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Raising 50m seed round for API for GPT-X multimodal?
Hello, I am currently building an API and website (apiagi.com) to host and fine-tune GPT-X models of various architectures, with the goal of hosting a trillion parameter model by the end of this year. I am hoping to raise as close to 50m for the seed round. Am hoping to connect with any investors that may be on here. I have already gotten some interest from a medium article I sent out today by VCs at Accel, Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), Atomics Ventures, August Capital, Balderton Capital, Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Draper Fischer Jurvetson, The Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Google Ventures (GV), Greylock, IDG Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Matrix Partners, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Polaris Ventures, Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Maveron, MenloVC, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), RHO, RRE, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures (USV), Venrock, Redpoint Ventures, Morgenthaler.
I just announced today but am hopeful that tomorrow I will have some more interest that leads to a seed round. Feel free to email at info@apiagi.com if interested in participating in the seed round.

The website is not yet functional as the API to power such models bigger than 13b are prohibitively expensive.

To read more about Pi: https://apiagi.medium.com/gpt-4-46188fd22a9c
I do think the "I like walled gardens" (or maybe more charitably the console experience over the PC experience) position is interesting. Like I think the "leet nerd"--and also my--rejoinder to your post is: the answer isn't walled gardens, the answer is open standards that let consumers choose their experiences.

But, does that exist at scale anywhere? It might be that this is a false option. If that's the case, and our options really are walled garden vs. balkanization, walled garden doesn't look too bad.

Or I could also reframe it as the reason the open standards choose your own experience option doesn't exist is that there's no financial incentive to build it, and capitalism has failed us yet again.
Suppose you are correct that neither actually requires an account but suspect the user experience is not great without.

Correct in that you can at least get through setup to have a functional device though.
Ask the Linux DE world to put a patent on it and litigate everyone that tries to steal their ground-breaking ideas.
There's also a large cohort of people that aren't against targeted ads, but are against large companies like Google and Facebook. The problem is removing 3rd-party targeted ads would not hurt the giants, but embolden them, as 1st-parties will be able to use this data with impunity.
That makes sense; perhaps they're changing the name to help entice people who didn't like Windows 10 to take another look.
They wouldn't have Play Services, which gives all the power of the ecosystem. Just having a good desktop back country doesn't help anything in the mobile space, as Windows Phone showed. It also won't go without experienced hardware partners, and Samsung is already in Google's pocket, the other top dogs being Chinese, who don't look for fitting in the western markets anymore.
I hope he has enough grounds for suing UT for unfair dismissal. Their behaviour is also atrocious, I hope they get some serious backlash from their faculty.
No, it's more like mandating freight companies do not deliver to certain addresses.
I mean TikTok is the perfectly optimized content treadmill and compared to Facebook and people rave about how good it is. You forget that a lot of the value of social media is passive entertainment to unwind.
Okay. Don't mess it up.
But if you want get android app from playstore, you still need google account. Same for iOS, and it's even worst than android, since you can't sideload apps
Correct, this is a limitation in the Home Edition only according to the system requirements.
Why not? Similarly, another of today's headlines could also be 'Property damage inconveniences some in Florida'.
Humor that doesn’t contribute to the conversation is generally discouraged.
What do you mean by can't touch the money in a Roth?

It stays in the roth account, but you can buy and sell assets as often as you want with the money you put in.
Birthday is super different than year of birth. And zip code is really precise.

GP said sex and year of birth that are usually perfectly fine for deidentification assuming some basic k-anonymity and l-diversity protections.

It’s frustrating when people bring up examples of reidentification out of data that were not properly reidentified in the first place.

Hopefully no one competent would think that having unique records based on sex, dob, and zip code are makes data deidentified. This is usually the case of someone not actually deidentified.

The bigger risk, I think, is when you have some threshold of at least 10 records sharing sex, year of birth and still iding individuals.
Android apps don't ship with JVM bytecode, though; they are compiled to the DEX format[1], which is the format used by the Android Runtime (ART), which is generally why these Android-in-container projects ship the whole bionic-based userland and pipe I/O through a bridge service.

[1] https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/dex-format
Firefox user here. If I had to choose between MS and Google telemetry, which I don't, I would choose MS any day.
Sideloading has worked well for Android. Users are not idiots and there are enough warnings so they know that they should not sideload an application unless they really know what they're doing.

Apples argument serves Apple's 30% interest in iTunes revenue and removes the choice from the user.
Am I missing something? He didn’t seem to do anything illegal.

This is the second article from ProPublica which:

- accuses people of doing something that is perfectly legal

- singles out one or two such people and exposes their private matters

Is that ok just because they are rich? There is another comment thread going on right now where people are absolutely furious that they are tracked for targeted ads. How would they feel if their tax info was displayed online for all to see?
He basically bought those shares from himself, which is why he was able to set the price arbitrarily low.

