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Compared to IBM of yore, where only wizards were allowed in the computer room, you wouldn't be wrong. It's not open source according to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation, and a pox on OpenAI for being misleading with their name (though they're far from the first company to do so). But keeping in mind the revolution that was the PC, and how the reverse engineered BIOS opened up the world of computing, whippersnappers these days would do well to learn their history. The Dream Machine by Waldrop is a good one to start with.
This is exactly why my former (pandemic) employer moved from Zoom to Teams. When I was leaving, they were pushing Teams over Slack for text. That business has ~5,000 global employees. The move was simply a cost savings measure. Loss of productivity be damned.
Two things I find remarkable:

1) I’m ~50% faster at coding

2) Jailbreaks. It’s exposing in a reproducible way how people are persuaded / tricked into bending or breaking rules via persistence, role play, and confident instruction. Presumably from a corpus of text where these techniques have worked in real life.
I'm willing to bet a good bit that most of the performance improvement is coming from the "Client data layer" that they show in their updated graphic about the new stack.

I really doubt the performance issues are based on the webview's performance rendering text. If so, VSCode wouldn't exist... and it does exist.

I haven't used angular in a long time, so you could maybe convince me that it's a shite framework from a performance perspective (I'd believe this, honestly) but I still bet money the delay is not local processing delays, but waiting for remote resources.
On the other hand, that exact line of thinking could be applied when taking about pair programming or getting advice from a more senior peer. In either case the answer is to critically think about the answers and seek confirmation elsewhere when needed.
It's still bizarre though that Rust is capturing such ridiculous mindshare. I suspect it has a lot to do with web developers being plugged into Mozilla, and Mozilla spending quite a lot on Rust development and marketing. And Zig may be being roped into it. It seems to be a temporary low-level programming zeitgeist driven by YouTube and Reddit recommendation algorithms to an audience that has never done it and probably never will.
Call center employees are pretty much as good as gone once the price comes down on GPT4. You can pretty easily give it a good prompt that allows it to answer very specific questions about your company, or interact with external APIs to schedule services, make changes based on the customer's requests, etc. Throw some Speech to Text and Text to Speech services in front and behind it, and voila you have an AI receptionist that blows literally every automated answering service out of the water today. IMO, 90% of call center employees will be out of work in the next 10 years.
https://github.com/ItalyPaleAle/svelte-spa-router seems good too.

but it's not official, and Svelte project seems careless for client routing, instead it tries to convince everyone use its SSR-first kit, that "can do CSR too", which means you have to carry the whole SSR code base and its documentation into your CSR project totally unnecessarily.

I get it Vercel needs SSR for its business, I don't get it why it keeps selling everyone that "my SSR-first framework is great for CSR SPA too", it is NOT, not at all.
Give it access to a Python repl, show it how to send HTTP requests, how to take look at images of webpages if it needs to, and how to spawn new instances of itself - give it a budget and tell it to make money for you.
Ideas out of top of my head.

1. Honeypots.
Special agents sit online pretending to be children.
The abusers found captured immediately, real time.
This requires very quick legal aid channels between
countries and organizations.
To prevent the abusers from anonymizing (e.g. Tor),
strong identification is needed in chats and communication systems
- ID card or passport. That's a strong requirement, but better
than surveillance, probably.

2. Strong identification of children.
At least, children should be reliably identified by chat systems,
and all communication with them should require the other party
to be strongly identified. Or even full recording of communication,
but only when communicating with children.
By default chat system assumes user is a child, and to be off the record, user has to prove very reliably he is not a child (and the other side of the communication is a proven grown up as well).

3. AI-generated child abuse videos. Real children not harmed,
perverts are satisfied. Although, people enjoying child
abuse content deserve punishment anyway, probably.
Also, encouraging production of such content increases
the danger for normal people (including children)
to be exposed to this content. However, the exposure
possibility problem exists anyway.
Voice generator tech has created some decent surreal memes (like audio recordings of Biden, Obama, and Trump playing video games together).

Outside of memes or maybe the occasional well-intentioned prank, I really can't think of anything either.
There was recently a German math professor who famously compared the JEE to some German standards. It‘s worth looking into.

I say this, having studied at a European university as well as visited IIT and a top US university. These are different traditions with different strength and weaknesses but my point was not to say that IIT is better, it was to put the OP comment into a context.
Yeah good to mention these. I think they may be slightly too slow running for now, as BERT was for Google search when first released, but one day these will help greatly.
Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders [pdf]
>Flying and survival stats if there's actually a serious incident.

