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Lovely site, btw :)

And congrats on your marriage!

[0] https://www.lloydatkinson.net

I feel the same way!

I pour out my heart for pieces like this[1] and all my traffic comes from stuff like this[2].

[1] https://taylor.town/pardon-2023

[2] https://taylor.town/chatgpt-custom

I've pretty much given up trying to please the various algorithms.

Lately, I write about things that make me feel the biggest feelings, plus things I think others would find helpful.

But making things is hard without instant feedback.
My last two employers have been startups in the defense and medical industries - both heavily regulated fields. Both have external investors, but neither is a slave to PE. As it pertains to tech (which is the relevant scope here, since we're talking about AI), the American regulatory atmosphere is not an outright deterrent to new businesses. Far from it.

> I don't understand how attempts to defraud covid-related government programs...

It's support for the notion that blowing away most barriers to entry in critical industries (like medical) would cause more harm than good. These testing sites grew on trees, and none of them provided accurate results in a reasonable amount of time. The reason COVID testing fraud was viable was because there was no oversight - force a little bureaucracy into the works, and fraudsters wouldn't see dollar signs. Not an elegant solution, but we live in an inelegant world.

> these "mom-and-pop" AI startups can (and already do) exist.

Maybe my phrasing is little too tongue-in-cheek. My goal here is to draw a line between "small businesses" amd "small tech businesses." These are wildly different things.

When non-tech people refer to "small business" they usually mean firms worth ~$1M or less. The family-owned bodega down the street, for example. I 100% agree that bureaucratic regulation hurts these small businesses much more than it helps society at large.

"Small tech business" has a totally different meaning. A Series A AI startup could easily be worth $30-50M. Regardless of regulation, it has high cost barriers arising from its compute needs, and the personel to wrangle those computers. Basic regulatory oversight constitutes a proportionally smaller cost for such a firm.
I make music mostly for fun and my m1 is barely keeping up with Logic Pro and the plugins I'm running, which are amp sims, various typical mixing plugins, and virtual drums. I'm not even using a crazy number of tracks at any given moment.
Realistically, most people won't install another store. And if that prediction doesn't come true, then Sony will stop selling hardware at a loss, so the people who benefit would be people who buy a lot of games.

And in any case, console manufacturers aren't "owed" a razor-and-blades business model.
This. This tells me everything I need to know about this guy. It tells me that he would happily enslave everybody if that boosted his shares.
This is the correct approach. Greedy sampling/argmaxxing over our choices comes from our mind's desire for certainty. Just because our mind desires certainty doesn't mean it exists. In my own experience, it's much more rewarding to understand where this drive for undeserved certainty originates than to foreclose on a conclusion.
I admire your optimism. The only times section 230 has been brought up on the hill in the last decade as been in, admittedly performative and doomed to fail, calls to get rid of it entirely.
Yes, that's how he means it. What's your point? Make a point.
"Once I installed arch I never looked back"

I'm also very fond of Arch Linux and I use it on my laptop.

However Arch is very much DIY and is great for the person who wants to get their hands dirty because with Arch you assemble and maintain the installation yourself.

For someone who wants things to work out of the box with no (or minimal) tinkering, I would recommend a different distro.

Arch is a distro for learners and enthusiasts. But it would be frustrating for someone who just wants a working OS.
What's wrong with profit and wanting to maximize it?

Profit is now a dirty word somehow, the idea being that it's a perverse incentive. I don't believe that's true. Profit is the one incentive businesses have that's candid and the least perverse. All other incentives lead to concentrating power without being beholden to the free market, via monopoly, regulations, etc.

The most ethically defensible LLM-related work right now is done by Meta/Facebook, because their work is more open to scrutiny. And the non-profit AI doomers are against developing LLMs in the open. Don't you find it curious?
It's not just government jobs.
Interesting thought, but you might be missing the hardware perspective. I switched from Windows to Linux this year, and the biggest issue has been drivers and hardware compatibility: audio available via headphones but not (laptop) built-in speakers, occasional display issues depending on the monitor setup, occasional WiFi issues. If hardware innovation stopped, Linux could catch up easily... but it won't, so there is a constant driver treadmill that manufacturers mostly handle for MS on the Windows side, but Linux has to handle somewhat alone. Perhaps the manufacturers will start to help out more and more on the Linux side too, as more users demand compatibility.
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Why not just ban all cars? Any car is a huge health hazard for pedestrians compared to a bike. But even bikes are dangerous. If we all walked, we'd be safer.
Only delivery trucks from here on out!
Precisely.

