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> Why on earth would you play some unknown version over the popular original?

I heard the original implementation of Alexa had a banned list of words that shouldn’t appear in the song title unless there are no alternatives, including “remix”, “live”, and “explicit” (among others).

Seems such an obvious and easy solution.
I also think it is probably good. Similarly when I was born in 1980's in Poland my father's salary was roughly 0.1$/hrs. My first job in 1999 paid me less than 2$/hrs.
If any American company would be allowed to hire pepole in Poland in 1980 for 1$/hr people would pay bribes to get this job even if it was a humiliating, damaging, life-shortening physical labor.
Why Poland got richer after 1990 is partly that we allowed western companies to buy cheap polish labor. The labor was good enough that the companies started competing for it and long story short now the salaries aren't 5% of western but depending on the sector maybe 20%-50%.
It's kind of insulting to tell someone that you know better than they do what's good for them.

A Kenyan has told you that this job pays substantially better than average and that they wish more companies would make such jobs available, and your response is "no, you're wrong, this job pays too little". On what basis do you make that claim? What makes you better qualified than OP to comment on conditions in Kenya?
Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri
> To obtain capital for expansion, Arkwright formed a partnership with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need, wealthy nonconformist hosiery manufacturers.

This goes to u/qikInNdOutReply's point (cross-thread) about citizens with venture capital.

Knowing nothing about this, my hunch is there were many prerequisites.

Another interesting aspect (to me) is how some innovations (efforts) manage to avoid being snuff in their cribs. Everett's whole Diffusion of Innovation about the sociology of it all.
Good thing it didn't leak then, huh
The sad thing is, I would have totally love to have studied computer science in school, but the classes were too damn hard.
Works for me right now.
> The writing has been on the wall for months though from internal comms

What did the hints look like?
Apple RAM is not on the same silicon[1] as the CPU, just on the same package. Also it doesn't have significant latency advantages. It has higher throughput, possibly because of a custom controller. The biggest advantage is that the GPU doesn't have to go through the PCI bus to access it.

[1] my understanding is that RAM and CPU processes are very different and it is hard to produce a chip with both features while remaining optimal.
It's not over the full year, it's before the end of March.

It says "through the end of FY23 Q3". Microsoft's fiscal year ends at the end of June, so their "FY23 Q3" is the current quarter.
OpenAI offered them work at $2/hour.

You and I offered them no work for no pay.

The workers have made clear they prefer OpenAI's offer.

We could tell the workers that we know what's best for them. Sitting here in my rich country with my six-figured job, I'm supposed to tell the workers they're wrong, they should have taken my offer instead?

It's a terrible incentive that helping people a little bit will get you criticism while helping not at all earns you no criticism. In fact, as non-helpers we get to sit and sanctimoniously criticize the people actually doing something.
The "continued vesting of stock awards for six months" piece specifically is, as far as I know, not mandated by law anywhere, and is really generous.
I always assumed that the disclosure rules for publicly traded companies would require them not to give anyone notice in advance of the public.
At the very least you'd hope that they'd provide proper mental health support for people doing that; from the article that appears not to have happened.
It seems implausible, on its face, that the by-far most energetic processes in the universe are driven by the by-far weakest force in the universe. We know that electromagnetic fields are deeply involved in focusing the jet -- beam, really -- coming out. It beggars imagination to insist they can have no further role.

Do we have any reason to believe no fusion is occurring in the process?
> many studies have shown that when correcting for socio-economic factors (e.g., wealth, quality of education, lead in drinking water) there is no difference

Could you share these studies? Though I worry correcting for "quality of education" involves grouping by schools that use the SAT as admission criterion, which is close to correcting for intelligence itself.

One could also flip it around - if IQ is "fairly" rewarded by income, then one would expect the differences to disappear if you correct for income. It's basically saying that people of equal IQ get, on average, equal income. Unless one holds a truly extreme blank-slatist view of people, that implies discrimination is negligible.
Corporations generally operate for the benefit of people in some capacity.
The answer to the second half of the question appears to be "no" at least if tech companies have any say on the matter. At some point they collectively decided that users are children who have no agency and must be paternalistically protected from the wrong words appearing on the screen.
While there is no good way to do a mass-layoff, I don't particularly like the way this was communicated. There's a lot of flowery language and the fact that there will be massive layoffs is only said in passing in the third paragraph.

