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I don't think Microsoft is audacious or competent enough to orchestrate a fictitious termination, that's a little too far fetched. The initial event _reeks_ of incompetence/AGI fear-mongering, not orchestration.

+24 hours - Nadella announcing the creation of an internal OpenAI and automatic employment offers to all OpenAI employees. Seems sensible. Microsoft's investment in OpenAI entitles them to 75% of all of OpenAI's net profit until they make their whole $13B investment back, not to mention retain ownership of 49% of OpenAI. Too much capital to play chess with, the division/auto-hire announcement still feels like it must have been done with a lot of hesitation and picking the least awful option, but what else? If the conclusion is that OpenAI's board is prepared to sabotage the company -- and the exceptionally vague (=> bullshit) reasoning OpenAI published for his termination supports that conclusion -- there's no other option.

But +48-72 hours, this is perhaps when the "holy shit" moment happened -- Bing's lifelong irrelevance as a consumer product and sudden ascension to relevance as Google's defense in an extremely serious lawsuit, and at least Google organically beat the other search engines.

The Microsoft board realized hemorrhaging OpenAI, whilst also probably owning xx% of all H100's (arguably the defining competitive advantage of GPT-as-a-Service co's), would almost definitely lead to them being in Google's predicament years down the line. By then, the FTC will not care that the "trigger" all those years ago was a board that became frantic about AGI, with Microsoft merely rescuing a ship that self-sabotaged.

So the chess started here, Ctrl+Z'ing everything, the overtly outward displays of compassion, some genuine, some perhaps encouraged, and everyone - including Sam - is back on the same page that Microsoft needs to back off, but crucially it has to appear as a reunification stemming from within OpenAI.

It is precisely at this point, in this chain of events, that the opportunity emerges for a OpenAI board replacement, with Sam being firmly on it, that is in line with Microsofts deep (arguably trauma-laden) desire to finally be the dominant player in something other than desktop operating systems.

No source, I doubt there will ever be, but this speculation of events, to me, lines up most with the actions of the parties involved.

Microsoft played the 5D chess so well they made it look seamless, like Kasparov playing 40 opponents simultaneously.

5 occurrences of "Microsoft" in the article body vs 9 "OpenAI".

To make my point clear; this weirdness was definitely caused by the OpenAI board deviating from everybody's plans, including a member of the board themselves.

From there, Microsoft strategically reacted to a black swan event. From MS's pov, this was a zero-day attack that would manifest itself in 2-5 years, Google vs FTC style, and the mitigation strategy was providing the appearance of welcome arms++ to the tyranny of a board that makes kneejerk decisions, and having those open arms be rejected by the (natural) out-pour of sentiment.

The end result is identical, and Microsoft turned a zero-day attack into an irrefutable defense for any future FTC lawsuit.

Non-toy usage of chatgpt, that's all I was sharing.

What is interesting/noteworthy (to me) is that this was the first concrete instance I have used ChatGPT to "do something useful". Up until now, all the twitter threads and Linux VM's were cute toys, but this is an actual situation that I need resolved and I preferred it's edited version over my original.

TBD :) I ended up submitting the final version.

Carbonyl runs pretty well (YouTube videos / WASM powered apps like figma et al) https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

I truly love to ride a motorcycle.

No ignorance on it’s order-of-magnitude lethality multiplier over cars. But there is a certain cognitive-adrenaline fused pleasure that comes with seamlessly gliding your way through the perfect Bézier-esque curve over a gentle highway turn, whilst being held in the ever-present protective arms of gyroscopic precession, that makes the danger of it all worth it to me.

Rollercoasters let you experience a far greater degree of adrenaline and wind rushing through you, but don’t come close to this particular feeling of smiling at death.

The difference in wether you think ChatGPT is game changing or another overhyped LLM seems to come down to:

1) do you acknowledge prompt engineering is a real skill set?

2) are you willing to improve your prompt engineering skill set through research and iteration?

There is much to learn about prompt engineering from that “Linux VM in ChatGPT” post and other impressive examples (where the goal of is to constrain ChatGPT to only engage in a specific task)

You can ask it to generate a prompt that when given as an input to GPT will produce the thing you want. In a separate tab run the prompt and give feedback to prompt generating tab.

I noticed that the specific starting prompt that GPT VM[0] author designed seems to be something like a local minimum in achieving stability of a pretend Linux.

I replaced “Linux” in the prompt with “an Ubuntu instance in us-East-1 SSH’d into a Debian instance in us-East-2 ssh’d into a raspberry pi in germany……..” and at 4-5 levels deep it would forget the previous link when closing the “ssh connection” and go back to the first instance.

I also thought the sentence towards the end of the prompt about “when I want to tell you something in English I’ll do it like {this}” was redundant, but removing it leads to some weirdness like “cat file.txt” printing out the man page for cat 75% of the time.

md5sum / sha256sum also never work if the file contents are remotely non-trivial. so that seems to be the ceiling.. at least for this prompt :p

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847479

Source prompts?

>>> dir(spacex) ['abort', 'current_height', 'current_speed', 'current_stage', 'current_time', 'launch_time', 'merlin']

>>> spacex.current_stage 1

>>> spacex.current_time 1.10 min

>>> spacex.abort() Abort sequence initiated

>>> ls I'm sorry, but as a large language model...