The point of the Roth IRA is to encourage middle and lower class people to invest in their retirement by offering a tax incentive. But to avoid being abused by the rich the total yearly contribution limit is set very low. Thiel avoided this limit by simply selling himself a huge amount of stock for fractions of a penny on the dollar, knowing the actual price on the open market would be far higher. However, nobody can prove that the price of the private share would have been higher at the time because they weren't on a market.

It would be like if you were trying to avoid taxes by selling your 1,000 acre mansion to a LLC that you own for $1 and paying the tax on that $1. This doesn't work for real estate, but the Roth IRA system is not as sophisticated so you can get away with it.
Please don't post in the bombastic flamewar style to HN. It just leads to predictable, shitty threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there something like this as open source and self hosted?
TPM is required? That's great because it gives me a good reason to tell my boss we shouldn't switch to it. What are they thinking with that?
Unfortunately Germany has a Civil Law system, so precedents aren't binding.
Free tier was something we've had previously but it became hard to justify because of our third party integrations and what it costs us. It might be something we try figure out in the future. Thanks for the feedback.
Let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(online_platform). Bill Gates was actively trying to kill the internet in 1995.
The intent of the article is to point out how the rich truly take advantage of existing tax laws/loopholes to stay even more rich.

No one is claiming Thiel did anything illegal. But it does seem a bit preposterous that billionaires can amass $5B Roth IRA accounts.
it's to make room for "widgets panel" since the right side is already taken by god's know what other atrocities are, including notification center
> this seems a juvenile response

Why? Why not wanting to associate your computer with some Microsoft account is juvenile?

> Do you use a smartphone?

What does that have to do with anything?
Since this appears to be a collaboration with Blender that would be a bit weird.
The police might come take their DNS servers.
That would have been really nice, but I can't blame them. If I were in their position, I would save my company and employees first. Making noise about it comes after their wellbeing.
From the manual[1], it is an option under section 3.6.1 AMD fTPM Configuration. It's built into the CPU rather than the motherboard, but the motherboard can provide a separate hardware TPM.

[1]: https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/PRIME_X470-P...
>I'm going to call BS on this.

We've gone from 80-90 murders a year to 150 in 2020. There's absolutely something happening. I haven't dug into your numbers but reported crime rates is pretty easy to goose. Hard to hide bodies though.
Meetings. Why? Does this conversation need to be a meeting? Does anything?
It feels like something from British or Australian English. Chicken me in and put another shrimp on the barbie.
A store requiring you wear a shirt isn't theft. A store seeing you walked into the store, and without telling you in advance that this is the deal, picking your pocket for $20 and forcing a shirt on over your head is theft, even if they afterwards claim that the $20 is for the shirt.

I'm not sure I agree with the advertising is theft analogy, but this is a bad counter example.
Most people are barely aware of crypto, let alone the negative effects of it. Once people become more informed, hopefully more and more people will see what a plague on society it is.
> Artists deserve to be compensated,

I like this dig at Sony. I don't believe for a second that Sony has any interest of the artists in mind. It's all about their own profits at all cost. They wouldn't care in the slightest if artists died of hunger. But that's just my opinion from dealing with the record labels myself.
Cl-bodge: a cross-platform Common Lisp game and application framework
Presumably you're citing percentage of desktop usage, because about half of the web is viewed on mobile. I know many people who primarily use phones or tablets, with very occasional if any laptop access.
No, the Gimbal video isn't even related to the Nimitz incident. There is significantly less contextual data available for the USS Roosevelt incident or the other east coast incident released in 2017 (labeled GoFast). The GoFast video is the only one that can be reasonably explained as parallax around a slower moving, conventional object, given the lack of additional context.

Making definitive claims about the Nimitz incident means you have a lot more reading to do.
There's not gain of function. The WIV1 virus already binds to hACE2, putting another spike on it and finding that spike also binds to hACE2 in vitro doesn't enhance its function at all. It does tell you how much that spike binds to hACE2.

You can debate if that's a good idea or not, but SARS-CoV-2 is way too distant from WIV1/SARS-CoV-1 to arise from any lab experiment with chimeric viruses. And its also too far away from RaTG13, which still needs decades of evolution to turn into SARS-CoV-2.
No idea about "most", but for example, I have an Asus Prime X470 Pro. It has a 14-pin TPM connector, but the module is separate. Looks like they are not expensive[0], but... sold separately.

However there is also an fTPM setting available (apparently built in, but I haven't tested that yet.)

[0] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1237446-REG/asus_tpm_...
These communities tend to be cirlejerks. It's become a meme in Polish internet, the prime example being elektroda.pl [1]

A relevant copy-pasta: [2][3] (google translate it)

[1] https://natemat.pl/268633,forum-elektroda-to-stan-umyslu-szu...

