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> Because FOSS is about community contributions. People contribute to something owned by the community for the good of the community.

Absolutely not. This is never what it meant.

If you go back the Four Freedoms then it talks about "freedom to do with the software what I want", and certainly not about "software developed with a specific methodology" or "community contributions". The OSD says more or less the same, in a different way.

Ask Richard Stallman: I'm 100% convinced he will tell you the same. It has ALWAYS been about giving users freedom about their own computers, never about "the greater good of the community" of anything else.

The disagreement about the DSL is that the "use the software for any purpose"-freedom is breached. You can disagree if that's a big deal or not, and if that will or won't impede community contributions, but "you must accept community contributions" never played a part of that and never should play a part in that. I will quite literally take down every single one of my many free software projects if it ever becomes to mean that, and suspect many others will too.

On a personal level YOU may think that this is important, and that's fine. But that's something different. Usually I would take this as a "I care about this" and not be too pedantic about exact meaning of "Free Software" or whatnot, but you're incredibly fastidious about the "correct usage of FOSS" all over this thread, it's a hugely painful that your understanding of what it even means is just factually incorrect.
The problem is that they tried to take down the king and missed. They didn't achieve their goals
Pretty much everyone I know in the industry uses the definition of "open" defined by the OSI, in relation to "open source": https://opensource.org/

It's not a new term.

> They're not dishonest. That you're unwilling or unable to accept anything other than a black/white worldview is not their problem.

You can't be "a little bit open source". You are or you aren't. Some people might not accept that the definition is clear and well-formed, but for a lot of us it is. If you want to write proprietary software, great. People just get annoyed when it's dressed up as "a bit like open source".
I suspect the author was talking more about being just under the weather with this point. There have been plenty of days where I would have called in sick to an office job, but was fine working from home where I could sit in bed with hot drinks, tissues, and access to my own bathroom.
OpenAI and Sam's chip company would have a conflict of interest in pricing. Boards generally frown upon self-dealing for this reason.
> Easy for you to say, given that you actually got a job. That's how these labor restrictions work: they're nice if you can find a job, but they create an underclass of people who can't find one.

No restrictions in the labour market will create lots of exploitative behaviour, it will depress wages, I simply don't understand how you do not understand this, even more since you were the one citing "microeconomics" further up in the thread.

You are advocating for labour exploitation, paying people less than what's fair due to their desperation, not based on their merits and a level playing field to all. You are actively advocating for this. Don't you see any reasons a society does not want to allow that to creep into the labour market?
It’s not a company it’s a charity.
Any courses you’re aware of that do?
But you have no meaningful wealth or power. Of course no one wants to be your lackey or ass kisser. Hypocrisy is to be expected.
I feel the same way. And some of these people work together as a family. I wish they could get paid better.
>The paper investigates the abstract reasoning abilities of text-only and multimodal versions of GPT-4 using the ConceptARC benchmark, concluding that neither version of GPT-4 has developed robust abstraction abilities at humanlike levels.
Agreed. First was "Will your company fold in the next 6 months, now that you no longer have free money?"

Now it's likely more "What is your growth efficiency (dollar:growth) in a capital-constrained environment?"

And we're going to see more and more capital sucked back into debt service, as financing comes due and is reestablished. Which will snowball the terms for any companies which require capital infusion ASAP.

It'll be curious if the Berkshire Hathaway model of coupling low-growth, good cash-flow businesses to high-growth, bad cash-flow engines becomes dominantly competitive again.
Non-competes, like so many other workplace rules, only apply below the C-suite
Since I didn't see it linked in the article, the announcement: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/17/2023-22...

10 (half) of the 21 species were in Hawaii, several of the other species were mussels
And that makes my point any less valid how? I think it just reinforces it.

It’s a lot of work and specialization on both sides. Pretending everyone can do everything equally on all sides all the time, let alone would want to or have good outcomes is a fantasy.