Sure, considering the platform-game paradigm different products sources cross subsidize one another a different stages of their life cycles. This is just how firms work, and is often mostly a matter of accounting.
Your thoughts about crates.io mirrors mine exactly. I'm becoming more and more interested in just ditching it entirely and using vendored checked-in (or submoduled) dependencies and managing the transitive dependency tree myself. Cargo&crates.io seems to have been inspired too much by npm. Lots of half-baked, abandoned libs that wantonly pull-in piles of other 3rd party deps and create a sprawling graph of dependencies that ends up with binary bloat and multiple versions of the same package, etc. etc.
I thought Kafka could relatively infinitely scale
Why? The place I work at decided to use typescript for their integration testing framework for some reason. Everything else is c++ and python, and the developers they hire all know c++ and python, but not typescript. As a result, the integration test framework is a dumpster fire.
... Are you implying all biometric data is equal? Strange take.

If fingerprints and faces are the same as retinas, where do you draw the line - or is there just no privacy line for you anywhere, as long as a billionaire somewhere is making lots of money?
Ideally, we get the best of both worlds. The isolation technology that Flatpak uses (bubblewrap) isn't exclusive to Flatpaked apps, so someone could probably make a distro with isolation by-default if they were motivated enough.

> What distro would you recommend to somebody like me who wants to be asked before an application gets access

Use an immutable distro like Silverblue or Kinoite. Those are more-or-less Flatpak-only, extremely stable and fairly rigid with security.
He is the Executive Chairman of Helion Energy so it is not just a passive investment.

That said, I wish Helion wasn't so paranoid about Chinese copycats and was more open about their tech. I can't help but feel Sam Altman is at least partly responsible for that.
The US needs better cities.

Most cities with apartment buildings with 2-4-6 floors are very charming and the convenience they offer is astounding, it's basically an unbeatable combo.

Where does the US have that in large numbers? Ah, yes, practically nowhere.
Xcode and SwiftUI is one answer.

I’m tempted to upgrade my M1 Pro to an M3 Max.

Reports suggest id halve my build times and then some.
Or you could buy a car...?

Apple RAM premium is outrageous.
I think you will get downvoted soon (and I for mentioning this) but this is the simplest and most logical explanation on this thread by far.
Simply put Altman is now the face of AI.

If you were to ask Altman himself though im sure he would highlight the true innovators of AI that he holds in high respect.
Just installed Onyx yesterday on my work machine! So far so good, some niggles as always (it's my first time using Budgie), but overall fairly usable and easy.
I've been trying Ollama locally. I've yet to know how it'll behave in a production setting.
Not nearly as expressively though. You can destructure a struct, but you can't express alternatives on anything but an enum. Languages like F#, Scala, Haskell support more ways of creating ADTs than the kind of enums that Rust has.
> In the age of dirt cheap cloud hosting we still depend on these huge sites for our content. [...] but I think we need more decentralized content creation.

We've had that for 20 years in commercial blogs. All they do is rehash the story published by the bigger sites, embed some tweets, and dump a bunch of their own links into their 250 word article.

We always come back to the real news sites because there's a reason the blogs are un-gated.
A few: cheaper, takes less space, don't need to know what cpu/gpu you need to buy, it just works, don't need to look for game hardware reqs

The older I get and the less time I have to tinker with PC, the more I appreciate consoles
Yeah, I've seen C++ engineers pick up Rust in a few weeks. And one JavaScript engineer, too, defying my prejudice :)
This was a nice ride. Nice story to follow
>i am still not convinced that ai produced works are a derivative of the training data.

Then what are they?
>Depends on where you are.

The filed case is in the UK. So there is that. It applies to the EU as well.
They’re not doing anything critical, the people who upgrade for that minor bump are the fanatics who upgrade their cellphone every year for a minor megapixel bump. It’s fashion tech to the benefit of non-work related needs.
Car accidents have been rising since about 2010.
If you think that OpenAI is the Gov's only source of high quality AI research then I have a bridge to sell you.
It’s not relevant to my point that she has no fiduciary duty to anything but the charter.

Her only personal fiduciary responsibility is to the mission defined in that collection of words, not to the employees of the for-profit.

That’s how this works whether you think it should or not.
you can see this if you emerge (gentoo) or build from ports (*bsd). You try to compile vim and suddenly you're in the config page for CUPS (printer support) which then wants to know if you need Unicode support for a language you've never heard of (and if so, which font packages do you want to show it on).
So that puts him in good company?
He's part of the SV VC royalty? He has the tech/startup pedigree, is good at raising money, and made the right impression on important people.
https://archive.today/q4v16
He owns the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team.
I wondered was at skunkworks.com

Firefox and Edge showed warnings:

"This server couldn't prove that it's skunkworks.com; its security certificate is from www.lockheedmartin.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection."

