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Hey Brandon,

I don't want to keep coming back to this.

I know you never intended to come off as stealing, thieves don't want their theft to be discovered. Unfortunately, seeing how you continued to lie after being exposed this apology feels like too little too late. If a sincere apology, admitting your wrong doing and attempt to hide any connection to Outstatic, had been written in the beginning of this whole ordeal, I'm sure this wouldn't have taken the proportions it took.

I'm not saying what you've done is unforgivable, you made a mistake, but it's important to come clean.

I hope one day you see that what you've done is wrong and that this whole situation was brought up because you tried taking credit for something you didn't create.

Don't think I've enjoyed any of this. To the contrary, I wish I never had to write about this, but I couldn't let you take credit for the work of Outstatic's contributors.

I hope that in the future you only take credit for things you create, and if you use someone's work, do give credit where it's due. This will avoid a lot of stress for you and those who's work you are benefiting from.
I got a new job recently and I have been saying this is what I will be doing, writing AI to deny claims, AS A JOKE.

We pay taxes so the government can pay to subsidize these healthcare corps that just serve to funnel money to its already rich shareholders.

Healthcare is a pathetic broken mess and it will never get better.
That's kinda what something like TailwindCSS is, no? Use their reset & their shorthands, and many of these problems are solved; then your build system translates to the actual CSS standard.
Does it work for 3D? If you want vectors in 3D space for example?
How robust are these to random floating logs? They’re quite common here in the Salish Sea and have been cited as the reason that the Boeing hydrofoil project never really took off.
Well let's come back to reality. ChatGPT is in fact vastly different from Google summarizing a search. Maybe that's all you use it for but there's people building virtual girlfriend platforms, an API that an alarming amount of businesses are integrating into their standard workflows, and the damn thing can literally talk. It can talk to you. Google search summarizing gives a snippet about a search. You can't have a conversation with it, you cant ask it advice about your girlfriend, it won't talk to you like a trusted advisor when you ask it a question about your degree or job. It can fucking talk. That is the difference. Remember when it first came out and all these people were convinced that it was alive and sentient and could feel pain and would shortly take over the world? Please remind me when that happened for Google search.

Safety is about setting up the infrastructure to control uranium sources before the first bomb gets built. It's not about right now, it's about the phase change that happens the moment we take that step. Don't you want to have infrastructure to prevent possible societal strife if possible?

Of course gpt has value, bombs have value, enron had value, the housing market has value. If i could retort i'd say the term 'value' is much too vague to contribute to a discussion about this. The value it has is the danger, they're the same thing. If i suddenly quadruple the money supply in every country in the world, do you think that would improve the lives of the majority of humans? Or is it possible that would be looked back on a a catastrophic event that obliterated societies and killed innumerable people. Hard to say huh? Maybe it wouldn't, maybe it would, who can actually know? Wouldn't it be better for us to have some kind of system to maybe handle that before it leads to potential destruction. If instead, i announce that at some point in the future this event might occur. Does that change your calculus? How do you feel about global climate destabilization? How do you feel about the prospect of another world war?
It's Too Easy to Buy Stuff You Don't Want
Yes, that's correct. The script takes the output from bw-cli and pipes it directly (sort of since we also store it in a variable to calculate the number of rows) to gpg which then encrypts it.

The only secret we have in plain text here is the API token for Todoist which I'm OK with. It's always the balance between security and comfort.
This seems to me like it's another nail in the coffin for Google. With Microsoft and its resources (essentially) fully in control of OpenAI tech without the non-profit chains, it can really turn everything upside down, kind of like what Google did to them in the 2000's. When was the last time you used Bard?
I think you're right, but wouldn't this still necessitate freight to travel by truck from rail centers to population centers? That's how a lot of the system currently operates in the US, no?
We might finally know why OpenAI fired Sam Altman
End-run around the anti-trust laws.
Tidbit: Kevin Scott has a podcast ("Behind the Tech") and he had Mira Murati as a guest in July. The podcast interview itself isn't very interesting though.
Replace 2T of engine + fuel with 5T of battery. Regulations allow an 82T limit for electric trucks compared with 80T for diesel trucks. So there's only a ~1T difference in cargo capacity, which is at most 2%.
> I think much of why people are so excited about using LLMs for discovery and writing basic code is because nobody has yet found a way to jam ads in the top three results

Agreed. It's the Uberization play. Get everybody hyped up on below-cost service and no tipping, subsidized by VC money. Then go public, jack the prices up and add in a tip screen at the end of every ride.

It's coming.
They tested an earlier version of the Candela in the lagoon of Venice, which has quite some waves caused by other motorboats. I don't think people were impressed.
I'm glad Picture-in-Picture mode is getting corner snapping, probably one of my favourite firefox features.