This will never be good news, obviously, but please communicate the important facts clearly.
My neighboor did this too and I can see myself following the same path later in life, this seems like a nice thing to do. Salary would probably take a dip (depends on where I'd teach), and I'd have to calculate first if I can afford it with mortgage and stuff.
So I should thank my uncle for introducing me to licking 9V batteries?
Yeah, way to rub it in. Just weird.
The Industrial Revolution, and its consequences, have been a disaster for the human race.
I did not say anything about you. I've read the text as it was presented to me and reported some statistics about it that have caught my eye.
Not only are Firefox doing 'evil as Google intends', they're embracing this Google-inspired crap before Google has even implemented it themselves:

>Announced in 2018, Manifest V3 was supposed to launch on January 2023, but Google delayed it again without any planned rollout date ... However, Mozilla officially started supporting this from this version, i.e. Firefox 109 onwards

Never mind eating your own dogfood. Firefox are eating Google's for them.
https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

By your logic, you are more evil because you pay Kenyans $0.
I understand the frustration here. But the same system that takes away so much also gives so very very much. There is no system that is only upside.
Speaking of smart speakers, I'm moving to a new flat and I'm looking for some good old dumb speaker setup. The smartest that I'd let it get would be a Bleutooth dongle.

As a recovering Audiophile, I'm gonna stay away from r/audiophile lest they temp me to sell my kidney to afford that extra 5% in "acoustic fidelity." Seriously, I'm happy with the 95%.

Now, how do I go about putting together that sound system? Or in Audiophile terms, what is the DT 770 Pro of home stereo setups?
Maybe I need more coffee, but wouldn't it be easier to not add text from certain parts of the internet, or make scrapping bots with controls to avoid those areas? I understand it would still grab some unwanted things, but it seems it would be much easier to deal with. Unless of course, this is basically the entirety of the internet and I just refuse to see it as such.

There is a section that mentioned "An online search for the text reveals that it originated from an online erotica site". If you dont want sexually explicit text, then maybe dont include text from literary erotica sites in the first place? Or is it like advertising where companies keep passing around the same chunk of data and continue adding to it? Still, I would think making or paying for better(smarter) scrapping bots would be cheaper.
Contrary to popular belief, at a company the size of MSFT - the execs could drop all their wages to $0 - and it would not be able to save 5% of the workforce from getting fired.

The execs get paid a lot - but there's not that many of them, and there's 200k people at MSFT making an average salary (with benefits) >$200k. That's >$40B per year. The execs don't take home >$2B per year.

Satya made <$60M last year. There's not 35 execs at MSFT making the same amount of money or higher. There's 18 others, and they make a lot less money on average.
This is exciting, as I've been waiting for something like this to come along as I'm typesetting an RPG book with LaTeX, and they generally have rather complex layouts:

Random example:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Calculating stat-blocks by hand is a nighmtare for one author, so I need a typesetting language so I can type `\elf`, and have a random elf, then generate all its derived stats correctly (like Attack, Defence, et c.).

My example:
https://i.redd.it/ng82unzqxru41.png

Each book has different versions (minimal/ full) so getting reliable output has been a bit of a chore.

LaTeX is the only tool I know which can do the job, but it's still a bit of a nightmare at time. Ugly formatting means my code looks whacky, images can't float cleanly around a multicolumn environment, packages conflict, words overlap and it needs constant hand-holding.

Typst looks like just what I've been after - something like rmarkdown, with more power. Tables and layouts, and best of all - no packages.

What licence is typst under?

Will it be able to reference page numbers from a different book dynamically? (so if book-a and book-b are in the same directory, one can reference another's sections)

Will there be support for intelligent floating images?

Will it accept 'every-page' commands, so I can use that #rect command to show a chapter's name on side-tabs?

Will error messages tell me hbox underfull badness 10000 at least 3000 times per compile?
For me the biggest addition is the h1 chip finally being added.

Know how you can be playing music on your iPhone and hold it up to your HomePod and it will transfer? But it is kinda hit or miss on the original HomePod. On the HomePod mini thanks to that chip it is nearly perfect. This seems to just add that.

Couple other things, but at least it brings parity.
My analogies were wrong: I was thinking of a small (radius) black hole disrupting a star like a bullet shot through an apple.

The Hubble telescope observed a star that had been pulled out into a long stream, that ends in a massive donut around the black hole.

The scale of this thing is huge.
And yet they are. Even though they could give you nothing, they chose otherwise.
You also have to realise most lot of people here are not sheltered. We've experienced post election violence first hand in 2008, tribes killing other tribes, we also have a culture of burning petty thieves alive. We experience violence first hand. I don't think violent text is going to affect anyone the way you think it is.
Could be a big brain move, or a micro brain one.

Big brain: I'm telegraphing that we'll be letting lots of people go so they will self-select and we won't have to fire as many. I imagine that someone could have this idea, but I doubt it benefits the company in practice.

Micro brain: 'If you have not received notice that are are affected, your are safe! Resume being 100% productive until you receive notice that you are fired at a later time. That is all.'

