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John Milton must have been extremely wealthy. He was writing on the margins of that book, printed in 1587. These books were not manuscripts, so not as expensive as the books before Gutenberg, but still.

Some years ago I did some volunteer work where I had to go through some thousands of old books at a library and find the valuable ones. I came to the conclusion that around 1850 there was a "phase change" in printing. You could tell the books before 1850, they were works of love. After 1850, I think mass printing took off, or something, but you can feel books were not luxury items anymore.

In any case, this gentleman here has in his possession a book before 1600, and he writes on its margins. Maybe this was a form of conspicuous consumption. But just look how gorgeous that book was. And the guy just scribbled some stuff on it.
I thought about this technology for bitcoin offline wallet. So like you'll get any mobile phone, install some bitcoin app, put it to aircraft mode (or even destroy all wireless chips if you can do that). Or just laptop. Then you'd use it to generate wallet, sign transaction and then QR this transaction and receive it via another phone which is connected to the internet. So private key is never leaving offline device and all communication with the outside world is through human-eye controllable channel. Should be impossible to compromise using digital methods (assuming that wallet application is trustworthy).
Superior in every sense to that Magicka garbage they released a couple months ago. I'm excited to see its via-Rust codegen.
As well it should. The way FSD was presented to consumers in 2019 is bonkers. The fact that it can’t even do 10% of what was promised in a reliable fashion borders on criminal misrepresentation, in my (personal, not legal) opinion.
Proton is built on Wine.
I stay away from such frameworks because:

- Writing what I want in Python/other-lingo gives me much more customizability than these frameworks offer.

- No worries about the future plans of the repo and having to deal with abandonware.

- No vendor lock in. Currently most repos like this focus on OpenAI's models, but I prefer to work with local models of all kinds and any abstraction above llama.cpp or llama-cpp-python is a no-no for me.

The last point means I refuse to build on top of ollama's API as it's yet another wrapper around llama.cpp.
Black mirror continues to predict the future, like this 2013 episode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
I think the key thing is that it was a straightforwardly poor Show HN comment. What Specific Word of The Guidelines It Hath Not Transgressed Against as well as Who Is The Real Guidelines Sinner are both not particularly important.
You can use the Claude APIs via OpenRouter with a pre-paid account.
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How do you know he’s not running off to a competing firm with Ilya and they’ve promised to make him whole.
Reading about Terraform in that doc made me recollect the mistakes I have done with Terraform too. The declarative world of Terraform makes it hard to recover from errors, especially the destroy operations. I once had a outage of 4 days of a production cluster while trying upgrade certificate manager on a Kubernetes cluster managed using Terraform.
Yes, I am aware of this fact.

That doesn't answer the question of why anyone would run the Windows version of Steam on Wine, rather than running the Linux version of Steam, which would use Proton (which is built on Wine) automatically and painlessly.
You want every distinct item to have the same chance at the end. So when items repeat you need to reduce (not increase) the odds of keeping any given occurrence.
Maybe, lol, there were a lot of terms in that article that I didn’t understand well enough to claim I understood the article in toto.
Since you seem to be an expert, would love some similar examples.
These things aren't violations. They're perfectly legal for a reason.
I've posted this comment before but I'm excited to see if LLMs can write new episodes in the same vein as the previous ones. I think it would be really amusing to see "new" episodes of old cartoons ( albeit with an ensuing copyright shitstorm).
I would like people to sign a lifetime contract to not criticize me.
Normally the C Suite gets a bunch of flowery handshaking when they leave to not spook investors. Saying they got fired for violating company policy effective immediately and dumping the news on a Friday is highly unusual.

Compare the choreographed tone of an article describing the resignation of the AWS CEO. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/amazon-web-services-ceo-adam...

It’s also the CTO of a tech company.
Crossover uses Rosetta in order to run on Apple Silicon afaik.
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"when professionals still used calculators"

Silly me and my slide rule. When your cells run out, I'll still be calculating logs like there is no tomorrow.

I also own a quite early Texas Instruments calculator (it was my Dad's and so are the slide rules) but I only keep that to spell out BOOBIES.
Someone I knew in high school was working at the local tiny amusement “park” and had to go find someone’s finger after their go-kart hit another and he for some reason didn’t have his hands on the wheel.

I don’t know if I could enjoy doing something like that in full VR. It would freak me out too much.
gcn games never anticipated shader compilation time because it didn't exist.

shaders weren't a thing when the gcn released. it may be arguable, but nobody even used the word at the time. shader compilation time is an issue for modern games on the PC, and because of this, developers anticipate and work around it.

on the gcn, specialized fixed-function pipelines were available, and could be composed by some limited configuration (literally, 24 instructions). you may think of this as a sort of proto-shader, but significantly, the fixed-function pipelines embody quite a lot of behavior in specialized and limited hardware that is now typically achieved in software on more versatile hardware.

so, to replicate that specialized hardware, modern graphics hardware (which exposes its greater capability as simple computational primitives) must compile a shader program and run it. but on gcn, the tiny configuration of static hardware loads near-instantly.
Often you can open the SVG in a browser and then use the developer tools to copy out the resulting nodes as "flat" SVG source code.

