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The mainstream media cartel is pumping Sam Altman hard for some reason. Just from today (CNBC): "Sam Altman wows lawmakers at closed AI dinner: ‘Fantastic…forthcoming’" [1]. When was the last time you saw MSM suck up so hard to a Silicon Valley CEO? I see stories like this all the time now. They always play up the angle of the geeky wizzkid (so innocent!), whereas Sam Altman was always less a technologist and more of a relentless operator and self-promotor. Even Paul Graham subtly called that out, at the time he made him head of YC [2].

True to form, these articles also work hard at planting the idea that Sam Altman created OpenAI, when in fact he joined rather recently, in a business role. Are these articles being planted somehow? I find it very likely. Don't forget that this approach is also straight out of the YC playbook, disclosed in great detail by Paul Graham in previous writings [3].

Finally, in keeping with the conspiratorial tone of this comment, for another example of Sam Altman rubbing shoulders with The Establishment, his participation in things like the Bilderberg group [4] are a matter of public record. Which I join many others in finding creepy, even moreso as he maneuvers to exert influence on policy around the seismic shift that is AI.

To be clear, I have nothing specific against sama. But I dislike underhanded influence campaigns, which this all reeks of. Oh yeah, I will consider downvotes to this comment as proof of the shadow (AI?) government's campaign to promote Sam Altman. Do your worst!

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/16/openai-ceo-woos-lawmakers-ah...

[2] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma... ("Graham said, “I asked Sam in our kitchen, ‘Do you want to take over YC?,’ and he smiled, like, it worked. I had never seen an uncontrolled smile from Sam. It was like when you throw a ball of paper into the wastebasket across the room—that smile.”")

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Bilderberg_Conference
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I believe so, after years of being vapourware and basically stopping Perl 5 development right when web as a platform started being important.
> I will give you two examples of stuff I have experienced:

> 1. It will tell you jokes about white people, but not jokes about latinos or black people.

> 2. It will tell you jokes about catholics, but not muslims.

I'm not partial of imposing group affiliations as a proxy to personal identity. It goes deeper than a "woke mind virus" but a problem with imposed collectivism where a person is defined as a member of an arbitrary socially defined group. Instead one is free to define oneself however they wish, member of a socially constructed group or not. I also don't agree to be coerced to define another person as how they wish me to define them. I support the freedom to listen & to have a perspective that shall not be infringed. If someone else has a mental or emotional issue with how I define that person, it is that person's problem, not mine...not that I will even attempt to define another person with words.

I can only describe with words, not define. Perhaps using words to define a person has it's own set of issues when codified into language & statute.
I think it's largely a three-fold problem of the fact that most JS apps are still deployed through browsers and not installed, the fact that HTTP2 was not the panacea of multi-request happy good times it was made out to be, plus the fact that there is no Application Binary Interface, everything gets deployed as source code.

This creates a situation where you need bundlers, whereas other languages don't have the concept at all, just to be able to minimize download time (and honestly, while we end up making rather large apps in comparison to web pages, they're pretty small in comparison to other kinds of applications), and then bundles are too opaque to share common code between applications.

And because there's no chance to benefit across projects from sharing, there's no force driving standardization of bundling, or adoption of said standard.
There are plenty of ephemeral communities that work. There are conferences, conventions, festivals, and sporting events. Lots of them are run by permanent organizations, but many are run by temporary organizations for each event.

A good example is science fiction Worldcon where there is permanent org that does selection of place for each year and each con is run by local non-profit.

A historical example was trading expeditions where each trip of sailing vessel was financed separately.
Is Windows support planned?
"Hello Congress, I have a lot of money invested in $BUSINESS and I don't want just anyone to be able to make $TECHNOLOGY because it might threaten my $BUSINESS.

Please make it harder for people other than myself (and especially people doing it for free and giving it away for free) to make $TECHNOLOGY. Thanks"
the very article you posted earlier shows that when the price controls were applied, a significant amount of rental properties were instead offered for sale. my interpretation is that these sellers didn't think that renting out at those prices was worth it, or soon wouldn't be.

i highly doubt that these people, when confronted with a more competitive market would choose to lower rent to compete instead of again just sell.

so i highly doubt that more rental units will automatically lead to lower rents.
Right, but with websockets you wouldn't have to think about this at all.