This is such a bad contextualization of the risks if you actually know the stats on the matter, since there are ~600 million passengers per year and <600 (as in, fewer than a thousand) fatalities; you have less that one in a million chance to experience a "serious" incident - in fact, I'm pretty sure the definition of a "serious" incident in this context is "an incident that normally results in a large number of fatalities". Which makes your stat above very nearly a tautology.

My point is that this is very much an example of where internalizing the stats should make you feel safer, unless you're letting a cognitive bias (like anxiety) prevent you from actually internalizing the real risks.
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Both Copilot and ChatGPT have been force multipliers for my development productivity. But I realize I'm basically guessing about how to best use these tools. Are there any good resources for developing proficiency with AI guiding that you can recommend? I still tend to use them just to write Python code line by line, rather than asking them to write entire functions or classes. I'm also keenly aware that it'll be come a problem if I have it write code that I don't understand, so I use the opportunity to research what it writes when its using something I don't recognize.
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Crank calling will be so much better with this tech.
I found it very helpful when writing a blog post series about teaching GPT to translate ROT13-encoded text--instead of documenting each prompt as I went, I could just get into a flow state with the model and try a bunch of things, going back later to pick the moments that gave me an insight.
Huh? What do the founder's names have to do with anything?

Personally, this sounds like an extremely irresponsible startup, but I don't know much about it so I'm trying to reserve judgement.
Is there any positive use case for this technology? YC, care to comment?
I started with a pretty simple prompt: "I am building an app using Expo, React Native, React Navigation, React Query, Nativebase, Google Maps and lodash. Expo exports the app for web, iOS and Android. The purpose of the app is to view data related to <specific domain> on a map. The data comes from an internal API."

And then just started asking it questions about each task I was trying to complete. Often I say, "Here is my code in MyComponent.jsx: <paste code> I want to implement <describe feature>. How can I do that?" and GPT will usually respond with tutorial-like steps to take, or sometimes just with the code for a function it thinks I should implement. I read what it suggests, paste it, modify it if necessary, try it out, adjust and repeat.
> I find it interesting that so many projects claim to be "run your own ChatGPT", when they're in fact "run your own web UI". Are people really so ignorant of how this works that they're equating these concepts, or believing that the web UI is anything more than a razor thin veneer?

Perhaps, but also there is a huge incentive to blur that line, obviously from the developers of these UIs, but also from the people at media outlets covering them. If they told the truth, it wouldn't be as big of a story. And I'm just waiting for the "7 year old makes their own GPT" story. For a long time now, the overwhelming majority of tech journalism has been just uncritically rephrasing press releases.
> You just need to set up servers that are ready

The "just" is doing a lot of work here. Extending existing RTMP infrastructure is obviously much easier than spinning up an entirely different one. And you'd still have specify a way to use anything but MPEG-TS to send audio/video over SRT, which de facto does not exist (at least not that I can find).

I agree that extending RTMP isn't ideal, but other solutions have their own set of limitations, problems, and challenges. Whether that's SRT, RIST, or WebRTC.

For better and worse, RTMP and dealing with it at scale is well understood.
> I found Mac was a lot worse than it used to be and definitely not stable.

Can you clarify this comment? I haven't seen any stability problems in macOS for years.
That's a a compelling argument: GC/RC w/ stack allocation where possible. I associate GC w/ pointer chasing and the unavoidable L1, L2, L3 cache trashing that goes w/ it.

To what extent is this possible? Does Nim have LTOs that rewrite memory handling across compilation units? I'm guessing no, and instead it's local & one-off, rather than something one can bank on.
They might have actually have more features to be ticked off for a general sense of office employees, but it's mostly software developers with a remote first attitude of active collaboration that have been asking about stuff like "working" code snippets not just "can paste code for it to be mangled" and switching rooms (god have mercy on you if you are part of several teams (in Teams) and need to use all those channel frequently) etc.pp whereas they could not care less about some office integration (especially if on Linux) - so I would not dispute the "more features", just that they might be broken or useless :P
> Photography was the last thing on NASA’s mind

This is the most surprising. Why was it so?
If I'm taught by any teacher, even a human one, I will blindly trust them. Also I require these human teachers to be perfect (omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent) so that I avoid danger. This is how I assert the information is correct.

EDIT: guys the point of this comment was to show how ridiculous the requirements of the parent comment would be if applied to human teacher as well as to AI teacher
The burden shifts when you’re engaging in financial services.

So for example you don’t have any real obligation to inquire about source of funds when someone comes into your shack to buy a burger and a shake.

If they come into your shack to open a financial account or do any kind of exchanging of financial instruments then you do.
You're a Rust zealot? The point still stands: for lots of projects 95% of the code pulled in is not actually used, but is still cause for breakage. Of the worst kind, because it has nothing to do with the problem being solved. Sorry, but the build system just gave up, for no good reason at all.

