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I don't understand your word choice based on other remarks you've made in this thread. You seem to lean into the "exploitation has two meanings" angle to justify the word choice and how the article isn't about whether it's good or bad... But then much like the article you immediately return to obviously judgemental language like "vulnerable". In casual conversation do you talk about your coworkers in terms of vulnerability to exploitation when discussing their amenability to their job? It makes everything else you say come across as insincere.
The Last Of Us has been mentioned, and I'd also add a recent entry, Baldur's Gate 3.
Persona 3 is my recommendation, its remake is coming out in about three months.
It's not theft, Microsoft has a license to use them! OpenAI can't turn off the machines, can't turn off hardware access to the models or weights, and can't turn off the license either. They can sue, but they'd most likely lose, and go out of business beforehand anyway.
What is MS going to do? Ask for their money back? Kick OpenAI off their cloud?

If MS takes their ball and goes home because the OpenAI board made a decision they didn't like, it's better that that happen sooner rather than later, eh? The whole point of OpenAI is to put human values before the profit motive, no?
I'd also probably go with a different design for a northern climate, depending upon the lighting of the locale.
HSBC refunds ATM fees, which is nice since they don’t have many ATMs in North America. Then I realized I can get by without using ATMs at all unless I’m traveling out of country.
The story gets way more deep and interesting as you progress. If you feel like giving it another shot, the remaster also makes it look super-pretty and improved the gameplay somewhat.
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Such grand examples that are unfortunately a poor fit for Sam.

It's Ilya who conceived of the vision for ChatGPT. Sam is a sales and fundraising guy. He was endorsed by Thiel and Musk.

While raising money is certainly important, let's not confuse that for product vision. There are enough guys that can do what Sam does.
Have the reject frames re-rendered by someone else to find out the truth. Ban abusers.

Better yet, make all abusers render each other frames.
I really don't think private puppet shows, as visually impressive as they could get, would be engaging. The point of a good story is in no small part the surprise and the transformation in world view it is capable of delivering.
https://nitter.net/karpathy/status/1726289070345855126
Past a certain age and once you reach a certain mindset video games become "old" pretty damn fast.

The problem is that a lot of Western men still choose to remain teenagers even past their mid-30s, and this is of course truer when it comes to the demographic of this forum.
I completely agree and I've been trying to shout from the rooftops how this kind of greed inherently prevents banking value in your "brand" which means you'll only ever be one mistake, incident, or bad news story from a bunch of angry customers. This puts exactly the same pressure on a company and product as only shipping "barely good enough" functionality (which makes sense since you're ratcheting up the cost with this exact balance in mind). My take is that this is a really bad trade for a saas company/team trying to build for anything except short term.
Surprised to see Obsidian not being the top recommendation, I switched to it recently and am loving it. I use SyncThing to sync my notes between all my devices for free.
I googled a little and found a Belorussian article [1] that says, that first it is an American company (despite the name), second, it targets tourists, and third, they use DCC (dynamic currency conversion), so that when you want to withdraw euros from account in euros, they do double conversion, e.g. euro -> USD -> euro with very unfavourable exchange rate.

[1] https://www.alfabank.by/about/articles/main/Euronet_DCC_11_0...
That page links to fully open source projects.
Stormgate is one of the recent promising titles.
No problem, it was funny :-)
You have an extremely weird idea about the relationship between “how much something sells for in the market” and “how much something is worth”. Could you answer how you view this relationship for the following things?

1. Your kidneys, or heart, or any vital organ.

2. Weapons grade Plutonium.

3. Falcon heavy.

4. A single grain of rice, 100 million times.

What you are saying implies “we don’t have a good marketplace for user data”, which is pretty obvious. But I have no idea how “thus it is worth nothing” follows from there.
I get that he didn’t work on these things day to day, but ultimately who was responsible for the innovations that made these programs possible in the first place? For example, was anyone at OpenAI involved in the creation of transformers?
You want a model to do X but sometimes it does Y

That’s too broad. Any AI problem falls under this characterization.

