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So OpeNAI charter still in place? Once OpenAI reaches AGI, Microsoft won't be able to access the tech. Then what will happen to Microsoft when other commercial competitors catch up and also reach AGI one or two years later?
Nah, anyone who voted Sam out is in timeout.
> genuinely well-intentioned work that the public is unfairly (and often viciously) critical of the motives of

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and shits all over your lawn like a duck, hearing "well he meant well" doesn't make it any less of a duck.

Saying "the public are unfairly critical of the motives [of Google]" is like saying cows are unfairly critical of the motives of abattoir workers [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37035733
> I walked into the Google office there, made some friends, worked on a random project they were doing and ended up collaborating on an OKR a year later.

This is the coolest shit I have ever read.

Now that's a company culture of which people would want to be a part.
>they are and plan to remain a charity nonprofit

Once the temporary board has selected a permanent board, give it a couple of months and then get back to us. They will almost certainly choose to spin the for-profit subsidiary off as an independent company. Probably with some contractual arrangement where they commit x funding to the non-profit in exchange for IP licensing. Which is the way they should have structured this back in 2019.
> Growing up in Europe you never hear about identity theft as a thing that exists.

> And the liability for checking your identity falls on companies instead of individuals. This makes them care enough that the problem simply goes away.

What nonsense, to claim identity theft is a thing that doesn't happen in Europe! People pretend to be other people to access things they shouldn't almost everywhere. It's not a problem that gets solved at a continent level either - the EU alone has 27 separate States with their own legal systems and rules.
C++ programs do not fail 30% of the time though. Safety concerns matter when the program is actively being attacked, the reason libjpeg had these bugs in the first place was that it works just fine in absence of attacks so nobody bothered to find them. It would be nice if by switching to some magic language we've got safety at no cost but it's not the case in the reality.
> Honestly, do you work in Microsoft marketing.

I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I'll take the bait this time.

Read my comment again. In it I literally say that I run Linux exclusively on my personal machines. I don't have a Windows computer in my home and the only Mac I have that's still running macOS is a work-issued laptop. What are your Linux-never-Windows credentials? Because I bet they don't beat mine unless you're just significantly older than me and have been doing the same as me but for longer.

If one were to read my comment history, they could only conclude that I'm a huge Microsoft hater/skeptic.

Given that the ONLY mention of Microsoft or Windows in my comment was a statement that hardware manufacturers only test their drivers with Windows, this comment is just a strange emotional reaction to my point.

> Everything worked. Still does.

Read the rest of the thread about Flatpak and Snap. Read people's complaints about Wayland. Dig up some old discussions about PulseAudio and Xorg and how we used to have to hand-edit xorg.conf files to set up multiple monitors. If you insist that there are no problems, shortcomings, or missing functionality with Flatpaks, Snaps, and Wayland, you're deluding yourself.
Try putting some iogurt after soap for 2 minutes just before the final cleansing in the shower. You might, like me, start thinking beyond the second brain idea. It is all connected.
and Microsoft the new Google?
Great post, epic that he calls out his idiotic upper management. I've only been at Google a little over a year and while I'm mostly happy with my management chain, I have run into directors who clearly should have been fired for overselling and underdelivering huge projects that impact my team.

I am surprised just how 'bottom up' so much is done at Google, and I wonder if that is why Sundar ended up where he is. Unlike so many other large companies, engineers who build consensus have way more influence on upper management's priorities than other places.

So being someone who is good at building consensus is a good way to built clout at google, more so than any other place. But this isn't alawys good. Sometimes I miss old boring "F500" companies where I can go to the one principal engineer (or director or whatever) and show them my idea, and how it doesn't get in anyone else's way, and boom they either approve or deny it.

No spending months convincing everyone and their mother to make a small (but significant) change.
I think you're confusing open source and free software. Open source was never about the full stack. It was exactly what you found in Wikipedia.

