.
until locals with more guns and much deeper trust affiliations with other locals decide your money is best spent as they see fit.
And of course he gives credit to the CEO and not the 400 people under him who actually built the thing, nor the other 10 people who actually founded the company. Nor those who gave initial funding. From wikipedia:

> OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as the initial board members.
I've been experimenting with using fixed-point weights using the integer vector hardware (AVX) with pretty good results, though haven't built enormous models yet. The GPU may turn out to be a spur line.
I’m not a architect, but I suspect building a bakery in a place people want to buy bread is more energy-efficient compared to driving 5 miles (uphill both ways) for every bread-enjoyer in a personal cars.
OpenAI’s board previously consisted of 6 people, incl Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Two of them are more involved in technical matters at OpenAI than Sam. Now there are only four members on the board.

At least one of them must jointly make this decision with the three outside board members. I’d say it’s more likely to be business related. (In addition, the CTO is appointed as the interim CEO.) (Edit: But obviously we currently don’t really know. I think the whistleblower theory below is possible too.)

The announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...

“OpenAI’s board of directors consists of OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, independent directors Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Helen Toner.
…..

As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.“

Previous members: https://openai.com/our-structure

“Our board
OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.”
A tricky conflict. Legal issues cause strange decisions. Maybe even Sam recommended his sacking, for optimal damage control.
Thing about the C65 is … what do you emulate?

Since it only ever got to prototype stages, the original C65s that are out there run a bewildering array of slightly buggy systems. All have quite different capabilities. Was it supposed to have a UI? We'll never know, and you won't get a unified answer from the ex-Commodore folks
No, that sort of thing isn't that weird, in relatively young companies. Think of when Eric Schmidt was CEO of Google. Larry Page and Sergei Brin reported to him as employees of Google, and he (as CEO of Google) reported to himself-and-also-them (as the board), and all of them (as the board) reported to Larry and Sergei (as majority owners).

For another example, imagine if OpenAI had never been a non-profit, and look at the board yesterday. You'd have had Ilya reporting to Sam (as employees), while Sam reports to Ilya (with Ilya as one member of the board, and probably a major stakeholder).

Now, when it gets hostile, those loops might get pretty weird. When things get hostile, you maybe modify reporting structures so the loops go away, so that people can maintain sane boundaries and still get work done (or gracefully exit, who knows).
"they lied about how they are using customer data" -- possibly. it is in the inherent logic of the ai to gobble up as much data as physically possible
Huh, TIL. That's kind of annoying but good to know, thanks!
Sam Altman’s latest tweet 9 minutes ago:

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.

will have more to say about what’s next later.
Prompt engineer is probably going to be a fleeting meme of a profession if we are being honest, once it becomes as trivial and widespread of a skill as any other basic piece of modern computer literacy. At one point in the transition from analog to digital, people hired others who could use word processors and other such computer tools on their behalf. They might be formally employed as a secretary or assistant but in either case that was the role at a time: an “I dictate you email” sort of arrangement you occasionally still see today if you work with any senior silent generation folks still. But over time all those others who might have hired someone like this learned how to check their own email, and write their own documents, and make their own slide decks, and this obviated a lot of extra jobs along the way.
This, to me, seems like the most likely root cause: Sam was going too far into the "for profit" world, and lied to the board and misled them about his plans.
IDK if it's possible to hide incidents like that
Not to mention the free feedback they get from the 100 million chatgpt users.
and what pray-tell are those?
Pure speculation warning.

Piping all data submitted to OpenAI straight to his buddy's Palantir would definitely not support the mission to "benefit all of humanity".
If OpenAI is somehow a scam there's going to be a lot of tech stocks crashing next week.
I feel kind of bad saying this, but too little too late in my opinion.
This is exactly what Elon Musk had told CNBC that would happen to Open Ai once in control of Microsoft.
Sorry - poorly written - I was continuing on 'in my mind, we brits pay more'
Already proven to be fake as shown in another post.
First Red Scare
No. I'm saying that there's nothing that can be said about these things until information comes forward. It could be business related, finance, personal, whatever.

If you need evidence that this is sufficient for dismissal, merely stating that impropriety exists is apparently enough to get my first flag on hn after 12 years.
The Least Controversial Movie
Comma (geohot's self driving company) has a reporting loop because geohot demoted himself from CEO.

Twitter also has one, although that's hardly a functioning example.
That kind of scenario would indeed be Threat Level Midnight for OpenAI.

Whether they ultimately wanted to profit from it or not, there is $trillions of value in AI that can only be unlocked if you trust your AI provider to secure the data you transmit to it. Every conversation I’ve had about OpenAI has revolved around this question of fundamental trust.
> I can't wait for the revel that GPT-4 is just a chat application connecting you to a the worlds biggest center in India.

Tempting, but you can launch Mistral-7B on your laptop and see the same coherent responses and reasoning from a 8GB model file. The magic is really there.
Only if it was contentious. From the strength of the press release, it sounds like it was a unanimous forced-hand decision.
To be clear, this wasn't Sapolsky's research. In one of his books he referenced the findings of another researcher (physicist, chess GM, and textbook author Leroy DuBeck), with caveats about that figure being extrapolated and thus not a direct measurement at all.