Really hope they add some way of not having it stay on top of every other window though. Disabling "always on top" in GNOME doesn't do what I'd expect it to.
It's called an S-1. It turns out to involve a lot of paperwork, and there's reasons for that.
The before and after statistics are apples and oranges. Hard to say that says anything significant at all. And a request for evidence that OpenAI employees are top of the game and that we don't want them leaving the country is trivial. MSFT and Altman team write one response and affix it to all applications.
There are quite a few ferries with capacity around 30 passengers in service in Sweden. Most of them burning diesel.
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They’ve been bought and sold a few times which is probably related to the licensing changes.

Currently owned by Opera since 2021.
Probably a savior complex. I was abused as a child, was enamored by tech from a young age, and have always felt that the way to productively channel my pain was to create a product that could improve the lives of many. Have grappled with and psychoanalyzed this desire for many years and have decided to stop fighting it.
It's interesting how some forms of employee collective action (collective bargaining) are frowned upon in this forum, whereas the sentiment surrounding this is largely positive.

Another thing to chew on: Imagine if Googlers demanded that the board resign (which are the terms of Sam's reinstatement) or they all walk... I don't think they'd meet with nearly as much positive sentiment.
How does this work? The drivers use the Uber app to find a customer and then when they pick up the customer they just turn off the Uber app? Wouldn’t the customer get charged through Uber anyways? Wouldn’t a couple of these be a huge red flag to Uber and they would disable the drivers account on their end?
Seawater contains less than 1ppm of lithium (compared to 300-7k ppm in brine). There are zero commercial facilities to produce lithium from sea salt. It's not even a notable byproduct from other seawater-based processing facilities
H-1B transfer is not trivial, takes time to be approved, and while you can start working at the new position when the application is filed, if its then not approved you can't legally work at the new job anymore and are out of status.
The thing is, you could use doctypes like a racket #lang to precisely opt into the new format. Same with the type attribute on style, script and link elements. I’ve always found it a bit sad that we haven’t really taken advantage of the built-in extension points of HTML and related technologies because they’re designed pretty well for breaking changes without breaking compatibility.
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I believe another factor is that sometimes the model responds better to your prompt than other times. This way you get two dice rolls of your prompt hitting "the good path."
Invisible Disability in Technology
Ask HN: Why do Sam and Greg need Microsoft?
Starting their own company seems much more attractive. Many would love to fund anything they create.
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Just to clarify, IANAL, but the "legally obligated to maximize profit" is a misinterpretation of Dodge vs. Ford[1]. It was a very radical decision for the time and hasn't been rescinded but still allows executives a wide degree of freedom in decision making. Acting morally is often highly rational and, whether a maximally efficient decision or not, is, IMO, the correct decision - whether there are clear consequences for acting immorally or not.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I was a history teacher! And you are absolutely correct that of course child labor existed prior to the industrial revolution. But the industrial revolution introduced systematicized, institutionalized child labor and unsafe working conditions at a sense of exponential scale and density. Which is why it's illegal now, which we would all agree is a good thing, whether it happened before or not.
How about BPC-157? Did you think about that one?
But they've been told no pay rise and yet are taking on all of OpenAI's team with no interview process
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The separation is impossible, if you don't control the resources, you don't control the country.

>separating power into the state and economy into the market gets good results.

How do you think this would be done? How do you remove power from money? Money is literally the ability to convert numbers into labor, land, food,
>>why would the other 3 board members be on board with that?

I guess all had their reasons. This is one big reason why you don't want these non-profit kind of things. No stake, No play. Human beings don't feel about the things they don't own the same way, they feel about things they own.

I think the motivation to make profits, get rewarded is a tremendous driver of things. In situations like these you are always tempted to think that the true end of altruism is nobody(who works on things to make them happen) benefits. Notice how its the same when the set up succeeds, same when it fails.

If D'Angelo acted to protect his company it shouldn't be surprising. The whole point of having people with conflict of interests to not serve on your board is exactly this. They have more reasons to see you fail, than see you win.

Other people likely had their own reasons. Ilya probably was acting too altruistic, and had thoughts about Sama for a long time.

Expecting the whole company to sign up with your moves, especially when their financial interests are the exact opposite, is taking it a little too far. Which again brings us back the same thing. Lots of people seem to be arguing that people working on this at all levels must be doing this for grander reasons, and not making it about just money alone. Which is so unfair and such wrong evaluation of people's motives to work on anything at all, let alone this.

Finally, it feels like nobody wanted to see the company win. And they didn't have incentives to do that either. Every one seems to be happy it ended.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/21/tech/microsoft-chatgpt-sa...