Having lived through 2001 dot-com bust, I can say that being the retained employee can be worse than being laid off.
Yeah, that sort of low hanging fruit is a bit annoying... although if you find yourself doing that a lot, adding a named shortcut / scene for it is a decent workaround.
Do you consider C an object-oriented language?
I just bought the Borg plan at rsync.net that may be what you’re looking for

It takes a day or two to set up though, if you are not super technical like myself
> tl;dr: maybe frame pointer omission was premature

Not really. More like "frame pointer omission made sense on the severely register-starved i386, today we can afford to spare %rbp for substantial debugging/profiling advantages"
That's why we have ncurses and terminfo. The work has been done, and there's a good library out there to give you the ability to write readable code that works across multiple terminals.
Where are they even overstepping? They don't get involved in situations outside of their power, like defending the country and regulating interstate commerce.

What you're not seeing with your point is that the federal government actually hasn't really expanded their power, it's just that more and more things have been "capitalism-ified" to where doing business purely within one state is uneconomical. More and more of society has transition to conducting business over state and national lines, and thus the federal government is governing more of the everyday person's life than they were 100 years ago.
Microsoft’s Fiscal Year ends on 6/30, so FY23 Q3 ends on 3/31/23. This is only one calendar year quarter.
> the scouring of the shire was an unnecessary epilogue in the actual book.

You are missing the point. The scouring of the Shire is extremely important, story-wise. It shows that no matter how good and successful you were at your quest, you cannot prevent every bad occurrence in the world, and that you have to live with that fact.
I agree what Dr. V did is not good in any way and played with other people's trust and livelihoods, but this reporter knows she attempted suicide in the past and knows what he's publicly revealing will completely unravel her entire life. It's not hard to put two and two together on that one. I don't know what the solution is to make her come clean and also protect her at the same time, and you might feel that wasn't his responsibility as a third party, but that doesn't even seem like something he thought about.

I'm not saying he shouldn't have come forward with the information, because it's definitely a complicated situation, not least because he spent almost an entire year researching this topic and didn't want to just throw that away. You've also got the notion of justice for the people she deceived, and the question of how damaging a lie like that is since she wasn't just a scammer but was actually committed to making a good product. But the way the article was written really felt like the author was just relishing in the idea of spreading this hot gossip and making a big story and didn't do any of this consideration beforehand. Maybe I'm reading malice into it where there isn't any because of the very flippant and callous way the author privately outed and was prepared to publicly out Dr. V.
> [Acceleration is] configurable in software

I learned about this today. Looking forward to turning it on on my ThinkPad. The default behavior on Windows 10 with the Synaptics drivers for my ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 3 (2015) is not to have any acceleration, only inertia.

My personal opinion is that 3-finger drag-and-drop > double-tap-and-hold for 2 reasons:

- there is no delay

- you don't risk running out of space when dragging things. You can leave 2 fingers on the trackpad and keep dragging with your 3rd finger.
> Here is a thought experiment for you: Right now, I have a 45 year old rotary telephone working fine in my living room, hooked up to VOIP with an adaptor.

The adaptor in your analogy sounds like it could be analogised by a local transparent proxy.

A more apt formulation of the analogy would be phone companies persisting DTMF to avoid the need for adapters.

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<off-topic> What adapter do you use? I also have a rotary phone & have been struggling to find a good one...
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> I don't think the essence is especially elusive. It's the ability to make novel, meaningful, and useful discoveries from precepts that don't immediately "obviously" lead to those discoveries.

But that's trivial simply by enumerating all Turing machines that reproduces the observed outputs. The point of intelligence is that it somehow "filters" the space of possible theories in some specific, computable way.

The ideal model of this is Solomonoff induction, which orders Turing machines by Kolmogorov complexity, but that ordering is not computable. So intelligence is some computable approximation of this, but discovering the specifics of how that works is non-trivial.
No, this is about acceptance of the 'hand' you have and having an understanding of what you can control and influence. Which is pretty damn empowering, compared to blaming structural or systemic problems for your situation.
> This, incidentally, is the problem with meritocracy. Meritocracy showers opportunities on the lucky

Lucky and particularly the politically skilled!
Its interesting that no matter how magic and impressive the technology its still built on paying countless people as little as legally possible.
Email is a fault tolerant communication. If you aren't getting a response then... reply back. If you still aren't getting a response then the community isn't interested at the moment. This is how open source works and how a small collection of maintainers can keep their sanity and avoid burnout in the face of thousands of people demanding time and attention. No one can possibly juggle all of the requests and such like yours. Creating an issue, sending a pull request, etc. costs the maintainer time and that time is incredibly valuable.
I was talking purely about “benefits” by which most people mean things outside of standard monetary compensation.