Also, AI interpretability and AI alignment are distinct subfields. Partially overlapping, but distinct goals.
I agree it is somewhat true, but it’s kind of like saying film hasn’t been able to provide compelling gameplay. True, but also wrong.
If it costs extra to work out a plan that doesn’t “rip you off,” and the easy path is full of “rip offs,” then maybe it is just paying a premium for convenience?
Why can't, I don't know, the Canadian government hire some ex OpenAI employees and attempt to make an AGI? What is the constraint here that makes it only possible for the U.S. and China?
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In 2000 people were predicting the end of the world. They didn't think it was fine then just as much as you don't think it's fine now.
He was one of the founders and initial financers in 2015 along with Greg, Musk, Theil, and Bezos.
I think you are right about the eyesight part. Though I think what you did there indeed is unfair, you made it sound like “screen time” can only mean “passively spoon feeding endless low brow entertainment.”
No I am serious, if you are comparing murders, you should include all weapons!

There are regional differences! Fire arms are heavily regulated and relatively hard to get in EU. We are close to war zones, hand grenades are easier to smuggle, and are used in Sweden.

If you include murders by knife, London is worse than US!

Edit: also you wrote "assault" that could include anything from armed robbery without health injury, to self defense. Apples and oranges!
I followed some advice about posting to HN which basically says: keep posting. I also assumed that it's unlikely that the same people would read it, as new posts fade away so quickly. That was clearly the wrong assumption. Apologies for all that, I will post no more.
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> Nothing Chats didn't require you own one.

Instead, it required that Nothing own one and operate it on behalf of the user.
Hey, thanks for designing it. Right now I'm using Iosevka but I loved Victor Mono, was my main terminal typeface for a long time, and I loved the high x-height which enhanced readability even at low sizes.

Even today it's one of my recommendations for anyone looking for a coding/monospace font.
> the carrying capacity of a healthy planet is much less than 8 billion people

Not sure what you are citing for this, but I would assume this is less than 8 billion people based on our current pollution and consumption rates.

This stat is a mind-blowing one also considering the sheer amount of empty space still available on the planet. With good resource management and terraforming you'd think this number would be a lot larger.
Not saying you're wrong, but the analogy is easy to draw. Both are CEOs, both were ousted, both are charismatic, Apple is the most valuable company in history, and OpenAI is among the fastest growing in history.
He doesn't like people talking about certain immigrants.
A bit elitist? "Ugly mass tourism places" are there because weather is good, location is convenient, one of a kind landmarks, it's easy to get food and supplies for the whole family and so on. Yes, it's going to be expensive and not super authentic. But not everyone can take a month off to live like a local. If I only have one day cruise ship stop in Mallorca and I have to pay 60 euro fee to get cash, it's still preferable to missing out on a nice dinner or something to take home to remember the trip.
Considering the evolution of manufacturing it's even worse than you make it out to be. It was 100 euros to DOUBLE the amount of RAM, now it's 230 euros for the same thing. Even if we introduce inflation, it should be 130 euros maximum.

And I think inflation is a completely bullshit argument in fast evolving competitive technology field. What is needed is comparative analysis with equivalent products at similar prices from both years. Back then Apple RAM pricing was already thought to be a bit too much but now they are just outrageous...
If you look at competitors' offerings there is no comparison. They may have a fast power efficient chip but it doesn't warrant that much markup.
Who said anything about heroes? We just need choices about medical necessity to be made by something other than how it might benefit some company’s bottom line. It’s not exactly donning a cape.
They still interrupt you even with headphones on.
People have mentioned this as a conflict of interest with OpenAI, but worse is that it runs afoul of the CHIPS Act. Biden administration has made it clear that the semiconductor supply chain is a national security interest.