You'd also need to ensure http2 for local development, proxies in between, etc. You _can_ do all this, but you can also avoid putting any thought into this matter.
Autogen tools do a nice job of creating GraphQL schemas from a single source.

We're looking more at how to compose / stitch multiple sources into a single queryable API. (ie., Stitch data from a DB, some REST APIs, and a Kafka topic).

In GraphQL, you need to write / maintain resolvers that handle the stitching for you - which means as upstream data sources change, resolvers need to be maintained too.

Smithy is nice, and we'll probably add first-class support in Orbital for it at some point. Taxi was around before Smithy, so we're the OG :)
It's likely outside the radar of anyone on HN without kids but Roblox is a wild ecosystem of game mechanic mashups that I've not seen anywhere else.
supposedly gauntlet was too.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/back-in-the-days-we-h...

The games where your HP constantly dropped over time and was replenished by inserting more coins were the worst!
I couldn't find a TED talk from my quick search, but for reference, there is a transcript of a talk at Amherst College [1] that mentions the concept:

Alex Tapscott (at the talk as an Amherst College alumnus, known for being the CEO of a cryptocurrency company and writing a popular book published in 2016 about cryptocurrency): "The FBI started calling Bitcoin prosecution futures, because whenever someone spends it, down the road with enough information they can actually trace it back to who the original spender was, and they were able to reclaim a whole bunch of lost coin."

I searched a bit more to see if an FBI agent or attorney used the term on-the-record, but it looks like the closest source is a New York Times article that quoted lawyers without naming a name [2]: "Hence Bitcoin’s wry new nickname in legal circles: “Prosecution Futures.”

[1] https://www.amherst.edu/alumni/learn/amherstreads/pastfeatur...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/business/eagle-scout-idea... ; The MIT Technology Review cited this article with their report that prosecutors have begun to use the term "prosecution futures": https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/02/18/173936/marginall...
He should only be allowed to influence this if they don't give OpenAI any license.
This is the definition of regulatory capture. Altman should be invited to speak so that we understand the ideas in his head but anything he suggests should be categorically rejected because he’s just not in a position to be trusted. If what he suggests are good ideas then hopefully we can arrive at them in some other way with a clean chain of custody.

Although I assume if he’s speaking on AI they actually intend on considering his thoughts more seriously than I suggest.
He's making money from something he likes doing you got to give him props for that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-16/china-s-y...

>20% youth unemployment, and they stop counting you after a few months of no success finding a job. Not everyone is finding jobs.
I'm there for my kids, and I am consistent. Consistency is something that I felt I never had from my dad, and it's so important to just do what you promise. Kids have good days and bad - they're volatile as they are growing. You just have to be the ever-present dad.
It's equally sad that privacy advocates (of whom I am one) mostly refuse to acknowledge that CSAM is a real and measurable problem, which specifically exploits children's naïveté and lack of agency. 'Think of the children' should absolutely not be the only decision-making criterion, but it should absolutely be among such criteria.
> MIT pioneered that in the nineties with OCW

It was early 2000s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare#History

> The OpenCourseWare movement started in 1999 when the University of Tübingen in Germany published videos of lectures online for its timms initiative (Tübinger Internet Multimedia Server).[1] The OCW movement only took off with the launch of MIT OpenCourseWare at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University[2] in October 2002.
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How's that insider trading?

What inside information did Buffet act on? The fact that Taiwan is in a geopolitically unenviable position?
If you're not familiar with the website, it is for true stories of software development rather than made-up stuff designed to serve as a metaphor.

Anything posted on the daily wtf is trying to come off as a real story.
There's nothing contradictive between being fine with short-term failures and celebrating long-term successes.
The writer of the blogpost here.

The popularity of this post has really caught me at an awkward time. I want to clarify some things: https://billydm.github.io/blog/clarifying-some-things/
Yep exactly that, it worked also

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Your claim is assuming we have complete knowledge of how these systems work and thus are in full control of their behavior in any and all contexts. But this is plainly false. We do not have anywhere near a complete mechanistic understanding of how they operate. But this isn't that unusual, many technological advancements happened before the theory. For AI systems that can act in the real world, this state of affairs has the potential to be very dangerous. It is important to get ahead of this danger rather than play catch up once the danger is demonstrated.
I think the same. It's just too difficult to prove it.
But we already have a lot of natgas plants. I'm willing to bet that we could have handled all of our baseload requirements on all 3 mainland grids using the existing natgas plants as peakers.