Only total perfection is acceptable to Rust, and that is also it's Achilles heel, well exemplified by this case. Now Rust could change and be more flexible, and I would have great faith in its leadership to find a way, if not for people like you, who charge ahead on a straw man and ex-communicate.
> notion in the crypto community was that CFTC is the good cop to SEC’s bad cop

The SEC has an order of magnitude more employees than the CFTC [1][2]. Crypto favored the latter not because it was a good cop, but because it is a weaker one.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/strategic-plan/about

[2] https://www.eeoc.gov/federal-sector/commodity-futures-tradin...
wha's the best of the 50 in your opinion?
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Unlike 3.5, GPT-4 is competent at translation. Not just competent; it's better than most human translators. We might not want to leave it to its own devices yet, but there's a large number of novels that were never translated, or were only translated badly.

Personally, I've been setting things up to have it translate a series of light novels from Japanese to English. Experiments through the chat interface show it's working; now I just need API access, to fully automate it.
One demo of gpt-4’s superiority over gpt-3 is to come up with a prompt that determines the language of some given text.

I couldn’t figure out a gpt-3 prompt that could handle “This text is written in French” correctly (it thinks it’s written in French), but with gpt-4 you can include in the prompt to disregard what the text says and focus on the words and grammar that it uses.
I wouldn't wonder if Microsoft will do such a thing in the future. But I wouldn't be happy about it. It will be messy and suffer from hardware problems and performance issues.
> NASA has a long history of getting good value for money

like how apollo made do without a luxury fourth gimbal as in gemini
Just like Texas did with abortion. Allow citizens, who I'm sure contain some number who want to enforce their morality on others, to enforce the law.

This is fascism. that's it
Cryptobros are forgetting you can't run an unregistered derivatives exchange domiciled in US, OR taking USD, OR customers in US.

It's pretty simple.
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The problem is YAML, but it's too late to stop that momentum now.

Is anyone using Cue or dhall in a real production scenario? I'd be curious to hear reviews of those, as they look promising.
I'd be curious what the false positive rate on that is. Can you clone anyone's by collecting a set of ten voices with unique timbre reading the required statement plus pitch control to get close enough? A hundred? Or can you trick the neural net by giving it something that sounds like white noise to humans until the NN triggers in the right way and goes "ok yep that's a match, you're authorised now"?

Probably not something we'll get to hear as part of the PR pitch.

Or is the consent statement the thing that will be cloned and is there no separate training audio? Then it might actually work and you'll just have to get close enough that the human you're trying to fool can't distinguish anymore (defeating the need for this tech in the first place, at least in targeted rather than automated cases).
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Oh, for sure. I will be the last person on earth to come to the defense of an institution like this - I think that frequently, it's our social structures that are pathological before it's specific individuals.

People, on balance, are not all so racist, bigoted, short-sighted, greedy, selfish, etc. (with glaring outliers, ofc). Institutions are more often than not some, if not all, of these things. It's almost as if we encode the worst of ourselves in these social contracts and give them everlasting life.

As a sibling comment mentioned, it's also entirely possible for Hibino to be discriminatory himself. It just feels a little like there's not quite enough information to hang him specifically.
I'm with you on this. I can't honestly think a good use case for the average user to generate audio this way. Maybe some niche use case in like movie or tv production where you can generate a missing line without flying in an actor or something. Or maybe for generating dialogues for videogames. But those are business use cases, not things for the genral public.
This is not exactly true either. Some IIT students are terrible programmers, others not. But they do have certain strengths and their math training is very strong.
Thanks my friend!
When I was a beginner, I wish someone would have handed me proper surface-mount parts and accompanying breakout boards that would turn them into TH components suitable for a breadboard.
Write unit tests, document code, optimize code, explain code. I've tried Python functions and React code. It even converted a class based React component to a functional style component!
It seems you didn't really read the article. Nor do you have any ideas who core Rust members are.
Tether is printed and given out at will to buddies of scammers who run it. "Hey Paolo, can you help me with 100M as my exchange is in trouble?", "
Sure thing, just write an IOU and I got you". Now Tether is "backed by commercial paper" and there is 100M of it in circulation to prop crypto.

And if you think my language isn't appropriate, Tether is run my literal scammers: a proven financial fraud and an online poker cheat. Chances of it being even semi legit operation are zero.
Interesting that this was enabled with apparently no outreach. Maybe Google needed some of those employees that it recently laid off
> BitMex guys pulled a similar move…they all paid fines and avoided jail

It looks like a combination of ongoing criminal trials, home confinement and probation [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitMEX
Have you lived in China? Or worked for a Chinese company? Have you spoken to Chinese engineers about how they work?