[2] https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/15978641/mirki-jak-mnie-to-wkurwia...

[3] https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/45510949/ja-jebie-ale-mnie-wkurwia...
I never used the app store...
Well, some would argue 8.1 was the rising edge of the cycle and 10 was the falling edge...
They're £15-20 on Amazon. If you custom built your PC, you can figure out how to buy and install one. Thanks for reminding me.
When I'm on Twitter it sounds like that, but when I hang out with people in real life, no one ever mentions Miami at all. I do however know a lot of people personally who moved to Austin.
Eh, we'll see if they can actually hold to that position.

Every time Google delays on a change like this, it becomes a bit more obvious that both Firefox and Safari are more private browsers by default out of the box. Add to this that Firefox already has better uBlock Origin performance than Chrome. Add to this that whenever Manifest V2 is finally deprecated from Chrome their adblocking will get considerably worse.

Firefox and Safari also aren't going to stand still on privacy. I expect them to continue to widen the gap over time if Google keeps delaying on this stuff; regardless of whether they're delaying because of fear of regulators or just because they don't like the idea of a web ecosystem that is less ad-friendly.

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It is a little bit ironic to hear sentences like this coming from the Chrome PR team though:

> In order to do this, we need to move at a responsible pace. This will allow sufficient time for public discussion on the right solutions, continued engagement with regulators, and for publishers and the advertising industry to migrate their services.

It's funny, given that a primary complaint of Chrome from web developers has been that they constantly move at a breakneck pace with new standards and regularly push out new policies without sufficient developer discussion or thought about the possible issues their changes will introduce. See the entire web audio debacle.

It's almost like Google is a lot more scared of breaking ads than they are of breaking other parts of the web. :)
I'm not a Windows person but recently had to go through the setup process on my parents' newly purchased desktop machine. As far as I could tell, creating a user account just locally was not possible, you had to have an online account, hooked up with a valid email address. Given that most free email providers require you to provide your phone number (I don't own a phone), I had to do some digging--- all just to create a local user account on Windows 10.
The powerbutton on my op3 stopped working some months ago, otherwise I’d also still be on it. Latest Android (LineageOS) and GCam made it still a pleasure to use with an acceptable cam even. Pretty remarkable phone. I think the 6g ram really helped it live so long at such pleasant speeds.

I switched to an iPhone12 mini, love that too.
By that logic the status quo says poor people can only participate on the internet if they subject themselves to ever-increasing digital surveillance under the guise of "advertising"
Does TeX equations are intended to be presented in a raw form? It's very hard to read without proper rendering.
- Windows have rounded corners
- Teams integrated into Windows
- A new widgets fly out for weather, news, etc. (appears this will require you login with a Microsoft Account)
- A Microsoft account and internet connectivity is required for Windows 11 Home setup

No thank you
re 2: as you note, many titles are next to useless without other information, but if you have had more than one role in a company that can help shape the arc.

On the other hand, every position needs a concise role description precisely because titles are not often comparable across orgs.
> 200-400% hasn't been my experience, but I'll give you maybe they should expand carb nationwide to increase the demand side of the curve, lowering costs overall.

49-state legal, direct-fit: $118 https://www.ebay.com/itm/253120020746

CA-legal, universal: $776 https://www.ebay.com/itm/304044103436

CA-legal direct-fit: $1048 (!) https://www.ebay.com/itm/174087409201

> The vehicle ECU monitors the exhaust composition before and after the first catalyst. Downstream, the performance is not monitored by the computer. afiak the ECU doesn't have the capability to monitor nox and hydrocarons directly. The reason for this is that a cheap, reliable oxygen sensor is employed for monitoring.

I don't see what any of this has to do with smog tests, and it's not even accurate for all vehicles (pre obd2 has just a single narrow band o2 sensor before the cat) but this is completely off-topic. The tests shouldn't rely on the vehicle's systems for measuring emissions, it just creates more opportunities for fuckery.

CA smog tests use their own emissions monitoring equipment and have already employed rolling roads to put the vehicles through varying loads during the test.
> That is nothing like a reliable source. It's an opinion piece from a far-right ideologue with an ax to grind. It contains not one word from Ford himself.

I simply picked it as one of the many long list of sites that you'll find if you simply search "Henry Ford $5 wage". They all tie the increased wages to turnover issues and financial motivations. If you disagree with what appears to be the prevailing wisdom, then please feel free to cite sources to refute it.

> Ford's whole life shows that he was up to more than just maximizing profit. Look at his energetic pacifism or his vigorous paternalism toward workers. Or his antisemitism for that matter. Wealth to him was a means to a variety of ends.

You'll see I said that 'I actually agree with you that as a person he wasn't "only in it for the money" - I am only arguing that his wage-setting policies were purely about the money.' You'll need to back up the last statement with sources.