Amusingly, in my experience the woman is actually in charge in these situations anyway because if the man doesn’t make her happy he will regret it, regardless of how reasonable it is, laws, or facts.

He who can destroy a thing controls a thing?

Any subordination is usually a facade, but I’m sure not always.

There is no perfect, and nothing that ‘works’ for everyone.

Anecdotally, most women I’ve run across would love to be a stay at home parent, but can’t find someone willing to do the ‘other side’ with them. If they say it out loud, they get jumped by most other women though. YMMV.

It’s like women going into labor, construction, combat, etc.

Go ahead, knock yourself out - it destroys one’s body quickly, even for men who are genetically more predisposed to physical toughness and strength, and in some cases one’s mind. Why do it if there is another, more comfortable option? Especially one that fits needs they might have better.

Even if one can, why does one want to? And how likely is it to produce an outcome someone will be happy with later?
The next step for Google is to start blocking more of these pesky malware linking sites. Some really annoying candidates to start with: google.com (especially drive.google.com and calendar.google.com), gmail.com, blogger.com, youtube.com. I also hear there's an entire app for opening malware links called Chrome. Any Google employees lurking around who could maybe take a look?
Would you mind elaborating on the moral argument for continuing to support a company whose service no longer aligns with your goals/needs?

I think the best moral argument I can come up with is trust/loyalty and viewing it as a relationship, but that's not emotionally persuasive with large companies like we have in tech I think.
Does OpenAI make a profit, or is that just hype?

Remember, Uber, over time, has been a net lose financially.
Or they did it explicitly in this manner to remind everyone that It's a Non-Profit at the very top.

They hold zero fiduciary duty to Microsoft or anyone else.
That link didn't work for me but the github repo is here: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp
I play on a 6-7 year old pc. Ryzen 5 1600. Vega 56 GPU. Works fine. I don't care about maintaining 60fps. Its a slow simulation city builder.
Surely e-bikes are electric vehicles?
I've seen a few ads on Youtube that I actually appreciated watching. Quiet background music, a useful product, respectful presentation, text with no spoken words, and done quickly.

However, the vast majority are the exact opposite. Loud music, shouting, uncomfortable sound effects, a long playtime, and to top it off, either advertising an outright scam or else a product that I have no interest in whatsoever. Sometimes I have to rip my headphones off to protect my ears. Not to mention the timing -- ads between movements in a classical symphony, or else right during a passage itself.

It's a good reminder that while I've enjoyed Youtube for many years, I also have a CD collection I can listen to instead.
I don't see it as a dialectic. I see it as a continuum.

There is value to replacing a percentage of human labor with machine labor.

Jordan Peterson said there are no jobs in the USA for people with IQs below 87: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3w_F9r-aI&t=338s

Mr. Peterson says lower IQ people are do better at more repetitive jobs.

Machines and AI can do more repetitive jobs. Technology took those jobs.

As AI advances, the lowest useful IQ will move up. I wonder where it will be in 10 years.
What couldn't you possibly represent as a bunch of numbers to the level of precision necessary to process it? We might not have sufficient compute power for LMs large enough for some tasks yet, but I don't see how it's different in principle.

And yes, of course such representation would be different for different problems. We also have organs in our body that do that for various types of sensory inputs that ultimately all feed into the brain to be processed as quantized impulses.

And GPT-4 is already supposed to be an "assembly of experts", i.e. different models trained for different tasks, with an orchestrating model weaving them together. This is also not a surprise, given that our brains aren't monolithic, either. You should be able to do it with a single model that's large enough, but it is likely more energy- and time-efficient to get there by putting smaller pieces together instead.
Funnily enough, the TTS2 examples sound better than the ground truth [0]. For example, the "Then leaving the corpse within the house [...]" example has the ground truth pronounce "house" weirdly, with some change in the tonality that sounds higher, but the TTS2 version sounds more natural.

I'm excited to use this for all my ePub files, many of which don't have corresponding audiobooks, such as a lot of Japanese light novels. I am currently using Moon+ Reader on Android which has TTS but it is very robotic.