Microsoft is also in big trouble with the US Gov with their looming $30B tax liability and their gross negligence regarding Azure [1] leading to the US getting hacked. OpenAI being hosted there could be seen as yet another liability to US security.

My bet is that this OpenAI story originated much higher than the board of directors…

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/microsoft-cloud-sec...
While we don't know the specifics of the arrangement (under what circumstances Microsoft can back out of the deal), I'm sure they can make it challenging for OpenAI to continue operating at scale when they're reliant on funding (most of the 10+ billion dollars hasn't been transferred yet) and access to unlimited compute. This makes them stakeholders even if they don't have seats on the non-profit's board.

Microsoft obviously doesn't want to pull the plug on OpenAI, which is why they're pressuring the board to rehire Sam. If the board was truly independent and didn't answer to any other stakeholders, why would they even be talking to Sam right now?
Oops! Not being candid isn't so bad after all...
From the answers to my question, the use case primarily seems to be ripping DVDs.
It's 30s every two minutes.
Wikipedia has broader knowledge, and yet no one calls it intelligent. I'm talking about reasoning capability, and GPT-4 is well below human on complex tasks, especially multi-step tasks, which is why "autonomous agents" like AutoGPT, BabyAGI, etc are not yet very useful.

For example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247
Lots of e.g. news organizations absolutely have tons of guardrails in place around conflicts of interest that may or may not really influence behavior but may even have the appearance of potentially doing so.
Apparently Sam and Greg are at the OpenAI offices to negotiate their return.
No worries, there are no "stupid questions". Sorry if my answer came out as aggressive, wasn't my intent. Please keep questioning.
Sam wins either way and holds all the power with Microsoft’s backing. The only question is whether OpenAI survives (it will not if Sam and Microsoft go elsewhere) and who gets purged post coup attempt.
What exactly is the supposed connection between these specific ATMs and money laundering? Nothing in the referenced article mentions ATMs.
Woolly Mammoth de-extinction project underway in Dallas
A today FSL artifact is an amalgamation of Apache/MIT licensed stuff and FSL licensed stuff. This amalgamation would not be possible with GPL per the GPLs license terms.
Well, all right, if you don't demonstrate the correlation, or if it hasn't already been demonstrated. I'm not in Sweden, so it may be "obvious" to those on the scene. But to those who don't know the situation, the one word claim of "obviously" isn't very convincing, either.

Are there any statistics on crime rates in Sweden, broken down by immigrant vs. native?

As I said, I'm not there, and I don't disbelieve you. But evidence is better than "obviously".
My first job was with a local, rural ISP in 2001. I convinced the boss to let me have an additional account and I payed for a second phone line. Initially I used some software (on Windows 2000) to perform modem bonding (shotgun modem) with two modems. Then, eventually upgraded to Diamond Supra Sonic II 112k. It of course never reached 112k obviously but I was riding that high for quite a while.
When talking about placebo effect, it's the idea that the same thing could have happened taking a fake pill, just because the mind knows you are taking something that should have an effect.

Sure, the vitamin D in his blood may increase, but the anecdote of "it works" is about him getting sick less. And that could be a placebo effect and any sake pill would have had the same effect.

And the placebo effect can happen even when the person knows it's a fake pill.
How fast is inference with this model?

For reference, I'm using 11Labs to synthesize short messages - maybe a sentence or something, using voice cloning, and I'm getting it at around 400 - 500ms response times.

Is there any OS solution that gets me to around the same inference time?
I would rather honesty. I don't want to be told to bring my authentic self to work, when that's not really what they want.

I'm also not a fan of the company providing food, laundry, transportation, travel arrangements, etc, etc, etc and claiming that they want to ease my life or whatever, when really they just want to make it harder to leave to another job.
This was a standard rebuttal at the time. It was obvious then (as it is now) that insurance companies were playing the same roll as the supposed death panels. But the voices saying “government death panels” were just louder than the rebuttals which wasn’t that surprising since it was repeated ad nauseum by a certain political party as well as the largest news organization in the country.
Most Python users don't do any form of static analysis though, so both changes would only be found at runtime.