It does indeed go to lockheedmartin.com but they should fix that?
Ran is excellent. Next question. :-)
I think that most pushes for diversity that we see today are intended to result in monocultures.

DEI and similar programs use very specific racial language to manipulate everyone into believing whiteness is evil and that rallying around that is the end goal for everyone in a company.

On a similar note, the company has already established certain missions and values that new hires may strongly align with like: "Discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence", given not only the excitement around AI's possibilities but also the social responsibility of developing it safely. Both are highly appealing goals that are bound to change humanity forever and it would be monumentally exciting to play a part in that.

Thus, it's safe to think that most employees who are lucky to have earned a chance at participating would want to preserve that, if they're aligned.

This kind of alignment is not the bad thing people think it is. There's nothing quite like a well-oiled machine, even if the perception of diversity from the outside falls by the wayside.

Diversity is too often sought after for vanity, rather than practical purposes. This is the danger of coercive, box-checking ESG goals we're seeing plague companies, to the extent that it's becoming unpopular to chase after due to the strongly partisan political connotations it brings.
Sure, but unless you wanna wait a few thousand years on a pretty large cluster you're not going to get a chess engine that's gonna beat the best humans. The number of moves is finite but very, very large.
Much, much bigger fish have argued this and failed, most notably Epic vs. Apple [1]. (Although there's a separate Epic vs. Google, which I was not clear on [2]; I had those conflated in my mind, which the process of digging up links has now cleared out.)

I won't conclude that the case is hopeless but I can definitely say that the companies will defend this to the hilt, and this does strike me as very weak coming from the consumer, who has the option to not buy and also for the most part buy elsewhere on different platforms. You're not being forced to buy things at higher prices than you want, and games are not anything resembling a human right. Epic's case strikes me as stronger for the developers being hurt by the gouging.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/10/22667769/apple-epic-lost-...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/23944251/epic-google-antitrust-tria...
Beautiful breakdown!
I don't really think this is true in non-charity work. Half of American hospitals are nonprofit and many of the insurance conglomerates are too, like Kaiser. The executives make plenty of money. Kaiser is a massive nonprofit shell for profitmaking entities owned by physicians or whatever, not all that dissimilar to the OpenAI shell idea. Healthcare worked out this way because it was seen as a good model to have doctors either reporting to a nonprofit or owning their own operations, not reporting to shareholders. That's just tradition though. At this point plenty of healthcare operations are just normal corporations controlled by shareholders.
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Hell you could at the very least download the game and hook into it with a cheat engine or something. These researchers are just playing online through a clicker bot.
> 95% of the staff were ready to follow him out the door.

I'd rephrase that to:

- "95% of the staff were ready to follow him and join Microsoft"

Amid so much confusion and uncertainty, the prospect of joining Microsoft through an acquihire would appear quite appealing and like the safest choice. This sentiment is strengthened considering the team's approval of Sam's leadership.
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Views of the U.S. and China in 24 Countries
Right. The point isn't that there's an actionable strategy we know of right now that would give a superhuman AI world domination.

It's that we're not sure there isn't. People who first discover the problem tend to quickly come up with reasons the AI would fail, but whenever you examine those reasons more deeply, you usually find that they're not as bulletproof as we'd like.

It's like playing a novel chess form against an advanced chess engine, with a large pawn advantage. Maybe the advantage is enough to beat the massive skill gap, but until you've played it's hard to guess how much margin is enough.
It isn't zero effort, however Blazor is the closest in modern .NET to how Web Forms used to work.

There is even a .NET Conf 2023 session regarding it,

"Bye ASP.NET WebForm, Welcome Blazor"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwunQ6XQCg
There are different spins of Fedora that are immutable and based on rpm-ostree and flatpaks, the variation being the desktop manager environment:

* Silverblue: GNOME

* Onyx: Budgie

* Kinoite: KDE Plasma

* Sericea: Sway
If I may ask, which plugins are you using in VSCode?
Then again wasn't that always true? What did Steve Jobs really build?
Alternatively, the goods can have different taxes applied as well.
I was abused in school too! Lets shut them all down!!
If you want the primary benefit of arch (AUR, best package manager repo) but don't want to do a custom set up then Manjaro is a very good choice.
OpenAI: A Triumph of People Power
EP–133
Well, I’ll give you my logic, why I collect for the Nintendo Switch.

I inherited an Atari and small NES game collection from my grandparents. They’re games about ~35-45 years old. When my grandparents bought those games, and when my mother was playing them, handing them on to the next generation certainly wasn’t a consideration - but that day came.