I'm asking because your comment reads like culture essentialist bullshit that doesn't match my experience.
Or even just going from writing video games by yourself, getting to do all of it (graphics, "AI", design), to being one of a hundred programmers churning out the latest version of some "AAA" title. I now work at a FAANG, and in many ways, it is more rewarding. I'd love to be part of a five person indie studio making great games but it is a fucking lottery and my kid is heading off to college.
Very good suggestion
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Gosh, I barely remember CW, it's been such a long while... Though my callsign should be still registered, I think my dad still paid the license renewals for me (even though I moved countries some years ago).
Still too many bugs to let this out in the world. I've probably spent 2 hours on it so far and the progress is amazing, especially compared to total inaction on this since I originally had the idea for the game many years ago (I'm now retired after a 40+ year software career). As an aside, one simple lightweight technique for bug tracking I have found beats everything for me is simply writing pages of one-line bug descriptions in a notebook by hand. Then when I fix the bug I mark that line with a check mark, and then when I have tested the fix I mark it with T.
One thing the AI got right immediately was playing a sound file for the avalanche effect. Screenshot

https://ibb.co/CKDWdrV
The thing that turns me off to Nim is the issue with it getting picked up as malware. I can't even download the installer for the language without it getting removed from my computer after getting picked up by Windows Defender

It's not Nims fault, but is still a point of friction
Massively reducing costs for Voice Over in Video Games. This should make it even feasible to create mods with audio which would be great :)
Sure, yes, it is, on its face, much easier & cheaper to operate without proper compliance/legal/fraud departments.

And yet..
Yeah, and messing around configuring and troubleshooting my OS gets in the way of my preferred "hacking".
> the vast majority of the time

It's the times when it breaks that make the difference for me. One Windows, most breakage is an annoyance. On Linux it can grind my day to a halt. Here's something I did on an Ubuntu install recently.

apt install python3

Oops. That's not what I wanted.

apt autoremove python3

OMG! What have I done! IIRC that stripped out so much stuff I didn't even have networking. Lol.
> don't think it's so much a conscious decision against compliance

I presumed as much until I read the CFTC's allegations. Unfortunately, Binance looks like a criminal enterprise [1]. FTX, in comparison, looks like childish incompetence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329117
> GPT-4 is competent at translation

That really depends on the language. It's still kinda awkward at Hungarian. Personally, I think DeepL is still way better at translation.
I'm really confused by what you're saying. Clearly, you're talking about the lens distortion that hasn't been flattened yet, right? You're not insinuating the preposterous lies that the Earth is round are you? /s
Here’s an example: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/time/fn.sleep.html#panics

> It can also panic whenever a timer is created outside of a Tokio runtime.

Note that nothing in the signature tells you that, just the function documentation.

In practice, this ends up not being a big deal, IMHO. The ecosystem has largely coalesced around tokio as an executor. The only times I've run into it are when running Actix, which has its own global state on top of tokio.
That's the change in perspective. They are inefficient from a CPU point of view. They are efficient from the perspective of "churning out more shit for less". So it's the same, soul destroying effect as for artistic professions.
I am dreading the inevitable future day when I have to argue about a denied health insurance claim on the phone with a fucking robot prompted to make it as difficult as possible for me to win.
> a safe liquid asset is gold

Unless you're talking about melting gold, I can't see how gold is liquid. Bid/ask spreads are wide and it's hard to (literally) move a lot of it without both incurring costs and moving prices.
Can it sing?
It was similar to other dual-processor boards out at the time; those were just very expensive and for very expensive "server" CPUs.

I remember having an older Pentium Pro motherboard with dual sockets.
You didn't comment on the rest of the statement:

"sociologists use to legitimize their expertise and colonize other fields of inquiry that were traditionally the domains of philosophers and scientists. The whole thing is just repackaged Marxist analysis of everything as a social relation."
I guess I misunderstood/didn't think it all the way through. Not sure what the balance should be but... I just wanted to see how it would be at cloning my voice (not "a" voice that doesn't belong to me) as a quick gauge to "is this technology ready to play around with".
They Posted Porn on Twitter. German Authorities Called the Cops
Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can take about look?
It still kinda works fine (ymmv) for me in Firefox on Linux, you just need a full 2 minutes to join a call, so maybe click early if you don't want to be late. The connection is usually (90%) followed up by a small hiccup where it seems you might be disconnecting but then it's stable.

I'm saying this unironically. It's ridiculous and kind of a mess and I'm very glad I only have to join 2-3 per month, but it's reliably semi-working. Or maybe my bar has been set very low by other things.
yeah because that's working great for crypto lol