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OpenAI belongs to Microsoft. Cancel your subscription to GitHub, LinkedIn, O365…

It’s funny how all Microsoft properties are in dominant position on their market.
I couldn't agree more. I fear the world where 90% of people are irrelevant to the economic output of the world. Our culture takes it as axiomatic that more efficiency is good. But its not clear to me that it is. The principle goal of society should be the betterment of the lives of people. Yes, efficiency has historically been a driver of widespread prosperity, but it's not obvious that there isn't a local maximum past which increased efficiency harms the average person. We may already be on the other side of the critical point. What I don't get is why we're all just blindly barreling forward and allowing trillion dollar companies to engage in an arms race to see how fast they can absorb productive work. The fact that few people are considering what society looks like in a future with widespread AI and whether this is a future we want is baffling.
You should have led with generosity instead of tacking it on at the end.

It might have saved me from having a ridiculous conversation about the cadence of my words, and instead there might have been a higher chance of someone saying something substantive about my assumptions regarding the technology.

But here we are.
Exactly. If Google were to rely on activity, then the bots would simply post now and then akin to human behavior and remain active.
This is announcing a change in the policy of which accounts are eligible for deletion. It doesn't mean that every eligible account will be deleted immediately, or even ever. The post says that they're starting with accounts that were only created but literally not used at all.
Human drivers in my city routinely do the same thing, so from my perspective the car behaved in a very-human-like manner.[a]

A longer video by the same person showing FSD Beta 11.4.1 driving his car is here (40+ minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAFyPqSu8Vo

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[a] What's more, when there's a line of pedestrians about to cross an intersection, which will block it, I've seen human drivers accelerate to avoid getting stuck behind the line. Actually, I see that all the time when there are a lot of pedestrians downtown.
I wonder how it would taste, given our ancestors' hankering for their meat.
Yeah that's fair, if it works it works.

Depending on your setup it doesn't really matter anyway.
No offense - I don't doubt that he does deep breaths if you've shown him deep breaths, and that's pretty cool - but don't you think it's a stretch to call that emotional regulation?

What I mean is, if someone showed me "deep breaths" I wouldn't conclude "people have emotions, they can affect us adversely, some times we don't control them if we're absent minded, better put some conscious effort into keeping them in check", least of all when I was 18 months.
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Only at the moment, YouTube was included as part of the content they're going to delete from accounts as per the VP announcement.

People should use this as a warning to save content they want to keep from YouTube that's particularly old and the account seems abandoned. Just in case Google isn't so lenient with the generous solution; unlinking YouTube accounts but keeping the video up.
This is a hopeful evolutionary path. My concern is that I can literally feel Conway's law emanating from current LLM approaches as they switch between the actual LLM and the governing code around it that layers a buch of conditionals of the form:

if (unspeakable_things):
return negatory_good_buddy

I see this happen a few times per day where the UI triggers a cancel even on its own fake typing mode and overwrites a user response that has at least half-rendered the trigger-warning-inducing response.

It's pretty clear from a design perspective that this is intended to be proxy to facial expressions while being worthy of an MVP postmortem discussion about what viability means in a product that's somewhere on a spectrum of unintended consequences that only arise at runtime.
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> I've read Voices from Chernobyl

Chernobyl is not a good proxy for any commercial nuclear reactor. It was built by the Soviet Union for experimental purposes with a flagrant disregard for even minimal safety standards, even given the knowledge at the time. No other country has ever tried anything even remotely similar.

That said, even counting Chernobyl, the harm done by nuclear reactors per unit of energy generated is orders of magnitude smaller than the harm done by fossil fuels. [1]

> wind and solar, which carry infinitely less risk

This is nonsense. Nothing is zero risk. Per unit of energy generated, wind and solar are comparable to nuclear in terms of overall harm done. [1] In other words, they have about equal risk. They certainly do not have "infinitely less" risk.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
I'm not going to read a whole book, sorry. If it genuinely could work it should be possible to explain in a sentence or two.

I did however start reading `THE PUBLIC SECTOR, II: STREETS AND ROADS` from your second link. It was as insane as I imagined.
Yeah i need to start donating too. Gave kde 3 a chance and wasnt disappointed. If you want a good looking, privacy friendly (no ads or data harvesting) and stable de then kde is a good option. Only thing i dislike is their choice of qml for widgets. Also i think it has good potential for some form of monetisation so that kde positions itself as a strong competitor against windows and macos.
Isn't this a vector for username squatting then?
I can't imagine a more bruteforce approach to a known pattern, then.