But I think changing the behaviour and not the name is still a very bad idea.
Agreed. The cult of personality seems to have a strong grip on the US zeitgeist.

Technology is the new religion and Musk/Altman are the new messiahs, with Jobs and Gates as the patron saints.
You are totally right. Why would anyone be trying to claim Sam is a founder when he’s clearly not.

The organization was founded in December 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk serving as the initial board members.
Not every milestone is a barrier the way the speed of sound is a “sound barrier”.
> But the servers are basically there to support the product that they’re selling.

Everything they do needs LOTS of compute. GPT-4 training alone took 100 million GPU hours to train. And they are constantly training new models. And even non-training research is VERY expensive[1]. Without compute that organization is as good as dead.

[1] https://openai.com/research/language-models-can-explain-neur...
What if it's easier to reverse our current course of action than to make a vault of all the animals? I mean even just collecting sperm and embryos from lizards seems kinda insane. Amphibian, fish, mollusk, and insect species are far more numerous and at far more risk.
Please don’t take this advice as gospel. Cloudformation has a few problems:

- it only lets you manage AWS resources. And even if you’re not running multi-cloud, you’re bound to have a bunch of non-AWS resources like a DB vendor somewhere that you want to put on IaC as well

- it’s slow as molasses

- even if you feel HCL is bad, it will probably not be as bad as the huge swathes of YAML/JSON Cloudformation has you write

- despite what the console makes you believe, drift detection is practically non existent
They can block me if they want.

I’m not stealing entertainment. They can block my browser’s request or require authentication and payment. They’re free to stop me videos upon request at any time.

My browser requests a video. They send the video and some other stuff. I chose to discard the other stuff they sent. They could just not send me the video if I haven’t paid.
Thanks for this - I'm pretty new at blogging and it never occurred to me to credit the model. Next time I get on there I'll fix that.
Metal gear solid, any of the series
I think we are talking about different things in very different contexts but yes, there are exceptions to everything.

My point is not about relative contributions of value necessarily, which are difficult to compare, but about the structure of employment. The value of a CEO who is doing a good job is not measured by the number of hours they spend on a project. They cannot iterate on solutions the way an engineer can.

The skillset and behavior are different at the meta, macro and micro levels.
I wouldn’t lay blame for Heroku’s financial problems at the feet of architecture choices it made customers adopt.

Also, Heroku’s buildpacks were anything but proprietary. They’ve been adopted by a bunch of other products.
Most of the volunteer SAR people around me are still able to have full time jobs.
Human violence and lack of morality causes a flood/rising sea levels and now we're talking about an Ark where the enlightened will spare the other animals from destruction that is for humanity to face.

Way to pollute the planet so much the bible becomes an instruction manual lol (no offense to believers, just a joke)
VAT isn't charged on goods exported outside of the EU, so it has nothing to do with the US except for the fact that the US isn't part of the EU.
Yeah, I’ve also travelled extensively around Europe, west, central, and east, to some of the most touristy cities in the world, and never been ripped off. OK, my current hostel is charging €8.50 for a continental breakfast, so I just go elsewhere. I don’t think it’s a rip if you’re informed of
the price and choose to pay - that’s on you.

Unfortunately I have been ripped in SE Asia, and moreso in Central America, where prices were almost never displayed, and I was charged US prices for almost everything.
no, FHE should support arbitrary computation.

and image processing with FHE is really not a stretch of the imagination. https://github.com/microsoft/EVA/blob/main/examples/image_pr...
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Jobs didn't return to Apple after a couple days
Check out This War of Mine or Papers, Please. These don’t exactly fit the bill, but strongly counter the popular claim that video games can’t be or aren’t Art.

