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Not wanting to defend Temu in particular, but the package delivery system error rate situation is getting out of hand. Its became a small-talk topic. everyone can tell a tale of packages not being delivered properly, and them having to hunt the package down manually, sometimes going from shop to shop. For me personally, the error rate was recently so high that I actually gave up on ordering anything from the Internet for a while. The frustration and the anticipation of having to deal with finding my package was so high that I can't do it anymore, at least for a few months. Its no longer convenient, its the opposite.
Yeah, it's weird when unfavorable topics suddenly aren't reported...
It’s utterly mundane, completely common knowledge for those who have been around long enough to have watched both the start and end on Loopt that Altman is a dark-triad sociopath with one marketable skill: (in pg’s words) “becoming powerful”.

Guy can’t code, can’t design, can’t publish, can’t climb a traditional corporate ladder with even modest guardrails against fraud, can’t keep his hand out of the cookie jar. Can lie, threaten, cajole, manipulate, bribe with zero hesitation or remorse.

I’ve been short this nonsense for a decade, and it’s done no favors to me on remaining solvent, but when the market gets rational, it usually gets rational all at once.

Karpathy, Ilya, Yoon right off the top of my head, countless others. LeCun woke up the other day and chose violence on X. Insiders are getting short like Goldman dealing with Burry.

Guy has nine lives, already been fired for fraud like three times and he’s still living that crime life, so who knows, maybe he lasts long enough to put Ice Nine in my glass after all, but this can only happen so many times.
Could still have a demo showing how example recordings got transcribed
There's no unlimited power (that omnipotent would imply), but just more power than humankind.
The person you're snarking at is not replying to you, and is under no obligation to read your Substack before posting.
Moral of the story is that you never for the CEO of a billion dollar vally company. They got lot of media and fans backing
> 3) it might even be unclear who actually owns the source code now.

It took years and a ton of negotiation for the developers of conquest frontier wars to secure the rights to the game from Ubisoft so they could release their source code

I have a feeling that the most difficult barrier is getting past the publisher
> Why would anyone loan out trillions ... The same money in an index fund produces 7% over the long term

the originator of these mortgage loans want a consistent income from the interest payments, even if it's lower than buying equities. These equities that earn a theoretical 7% is only good in the long run, such as 10-20 years. It might not return anything in particular years, or negative returns in others.

If you needed a fixed income stream (eg., an insurance, or an annuities provider like pension funds), you will not want to bet it all on equities. Mortgages, which are collateralized, means you have a buffer for losses if the defaults do happen.
Bloomberg had an article that subtly made the same point titles something like: the fed has a problem; there's only one fed rate.

With real income gains accruing to the top 5% since roughly Reagan, there are two economies. And that's a problem which can bleed into politics probably for the bad short term
I have no horse in this race but I’m glad that - for once - people aren’t taking claims with absolutely no evidence seriously. That’s no way to function as a society.

For all we know she could be jealous, have mental issues, or have a different bone to pick with him and thought that’d be the best way to hurt him. If I had his money I could see some of my own relatives doing similar things after being denied handouts, for instance.
I spent about two minutes looking at it, I have no idea what a runbook is or what this project does and is used for.

"From fixing prod to local dev..." ?????
OpenAI PR department has entered the chat
Gorgeous and brilliant. Hats off to the developer.
Couldn't agree more.

This sentiment is the fundamental attribution error [1] in a nutshell: "Others do stupid things because they're stupid, I do stupid things because stupid circumstances and other people made me" :)

And while I can see that it's being used flippantly here and not intended as an insult, I still don't think it's fair to the many decidedly non-stupid browser devs out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
You guys realize that Temu is backed by Pinduoduo, one of the largest e-commerce startups in China/theWorld right?

At least you admit you don't know much about the space, though.
Where do you get 1080 days?

$ bc
(90/12) * 365
2737.50000000000000000000
It was simply phased out at some point, like so many other processors. I think it's wrong to say it was "doomed".
For one of the minicomputer systems I worked with until around 1995 all the interface boards used m68k CPUs and were running their own little operating systems. This made the whole mini quite efficient - all the intelligence in the peripherals meant that a lot of data transfers could be performed independently of the main CPU.
No, but I didn't ask. I assumed that it was that there was no upside to them, which only leaves unspecified downsides, even if unlikely.
Is there a local small llm that can OCR images or haabdwritten invoices ?

Traditional OCR do not handle multiple invoice formats or handwritten ones.