If the only indicator you have for spam potential is [created an acccount] + [was inactive for some period], I can't imagine the other myriad spam vectors aren't getting hammered 24/7.
UC Berkeley student who commuted from L.A. will graduate May 19
I don't get this argument by the tweeter: "In places like San Francisco, pedestrians enter the crosswalk before you've completely crossed rather than waiting. "

I'm city person, lived in NYC most of my life and continue to do so today, and it's pretty clear to me that the pedestrian entered the crosswalk (on the other side) before the tesla made it to the crosswalk... like... it's on video...
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> its hard to imagine that the founders built them for any reason other than to make money

...Yes? It's a company, the sole purpose is for the founders to make money from their products, which a VC like YC would also want. At least it's better than companies which don't make money (or profit, rather), like many in the 2010s.
As someone who has worked in finance, I agree.
I don't want to sound pedantic. If you would put a camera in a 1000 cars fully driven by humans and film each for a day, how many of such recordings could be found? I guess a handful.

The real question is... how far off is this technology from practical human driving and when (not whether) it will surpass.
There are a few that have really surprised me with the banter. Glad you enjoyed!
> But who wants a 70% chance at being a millionaire, when there's 0.01% chance at being a billionaire on offer?

Literally anyone in the world will take the first deal.
You know what would help for real? Social workers, parents empowering on things digital, educative initiatives for all stakeholders and proper case-by-case prosecution by prosecution authorities that are not under-financed and overwhelmed. But hey, this way is easier and gives total government control into hands of possibly bad government actors in the future.
In a few years, every pedophile will be able to create CSAM material indistinguishable from reality on their computer thanks to AI, therefore they won't need anymore to download it from the Internet. When this will occur, the powers that be could hardly use the protect-the-children argument to spy on citizens, since all material will be virtually created offline. I guess they're struggling to have draconian laws passed ASAP also for this reason.
Do you always confuse brevity with wisdom, post ad hominem obscured as empty rhetorical questions?

Online and internet are repetitive.

As you said (twice) this forum is online; I have no idea what syntax and semantics any one will connect with.

Only 14% of the public has more than a bachelors, while public polls suggest public thinks 45% have a masters or better. Even an educated person can be ignorant; they were among the polled.

The world is predominantly non-STEM thinkers who read stories. Even STEM content is metaphor and analogy not exact interpretation.

One comment on the internet rustled your Jimmie’s enough to post empty gibberish. Why take that seriously or sincerely?
I’m exited to try Personal Voice feature. If it happened years ago I could create the voice of my parents, grand parents and other close people to me.
It will be wonderful to hear their voice again.
Hmm I wonder if we can extract a voice from a video and feed it to Personal Voice.
There's an AMA w/ the student on r/berkeley for those curious about the specifics: https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeley/comments/13hv95y/i_survive...
Obvious power grab, the strong ones try to regulate so it will be harder for smaller to enter the market.
PSA: If you haven't engaged ArchiveTeam to back these up, feel free to. They have the tooling necessary to rapidly rip entire channels (and define a collection for them) for upload to the Internet Archive. Can't count on Youtube to persist or provide open-ish access forever.
That is so Silicon Valley. 30 years as the longest span? There are businesses here in Munich that have been around longer than the US has existed. They are not "investable", though, they just go about doing good solid products that people need.
And pack a bunch of assets into one larger asset, reduce the HTTP request count and maybe pre-gzip to save a few clock cycles
How is this more a vector than it is now, though?
Got fully working REST request <=> response but auth is need to be done in a different way because this token expires in 1 hour

https://gist.github.com/huksley/9120eed9e910e63d146a9e0c7db1...
we certainly do not agree on this.
That card is relatively new. Back in the old days, I wrote in another comment here I started playing pinball before The Who penned the song Pinball Wizard, there was no card. You had to figure out the rules of the game by playing the game. Pay attention to the lights, they direct you to what you need to do. They don't always make it clear, but they give you an idea. Generally speaking, a solid light means you've already achieved that goal, and a flashing can mean many things but most often it indicates a goal that's available for you to achieve in a set timeframe, usually until you've lost the ball.
> Considering both the overwhelming negative impact of agricultural intensification and the homogenization introduced by temperature and land-use changes, our results suggest that the fate of common European bird populations depends on the rapid implementation of transformative change in European societies, and especially in agricultural reform.

The chance of transformative change like that happening in the Netherlands anytime soon is 0%. BBB has won big in provincial politics and they will be able to stall or vote down any policy that isn't beneficial to the few big agro firms for the coming years.
Def seems like it's involved in whatever is the next evolution of BCCI.

Can read more about it in this book. I'm not sure where to find the definitive account.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/american-exception-empire-and-...
What's special about Erlang and Elixir?
I'm intrigued by the claims about them but also don't entirely understand the marketing

"Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications."

OK, there are lots of languages that are either or both dynamic and functional, and they can all used to build scalable and maintainable transactions.

"Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, known for creating low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems."

