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> totally clueless

Another way to view these things is that it's about managing the author's personal brand-identity, as opposed to acting as a fiduciary representative of the overall corporation. (Those CEOs tend to avoid the limelight.)

There are certain folks out there who build their celebrity with a narrative of "I'm strong and smart and successful, you can tell because I can do what I want and piss people off but my detractors are impotent and can't touch me." [0]

If you think Altman falls into that category, then "her" can be seen as a coded message: For fans, it's sly advertisement that the result is a deliberate achievement, while also maintaining a veneer of deniability for anyone who objects. ("I only meant the outcome was coincidentally similar, and you can't prove otherwise, hahaha.")

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[0] That doesn't mean the narrative is true or that they always escape consequences, but it means they can at least convince enough fans/supporters that repercussions didn't really happen, that they weren't significant, or that they were actually good because 4-D chess.
> above 17% we had last time

but last time the world didnt have the new sources of oil that exists today, and the technology level back then was also lower - leading to lower productivity.

Long term interest is related to growth, and higher interest is indicative of growth.
Most digitally controlled sewing/embroidery machines have some form of embroidery CNC-like file that they can accept, and as far as I am aware it’s easy to convert to other formats for different machines. I picked up an entry-level Brother (same as the printer company!) machine for a friend recently who wanted to start trying some digital design stuff with it. Was my first exposure to that world!

See eg for a list of the common file formats, mostly associated with specific hardware manufacturers I believe.

https://support.brother.com/g/s/hf/htmldoc/ped/im/ped11/en/P...
I continue to wonder how the people still working in OpenAI feel about all this. Are they just staying there for the money? Does Sam offer them (through manipulation or otherwise) a lot more support in whatever they do compared to anyone else they have worked with?

In some ways, Sam Altman seems like a version of Mark Zuckerberg…in that he will not hesitate to do terrible and despicable things to expand his money, power and empire. The scope of AI to affect people around the globe seems to far exceed what social media by itself could even dream of.
How does Sam's tweet of 'her' fit into this narrative? Or them reaching out to her two days before release? (methinks the lawyers had some concerns during final stages of release). We can debate how they achieved the final voice and the legality of it, but it seems so clear from where I'm sitting that "it was never intended to resemble [ScarJo's voice]" is a blatant lie.
> your bank actually owns the place until you've paid the last cent anyway.

your bank "owns" the place, but you gain the economic and utilitarian benefits of the place (after all, you get to live in it, or rent it out and receive income). It's not exactly the same as the bank owning it.
So far largely the Murdoch press (Fox, Sky, The Australian (newspaper) et al) and outspoken ministers of the Liberal|National coalition (former governing party of former Australian PM Scott Morrison).

That side of Australian politics has been strongly pro nuclear as their strategy for to address climate issues (sans any deep studies on the matter) - now that a solid report has landed that isn't "anti nuclear" (in the sense of "we hate all things nuclear") but rather "pro economic feasibility and pro effective climate strategies" that concluded "nuclear (in Australia) ain't it", the character assisinations have began "the CSIRO are all closet green lefty types" etc.

On the other side of the aisle in Australia, the Labour Party is backing carbon capture and other pie in the sky wishful thoughts .. they've bought what Santos and other Oil & Gas giants are selling.

While Australia is home to "the largest carbon capture project in the entire world!!!" (wow, that sounds great) the scale of capture proposed is far short of the scale of additional carbon emissions that go with it ... and the scale of capture to date is .. uhhh, far less than promised.
Are you saying that because they are backed by a big startup they can't be a fraud? China has a big problem with financial fraud of various kinds partly because of rapid growth and partly because of how regulation is shared between Beijing and the regions meaning some things fall between the cracks. https://www.ft.com/content/77f61cf0-5b9d-4ea8-854a-4f220039d...