Now imagine yourself 35 years from now. That Steam game that was delisted 25 years ago, barely runs on Windows whatever-it-is, and can’t be transferred, isn’t going to be a very viable option.

And that’s just the beginning. I get a mountain of joy from loaning titles to friends and family. Often, more than even playing the game itself. Not happening with Steam.

You might say, “just go pirate.” To which I say, you seriously expect a free and open internet in 35 years at this rate?
I think it yo-yos because eventually they cut the cost of hardware over its life cycle. On average I think consoles are sold at break even.
Maybe it came at the advice of Rishi Sunak when he and Altman met last week!
I leave my laptop plugged in 95% of the time so in practice this caps it at 80% (helpful).

I suspect quite a few people do that so it probably is net-good overall, but agree it doesn’t work well if you’re moving around a lot.
Possible psychopath: https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/psychopathcode/content/preface....
Anecdotal, but I went 2000 -> 7 -> 10, skipping XP, Vista, and 8. Given that cadence, will hopefully be skipping 11 as well and waiting for whatever is next.
The option to have 128GB RAM for stable diffusion and local LLMs.
What makes you think he has no technical ability?

It seems more likely to me, given his background (programming from 8, accepted to Stanford CS) that he has technical aptitude, but he has even more dealmaking ability.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Sam-Altman-highly-technical-Has-he-... - Patrick Collison says he had technical conversations on Lisp machine implementations and iframe security policies, which to me is a measure of some depth.

And on hype, I think the carefully staged GPT PR over the years had an element of controlled hype. I remember them talking about how they couldn't release it because of how e.g. spammers could use it - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/14/18224704/ai-machine-learn...

(They weren't entirely wrong, there's a flood of junk text out there now. Twitter popular posts have their replies flooded by AI-generated "on topic" responses by bots. Content mills are switching to AI.)
Thank you for your support. I just found a workaround solution to use Ollama with MindMac. Please check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZfV70YMuH0 for more details. I will integrate Ollama deeply in the future version.
Good engineers create systems that can survive their departure.
Try to always move on to the newest one, every couple of projects, instead of using a 20 years old stack.
it’s not my thing but there are certainly tech enthusiasts and even brand specific enthusiasts that like details like this as they do try to get “the best” from their tech.

so probably it’s not for everyone but i guess there is value in knowing how big of a bump the newest model gives.
> Are there really people out there who would replace a Macbook Pro M1 or M2 with a M3 just to get something a bit faster?

Are there really people who buy a new car every 2 years?

Yes. Yes there are.

Some people like to have the newest stuff and don't mind living paycheck to paycheck to do so. Or maybe they're rich.
M2, no, virtually none. The earliest M1s are three years old now, so may be up for replacement under some corporate refresh policies. A lot of corporates still _kind_ of live in the past, hearkening back to a time when a three year old laptop was largely unusable (and might well be _physically_ falling apart; general manufacture quality of this sort of thing has improved a lot in the last 20 years).

In the late noughties I worked for a smallish company where engineers got MBPs and everyone else got mid-range PC business laptops (I think Dell or someone?) The failure rate on the PC laptops was just astonishing; they were practically disposable. The failure rate of the MBPs was higher than you'd see today, though not as bad. Replacing machines in under 3 years was the norm because many of them didn't _work_ after 3 years.
VC capital optimises for revolutionaries thus they get revolutionaries.

Please note any positive connotations for the word 'revolution' should be abandoned at this point. Revolutions are short-term 100% bad and long term coin-toss bad, or worse. VCs love those odds.
Will Wayland be able to render mixed HDR and SDR content correctly, with e.g. an HDR video on YouTube rendering with extended range while the rest of the screen renders as normal?

Currently only macOS can do that. With Windows you have to choose between SDR and HDR display modes which affects everything on screen regardless of type, which makes SDR content look dingy in HDR mode.
I don't think it was until I started learning programming in school and fully understood what "debugging" meant that it started to make sense what the purpose was of the "debug mode" that video game strategy guides would show me how to unlock. I thought it was there for the players to find and entertain themselves, like cheat codes.

Only later did I realize that stuff like model viewer, events viewer, stage select, etc. was all stuff developed for/by the QA team.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll think about a way of showing the correct answer if you fail.
Windows NT 3.51 had driver isolation. Unicode could have been added to Windows XP.
Me too. I get every second generation. Air is so cheap, why not. The business apps I run used to require a Macbook Pro to run. Now the 13" air does it beautifully, and with amazing portability. I often have to carry 2 laptops when traveling. So before with an MBP 16" and 2nd laptop, it was damn heavy.