I tend to think that the LCD game is no different than the equivalent movie.
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I'm not sure how these studies ever conclude that screen time affects psychological well-being. What they do not account for is whether the parents of those troubled kids are less creative or available to nurture the kids, which in itself leaves the kids with more time to watch TV. Or perhaps these kids are just difficult little humans to begin with, and the parents need a break more often by allowing them to watch some TV.
It is funny that you say that after Elon cofounded openAI and then left due to conflicts of interest in the AI space.
I couldn’t care less that he’s a white guy. My point is simply that the instigator of all this was the exact opposite of a “diversity hire”, so it’s illogical to blame what happened on people getting hired for diversity rather than competence. Sutskever is by all accounts highly competent at what he does. He just didn’t agree with Sam’s vision, that’s all.
Sorry I thought it was obvious. This has been a massive ongoing problem in Sweden for years since they opened the borders to a mass wave of immigration from hellscape African/Middle Eastern parts of the world in the 2010's. It has been in the news regularly for the past few years. Bad people exploited their ridiculous policy (not genuine refugees, just criminals and psychopaths) and they accepted hundreds of thousands of people without a filter.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SWE/sweden/refugee-sta...
Is this actually legal in Switzerland?
Similar here. I like being around other people to some degree, and it can be energizing in some ways, but it also uses energy.

It also uses attention, and maybe engages different kinds of thinking, so I can't focus as deeply on hard problems.

One of my programming styles, for example, is "meticulous zero-defect and resilient", and when someone is in social proximity, it gets noticeably much harder, to impossible. I can do a routine UI design and coding when someone is right next to me, but even then, don't expect me to flash on a brilliant insight into creative UI design or application opportunity -- only to do something that I don't have to think about much.

(This is also one of the many problems with Leetcode hazings/shibboleths -- if you're trying to think, rather than just instantiate the interview ritual you've memorized and practiced so much, that you can do it in your sleep.)

(A related poor awareness of interviewers is that I'm pretty sure many don't realize how much signal interviewers can pickup on intuitively, from language, voice, and body language. That note at the start of the syllable in the middle of innocuous-sounding sentence the Leetcode whip-cracker just said... can tell some interviewers quite a lot about what the person is really thinking, or can even be a concerning flag about their personality. Which can be very distracting when you're thinking about an algorithm that suddenly doesn't seem like the biggest problem at the moment. And if you have to also break your focused thinking to keep up a real-time expository narrative of your process for interview ritual purposes (which isn't going to match actual cognition, so extra load)... careful not to start also narrating how you simultaneously need to figure out how to gently show them something they seem to misunderstand, without risking an insecure backlash when they do the interview writeup, because they're coming across like that might be a risk.)
If that's so, then $100B won't be enough by a long shot.
How Big Tech Generated Billions in Fines ... Then Didn't Pay Them
At best a year? That's plenty of time!
Was somewhat annoying to get everything to work as the documentation is a bit spotty, but after ~20 minutes it's all working well for me on WSL Ubuntu 22.04. Sound quality is very good, much better than other open source TTS projects I've seen. It's also SUPER fast (at least using a 4090 GPU).

Not sure it's quite up to Eleven Labs quality. But to me, what makes Eleven so cool is that they have a large library of high quality voices that are easy to choose from. I don't yet see any way with this library to get a different voice from the default female voice.

Also, the real special sauce for Eleven is the near instant voice cloning with just a single 5 minute sample, which works shockingly (even spookily) well. Can't wait to have that all available in a fully open source project! The services that provide this as an API are just too expensive for many use cases. Even the OpenAI one which is on the cheaper side costs ~10 cents for a couple thousand word generation.
Yes exactly, maybe I am cynical but I do not expect Microsoft to say “Ah I guess it is my fault and legally I can’t do much here” and give up. They did not get to where they are without dirty tactics.
>I don't like the accusation of of "bad faith".

That's kind of the issue here. Anything remotely negative about certain immigrant groups is automatically assumed in bad faith (you must be a racist/nazi) and gets flagged/downvoted and no free discussion on the topic can ever happen.