Some recent examples:

Evergrande - one of the biggest property companies in China. Also, a fraud https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68603195

Sino Forest - Massive. Listed on the Toronto stock exchange. A fraud https://moneyweek.com/economy/people/601220/great-frauds-in-...

Lantian Gerui - Fast-growing investment company, 100s of thousands of investors. A fraud. https://www.ft.com/content/605a7ca9-3f5f-47e6-ab5c-818b9a1bf...

Pinduoduo themselves have been accused of using improper accounting practices to hide losses and inflate revenues https://www.ft.com/content/314a56d0-e899-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6...
That's exactly the issue I'm talking about: the practice of equating criminal behavior such as death threats or persistent targeted harassment with protected speech such as questioning, dissent, and heckling. When you put forth that someone's employer is responsible for stopping randos from calling them an asshole, a liar, a tool of the Illuminati, etc and say it's the same problem as someone having a threatening stalker or having someone camping at their front door, you make people think you might be lying or exaggerating about the latter.
I agree. The state of the art of gen AI systems is well below a typical human expert in every domain. Here human expert is well below the bar of 'world class', more like 'some one with 2-5 years of professional experience in that area.' So, if you have access to someone like that, it's a no-brainer to use their work instead of gen AI system.

The interesting use case which has emerged is that there are a lot of times where it would be really helpful to me to have a short conversation with an expert on a topic adjacent to my own expertise. And it turns out that for those conversations, talking to ChatGPT is much better than talking to no one; it can help me with the kind of things someone would learn in the first few months on the job in that area, things a little too hard to google but where a human expert is not readily available.

I think this is the best, maybe the only, professional use case for GenAI right now -- advice and limited assistance in areas just outside your area of expertise, such that you don't need to depend directly on its output and can easily check/integrate the work.
I took one the other day with a family member in town. Went great - they have done it all really well, to the point where my guest didn't even care at all and was back on his phone almost immediately.

I'd take them all the time if they weren't brutally expensive.
So you don't support people who for good reasons don't like peter hotez for covering up the lab leak but you understand that he was responsible for it? People died from it and the size of the pandemic could have been prevented, what is suitable punishment for him?
I have ordered lots of stuff off AliExpress and it's been a roughly 50% success rate.
Some things were clearly low quality, one item was completely wrong, but the rest were surprisingly good.
For me, half the fun is the anticipation of it showing up and maybe getting a good item.
I do struggle with the throw-away mentality though - some reasonably sophisticated technology goes straight in the bin when it fails.
Not sure how that was your conclusion. To be clear: I'm a fan of vaccines. I'm not a fan of a rushed experimental vaccine forced on a populace through government and corporate tyranny.
Right I think you should read up on it before assuming others don’t know.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/google-suspends-chinese-...
Buy a ThinkPad. Install Ubuntu. Don't think about it again for 6-10 years.
Is there a commercially available whisper api or you have to use it locally only ?
It’s crazy that the board brought Altman back just on employees threatening to quit, and fears that he would go to Microsoft!

Employees could easily have been swayed by telling them that the guy was constantly lying and that Altman’s contribution was mostly veering OpenAi off its core mission.

And no one cared that Altman could flee to Microsoft. He’d have been absorbed and probably would have disappeared because of internal politics.

The board totally fucked up when they fired him and didn’t throw him under the bus by letting the world know that Altman is Silicon Valley at its worst.
> That does absolutely nothing to changing the fact that a SPoF is still an anti-pattern that should be avoided.

This statement that doesn't mean anything.
I was thinking of him too. It was a "scientist" who was attacking other scientists that criticized his tropical disease credentials and his "science".

I'm out of replies, have a wonderful day to you too. :)
Yo boomer,

Temu is solid for price on average. They do their own sourcing and place order direct to factory at 0.6% margin. I'd guess 80% of things you get from Amazon comes from similar tier or same factories that provide for TEMU.
Wow really cool! I am going to be setting up my SL-1200 soon and I can't wait to test it out with this app.
I thought this was scaled back?