[0] https://styletts2.github.io/
You're completely right, and barking up the most vital tree.

This 8-9.4 hours "working" is what needs to be adulterated with movement, social life, and intellectual pursuits. It also needs to be shorter. As workers, we need to set stronger boundaries around our health. Our demand for better working conditions should take these scientific findings into account.

Edit: movement, I might add, should also be social and/or spiritual, and shopping should be more social.
In my brief tenure at IBM after they acquired Blekko I quickly came to realize that the near death experience in the 90's fundamentally changed the company. It gave their Finance team an iron lock on all decisions and all of their decisions were based on 'how much will this cost?' and 'how much will this save?' It made corporate politics easier, if you pitched a project all you had to do was code the language that Finance wanted to hear and even if people didn't "want" it, it could get approved. Quite sad in a way.
Just happened to me too, I've tried some I found at https://www.programmingfonts.org/. I again returned to using Hasklig - Source Code pro with Ligatures - in the editor.
Its literally a feature of all the underlying encoders. And you can do it even with exotic ffmpeg/vapoursynth filter chains. So I can't imagine why.

TBH I would just recommend Staxrip if you are on Windows: https://github.com/staxrip/staxrip

There is a vapoursynth-based linux equivalent, I can't remember what its called.

Or maybe some av1an GUI. All of these things support a target file size with many more features than Handbrake.
Open-source TFC alternatives:

- https://hatchet.run/

- https://docs.otf.ninja/latest/

- https://www.digger.dev/

- https://terrakube.org/

- https://www.runatlantis.io/
What kind of freelance work? Most dev gigs seem to be in the 1-2yrs range
> And if it didn't work I could get another barrel jack from an electronic parts store the same day, chop off the old one and solder the new one on. Good luck doing that with usb-c.

Most consumers can't solder, and I wouldn't even know where to find an electronic parts store. I can buy a (probably bad, but better than nothing in a pinch) USB-C cable at a convenience store on almost every street corner.

I'm more than happy to never have to deal with barrel jacks anymore. The inevitable drawer full of incompatible (at best) or physically compatible, but electrically mismatching barrel jack chargers has plagued too many households.

> I decided to try anyway and the laptop that needs 120W psu wouldn't even boot with the 90w PSU. I thought maybe it would throttle down the components. Nope, a bios message said, unplug it or else.

Seems like Dell does not care a lot about compatibility then. This is entirely allowed by the spec for good reasons: The alternative would be more barrel jacks, and at least I can use a Dell charger for my phone or laptop.

It's definitely not the norm – my laptops charge even from a 5W USB-C charger (albeit very, very slowly).

> So yes, I agree the magnificent claims of usb c resolving all sorts of problems are all horseshit.

I can definitely see how it doesn't solve all the problems all people have had with connectors, but it's solved all sorts of problems at least for me. I really like it.
Not that different from releasing the news on a Friday after-hours, honestly. Microsoft would get pissed off by the shift from profit-seeking either way.
I apologise for my remark then
And if you include the employer's tax contribution, sale tax, taxes on fuel, rent, electricity, etc. you are quickly approaching 70-80% of value produced going to the government in some way or another.
On this topic, camping is "cheating", IMO. I naturally want to wake up somewhere around 10AM. (I'm sure I've got something like "delayed phase sleep syndrome", but don't see the point of medicalizing/externalizing it rather than just knowing myself and mitigating the harm from society). But stick me in a tent outdoors and it's a few short days until I'm waking up with the sun, or even the birds.
The biggest advantage of EVs is that you can charge it at home.

Everyone has an electrical outlet at home. No one has a hydrogen plant at home.

The simple convenience of waking up and having a full "tank" can't be overstated.
Heated desk pads are great, cheap and low-profile.
Just type “wax museum” into Google Maps.
I'm sorry. I'm a bit dense. I'm not sure I understand the question.
I grew up in the US. I have had a W2 sense I was 13. I could not think of anything better that I would have wanted to do when I was 13. I leaned so much and had a ton of fun.