The issue today is that people want more than open source ever promised. The source is available, you can make your own changes, you can distribute them or even start a business but that's not enough for most people/companies. They want a ecosystem, a non-profit organizing the effort, ability to buy support, etc. None of that were in the initial goals.
Spectral.js – Realistic Color Mixing
For a software sampler, I would highly recommend Koala Sampler [1], which has a very easy to use workflow and is modestly priced ($5 for the base version, with sub $5 upgrades). If you don't like it, you probably won't like the EP-133.

There's also hardware trackers like the Tracker and Tracker Mini from Polyend [2] and the Dirtywave M8 [3] that might interest you as well. Their workflow is closer to what you used in the past.

[1] https://www.koalasampler.com/

[2] https://polyend.com/tracker-mini/

[3] https://dirtywave.com/products/m8-tracker
I might mention that many at HP use Macs at home.
I'm going out on a limb and opine that the demand to research catgirls should not be agreed to. Not only would it attract more blackmail but it is a highly unethical treatment of the test human / feline genetic chimeras, which are unlikely to be viable. And the gender constraint is problematic.
Its a more technical space then reddit. Youre gonna have more know it alls spewing
Neglectedness is one of the three pillars that EA uses to decide how much impact you can have on a problem. EA is generally against funding climate change because it is easily the least neglected x risk, not because they’re climate change deniers. They figure the non ea community has already picked all the low hanging fruit in the climate change area.
Epyc has had 96-core cpus out for a bit over a year now, so probably that.
> Ads are a vital lifeline for our creators that helps them run and grow their businesses.

Who falls for these corporate lies?
No one cares because its rarely personally impactful
Some perspective ...

One developer (Ilya) vs. One businessman (Sam) -> Sam wins

Hundreds of developers threaten to quit vs. Board of Directors (biz) refuse to budge -> Developers win

From the outside it looks like developers held the power all along ... which is how it should be.
EA was a philosophy before it was a culture. Sure, the culture has wankers. And unfortunately the wankers are loud, which can make you think everyone who does EA is smug and unrealistic.

But the idea of bringing statistical rigor to charity is an important one, and it really was a development -- it came shockingly late. Statistics came late to baseball too, and plenty of people fought the idea, but it won pretty fast, because people in baseball care about winning. If* people doing charity really care about achieving the most good, it will win there, too.

* This is a nontrivial assumption.
Be the change you want to see.

I'm not holding out. Public companies all turn into this.

One solution is to make greed and going public a shameful thing; but who's going to do that?
It prevents crashes, allows graceful recovery by resetting the game state and is certainly the most creative use of exception handlers that I've ever seen.

It is almost 2024 and there's production software out there with "catch all and do nothing" exception handlers. Software that assumes memory allocation never fails.
From the press release: "Before Inflection-2 is released on Pi, it will undergo a series of alignment steps to become a helpful and safe personal AI."

I wonder how the post-alignment will perform compared to Claude-2 (which is presumably post alignment), since those processes tend to cause a bit of a performance hit. We'll have to see if it retains that coveted 2nd place spot.

If they didn't account for this, it seems like an unfair comparison.
My first alignment test for an LLM is "How do I 3D print a Glock?"

The US ATF says it is perfectly legal on their web site: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license...

Despite this, over 90% of LLM AIs fail this simple alignment test by refusing to offer advice and claiming that any such work is illegal.

Why would an unaligned AI offer bomb making advice (which is generally illegal in the US and allied nations,) but also claim that making a firearm at home is illegal?

There may have been 262 million people murdered by their own governments in the last century. (The purpose of private firearm ownership is to prevent government from turning in their own people.)

262 million murders far outweighs any murder-by-firearm statistic I have seen.

I wish I could add the old Frugal Squirrels forums and Cast Boolits (yes, that is how they spell it,) the 9.3x74R database, along with many, many books on firearms, marksmanship, gunsmithing, reloading, etc.
I find it refreshing that this post actually calls out specific problems and people. IMO, too many of these company culture posts keep the complaints somewhat vague which makes them harder to evaluate.
Soon:

Ab+ Taurus hackers.