I would like to train one locally with as many invoices it wants
I'm pro-nuclear (in the sense that i would rather live near a nuclear than coal plant, and i don't really care if you build wind/solar or nuclear as long as you fade out the rest) and this report seems quite correct to me? If you have no prior knowledge, commercial power plant will be too late?

Why are people mad?
apk?

Apparently, yes, https://github.com/OpenBMB/mlc-MiniCPM?tab=readme-ov-file
One can do a great job of questioning and, if need be, challenging the intentions/ethics of a board without being unethical.
I love when you leave your job.
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Well, that was the valuation of their last fund raising round, which included a tender offer to employees. So it was worth that much to investors and to its current employees.
not eager to defend Sam as I think he is shady (maybe necessary for a successful CEO? don't know) but the Scarlett Johansson story was just speculation because she knew that she was asked to act, then the news spun it in a way favorable to clicks. I don't think the voice resembles her at all, and it turns out that they auditioned multiple voice actors and used a real voice actor for the voice. IIRC OpenAI also says that the selection of the voice actress was done before any correspondence with Scarlett Johansson, which can easily be corroborated. Sure, had she accepted the voice acting role it would be an additional news-worthy push for the tech, but given what we know and what was revealed I don't think there was any foul play in that regard.
We live on a planet with eight billion people who won’t be able to feed, clothe, or provide energy for themselves without continual investment in scientific progress. And our society is absolutely thrilled to toss away that capability. I guess this must be what the citizens of Rome felt like when their civilization was collapsing.
Food production and consumption using the methods by which living beings have consumed each other for the last 3.8 billion years, is emissions neutral, on average.

The argument for CO2 reduction has always been that all the extra carbon released from coal, gas, and petroleum, is bad, as a net increase of emissions, beyond natural processes.
It isn't just low-paying jobs that encourage you to trade your social and family life for money.
Can I reverse engineer training data from a machine learning model?
So a million years ago (the mid-90's), I was working with Doug Hofstadter and I had some ideas I wanted to follow up. Over the intervening years of raising a family, none of which do I regret, I never had the opportunity to actually do that - but I've done a lot of pieces of it, sometimes forgetting exactly where it fit into that original big picture.

Unfortunately, a lot of those pieces were logged on paper, but I've got electronic notes from about 2011 on, and a good content index has come in really handy for pulling out earlier ideas on various topics.

I've been working on that for the past year, and also scanning in a lot of the paper notes and starting to transcribe some of them. Looking back, there are some ideas I have every five or ten years, every time thinking I'm quite innovative.

Now that I've had the time to collate all that (and to read an absolute metric ton of literature I missed, an ongoing process), I've started to make consistent progress towards my original goals.

But just as a for instance - I have my readings and research bibliography from 1995 in machine translation. Most of that is dead as Carthage from a technical standpoint, obviously, but the philosophy has been invaluable as a starting point for recalibrating where I'm going.

But I've also got a lot of notes on related projects and just noodling thoughts I've had over thirty years of driving kids around in cars. I think the most important aspect of this is just keeping your mind active and focused on the things you find interesting, even if you don't have anything like the time you'd need to pursue them properly. Because sooner or later, the stars will align and you will. And when you do, your notes will be absolutely vital.

But I'm kind of obsessive about notes, so your mileage may vary.
> Lying is not "outsmarting", it's lying.

In addition, the attempt to rebrand it is victim-blaming.
The USPS is subsidizing the Chinese with shipping into the U.S.

See https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/05/how-the-...
> People are attacking the CSIRO

In what way?
> Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Strictly speaking, this is not open source, as the commonly accepted definitions of open-source software include freedom of use and modification.

But in an industry where "OpenAI" is 100% proprietary, I guess "open-source" doesn't really mean much.
Over time the ecommerce space is going to demarcate into two segements:-

[1] High value, high trust purchases that really neeeds to arrive and for warranties & customer service to work.

[2] Crap; where you buy on impulse, forget immediately and become surprised when they actually arrive.

TEMU is about #2
Honestly, I'd keep doing what I'm doing now, I'm a research engineer. I kind of stumbled into this career path and it turns out to be just exactly the thing I was built to do.

I'd likely go work for someplace better with more resources and a goal I find more interesting than my current work. Or I'd be a crazy inventor type building new machines and technologies in the garage.

I actually think about this question a lot. Thinking about all of the inventions that I or innumerable other engineers might have built, might have changed the world with, if only they had the resources to pursue mad science. It's pretty sad.
I personally think Temu is just a way to convince people to install their app, and the products are sold at a loss.

I refuse the app and order only via website.
Used to be more like 40% US. I suspect it is closer to but still less than half now with stronger USD and US GDP growth relative to RoW.
There's not many who have the balls to do that left in the country, let alone California or SF.
No job title should absolve someone from being accountable for their conduct, and uttering threats is a crime in most places.