Sure, once we hit 60% or so of our power from renewables we'll need to have a proper strategy for handling intermittency. But we're far from that number now.

Too meet our commitments, all natgas plants will need to be shut down or have carbon capture added by 2035. If you amortize your capital costs over 12 years instead of 50 years, that natgas plant doesn't look so cheap any more.
In only one case did it arise out of a prior friendship. These contacts span across mostly Democrats, one independent, and two Republicans. Staffers, for the most part, are different from campaign staff; they’re personally interested in their constituents for the most part. (Exceptions being nationally-prominent members with executive ambitions. Their teams are less constituent oriented.)
Hey, we produce AI tutorials on youtube - it'd be cool if we could maybe produce a video showcasing your GPU cloud?
One community focusing on this is r/sweatystartups - which often discusses how to start a pressure washing business, or how to scale their lawn care service.
> An under-discussed aspect of EVs, in my opinion, is the large amount of waste they will produce.

Compare and contrast to the prodigious waste and pollution that the petroleum supply chain causes, I think it's a pittance.

Batteries outlive an ICE lead-acid battery by about 5-10x.

And the beauty of EVs is that everything is completely recyclable include, especially the battery.
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Right it's not like children are ever abused by family members.
Or the AI influencers on LinkedIn posting code generated by CHatGPT and claiming that anyone can be a coder now.
So the person who wants to kill himself and all humanity alongside is subject to the same risk as everyone else?

Well that's hardly reassuring. Do you not understand what I'm saying or do you not care?
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A lot of this is because there was and still is systemic undertooling in NLP around how to prompt and leverage the wonderful LLMs that they built.

We have to let the Stable Diffusion community guide us, as the waifu generating crowd seems to be quite good at learning how to prompt models. I wrote a snarky github gist about this - https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...
"But nothing stops people from using similar models built by China or Russia."

It's not a mystery that US is in cold war with Russia and China. Nor is it a mystery that there is advanced AI beyond GPT-4 that we poor public don't have access to. But the government does.

The idea would be to establish rules for public vs. private use, build sophisticated detection mechanisms presumably in coordination with the rest of the world (because world domination is a thing), and cripple any competing advancements.

We can say it's anti-competitive, reduce the scope of awareness, however it's shoring up to be a significant concern in terms of national security. And humanity. Interested to see where this goes, and how fast...
This is the message I shared with my senator

If you sent it by e-mail or web contact form, chances are you wasted your time.

If you really want attention, you'll send it as a real letter. People who take the time to actually send real mail are taken more seriously.
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> And of course nudging - no virtual controller comes anywhere close to all the things you can do to a real machine, shoves and pushes and slaps. No game physics engine comes anywhere close to all that detail in all these areas.

"Anywhere close" might actually be a little closer than you think. Ever take a peak down the virtual pinball rabbit hole? The KL25Z microcontroller board at the heart of many visual pinball builds has an accelerometer to measure nudges etc. Most builds also have a real tilt bob if you get a little over exuberant. Then there are real shaker motors, surround sound feedback, multiple displays for the backglass and DMD etc.

Way of the Wrench on YouTube has the best set of videos I know of on the topic of building your own cab. It would really be a blast to build something like this.

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a lot of things shouldn’t be hard.

a lot of things are harder than they look.
Unfortunately things like car washes are zero sum games - if there already is one "in town" and you open a second all your business at best comes from what the other already had, and in the worst case it starts a price war and make far less.

Sure I won't go to the next town for my car washes, but just on my short route to the office I pass 3, and I know of a couple more that would be an insignificant detour. I think this is pretty typical for most city dwellers. (not to mention I work from home most days)
There is this idea that the shape of a word, how it makes your mouth and face move when you say it connotes meaning on its own. This is called "phonosemantics", just saying "ilk" makes one feel like they are flinging off some sticky aggressive slime.

Ilk almost always has a negative connotation regardless of what the dictionary says.
Thank you! Contacts sharing and updating has had a lot of takes over the years. I remember Plaxo and Bump, back in the day. I'm hoping adding a privacy focus will help people feel more comfortable sharing better information and improving their connections.
That is quite impressive for {what a poster above called} “just a word jumbler
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Because anything with potentially exponential growth is dangerous.
I could imagine something like the Consumer Product Safety Commission tasked with recovering and open sourcing IP from shut down companies with products in people’s hands.
> not wanting your entire application to be taken down by an unreachable external service

If your BEAM app goes down because your GenServer crashes, something is terribly wrong with your code.
Hmmm good point about the sand deformation but I think you're off on "exactly the same".