Chrome even includes a --dump-dom flag you can use to do this on the command line, although I haven't tested it with an SVG.
Calculated risk. Perhaps they found a sufficiently ambiguous excuse. Most professional workers unwittingly commit technical felonies everyday.

See also: Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent 2011, Harvey Silverglate
You could definitely define pixel shaders on the Xbox using a combiner type struct. See the D3DPIXELSHADERDEF struct in the docs, from memory the equivalent of one of the NV register combiner extensions from OpenGL with additional access to a secret extra stage ordinarily reserved for some fixed function pipeeline stuff.
SeedSigner does this, using an RPi with screen/camera.

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> What doesn't make sense to me is why the major ad networks don't just have a setting for advertising on NSFW sites, or for that matter on NSFW pages.

Two main reasons:

- Websites cannot accurately classify content a lot of the time without human review. Ads are served dynamically, so they could appear on a NSFW post faster than a human can review it. It's less work to simply optimize for as little NSFW as possible.

- NSFW content consumers aren't valuable to advertisers or ad network operators because they don't sell products that could be placed as a 'contextual' ad. Ad platforms need insurance brokers, banks and CPG brands to make up the fat tail of revenue. That stuff can be placed next to posts about pretty much anything. NSFW content on the other hand doesn't work the same way, which is why ads on porn sites are for scam dating sites and unregulated erection pills.
I’ve wondered if an abundance of processing leads to parts of the brain ‘wanting’ to be utilised at a subconscious level.

Like a bored border collie but it’s the visual cortex
I assume part of the confusion that people have is that kiwifarms harassment is not (always) blatantly obvious. Most of the time, they don't outright say "go harass this person" (unlike other sites).

The users claim they have rules against harassment and that they don't engage in it. But as demonstrated by the links I've posted elsewhere in this thread, that is not entirely true. The owner of the site has admitted to allowing harassment, and has even directed it on some occasions
Totally normal, nothing to see here.

Keep building your disruptive, game-changing, YC-applicant startup on the APIs of this sociopathic corporation whose products are destined to destroy all trust humans have in other humans so that everyone can be replaced by chatbots.

It's all fine. Everything's fine.
is having money morally wrong?
Allowing adult content puts your site in the same category as every porn site on the internet. Maybe it doesn't make much sense but that's just how they play it. It's not literally seeing your ad directly next to a NSFW image, brands don't even want to be on the same domain as homoerotic sonic the hedgehog fan art.

edit: sibling comment has a better explanation which I think is probably 100% on the nose for this one.
IrDA. I remember having it on laptops, palmtops, printers and such but I don’t think I ever actually used it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association
Have you read the actual document or contracts? Opining on stuff you haven't actually read seems premature. Read the contract, then tell us which clause violates which statute, that's useful.
Pretty much this. I'd love counter examples of startups in the space that haven't been crushed from the top yet.
Proxmox gets regular updates thatoften request reboots. It serms at abhigher rate than my opnsense box. Unless you are doing a high availability setup and live migrating it to another nodr, that means additional downtime
Also recommending ComputeSharp. I've been using it for a few years now:
https://github.com/Sergio0694/ComputeSharp
"Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it." now its not so much more open anymore right
Right, and that's why larger companies need regulation around those consequences. If a dentist doesn't want to treat you because you criticized them, that's fine, but if State Farm doesn't want to insure your dentistry because you criticized them, regulators shouldn't allow that.
Interesting, would Amazon Bedrock be an alternative? That's how I use Claude.
This is wrong on multiple levels. (to be clear I don't work at OAI)

> They don't share the equivalent of a Cap Table with employees, so there's no way to tell what sort of ownership interest a PPU represents

It is known - it represents 0 ownership share. They do not want to sell any ownership because their deal with MS gives MS 49% ownership and they don't want MS to be able to buy up additional stake and control the company.

> And of course, it's unlikely OpenAI will ever turn a profit (which if they did would be capped anyway). So this is all just play money anyway.

Putting aside your unreasonable confidence that OAI will never be profitable, the PPUs are tender offered so they can be sold to institutional investors up to a very high limit, OAIs current tender offer round values them at ~$80b iirc
Why didn't you just share that? Oh it already was

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393121
To contrast, Surface Pro's pen doesn't need to stick on the side to charge, so no falling off when putting in or getting out of a bag, and the main camera is properly centered.

Different priorities.
Cheapest solution is still LAMP on DigitalOcean box. But instead of MySQL use SQLite.