The notion that “work” is bad has got to go.
This site has issues.

Why can't I search by Zip Code? Or by Remote?

For a non-profit, and a government site, the Accessibility scores are pretty low... just using WCAG scanners. This should be a flawless site.

They also claim "Volunteer.gov is committed to being in full compliance with the requirements of the American Disabilities Act..." but they aren't... there are at least 10 issues per page.

There should be multiple languages supported.

There's a post... "National Park Service 2024 COUPLES ONLY Opportunity" -- I'm not sure that's even legal.

There should be a way to post non-profits, maybe there is. Just feels like any non-profit should be able to use this to post needs.

I can't find any opportunities in Ausitn. Ok, we're just a small backwoods town.

There aren't like "profile pages" for non-profits, or real job posts... you click on a card to learn more, and all it shows you is a button "apply now" -- it's missing the page that tells you more about the job and more about the non-profit.

Ugh, anyway terrible UX. Curious how these people got funding for this... No thoughts were given to SEO, or usability, or growth... seems like it's destined to fail in the shape it's in.
The Pink-Haired Secret Weapon Behind Blue Eye Samurai
It is definitely not. OpenAI has a very complicated and unconventional structure, where the non-profit arm oversees the for-profit subsidiary:

https://openai.com/our-structure
Your post reminded me of this: https://xkcd.com/1425/
I tested StyleTTS2 last month, my step-by-step notes that might be useful for people doing local setup (not too hard): https://llm-tracker.info/books/howto-guides/page/styletts-2

Also I did a little speed/quality shootoff with the LJSpeech model (vs VITS and XTTS). StyleTTS2 was pretty good and very fast: https://fediverse.randomfoo.net/notice/AaOgprU715gcT5GrZ2
To make something happen at 9 AM every day in the user’s time zone, choosing UTC will make it harder.
Yeah, I second this. Op, don’t trade your old phone in or sell/give it off if you can afford it.

You only know after you’ve started using the new phone what all is still leftover on the old.
> generally speaking, being a potential supplier for your company isn't a conflict

Does that hold true for a nonprofit, though? "Oops, revenues exceed expenses this year; we better order some supplies to avoid being profitable..."
Same for Nepal, UTC+05:45

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets
This is my favourite text! It really drove home a lot points on many architectures for me. Their math appendix is simply amazing as well!
> This person said there was no one precipitating incident but rather a mounting loss of trust over communications with Altman.

Yet it was apparently so time sensitive that there was no time for discussion with key stakeholders. This board appears to have been run by the keystone kops.
Is it large enough for a train?
Turn on your TV or radio? They're still there. Read a book?
Even in countries with "modern labor laws", I would think it still serves the same "less entitlement despite sounding like infinitely more" compared to fixed-but-greater-than-minimum leave policies.

Obviously, if there is a minimum and rule that that minimum accrues if not used, it doesn't eliminate that, but it would avoid having an allotment above the legal minimum that accrues.

Obviously, though, it works best in places like the US that have no minimum (though the benefit is mitigated in those US states that don't even require paying out accrued time off in all cases to start with; the sweet spot for maximum employer advantage compared to alternatives from an unlimited PTO policy is situations like US states that do require paying out accrued vacation at the end of employment.)
Your mistake is believing you and the CEO are similar. You are only both employees in that you can both be removed from a position.

You are a resource. He is a point of connection to resources.
from: https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/chatgpt-m...

> He further added that OpenAI’s some of the best talents are working remotely. He said, "some of our best people are remote, and we will continue to support it always, so please don't let hating SF stop you from applying to OpenAI! I don't like the open air fentanyl markets either.”
It has to do with the fact that all our definitions of "sentient" and "intelligent" are extremely vague, often vacuous, and generally boil down to "I know it when I see it" in practice.

