jacquesm

That's true, but I would not expect it to be in a place where there was much difference between day and night lighting to begin with.

Until the stupid are in the majority and start curbing your rights. That's one of the main problems with freedom of speech and with democracy as well: they both contain the seeds of their own undoing.

>This big industrial switch toggled between day and night. I don’t know if it changed the operation of the system, or is just switched on some sort of a dark mode for the panel itself:

I think we can answer that with 'yes, it changed the operation of the system. The indicator next to it is labeled in Amperes and 30 Amps is a lot of current. depending on the driving voltage at 24 V (pretty common for control panels like this one) that's 700W give or take and if it is a line voltage (220 V in poland at the time) that 6.6KW.

That restoration work on the speaker and the paper box is so well done. I spent some time under the Rijksmuseum in the workshops and the people there are similarly skilled and it was very impressive to see them at work, infinite patience and the result of all that work as invisible as possible. That's the bit that really got me, good restorers don't have any fingerprints, their biggest successes are the works that look like they were never worked on in the first place. Which is almost the opposite of every other form of creative art, and yet, they are amongst the best in the field.

That transformer from last link about the phone looks like it was made yesterday.

Please do! That makes me wonder how hard it would be to make a probe.

And get paid peanuts. And effectively they're told that they are disposable in the face of a pandemic.

Not just the typewriters. Also the armies of secretaries that came with them.

That's ok. They took a few trillion worth of content and burned a couple of hundred billion of their own money. I really don't see the problem, if they didn't think about this long and hard before they went down that part it should not be on the rest of us to bail them out. The 'frontier' is less important than the democratization process.

The amount of progress that came out of academia and other public sources should not be underestimated either and without all that OpenAI and Anthropic wouldn't even exist.

What's on my drives stays on my drives.

No, it was closer to 99.99%.

I have far less of a problem with the Chinese models if they even do this because they are making their models free, whereas the large Western LLM providers throw out a few bits but not their main work product. So not only are they hypocritical, I'm pretty sure that if the Chinese models were not released into the wild they would be making less noise.

What a fantastic comment. The information density alone is impressive, the way in which you took such a complicated process and laid it out in a few paragraphs makes it more so.

That's physically almost impossible. Even if the crystal sheet were to drop off the mounts it would have to do something electrically hard to explain to cause a short. The contact areas are usually the only conducting parts on the crystal itself. Failing open is easy for the exact same reason: if the crystal is mechanically damaged that will usually dislodge one or both of the contact areas. This is because those are the only places where something touches the crystal to give it as much freedom to vibrate as possible, any kind of further constraint would impede function.

That exact experience was my first day in Poland in the 80's. As a spoiled Western kid this was quite an eye opener. Lots of stuff I took for granted was reviewed in those years, and it affects me to this day.

Hardware support.

They are highly profitable when subsidized and you ignore decommissioning costs.

1 cent / kWh cost is fantasy land.

Profitable power or just power?

If the former: it might never happen.

Wtf kind of comment is that? Should I respond with 'you must be new here?'

ChatGPT tends to modulate the speed at which you can type. If it is a bug they probably should have fixed this months ago, so I'm guessing it is intentional.

That and 'loss' may have been intended to be 'launch'.

How did pissing off your customers ever become a business model?

I can't imagine sticking with a supplier that plays games like that with me. Tokens are a pretty vague quantity to begin with (you don't control how many tokens a model puts out in response) and giving a couple of purposefully wrong responses will happily inflate your bill, but you don't care because eventually it worked. It's almost an ideal vehicle to scam people.

Imagine the power company being able to decide how much you consume and at which price point.

Yes, 1 is exactly where my money is at. That's the big one, but don't underestimate the vulnerability of banks where the typical response to anything slightly more complex is 'call the consultants'. There is no way they are keeping pace with these developments.

They set themselves up as White Knights compared to those evil open model users who are all really just criminals.

That said, they do have a point: all of these models put capabilities in the hands of people that probably shouldn't have them. But they have been working really hard at making it so, and now that that is done the ketchup most likely will not want to go back into the bottle.

I don't see why both can't be true: Anthropic is pulling off regulatory capture and we are setting ourselves up for a massive cyber disaster.

The non-safeguarded models are out there today. You can download them for $0, spend low five figures on some hardware and you're off to the races.

Anthropic is not doing us a service by warning us, everybody that is slightly more involved in this material knows what is at stake. If this is news to you then maybe Anthropic is doing you a service but to me it makes zero difference. All I know is the cat is out of the bag and these super cynical people trying to pretend they are going to make their investors rich will use any tool in the bag to achieve their goals.

That looks like a very bad recipe to get burned with your private data escaping your control. Just the choice of components alone is enough to give me the shakes but that gets compounded by a design that can only be described as 'insecure out of the box'.

This is a great research project/experiment but I would really suggest you pause before you give it actual data.

it.

That has a real horror movie vibe in the exact way that 2001 didn't.

It is incredible how fast these open models are improving, I think Anthropic really messed up here, they missed their window of opportunity for an IPO because they got greedy. In the last three months there have been a whole raft of major open model releases and it does not look as if they're slowing down, besides that, the smaller models are getting more and more capable.

The hiring manager is more than likely to toss your output to another AI which will then decide if you warrant extra attention or not.

Precisely. I have figured out a nice recipe that is quite affordable, 288G of VRAM for a little under 20K, it takes some fiddling though, but once it works it is really neat.

PCIe is incredibly powerful tech.