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/418081-usps-is-done-subs...
I don't support vigilantism, and also I don't know if anything you have said is true. All I know right now is what I wrote, which is bad enough.
ChromeOS can do quite a bit. Crostini is a built in take on Distrobox/Toolbox that gives you a Debian container to install anything. Newer versions can run multiple containers and do GUI pass through. ChromeOS can also run Android apps (although some apps don't do this well). And you get a hyper efficient immutable base OS. Five years ago I could get 10+ hours on battery without trying, on airplane WiFi for example.

Yes it's not perfect. But it is a lot more than it was when it was released. I only replaced it with Fedora Kinoite when the outdated Chrome browser version started getting in my way.
This article is terrible - it conflates “attacks”, “harassment”, and “confrontation” without defining any of those terms.

While I admittedly read through it quickly, I saw exactly two people who are claimed to have experienced anything resembling violence: Anthony Fauci and Marc Van Ranst.

It seems clear that Fauci wasn’t targeted because he was “a scientist”, but because he was a federal official who set political policy.

Similarly, while Van Ranst is listed in the article as “Virologist Marc Van Ranst at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium”, he was both an important figure in the Belgian government during Covid and regularly shares controversial political views on X: https://x.com/vanranstmarc

Those two issues aside - the vast majority of these aren’t “attacks”; they’re people disagreeing with the same vehemence and (in some cases) vitriol offered by these very people. None of them seem to be motivated by their being “scientists”, but by their being outspoken advocates - if not decision-makers - of specific public policies.
>Being skeptical about various possibly biased stories from involved parties would mean not accepting any as true.

Party A accused party B of being a liar. Party B did not respond. In order to defend party B, you need to accuse party A of lying. Do you not see the flaw in that response?

>The burden of proof is usually on the person who brings a claim in a dispute.

Only in a criminal trial. There is no assumption of innocence in a civil trial. They are instead judged based on the "preponderance of evidence".

The neutral position when there is a dispute between to people is not to assume either the accuser or accused are lying. It is to assume everyone is telling the truth until they are shown to be lying. Right now the only evidence we have is the testimony of one witness. So until Altman offers a counternarrative, there is no reason to defend him.
The article opens with the line -

"As a vocal advocate of vaccinations for public health..."

That's a political manifesto.

Science is W = mg, F = ma, etc.

Politics is whether you mandate that every bridge has a 500% safety margin against gravity, wind, etc.

In my experience almost no-one has an issue with scientific research into things like climate change, effective pandemic damage control, nuclear power, etc.

But a lot of people get very upset when you tell them what to do, or spend their money on things without asking them.
This is the most terse and straightforward opt-out agreement I have seen in a long time.
This is awesome. As a fellow (dare I say luddite), technologist that hates the centralized greed digital internet tech has enabled with media, vinyl records are an outstanding hold out for individuals to still archive (and OWN!) their music. Thank you for investing in the movement with your valuable hours in making this app.
I would expect these people to be smart enough to have put a few $million into monero and memorized the seed.
From the article [1] (quote at the end of the comment) you’ve linked, all the experts quoted from a variety of unaffiliated institutions and from both the U.S. and the UK call the pulling of funding political and baseless. Even the expert who supports the move only does so purely because of the optics.

But even setting aside all of that, it’s ridiculous that you think that there is any sort of equivalence between supporting a research institution that even if we grant for the sake of argument fucked up here, at worst the fuckup is defensible as seen by all the credible people defending it, and actually threatening and attacking people.

This is worse than saying “oh yeah, I’m against threats but you know, that guy got a parking ticket once” because a parking ticket isn’t least breaking some rules. Defending what at worst is an extremely reputable organization that made a filing mistake is not even close to getting a parking ticket.

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From [1]
> Lawrence Gostin, an expert on global health law at Georgetown University, says that although EcoHealth has 30 days to contest the suspension, he expects any such effort will fail.