Add more performance? No framework, roll your own.
The scriptwriters are in such a hurry -- even they know this show isn't getting renewed.
I'm ashamed that I didn't think to write this. Well deserved praise.
You don’t think the claim that “everyone can be replaced by chatbots” is a bit outrageous?

Do you really believe this or is it just hyperbole?
We should disincentivize landlording and renting by both 1. making it harder to landlord and 2. reducing/eliminating the barriers that drive people to rent: home prices, down payments, closing costs and fees, the real estate market itself being illiquid, the variable nature of home-related expenses.

If it was as easy and cheap to own as it is to rent, and if homeowners weren't so locked into their owned homes, then there would be little reason to rent.
Reading that thread it’s really interesting to me. I see how far we’ve come in a short couple of years. But I still can’t grasp how we’ll achieve AGI within any reasonable amount of time. It just seems like we’re missing some really critical… something…

Idk. Folks much smarter than I seem worried so maybe I should be too but it just seems like such a long shot.
> Throughout history, countries around the world have taken other territories as their own. How many of them have ever been courteous enough to allow referendums to break off again? It is that courtesy that is remarkable, simply taking territory is normal.

Usually neighboring states, which were peer competitors. And even then it's always been seen as an aberration and not the norm. Modern European imperialism was unique in it's global scope and barbarity. Offering a token referendum after you've wiped out the natives or destroyed a society's cultural, economic, religious nature is not the noble gesture you think it is.
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It's predicting a contraction in value of 20% to 70% of every stock I throw at it. 40k DIJA is a more-than-inflationary bubble popping within a few years?

Edit: Chipotle must be headed for E. Coli again: Projected Price: $-2,890.64

https://www.useequityval.com/model?ticker=CMG
The tool to make connections in fiber optic cables. They've got little handheld ones which are awesome.

https://www.fiberfoxamerica.com/fusion-splicer
Why are the Intel 8080's rotate instructions opposite to intuition? (2021)
More power to him if so. Stupid problems deserve stupid solutions.
As posted on his site and discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391412
Reddit goes AI agnostic, signs data training deal with OpenAI
I just read the headline and was kind of like, duh, is that not inevitable?

People don't use Google just to "look for websites," they go seeking information.

Given how crap Google has been lately, it's just a no-brainer of a hole to fill?
Computer sprinkled with exotic chemicals produced superproblems, not superpowers
Everyone has twitter and it's for free, paywall is not debatable imo
uBlock origin in the browser.

PiHole at home.

NextDNS mobile.

I’ll concede it’s an infinite game of Whac-A-Mole, but a game I’m willing to play
Definitely the stable geniuses I want building AGI.
This is always what I think of when I see "baobab": https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DiskUsageAnalyzer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425665
it helps in the other direction: less friction to use from rust
I think never is inaccurate here. First, there are a lot of simply bad lawyers who will give you bad advice. Secondly, a lot of lawyers who either don't actually specialize in the legal field your case demands, or who have never actually tried any cases and have no idea how something might go down in a court with a jury. Third (the most predatory), a lot of lawyers actually see the client (not the opposing party) as the money fountain. Charging huge fees for their "consultation," "legal research," "team of experts," etc, and now the client is quickly tens-of-thousands in the hole without even an actual case being filed.

Talking to good, honest lawyers is a good idea. Unfortunately most people don't have access to good honest lawyers, or don't know how to distinguish them from crooks with law degrees.
My thoughts immediately turned to insider trading as well.
> so I'd expect removing the frontend to be a decent win

I did some testing before working on ubershaders, and my modified build which cached the bytecode output of FXC/D3DCompile (whatever dolphin was using at the time) didn't reduce the stuttering by enough to be worth the effort of optimising the frontend.

My conclusion was that it's simply wasn't worth any effort to optimise for slightly smaller stutters, as they were still very perceivable to users. And Hybrid Ubershaders can hide any compile delays without any issue.

And this testing was with FXC/D3DCompile which does a bunch of optimisations. The fact that SPIR-V comes in (potentially) unoptimised means any vulkan compiler has to send it though all optimisation passes.
Though I have been very tempted to do dead code removal before submitting the shaders, partly to make the shaders more readable to humans and partly to reduce the amount of code going though the various compiler passes.

> Being smarter about specialization is probably a good idea -- having a blend between "GPU interpreter" and "full specialized pipeline" is where I think you should head.

Yeah, that was always next on the list. Start with just ubershaders and then incrementally specialise on a background thread for the correct balance of shaders.