> If you want to argue that the the higher wage was purely profit-driven, you'll have to show it was not just profitable, but unrelated to those other motivations that drove him. I don't think that's doable. And if it were, I'm not seeing it as relevant to my point, which is that Bezos is being mean-spirited and short-sighted even in comparison to jerks like Henry Ford.

The onus is on you to disprove what most people have to say about the issue. It's also not even clear that Bezos would earn more money even if he raised wages; Amazon already pays a $15 minimum wage which is much higher than the competition (and much higher than the $7ish federal minimum wage), so I think it's pretty clear that both Henry Ford and Jeff Bezos paid/are paying enough in order to avoid extremely high turnover while asking their workers to do laborious jobs.
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I agree it is easier to throw your cursor at the corner than to precisely target near the corner, but I would rather have the important click targets nearer to wear my cursor already is. I have a 34 inch ultrawide monitor and my cursor is more often near the center where my active focus is. When I want to switch apps, it's easier to move the cursor down rather than diagonal to the lower left corner.
This is a cool project. The part that I am not so sure about is why don't they just use an artist to paint the missing part? What is the advantage of using an AI?

My guess, even that I hope not, is that people thinks that AI is going to be more impartial, more accurate, less biased. The reality is that an AI, as used in this example, is going to be over-fitting.

An artist can understand Lunden and Rembrant art and use that knowledge to produce something closer to the intention of the artist and the copy.

Cool project, but a dangerous precedent if people thinks that AI provides unbiased reality, that using AI you can show "how it really looked" as something more accurate that any human con achieve. Constructing something from missing data is always guesswork, whenever the intelligence is natural or artificial.
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and then management have to upgrade PCs because it runs noticeably slower and tinker with services even more because it interrupts workflow (remember the windows update popups during weather forecasts?)
Does it come spyware free?
Tell HN: Google Translate now leaks visited sites via DNS
You should be aware if you are using Google Translate as a proxy.

For example currently if you translate Hacker News, you end up in this page:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=en&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F

But if you hover over the links there, you will see the domain becomes "news-ycombinator-com.translate.goog" and congrats, now your authoritarian government knows you have visited hacker news via a proxy.
Ha I was in that PDF a few minutes ago. I saw "fTPM" but since it didn't list an explanation, I didn't know if it was an included TPM module or something else.
Right, we're calling them "more likely rapists" instead of "rapists". That's still not a healthy message. Or would you also call black people "more likely murderers"?
Americans are still hesitant about getting on a plane
Tesla confirms plan to open Supercharger network to other automakers next year
https://archive.ph/A3qZ6
I literally just had the idea for something like this yesterday. Congratulations on beating me to it!
I moved to Miami from San Francisco in February. The reason wasn’t because of tech. I couldn’t deal with rising crime and how closed the city was. It was April when a ton more people started flocking to Miami for conferences and events.

A lot of people are here short term. Yes some bought property but it’s certainly not everyone.

Miami feels really well run in comparison to San Francisco. Walking around, I see human feces, needles, dead bodies through overdose. It’s a very clean city, lots of places to buy or rent, very health conscious and there’s a lot of sun!

My major gripe is that it’s kind of hard to walk and find food at the scale of inner Richmond or in Brooklyn. I actually have yet to meet any software engineers like me in the city which kind of sucks. I don’t have anything in common with the e-commerce and crypto people in the city.

I’m not in love with it. But it does the job for me right now given that the city does feel like the better place to be given COVID restrictions. Ultimately I’d love to be in the west coast again due to how much I went backpacking.
Why? None of their competitors do.
Is the censorship applied globally or just to their resolvers in or near Germany? Unfortunately the domain names are redacted so it’s not straightforward to test this.
> IRAs can be shareholders in anything. They can be 100% shareholders as well. They can even form their own companies from the beginning.
> Being a minor shareholder in a corporation isn't a prohibited transaction or run afoul of self dealing regulations.

Yes, obviously, and is exactly how the real estate example I provided works. The IRA opened a company. Obviously it is a company in order to financially benefit the owner of the IRA. That's literally the whole point of investing, and is not what I am debating here.

It is different when you are then taking an active role in the day-to-day management and/or operation of that business, which is obviously what Thiel did at PayPal.
7 was a success, but mostly it was "Vista with the rough edges ironed out and more time for hardware to catch up". Ditto for 8 and 8.1. So I think it's based on a real phenomenon, where Microsoft was basically unintentionally doing the "move fast and break things" of modern software development, minus the fast part.
Delete facebook, the company?
Agree 100%.
I see everywhere that people "prefer personalized ads" ... but if I am looking at paintball, you can just show me paintball ads! You dont need to understand me in depth at all. No privacy concerns if you just assume my interests based on what I am currently viewing.
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Because building for the privileged is the only thing the filthy rich can do. That or funding a shitty decentralized platform.