Let's skip over "low-latency", because virtually all programming languages and VMs are "low-latency".

"distributed" and "fault-tolerant" are what's most often touted as "special".

I'm not sure what "distributed" means here? Any app in most languages can be coded to be "distributed" both on the scale of within a single machine and at the scale of deploying multiple small instances of it. (eg Kubernetes, running it on multiple EC2s etc etc)

As for "fault tolerant": "The unavoidable truth about software in production is that things will go wrong. Even more when we take network, file systems, and other third-party resources into account. To react to failures, Elixir supervisors describe how to restart parts of your system when things go awry, going back to a known initial state that is guaranteed to work"

Don't entirely understand this either. In a run of the mill corporate Java app, if you experience an exception eg calling another service, unless you're doing something very strange, your app will not stop running, it will just keep error logging those exceptions until the problem is resolved. (whether by the target service coming back online or you send out a fix for the call or whatever) Really the only time an app will outright crash and completely stop is if it experiences errors attempting to boot in the first place, and the correct solution there is to not allow instances that don't respond 200 OK on /health to take traffic. You certainly don't want to attempt restart the system as it won't do any good.

So I'm left wondering, am I missing something or is there really not much to the claims about Erlang and Elixir? Don't get me wrong, this is not me criticizing Erlang or Elixir or the hype machine around them, every language has to have marketing and that's fine. It's also not me advocating corporate Java (shudder) - I'm just using it as an example of a common technology that also seems to tick all the same boxes as Erlang and Elixir as far as these claims go.
While I do think we have to be wary of the powerful human manipulation tools that AI will produce, they (govt regulators) would never understand it enough to accomplish anything other than stifle it.
Turns out the ML training moat wasn't nearly as big as they thought it was. Gotta neuter the next "two guys in a garage" before they make OpenAI and Microsoft's investment irrelevant.
Don't worry, it looks to be on the rise, there will be more features baked in before you know it!
> OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the non-profit OpenAI Incorporated and its for-profit subsidiary corporation OpenAI Limited Partnership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

Just FYI, what you're saying isn't accurate. It was, but it's not anymore.
Nowadays monero (XMR) is the go-to since addresses aren't reused and transactions are encrypted.
* Read everyday. It's hard in the beginning because they lose interest easily, but consistency is key.
* Always keep things interesting for them. This is hard because there will definitely be activities you want to do but the kids will find boring or too difficult.
* When they get older, at least 5 years old, start a sport. I've been taking my kids to judo. It takes a ton of time for me, but I know it will do them good if they keep at it. I grew up practicing judo, so that helps.
* We've watched many anime series together. Definitely watch "Avatar the Last Airbender" and "One Piece."
* I'm a gamer, so we've played a lot of games together: Minecraft (of course), Mario 3D World (on Switch), Castle Crashers, Minecraft Dungeons, and other co-op beat-em-ups.

I honestly don't know if it's the most valuable things to do because my kids are still young. I have 4 now, but I believe always finding time to spend with them and have things to talk about is most important no matter what it is.

I always liked this advice: Don't give the things you've never had, teach them the things you didn't know when you were young.
You're not wrong, except in so far as that's parochial.

A government-controlled… never mind artificial god, a government-controlled story teller can be devastating.

I don't buy Musk's claim ChatGPT is "woke" (or even that the term is coherent enough to be tested), but I can say that each government requiring AI to locally adhere to national mythology, will create self-reinforcing cognitive blind spots, because that already happens at the current smaller scale of manual creation and creators being told not to "talk the country down".

But, unless someone has a technique for structuring an AI such that it can't be evil even when you, for example, are literally specifically trying to train it to support the police no matter how authoritarian the laws are, then a fully open source AGI is almost immediately also a perfectly obedient sociopath of $insert_iq_claim_here.

I don't want to wake up to the news that some doomsday cult has used one to design/make a weapon, nor the news a large religious group target personalised propaganda against me and mine.

Fully open does that by default.

But, you're still right, if we don't grok the AI, the governments can each secretly manipulate the AI and bend it to government goals in opposition to the people.
For now.

It feels like a small leap to go from deleting a person's photos, documents, and emails to deleting their videos.
Which is contradicted by this blog, so who knows what they'll do (answer: the worst possible option at the worst possible time).

Archive everything.
If you would put a camera in a 1000 cars fully driven by humans and film each for a day, how many of such recordings could be found?

Already with the whataboutism? Automated driving is supposed to promise safer driving than humans, not bug-for-bug compatibility.
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have nice vacations
> They do say that newer nuclear plants simply will not have a Chernobyl or Fukushima style meltdown by the way they’re designed.

No nuclear plant other than Chernobyl has ever had the possibility of a meltdown like the one Chernobyl had. As I posted upthread, Chernobyl is not a good proxy for any commercial reactor that has ever been built.