AFAICT - The force to bring the ball to rest is exactly the same. As you point out, either the sand or the ball's structure (or the ground's structure, such as a trampoline) absorbs that force. After that however, one ball remains at rest, and the other ball accelerates back up. The force producing that acceleration is exerted (keeping in mind newton's third). If the ball returns to 80% of the original height, then that's 100% of the force to bring it to rest (same in both situations), and then an additional 80% of the force to re-"throw" it, which is only present in the bounce. So in a "thud" there's 100% of the force, and in the "bounce" there's 1xx% of the force.
In my opinion, one of the key blindspots is that most of the people in this community are living right within the center of power of the world's current largest and most powerful empire, and that tends to give you a certain set of priors which are very hard to shake. Effective altruism originally took those assumptions and said, "we need to extend the incredible bounty we've been given to those who aren't living at the epicenter of global power." And then it evolved into "We're currently the most powerful force on the planet, but what if a more powerful force that we create dismantles us!" Just the War of the Worlds argument but without Wells's self awareness that he was critiquing imperialism. Now post-rationalism is just the same old argument of "our society is collapsing because we've lost touch with our traditions." Etc. etc.
Oof. The end of YouTube as we know it
FWIW, trying to hire 100+ engineers now is probably a lot easier than it would have been in early/mid 2021....
I am sorry if this is not the place to say this but - FUCK SAM ALTMAN AND FUCK MICROSOFT! Fucking shitheads want to make money and stunt technology development.
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GPT 3.5 is that fast.
I don't think it is implausible. If engineers come to management at Google and ask for 4 bn to do a moonshoot 6 month AI training run, then such a smoke screen statement can be highly effective. Even if they delay their plans for 4 weeks to evaluate the scaling first, it is another 4 weeks headstart for OpenAI.

Also not everyone can bring 500m and more to the table to train a big model in the first place.

> tremendous progress

There are things which just seem to scale and others which don't. So far it seems that adding more data and more compute don't seem to flatten out that much.

At least we should give it another year to see where it leads us.
> Taxi shifts the obligation of describing how things stitch together from Consumers to Producers. Traditionally, it falls to consumers to work out how to do this. And, it’s an expensive question to answer… it involves tracking down API specs, reading docs, and building a mental model of how things hang together.

I work on enterprise data platforms and this project sounds very much like the "data mesh" concept where responsibility for defining metadata/usability of datasets is supposed to rest with the teams producing the datasets rather than the teams consuming datasets. The same criticism probably applies:

* Even though it is expensive/slow for a consumer to figure out how to use data, it is even more expensive/slow to have producers try to continuously anticipate the needs of all possible current and future consumers, rather than focus on their system and have actual consumers figure out how to use the subset of data they need as it changes.

* Above a Dunbar-esque-sized organization you can no longer rely on empathy to encourage producers to expend extra effort on consumer's needs, so either monetary or disciplinary encouragement is needed, both of which raise costs even further.

Is there a name for this kind of paradox? When an approach will work only in a company below a certain size/complexity/age, but that kind of company probably doesn't feel the pain enough to need the approach?
I've been playing pinball since before The Who penned the song Pinball Wizard. A couple of things pop out. One, the game was $0.25 back then. It's a bit surprising to hear it's still $0.25. It should be roughly $1 per play to keep pace with inflation. Related to that is they were expensive to operate. It got to the point it was rare to find a machine that was 100% operating - and that was in the 70's! Once of the reasons they quickly went away in the 80's (to my dismay), was due to their expense in comparison to the digital arcade games. The kids were pumping quarters into both, but the digital arcade games required far less maintenance. So they made more money.

There are a few barcades in my city. Every single one is setup where digital arcade games are free with the purchase of beer. Pinball costs money. Many of them are $0.50 per game. A few are $1 per game. They're not free. Interesting to hear that's not the case elsewhere. Not sure how they're making the economics work.
OpenAI is really speedrunning the crony capitalism pipeline, astonishing what this technology allows us to achieve.