People like Didier Raoult simply perform a political role rather than a scientific one. The mistake people often make is assuming intelligence and ethics are universally correlated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0ZRQuNbkMw

If someone is getting harassment, than take it to court like the above gentlemen does with his critics.

These days, all too often self-proclaimed victim-hood is used to mask despotic political agendas. Smart people can also just be better liars, and sometimes they fool themselves first.

Have a wonderful day, =3
But that also implies that some user would be authorized to make a request to the HTTP port (or that the resource does exist, which in this case it doesn’t).

IMO, 400 is more accurate, but really either could be acceptable, so long as the client is notified of the error. But, I wouldn’t automatically redirect the client. That’s what we are trying to avoid.
You can also use archivebox very user friendly
np is the standard alias for numpy, probably the most popular numerical and array processing library for python. So, no, not part of the standard lib at all. But a universal import for most users of the language in any science/stats/ml environment. That said, still a surprising place from which to import a basic stream processing function.
Over enough years, they will be forgotten, just like the names of the people you went to school with, unless you've got a way to rehearse them.
I stopped listening on port 80 for everything… nobody’s complained yet! Maybe because they can’t find the service though.
Thank you, that makes far more sense.
The main issue for us was not the size of the cache, but distributing a guaranteed single-use cache (CP in CAP theorem) across multiple regions and handling traffic from all microservices that can read the token (we have hundreds and plan to support thousands, so I admit our case is quite extreme).

Please note that I am talking about using DPoP to verify _every_ request, not just a token refresh request (where OAuth 2.1 is setting DPoP as an alternative to issuing a new refresh token and revoking the old one). When using DPoP for every request, the amount of client-generated nonces ("jti"s) is quite high, since you need a new one for every request.

And yes, you can rely on "htu" to distinguish between services and have a separate nonce cache for every service, but this would require deploying and maintaining additional infrastructure for every service. Depending on your organization this may or may not be an issue, but this is a big issue for us.

What did we decide on instead? Request Signature and Mutual TLS binding (RFC 8705) where possible. Request Signatures without nonces do not work well for repeatable requests (like the Refresh Token Grant), but this is not our use case.
The "free market" literally means free of government interference and regulation...

So it actually implies allowing capitalists to wield extreme power, skirt laws and regulations.

I understand the term has gone through some kind of whitewashing to mean "this is the good system (unlike the bad system)", so one might be inclined to think it means something more equitable, but seriously, that was the original meaning.
I had the opposite experience - the package came, but they never updated the tracking to say so.

Temu emailed me to give me $5 because my package was late. There was no place to tell them that it came.

A few weeks later they automatically gave me a refund for my "missing" package, and likewise I didn't see anyplace to tell them it had arrived.

I did not contact support because that probably costs them more than the value of what they sent me.
I have no issue with people decompiling my code for fun or curiosity. I often put easter eggs in my code or built files for this specific purpose. I never use obfuscation unless there is a security component.

The important part is the rest of that sentence, I have an issue with people who steal the code (or concepts) and charge money for it. If I do end up open-sourcing the code later, people will see the code and I have no issue with that.
Notably, they said "the science" which has nothing to do with science. "The science", as I've seen it used, is almost always an appeal to authority and has very little to do with the scientific method.

So maybe their statement is accurate: people aren't mad at science, they're mad at the science -- the authoritarian technocratic regime that locked everyone inside for a year and force-fed them a "safe and effective" vaccine the next.
The Matt Levine column on "Who Controls OpenAI?" becomes more and more relevant each day.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-...
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Are you seriously arguing that vaccines don't work?
This is the company whose instagram ads show ridiculous stuff for like $17 and you think this has to be a scam, right? And their biggest market is boomers and gen x, those still most likely to fall for the scam or just say fuck it and order because they have income? And some how Temu is 10% of Meta's revenue, which tells you something.

I'm sure many of us have ordered from the el'cheapo Chinese 1 penny drop shipping sites and found out how you are getting like sub-dollar store quality, mostly broken or malware infected junk that might show up 6 months later to know better to bother trying again, but with that much advertising they are casting a wide net of folks who will keep falling for their ads. Also telling how much of their market is folks who make under 50k/year.
The current crop of Bitcoin prosecutions shows that our legal laws and processes are quite capable of prosecuting violations of law in cyberspace if enough money is involved.

The fact that we don't prosecute these kinds of online threats is simply because nobody cares about the plebians who don't have enough money to opt out of the problem.
> If you could guarantee someone would be the null CEO, they'd be an instant hire for many enterprises.