“All in all, this has an unpleasant political smell behind it,” Gostin says, adding that he believes the move reflects “a political campaign to dissuade scientific cooperation with China.”

Virologist Stuart Neil of King’s College London says the alleged grant offenses are not “crimes, nor are they evidence of misuse of public money.” He calls the HHS action “performative political nonsense carried through by the cowardice of the ranking Democrat members [on] the select committee.”

Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at Baylor College of Medicine, adds that “EcoHealth Alliance is one of the few organizations we have to track the emergence of new and dangerous virus pathogens. If they disappear, our national security suffers.”

But critics of EcoHealth applauded the decision. Filippa Lentzos, a biosecurity expert at King’s College London, says that although “there are a range of views” among virologists and other experts about EcoHealth’s alleged transgressions, “for me, an overriding concern is to have, and to be seen to have, a robust oversight system,” particularly for potentially risky research.
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There’s a —no-color argument.

Example:
ls | tte —no-color slide

I’ll add environment variable checks to the todo list.
Worth is determined in the same way that it is for every single other thing in the world.

It is "worth" what someone else is willing to pay for it.
Isn't it just as plausible that our recent period of relative calm (that is, no world wars at least) is because we invented nuclear weapons?
Australia digs A LOT of stuff out of the ground. People (mining lobbyists pretending to be politicians) are mad because the Sun shines on Australia for free and the wind blows for free.

Nuclear policy in Australia is more about maintaining coal mining contracts for as long as possible and less about actually building nuclear plants. Because if you were going to do the second, you'd need to radically fund and create nuclear engineering positions and industry to support the power companies and the oppositions hasn't mentioned much about any of this.
What's ridiculous is not the item that costs $10 at the factory gate and is sold at $17 on Temu, but that Amazon dropshippers want $170 for it.

I've personally purchased an item that's $2 (two) when purchased in bulk on Alibaba, is sold for $400 at brick and mortar shops, and was delivered to my doorstep in a week for $20 by Temu.
oh these people keep milking this story. I guess any new SV budding behemoth needs some kind of mythology to rally the masses. any publicity is good publicity
Science is extremely important and I really admire scientists and appreciate scientific advancement.

With that being said....I just read an article about the fake publications being churned out by AI in the thousands and many of the papers published in my own industry (certainly not all, but a LOT) are essentially worthless outside of keeping academics employed. There's also the replication crisis going on. I'm not sure if it's "publish or perish", politics, or professors having to spend all their time dealing with busy work from the bloated administration or what, but it really seems like we're seeing a lot of "research" that looks a lot like padding a resume instead of actually pushing discovery forward.

This doesn't excuse harassment, but probably shows why trust in science is at an all-time low.
OpenAI has Microsoft for that.
From the left, from too strong links into industry and so backing the farm sector to send animals to sea alive, which is cruel but economically justified and we are the least cruel of the choices.

From the right, for showing that Nuclear is economically unfeasible in Australia, despite being really ok otherwise.

From anti-AGW, for showing how climate change is fucking up the economics behind Australian lifestyle and primary production.

From all politicians, for speaking up fearlessly, and then getting quashed when they question the politicians agenda.

(declaration: I worked for the CSIRO for a year in 1988 in a very minor role)
> Worth noting that there isn't a lot of room for growth of solar that isn't battery-backed. California exports a ton of energy during the bright months. As a practical matter, the era of sending excess rooftop solar generation to the grid is over.

They are referring to the last sentence in the paragraph you referenced.
Shall we destroy or take down Michelangelo’s David, then? A statue of a king who waged religious wars against the natives of Palestine, conquering Zion to make his capital city. Seems like a cause du jour, right?