Dolphin's current specialised shaders are no-where near fully specialized. Need to go further by baking some of the constants and lookup textures into the shader.
"Slowing things down" also directly translates to "more expensive". Both by having to hold the property in the meantime (or rights to it) - cost of money, and by having to bride layer after layer of consulted people and administrations with expensive features that even the developer and future buyers agree are not optimal, and by having to professionally manage endless extra paperwork and meetings.
https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action?a_aid=goinaction

Pro Tip: write a tech book to advance your career, to scratch an itch, to learn by teaching. Don't write a tech book to make money. I don't have the exact numbers off the top of my head, but Go In Action is considered a successful tech book and it hasn't made enough money to make it worth the time invested if money was the only motivator. We donate all the royalties to a non-profit (Go Bridge https://gobridge.org ), so that was never our motivation... but I'd be seriously disappointed if I expected to make a living doing tech books with a traditional publisher. Maybe others who self-publish can chime in on how that's going for them.

Glad I did it. Wouldn't do it again :)
What does LoRa have to do with LLMs? Whoever named this thing screwed up big time.
When it comes to AI, as a rule, you should assume that whatever has been made public by a company like OpenAI is AT LEAST 6 months behind what they’ve accomplished internally. At least.

So yes, the insiders very likely know a thing or two that the rest of us don’t.
Claude is better anyways (at least for math classes.
Almost every part of the story that has made OpenAI a dystopian unicorn is hyperbole. And now this -- a company whose employees can't tell the truth or they lose access to remuneration. Everyone's Allen Weisselberg.

What's one more hyperbole?

Edit to add, provocatively but not sarcastically: next time you hear some AI-proponent-who-used-to-be-a-crypto-proponent roll out the "but aren't we all just LLMs, in essence?" justification for their belief that ChatGPT may have broad understanding, ask yourself: are they not just self-soothing over their part in mass job losses with a nice faux-scientific-inevitability bedtime story?
> Moreover what kind of habit of thought are you in that being called out for that is read as vitriol?

That’s as much a matter of personal identity as a ‘habit of thought’, friend. Otherwise, we could we comment on the basis of _your_ perspective as some mutable affectation, no?

You see, we are shadows of ourselves. An inquisitive play, or let’s say a “judgment” about Cuda economics: aspirational, errant? Then, the linguistic phalanx: honed no doubt by long running needs to be heard and seen and listened to.
Who would you expect?
Well then they can be the first! That's how the internet got made.
If these are basic questions, pardon my limited knowledge of email-transport internals.

- May be the transport is better than HTTP, but HTTP is well understood and easy to debug for developers (debugging a web-app is easy). Similarly, a JSON payload will bring structure than the current way of creating boundaries. Moving to HTTP+JSON will allow far easier access to developers who want to build on top of it, or self-hosting. Get a domain, run a web-app, set a few records and you are done.

- Put a file in outbox and it get's out. From my outlook experience, it seems to be a cron that scans a particular DB query. Should still be possible.

- I have no idea on how onion routers etc work so won't comment on that.

- And lastly, if Google <> MS, Outlook <> Exchange use a proprietary protocol then I will read that as an indication to improve current standard.
We're apparently at the Scientology stage of the AI hype cycle. One funny observation is, if you ostensibly believe that you're about to invent the AGI godhead who will render the economic system obsolete in < ~5 years or so, how do stock return no-criticism lawsuits fit into that kind of worldview
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I’m only mentioning the ones I haven’t seen mentioned here so far

The Ultimate History of Video Games - Steven L. Kent - loved this.
Sid Meier’s Memoir was good.
And not really a must read but I enjoyed David Kushner’s Jacked about the Grand Theft Auto guys.
I feel like OP would have been better off not pre-populating the models, just to make the point of the tool clearer. A lot of folks here seemed to have missed the point of the tool.
A stochastic parrot.
I mean why would anyone be surprised about this is beyond me?

I know many people on this site will not like what I am about to write as Sam is worshiped but let's face it: The head of this company is a master scammer who will do everything under the sun and the moon to earn a buck, including but notwithstanding to destroying himself along with his entire fortune if necessary in his quest of making sure other people don't get a dime;

So far he has done it all it: attempt to regulatory capture, hostile take over as the CEO, thrown out all other top engineers and partners and ensured the company remains closed despite its "open" name.

Now he is simply attempting to tie up all the loos ends and ensuring his employees remain loyal and are kept on a tight leash. It's a brilliant strategy, preventing any insider from blowing the whistle should OpenAI ever decides to do anything questionable, such as selling AI capabilities to hostile governments.

I simply hope that open source wins this battle so that we are not all completely reliant on OpenAI for the future, despite Sam's attempt.
A lot of the brouhaha about OpenAI is silly, I think. But this is gross. Forcing employees to sign a perpetual non-disparagement agreement under threat of clawing back the large majority of their already earned compensation should not be legal. Honestly it probably isn't, but it'll take someone brave enough to sue to find out.
I could do without the condescension, but compute is limited and expensive.
Not much, but I assume we’re seeing Steam-related fixes from Proton flowing upstream anyway.