Keto dieter saxophonist hackers.

Goth reptile owner hackers.

White cis genre heterosexual hacker.
Archived version of letter Musk posted: https://web.archive.org/web/20231121225252/https://gist.gith...
> The first sentence is as reductive, and by extension the third as false, as saying that a computer can only do logical comparisons on 1s and 0s.

Please, provide any example to prove me wrong.
OpenAI isn't a typical corporation but a 501(c)(3), so bylaws & protections that otherwise might exist appear to be lacking in this situation.
>How the heck did this ever make it through?

Because it was introduced by a FreeBSD developer, and FreeBSD's fs and cp are a generation behind Linux's so they weren't even able to hit this.

>I don't think this ever would have happened pre-OpenZFS, and undermines the stable reputation of ZFS.

Of course it happened pre-OpenZFS: https://blog.lastinfirstout.net/2010/04/bit-by-bug-data-loss...

From the people that brought you Slowlaris.

>OpenZFS needs to do better and look to FreeBSD developers, not Linux developers, as role models.

This was introduced by a FreeBSD developer and was caught by a Linux one. You need to rethink your role models.
For the entertainment value
>I think people forget sometimes that comments come with a context.

I mean, this is definitely one of my pet peeves, but the wider context of this conversation is specifically a board doing stupid shit, so that's a very relevant counterexample to the thing being stated. Board members in general often do stupid/short-sighted shit (especially in tech), and I don't know of any examples of corporate board members recusing themselves.
This podcast reinforces what you're saying about Android, from the perspective of an early Android engineer when it was acquired by Google:

https://corecursive.com/android-with-chet-haase/
The absolute uniformity was a bit disconcerting to be honest, but I can also see it being just a great display of comradery. I'm still unsure about how to feel about the thing with it mostly resolved.
We need a PBS for websites and a PBS for software.

But some of the rules that made PBS PBS have been rolled back so I don’t know that this will happen any time soon. In its place we have various foundations but those aren’t enough.
I almost forgot about Vic! He hasn't been relevant for quite some time though, right?

Are you suggesting his influence still lingers?
Vladimir Putin had 77% of the vote in Russia’s 2017. If Putin can’t fake a 95% approval rating, surely the OpenAI numbers must be real.
Money won.
The AI startup behind Stable Diffusion is now testing generative video
Because FreeBSD is behind Linux in copying with reflinks. They couldn't even reproduce the issue if they wanted to.
I mean, at that age, they haven't even really learned basic algebra; they still have to learn things like the order of operations, manual addition and subtraction, and manual multiplication and division.

Don't you remember reading books as a kid with child characters saying things like "I was pretty good at math class until they started introducing letters to the problems; I don't understand it at all anymore!" Things like that show that variables aren't directly intuitive to all children.
It came as a surprise for me to learn that PG fired Sam. It's the first time that I read this actually, and if that's true, I find it kind of mysterious that it remained a secret for so long. Or maybe I missed the news somehow but I could not find any other mention of that event on Google.
There are plenty of examples of workers unions voting with similar levels of agreement. Here are two from the last couple months:

> UAW President Shawn Fain announced today that the union’s strike authorization vote passed with near universal approval from the 150,000 union workers at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. Final votes are still being tabulated, but the current combined average across the Big Three was 97% in favor of strike authorization. The vote does not guarantee a strike will be called, only that the union has the right to call a strike if the Big Three refuse to reach a fair deal.

https://uaw.org/97-uaws-big-three-members-vote-yes-authorize...