Older plants do have the same decay heat removal failure mode that Fukushima has, but avoiding it is easy: don't put the backup power and switchgear where it might get flooded. (I am still surprised that the designers of that particular reactor at Fukushima missed this--particularly since other similar reactors on the same site did not.) Newer designs avoid that failure mode by having the coolant circulate by natural convection, so even with all power off, cooling flow still continues and decay heat still gets removed. This has been well understood for several decades (and US nuclear submarines have been using this capability for that long--they do it to remain quiet by avoiding the noise of coolant pumps, but the decay heat removal protection remains the same).
Look at their pricing page, it says $18/user/month if you want SSH. The $6/user/month plan doesn't include it. They don't include Funnel in their basic plan either.
That the systems are equilibrium finding and that said equilibrium will be ‘amazing’ are both quite bold assumptions.
I haven't had the chance to dig in yet, but my impression is that it's less opinionated than LangChain. I'd love to know if that's true or not, since I'm really trying to prioritize my time around learning this stuff in a way that let's me (1) understand prompt dynamics a bit more clearly and (2) not sacrifice practicality too much.

If only there were a clear syllabus for this stuff! There's such an incredible amount to keep up with. The pace is bonkers.
I’m super not interested in “doing crime” on a permanent public ledger - no matter how good the math is today.

It’s a gamble. A gamble that the zero knowledge proof, implementation, etc. will outlive the statute of limitations for whatever crime I commit. If it’s broken before that, my only hope is that I’m a small fish in a big pond of crime.

I understand that past a certain threshold of crime, the risks of moving large volumes of other assets exceed the risk of a blockchain. But I’m not here to make large scale organized crime more resilient.

I’ll pay cash thank you.

(As a side note, I’m surprised at how many folks use Venmo for this stuff. The social feed is hilarious. Like it’s cool I can see that some dude I haven’t talked to since grade school sent some other dude $45 for weed. Not sure I needed that feature though.)
While I remain undecided on the matter, this whole debate is reminiscent of Karel Čapek's War with the Newts [1936]. In particular the public discourse from a time before the newts took over. "It would certainly be an overstatement to say that nobody at that time ever spoke or wrote about anything but the talking newts. People also talked and wrote about other things such as the next war, the economic crisis, football, vitamins and fashion; but there was a lot written about the newts, and much of it was very ill-informed. This is why the outstanding scientist, Professor Vladimir Uher (University of Brno), wrote an article for the newspaper in which he pointed out that the putative ability of Andrias Scheuchzer to speak, which was really no more than the ability to repeat spoken words like a parrot, ..." Note the irony of the professor's attempt to improve an ill-informed debate by contributing his own piece of misinformation, equating newt speech to mere parrot-like mimicry.

Čapek, intriguingly, happens to be the person who first used the word robot, which was coined by his brother.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601981h.html
One of the biggest steps on my pinball journey was an older player explaining to me that most machines (the ones that weren't super-ancient, anyway) had one or more "stories" or progressions of play, and that playing well required understanding those. From there, you kinda learn to "read" a table before you try it, between LED screen directions and printed directions under the glass and looking over the table layout & elements. Gives you a big advantage. I'd poked at pinball machines every chance I got (which wasn't that many) as a kid, but that part had somehow never clicked.

Another surprise was that about 50% of playing well is in the hips, not the fingers.
The point of getting their foot in the door is enabling better data labelling for future models (which will be constantly updated). Basically cheap labor.
It's not that silly IMO, Chain LLMs together like composing functions, however I guess 'Chain' has a certain connotation in 2023 after the last few years of crypto.
> Using SQL comments for tracing served as a “cache buster” — apparently the generic plan cache is keyed on the raw text of the query!

Keying user-provided data without canonicalizing it first, a classic oopsie that's bitten plenty in the arse.
Yes. Yes it is.
Unless you want to practice or show off, just use a more advanced build tool.

For simple projects, 'make' will do.
Is it Pokemon or Big Data?

http://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
It's not just poor health, there's an entire subclass of Americans who don't have internet access for 2 years+ - most anyone in the prison system.

Now as a secret unmentionable for any 2+ year sentence: lose access to all your google shit.
Maybe all of this should be an optional feature of HTTP servers and browsers with graceful fallback? NGINX could have a module that understands JavaScript and CSS and bundles and caches things on the fly, enabled optionally.

It would greatly simplify deployment to have the source and deployed code be identical. Obfuscation aside, given JS is an interpreted language, there is no reason to not use it for what it is. We've turned deploying JS into the same level of complexity as deploying C++ by adding building and packaging steps. Interpreted languages should never need build steps, and deployment should be no more than a simple rsync.