So there should be absolutely no surprise that, when something comes along that behaves in certain ways very much like a human (and unlike anything else), it is assumed to share the basic qualities of such. It is how we judge other people, after all - it's not like you do a brain scan to determine whether someone you are talking to is "sentient", whatever that means to you. You judge that by their behavior, modelling what a "sentient" would do and comparing the result to what they actually do.
> States in the US are analogous to countries in the rest of the world.

But they aren’t. States are states, it’s literally in the name. Almost all countries in the world have states or an analogy to states.

Again, only an American would consider each of the United States as seperate countries. Totally disconnected from reality.
> Yes, because YouTube is changing their stance between when a large part of the data was uploaded and now.

This is untrue. As there was significantly less users on Youtube early on, it's highly likely that most of their total content consists of recently uploaded videos. This becomes more and more true as time goes on.
https://www.adept.ai/blog/fuyu-8b

Doesn't seem like multimodal inference is as complex as you're making it out to be. It all hinges on what you claim "understanding" to be; are trained weights understanding?
> Of course something that needs 120w isn’t going to be able to be be powered by a 90w supply.

That might be true for desktops (and even these could very well throttle their TDP based on available power), but most laptops I know can actually just supply the difference from their battery.

I personally just wouldn't get a laptop that can't run on a much more compact lower power wall adapter. Being able to use a tiny 20W power brick in a pinch is great.
I had a wonderful trip in Thailand last year by doing two things: 1. roadtripping: I rented a motorcycle and chose a (relatively touristy) destination, but enjoyed the trip to get there over several days, during which I designed my own itinerary and stopped to look at the countriside and visit small towns. 2. I designed the itinerary while avoiding Lonely Planet and the like. By now everybody uses that and goes to the same places. Instead, to my surprise, I found that Google Maps makes a great guide. You can click on any places around an area, and see how they look like, whether they have hotels and cafés, if that temple over there is worth a look, if the view along that road is nice. For ANY town.
I don't think I could've been more explicit, as I just said that secrecy is simultaneously necessary for, and an existential threat to, the world we currently have.
OK but still, if your primary product is hosting user generated websites, it's a problem even if your "corpsite" marketing page stays up while your entire product is down.

How does github pages or neocities, for example, handle this kind of thing? Surely I can't bring down every github page by linking to a malicious Google drive file from my own page?
Usually people "credit" the source model in a label underneath each image or in front of a text.
I've been playing with XTTSv2 and on my 3080ti, and it's sightly faster than the length of the final audio. It's also good quality, but these samples sound better.

Excited to try it out!
What, to you, is laugh out loud funny about the parent comment? They gave a counter argument with examples from the charter and you respond with "LOL!"? How about responding with a better argument?
Yes the posted one contains them (fleuret.org).

Also recommended: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
That's the moral dilemma. In a just world, people wouldn't have to sell their bodies or break their minds in order to eat.

But we don't live in a just world, so until we do, denying them opportunities over "ethics" is condemning them to worse treatment elsewhere-- or starvation.

Hungry people don't care about the opinions of fat academics pontificating about Ethics.
If you do happen to end up in a tourist trap location and are looking for a good lunch restaurant, pick one where the local construction workers and police go to eat.
Python breaking stuff with another minor version update? Shocker...
[extremely popular framework] doesn’t do salting per account. Imagine my surprise when I could simply copy my user’s password field to another user in the db and login with my password as them. Luckily it is super pluggable so we could implement proper salting. It’s entertaining how even popular frameworks can miss simple gotchas.
Exactly. So much of the commentary surrounding this is assuming that the board is motivated to act like the board of a startup, and therefore what they've done is amateurish because it would kill a startup. But the remaining members of the board are all very clearly not invested in OpenAI becoming an insanely profitable company—they're on the board of a nonprofit, in charge of the mission and the charter, not in charge of maximizing profit.

I'm sure that there are things they could have done better even with that context, but I think most of the confusion stems from people on here not understanding the motivations of these people.