As per usual, this claim has been repeated all over sports/medicine journalism with improper attribution and no mention of the caveats.
Comment from Eric Schmidt:
https://twitter.com/ericschmidt/status/1725625144519909648
Definitely. I see it as being similar to the history of flight. There were ideas and attempts for hundreds of years, but the Wright brothers flight was a turning point.
Interestingly, for those moving around often the actual dynamics of renting now are still very, very positive.

All the recent places I’ve lived, the plausible mortgage costs if I had bought it would be 2-3x the rent I’m paying for the place. That was before the interest rate hikes. It’s only gotten more favorable since.

Not necessarily a great long term strategy (over decades), but in the short term it’s pretty awesome.
Tweet from Sam 10 minutes ago

>i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.

>will have more to say about what’s next later.
So maybe it was a 3-1 vote with Ilya voting against? That would be infuriating.
Underestimating costs could be the reasoning if Altman knew the costs would be higher then estimated, and didn't tell the board for an unreasonable amount of time. Burning through a ton of cash for months and not telling the board about it could be enough grounds for this sudden firing.

Of course we have no clue if that's what actually happened. Any conclusions made at this point are complete speculation, and we can't make any conclusions more specific then "this is probably bad news."
Pretty sure the parent is referring to the Twitter CEO.

paulg's concern about Palestinians is not anti-Semitic despite how much people try to spin it that way.
I grabbed the free copy…and then fell down the rabbit hole and bought a bunch of other HL games for $6.

I'm just now getting into PC gaming via Linux. I've always had a Mac, so I missed a bunch of games like Half Life.

Now I'm wondering when I'll get to play any of them…
Pretty dammning for that Tesla / Pepsi report from yesterday:

https://bradmunchen.substack.com/p/scoop-the-tesla-semi-from...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38297765
I've been developing my own TUI Bitwarden client recently: https://github.com/luryus/wden

I need passwords outside of the browser quite frequently (when SSHing to servers and so on), and the official Electron app just feels clunky and heavy to use and keep running constantly in the background. So creating a small and lightweight client optimized for my own usage patterns has been really useful. It may be useful for others, too, while the official client is broken.
It's not a prediction; it's a general comment that one shouldn't assume too much based on a limited number of datapoints, in this case someone who doesn't "know him well".

This works in two directions, by the way. In 2001 few would have expected that Bill Gates would spend much of his time on philanthropy. Is he a "good" or "bad" person? Well, he's both.
I think you completely missed the part about living with your siblings into your 30s.

With the exception of the brothers in the mafia or brother terrorists, none of your examples would meet that standard.

Being close with your family does not mean you’re not a good person elsewhere. It does not mean you don’t care about strangers. That you’d jump to that conclusion or bring up terrorists as a counter example makes me question your own personal experiences.

All else being equal, I’d expect someone with close family bonds to the point of living with them as an adult, when they clearly have the economic means to do otherwise, as a sign of a good human. That’s been my personal experience and that’s how I see the world.
Sam Altman was the business side. Ilya Sutskever is the brains behind OpenAI.

I don't think changes anything.
>>my bet is that the last paragraph of the statement holds the key:

No, this is obviously the key:

"review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board"

This is an explicit statement that he was lying to the board about something. It cannot be worded more clearly unless switching to use the word "lying".
Nothing Chats: credentials are sent over plaintext HTTP
This biggest drawback in my opinion is not the commission percentage, it is the gate keeping that realtors do wrt the inventory in market. Only realtors have access to and complete picture of what is on the market and for what price. I think this is the MLS database? Its weird that the person actually shelling out the money has to go through these middle men to even gain an understanding of what his hard earned money can get him.
Sama has posted to twitter now

See: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1725631621511184771
Why do you compare Tesla Model S to a luxury car? Model S is not comfortable, it is noisy, has low quality interior. Is it because it is expensive? Any Ferrari is more expensive and it is not a luxury car.

Tesla Model S has smaller interior than Camry.

Tesla Model S - 4,561 lb.

Toyota Camry - 3,340 lb.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-comparisons/?veh1=401921012&veh2...
yeah, gotta think a massive breach or a massive lawsuit is on the horizon
Printer manufactures sell printers to capture future ink sales revenue. This isn't unique here.
Incarceration rates in this country are sky-high compared to others with lower crime. Crime rates were decreasing well before incarceration boomed, too. The evidence is incredibly clear that incarceration is not an effective anti-crime measure, to anyone willing to look.
I wrote in June 2021 how Sam Altman's departure from YC had been under explored
I'm pretty convinced that if they expanded or reduced the roads in SF or other dense cities, the traffic would be the same. The traffic reaches an equilibrium with the alternatives. I used to ride BART from Berkeley to SF every day, and it was consistently slower than the driving route despite being a straight shot.

About the externalities, you already pay a lot to cross the more popular bridges into SF by car, you probably pay for parking, gasoline is taxed heavily, and the police don't really protect your car from break-ins. Yet some people want to drive for one reason or another.

Disclaimer: Everything above based on pre-2020 SF cause I left for good.
I absolutely do. You, otoh, have never been to Houston in the summer, apparently.
The Double-Edged Sword of CRMs: Thoughts on Privacy
Next they'll announce GPT-4 is the new CEO.