"But several people told CNN contributor Kara Swisher that a key factor in the decision was a disagreement about how quickly to bring AI to the market. Altman, sources say, wanted to move quickly, while the OpenAI board wanted to move more cautiously."
Fixed link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360135
Can you link? I don't see anything that is more than "average" waves for the sea.
So it's a video version of bash.org?
.NET 8 is suppose to greatly improve AOT. Depending on your use case, you might be able to get around bundling the runtime entirely.
It's not a "great product", the creators are the only thing that gives it value. The platform itself is a parasitic monstrosity that only serves corporate interests, which are the motivation for every change they make. The dislike button removal being a recent example, not to mention the insufferable advertising practices, their complicity in DMCA shenanigans, and the rise of ridiculous language like 'unalived' instead of 'kill' because it hurts ad revenue, it goes on and on. Their behavior as the stewards of youtube has been utterly reprehensible and I won't be paying them for it
> A “mostly peaceful” riot is a riot, nonetheless.

Some riots are more equal than others.
In case this is useful - I had end stage arthritis in one of my ankles and ended up getting a bipolar ankle allograft in San Diego at Scripps. I barely think about it nowadays except that sometimes after a long hike or strenuous workout it will feel a bit stuff. Considering I could barely walk before it was a night and day difference.

You essentially get a completely new joint surface from a donor and have to be in crutches for 3 months but it was 100% worth it for me. I refused to do fusion and avoided any doctor that said nothing could be done.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31045670/

Another solution for end stage ankle arthritis is distraction surgery but I didn't look into it much but it could be useful too:
https://www.hss.edu/conditions_ankle-distraction-arthroplast...
And having a solid open offer from Microsoft makes it much easier and less stressful to quickly get a great offer from somewhere else.
Yes, rather obviously they fund the servers hosting and sending you the content you want
I use privacy badger, but it doesn't cover everything so I end up having to manually check all links anyway.
I've done this. The driver cancels your ride and you pay cash.
Can you think of any times when a sincere fear of god might have motivated folks to perpetrate acts of evil?

I suspect for this particular heuristic to feel sensible, the god needs to be one you happen to believe in. I would take precisely zero comfort in knowing that someone fears an invisible, likely bronze age supernatural authority with dozens of permutations of subjectively interpreted doctrine and morality.
Pretty damning reporting of an insanely stupid yet Nobel prize winning model. I encourage everyone to read it:

> The third of Nordhaus’s errors is related to similarly simplistic formulas. Nordhaus calculates GDP of a particular location as fundamentally related to the temperature of that place. So, if in 2023 it’s a certain temperature in London, and the GDP in London is such-and-such, it’s reasonable to assume that when latitudes north of London rise in temperature in the future, GDP will rise to be the same as London’s today.
it is quite sensible that origin is top left in potentially scrollable situations
Do you have evidence that in-group preferences are happening? Your workplace becoming more diverse is not proof of in-group preferences.
And the lobby security camera recording is public and can be requested.
Yes, very much this. The rules are different when you are a >$1T company. You have Congresspeople on speed dial. Also, the Biden administration know what is at stake with their AI Executive Order. It will get done.
The current situation probably falls under Force Majeure, though. If most of these people go to Google or Amazon, Microsoft may not be able to deliver the products they depend(ed) on OpenAI for.

Also, in most jurisdictions, no poaching agreements are unenforcable if the employees themselves initiate the transfer. Signing that letter about leaving if Sam is not coming back probably qualifies as a resignation notice.

On top of this, most other AI leaders have already stated that they want OpenAI employees to come to them.
Add the endless wait time for green card for Indians and you have the perfect recipe for indentured servant exploitation and wage suppression
Uh didn’t we just count twitter hearts from OpenAI employees?
They are worth while to learn but if you work for a corporation and they gradually cut people while loading you up with more and more work you’d get sour too.
Right? I'm not sure how "This page will take 5 seconds to load for you now" is supposed to be worse than "Loud music and loud talking will start immediately and you'll be forced to stare at it for at least 5 seconds before hitting skip... maybe... we might also force you to watch the whole thing"

Seems like a no-brainer I'd rather deal with 5 seconds extra added to my load times.
funny, yet false.

there are clear benefits to having the FDA, SEC, FTC, EPA and so on around. there's a clear benefit to having fire inspectors, and there's a clear benefit to the mandate of 2 stairs per multi-story building. there's a clear benefit to the requirement of demonstration of efficacy in front of the FDA. there's a clear benefit to having clean air.

of course there are clear drawbacks too. most of Europe is perfectly okay with just 1 stair per such building. FDA processes are slow and expensive, even if a drug has proven safe and effective abroad.

regulatory capture is a problem, the super-long intellectual property terms are a problem. using environmental review laws for endless NIMBYism is a problem.

but these are arguments for reform, not for scorched earth, because then the problems will very likely come back.

of course it's very hard to do proper cost-benefit comparisons, yet that doesn't mean it's impossible, and especially doesn't mean that simply getting rid of these controls will deliver utopia overnight.