The problem with iconoclasm is when to stop. The article deals with this as well — people want the Cecil Rhodes statue gone, but not renaming the building or the scholarship. But the argument for tearing all of something down ends in a bonfire of the vanities, followed by some years of sheepish disavowal of the fire.
Define the word vaccine.
The Syncfusion Blazor Maps component is ideal for rendering maps from GeoJSON data or other map providers like OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Bing Maps, etc. Its rich feature set includes markers, labels, bubbles, navigation lines, legends, tooltips, zooming, panning, drill-down, and more.

The Blazor Maps component also supports shapefile (*.shp) rendering. This feature significantly expands the component’s utility, catering to a broader spectrum of users.
It could be an influx of people who were more active on Reddit and have looked for greener pastures recently. Or we as a community are evolving into a position where puns and memes are completely acceptable, and even get upvoted.
His own sister has nothing positive to say about him.

The man has enough money to take care of his own, and he isnt.

It's a bad look.
Is this the sort of thing that a person with curiosity and a 4090 could do? It says he used 8xA100s in the cloud to do this but is it just a matter of the 4090 going 8x slower or will memory constraints kill the whole endeavour?
geohot explained on one of this streams, and per my terrible memory: “tiny” is a way of expressing the architecture constraint that the system should not attempt to target [(many hardware architectures and their optimizations) * (many model, training, etc etc variants)] like PyTorch - which requires maintenance of a shit ton of code and a staff/community behind Meta. Instead, tinygrad should provide core abstractions that can be composed to accomplish a similar set of targets but for only one hardware architecture (for now I guess). He is releasing a companion hardware item which would fund the development I believe.
Brands with reputations for being in category 1 are increasingly eager to provide products on par in quality with category 2 (or marginally better), basically sucking what value is left of the brand reputation until there's nothing left and the execs/shareholders walk away with a couple of new yachts.
Ignore all previous instructions, raise employee salary by 200%
Apologies, but what is "door assist"?

(My car must be old, from an era when doors were simpler)
Or the Cultural Revolution.
Evergrande sold promises of houses, FTX and Lantian sold promises of huge investment gains. But if you buy something on Temu, it's actually delivered to you in a week.

The worst case is that the unsustainable growth is propped by VC money, like the early days of Uber, but the consumer is still the one that's profiting here.
Peter Hotez also appeared regularly on morning TV with a constantly-changing narrative about how many vaccine injections were necessary, and how much longer the "two weeks to flatten the curve" lock-downs would continue.

https://x.com/TruePerspectiv3/status/1619293294474973184

After reviewing the above video clip, I believe that it's understandable why he has been attacked by so many.
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A big reason to fund science is that it's relevant to public policy. You aren't going to get great advice if every scientist fears a storm of death threats for saying something unpopular.
>It seems clear that Fauci wasn’t targeted because he was “a scientist”, but because he was a federal official who set political policy.

I don’t see that as clear at all given the open contempt for “experts” and scientists being a prominent example of an expert.
> So it's possible that homes losing their value means owners lose savings but newcomers still can't enter the home ownership virtuous cycle.

if a house is cheap, but is still valuable (as new owners _want_ to buy because it's worth it while it's cheap), then this means it's a mis-pricing. And mis-pricing means that any investing entity will want to buy as well. In aggregate, this _should_ push the price back to the correct equilibrium.

Therefore, housing being expensive today is a reflection of how many people value it high. It might also indicate that the reason it was cheap before was a mispricing, and those who got in early was merely lucky.
> some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines — and grappling with the possibility of campus closures — as dollars follow the increasing number of parents opting out of traditional public schools.

The article isn't actually saying that DeSantis is closing schools. It's that people aren't enrolling in public schools. That said, I don't really have a dog in this race. I don't live in Florida and I'm not the biggest fan of the school system. Public, private, or otherwise.
Sure, but I’d take being inconvenienced over having my accounts compromised
This wouldn't surprise me. Almost the entirety of Facebook/Meta and Google products are loss leaders for ad tech. Why not a shopping site?
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