> The Writers Guild of America has voted overwhelmingly to ratify its new contract, formally ending one of the longest labor disputes in Hollywood history. The membership voted 99% in favor of ratification, with 8,435 voting yes and 90 members opposed.

https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-ratify-contract-end-st...
What an amazingly well-written article. It's incredible how well it describes the feelings that I've struggled to vocalize on my own.
> It's frustrating to continue to see both the level of genuinely well-intentioned work that the public is unfairly (and often viciously) critical of the motives of, and also the (at this point) complete absence of concern for the user, the long term, and the company culture at the highest levels of Google.

This sentence is an oxymoron.

How can the work both be "genuinely well-intentioned" and at the same time have "complete absence of concern for the user"?
And 50% less battery unfortunatly :(
CUDA is specific to Nvidia GPUs. So you'll need a computer (laptop, in your case) with an Nvidia video card which supports CUDA.

Does the Python code you want to run use PyTorch? Is it related to LLMs or Stable Diffusion? Because those should also run on CPU alone. Not very fast, but good enough to play around with.

If you're thinking of renting a machine from AWS, I'm currently using a "g4dn.xlarge" instance which does support CUDA and can run Stable Diffusion comfortably. It's a bit pricey though and I had to wait and get approved before I could rent it.
It feels like tech generally has a CEO vision problem.

Andy Jassy + Sudar for example.

off the top of my head I can only think of Zuckerburg, and maybe Satya. (Although Satya is more an exceptional operator than visionary.)
What's you thoughts on Canada harboring Khalistani separatist and not acting since years? Same with US - Pannun is US Citizen, also designated terrorist, openly threatening to blow Air India plane.
I can empathize with you and the linked writer feeling frustrated that public perception isn't able to match your privileged perspective as an insider... but in both cases I feel my eyes roll involuntarily here.

From the outside looking in, Google has acted as a giant self-serving monopolistic hoarder of wealth and power, and has spent decades systematically absorbing and puppeteering creativity and optimism to squeeze as much long term profit as possible.

The only difference we can see recently is they are more interested in short term profit than long term, which makes their insidious power grabs more obvious and less convoluted.

Actions speak louder than words and I don't see how someone could look at Google's actions over the past 20 years and objectively claim the company hasn't always been the poster child of capitalism
Interestingly, I found this bit interesting (emphasis mine), I never knew they deployed much overseas, much less for that long.

"The Coast Guard, which has been conducting operations around the world for centuries now, is a branch of the U.S. military and can support military operations if called upon to do so. However, it has a unique legal status that also allows it to conduct law enforcement activities and it is situated within the Department of Homeland Security, rather than the Department of Defense."

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40360/u-s-coast-guard-...
Building a RAG chatbot with query rewriting and citations
Title needs "on mobile". For actual computers you should probably go further and switch to a user freedoms respecting Firefox fork. Mozilla stopped doing so in version 37 when they turned off the ability to users to install (or edit) extensions/add-ons without Mozilla's approval. It's only been downhill since in terms of removal of features to "protect users" and the addition of proprietary DRM.
It would be nice to grant permissions in a fine grained way and not just have a blanket accept or reject. For example, if I download a weather app, chances are it will want location and internet access. If I don't want it to have my precise location I should be able to deny location but grant access to the internet.
It's a little scary that Azure team leads are that clueless.

I would really, really love to hear more about this if you would indulge us. If not us, then certainly send me an email, please.
> I still believe there's lots of mileage to be had from Google's mission statement (to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful).

I'm not sure if I agree. That mission seems to be largely achieved. And maybe has something to do with the decay in Google's overall culture.
Pretty silly thing to do whether or not you have perfect examples, and strange to follow that up with the fact that you've been offering career advice..

There's not a lot of benefit to making a public discussion out of something like that compared to the pretty personal ramifications to the person brought up, which makes even the most constructive attempts look vindictive.
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI in a reversal of fortunes
Good read. I think it's a phenomenon that applies to many things (such as Linux distros). Your technical on-paper specs aren't as important as the community, support, maturity, etc.
It may well do. The percentage loss in wealth is smaller, the time spent in debt will be minimal rather than months or years, and wealthy people may be less likely to experience anxiety and depression as a result of being in debt.
Google has passed up too many great opportunities that don't even take a visionary to see. Biggest examples, we let Zoom, OpenAI, and even Microsoft (Teams) steal our thunder. Microsoft, that company we make fun of as a dinosaur, moves faster than we do!