...

funny, how we're talking about some hypothetical oversight, while right now in the present the big beneficiaries of AI are hyper-big-fucking-corps. MSFT. Google. Tesla. Apple. Amazon.

...

Subversive tech? Like Pegasus? And face recognition? And the Great Firewall of China?
Well color me convinced!
The point was thay even Twitter cannot do this, so there is absolutely no reason to expect openai to be able to pull it off.
I bought this on the strength of the main instructor's concept art course[0]: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/learn-to-create-game-a...

[0] I'm halfway through and have made more progress in a week than in a lifetime of false starts (complete with Black Friday coupon): https://www.gamedev.tv/courses/1289989?coupon_code=YIPPEE
This is kind of a meaningless question to raise in a vacuum.

For most people who get the chance to talk with "tech CEOs", the basic context of the conversation is usually built on a profit-seeking foundation -- Should I invest in you? Should I sign a commercial deal with you? Should I work with you as an employee? On that basis, morality is often orthogonal to profit (sometimes opposed, and rarely aligned with).

Most people, most of the time, if they are evaluating tech CEOs for any semblance of "morality" or ethics, it is usually most pertinent to consider business ethics -- Will you uphold the terms of a contract? Will you sincerely work to create shareholder value (above personal goals or benefits)? Will you be a good leader for your employees, treat them fairly according to professional standards and company policies? This level of ethics is necessary in order to conduct good business; trust is currency and if you cannot trust a CEO to uphold standard business and professional ethics, then the cost of doing business in an environment of mistrust usually becomes exceedingly high.

Anything beyond that, like is this CEO a "good person", are they working for the betterment of mankind, etc., is usually not worth evaluating for 95% of people -- not because it's unimportant, but because (a) capitalism is amoral and grafting morality on to it is kind of an exercise in futility, and (b) most people are not equipped to evaluate the answers in any kind of serious or logically rigorous way.
Article from 2 months ago
https://archive.ph/DZxSR
It seems this is a server-to-server protocol? Subscriber is required to accept HTTP requests, which makes it mostly useless for most contexts where RSS is used.
> Had Apple pulled Sunbird’s access to iMessage before information about their shoddy security coming out via third-party, they would have run the risk of playing into Google’s narrative about Apple being petty about their closed standard.

It's not "Google's narrative" (which makes it sound like it's not true), it's the truth and abusing a monopoly, that is being investigated by the EU. We're expecting an EU decision soon if Apple are a gatekeeper with iMessage (as per the DMA/DSA), which they almost certainly are. If that is indeed the case, they'll be forced to open it to competitors anyways. So the whole thing is moot - see also Apple starting to finally adopt RCS, probably trying to anticipate EU regulations and spin them being forced to do the correct thing as "innovation".
I think trying to judge morality by anything other than actions is probably the wrong approach, you could ask clarifying questions on some of their previous decision making but hypotheticals and such likely aren't a strong signal either way.
Wow I didn't know chargie.org existed!
I'm happy to finally see a device like this on the market.

I've had the same idea and created a device exactly like this as a high school project back in 2018, but didn't push it further
I think the video wood_spirit is referencing to is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2Zf9WVlNY

It's not extreme weather and the waves don't reach the length of the foil itself. I'm curious as well as to what happens on rough seas.
There is a very nice list of ublock origin filters[0] that removes all shorts from subscriptions, home page, and even the nav menu item for them.
Direct links to shorts still work though, in case someone sends a link or something. Improved my YouTube experience a lot.

[0] https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
Microsoft, the large american tech giant, is trying to save a 10B dollar investment from boneheads who just blew up the company they invested in.

Do you really think they're going to feign an offer to join, but then say "oh your immigration status is too complex"? With all of their resources?
> that matches your compensation

That is going to go over well with current microsoft employees.
They don't kill it, they just tie it up in the basement and pretend it never existed.
These days, they pretty much have to be. Buzzfeed was probably the last site to make money on tradtional Google Ads. Adsense premiums are so low now that websites usually have to become a multi-blog syndication network to aggregate a large enough audience to make money.
If anything, their greater authority and power over other people demands a higher standard of behavior than we'd expect from regular citizens.
> The riders were children

Kids today are living the good life.
It's so good! I don't pay $20/mo for YouTube Premium just to have creators take away literally the only benefit of paying for premium by shoving their own ads in.
Like many others, I had (appropriately) written off gamemaker entirely as soon as they changed to a subscription model. It was always a solid choice for making games, so I'm glad to see that it might be worth using again.
Wouldn’t that stick out on Uber’s end? A driver that continuously accepts rides and then cancels them without completing a single one? They could just ban the driver cutting off his source of new clients.