>>> pwd I'm sorry, but as a large language model...

For the USA, you can't attain an H1-B / E-3 / <other work visa for SWE or other technical role> without your employer compensating you above the prevailing wage[0] (determined by the DoL) paid in the city you are being hired in in the field you are being hired in.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/wages#:~:text....

So many commenters here (presumably US/CA citizens) don't realize that the gut-wrenching feeling of being laid off whilst your visa depends on uninterrupted employment is _nothing_ like the SHTF-but-all's-ok feeling of being laid off 'regularly'.

In the USA, for most work visas, you are given a 60 day death clock pleasantly sugarcoated as a 'grace period' to find a new employer or leave the country. Cue trying weave in that baggage in between screening calls & technical interviews to explain to prospective employers how you have 47 days and 15 hours left to be hired or leave. The complication of dealing with USCIS and attaining a work visa (usually bound to your employer) is a marathon even with unlimited time, but in a puny 8 week window?...

In my own experience this also happened in mid 2021 when Australia's borders were closed (to AU citizens as well...) so leaving back home wasn't even an option.

I don't see how there are 'sides' to this. Blasting a BT speaker with your music, which the majority of people aren't likely to enjoy because of the huge variety of peoples taste in music, is a uniquely selfish thing to do.

I don't know about you, but blasting my Spotify likes on a BT speaker in a crowded, and particularly an enclosed environment, would not be an enjoyable experience. I can imagine it's only enjoyable if one is sufficiently self absorbed enough to think that their music is universally enjoyed by everyone.

You don't even need a validator/node running in your country -- another standard node merely needs to hear about it, run the standard bitcoin-core code for tx propagation to its connected peers (happens automatically ofc.) and it will be included in the next block if network congestion conditions permit miners to do so.

Interestingly, this leads to a startling scenario if you use an 'advanced' client such as Electrum, where you have the ability to create & sign a valid transaction, before broadcasting it. During that time, which is ofc defined entirely by your decision to hold off broadcasting the TXO, the transaction 'exists' but isn't recorded in the blockchain. In fact anyone who can get ahold of that transaction data (not to be confused with your private key) can send it off to the network, and it will be registered in the next block. So a valid transaction, once signed by the corresponding private key, is almost entirely removed from the signor, and the decision to broadcast it can be viewed as a seperate one altogether from signing.

SinglePage the chrome extension does this I believe

I’m at the point where I see “smart” in a hardware product title and automatically infer “this product comes with prolonged, additional pain, tactfully facilitated by 4th rate usability design, rock bottom grade WiFi hardware, ad bombardment for no discernible reason and never ending “please subscribe” onslaught to whatever new partnership that corporate negotiated this month.

Dumb TV is unambiguously a selling point now.

Keeweb.info is also a good alternative OSS client with a web front-end, good as a last resort even on mobile browsers

https://keeweb.info/

About 3-5% of the time, copilot poops out an unexpectedly clever code block that makes it worth it to me, if nothing else but for the surprise factor.

For the remaining 95%… I’ve configured it to delay doing anything until 10000ms passes so it doesn’t get in the way

fprime is what you're after; it's the embedded flight hardware that runs on the Mars 2020 drone.

https://nasa.github.io/fprime/Architecture/FPrimeArchitectur...

"hard things are suspiciously easy too."

Care to share an example?

New features get added and these posts are a nice reminder to check the docs on a tool I literally never need to do that for because it's so habitual to wrap any long-running iterable inside of a `tqdm()`.

TIL tqdm now has a dead simple telegram hook https://tqdm.github.io/docs/contrib.telegram/

There can’t be any semblance of an appeals process whilst the law treats social media platforms like privately owned property that you have the privilege of being a guest too.

FakeSpot - filters out amazon / ebay search results that have high rates of fake reviews

"Facebook is committed to fostering an open and inclusive community, and that begins at our workspace. This is why we have a zero-tolerance policy for backbones, ethics or any other resemblence of a conscience. We truly live and breathe the utopia-building bullshit that is riddled in our media releases, and depend upon the talented engineers who readily prostitute their minds for the cause." added Mira Pedersen, VP of Human Relegations

The grow route, the friend route and the onion route.

> Such a vanishingly small percentage of cryptocurrency activity is actually used for trade

In reality, an overwhelmingly large percentage of tangible trade is fasciliated by one specific cryptocurrency for one particular umbrella of goods and services that may have something to do with onions.

Bitcoin is digital gold. The technology of it needn’t evolve further than the technology of casting a gold ingot, storing it safely or transporting it.

And FWIW, transporting $1M worth of gold in a secure way is going to cost you significantly more than BTC’s worst Tx fee day.

Other coins can serve the purpose of everyday transacting etc.

He was banned from everything from Shopify to Spotify. This was a weaponised, coordinated deplatforming. People have been banned on Twitter before, and in fact other state leaders tweet significantly worse: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1003332853525110784?s...

This is about a small group of people coming together whilst collectively possessing significant power on the fabric of society and choosing to erase an individual.