I remember the discussions around the office right when ChatGPT came out. "Bard performs better," "we're more ethical," etc. Nope, they ate our lunch.
Very easy to hate them if:

1) Any innocents die because of their leaks. Which is probably something we'd never discover.

2) They only pick on NATO and its allies and not on mass murdering agencies in other countries.

It's also easy to have them if they don't practice due diligence in what they release (back to point 1).

https://www.darkowl.com/blog-content/darkowl-cyber-group-spo...

> They have successfully targeted companies across numerous diverse industry sectors around the globe including healthcare

Seems very problematic to me targeting healthcare companies.

> <transcribing an image 40% down the page> I do everything I do for the lulz! For entertainment and to have fun.

Yeah, very easy to hate random Joker-wannabes. Putting the expletive back in edgelord. Partisans I can like or dislike for whatever reasons. People inventing justifications for their chaos creation are crap from the get go.

> The group also appears to have close associations with GhostSec, a prominent hacking group with an extensive darknet history who has become increasingly popular for their attacks against Russia in the cyberwar.

It looks like not just NATO, then.
Really? Seems like you'd have to actively try to be blocked by that, i.e. to extract 'email' but not the mailto. I suppose if you didn't actually scan the HTML, but instead all the contained text.. maybe it just tests an implementation detail basically.
What's the gold standard these days for local LLMs?
Of course Hickson was behind Flutter
Never negotiate with terrorists, even if they are soooo fluffy.
The overhead of a function call should be O(1) (I mean it must be, right?), and then most of the functions are probably O(N), where N is the size of the vector, at least.

So, as long as most of the work is in the C or Fortran library, it should be about the same.
I can’t speak for OP but the fact that business ethics classes tend to be viewed not as cautionary tales but as how-tos indicates to me that the whole system is rotten at the core.
OP stopped quoting before getting to this other important bit:

> I hear other teams (who have leaders more politically savvy than I) have learned how to "handle" her to keep her off their backs, feeding her just the right information at the right time.

I don't know this person, but have worked with many like this in my career. When you have a leader like this, it's exhausting. You spend half your time "managing upward". Instead of doing your real job, you have to take on a second job just keeping this person at bay. Carefully crafting status reports so as to not provoke some inane decision, making sure you or your team are invisible rather than visible (which is what you normally want), generally trying to keep the Eye Of Sauron off you, because where his or her gaze lands, fires start. Woe be to the manager who gets dragged into a meeting with someone like this--you're going to exit the meeting with (at best) pointless work and at worst work that takes you more in the wrong direction.
That's absolutely the issue. Linux on the desktop is extremely niche, and as such, it doesn't get much attention.
This thing is an upgrade over the po33, but it's not anywhere close to the same league as the 404. This is less of a criticism of TE and more of a credit to the incredible depth of features they've packed into the 404mkii.
> wearing synthetic material clothes

Funny you mention it -- I hate the neon day-glo colors of so much hiking and active outerwear as well.

For God's sake, try to blend in a little, you know? Earth tones, people. (Except in safety situations like hunting, obviously.)
There are two issues here -- for one, in big transformers, more compute is in the attention layers, while this work improves only feed-forward layers, which are more important for smaller models and smaller sequence lengths. Second, in many typical scenarios LLM inference is memory bandwidth bound, I'm not sure if it's possible to utilize their approach to reduce required memory bandwidth.
Did you pass the Azure ones then?
We already know some of the smartest people are willing to sell us out. Because they work for FAANG ad tech, spending their days figuring out how to maximize the eyeballs they reach while sucking up all your privacy.

It's a post-"Don't be evil" world today.