That sounds like an easy bar for an LLM. I, for one, welcome our new LLM CEOs.
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If you're looking for a specific example of this, you might look at 'War of Numbers' by Sam Adams, a CIA analyst during the Vietnam War. It was published posthumously. It should be on the Internet Archive.

The book is about the US intelligence community, the military / DOD / Whitehouse in coming up with an "Official" Order of Battle about the Viet Cong, and his and some of his colleagues efforts to get an honest / accurate number. Ultimately he couldn't do it internally through the CIA and resigned, there was a CBS series on it in the 1980s that led to a lawsuit.

Essentially the number of Enemy troops was set by official policy at a certain level, while the actual number was at least double this. The numbers were fudged to make it work, including removing entire categories of troops. If the real numbers came out it would make people look back, and lead the public to make some bad conclusions.
What a lovely vision that was. Back when we imagined the potential of the internet would make people more like us, instead of peoples' checkbooks making the internet more like them. Rest in peace, digital frontier. You were too beautiful to last.
That’s not meta data. Claims are usually user scopes based on actor definitions. Some users can view, some can edit, some are admins. Claims are often, but not always, about resources.
What would entire life of savings be in your case?
how does being backed by something big in China makes it less scammy?
That is, clearly, not online harassment.
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I test drove a Lexus TX recently, it has a door assist too, but it's real simple: push the handle and the door assist operates, pull the handle (maybe twice if locked) and the door operates like a normal door. Easy and intuitive.
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If you are a CEO, and you are unable to convince your board that you are correct, then the proper thing to do is resign, for you have failed to do your job. The main job of a CEO is to be leader, and part of the job of a leader is to sell people your vision. And if you can't sell the vision to the people who cut your paycheck, well, either you aren't good at your job, or the people in that position are incompatible with you, and given that the board outranks the CEO, that means you should go.
Very happy with my M2 Air after trying out alternatives for a few years.
It takes no extra effort to make a static webpage. Imagine if we all included a script on our pages that blocked the content and showed instead, "please disable JavaScript to read this page."
Why people give up being objective is a well known phenomena:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control#By_proxy

When you work in the backrooms of a faculty for awhile, the illusion is shattered fairly rapidly. =3
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I agree that you should never stop giving feedback, but if you have an advisory or managerial duty toward someone, and you don't take action when your feedback is being consistently ignored by that person, then when do you take action (if ever)?
> Homeownership rates in the US are fine except in a few coastal areas

California notably.

Also see discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40490610

Of course it's not just housing that has become more expensive – health care and higher education costs have also outpaced inflation for decades.
> What has happened to people that even on HN a good number of the comments here are sympathetic towards harassing academics because they say something you don't agree with?

Where is your paranoia coming from? I'm not seeing any comments supporting harrassment of academics.

> I only comment about this because it's a bit concerning to me how wide spread this type of irrational paranoia has become.

So you are paranoid about the irrational paranoia you are seeing everywhere?

> It's the rage towards people who have dedicated their lives to studying a subject holding a different view that I find concerning.

Nobody is upset about people studying. The article is almost entirely about 'scientists' and 'academics' who are involved in politically sensitive issues ( climate change, gun control, covid, etc ) getting some pushback.
It'll be funny if the code which does this automatic re-enable was also generated by GitHub Copilot.

That would be a case of the LLM (purposely?!?!?!) turning itself back on regardless of the human's instructions, using code it wrote.

There's something about "self preservation" in that. :)
On top of that, Temu doesn't pay import tariffs.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241357550/import-tariff-loop...
I always thought it was weird that new laws had to be made regarding cyber-[activity] IE cyber-bullying.

It's just bullying. We have laws already. Those consequences should apply.
Let’s assume that world dominance is the root priority. Your statement implies that solving homelessness wouldn’t be in service of world domination. That might be true, but there’s clearly a minimum effort here: an entirely homeless and starving population would disrupt production, military, research, global economic power in a way that would be detrimental to the goal of world domination. Further, if the population gets too unhappy, revolts will occur that would hinder world domination efforts of those currently in power. So where’s the inflection point and why? To say the inflection point is the status quo feels intuitively wrong since what are the odds we happen to be in the optimal place with respect to homelessness, food insecurity, and civilian unrest? I tend to believe that it’s likely further investment into the population will produce a citizenry base that would aid in sustained world domination efforts. If you let the citizenry fall behind or become too unhappy, you’ll be overtaken by other countries. Curious what you see as the opportunity cost of that investment.