EU workers have much better vacation, healthcare, parental leave, severance pay, etc than US workers on average.
Talking with my partner just now, it seems like some universities in the USA practice this now. Some colleges at Iowa State University seem to have professors that have very low research expectations, and they typically teach the 100 and 200-level classes. Those teachers seemed to have packed lecture halls, since those profs truly care about teaching and don’t have the stress of constantly producing papers from a large lab.
Interesting site, thanks for the link.
I suspect this may not have gone down the way the article is reporting.

OpenAi paid Sama $12/hr for the work and they in turn paid their employees $2/hr.

Yet because workers were reportedly affected by the content Sama cancelled the contract?

I think we all know they would just replace the $2/hr workers.

It doesn’t check out
> Having done online dating for years, this rings so true. Some people online talk about the success stories but rarely do they acknowledge the absolute slog that can happen for a huge portion of people

I’ve seen the opposite of this: Online spaces are full of consensus stories about how dating is hard, dating is terrible, dating is miserable, and that it’s nearly impossible to find anyone.

Many of my (completely average looking) friends have found success in online dating, but they’re not broadcasting it to the world. They also avoid talking about it with people who are struggling with online dating because those people don’t want to hear about other people doing well.

Among my friends who are struggling with online dating into their 30s, this entrenched cynicism is turning into self-defeating mindsets. As an outside observer it’s frustrating to watch them self-sabotage by insisting that the problems with their dating are 100% society’s fault and 0% due to things they could possibly change. This ranges from not spending enough the tiniest effort on personal appearance to declining second dates or follow up conversations unless everything goes exactly as they imagined it. They retreat to online spaces like Reddit where they can get endless confirmation for their biases that other people and society are to blame, and that there was nothing they could do differently. I’m surprised to read the suggestion that “nobody” is talking about the difficulties in dating when it’s quite literally front page topics on sites like Reddit all of the time.
People want whatever advertisers put in front of them - companies would not spend billions on advertisements if they didn't induce people to want things.

That's to say - in a modern society most people have what they need and have no real want other than what their social, political, and corporate masters tell them they want.
I bought a Seiko automatic that I wore for a while, until it stopped -- I think I got some sand in it.

The watch shop asked for more than the cost of the watch to service it, so I watched a few videos and tried to do it myself.

Make no mistake, those gears are TINY. Insanely so. I had imagined that I'd put them into place carefully, lining up the teeth... But they're so small it's closer to "well I dropped you into place and bumped you a few times and it seems good now".

I got the watch to run, but somehow messed up the date window. Fiddlesticks.
That is the case in the vast majority of tech companies, though. They (almost) all have something like a "regional adjustment", "location based" or other classification for salaries in different areas. Some are more extreme than others. The company I work for (it's a relatively well-known tech company) certainly has it, and I know Google and other FAANGs do, too.
>Yup and I disagree with it. I don't blame the dude for the outcome, sometimes you do what you can and it doesn't work out.

If it's the case that you can do everything you can and still fail, how are you disagreeing with the article?
> I think the movie needed all of that 20 minutes of catharsis. I absolutely think the 9-10 hour trilogy as a whole needed that 20 minutes.

You could have 20 minutes, but not 5 endings wrapped together with no introduction at all that make absolutely no sense the way they are rushed at the end. And again, missing the Scouring of the Shire, which is a big no-no.
Why make a profit when you can pay your employees >100% of your revenue and just go into debt instead?

It's not how business works.

You hire people if you need people, and you pay them the least you can get away with, so you maximize profits - because long ago, you raised money with the promise to the people you raised the money from that you would do this, and you have a Fiduciary obligation to do so...
Is there a source for this claim? This would be life-ending for OpenAI if true.

edit: This is mentioned in the original article. From TFA:

>Sama delivered OpenAI a sample batch of 1,400 images. Some of those images were categorized as “C4”—OpenAI’s internal label denoting child sexual abuse—according to the document. Also included in the batch were “C3” images (including bestiality, rape, and sexual slavery,) and “V3” images depicting graphic detail of death, violence or serious physical injury, according to the billing document. OpenAI paid Sama a total of $787.50 for collecting the images, the document shows.

> Within weeks, Sama had canceled all its work for OpenAI—eight months earlier than agreed in the contracts. The outsourcing company said in a statement that its agreement to collect images for OpenAI did not include any reference to illegal content, and it was only after the work had begun that OpenAI sent “additional instructions” referring to “some illegal categories.” “The East Africa team raised concerns to our executives right away. Sama immediately ended the image classification pilot and gave notice that we would cancel all remaining [projects] with OpenAI,” a Sama spokesperson said. “The individuals working with the client did not vet the request through the proper channels. After a review of the situation, individuals were terminated and new sales vetting policies and guardrails were put in place.”